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"Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews"Adolf Hitler
At 10 a.m. on April 1, 1933, the Nazi regime
staged a massive nationwide boycott against Jewish-owned businesses
and professional offices. In cities, towns and villages
throughout Germany, storm troopers and SS men were stationed
at the entrances of Jewish shops. The Star of David was
painted in yellow and black across thousands of shop doors and
windows. Signs read: "Germans! Defend yourselves! Don't buy
from Jews" "The Jews are Our Disaster" or simply "Jude."
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.
The
killing operations were conducted in haste. Within territories
controlled by Germany directly, political obstacles were few
and momentum grew rapidly. Reprieves were granted in the main
only to indispensable Jewish labor forces in factories. The
great mass of Jews was not to be spared, and Heinrich Himmler wanted
the central region of Poland -- the so-called General
Government -- cleared of Jews by the end of 1942.
The
process of killing European Jewry was begun in stages with
the mass shooting of Jews east of the line crossed by German
armies invading the Soviet Union. By the end of 1941,
gas vans were operating in Chelmno, where Jews from Lodz
and its environs were put to death.
In
Auschwitz, the first victims came from a variety of areas,
including Upper Silesia; Slovakia and France.
Belzec began gassing in March 1942, swallowing the Jews of the
Cracow and Galician districts.
Sobibor started operation in April, 1942 and received the Jews
from the Lublin area, as well as more distant origins.
In June 1942, on the Nazi war against Jews in
Poland, the headline in The Times of London stated "Mass
Butchery"
On June 2, 1942, BBC broadcast stated that
700,000 Jews have been murdered in occupied Poland. The
report was based on accounts sent in May by the Jewish
underground in Warsaw to the Polish government-in-exile in
London.
On September 24, 1942, German Foreign Minister
von Ribbentrop ordered his diplomats to approach the Bulgarian,
Hungarian and Danish governments and to initiate the
deportation of Jews from their countries to the East. The SS
and Police Leader in the Netherlands reported to Himmler that
"the new Dutch police squadrons are performing splendidly as
regards the Jewish question and are arresting Jews by the hundreds,
day and night."
"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
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/
Genocide
Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish refugee from Poland, coined the word genocide in 1944 to describe what was happening in German-occupied Europe.
www.ushmm.org/continuingimpact
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
http://www.rumoatolerancia.fflch.usp.br/node/1619
Books
Most books, CDs, etc. can be ordered through my link to Amazon.com by
clicking here
> Jewish Genealogy
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
http://remember.org/bksrvr.html
"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 www.akdh.ch
"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
"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. www.pbs.org/berga
"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.
But the encyclopedia offers more than statistics: the numbers come to life through more than 600 black-and-white photographs, most of which are from the archives of Israel's Yad Vashem museum. Here we see the vibrancy of Jewish life before the war kolkhoz theater groups and swing bands, weddings and riotous Purim parties, shops and synagogues. Several of the photographs depict Jewish military units from WWI; others show Jewish young people looking bored in chemistry class or diligently trying to master the violin during orchestra practice. A final 56-page section entitled "In Memoriam" provides unforgettable, haunting photographs of the Holocaust itself. This three-volume set is a required acquisition for libraries and anyone interested in Jewish studies. Published by the New York University Press
"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 TimesFrom a posting by Andrew Blumberg http://tinyurl.com/hmcm
"From Oswiecim to Auschwitz: Poland Revisited" Authored by Moshe Weiss and published in 1994 by Mosaic Press, Buffalo, NY. in paperback form. ISBN 0-88962-558-1 and ISBN 0-88962-557-3
"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.mideastweb.org/holocaust.htm
"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. ISBN 0-85303-528-8
"Holocaust: The Events and Their Impact on Real People" Authored by Angela Gluck Wood and Dan Stone and published by DK Publishing
"I Won't Die Hungry"
Authored by Alice Genis. This is the story of a woman
whose hunger for a meaningful life was second only to her will to
survive. The story takes you through the 1930s Vilna
through the horrors of the Holocaust and the post-war years
in Munich and New York City.
"Inhumanity" Authored by John Ranz is a memoir of Jochanan's journey through the Nazi concentrations camps. www.authorhouse.com
"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. www.gppjudaica.com
"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.
www.weinsteinbooks.com
"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.
"TheLast 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.
"TheLast 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
Francepublished 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) http://www.genealoj.org
"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. ISBN:
978-0971-05986-3
"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. www.chgs.umn.edu
"The Nazis: Warning from History"
Authored by Laurence Rees
(BBC 1997)
"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 http://www.jur.uva.nl/junsv/
"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 inPoland. Her
family managed to escape deportation to the concentration camps.
"ThePianist: 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.
www.nevehshalom.org
"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.
"TheRighteous: 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.
"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)
"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 Holocaust
Information
Bunk Bed from
Majdanek Camp Museum
An excellent site to find information about most European countries
is at
http://searcheurope.com
and type in the name of the country you wish to research in the
search field. This site is a great source to find information
for almost every European country.
"I have a
book "Bordeaux Capitale Tragique" which includes a passenger
list of refugees (many Jewish) of the S.S. Massilia which
sailed from Bordeaux to Casablanca, arriving 24 Jun
1940.
A lot of celebrities were on board including Edouard
Daladier, Pierre Mendes France, Jean Zay, and others. Information
given is name, age, profession. There are about 150 names on the
list. I will be happy to look up names if anyone writes me."
From a posting by Paul Silverstone www.paulsilverstone.com
A SERIOUS MATTER!!!
This story was aired on CBS "60 MINUTES" ** about a
long-secret German archive that houses a treasure trove of
information on 17.5 million victims of the Holocaust. The archive,
located in the German town of Bad Arolsen, is massive
(there are 16 miles of shelving containing 50 million pages of
documents) and until recently, was off-limits to the public. But
after the German government agreed earlier this year (2009)
to open the archives, CBS News' Scott Pelley traveled there with
three Jewish survivors who were able to see their own Holocaust
records. It's an incredibly moving piece, all the more poignant in
the wake of the meeting of Holocaust deniers in Iran and the
denial speeches in the UN. We're trying to get word out about the
story to people who have a special interest in this subject.
It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe
ended. This is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of
the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million
Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred,
raped, burned, starved and humiliated with the German and Russian peoples looking the other way! Now, more than
ever, with Iran, among others, claiming the Holocaust to be
"a myth," it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.
Received from Irwin Pentel
** A recreation of the CBS program can be found on You Tube.
Here are the links to "CBS Holocaust, Parts 1 & 2"
On June 14, 1942, 13-year old Anne begins
writing her diary only a few days before she and her family go into
hiding in a "secret annex" in Amsterdam.
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.
www.wiesenthal.com
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
http://www.annefrank.com
At this site, you can interactively move through the rooms where
Anne and her family hid.
www.annefrank.org
"Researchers interested in learning more about a recently-discovered
HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Association) file of letters
written by Anne Frank's father, Otto, between April 30, 1941 and
Dec. 11, 1941 can read details on a Time Magazine website article.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1582101,00.html
The file is comprised of about 80 documents, including
correspondence fromthe Frank family's U.S. relatives and a
university friend of Otto's, New York's Nathan Straus Jr.,
the son of the Macy's department store's founder, and detail Otto
Frank's attempts to obtain passage for his family through Portugal
or Paris in an effort to get to the United
States or Cuba. The Frank Family went into hiding in July 1942.
HIAS records are now housed at the Yivo Institute at the Center
for Jewish History and these documents have been declassified
and released. HIAS archives contain the arrival cards for those
individuals and families who migrated from the displaced persons
camps to the United States and they also can conduct searches
in their records for people trying learn more about the fate of
family who immigrated to this country early in the last century.
http://hias.org/programs/findfamily.php
Researchers may also be interest to know that Time Magazine also
offers a free, online search of its archives dating back to 1923. From a posting by Pamela Weisberger
http://www.time.com/time/archive/
"The
Hidden Life of Otto Frank" Authored by Carol Ann Lee, the book details Otto's editing of
his daughters diaries, the name of who betrayed Otto and why the
Frank's were discovered, and the fact that Otto Frank was a target
for blackmail. In addition, it is one of the few books written about someone from the FRANK family, besides Anne, and may be one of
the few publications about Otto. From a posting by Nancy Ring Kendrick
Association of Descendants
of the Shoah - Illinois
Here is the wonderful story
about the orphans and American Pilots who befriended them during
last 2 years of the occupation of Belgium.
http://www.orphanconnect.com/bear1.html
Click on Bridges
of Love Project.
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
Austria - Denk.Mal Project
On 5 May 2008,
Austria’s
National Commemoration Day Against Violence and Racism in
Remembrance of Victims of National Socialism, students
from all over Austria constructed an elaborate and moving
Holocaust memorial on Vienna’s Heldenplatz - The
Denk.Mal.
This memorial was dedicated to the more than 80,000
Austrians
– Jews, political and religious dissidents, homosexuals, people
with disabilities, Roma (gypsies), and other groups and
individuals singled out by the Nazis for persecution and
extermination – who were murdered in the Holocaust.
http://www.lettertothestars.at/en/page_id_108.html
Austrian, Czech, and German Jews in Riga
Data on 876 forced Jewish laborers in
Riga, Latvia.
Holocaust
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.
Belarus
The killing
site of Maly Trostenets in Byelorussia (today
Belarus) began operation on May 7-8, using gas vans to kill Jews
from Austria, Germany and Czechoslovakia dispatched
from Terezin.
On July 28 -
31st, 30,000 German Jews who had been deported to the Minsk
Ghetto are murdered in mobile gas vans or by gunfire at the
concentration camp of Maly Trostenets.
Bielsko-Biala
- Jewish Community
Cooperates with the Department of Documentation of Monuments at the
Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. A description of what
can be expected from a contact is available in the JewishGen
Digest Archives dated November 19, 1999 on page 13
Jewish Community in Bielsko-Biala Department of Documentation and
History Skr.poczt. 180 ul. 3 Maja Str. No. 7
Tel. +48-33-8122438 Fax +48-33-8126654
Breslau Deportations
Three transports of 1,845 persons sent to
Silesian towns in
1941-1942.
Holocaust
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)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html
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.
A factual report on crimes committed against Humanity contains medical experiments and other horrors which occurred in Nazi concentration camps during WW II
http://zero.tolerance.org/zt/kz.html
Westerbork was initially opened in October 1939 for the
internment of German Jewish refugees who had entered the
Netherland illegally. On July 1, 1942, the amp was transferred
from Dutch to German hands. The first German camp
commandant was Erich Deppner.
On
July 14, 1942, the Germans began the systematic transport of Jews
fro all over Holland to the Westerbork. It was
located at a small railway spur in Drente, the poorest and
least populated area of the country. A transport of about 1,000 Jews
left Westerbork for Auschwitz on the next day.
From this area of Holland, more than 75% of the Dutch Jewish
population, including Jewish refugees from Germany found
themselves traveling in boxcars to Auschwitz. One hundred and
four thousand of Holland's 140,000 Jews passed through Westerbork
en
route to the death camps at Auschwitz and Sobibor, including Anne
Frank.
Each
Tuesday, immediately after the weekly transport pulled out of the
railway yard, the following week's list of names to be transported
out were posted. Inmates lived in fear that their name would appear.
By
late 1943, most of the German Jews were also being deported to the
East and deportations ceased in 1944 as the war front approached.
When Canadian units liberated Westerbork on April 12, 1945, there
were 900 Jewish prisoners in the camp.
More information is available in the U. S. Holocaust Memorial
Council newsletter.
In
October, 1942, the Germans opened a new camp at Amersfoort (Vught)
in Holland.
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.
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/cclist.html
Correspondence From the various Nazi labor camps including the Schindler factory in Krakowis 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
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, Oswiecimwas 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.
The Red Army liberated this camp in January, 1945.
There is a glass-walled room that displays 4,000 pounds of tangled hair; another room holds shoes and the pink sandals with kitten heels that some young Jewish girl wore there.
About 1.1 perished at the two main
Auschwitz camps, along with at least 70,000 non-Jewish Poles. Of the 3.3 million Jews in
Poland before WW II, only some 300,000 survived. There were about 50 concentration camps in the
Krakow area, with its flat fields of chimneys, still standing after fleeing
Germans torched the buildings and records, making it impossible to know exact death counts.
http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/album_auschwitz/mutimedia/
index.html
"Arbeit Macht Frei"
This is the sign wording over the wrought iron gate of the
entrance to hell ... into a different world, one of mass killing,
primarily through poison gas.
Jacob Rosen offered the following (edited) information in a posting 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."
http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/m/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=720&Itemid=8
"The translation of: Blad palaczenia z baza danych is: error in contacting the database."
"The translation of : prosimy spruwowac ponowie za chwile is: A second posting on 8-12-03 offered the following:
"It gives the Polish/Yiddish/German/Czech, Slovak, Russian, Ukrainian names places about which Yizkor books were published."
"The case of Tsans or Nowy Sac is fascinating."
"I would also recommend, in view of the limited list of names on line, in case that the spelling of the surname is not clear, to type just the name of birth (Urodzenia) or residence (mieszkania). This may yield more results, if at all."
"About other technical problems in case of too much data-I still have to study it. Hopefully, younger and more technical Genners will learn it quicker and share it with us all."
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.scrapbookpages.com/Poland/
Ira
Block posted on 1/30/07 "I recently emailed requested photos from
the following shuls/cemeteries. If anyone wants copies of Auschwitz,
just send a request via email to irablock@gmail.com
Auschwitz Concentration Camp Death List Beginning with the letter "U". You can also search other names by changing the letter u (before .htm) to any other letter i.e. s
http://guardian.ifastnet.com/death-certificates/u.htm
Auschwitz Jewish Center Located in Oswiecim (Polish for Auschwitz) The website (in English ) www.ajcf.org
E-mail address in Poland is
info@ajcf.pl Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation Located at 36 West 44th Street, Suite 310, New York, NY 10036. Telephone 212 575 1050
E-mail
info@ajcf.org
http://www.ajcf.org
A film about what is believed to be the only organized uprising ever attempted by the prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau was 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.
Jane Haining Saint from Auschwitz - she protected 400 children during the Holocaust and she died in Auschwitz for her beliefs
http://www.auschwitz.dk/Haining.htm
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.
http://www.auschwitz.org.pl/html/eng/start/index.php
TheYad Vashem Information about Auschwitz including photos and a map at
http://yadvashem.org/ click on 'On-Line Exhibitions'
Belzec, (Poland)
One of three euthanasia sites built after the Wannsee Conference of June 20,1942,
Belzec is located in southeastern Poland and approximately 550,000
Jews were gassed in a mere 13 months.
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.
www.ushmm.org/belzec
On
August 10, 1942, the massive deportation of Jews from the Lvov
Ghetto to this killing center begins.
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.
www.bergen-belsen.de
Books
'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.
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
"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 Vitez on JewishGen
"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
On
May 4, 1942, for the first time, a "selection" was carried
out at this killing center (Auschwitz II) with German
officers deciding who among a transport of Jews shall die by gassing
and who shall live as slave laborers. This marks the beginning
of the mass gassing of Jews in Auschwitz-Birkenau. On May 12,
1942 1,500 men, women and children from Sosnowiec are gassed.
Ira
Block posted on 1/30/07 "I recently emailed requested photos from
the following shuls/cemeteries. If anyone wants copies of Birkenau
just send a request via email to irablock@gmail.com
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. http://www.ushmm.org/
Located near LodzPoland, became the first to be put into operation on December 8, 1941. On
May 4-12, approximately 10,000 Jews who had arrived in the Lodz
Ghetto some six months earlier from Germany, Luxembourg,
Vienna and Prague, are deported to this killing center. http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/text/x07/xm0712.html
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.
Holocaust
TheDachau Concentration Camp
Photo taken by Ted Margulis
Officially opened on Wednesday, March 22, 1933,
and was liberated in 1945 by the all-Black 761st Tank Battalion in
1945.
There is another project initiated, computerizing 122,000 records from Dachau, part of the 189 reels of Captured German Documents (see German Records below). A project of computerizing 122,000 records from Dachau, part of the 189 reels of captured German Documents is in process.
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
Declassified Dachau Concentration Camp List of 2860+
names The possessions of each inmate were placed in envelopes and marked with their names, nationality (or in some cases reason for imprisonment at the camp such as political prisoner) birth date and their Nazi assigned number.
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/cclist.html
On June 22, 1942, for the first time, a
transport of Jews is sent from Drancy to Auschwitz.
A Paris suburb where a memorial to the tens of thousands of French Jews who were shipped to Auschwitzstands 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".
Helmbrechts Walk A memorial testament to the forced march of 580 female Jewish prisoners at the end of the Second World War. The march began on April 13th 1945 in order to evacuate Helmbrechts, a small satellite unit of the Flossenbürg concentration camp before American troops arrived. Silas’ work acts as a visual representation of the 225 miles that the prisoners were forced to walk from the camp in Germany into occupied Czechoslovakia.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2010-04-15-21-35-23-photographer-susan-silas-retraces-a-holocaust-death-march-helmbrechts-walk.html
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
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
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.
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 Fossoliwere Jews. Further information may be available by E-mail to
levchadash@libero.it
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.
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 Estonia pagefor additional information.
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/levernet/info.html
Located about 2 miles outside of Lublin, Polandand 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. The city of Lublin literally ends at the gates
of this killing center. On May 11, 1942, for the first time, a
transport of Jews, 400 men from Terezin, was sent to this
camp.
On
May 15 - 30, "Family transports" from Slovakia arrive
in the Lublin district of occupied Poland and are sent to
Majdanek.
On November 3, 1943, 18,400 Jews were murdered. Today, it is a national museum.
The gassing operation began in October. Evidence of the devastation
is nearby: the victims' ashes, and a roomful of children's shoes.
Majdanek was the first large Nazi concentration camp to be
liberated by the Soviet army. In July 1944, in the face
of the Red Army's advance, Majdanek was liquidated, and about
a thousand prisoners were taken away, half of them reaching
Auschwitz. Before abandoning the camp, the staff destroyed
documents and set fire to the buildings and the large crematorium,
but in their haste to withdraw, the Germans failed to destroy
the evidence of the crimes committed: gas chambers, crematoria,
supplies of Zyklon B gas, collective graves, shoes and clothing of
the victims and several camp buildings.
Ira
Block posted on 1/30/07 "I recently emailed requested photos from
the following shuls/cemeteries. If anyone wants copies of Majdanek
just send a request via email to irablock@gmail.com
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
http://www.mauthausen-memorial.at
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:
www.11tharmoreddivision.com
Nizkor Project
A
collection of Holocaust memorial and anti-revisionist projects
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
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/plaszow/plaszow.html
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.
60 years later and in the outskirts of the peaceful town Poniatowa in Poland, stand 6 memorials to commemorate what happened there in W.W.II. No mention of a the Jews on neither of the monuments.
poniatowa.htm
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
http://www.ravensbrueck.de/english/frauen-kz/index.htm
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 Museumkeeps 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 - (German)- click on the name 'Ravensbrück' and then look around.
http://www.ravensbruck.nl
The Ravensbrück Memorial Center (English/German) - a work in progress is "Gedenbuch Ravensbrück", a listing of the data of all victims imprisoned in this camp based on all data available.
http://www.ravensbrueck.de/ "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 which is a diary of the events in that concentration camp, similar to the one of Danuta Czech on Auschwitz ISBN 3932482328
A list of persons at
Ravensbrück may be obtained by writing" Amicale de Ravensbruck 10, rue Leroux F 75116 Paris
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
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. It was located across the Sava River from the bus and train stations in a part of Belgrade now called New Belgrade and there are still remnants for one to see including the camp's guard tower and a portion of the barracks. A large memorial was erected on the Sava river bank in memory of Sajmiste's 40,000 victims, which also included Serbs and Roma.
Sajmiste 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 it was in clear view of Belgrade's residents.
Books "The Jews in Belgrade" Authored by Aleksandar Mosic.
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".
One of three euthanasia sites built after the Wannsee Conference of June 20,1942
was opened on May 7, 1942 for the gassing of Jews. 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.snunit.k12.il/sachlav/dutch/maineng/search.html http://home.wirehub.nl/~mkersten/shoa/sobibor.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.
10ENGE.html-ex=1058898980&ei=1&en=2578a249f86de4b6
All traces of the camp were eradicated by the Nazis after the attempted escape.
Strasshof Concentration Camp
Located outside of Vienna.
Stutthof Concentration Camp
TheStutthof Concentration Camp was the first Nazi camp built outside of Germany and was the last camp liberated by Allied forces. It lies 34km outside Gdansk and was the place of death for 85,000 people according to official figures, although the actual number killed is assumed to be much greater. Originally a small prison for Poles and P.O.W’s, the camp would become the site of some of the worst atrocities of the war.
Between 1939 and 1945, 127,000 prisoners were officially registered in the camp, but those who were immediately singled out for execution were not registered at all, so there is no way of knowing the exact number of people brought to Stutthof. The camp was managed by an SS officer named Max Pauli, who would later be sentenced to death for the crimes committed here.
Martin Bergau published a book on the murdering of about 3.000
Jewish prisoners from the Stutthof concentration outpost in
East Prussia who were murdered before the Soviet Red Army
could liberate them. This story has now been told for the first time
after more than 60 years.
The author, who was 16 in 1945 was a witness to the murder of
prisoners at the Stutthof out camp in East Prussia who were sent on
a death march by the SS and murdered in the then East Prussian place
Palmnicken (today it is called "Jantar'nyj") when the Soviet
Army approached. They were shot on the beach or sent out on the ice
of the Baltic. More details are recounted by witnesses and
survivors. There were only 15 survivors who were hidden by few,
others were found by fanatic inhabitants who would have to flee soon
themselves.
The following names of Jewish prisoners appear in the book, most of
them with witness accounts (with page number in brackets):
BLITZ, Maria (35-41)
FEDER, Alta (12-13, 139-140)
FRIEDMAN, Ester (15-16)
HAUPTMANN, Dora (147)
KLAJNMAN, Fryda (130-132)
KRONISCH, Pnina/Pola (129-130)
LONICKI, Bluma (14, 134-136)
MANIELEWICZ, Zila (13-14, 120-129)
MUELLER, Regina, maiden name LIBERBAUM (140-141)
MULLER, Zysla, maiden name LIBERBAUM (140-141)
OJZEROWICZ, Chana (10-12, 132-134)
ROTH, Irmgard, maiden name GLAUS (136-137)
ZWARDON, Pola (137-138).
The book is in German. Its title is "Bergau, Martin:
Todesmarsch zur Bernsteinkueste: das Massaker an Juden im
ostpreussischen Palmnicken im January 1945 - Zeitzeugen erinnern
sich." Heidelberg: Winter, 2006. Euro 19.
ISBN 3-8253-5201-3.
(Translation of the title: Death March to the Amber Coast: the
massacre on Jews in the East Prussian Palmnicken in
January 1945 - Witnesses remember). The German weekly
"Die Zeit" printed a review of this book in its No 10 of March
1 (2007) of
the book which is still accessible (2012). From a posting by Fritz
Neubauer
http://www.zeit.de/2007/10/P-Ostpreussen-BiG
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:
Stutthof Museum Information is available concerning the Stutthof camp. Write to:
Muzeum Stutthof Dyrektor Mrs. Janina Grabowska-Chatka Ul. Muzealna 6 82 - 110 Sztutowo Woj. Elblaskie 0276110 Poland
Terezin (German = Theresienstadt)
Theresienstadt Concentration Camp Entrance
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. More than 30,000 Jews died at this Czech transit camp.
On
June 10, 1942, a special "penal transport" of 1,000 Jews was
sent from Prague to Poland in reprisal for Heydrich's
assassination.
Terezin became the temporary sanctuary (transit camp) for Jews from throughout Europe who were told that they could 'sit out' the war safely, only to die in gas chambers or ovens of Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, etc.. The town itself was changed into a Ghetto - a concentration camp for Jews - in November, 1941. http://www.bterezin.org.il/nsc_index.htm
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 Givat Chaim-Ichud 38935 Israel
"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
"TheFuehrer 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.
http://www.jewishfilm.com/jz16.html
"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.
www.allianceatlantis.com
"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 http://www.genealoj.org A little known fact about this camp is that there was a "hidden Synagogue" in a wine cellar in the camp." My friend, Robert W. Case sent me a photo dated August 2000, but unfortunately, I have lost the print.
http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/aa012599o.htm
Scroll down this site and you will find information about 'The Ghetto Museum' (the former school that served during the war as a boy's home); 'TheMagdeburg Barracks' - a seat of the Council of elders and the Jewish self-administration where you can see a replica of a dormitory of the time of the ghetto: 'The Memorial by Ohre River' where the ashes of the perished prisoners (about 22,000) were thrown into the river by the Nazis in 1944 in order to destroy the evidence; 'The Jewish Cemetery and the Crematorium' which contains the mass and single graves of over 9,000 victims that died during the first year of the existence of the Ghetto. The Crematorium, built by the prisoners in 1942, burnt over 30,000 corpses.
Yizkor Book TheMemorial Book for the Austrian Victims of Theresienstadt. Check on their data ((in German) through the address - by clicking on "Projekte" and "Holocaust".
The DOEW's database of over 62,000 Austrian victims of the
Shoah
is searchable
http://www.doew.at/
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
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
opening on July 23, 1942. Polish Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto were
the first arrivals. 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. No
building or structure remains at Treblinka. The victims'
bodies burned in pyres, their bones crushed and used as fertilizer.
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/Sobibortoc.html
Toward the final stages of the existence of the camp, the bodies went directly from gas chambers to open-air burning, without the intermediate stage of burial. At this site you can read the story of the first witness in the Jewish attempt to hang a Ukrainian (John Demjanjuk) for crimes that he claimed he did not commit
http://www.ukar.org/arad02.shtml
The
Radom Ghetto in Poland was liquidated on August 16-18; 18,000
Jews were deported to Treblinka; 1,500 who resisted
deportation were shot on the spot; 4,000 Jews were put into a
special slave labor ghetto.
The following are the countries whose Jews were deported to Treblinka (and other death camps): Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, Yugoslavia, Germany, Poland, Russia.
The following are the towns whose Jews were deported to death in Treblinka(and other death camps, a partial list):
Sorry no lists. Only names of the communities deported to immediate death in the gas chambers. There were
no registration procedures - all deported Jews from the overcrowded cattle trains to death. Only very few were selected to slavery labor mainly in the killing industry, with life expectancy of some weeks. Communities liquidated in Treblinka - listed on Ada Holtzman's web site
treblink.htm
Books
"Despite Treblinka" (A Pesar de Treblinka) Authored by Uruguayan director Gerardo Stawsky - a documentary telling the story of escaping the gas ovens by being assigned to carry bodies, sort victims' belonging or cut hair. Produced by Universidad Ort Uruguay E-mail
gstawsky@jewishla.org
There is a Treblinkamonument at Nachlat Icchak cemetery in Givataiin Israel
Ira
Block posted on 1/30/07 "I recently emailed requested photos from
the following shuls/cemeteries. If anyone wants copies of Treblinka
just send a request via email to irablock@gmail.com
Trostenets
Fourth largest death camp after Auschwitz, Majdanek and Treblinka.
Trutzhain
Memorial place Trutzhain, call 06691-710662 (whale-trust Burger).
Twilhaar
Jewish work camp , near Nijverdal in the province of Overijsselin the Netherlands. There is some further information about this camp, however in Dutch language
http://www.joods.nl/rubrieken/WO-II/artikel?nr=3533
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.
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Children Holocaust Survivors
One in 10 children survived the Holocaust, most
in hiding.
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.
One of the first diplomats to save Jews by issuing them visas to escape the Holocaust. He was responsible for saving thousands (estimated at 18,000) of Jews in Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938 and 1939
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/alpha/DrHo.htm
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 was on display at the USHMM in 2004.
http://www.ushmm.org/
Films
More than 100 films from Hebrew University's Steven Spielberg Jewish film Archive are available online. The films deal with the Holocaust, Israeli history, Jewish life in pre-war Europe and many other topics at
www.spielbergfilmarchive.org.il
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.
The
Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles has, on permanent display, the
letter that Hitler wrote in 1919 arguing in pseudoscientific terms
for the "irrevocable removal of the Jews". www.museumoftolerance.com
A
synthetic rubber and petroleum plant opens at Monowitz, also
known as Buna or Auschwitz III, using Jewish labor
from Auschwitz I.
Internment in French camps and deportations from France
On August
6, 1942, the deportation of foreign Jews from Vichy France
begins with a transport to Auschwitz.
The databases are approximately 10 000 names so far, mostly foreign Jews from Poland, Austria and Germany The address of the search page is
www.jewishtraces.org/search.php
Here is a short description of the lists Various lists 1939-1945 Lists of inmates in the camp of Borgo san Dalmazzo Lists of inmates in the camp of St Cyprian List of Jews from Belgium ( before May 10, 1940) deported from France, survivors in 1945 Jewish Résistants from Belgium Various lists about French internment camps ( Rivesaltes, Les Milles, …) Census of the Jews in Lyon 1941 ( census of 1943) in the “ various list”
Census of the Jews in the Allier department
The project “Ordinary exile” presents the story of Austrian Jewish refugees in Europe
www.jewishtraces.org Information from Manuela Wyler manuela@dorot.fr
Mémorial de la Shoah Website The Mémorial de la Shoah Musée, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (Memorial to the Shoah Museum and Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation) located in Paris has a website of interest to genealogists located at
http://www.memorialdelashoah.org
First it has a searchable database of * Jews deported from France * Jews killed in France * persons executed or who died in the French internment camps * Jewish resistance fighters who belonged to the network of the Jewish Combat Organization.
In the case of the Jews deported from France, provided are the date of deportation, place of deportation (usuallyDrancy or Pithiviers), destination (usually Auschwitz),
convoy number and details about the individual including, when
known, date and place of birth, maiden name, date of death and
nationality. In most cases the page from the actual deportation list
is displayed and can be saved. The search engine seems to
have certain latitude in retrieving names. Searching for "Mokotow" retrieved persons named Mokotovitch.
It is also an educational site. From the home page only, under the "Archives and documentation" drop down menu, there is a topic "Guide to Archives/Selection of Archives" that has links to key Shoah sites on the Internet. Of greater interest might be the "Guide to Archives/Guide to European Guide to Shoah Archives" that provides links to Shoah archives in most countries in Europe. The site is presented in French or English. From a posting by Avotaynu.
Galicia (Region)
Chapters on districts of Kolomyia and Stryy from the dissertation Emergence of genocide in Galicia and resettlement transports to Belzec extermination camp - Galician Jewish Celebrities
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html
Galicia and Bukovina War Refugees
Directory
Based on an *initial*
official registration with the authorities on arrival [first
address and number of people in family group].
QED
- there were 3 people in the MOSCISKER family group, so we have
effectively confirmed the *3
os.*
problem and any further *os*
problems, if they arise again. Thus, the little word *os*
can give us quite a lot of genealogical information!
This information
was obtained from a posting by Celia Male
Galician Forced Laborers from Lvov
Data on 1,110 workers, from a collection of the L'viv State Archives.
Holocaust
German Jewish Records
On-line information about microfilmed reels and what they contain including lists of Jews deported from Germany and extensive material from concentration camp records, primarily from camps located in the US occupied zone of Germany, though there are records from other camps, as well. The microfilmed copies are now housed at the US National Archives (NARA) and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM, Washington, DC) has a catalog of the 189 reels (about 189,000 frames or pages). Deportation lists from various cities are included, varying by city. The bulk, however, are concentration camp records, including arrival and 'departure' (releases, transfers and death) lists. More information is available at
www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/CapturedGermanRecords.html
Some survivor lists are found, varying widely by camp, with large collections from Dachau and Buchenwald, and limited material on Gross Rosen. There are many lists of transfers to and from Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrück and other camps.
Arolsen International Red Cross Records Has not been made public, or until Israel permits the filmed collection of these records (held at Yad Vashem) they can be viewed at NARA in College Park, Maryland, or at the USHMM. If you have specific information, you may be able to get more information by sending an E-mail to
james.kelling@nara.gov or by contacting USHMM at registry@ushmm.org
Meaning of information contained in the Arolsen Records:
CLI = Certified Legal Investigator
National Archives' Ardella
Hall Collection
A collection of Nazi looted art is accessible on Footnote's
Holocaust site. Additional Jewish records are in this
collection and it is interactive which allows paid subscribers to
add photos and data to a topic or create their own pages on the
side. A sign-in is required
www.footnote.com/holocaust
In 1941, there were 440,000 Jews confined behind the 10-foot walls of the Warsaw ghetto; hundreds died of starvation and disease.
In October, 1942, the Jewish resistance groups in the Warsaw
Ghetto formed the United Jewish Fighting Organization.
On October 3, 1942, the major phase of the
"resettlement" (deportation) of the Warsaw Ghetto Jews is completed.
By this date, approximately 310,000 people had been deported to
Treblinka death camp. Only 30,000 Jews, mostly skilled
workers, were allowed to remain in the ghetto.
Electronic resources on ghettos instituted by the Nazis to isolate the Jewish population. Historical Sites of Jewish Warsaw http://jewish.sites.warszawa.um.gov.pl/wstep_a.htm Guidebook of historical Jewish sites in Warsaw. Includes a timeline of important events regarding the Jewish presence in Warsaw and illustrated descriptions of fifty-four historic locations. Also features a map marking the streets and major buildings of the Warsaw Ghetto on the street grid of contemporary Warsaw. [Polish and English]
http://www.holocaustresearch.pl/index1(en).htm
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.
www.calle.com/world/
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.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/arendthtml/arendthome.html
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
http://www.hannahsenesh.org.il/
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.
http://www.holocaustef.org/
Terms, Places and Personalities AKTION (German) Operation involving the mass assembly, deportation and murder of Jews by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Lots of holocaust information and well worth your visit
http://www.wiesenthal.com/resource/gloss.htm
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 Museums
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum America'snational 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
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies University of Minnesota. An excellent site which includes a Virtual Museum, Educational Resources and Links & Bibliography
http://www.chgs.umn.edu/
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 http://www.Avotaynu.com
Holocaust Museum 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, D.C. 20024-2150 Telephone: 202 488 0400 Fax 202 488 2690 -
http://www.ushmm.org/
Holocaust Museum - Houston Telephone 713 942 8000
www.hmh.org
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.
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.
http://www.ushmm.org/desbois
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place S.W. Washington, DC 20024; Phone Information (202) 488 0495. email:
smiller@ushmm.org http://www.ushmm.org/
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto Online exhibit by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum based on artifacts and documents buried as a historical record by inhabitants of the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania. Includes many photographs, interactive exhibits, and a timeline.
http://www.ushmm.org/kovno/
The Museum prefers to be contact in writing, either by email Registry@ushmm.org or by mail to Survivors Registry, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 100 Raoul Wallenberg Pl. SW, Washington, DC
http://www.ushmm.org/
TheRegistry 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.orgor visit the Museum's Web site
www.ushmm.org
In an effort to help preserve the memory of the 12 million people, 6 million of them Jewish, who perished in the Holocaust, the Ancestry Daily News has set up a Web page with the following information at:
http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews/04_13_99.htm#4
Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem
International Institute for the Holocaust Research PO Box 3477 Jerusalem 91034
Bernard and Rochelle Zell Center for Holocaust Studies - exhibition and educational resources relating to the destruction of European Jewry during WW II
http://www.spertus.edu/
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
http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/
Holocaust Web Site
Created by Jennifer Rosenberg - has many links to other web links dealing with the many facets of the Holocaust.
http://holocaust.miningco.com
"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".
"You must know that Hollerith was the German representative of IBM, and it was responsible for equipping the Nazi authorities and all the KZs with modern, up-to-date data registration equipment, which in fact was produced by IBM, and only imported by Hollerith. According to the book you've mentioned, IBM exported some machines even after the outbreak of the war - until mid 1941.
I dare to understate that the Nazi extermination of our ancestors would by far not be that effective, wouldn't they have used modern IBM equipment for registration purposes. From a posting by G. Gembala Krakow, Poland
TheInformation 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. www.claimsinfo.org
Jedwabne and Radzilow
A translation of an article by Krzysztof Persak of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) in Warsaw about the pogroms committed by Poles throughout the region of northeastern Poland during the summer of 1941 can be found at:
http://www.radzilow.com/tygodnik.htm
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
Some of the files transcribed for the Holocaust Database are from files of the US Holocaust memorial Museum. The JewishGen Holocaust Database contains:
The Aufbau Database of over 33,000 Holocaust survivors
American Military Government Compiled List of 987 Jews
Arrivals to Buchenwald on Jan. 22, 1945
Auschwitz-Sachsenhausen Transfers of 356 prisoners 11 27, 1944
Austrian Jews (800) in Concentration Camps
Bavaria, Muhldorf, - Deaths November 1944 - April 1945
Belarus, Pinsk Ghetto List, 1942 18,000 names from late 1941 or 1942
Brest Ghetto Passport Archive - over 12,000 names
Buchenwald Death List - 864 Polish Men 1939
Czech, Inmates at Bergen Belsen and Theresienstadt - 610 Jewish women liberated
Czech, Inmates at Bergen Belsen & Theresienstadt - 33 women
Czech, Inmates at Bergen Belsen & Theresienstadt - 445 Czech women
Czech, Inmates at Bergen Belsen & Theresienstadt - 384 Czech Jews still in Terezin on 2-5-1945
Czech, Prague - 1216 names of Children in Prague 1943-44
Confederation of Jews in Germany - 1662 names
Dachau Inmates - 2,800+ inmates
Dachau Concentration Camp Records - 37,000 prisoners
Jews who died at Dachau after Liberation - 555
Danish Deportees of over 400 Jews deported to Theresienstadt
Deportation of Bialystok Children from Theresienstadt - 1200 names
German Jews at Stutthof Concentration Camp
Germans, Swiss and Austrians deported from France 1942-44
Jewish Partisans and Fighters of Volyn - 822 names
Germany, Jewish Training Centers - 1800 names 1934-38
Germany, Jews (480) who died in Berlin, Jul 1943-Mar 1945
Germany, Temporary Passports 1938-1941
Hungary - Jews of Szombathely 1944 - 3,116 Jews in Vas County
Lithuania, Vilna Ghetto: Lists of Prisoners - over 15,000 from May, 1942
Norway Compilation on nearly 900 Norwegian Jews
Poland, Jewish Inhabitants of Krosno, Galicia, 3,298 names
Poland, Jews who resided in Krosno, Poland before 1941
Poland, Krakow Ghetto Database of over 19,000 Jews
Polish-German Children inZabiczyn
Hungary, Jews inDebrecen, Hajdu County4,000 names in 1944
Latvia, Riga - Extraordinary Commission Lists - over 2,000 individuals
Sachsenhausen - Arrivals & Departures 10-1940 to June 1941
Silesian Jews(73) in Mixed Marriages, Oct. 1944
Slovakia - Jews deported from Spisska Nova Ves- 1054 names
Sugihara Passports - 2,140 (mostly Polish Jews)
Ukraine, L'viv Ghetto Database of over 10,000 Jews
Ukraine, 5000 Borislav-Drohobycz Delinquent water bills 1941-42
Westphalian Jews - over 8,000 Jews and their fate
Jewish Memorial Center
The place to commemorate and remember forever, individual Jews from all walks of life, as well as Victims of the Holocaust.
http://www.jewishmemorialcenter.com/
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.
http://www.jewishmemorialcenter.com
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
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.
Latvia
The Soviet Story Watch a 10 minute trailer of a Latvian film made in 2008. There is an English narration with Polish subtitles superimposed on Latvian film. The film is quite explicit and very detailed.
http://www.rymaszewski.iinet.net.au/1holocst.html
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 (Vilna) once had a population that was 55 percent Jewish and at the turn of the century was called the 'Jerusalem of Lithuania'. That ended with a genocide beginning in the summer of 1941 that was finished, for most part, by November of the same year.
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"
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html
New York State's Holocaust Claims Processing Office
New York State Banking Department
Holocaust Claims Processing Office, 2 Rector Street New York, NY 10006 Phone (800) 695 3318, (212) 618 6983 (outside of US) Fax: (212) 618 6908
http://www.claims.state.ny.us
Nizkor Project
A site dedicated to the nearly 12 million victims ruthlessly destroyed by Hitler and his Nazi regime. The site features collections of information about Holocaust - denial and the Holocaust
Nuremberg
This is an amazing project for those researching the Holocaust. The Harvard Law School library introduced the "Nuremberg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection," a Web site where it plans to post 82,000 documents, totaling 650,000 pages, from the Nuremberg war crimes trials of 1946 to 1949. From a posting by Tom Venetianer
http://www.nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
Oral History
'Living Words: Voices of the Holocaust' Presented by the British Library. voices of the Holocaust consists of personal, oral testimonies gathered from Jewish men and women who came to reside in Britain. The testimonies are divided into six main categories - life before the Holocaust, ghettos and deportations, the camps, resistance, liberation and testimonies by Edith Berkin. This site serves as a compliment to the sixteen-volume set of typescripts of 70 interviews of Holocaust survivors conducted in 1946 by the Illinois Institute of Technology. Transcripts may be read or played using Real Player™
http://www.bl.uk/learning/index.html
Books
Most books, CDs, etc. can be ordered through my link to Amazon.com by clicking here > Jewish Genealogy
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 - click on the 'Remembrance' link and, as well, the other links on the page.
http://www.yadvashem.org/
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. www.logtv.com
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
http://www.sie-sjoa.nl/en/index.html
Two complementary exhibits on the related themes of refuge and rescue at Vancouver Holocaust Museum
http://www.vhec.org/about.html
Refuge and Rescue
Two complementary exhibits on the related themes of refuge and rescue at Vancouver Holocaust Museum
http://www.vhec.org/about.html
Register of Jewish Survivors
"Pinkas HaNitzolim I 166 different lists of nearly 62,000 Jewish survivors rescued in various European Countries. Published in Jerusalem in 1945, by the Jewish Agency's Search Bureau for Missing Relatives.
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/0064
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
http://remember.org
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.
www.ushmm.org/romania
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. The following link is to the list at Yad Vashem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Schindlerjuden
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
uniteand you will find his site.
http://remember.org/unite/
TheSearch 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.
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pinkas_hanitzolim/pinkas_hanitzolim.html
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.
Mrs. Sendler wrote down the names, and where the children were
placed.
http://www.irenasendler.org/vid_wmv.htm
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.
http://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/
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.
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/hungary/vranov.htm
A
rare Soviet Archive that documents the heroism of Jewish Russian
soldiers who fought against the Nazis in WW II is retained at the
Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles and is accessible to visitors in
the Multi-Media Computer Learning Center on the second floor.
These rare materials were buried deep within the Soviet archives on
the order of Josef Stalin who didn't want his countrymen to know
that some 150 of the 500 most decorated Russian war heroes in WW II
were Jewish. Colonel Faivel Sverdlov, a retired Soviet
military officer had made contact with the Museum and facilitated
the acquisition of some 150 individual photos and dossiers which
document the heroism of the Jewish soldiers.
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
http://www.spungenfoundation.org/collection.html
There is also a searchable index of those who were on board. There are also detailed stories of some of the survivors.
http://www.jdc.ort.org/pass/passa.htm
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.
Despite the grim prospects, most Jews never had the chance to go into hiding or hide their children. First they had to have someone who they could trust to take them, and they needed documents. There were harsh penalties for Jews who tried to flee the ghettos and for those helping them.
Douglas Greenberg is president and CEO of the Shoah Foundation. 51,661 Holocaust survivors were video taped by Spielberg's foundation. A staff of 69 researchers is now reviewing and indexing the 117,000 hours of testimony is being reviewed by these staff people - from 57 countries and speaking 32 languages. It would take a single person scanning the videos 24 hours a day, more than 13 years to finish the job. It is estimated that it will take the staff four more years to link the archived records through 25,000 keywords.
The results of this extreme effort will be the largest available video database in the world, searchable by scholars, teachers, students and eventually the general public. Some of the testimony is now viewable at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. The Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D. C.; the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York; the Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale University and the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. Some testimony can now be viewed at the Shoah foundation's web site
http://dornsife.usc.edu/vhi/
Swiss Bank Accounts
from the ICEP Investigation on-line with search capabilities of the 20,825 accounts owned by 18,340 people and by 162 companies.
http://www.crt-ii.org/2005_list/names.pdf
Tracing Survivors and Documenting Victimsof the Holocaust
The World Jewish Congress has published a booklet which lists the names of 10,000 Holocaust-era policies that have remained unpaid for Holocaust era Insurance Accounts. For further details phone 1 800 957 3203 or write to International Commission, PO Box 1163 Wall Street Station New York, NY 10268 http://www.icheic.org/
Subscribe to the [h-justice]
Holocaust-era Restitutions Discussion Group which covers the
subject in ample detail and all doubts have been/can be clarified.
They have published two ample sets of FAQs answering the most common
questions.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/h-justice
Vienna
On June 20th, 1942, a major deportation of Jews
from Vienna to Terezin begins.
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
http://www.doew.at
The
Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, has
the 1942 Wannsee Protocol outlining Germany's plans for the
extermination of the Jewish population
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 theWarsaw ghetto. Telephone: (dial your international access code, then 972-4 995 8080)
Located just outside of Nahariya in the north of Israel. The kibbutz was founded by Ghetto fighters and partisans from Poland and Lithuania. E-mail
Yshavit@gfh.org.il Phone: 972- (0)4-995 8080 Fax: 972- (0)4-995 8007 E-mail Mr. Simcha Stein, Director
Simstein@gfh.org.ilThis site has a wonderful archive and well worth studying its contents.
http://www.gfh.org.il/
White Rose
A
small group of University of Munich students opposed to the Nazi
regime, covertly published and distributed the first of several
leaflets urging an end of the war and the over-throw of Hitler.
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
http://www.wfjcsh.org/
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