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Reports on the Holocaust
2007-09-06 13:58:00
POLISH FORT-NIGHTLY REVIEW   POLISH MINISTRY OF INFORMATION PRINTED AS A PRESS BULLETIN Extermination of the Polish Jewry  "What Happened in the Warsaw Ghetto"   London ? Tuesday 1st December 1942 ? No 57  The Polish Government has recently received from Poland the following on the measures taken by the German authorities to exterminate the population of the ghetto.   The Origin of the Warsaw Ghetto:  The German authorities created the Warsaw ghetto in October 1940. All the Jews in the city were ordered to transfer to the Jewish quarter assigned to them by 1 November 1940, while all the Aryans were ordered to remove elsewhere out of this quarter.  The Jews were allowed to take only personal articles with them, and were forbidden to take their furniture, though in practice this rule was not strictly observed. All the Jewish shops and businesses in the Aryan areas of the city were closed down and sealed.      ...
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War Trials - Eichmann
2007-09-06 09:09:00
The Trial of Adolf Eich mann ----------------------------------------- -------------------------------- A Brief Biography on Adolf Eichmann   Adolf Eichmann on trial in Jerusalem Born in Solingen, Germany, Adolf Eichmann was the son of a businessman and industrialist, Karl Adolf Eichmann. In 1914.  Eichmann joined the Austrian branch of the NSDAP (member number 889 895) and of the SS, enlisting on 1 April 1932, as an SS-Anwärter. He was accepted as a full SS member that November, appointed an SS-Mann, and assigned the SS number 45326.   For the next year, Eichmann was a member of the Allgemeine-SS and served in a mustering formation operating from Salzburg. In September 1934 Eichmann landed a position in Heydrich's SD, the powerful SS security service. There he started out as a filing clerk cataloguing information about Freemasons. Predictably, the Nazis believed that the Masons were assisting the Jews in their attempts to gain world domination.   ...
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Revolt
2007-09-06 09:05:00
Treblinka Death Camp Revolt August 1943 (Testimonies)       The memorial at Treblinka A brief summary of the revolt: Jewish inmates organized a resistance group in Treblinka in early 1943. When camp operations neared completion, the prisoners feared they would be killed and the camp dismantled. During the late spring and summer of 1943, the resistance leaders decided to revolt.   On August 2, 1943, prisoners quietly seized weapons from the camp armory, but were discovered before they could take over the camp. Hundreds of prisoners stormed the main gate in an attempt to escape. Many were killed by machine-gun fire. More than 300 did escape -- though two thirds of those who escaped were eventually tracked down and killed by German SS and police as well as military units. Acting under orders from Lublin, German SS and police personnel supervised the surviving prisoners, who were forced to dismantle the camp. After completion of this job, the German SS and polic...
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The occupation
2007-09-06 09:02:00
The Destruction of the Jews of France       Adolf Hitler in Paris Hitler who had not expected to conquer France and the Low Countries in six weeks, tackled the problems of occupation as they came without preconceived ideas.There were no demographical plans for the shifting of populations, as in the case of Poland, and for a time France was scarcely considered in connection with the Jewish problem in the light of National Socialist theory.   With France divided into two zones the Occupied area and Vichy, Hitler intervened in an action that treated the Vichy zone as a dumping ground for unwanted Jews from Germany.   However, this spurred the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) now tried to bring the Vichy Government into line with the regulations as enforced against the Jews in the Reich.   Joyfully seconded by Ambassador Abetz and his diplomatic assistants, Schleier and Zeitschel, Heydrich began to install the machinery of the ?Reichsvereinigung? and...
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SS Leaders
2007-09-05 15:14:00
Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler was born 7 October 1900 in Munich to a middle-class Bavarian family. His father was Joseph Gebhard Himmler, a secondary-school teacher and principal. His mother was Anna Maria Himmler (maiden name Heyder), a devout Catholic and attentive mother. Heinrich had an older brother, Gebhard Ludwig Himmler, and a younger brother, Ernst Hermann Himmler.    Heinrich was named after his godparent, Prince Heinrich of Wittelsbach of the royal family of Bavaria, who was tutored by Gebhard Himmler.   Educated at secondary school in Landshut, Himmler served as an officer cadet in the 11th Bavarian Regiment at the end of WW1, although he saw no active service. After working briefly as a salesman for a fertilizer manufacturing firm, Himmler joined the Nazi party and in November 1923 participated in the Beer-Hall Putsch as a standard bearer at the side of Ernst Röhm.   Influenced by Nazism and by the Artamans, an obscure s...
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Vught
2007-09-05 12:47:00
The Vught Transit Camp     Watchtowers at the Vught Transit camp A camp for Dutch political prisoners was established at Vught, near the city in southern Holland near the city of Hertogenbosch, capital of the Noord-Brabant province.The camp was taken over by the WVHA in late 1942 and was re-designated Konzentrationlager Herzogenbusch, which now housed political prisoners and Jews, held in transit awaiting the deportations to Poland.Karl Chmielewski who had served at several concentration camps such as Columbia Haus, Sachenhausen, Mauthausen / Gusen was appointed camp commandant in 1943 and on his appointment brought with 80 Kapos with him.Vught however, was not as brutal as these concentration camps, there were strict regulations regarding the treatment of inmates, experience in Westerbork had shown that deportations proceeded more smoothly if cruelty was avoided.Read more [Here]Brought to you by the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team  &nbs...

"The Hangman"
2007-09-04 23:26:00
 Reinhard Heydrich     &nb sp; Reinhard Heydrich was born on 7 March 1904 in the German town Halle, and baptized Reinhardt Eugen Tristan. It was his given name of "Reinhardt" that would become synonymous (besides Auschwitz) with the deportation, mass shooting and systematic slaughter of European Jews and Romanies in Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Majdanek. Read more[Here]     & nbsp;           Brought to you by the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team The HolocaustResearchProject

The life & death of Janusz Korczak
2007-09-04 12:46:00
Janusz Korczak   Janusz Korczak Janusz Korczak was the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit born in 1878 or 1879, physician, writer and educator. He was born in Warsaw, the son of an assimilated Jewish famly. Korczak?s father was a successful attorney who became mentally ill when Korczak was eleven. This was a heavy blow to the family?s financial situation and a trauma that cast its shadow over Korczak throughout his life.   Even while still a student of medicine at Warsaw University, Korczak was drawn to circles of liberal educators and writers in Poland. When he entered medical practice, he did his best to help the poor and those who suffered the most, at the same time he began to write.   His first books, Children of the Streets (1901) and A Child of the Salon (1906) aroused great interest. In 1904 he was drafted into the Russian army as a doctor, and was posted to East Asia.Read more [Here]This entry brought to you by the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Te...
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The Vilnius Ghetto
2007-09-04 12:40:00
The Vilnius Ghetto Jewish Life in Vilnius/Vilna To read more on Ponary click [here] Pre-War photo of Vilnius/Vilna Jews have played a part in the history of Lithuania since the 14th century, lured to the region by tolerant Lithuanian Dukes seeking to make advancements in trade and culture. Jews first arrived as merchants, artisans, and traders, but soon evolved into an integral component of Lithuania's national identity. The very first documents mentioning Jews in Vilnius date back as early as 1567. At that time Jews did not have the right to purchase houses in the city, they could only rent them. Jews gained the right to own buildings in Vilnius only in 1593. Before that, they were allowed to reside in the lands which did not belong to the magistrate, so called jurisdiks.   Read more [Here] The HolocaustResearchProject
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Anne Frank & Family
2007-08-30 17:05:00
Anne Frank and Her Family Anne Frank Ancestors of Anne Frank lived in Frankfurt Germany since the 17th century, Otto Frank, Anne?s father was born on 12 May 1889, in Frankfurt?s Westend, a well-to-do neighbourhood.   Otto Franks father was a banker, Otto attended high school, and briefly studied art at the University of Heideleberg. Via a friend he was then offered and accepted a job from 1908 to 1909 at Macy?s Department Store in New York, USA.   When his father died, Otto Frank returned to Germany and worked for a metal engineering company in Dusseldorf until 1914. During WW-1 he and his two brothers served in the German Army, where Otto attained the rank of lieutenant.   The Frank Family After the war he worked in his father?s bank, but banks did not fare well at that time, however whilst working in the bank he became acquainted with Edith Hollander, the daughter of a local manufacturer.   Born in 1900, she grew up in Aachen, Otto and Edith married ...
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Arthur Greiser -Gauleiter of the Warthegau
2007-08-29 12:34:00
Arthur Greiser Arthur Greiser Gauleiter of the Warthegau   Arthur Greiser was born in Schroda, Posen on 22 January 1897, the son of a civil servant. During World War One he served as a naval officer, and after a period in the Freikorps and later as an unsuccessful businessman, co-founded the Stalheim, a veterans? organisation in Danzig in 1924.   Greiser joined the Nazi Party in 1929 and the following year he entered the SS as one of Himmler?s earliest adherents. From 1930 Greiser was deputy district leader of the NSDAP in Danzig and leader of the Party faction in the district. On 20 June 1933 he became Deputy President of the Danzig Senate and on 28 November 1934 he succeeded Hermann Rauschning as President, a post he retained until 1 September 1939.Read more about Arthur Greiser at the HolocaustResearchProjectBrought to you by the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
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Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski
2007-08-28 17:54:00
Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski   The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team holds no viewpoint on the actions of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski. We only seek to present the factual events from several viewpoints and allow the reader to formulate their own views.   Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski was born in 1877 in Russia. His family relocated to Poland where he maintained an unsuccessful career as the director of an orphanage.   On October 13, 1939, the Nazi occupation authorities appointed him Judenrat Chairman in ?ód?. In this position he reported directly to the Nazi ghetto administration headed by Hans Biebow and had direct responsibility for providing heat, work, food, housing, and health and welfare services to the ghetto population.   With 230,000 people confined to a very small area that had no farmland, food quickly became a problem. Since the Nazis insisted on having the ghetto pay for its own upkeep, money was needed. Bu...
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The Diary of David Sierakowiak
2007-08-28 17:52:00
The Diary of David Sierakowiak     David's diary begins on 28 June 1939, just before his fifteenth birthday, and comes to an abrupt end on 15 April 1943. David himself died later in August 1943, "presumably" of tuberculosis; however, many others in the ghetto (including his sister) would have to endure another full year of torment before the ghetto?s final liquidation and the deportation of the remaining Jews to Auschwitz. David Sierakowiak Although we don?t know why David stopped keeping his diary during the last four months of his life, the entries that he did write reveal the harshness and suffering the ghetto inhabitants faced almost daily. The text presents the reader with a sombre look into what it meant to exist in a community ravaged by never-ending starvation, constant fear, terrible sickness, and inevitable death. In similar fashion to Anne Frank?s Diary, with which David's diary is often compared, his writing presents events within the context of the tim...
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An in-depth study of Adolf Hitler
2007-08-28 17:42:00
Adolf Hitler       Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was leader of the Nazi Party, Reich Chancellor and guiding spirit of the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945.   Hitler was Head of State and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau- am Inn, Austria on 20 April 1889.   The son of a fifty-two year old Austrian customs official, Alois Schickelgruber Hitler, and his third wife, a young peasant girl, Klara Poelzl, both from the backwoods of lower Austria, the young Hitler was a resentful, discontented child.   Moody, lazy, of unstable temperament, he was deeply hostile towards his strict authoritarian father and strongly attached to his indulgent hard-working mother, whose death from cancer in December 1908 was a shattering blow to the adolescent Adolf Hitler.   After spending four years in the Realschule in Linz, he left school at the age of sixteen with dreams of becoming a painter.   In October 1907 the provincial, middl...
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Babi Yar
2007-08-28 17:40:00
Find out what happened at BABI YAR  brought to you by the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team Babi Yar Mass Murder in Kiev     The ravine at Babi YarRead more at the HolocaustResearchProject
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The Lubartow Ghetto
2007-08-28 12:57:00
Learn the fate of the Jews of the Lubartow Ghetto ! Lubartow       Map with location of Lubartow Lubartow is located 30 kilometres north of Lublin, Southern Poland, a Jewish community had existed in the town since the 16th Century.  Most of the Jews lived in the centre of the town, where they came to dominate local trade and craft. Before the outbreak of the Second World War the Jews owned the majority of the 130 shops in Lubartow, the Jewish community supported three synagogues and two cemeteries.   The old cemetery was located in the centre of the town but was not used after the 19th Century. The new cemetery was in a suburb of the town. The Jewish population in Lubartow was typical compared with other provincial towns within the Lublin region. Most of the Jews were both Orthodox and conservative, and it was only the younger generation who were active in modern Jewish political and cultural life.Read more at the HolocaustResearchProject   Br...
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The Stroop Gallery part 2
2007-08-27 12:48:00
More images of the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto in the Stroop Gallery #2  The Stroop Report Image Gallery 2 www.HolocaustResearchProject.org       [Next] [Last] See the entire gallery at the HolocaustResearchProjectBrought to you by the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
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Przemysl
2007-08-27 11:53:00
Learn about the Przemysl ghetto and it's fate during the Holocaust! Przemysl Pre-War panorama of Przemysl & Zasanie Przemysl is a city in Poland, situated on the San River, in the Lvov district, Eastern Galicia and before the Second World War approximately 24,000 Jews lived in Przemysl.   The Germans bombed Przemysl on 7 September 1939 and the following day the bombing continued setting fire to the shopping centre Pasaz Gansa.   Many of Przemysl inhabitants fled the city, to escape the bombings, and the Germans entered the city for the first time on 15 September 1939, approximately 20, 000 Jews lived in Przemysl, including refugees from western Poland.At the Holocaust Research Project     &nbs p;      &nb sp;      &n bsp;      & nbsp;         Brought to you by the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
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The Boy in the photo?
2007-08-24 11:15:00
The Boy in the Photo ? The Warsaw Ghetto & The Stroop Report     The above photo is one of the most iconic photographs of the Holocaust, the German Guard pointing the machine gun is known, the little boy is not known, but some of the other people captured in this photo, have been identified.   The photo was included in the infamous Stroop Report ? ?The Warsaw Ghetto no longer exists.?Read about it at the Holocaust Research Project

The Stroop Gallery
2007-08-22 12:43:00
View images of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the capture and subsequent destruction of the Jewish resistance.See it all in the Stroop Gallery At the HolocaustResearchProject

The Stroop Report
2007-08-22 12:39:00
Learn the details contained in the infamous Stroop Report  !At the HolocaustResearchProject

Arthur Nebe
2007-08-20 12:43:00
Learn about the life and death of Arthur Nebe on the H.E.A.R.T WebsiteThe HolocaustResearchProject

Otto Ohlendorf Einsatzgruppen D Commander
2007-08-17 15:31:00
Learn about Otto Ohlendorf the infamous commander of the murderous Einsatzgruppen DH.E.A.R.T The Holocaust Research Project
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Auschwitz The Historical Timeline
2007-08-16 14:50:00
Detailed timeline on the History of the Auschwitz Death Camp at the Holocaust Research Project website
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The destruction of the Hungarian Jews
2007-08-16 14:47:00
Learn about the Nazi Destruction of the Jews of Hungary at the Holocaust Research Project
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Introduction to Nazi Euthanasia
2007-08-16 14:45:00
Learn about Nazi Euthanasia on the H.E.A.R.T Website
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Paul Blobel Einsatzgruppen Commander "Sonderkommando 1005"
2007-08-16 13:44:00
Learn about the infamous Paul Blobel and the Einsatzgruppen murders at the H.E.A.R.T website.
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The Extermination of the Jews Of Sosnowiec & Bendzin
2007-08-08 12:07:00
Learn about the extermination program against the Jews of Sosnowiec & Bendzin in Poland.Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
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Richard Glazar " Treblinka Recalled "
2007-08-07 16:53:00
Read Richard Glazar speak on life and escape from the Treblinka Death Camp!Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team H.E.A.R.T
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Buchenwald Image Galleries added to HolocaustResearchProject.org
2007-08-07 16:51:00
Two new galleries have been added:BuchenwaldBuchenwald Liberation "The Robin Cohen" Collection.On the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team Website
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