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"Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews" Adolf Hitler
"During the Holocaust, they took the names away of the people, each with their own soul, and they put numbers on their arms. The job of a Jewish Genealogist, is to replace those numbers and give them back their names." Arthur Kurzweil - Jewish Genealogist Click Here > Ahlem Camp "Where Can I Go" a song by Steve Laurence with photos of Jews stranded on the St. Louis ship - search for "Where Can I Go" Holocaust Timeline: The Camps
Birkenau Concentration camp map "If the deportation took place from what had been German territory in 1938, there is a Memorial Book for those. There are also Memorial Books for Theresienstadt deportees from what is now Austria and another one for deportees from what was Czechoslovakia. These volumes provide information about transport number, date of arrival in Theresienstadt, death in Theresienstadt, transport number and date of deportation to another destination or liberation in Theresienstadt." Posted by Charles Vitezon JewishGen 4-30-03 "During the Holocaust, they took the names away of the people, each with their own soul, and they put numbers on their arms. The job of a Jewish Genealogist, is to replace those numbers and give them back their names." Arthur Kurzweil Determined not to become a vanished race, Jews from throughout Europe created records using paper, cloth, cardboard boxes, burlap bags and even remnants of flour sacks. These written testaments were often buried or hidden and later retrieved after the war. further information can be found in an article entitled "Defiance and Dignity" authored by Rahel Musieah, in the June/July 2007 issue of Hadassah Magazine. Holocaust Memorial Song
18 Books written by Survivors - eighteen uniquely written stories, published by their authors dealing with the Holocaust and including photos and a Virtual Tour of Auschwitz "36 Stories of Memory and Hope from the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust"- published by Bullfinch Press - 174 pages "120 HIAS Stories" - edited by Kathleen Andersen, Morris Ardoin and Mararita Zilberman - published by HIAS - 289 pages. The book is divided into 3 sections: 1881-1930, beginning with the pogroms in Russia; 1931-1950, Holocaust rescue work; 1951-2001 from post-WW II displaced persons camps, Russia and Egypt. "AKTION KINDER DES HOLOCAUST" (AKdH) all in German, but if you can read German, there is a treasure of information at this site "An Echo in My Blood: The search for a Family's Hidden Past" - authored by Mark Wyman Buy from Amazon.com "Atlas of the Holocaust" - authored by Martin Gilbert "Auschwitz" - Souvenirs de la Resistance dans le Camp d' Auschwitz-Birkenau (The resistance in Auschwitz) "Bashert: A Granddaughter's Holocaust Quest" - explores, among other subjects, the life and massacre of the author's grandmother's village of Volchin (35 kilometers northwest of Brest) - authored by Andrea Simon SimonAndrea@msn.com "Berga: Soldiers of Another War" - the Charles Guggenheim document of the little known story of the 350 POWs identified as Jews (although fewer than a third were) who spent December 1944 to April 1945 as slave laborers for the Nazis. "Death Books From Auschwitz" - a three volume set, two of which are lists of individuals killed in the Holocaust. There are thousands of names listed in alphabetical order. The information includes: name, date of birth, date of death, place of birth inmate number. The lists are contained in volumes two and three. Volume one contains many photographs of victims as well as many reports and photographs of various lists. These lists are by no means complete, but there are many names contained. Catalog number is *PXV 95-3344 and the books are located at the New York Public Library, in the Jewish Division on the first floor. The Jewish Division is closed on Mondays.
"Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before The Holocaust" - This majestic three-volume encyclopedia, abridged from a 30-volume set in Hebrew and with a foreword by Elie Wiesel, chronicles Jewish life before and during the Holocaust. Arranged alphabetically by town, thousands of entries explore centuries of Jewish life. Some entries, particularly for large cities, provide information on Jewish residents as early as the Middle Ages and discuss the fate of Jews during the Black Death persecutions (1348-1349) and various pogroms from the 17th to 20th centuries. Each entry provides vital information on the town's Jewish inhabitants on the eve of German occupation, gives the dates of Jewish roundups and mass executions and estimates how many Jews from that community survived the war. Except in very rare cases (as with Copenhagen), the survival statistics are horrifying. "Eternal Treblinka" - authored by Charles Patterson and published by Lantern Books "Every Day Remembrance Day" - authored by Simon Wiesenthal "For Them, Life in America Began in 1944, Behind a Fence". It is about a group of about 1,000 Jews brought to the US from Italy in 1944 and kept in an internment camp in upstate New York for seven months after the war was over until President Truman allowed them to apply for citizenship. The article mentions the emotions of the US official charged with choosing who would be allowed to travel on the ship. I believe a free registration is required to view articles on the NY Times web site New York Times "From Oswiecim to Auschwitz: Poland Revisited" - authored by Moshe Weiss and published in 1994 by Mosiac Press, Buffalo, NY. ISBN 0-88962-558-1 and ISBN 0-88962-557-3 in paperback form. "Gedenkbuch: Haeftlinge des Konzentrationslagfers Bergen-Belsen" published by Niedersaechsische Landeszentrale fuer Politische Bildung -- Gedenkstaette Bergen-Belsen' in 1995 and has 652 pages. The book lists 25,000 inmates at the death camp Bergen-Belsen. "Gedenkbuch of German Jewish Holocaust Victims" - is not comprehensive as many names are left out. "Hitler's Willing Executioners" - authored by Daniel Goldhagen describes the death marches and a number of satellite camps. "Holocaust: A History" - co-authored by Deborah Dwork "Holocaust An End to Innocence" - authored by Rabbi Seymour Rossel "The Holocaust Chronicle" - a remembrance designed to be held in one's hands. This is a very heavy volume, but well worth the cost as it includes over 2,000 photographs, a 3,000 item timeline and 250 sidebars detailing the significant people, places, issues and events. Written and fact-checked by top scholars. 768 pages. Published by Publications International, Ltd., Lincolnwood, IL 60712 "How to Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust" - authored by Gary Mokotoff. Buy from Amazon.com "How to Trace Your Jewish Roots: Discovering Your Unique History" - authored by Rabbie Jo David Buy from Amazon.com "The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp" - authored by Rochelle G. Saidel. Ravensbrück was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Published by The University of Wisconsin "The Last Eyewitnesses: Children of the Holocaust Speak" - In 1991, a group of child survivors in Poland, got together and formed the association of the children of the Holocaust in Poland. In the course of joining the organization, each person wrote short autobiographies containing their experiences during the war. One of the authors, a professional editor, gathered sixty some of these stories together into a book that the association published in 1993 which was later translated into English and published by Northwestern University Press in 1999. "The Last Sunrise" - authored by Harold Gordon (Hirshel Grodzienski) and published by H & J Publishing in 1992. A true story about a ten year old boy who survived the Holocaust, five years in Nazi Concentration Camps and with a positive attitude toward the future. ISBN: 0963258915 "Lebenszeichen aus Piaski; Briefe Deportierter aus dem Distrikt Lublin, 1940-1943" - authored by Else Rosenfeld and Gertrud Luckner, Biederstein Verlag Muenchen, 1968 The book deals mainly with Jews who were deported from Stettin, with one chapter dealing with Viennese Jews. Further information may be available from Werner Cohn: wernerco@worldnet.att.net "Liste Officielle ... des Decedes des Camps de Concentration" published by Paris, France, Republique Francaise, Ministere des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre, 1945/1949. There are 6 volumes and deal with the following concentration camps: Mauthausen; Neuengamme; Auschwitz; Majdanek; Bergen-Belsen; Sachsenhausen; Struthof; Ellrich; Flossenburg and Dachau. The book is only available at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Library in Washington, D.C. and was reproduced by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1997. List of Jews Deported from France - a searchable database You have to be very careful with the lists of deportees from France published in the pages of testimonies which contain some errors. On the site you were telling about, for example on the first page, line 14 : Lionel ALMULY, born 3/05/1908 in France was not deported to Auschwitz but to the Baltic States, either in Kaunas (Lithuania) or Reval (Estonia). When the page of testimony was sent by his family, this one had received wrong information, as it's the case for most of the deportees of the convoy #73 which left France on 15 May 1944. All of them were sent to the Baltic States. Except 22 survivors in 1945, and except for about 100 of them (out of 878) for whom we have the right information, nobody knows which ones died in Lithuania (Kaunas) or in Estonia (Reval, which is Tallinn today). From a posting by Eve Line Blum-Cherchevsky Besancon (France) and also Cercle de Genealogie Juive (International JGS in Paris) Natzweiler-Struthof in Alsace - Natzweiler Medical Experiments in this, the only camp the Nazis built on French soil. "Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust" - authored by Richard Rhodes and published by Knopf Publishing "Memorial Volumes to Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust" - authored by Ilana Tahan. These memorial volumes are books dedicated to the cities, towns and villages, mainly in Central and Eastern Europe, whose Jewish populations were annihilated during the Ho9llocaust. This fully indexed bibliography brings together some 300 memorial books drawn mainly from the wide ranging Hebrew collection of the British Library. Available through my Amazon.com connection. "Mischa Defonseca: Memoirs of the Holocaust" - authored by Misha Defonseca. Describes her life of hiding from the Nazis and living with wolves as a child until rescued after WW II. "My Name Was No. 133909 ... And I Sang" - authored by Murray Brandys. The book can be found at "Nazi Crimes On Trial" - German Trials concerning Nazi Capital Crimes 1945 - 1999, compiled at the institute of Criminal Law of the university of Amsterdam by Prof. D. C.F. Ruter and Dr. D. W. de Mildt. This website presents a systematic survey (for now only in German, but some of the site is in English) of the more than 900 Nazi trial cases conducted in West Germany since 1945 and the 97 Nazi trial cases conducted in East Germany during the years 1956 - 1990, including the so called Rehabilitation trials. Very interesting "Our Tomorrows Never Came" - authored by Etunia Bauer Katz who now lives in Queens, NY. The book is about her and her family's efforts at surviving WW II as Jews living in Poland. Her family managed to escape deportation to the concentration camps. "The Pianist: The Extra-ordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945" - authored by Wladyslaw Szpilman and published in paperback by Picador. "Register of Jewish Holocaust Survivors" - authored by Benjamin and Vladka Meed and published in 1966 by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. The 4 volume register lists American and Canadian survivors in alphabetical order as well as by place of birth and town before thee war and location during the Holocaust. Vol. 1 lists the people by name and Vol. 2 lists them by their hometown. The 2 volume set can be obtained through Inter-library loan. The Neve Shalom Synagogue in Portland Oregon owns the 4 volume set. "Resilience and Courage: Women, Men and the Holocaust" - authored by Nechama Tec and published by Yale University Press. The author contributes to our understanding of how Jewish men and women responded to the dire circumstances in Nazi occupied Europe. "The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust" - authored by Martin Gilbert and Henry Holt. The story of the heroic deeds of righteous gentiles, who, at considerable risk to themselves, saved Jews during the Holocaust. "Sources of Holocaust Research" - authored by Raul Hilberg 212 pages $26.00. this is a primer for developing historical sources and getting a true picture. Very interesting, this book can be ordered via the link from the link to Amazon.com on the left bar on this page. "Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary" authored by Avraham Tory "Tormersdorf, Gruessau, Riebnig" - many elderly Jews were deported from Breslau and other places in Niederschlesien. This book is available with approximately 1,800 names: (Obozy Przejsciowe dla Zydow Dolnego Slaska z lat 1941-1943" authored by Alfred Koniczny and published by Wydawnictowo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego in 1997 in soft back ISBN 83-229-1713-9 Written mostly in Polish with a brief German summary and divided into 3 parts: 1. 85 pages in Polish about the camps, containing names and a few black and white photos. 2. Lists of 1,800 people in the three camps including birth dates and places, maiden names and, in a few cases, death dates and residence addresses in Breslau. 3. Selected copies of correspondence between individuals and authorities regarding money matters (In German) "When Light Pierced the Darkness" - authored by Nehama Tec. One of the first books to document, especially in Poland, the phenomenon of the righteous gentiles. "Where We Once Walked: A Guide to the Jewish communities Destroyed in the Holocaust" - co-authored by Sallyanne Amdur Sack, PhD and Gary Mokotoff. "Witness to the Holocaust" - edited by Michael Berenbaum and published by HarperCollins in 1997 General The death camps - Zyklon B gas and the Mercedes incinerators of death were not in Germany. They all were in Poland! There were some camps in other countries including Jasenovac in Croatia where more than 700,000 were slaughtered by the Ustasha which had direct ties to the Vatican. But the actual camps of death were all located in Poland: Auschwitz, Birkenau, Chelmno, Maedenek, Sobibor, and Treblinka. An excellent site to find information about most European countries is at Among the 18,000 Righteous Gentiles officially recognized by Yad Vashem, 4,000 are Dutch, by far the largest national contingent in Europe "60 Minutes" - CBS News Video - "Nazi Ruse Covered Up Holocaust and "The Children of Nazi Leaders" video 29,000 Holocaust era Jewish Names - a web site database American Red Cross - Holocaust and War Victims Tracing and Information Service, Linda Klein is the Director. BERGER@USA.REDCROSS.ORG KANTT@USA.REDCROSS.ORG Anne Frank - Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance, 9786 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035-4792 has the original of a poem "Forget me Not" written by Anne to her friend Henny two years before going into hiding with her family. The Museum's web site is The second floor of the Museum is devoted to a state-of-the-art Multimedia Learning Center, which houses a vast wealth of information on the Holocaust, WW II and anti-Semitism. These databanks include over 50,000 photos and maps, 6,000 encyclopedic entries and 14 hours of historical film footage and video testimonies. Another extraordinary exhibit featuring one of history's favorite teenagers is located at http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/af/htmlsite/ Aufbau Newspaper Database - this German-language newspaper that was published in New York from September, 1944 through September 27, 1946, printed numerous lists of Jewish Holocaust survivors located in Europe. There are 33,357 names that have been computerized. It can also be found at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Auschwitz- photographs Austrian, Czech, and German Jews in Riga: Data on 876 forced Jewish laborers in Riga, Latvia. Austrian Holocaust Asset Archives - from this page you are offered links to pages with lists of names for whom records exist. You send an initial letter to the archives in Vienna (in English) indicating your interest in the name and date of birth. They will reply in due course asking for a money order for 59 Austrian Shillings ($5.00) for the report. You then send the money order and the form to Vienna. Plan on it taking at least 3 or more months. The records contain only the name of the person's spouses name that can be considered of genealogical value. Deportation from Vienna - a web site containing the Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance (DOW) and located in Vienna can provide a nearly 30 page paper entitled "Expulsion and Extermination: The Fate of Austrian Jews, 1938-1945" This paper was prepared by Florian Freund and Hans Safrian and translated to English by Dalia Rosenfeld and Gabriel Biemann Belgian Authorities Destroy Holocaust Records Between 1942 and 1944, the Nazis herded more than 25,000 Jews into the General Dossin de Saint Georges Barracks at Mechelen which is located between Brussels and Antwerp. From this area, they were deported to Auschwitz where only 1,207 survived. The Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance - 153 Goswin de Strassartstraat; Phone 1 529 0660 Breslau Deportations: Three transports of 1,845 persons sent to Silesian towns in 1941-1942. Bukovina (Bucovina) (Region), Romania/Ukraine - Handbook prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the British Foreign Office - 1919 - Geschichte Der Juden in Der Bukowina (History of the Jews in the Bukovina) "Children with Lost Identity" http://english.gfh.org.il/children_with_lost_identity.htm
Concentration Camp Ahlem Labor Camp Austria - List of Austrian Jews in concentration camps The Camp System - information and links to concentration camps, museums or memorials relating to the Holocaust Concentration Camps: A factual report on crimes committed against Humanity contains medical experiments and other horrors which occurred in Nazi concentration camps during WW II Classification System in Nazi Concentration Camps The six main killing centers: Belzec, Chlmno, Treblinka, Sorbibor, Majdanek and Auschwitz are located on a map at Concentration Camps - Table of Contents http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cc.html Concentration Camp Addresses -The camps are classified by countries, based on the 1939-1945 borders. When known, the name of each sub-camp or external kommando is followed by the name of the company which used inmates as slave. Correspondence from the various Nazi labor camps including the Schindler factory in Krakow is stored at The Jewish Historical Association ul. Tlomackie 3/5, 00-090 Warsaw, Poland Telephone/Fax (48-2) 625 0400; Email reisner@plearn.edu.pl Europe - American Military Government List of Jews in Concentration Camps list of 987 survivors and victims (Germany, Hungary, Austria, Romania) Forgotten Camps - Concentration Concentration Camp Badges Nazi Camp System Records of Nazi Concentration camps Nazi Concentration Camps - 1933 to 1945 Auschwitz (Oswiecim) - located west of Krakow, Poland, and is famous for the concentration camp that is now a museum chronicling the horrors of the Nazis' final solution. Before WW II, Oswiecim was a bustling town of 12,000 people, more than half of them Jews. Most of the local Jews were killed in the Holocaust, and only one of the town's synagogues survived. When the Germans created the concentration camp in Oswiecim, on 27 April 1940, they called it Auschwitz that seems to be the translation of Oswiecim from Polish to German. Was the name Auschwitz known before? For example, was someone born in that town in 1904, born in Auschwitz or Oswiecim? "Auschwitz" when pronounced in German, approximates the sound of There were approximately 40 more satellite camps established around Auschwitz. These were forced labor camps and were known collectively as Auschwitz III. A visit to: Auschwitz, Birkenau, Kazimierz, Lublin, Majdanek, Plaszow, Treblinka, Tykocin, Warsaw http://www.holocaustforgotten.com/journey.htm
Auschwitz-Birkenau Complex - an overview at http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/reference http://cyberroad.com/poland/jews_ww2.html Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland - Introduction. An informative site at Auschwitz Jewish Center located in Oswiecim (Polish for Auschwitz) A film about what is believed to be the only organized uprising ever attempted by the prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau is soon to be released. It is entitled "The Grey Zone" and tells the story of the October 7, 1944 uprising by the Sonderkommandos, Jews who were forced to assist in the extermination of their fellow prisoners in the gas chambers. The prisoners managed to blow up one of the four crematoria, but the SS quelled the riot and hundreds of Jews involved were executed. Auschwitz Laborers: Documents on 5,310 forced laborers who entered Auschwitz, including parents' names and maiden names. Czech, "Auschwitz Chronicle", published in 1990 Dachau Album Project - the album contains 258 photos, 30 illustrations of life in the Polish concentration camp and a swatch of a prisoner's uniform. The album was created by Arnold Unger, a survivor who lived at the camp for two years after liberation. Drancy - a Paris suburb where a memorial to the tens of thousands of French Jews who were shipped to Auschwitz stands today in their memory. There were a number of convoys (around 50) that departed for Auschwitz in 1943 including Convoy No. 62 consisting of 1,199 Jews. Jane Haining, Saint from Auschwitz - she protected 400 children during the Holocaust and she died in Auschwitz for her beliefs "In 2004 the Jewish Historical Institute in Warszawa published a book: "Polish Photos of the Holocaust Polish-Jewish Relations Searchable Database in English - the total number of records in the database remains at 69,000 and the search will still display no more than 40 names at a time even if there is indication that many more are in the database. In the FAQ there is an explanation of the use of 'wildcard' entries. Virtual Tour of Auschwitz The Yad Vashem web site contains information about Auschwitz including photos and a map at Jacob Rosen offered the following (edited) information in a posting to JewishGen on 8/11/03: Auschwitz Archive Online - "The site contains only 69,000 names so the chances to find a relative are relatively slim. However I was lucky to find Hermann Koenigsbuch only after I typed Konigsbuch (without umlaut or e). I also found the brother of my father in law (Josef Apotheker). For unknown reason the the search program responds only to the German version of the place of birth or residence. So if you type Krakow nothing will come out. But if you type Krakau then it will respond. Only if there is no German name to the place the local name such as Bardejov or Brzesko or Niepolomice can be used. All in all type just the surname and your chances are better." "The translation of: Blad palaczenia z baza danych is: error in contacting the database." "As far as German names of Polish locations I would recommend a partial solution." Enter In July, 2004, where the site of the destroyed Great synagogue was, a treasure trove of Judaica was discovered. The object had been buried since the Holocaust and included three bronze candelabras, a bronze menorah, 10 chandeliers and a Ner Tamid (eternal lamp) that once hung before the synagogue ark. Tomasz Kuncewicz is the director of the Auschwitz Jewish Center, a prayer and study complex near the site of the notorious death camp. Belzec, Poland - one of three euthanasia sites built after the Wannsee Conference of June 20,1942. A Reassessment: Resettlement Transports to Belzec, March-December 1942 http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/Sobibortoc.html This camp is located in the Lublin area near the Russian border and was the location of the killing of over half a million Jews. The Nazis eradicated all traces of their crimes here in 1942 and planned to move its people to Sobibor. There is a partial list of the Jewish communities exterminated by the Germans in the Belzec death camp. Bergen-Belsen - lists of Czechoslovak inmates at this and Theresienstadt camps The Holocaust Memorial Center in West Bloomfield, Michigan has a copy of a rare book "Gedenkbuch) Haeftlinge des Konzentrationslagfers Bergen-Belsen" published by Niedersaechsische Landeszentrale fuer Politische Bildung - Gedenkstaette Bergen-Belsen in 1995. 652 pages "Holocaust and Rebirth: Bergen-Belsen 1945-1965" - published by Bergen-Belsen Memorial Press "Irgun Sheerit Hapleita Me-Haezor Habriti' - a memorial book about this camp Blacher Camp - Buchenwald, Poland - Buchenwald death list - Polish men 1939 http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html The Hunt for Danish KZ - details re the hunt for Carl Vaernet, the Danish doctor who carried out atrocities on gay men at Buchenwald Chelmno - located near Lodz Poland, became the first to be put into operation on December 8, 1941. Web site to explore is at Czestochowa - reference is made of this camp in the book "Hitler's Willing Executioners". Czestochowa Forced Laborers: 4,610 prisoners at the Hasag Pulcery labor camp in Czestochowa. The Dachau Concentration Camp officially opened on Wednesday, March 22, 1933, Declassified Dachau Concentration Camp List of 2860+ names: Dachau Camp Entry List - Dachau Database - over 90,000 Indexed records http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust Given the enormity of the collection, you can send an inquiry to NARA requesting a search IF you can be very specific about the person being south. If such information is available, sent an e-mail to james.kelling@nara.gov Dachau Indexing Project - over 78,000 records have been recorded Flossenburg - reference is made of this camp in the book "Hitler's Willing Executioners". Gross-Rosen - reference is made of this camp in the book "Hitler's Willing Executioners". Grussau - many elderly Jews were deported from Breslau and other places in Niederschlesien. There is a book available with approximately 1,800 names: "Tormersdorf, Gruessau, Riebig" (Obozy Przejsciowe dla Zydow Dolnego Slaska z lat 1941-1943" authored by Alfred Koniczny and published by Wydawnictowo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego in 1997 in soft back ISBN 83-229-1713-9 Hartheim Castle - located in northern Austria, a recent renovation at the castle revealed the remains of some 30,000 humans killed there by the Nazis. The victims were executed in the Hartheim's gas chamber were mostly elderly, disabled, sick or concentration camp prisoners who could no longer work. AJW 10-4-02 Helmsbrech - reference is made of this camp in the book "Hitler's Willing Executioners". It was a satellite camp and was started in the summer of 1944 and housed women who worked in the Neumeyer Armaments firm. Holland Italian Camps - Fossoli - created by the Mussolini government for use as a prisoner of war camp, it was used to detain political opponents and later, when the Nazis took control, Italy's Jews were brought here before being deported. During the seven months of 1944 that the German SS controlled the camp, eight trains left the station at Carpi, five of which went directly to Auschwitz-Birkenau. About half of the approximately 5,000 deportees at Fossoli were Jews. Further information may be available by e-mail to levchadash@libero.it Jasenovac - located about 60 miles southeast of Croatia's capital of Zagreb. This is one of six camps that held Jews, huge numbers of Serbs and Gypsies who were slaughtered by the Ustashe. Kaluga (Estonia) (Klooga) - Most of the prisoners at this labor camp were executed on September 19, 1944, a few hours before the camp was liberated by an armored force of the Red Army. See my Lager Poperwahlen Forced Labor Camp - located in Latvia Loslau - reference is made of this camp in the book "Hitler's Willing Executioners". Majdanek - located about 2 miles outside of Lublin, Poland and literally backs up to back yards of nearby homes. Three hundred and sixty thousand souls were killed here. This camp is second only to those located in Treblinka and Oswiecim. Today, it is a national museum. A description of a visit to this camp, after WWII by David Zabludovsky is at: Mauthausen - a video of the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen, located in Austria during the Holocaust period is available The Nazis murdered more than 100,000 people there before the U. S. Army liberated the camp on May 9, 1945 Natzweiler-Struthof in Alsace - Natzweiler Medical Experiments in this, the only camp the Nazis built on French soil. Nizkor Project Nuremberg War Crimes Testimony Pinsk Records from the Soviet Extraordinary Commission: Compilation of testimonials about 11,704 Holocaust victims from Pinsk. Plaszow - a German concentration camp located a mile away from the town of Podgorze in Poland. There is one large monument and one small monument. Other than that, the land is grassy and hilly, with no other proof of its former existence. As posted by Linda Volin on May 24, 2000 on JewishGen Poniatowa - the hideous Forced Labor Camp, where part of the the remnants of the Warsaw Ghetto was deported to. The incredible and forgotten fact about this camp is that also there, under impossible conditions, the prisoners organized an underground and resisted the Nazis in the final liquidation of the camp. Popervale (Poperwahlen, Dondangen), Latvia - Manuscript on the forced labor camp KZ-Lager Poperwahlen, Latvia Ravensbrück - In November 1938, in the Prussian village of Ravensbrück, near the former Mecklenburg health resort Fürstenberg, the SS had prisoners from Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp and elsewhere build the Ravensbrück Women’s Concentration Camp. It was the only large concentration camp on German territory designated for women. In the spring of 1939, the first 1,000 female prisoners were transferred from Lichtenburg Concentration Camp to Ravensbrück. In April 1941, a camp for men was joined to the camp for women. By the summer of 1942, the Uckermark Youth Concentration Camp was also located very close by At the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp, the SS kept imprisoned more than 132,000 women and children, but also 20,000 men. Between 1939 and 1945, tens of thousands of them, coming from more than 40 nations, were killed. Today Ravensbrück Memorial Museum keeps traces and records, enhances remembrances and research, and creates a place of active learning and encounter. If you can read German, though it may be Dutch, this site contains quite a bit of information, photos and names. Start with the Home page at The Ravensbrück Memorial Center "Juedische Frauen im Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück 1939 bis 1945" ("Jewish women in the Ravensbrück concentration camp 1939 to 1945") - a scientific research work authored by Prof. Claudia Ulbrich and PD Dr. Sigrid Jacobeit (Chief of Mahn-und Gedenkstaette Ravensbrück). A copy is available in MS-Word file/Acrobat. PDF) "Kalendarium der Ereignisse im Frauen-Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück 1939-1945" authored by Grit Philipp and Monika Schnell and published in Berlin in 1999 by Metropol ISBN 3932482328 which is a diary of the events in that concentration camp, similar to the one of Danuta Czech on Auschwitz A list of persons at Ravensbrück may be obtained by writing" Riebnig - many elderly Jews were deported from Breslau and other places in Niederschlesien. There is a book available with approximately 1,800 names: "Tormersdorf, Gruessau, Riebig" (Obozy Przejsciowe dla Zydow Dolnego Slaska z lat 1941-1943" authored by Alfred Koniczny and published by Wydawnictowo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego in 1997 in soft back ISBN 83-229-1713-9 Rottleberode - Sachsenhausen - located north of Berlin. It is now a museum in Oranienburg at Strasse der Nationen 22 Sajmiste camp - The Belgrade Fair exhibition ground was once described as "the forgotten concentration camp" - the Sajmiste camp that the site was turned into during WW II by the occupying Nazis. All 8,000 Jews from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, as well as Jews from Austria and Czechoslovakia had been transported to gassing trucks and murdered at the site. Most of these were women and children, as thousands of men had been shot dead earlier. None of the Jews sent to the camp survived. Sajmiste was destroyed by U.S. bombers in raids that killed 80 people at the camp and injured 170. The bombers' intended target was the nearby railway station. What made this camp unique was that because of its location was in clear view of Belgrade's residents. There is a book "The Jews in Belgrade" authored by Aleksandar Mosic. Salaspils concentration camp - located in Latvia and about half hour drive from Riga - which is available to visit. Schlesiersee - was one of four camps for women which were erected along the lower Silesian border in October and November, 1944. It was a relatively small camp containing about 1,000 women who had come from Auschwitz and is mentioned in Daniel Goldhagen's book "Hitler's Willing Executioners". Sobibor Death Camp - one of three euthanasia sites built after the Wannsee Conference of June 20,1942. Information about the death camp that existed during WW II in which about 260,000 Jews were killed. The camp was closed after 300 prisoners overpowered guards and staged a heroic escape. Many were captured and shot. 'Escape from Sobibor' with Alan Arkin was made as a TV movie. There is a database of names at http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/Sobibor.html http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/Sobibortoc.html The New York Times carried an article about Chaim Engel who helped carry out a group escape from this death camp, hoping to save himself and his future wife. All traces of the camp were eradicated by the Nazis after the attempted escape. Strasshof Concentration Camp - located outside of Vienna. Stutthof Concentration Camp - German Jews List Database According to the July 1949 edition of the "Catalogue of Camps and Prisons in Germany and German-Occupied Territories", Stutthof maintained the following Sub-Camps: Bocion - Bottschin Stutthof Museum - information is available concerning the Stutthof camp. Write to: Muzeum Stutthof Terezin - (German = Theresienstadt), Czech Republic is the location of the former infamous concentration camp which had been passed off as the "model ghetto" by the Nazis. 11,000 to 15,000 children were held in the camp between 1941 and 1945. Terezin was originally built as a fortress over 200 years ago. It is where upper-class Jewish Germans, Czechs and Austrians - intellectuals, artists and musicians were sent. Nazis evicted the Czech residents in 1942 and turned a town of 7,000 into a prison camp of 50,000. It is located near the German border, a quarter mile up the Ohfe river and about 30 miles northeast of Prague. "Theresienstadt family camp" was part of Auschwitz camp. Its name comes from the fact that in September 1943, a lot of Czech Jewish families coming from Terezin (Theresienstadt) were sent there. When you search on the Web and type "Theresienstadt", you will read different articles showing unfortunately, the fate of the children in that camp was often different from the adults'. Moreover, in all the transports of deportees, even if the statistics say that "all those on this transport from... were given numbers and taken to...", you must except the numerous ones who died in the cattle carriages in dreadful conditions. Nobody will ever know either the right number or their names. Eve Line Blum-Cherchevsky Besancon (France) and also Cercle de Genealogie Juive (International JGS in Paris) Web site for Beit Theresienstadt at Kibbutz Givat Chaym Ichud, a monument, museum, archives, and educational center dedicated to documenting the history of the Theresienstadt ghetto (also known as Terezin). Includes information on how to request a fee-based search of a database with the names of nearly 150,000 ghetto prisoners and provides full-text access to the Theresienstadt Martyrs Remembrance Association’s newsletter. "Fate Did Not Let Me Go" - authored by Valli Ollendort is a loving farewell letter to her son Ulrich, who had reached safety in America with his wife. Valli knew her fate and perished in the camp. Published by Terra Entertainment 1 310 268 1210 "Prisoner of Paradise" - The Nazis drafted actor, director and cabaret star, Kurt Gerron, who was among the German Jewish artists of the 1920s, to make this film about a ludicrous propaganda film depicting Theresienstadt as a vacation resort. The Memorial Book for the Austrian Victims of Theresienstadt - check on their data ((in German) through the address The visitor's center today is in the building that held the children and where their pictures, drawings and poems line the wall. Of the 15,000 children brought here, fewer than 1,100 survived. Tormersdorf - many elderly Jews were deported from Breslau and other places in Niederschlesien. There is a book available with approximately 1,800 names: "Tormersdorf, Gruessau, Riebnig" (Obozy Przejsciowe dla Zydow Dolnego Slaska z lat 1941-1943" authored by Alfred Koniczny and published by Wydawnictowo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego in 1997 in soft back ISBN 83-229-1713-9 Totenbuch Concentration Camp - much information including name list from this Out-Station Braunschweig Schilstrasse Tourstoprague - a commercial travel agency has an interesting, as well as informative site at Lists of Czechoslovak inmates at Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt camps at http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/bergen-belsen/ Treblinka - one of three euthanasia sites built after the Wannsee Conference of June 20,1942 where over 870,000 victims, mostly Jews, were executed in the carbon monoxide gas chambers at this camp. It was located a few dozen miles outside of Warsaw. Today, it is called 'The biggest Cemetery of Polish Jewry'. Most of the victims were buried in vast pits, but later the bodies were disinterred and burned in open-air fires. http://trablinka.com http://cyberroad.com/poland/jews_ww2.html The following are the countries whose Jews were deported to Treblinka There is a Treblinka monument at Nachlat Icchak cemetery in Trostenets - fourth largest death camp after Auschwitz, Majdanek and Twilhaar - Jewish work camp , near Nijverdal in the province of Overijssel Children Holocaust Survivors - a list of 2,500 files of Holocaust orphans from Poland between years 1936-1945 and who have lost their identity Degendorf, Germany Displaced Persons Camp - it was liquidated when most of the camps were closed in 1948-49 and its inhabitants were sent to Israel. Most of the records were transferred to the regional office of the Vaad Ha Kehillot and eventually to the Jewish Agency Headquarters in Israel. Diplomats Who Rescued Jews - Directory of Holocaust Remembrance Around the World Dr. Feng-Shan Ho - was one of the first diplomats to save Jews by issuing Dormant Accounts at Swiss Banks - Europe - American Military Government List of Jews in Concentration Camps list of 987 survivors and victims (Germany, Hungary, Austria, Romania) Hungarian Jewish Concentration Camp Survivors Exhibitions United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Life in Shadows: Hidden Children and the Holocaust tells the stories of dozens of children who were sent into hiding to escape death. Includes pictures, photos, letters, documents and other artifacts. Life in Shadows will be on display at the USHMM through May 12, 2004. Films - more than 100 films from Hebrew University's Steven Spielberg Jewish First Jewish Radio Broadcast from Aachen, Germany http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZihm6VlYjo Forced Laborers in Bolekhov, Dobromil, Broshnev Osada, Wydoda and Skole. A file of about 35 pages is being entered into a JewishGen database. Contact Joyce Field jfield@jewishgen.org for further information. Information about literature related to forced labor and links on the subject of WW II Forced Labor can be found at French Deportees - CDJC, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine, Galicia (Region) - Chapters on districts of Kolomyia and Stryy from the Galician Forced Laborers from Lvov: Data on 1,110 workers, from a collection of the L'viv State Archives. German Jewish Records - on-line information about microfilmed reels and Some survivor lists are found, varying widely by camp, with large collections Until Arolsen International Red Cross Records are made public, or until Israel Meaning of information contained in the Arolsen Records: CLI = Certified Legal Investigator Germany (Country) - The Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland Ghettos Irene Sendler - this remarkable woman defied the Nazis and saved 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto
Global Gazetteer is a great web site. It is a directory of 2,880,532 of the world's cities and towns, sorted by country and linked to a map for each town. A tab separated list is available for each country. World-Wide Gazetteer Guide to the Holocaust - this site includes original researched articles about Hannah Arendt Papers - The papers of the author, educator, and political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) are one of the principal sources for the study of modern intellectual life. Located in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress, they constitute a large and diverse collection reflecting a complex career. With over 25,000 items (about 75,000 digital images), the papers contain correspondence, articles, lectures, speeches, book manuscripts, transcripts of Adolf Eichmann's trial proceedings, notes, and printed matter pertaining to Arendt's writings and academic career. The entire collection has been digitized and is available to researchers in reading rooms at the Library of Congress, the New School University in New York City, and the Hannah Arendt Center at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. Parts of the collection and the finding aid are available for public access on the Internet. Hannah Senesh - the official site of the Hannah Senesh Legacy Foundation. Holocaust Educational Foundation (HEF) - The Holocaust Educational Foundation is a private, non-profit organization established in 1980 by survivors, their children, and their friends in order to preserve and promote awareness of the reality of the Holocaust. Holocaust & Genocide Studies in the Ukraine: Holocaust Glossary: Terms, Places and Personalities AKTION (German) Holocaust Index - features links to holocaust sites including searching for Holocaust Memorial Center - Michigan - 6602 West Maple Road, West Bloomfield, Michigan has a very rare copy of 'Gedenkbuch: Haeftlinge des Konzentrationslagfers Bergen-Belsen" published by Niedersaechsische Landeszentrale fuer Politische Bildung -- Gedenkstaette Bergen-Belsen' in 1995 and has 652 pages. The book lists 25,000 inmates at the death camp Bergen-Belsen. Holocaust Memorial Museum - 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington DC 20024-2150 Holocaust/Shoah Organizations - List of Hungarian Jewish Concentration Camp Survivors IBM - "I've been to Auschwitz again, a few days ago. Something has |
"DPs: Europe's Displaced Persons, 1945-1951" - authored Mark Wyman
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