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"Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews" Adolf Hitler "During the Holocaust, they took the names away of the people, each with their own soul, and they put numbers on their arms. The job of a Jewish Genealogist, is to replace those numbers and give them back their names." Arthur Kurzweil - Jewish Genealogist You will need to have the ability to play music on your computer to listen to a recently discovered three-minute recording made by the BBC on April 20, 1945, the fifth day after the liberation of Nazi death camp at Bergen-Belsen. One or two hundred survivors gathered in the Bergen-Belsen yard for services on the eve of the Sabbath. Over 40,000 bodies had been taken away, but one or two thousand remained in their midst. People were still dying from sickness, malnutrition, and the inhumane conditions of the camp as others looked on, unable to save them. As the service begins, the survivors, knowing that they are being recorded and that the world is listening, gather their strength and sing Hatikvah ("Our hope has not yet been lost"). A version of this song later became Israel's national anthem. Be prepared to cry! "Revisiting The Horrors Of The Holocaust" - CBS News 60 minutes relates the story of Millions of Nazi Documents made available to the public along with notes from survivors. If you do not find this story, use the search engine to find the title. "The Angel across the Fence" - a wonderful story ... a must read! Use their search engine to find this story "Where Can I Go" - sung by Steve Lawrence. Use their search method as this site is well worth your time and attention "The acknowledgement of truth can only enhance the stature of the righteous and honorurable people of each nation" Click Here > Ahlem Camp List and links to web sites of the many Concentration Camps Holocaust Timeline: The Camps
Birkenau Concentration camp map "If the deportation took place from what had been German territory in 1938, there is a Memorial Book for those. There are also 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 4-30-03 "During the Holocaust, they took the names away of the people, each with their own soul, and they put numbers on their arms. The job of a Jewish Genealogist, is to replace those numbers and give them back their names." Arthur Kurzweil
18 Books written by Survivors - eighteen uniquely written stories, published by their authors dealing with the Holocaust and including photos and a Virtual Tour of Auschwitz "36 Stories of Memory and Hope from the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust"- published by Bullfinch Press - 174 pages "120 HIAS Stories" - edited by Kathleen Andersen, Morris Ardoin and Mararita Zilberman - published by HIAS - 289 pages. The book is divided into 3 sections: 1881-1930, beginning with the pogroms in Russia; 1931-1950, Holocaust rescue work; 1951-2001 from post-WW II displaced persons camps, Russia and Egypt. "AKTION KINDER DES HOLOCAUST" (AKdH) all in German, but if you can read German, there is a treasure of information at this site "An Echo in My Blood: The search for a Family's Hidden Past" - authored by Mark Wyman Buy from Amazon.com "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 "At The Mercy of strangers: Growing Up on the Edge of the Holocaust" - authored by Suzanne Loebl. Suzylo@aol.com "Auschwitz" - Souvenirs de la Resistance dans le Camp d' Auschwitz-Birkenau (The resistance in Auschwitz) "Autumn 1939 - Yamim Noraim; Memorial Book for East European Jews Who Lived in Germany" - authored by Zeev Rebhun listed as many as possible of those Ost-juden who lived in Germany at the outbreak of WW II and who were later murdered, mostly inside Germany - many in Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald. The lists include 1717 Polish Jews who lived in Germany and another 140 Polish Jews who lived in Vienna. Additional information from Sachsenhausen of the prisoners cards for those men listed in his memorial book and who died in Sachsenhausen in September/October 1939. Zeev is willing to share this additional information with relatives and friends of the victims. Contact him through his son's e-mail zvir@lavi.co.il "Bashert: A Granddaughter's Holocaust Quest" - explores, among other subjects, the life and massacre of the author's grandmother's village of Volchin (35 kilometers northwest of Brest) - authored by Andrea Simon SimonAndrea@msn.com "Berga: Soldiers of Another War" - the Charles Guggenheim document of the little known story of the 350 POWs identified as Jews (although fewer than a third were) who spent December 1944 to April 1945 as slave laborers for the Nazis. "Death Books From Auschwitz" - a three volume set, two of which are lists of individuals killed in the Holocaust. There are thousands of names listed in alphabetical order. The information includes: name, date of birth, date of death, place of birth inmate number. The lists are contained in volumes two and three. Volume one contains many photographs of victims as well as many reports and photographs of various lists. These lists are by no means complete, but there are many names contained. Catalog number is *PXV 95-3344 and the books are located at the New York Public Library, in the Jewish Division on the first floor. The Jewish Division is closed on Mondays. "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 The Holocaust" - This majestic three-volume encyclopedia, abridged from a 30-volume set in Hebrew and with a foreword by Elie Wiesel, chronicles Jewish life before and during the Holocaust. Arranged alphabetically by town, thousands of entries explore centuries of Jewish life. Some entries, particularly for large cities, provide information on Jewish residents as early as the Middle Ages and discuss the fate of Jews during the Black Death persecutions (1348-1349) and various pogroms from the 17th to 20th centuries. Each entry provides vital information on the town's Jewish inhabitants on the eve
of German occupation, gives the dates of Jewish roundups and mass executions and estimates how many Jews from that community survived the war. Except in very rare cases (as with Copenhagen), the survival statistics are horrifying. "Eternal Treblinka" - authored by Charles Patterson and published by Lantern Books "Every Day Remembrance Day" - authored by Simon Wiesenthal "For Them, Life in America Began in 1944, Behind a Fence". It is about a group of about 1,000 Jews brought to the US from Italy in 1944 and kept in an internment camp in upstate New York for seven months after the war was over until President Truman allowed them to apply for citizenship. The article mentions the emotions of the US official charged with choosing who would be allowed to travel on the ship. I believe a free registration is required to view articles on the NY Times web site New York Times "From Oswiecim to Auschwitz: Poland Revisited" - authored by Moshe Weiss and published in 1994 by Mosiac Press, Buffalo, NY. ISBN 0-88962-558-1 and ISBN 0-88962-557-3 in paperback form. "Gedenkbuch: Haeftlinge des Konzentrationslagfers Bergen-Belsen" published by Niedersaechsische Landeszentrale fuer Politische Bildung -- Gedenkstaette Bergen-Belsen' in 1995 and has 652 pages. The book lists 25,000 inmates at the death camp Bergen-Belsen. "Gedenkbuch of German Jewish Holocaust Victims" - is not comprehensive as many names are left out. History.com - a wonderful resource for films and books "Hitler's Willing Executioners" - authored by Daniel Goldhagen describes the death marches and a number of satellite camps. "Holocaust: A History" - co-authored by Deborah Dwork "Holocaust An End to Innocence" - authored by Rabbi Seymour Rossel "The Holocaust Chronicle" - a remembrance designed to be held in one's hands. This is a very heavy volume, but well worth the cost as it includes over 2,000 photographs, a 3,000 item timeline and 250 sidebars detailing the significant people, places, issues and events. Written and fact-checked by top scholars. 768 pages. Published by Publications International, Ltd., Lincolnwood, IL 60712 "Holocaust Memoir Digest: Survivors' Published Memoirs With Study Guide and Maps - compiled and edited by Esther Goldberg and published by Vallentine Mitchell Publishers. "How to Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust" - authored by Gary Mokotoff. Buy from Amazon.com "How to Trace Your Jewish Roots: Discovering Your Unique History" - authored by Rabbie Jo David Buy from Amazon.com "Image Before My Eyes: A History of Jewish Life in Poland Before the Holocaust" - This documentary is sponsored by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Kristallnacht: Prelude to Disaster" - authored by Sir Martin Gilbert www.martingilbert.com "The Last Eyewitnesses: Children of the Holocaust Speak" - In 1991, a group of child survivors in Poland, got together and formed the association of the children of the Holocaust in Poland. In the course of joining the organization, each person wrote short autobiographies containing their experiences during the war. One of the authors, a professional editor, gathered sixty some of these stories together into a book that the association published in 1993 which was later translated into English and published by Northwestern University Press in 1999. "The Last Sunrise" - authored by Harold Gordon (Hirshel Grodzienski) and published by H & J Publishing in 1992. A true story about a ten year old boy who survived the Holocaust, five years in Nazi Concentration Camps and with a positive attitude toward the future. ISBN: 0963258915 "Lebenszeichen aus Piaski; Briefe Deportierter aus dem Distrikt Lublin, 1940-1943" - authored by Else Rosenfeld and Gertrud Luckner, Biederstein Verlag Muenchen, 1968 The book deals mainly with Jews who were deported from Stettin, with one chapter dealing with Viennese Jews. Further information may be available from Werner Cohn: wernerco@worldnet.att.net "Liste Officielle ... des Decedes des Camps de Concentration" published by Paris, France, Republique Francaise, Ministere des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre, 1945/1949. There are 6 volumes and deal with the following concentration camps: Mauthausen; Neuengamme; Auschwitz; Majdanek; Bergen-Belsen; Sachsenhausen; Struthof; Ellrich; Flossenburg and Dachau. The book is only available at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Library in Washington, D.C. and was reproduced by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1997. List of Jews Deported from France - a searchable database You have to be very careful with the lists of deportees from France published in the pages of testimonies which contain some errors. On the site you were telling about, for example on the first page, line 14 : Lionel ALMULY, born 3/05/1908 in France was not deported to Auschwitz but to the Baltic States, either in Kaunas (Lithuania) or
Reval (Estonia). When the page of testimony was sent by his family, this one had received wrong information, as it's the case for most of the deportees of the convoy #73 which left France on 15 May 1944. All of them were sent to the Baltic States. Except 22 survivors in 1945, and except for about 100 of them (out of 878) for whom we have the right information, nobody knows which ones died in Lithuania (Kaunas)
or in Estonia (Reval, which is Tallinn today). From a posting by Eve Line Blum-Cherchevsky Besancon (France) and also Cercle de Genealogie Juive (International JGS in Paris) Convoy#73 took 878 men from France to the Baltic States on 15 May 1944 "The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million" - authored by Daniel Mendelsohn and published by HarperCollins "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 Name Was No. 133909 ... And I Sang" - authored by Murray Brandys. The book can be found at "Nazi Crimes On Trial" - German Trials concerning Nazi Capital Crimes 1945 - 1999, compiled at the institute of Criminal Law of the university of Amsterdam by Prof. D. C.F. Ruter and Dr. D. W. de Mildt. This website presents a systematic survey (for now only in German, but some of the site is in English) of the more than 900 Nazi trial cases conducted in West Germany since 1945 and the 97 Nazi trial cases conducted in East Germany during the years 1956 - 1990, including the so called Rehabilitation trials. Very interesting "Our Tomorrows Never Came" - authored by Etunia Bauer Katz who now lives in Queens, NY. The book is about her and her family's efforts at surviving WW II as Jews living in Poland. Her family managed to escape deportation to the concentration camps. "The Pianist: The Extra-ordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945" - authored by Wladyslaw Szpilman and published in paperback by Picador. "Register of Jewish Holocaust Survivors" - authored by Benjamin and Vladka Meed and published in 1966 by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. The 4 volume register lists American and Canadian survivors in alphabetical order as well as by place of birth and town before thee war and location during the Holocaust. Vol. 1 lists the people by name and Vol. 2 lists them by their hometown. The 2 volume set can be obtained through Inter-library loan. The Neve Shalom Synagogue in Portland Oregon owns the 4 volume set. "Resilience and Courage: Women, Men and the Holocaust" - authored by Nechama Tec and published by Yale University Press. The author contributes to our understanding of how Jewish men and women responded to the dire circumstances in Nazi occupied Europe. "The Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust" - authored by Mordecai Paldiel (Yad Vashem/Collins, 596 pages). Yad Vashem was designated to honor those non-Jews who helped save at least 22,000 Jews. This book offers 155 stories of these non-Jews courage. "The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust" - authored by Martin Gilbert and Henry Holt. The story of the heroic deeds of righteous gentiles, who, at considerable risk to themselves, saved Jews during the Holocaust. "The Routledge Atlas Of The Holocaust" - offers 316 maps and a very comprehensive text covering every aspect of the Holocaust pre-war Jewish communities, expulsions, ghettos, deportations, slave labor camps, death camps, resistance, the righteous, hidden children, death marches and liberations. Authored by Sir Martin Gilbert "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 "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) "Verdict on Auschwitz: The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 1963-1965" - Rolf Bickel and Dietrich Wagner recount the first Auschwitz trial in a documentary based on original tapes. "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 "The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945" - authored by Saul Friedlander and published by HarperCollins General Once the Bad Arolsen records were opened, the U. S. Holocaust memorial Museum now say they have pinpointed some 20,000 places of detention and persecution --- three times more than they had estimate in the year 2001. Update! In 2007, it was announced that the Holocaust archive contains between 30 million and 50 million records documenting the fate of more than 17 million victims of Nazism -- both Jews and non-Jews -- in concentration, slave labor or displaced persons camps. If you have a question about the International Tracing Service, contact An excellent site to find information about most European countries is at Among the 18,000 Righteous Gentiles officially recognized by Yad Vashem, 4,000 are Dutch, by far the largest national contingent in Europe 29,000 Holocaust era Jewish Names - a web site database American Red Cross - Holocaust and War Victims Tracing and Information Service, Linda Klein is the Director. BERGER@USA.REDCROSS.ORG KANTT@USA.REDCROSS.ORG (410) 764 5311 American Red Cross Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center Anne Frank - Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance, 9786 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035-4792 has the original of a poem "Forget me Not" written by Anne to her friend Henny two years before going into hiding with her family. The Museum's web site is The second floor of the Museum is devoted to a state-of-the-art Multimedia Learning Center, which houses a vast wealth of information on the Holocaust, WW II and anti-Semitism. These databanks include over 50,000 photos and maps, 6,000 encyclopedic entries and 14 hours of historical film footage and video testimonies. Another extraordinary exhibit featuring one of history's favorite teenagers is located at http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/af/htmlsite/ Association of Descendants of the Shoah - Illinois, Inc. Aufbau Newspaper Database - this German-language newspaper that was published in New York from September, 1944 through September 27, 1946, printed numerous lists of Jewish Holocaust survivors located in Europe. There are 33,357 names that have been computerized. It can also be found at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/aufbau.htm Austrian, Czech, and German Jews in Riga: Data on 876 forced Jewish laborers in Riga, Latvia. Austrian Holocaust Asset Archives - from this page you are offered links to pages with lists of names for whom records exist. You send an initial letter to the archives in Vienna (in English) indicating your interest in the name and date of birth. They will reply in due course asking for a money order for 59 Austrian Shillings ($5.00) for the report. You then send the money order and the form to Vienna. Plan on it taking at least 3 or more months. The records contain only the name of the person's spouses name that can be considered of genealogical value. 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 Babi Yar - located just outside of Kiev, Ukraine Breslau Deportations: Three transports of 1,845 persons sent to Silesian towns in 1941-1942. Bukovina (Bucovina) (Region), Romania/Ukraine - Handbook prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the British Foreign Office - 1919 - Geschichte Der Juden in Der Bukowina (History of the Jews in the Bukovina) "Children with Lost Identity"
Concentration Camp Austria - List of Austrian Jews in concentration camps The Camp System - information and links to concentration camps, museums or memorials relating to the Holocaust Concentration Camps: A factual report on crimes committed against Humanity contains medical experiments and other horrors which occurred in Nazi concentration camps during WW II Classification System in Nazi Concentration Camps The six main killing centers: Belzec, Chlmno, Treblinka, Sobibor, Majdanek and Auschwitz are located on a map at Concentration Camps - Table of Contents http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cc.html Concentration Camp Addresses -The camps are classified by countries, based on the 1939-1945 borders. When known, the name of each sub-camp or external kommando is followed by the name of the company which used inmates as slave. Correspondence from the various Nazi labor camps including the Schindler factory in Krakow is stored at The Jewish Historical Association ul. Tlomackie 3/5, 00-090 Warsaw, Poland Telephone/Fax (48-2) 625 0400; Email reisner@plearn.edu.pl Europe - American Military Government List of Jews in Concentration Camps list of 987 survivors and victims (Germany, Hungary, Austria, Romania) Forgotten Camps - Concentration Concentration Camp Badges Nazi Camp System Records of Nazi Concentration camps Nazi Concentration Camps - 1933 to 1945 Auschwitz (Oswiecim) - located west of Krakow, Poland, and is famous for the concentration camp that is now a museum chronicling the horrors of the Nazis' final solution. Before WW II, Oswiecim was a bustling town of 12,000 people, more than half of them Jews. Most of the local Jews were killed in the Holocaust, and only one of the town's synagogues survived. There were approximately 40 more satellite camps established around Auschwitz. These were forced labor camps and were known collectively as Auschwitz III. A visit to: Auschwitz, Birkenau, Kazimierz, Lublin, Majdanek, Plaszow, Treblinka, Tykocin, Warsaw http://www.holocaustforgotten.com/journey.htm
Auschwitz-Birkenau Complex - an overview at http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/reference http://cyberroad.com/poland/jews_ww2.html Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland - Introduction. An informative site at Auschwitz Jewish Center located in Oswiecim (Polish for Auschwitz) A film about what is believed to be the only organized uprising ever attempted by the prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau is soon to be released. It is entitled "The Grey Zone" and tells the story of the October 7, 1944 uprising by the Sonderkommandos, Jews who were forced to assist in the extermination of their fellow prisoners in the gas chambers. The prisoners managed to blow up one of the four crematoria, but the SS quelled the riot and hundreds of Jews involved were executed. Auschwitz Laborers: Documents on 5,310 forced laborers who entered Auschwitz, including parents' names and maiden names. Czech, "Auschwitz Chronicle", published in 1990 Drancy - a Paris suburb where a memorial to the tens of thousands of French Jews who were shipped to Auschwitz stands today in their memory. There were a number of convoys (around 50) that departed for Auschwitz in 1943 including Convoy No. 62 consisting of 1,199 Jews. Jane Haining, Saint from Auschwitz - she protected 400 children during the Holocaust and she died in Auschwitz for her beliefs Photos of the Holocaust Polish-Jewish Relations Searchable Database in English - the total number of records in the database remains at 69,000 and the search will still display no more than 40 names at a time even if there is indication that many more are in the database. In the FAQ there is an explanation of the use of 'wildcard' entries. Virtual Tour of Auschwitz The Yad Vashem web site contains information about Auschwitz including photos and a map at Jacob Rosen offered the following (edited) information in a posting to JewishGen on 8/11/03: Auschwitz Archive Online - "The site contains only 69,000 names so the chances to find a relative are relatively slim. However I was lucky to find Hermann Koenigsbuch only after I typed Konigsbuch (without umlaut or e). I also found the brother of my father in law (Josef Apotheker). For unknown reason the the search program responds only to the German version of the place of birth or residence. So if you type Krakow nothing will come out. But if you type Krakau then it will respond. Only if there is no German name to the place the local name such as Bardejov or Brzesko or Niepolomice can be used. All in all type just the surname and your chances are better." "The translation of: Blad palaczenia z baza danych is: error in contacting the database." "As far as German names of Polish locations I would recommend a partial solution." Enter In July, 2004, where the site of the destroyed Great synagogue was, a treasure trove of Judaica was discovered. The object had been buried since the Holocaust and included three bronze candelabras, a bronze menorah, 10 chandeliers and a ner tamid (eternal lamp) that once hung before the synagogue ark. Tomasz Kuncewicz is the director of the Auschwitz Jewish Center, a prayer and study complex near the site of the notorious death camp. Belzec, Poland - one of three euthanasia sites built after the Wannsee Conference of June 20,1942. A Reassessment: Resettlement Transports to Belzec, March-December 1942 http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/Sobibortoc.html This camp is located in the Lublin area 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. There is a partial list of the Jewish communities exterminated by the Germans in the Belzec death camp. Bergen-Belsen - lists of Czechoslovak inmates at this and Theresienstadt camps |
"DPs: Europe's Displaced Persons, 1945-1951" - authored Mark Wyman
