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"Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the On November 9, 1938, in an event that would foreshadow the Holocaust, German Nazis launched a campaign of terror against Jewish people and their homes and businesses in Germany and Austria. The violence left approximately 100 Jews dead, and 7,500 Jewish businesses damaged. An estimated 30,000 Jewish men were arrested. "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 The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. Jews were the primary victims -- six million were murdered; Roma (Gypsies), people with disabilities, and Poles also were targeted for destruction or decimation for racial, ethnic, or national reasons. Millions more, including homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, and political dissidents, also suffered grievous oppression and death under Nazi tyranny. "A Torn Remnant of the Holocaust Hangs in Brooklyn Court" by Brooklyn Eagle and published online 04-21-2009. Do a search for Hon. David Schmidt Genocide - Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish refugee from Poland, coined the word genocide in 1944 to describe what was happening in German-occupied Europe. Holocaust Timeline: The Camps Holocaust Oral History The British Library has placed more than 440 hours of testimonials from Holocaust survivors on its website. In wide-ranging interviews, 66 Jewish survivors tell the stories of their lives in the ghettos and concentration camps, and describe how they made lives for themselves after the war
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 "48 Hours of Kristallnacht" - authored by Mitchell G. Bard. An hour by hour account of the terror that swept across Germany in November 1938. "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. "2000 Kurzbiographien Bedeutender Deutscher Juden des 20. Jahrhunderts" - authored by Walter Tetzlaff "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 "A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors" - authored Michael Berenbaum and published by Bulfinch. Based on the chronology of the Holocaust, the author includes chapters on life in Theresienstadt, the Einsatzgruppen, the Warsaw ghetto Uprising, the fate of the gypsies, rescue in Denmark and Bulgaria, the murder of Hungarian Jews and the death marches. "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. Concentration Camp Listings "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. "The Doll Maker" - authored by Marilyn S. Land - the story of Adler Doll Works and how faced with declining business, how the Adlers risk everything to secure the safety and freedom of friends and strangers who seek their help.
"Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During 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 "Final Letters From Victims Of The Holocaust" - contains the last words of people who died in the Shoah == some of the letters are reproduced in photos, and there are a few portraits. The foreword is by Chaim Herzog. Available from Amazon.com "Flory: A Miraculous Story of Survival" - authored by Flory A. Van Beek and published by HarperOne. The story of Flory A. Van Beek who was one of the many who had to make a crucial decision. Her journey through the time of the Holocaust was written as a memoir to her mother, who last her life in the war. It is a story of hope, faith and determination to survive during the horrific time of the Holocaust. "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. in paperback form. "From Tajikistan To The Moon" authored by Robert Frimtzis is a true story of surviving bombs of the Blitzkrieg in Moldova to contributing to Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon. www.robertfrimtzis.com "Fugitives Of The Forest" - authored by Allan Levine. 25,000 Jews came out of hiding in the forests of Eastern Europe. This is the story of survival and resistance against the Nazis - including the Bielski brothers' camp. "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. "Guide to Unpublished Materials about the Holocaust" - essentially a "catalog" to archival materials at Yad Vashem- most likely includes post-Holocaust testimonies by survivors of the many towns (different from Pages of Testimony) http://www.schwartzjudaica.com/cgi-bin/sjb455/015676.html "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 "Holocaust Memoir Digest: Survivors' Published Memoirs With Study Guide and Maps - compiled and edited by Esther Goldberg and published by Vallentine Mitchell Publishers. "Holocaust: The Events and Their Impact on Real People" - authored by Angela Gluck Wood and Dan Stone and published by DK Publishing "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 "Inhumanity" - authored by John Ranz is a memoir of Jochanan's journey through the Nazi concentrations camps. "Joshua & Isadora: A True Tale of Loss and Love In The Holocaust" - A journey through Ukraine, Romania, Turkey and beyond as a grandson chronicles his grandparents' incredible survival during the Holocaust to meeting aboard a Palestine bound ship. "The Journal of Helene Berr" - authored by Helene Berr and translated by David Bellos. The diary is a contribution to the history of Holocaust in occupied Paris. "Kristallnacht: Prelude To Disaster" - authored by Sir Martin Gilbert. An account of the attacks on Jews and Jewish property and the destruction of more than a thousand synagogues in Germany and Austria on November 9/10/1938. Incorporates 55 eyewitness accounts sent to the author. "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. "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 "The Lost Childhood" - authored by Yehuda Nir discusses his own boyhood hiding with his family disguised as Catholics in Warsaw during WW II. "Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust" - authored by Richard Rhodes and published by Knopf Publishing "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 Holocaust: A Novel" - authored by Tova Reich and published by HarperCollins "My Name Was No. 133909 ... And I Sang" - authored by Murray Brandys.
Once in the site, click on "Histories and Narratives." It is listed under the title. "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. "Small Miracles Of The Holocaust" - authored by Yitta Halberstam and Judith Leventhal. This is the stories of untold experiences of Holocaust survivors documenting love stores, amazing reunions and escapes. "Someone Must survive To Tell The World" authored by Tosia Szechter Schneider. Reminiscences of a young Jewish girl growing up in pre-WW II Poland and struggling to survive during the Nazi occupation. She was the only survivor of her family. "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 "Surviving The Holocaust With The Russian Jewish Partisans" - authored by Dov Cohen who was a passenger on the Exodus 47. The book contains a small appendix with a history of the boat. Published by Valentine Mitchell, Newbury House in London. Available from my amazon.com's link "Tell The World" - authored by Shaindy Perl - the true story of Esther Terner-Raab who took part in the Sobibor death camp revolt on October 14, 1943. "The Lost Childhood" - authored by Yehuda Nir, tells the harrowiig story of his boyhood living in hiding with his family disguised as Catholics in Warsaw during WW II. "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 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) "The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories" edited by Joshua Rubenstein, Yitzhak Arad and Ilya Altman "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 Sallyann Amdur Sack, PhD and Gary Mokotoff. "Witness to the Holocaust" - edited by Michael Berenbaum and published by HarperCollins in 1997 "You Have Been Kind Enough to Assist Me: Herman Stern and the Jewish Refugee Crisis Institute of Regional Studies" - authored by Professor Terry Shoptaugh. The book tells the story of North Dakotans Herman Stern and others, who saved as many as 100 Jews by arranging for their emigration to the US in the teeth of State Department bureaucratic resistance and American anti-Semitism. General An excellent site to find information about most European countries is at A SERIOUS MATTER!!! Among the 18,000 Righteous Gentiles officially recognized by Yad Vashem, 4,000 are Dutch, by far the largest national contingent in Europe 29,000 Holocaust era Jewish Names A web site database American Memorial Gathering of Holocaust Survivors Lists survivors by town. This information can be obtained from the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum Survivors Registry. American Red Cross Holocaust and War Victims Tracing and Information Service, Linda Klein is the Director. BERGER@USA.REDCROSS.ORG KANTT@USA.REDCROSS.ORG (410) 764 5311 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. http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/aufbau.htm 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. 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)
Concentration Camp There were at least 15,000 work and concentration camps that the Nazis created - most were located outside of major communities. Ten thousand and seven have been documented and many others were obliterated for one reason or another. 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, Sobibor, 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) This album describing the arrival of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz in May 1944. This is the only surviving Auschwitz album and never loses its actuality from the day it was given to the Yad Vashem museum.
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland/Poland.html 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. Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror, genocide and the Holocaust. It was established in 1940 by the Nazis in the suburb of the city of Oswiecim which was occupied by the Germans in WW II. 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 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. 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. Photos and commentary http://www.holocaustforgotten.com/journey.htm Auschwitz - Souvenirs de la Resistance dans le Camp d' Auschwitz-Birkenau (The Resistance in Auschwitz) 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. Bronisaw Honig - a boy of the Holocaust from Krakow Czech, "Auschwitz Chronicle", published in 1990 Jane Haining, Saint from Auschwitz - she protected 400 children during the Holocaust and she died in Auschwitz for her beliefs 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. The Yad Vashem web site contains information about Auschwitz including photos and a map at 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 and was the location of the killing of over half a million Jews. It had gas chambers that held 1,200 people, according to the U.S. Holocaust memorial Commission, and 600,000 died there. The Nazis eradicated all traces of their crimes here. According to a post by Suzan Wynne, "people were taken there to be killed immediately. There were no records kept on the people killed. The camp itself, was destroyed by the Nazis." The USHMM has a site that's main purpose is to preserve the memory of the victims of this killing center. There is a partial list of the Jewish communities exterminated by the Germans in the Belzec death camp. Bergen-Belsen - Bergen-Belsen is about 60 miles south of Hamburg. The visitors center documents the prisoners of war camp, where 40,000 Soviet POWs died in 1942 after having been transported there from the Eastern front in open railcars and interned without cover. Anne Frank was also murdered at this camp. 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 Birkenau
Birkenau Concentration camp map "If the deportation took place from what had been German territory in "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 Blacher Camp - http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/index.php?id=memorials http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ghettos/tarnow.html 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 Buchenwald Concentration Camp CD. There appears to be a CD available from the Buchenwald Memorial Historical Department. On the cover is shown an object of a cover of an urn from the local crematorium in Weimar. Ashes from those cremated at Buchenwald stayed in the administration of the camp. In time, they were poured out. Upon the arrival of the US Army, thousands of urns or covers were found. Bunchow, Germany Concentration Camp
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005475 Chelmo - 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 190,000 Indexed pages 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, send an e-mail to james.kelling@nara.gov Dachau Indexing Project - over 78,000 records have been recorded Dakovo Located in eastern Croatia Displaced Persons Camp List http://www.ushmm.org 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. 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". It was once located in Germany but now in Poland. 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 Gurs A camp located in southern France 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 Concentration Camps www.cympm.com/concentration.html 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 Janowska A concentration camp near L'vov and considered to be among the most brutal. Simon Wiesenthal was a captive here at one time. 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 Le Vernet (France) Located near Pamiers in Ariege, it was used to detain some 12,000 Spanish combatants from il Durruti Division. In 1940, it became a camp to intern foreigners, anti-fascist intellect, members of the International brigades and Jews arrested in the region. In June 1944, the last of the internees were evacuated and deported to Dachau in the "Ghost Train." http://www.ariege.com/histoire/lahille.html Loslau Reference is made of this camp in the book "Hitler's Willing Executioners". http://www1.yadvashem.org/education/entries/english/11.asp 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: http://www.scrapbookpages.com/poland/majdanek/Majdanek.html http://www.cympm.com/majdanek.html Mauthausen Located 2 hours west of Vienna, just off the main highway and railway line. It was the largest concentration camp that the Nazis built in Austria. The camp was opened in 1938 to house political prisoners originally, but more and more Jews were interned there. Of the 200,000 prisoners interned here from 1938 to 1945, half died, mostly from forced labor. There are still several original buildings which house a museum: Phone 43 7 238 2269 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. A cavalry patrol of the 11th Armored Division liberated the death camp complexes of Gusen and Mauthausen on May 5, 1945. The soldiers returned with 1,800 German prisoners, to the surprise of their commanding officers. The U.S. troops then provided medical assistance to the starving camp inmates and buried thousands of victims of the Nazi murderers. A history of the amazing exploits of the 11th Armored Division can be found at: Nizkor Project Pinsk Records from the Soviet Extraordinary Commission: Compilation of testimonials about 11,704 Holocaust victims from Pinsk. http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/ 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 Poniatowa - The hideous Forced Labor Camp, where part of 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 Ravensbruck). 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 http://www.kreis-landskron.de/orte/riebnig/ Rottleberode A sub-camp of Buchenwald, is located north of Nordhausen http://www.edwardvictor.com/Holocaust/Rottleberode.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rottleberode http://www.sawmilldatabase.com/sawmill-info/rottleberode-sagewerk Sachsenhausen http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/SachsenhausenEng.html http://www.scrapbookpages.com/EasternGermany/Sachsenhausen/ http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005538 http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Sach.html http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/camps/sachsenhausen/ http://www.zchor.org/sachsenhausen/sachsenhausen.htm 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. There is a list of about 30 Lithuanian Jews who died immediately after the war. Schlesiersee - Once 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 Spungen Family Foundation In 2007, Danny Spungen, a collector and philatelist, on behalf of the Spungen foundation, acquired arguably one of the best known collections of Holocaust materials related to stamps, covers, postcards, letters, bank note forgeries, and manuscripts from concentration camps & Jewish ghettos. Formally known as "The NAZI Scourge: Postal Evidence of the Holocaust and the Devastation of Europe," the Spungen Holocaust Postal Collection is available to the public, on the Foundation's web site
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 located near the German border about 30 miles northeast of Prague. 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. The postal address: Theresienstadt Martyrs Remembrance Association http://www.porges.net/TableOfContents.html http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/weblinks/?content=ghettos http://www.zchor.org/CZECH.HTM http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3388582,00.html "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 "Ghetto Theresienstadt" - authored by Zdenek Lederer "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 Fuehrer Gives The Jews A City" ("Der Fuehrer Schenkt den Juden Eine Stadt") is a documentary showing happy Jews in a Jewish city made by the Nazis in the summer of 1944. Shortly after, the majority of the "actors" were sent to Auschwitz. 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) in a posting The Memorial Book for the Austrian Victims of Theresienstadt - check on their data ((in German) through the address 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://cyberroad.com/poland/jews_ww2.html The following are the countries whose Jews were deported to Treblinka
More information in Ada Holtzman's web site (among others): There is a Treblinka monument at Nachlat Icchak cemetery in Givataiin Israel Trostenets - fourth largest death camp after Auschwitz, Majdanek and Treblinka. Trutzhain - Memorial place Trutzhain, call 06691-710662 (whale-trust Burger). * www.gedenkstaette trutzhain.de Twilhaar - Jewish work camp , near Nijverdal in the province of Overijssel in the Netherlands. There is some further information about this camp,
however in Dutch language at Yaniv (Yanov) Concentration Camp Located near L'viv, Ukraine http://www.waissa.com/en/Albums/Frontpage/ http://www.nysun.com/arts/persecution-in-war-and-postwar/63829/ A story about a Torah that was hidden from the Germans in this camp was published in the Sunday issue of the Los Angeles Times on November 16, 2008. The Torah is now in the possession of the Los Angeles campus of Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion which is located near the USC campus. The Torah was brought into the labor camp in small pieces wrapped around the bodies of the Jewish inmates and after the war, was sewn back together. It was in the possession of a Jewish couple who brought it to the United States and was recently donated to the college. 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 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 permits the filmed collection of these records (held at Yad Vashem) they Meaning of information contained in the Arolsen Records: CLI = Certified Legal Investigator Germany (Country) The Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland Ghettos In 1941, there were 440,000 Jews confined behind the 10-foot walls of the Warsaw ghetto; hundreds died of starvation and disease. Electronic resources on ghettos instituted by the Nazis to isolate the Jewish population. Historical Sites of Jewish Warsaw Global Gazetteer 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. Guide to the Holocaust This site includes original researched articles about the Holocaust; a weekly e-mail newsletter; an on-line Forum for discussion, categorized and selected links to on-line resources for Holocaust information. 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 (Szenes) The official site of the Hannah Senesh Legacy Foundation. It is about this courageous Jewish figure of WW II. Hannah was just 22 years old when she was sent on a mission to rescue Hungary's Jews during WW II. The poet and Haganah fighter parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured and ultimately executed by the Nazis. The story of her life (in English and in Hebrew), together with photographs and examples from her diaries and poetry is displayed here 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 relatives/survivors, curriculum resources and an historical summary http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/tdnguyen/Holocaust.html 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. Hungarian Jewish Concentration Camp Survivors
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Hungary IBM "I've been to Auschwitz again, a few days ago. Something has catched (caught) my attention this time: all prisoner registration cards
bore a stamp "Hollerith - erfasst" or "entered into the Hollerith-machine". The JewishGen Holocaust Database A collection of 53 datasets, Some of the files transcribed for the Holocaust Database are from files of the US Holocaust memorial Museum. The JewishGen Holocaust Database contains:
Jewish Memorial Center The place to commemorate and remember
forever, individual Jews from all walks of life, as well as Victims of the Holocaust. Jewish People Finder and Jewish Memorial Center An in-depth web site
with lots of excellent links. Search and locate Jewish people globally. A service in English and Hebrew. Jewish World Center Jewish global communities, directory, and an information center for everything Jewish worldwide. KGB Lists In The Baltic States Documents and Research Kindertransport Contact: L. S. Montague of the Jewish Refugees Committee, part of World Jewish Relief at: The Forum 74/80 Camden Street, London NWI 0EG. Tel +44 (0) 7681; Fax: +44 (0) 7691 1780 Email: WJR1@WJR.org.uk http://www.kindertransport.org/ http://www.thinkequal.com/page.cfm/link=56 http://www.ajr.org.uk/kindertransport.htm http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0248912/ Museums The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country's memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust. Visiting the permanent exhibition: Tickets are free but limited to ten passes per person. Passes are timed at 15-minute intervals between 10 a.m. and 3:45 p.m. and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Museum members receive up to four passes upon presentation of their membership card. Start on the Fourth Floor for your self-guided tour. The Museum's three floor main exhibition, presents a comprehensive history through artifacts, photographs, films and eyewitness testimonies. Divided into three sections presented chronologically, it begins with life before the Holocaust in the early 1930s, continues through the Nazi rise to power and the subsequent tyranny and genocide, and concludes with liberation and the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust. For Group Reservations for the Permanent Exhibition, write or e-mail USHMM/Scheduling Office, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126; Phone: 202 488 6100; Fax: 202 488 2606; email: group_visit@hshmm.org Museums and Remembrance United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Ukraine Holocaust Memorial Sites - Father Desbois is establishing the facts of a critical but less well-known chapter of the Holocaust by seeking an estimated 2,500 mass graves and killing sites of Ukraine Jews. The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies - University of Minnesota. An excellent site which includes a Virtual Museum, Educational Resources and Links & Bibliography Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg - 727 820 0100 Sanford L. Ziff Jewish Museum of Florida in Miami Beach - 305 672 5044 Holocaust Memorial Center - Bloomfield, Michigan Holocaust Museum 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, D.C. 20024-2150 Telephone: 202 488 0400 Fax 202 488 2690 - Holocaust Museum - Houston - telephone 713 942 8000 Imperial War Museum (London, England) - there is a permanent exhibit devoted to the Holocaust in the new, five floor wind, that occupies about 13,000 square feet of space on two floors. Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York 212 945 0039 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place S.W. Washington, DC 20024; Phone Information (202) 488 0495. For information about DP Camp Lists write to: Holocaust Memorial Museum, PO Box 10190 Silver Spring, MD 20914. Another contact to email to is Bob Wascou at robertw252@aol.com See also the database info at The Registry handles 34,000 requests annually, and hundreds of people have been reunited through the Museum's 'Registry of Holocaust Survivors' efforts. Survivors can be registered posthumously, allowing people to confirm if someone they know survived the Holocaust, even if they are not alive today. To protect the privacy of survivors and their families, the Registry is not searchable on-line. Survivors can provide as much, or as little, information as they desire about their lives before, during and after the Holocaust. Photographs are also accepted. Survivors' addresses and telephone numbers are not displayed in the Registry nor released without their consent. The database at the Registry contains information on about 180,000 survivors and their family members worldwide. Survivors can call 202 488 6130 or e-mail registry@ushmm.org or visit the Museum's Web site Holocaust Names - this site offers the ability to search the name list, memories, World Chat, Pictures and the ability to also add names Holocaust Remembrance Day - In an effort to help preserve the memory of Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem Phone: +972 2 644 3480 Fax: +972 2 644 3443 Holocaust Studies - Bernard and Rochelle Zell Center for Holocaust Studies - Holocaust Survivors - a web site where you can read the stories of the survivors, hear them speak and look at their family photographs. You can also ask questions at the discussion page Holocaust Web Site - created by Jennifer Rosenberg at The Information Center for Holocaust Survivors in Israel" - this website is informative and easily navigated. There is a search facility where you can enter a name, and all compensation funds will be searched simultaneously-- insurance claims, property claims, etc. Jewish Family Research Association - this association was established in 2000 in Tel-Aviv. There is an English-language branch in Ra'anana in conjunction with ESRA and several more groups in formation. For further information, contact Rob Sealtiel, President tiigrs@matav.net.il Kristallnacht Inspired by Hitler's fanatical fascism, rioters pulled Jews from their homes, destroyed their belongings and beat some of them senseless, in a campaign of violence that the Nazis said was spontaneous but was in fact, cultivated and encouraged by the regime. A least 91 Jews were killed, and 30,000 were arrested and sent to camps in Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and Dachau. Klandorf - a quiet village of about 200 people is where a 'dump' was discovered in 2008 by Yaron Svoray, an Israeli writer. The 'dump' is described as a treasure trove of artifacts dumped there after the Kristallnacht and so far, he has discovered artifacts relating to Jewish home items i.e. pottery and porcelain items dumped here by the Nazis. Klandorf is about 40 miles north of Berlin. The dump site sprawls across several acres, an uneven terrain of wooded copses and bushy ravines. The full story can be found in the November 16, 2008 issue of the Los Angeles Times. Life in a Ghetto - Lili Susser's first hand account of her life in the Lodz Ghetto http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/testimon/susser5.htm Lithuania (Country) - The Vilna Ghetto was liquidated on September 23, 1943 in the Paneriai (Ponar) on the outskirts of Vilnius (about 10 kilometers). 70,000 Jews were murdered there. There is still a Jewish community in Lithuania numbering 4,000. Vilnius Pinkas Ha Kehillot; Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities from their foundation till after the Holocaust: Lithuania - The complete bibliography of the Works of Professor Dov Levin, 1945-2000 - "Yidishe Shtet, Shtetlach un dorfishe yishuvim in Lite: biz 1918: historish-biografishe skitses (Jewish Cities, Towns and Villages in Lithuania until 1918" Maps Art Source International offers a selection of antique maps, prints and globes Map of Nazi Concentration and Death Camps Minsk, Belarus Memorable Gardens for Holocaust Victims Nazi-era Provenance of Art Objects. The search seems to be only by object. The advanced search page is at: New York State's Holocaust Claims Processing Office Nuremberg This is an amazing project for those researching the Holocaust.
The Harvard Law School library introduced the "Nuremberg Trials Project: Nizkor Project A site dedicated to the nearly 12 million victims ruthlessly Oral History 'Living Words: Voices of the Holocaust' - presented by the British Pages of Testimony Contains biographic details of the Holocaust victims and serves as symbolic tombstones. The Pages are submitted in memory of the victims by a family member or a close friend and is located at Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority Partisans Site - Search The Ghetto fighters' House database Polish Jews Some 80 percent of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust did so because, in 1940, Stalin deported them to Siberian labor camps; on their release, they immigrated to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Information obtained from the Hadassah Magazine of November 2008. A documentary is available. Polish Town List - A translation from 'Jewish Communities destroyed in the Holocaust' by Avraham Klevan Przemysl, Poland - On the morning of July 26, 1942, at the bridge over the river San in Przemysl, a detachment of SS and police wanted to round up Jews from the ghetto for deportation to the Belzec extermination camp. Two German army officers, the town commander Major Liedtke and his deputy, First Lieutenant Battel, protected the Jews from being taken to their death by threatening to order their men to open fire unless the SS men retreated. Only one day before the bridge encounter, Battel had used army trucks to take Jewish workers and their families - 80 to 100 people - out of the ghetto and house them under direct military supervision. Both Battel and Liedtke have been honored in 1982 and 1993 by Yad Vashem, Israel as "Righteous among the Nations". Further information from Dr. Norbert Haase, Chief Historian, Saxony Memorial Foundation, Dresden, Germany haase@stsg.de Puttkammer List Compensation for the post-war restoration of securities rights, the Puttkammer List and the safe-deposit box expenses in the Netherlands during WWII Raoul Wallenberg "Civil Collaboration, Spiritual and Cultural Heritage Fund - published by Interpressfact in Budapest Home Page Register of Jewish Survivors "Pinkas HaNitzolim I : The Search Bureau for Missing relatives of the Jewish Agency which was set up to assist in re-establishing contact between the Jewish survivors in Europe and their relatives in Palestine and in overseas countries, is issuing this second volume of the “Register of Survivors” which contains the names of 57,702 Jews who were found in Poland after its liberation. Researching The Holocaust An on-line resource which includes an extensive collection of photographs. The built-in search engine lets you research topics in related Holocaust sites, or throughout the web Rheinpfalz (region), Germany Reminiscences of Jacob Greenbaum, Sr., written for his children in 1859 Romania The USHMM has over three million pages of documents in their archives. Museum scholars played a key role in writing a definitive history of the Holocaust in Romania, leading the Romanian government to admit the country's wartime complicity in murdering Jews, to establish a national Holocaust Remembrance Day. Schindler, Oscar Why did he help Jews? Why did he spend an enormous sum of money and risk his life to rescue 1,300 Jews in the shadow of Auschwitz? The German industrialist's list of more than 800 Jews - describe by the State Library of New South Wales as "one of the most powerful documents of the 20th century" -- was given to Australian author Thomas Keneally in 1980 by Leopold Pfefferberg, a Schindler survivor living in Los Angeles. It prompted Keneally to write his Booker Prize-winning work Schindler's Ark, which spawned Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning film, "Schindler's List". The document had been languishing in the bowels of the library for 13 years until it was recently discovered by a researcher. The 13 pages of yellowed paper listing the names of Jews saved from the Nazis went on display in April 2009 at the library. Search and Unite David Lewin davidlewin@btinternet.com is running the small Search & Unite office out of London, attempting to help the many who suspect that, despite the passage of so many years since World War II, someone may still exist somewhere "out there". Click on the word unite and you will find his site. Sendler, Irena A Catholic social worker who is credited with rescuing 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazi death camps. This occurred in the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 and 1943. Irena headed up the Zagota's (an organization of Poles who aided Jews in Occupied Poland) children's rescue mission. She was allowed into the ghetto by forged papers identifying her as a nurse to deliver medicine inside the ghetto. The Nazis were concerned about the spread of infectious diseases within the ghetto spreading outside. Sendler organized the effort to sneak the children to orphanages, convents, and private homes in the Warsaw region. Skokie Holocaust Museum The Museum features 2,000 recorded survivor testimonies, mostly from Chicago-area survivors, displays a Nazi rail car used to transport Jews to concentration camps and includes an exhibit for children along with a reflection room. Slovak Transport List There are some 20 reels of microfilmed cards. All of the filmed cards are from the first and biggest transport operation which the Nazis employed between March and October 1942, when 58,000 Jews were deported from Slovakia, mostly to Auschwitz. Soviet Union Chornaya Kniga (The Black Book) St Louis Passenger List - The Holocaust Museum has a section of their website dedicated to the SS St. Louis. Survivor Rate: the survival rate for Jewish adults in Nazi Europe was 33 percent; for children it was between 6 and 11 percent. In the countries that Germany occupied during WW II, there were 1.6 million Jewish children and between 1 and 1.5 million were murdered. In pre-war Poland, for example, there were about 1 million Jewish children, but only 5,000 in 1945. Survivors of the Shoah Foundation. Steven Spielberg's Holocaust Project 51,661 Holocaust survivors were video taped by Spielberg's foundation. A The results of this extreme effort will be the largest available video database Swiss Bank Accounts from the ICEP Investigation on-line with search Unclaimed Accounts - the World Jewish Congress has published a booklet Tracing Survivors and Documenting Victims of the Holocaust available Vienna - 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. The web site is in German and in English Volyn, Ukraine - Jewish Partisans and Fighters of Volyn in their Memory Warsaw Uprising - August 1, 1944 - October 2, 1944) was 'probably the largest single operation organized and executed by a partisan organization in WW II.' Kibbutz "Lohamei Hagetaot" (in Hebrew - the fighters of the ghettos) has a museum that is dedicated to the holocaust. The founders of the kibbutz were survivors of the Warsaw ghetto. Telephone: (dial your international access code, then 972-4 995 8080 Ghetto Fighter's House Museum, Mr. Yossi Shavit, Archives Director at this address: Beit Lohamei Haghetaot D.N. Western Galilee, 25220 Israel, just outside of Nahariya in the north of Israel. The kibbutz was founded by Ghetto fighters and partisans from Poland and Lithuania. Wiesenthal, Simon - 1908 - 2005 - a Holocaust survivor who doggedly tracked war criminals. He is credited with ferreting out 1,100 Nazi War criminals. WW II Archives - features historical documents, photos, and even movies World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust - a 100,000 member organization with 49 groups worldwide. P.O. Box 741, Conshohocken, PA 19428 Phone: 1 610 527 1039 President is Stefanie Seltzer e-mail fedjcsh@juno.com Yad Vashem - see my Israel web page by Clicking Here Orient See also my 'Orient' page
Refuge and Rescue - two complementary exhibits on the related themes of "The Angel of Austria's Jews" - authored by Mark O'Neil for the South China Poland See also my Poland page
Jewish Community in Bielsko-Biala cooperates with the Department of Jewish Community in Bielsko-Biala Tel. +48-33-8122438 Fax +48-33-8126654
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