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Life in the Holocaust Ghettos - The Jewish Police
2008-06-04 14:26:00 The Jewish Order Police Holocaust Ghettos Members of the Jewish order police in the Lodz Ghetto Jewish Order Service police units were established by the German authorities in certain locations under their brutal occupation. Almost immediately after their establishment the Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe were ordered to organise these units, usually as a forerunner to the creation of ghettos. Whereas the Judenrat itself, although also created on German orders, often contained elements of pre-war voluntary association, the Jewish police came into being only after the German occupation. There was no precedent for the existence of a Jewish police force, and there was no indication that the Jews played any part in the establishment of a Jewish police force within the ghettos. The Germans set the guidelines for the Judenrat to recruit members which included physical fitness, military experience, and secondary or higher education. In practice ... More About: Life
Sobibor Suvivors
2008-06-02 12:06:00 Esther Raab Sobibor Death Camp Survivor Selected Extracts from USHMM Interview Interview held on the 18 February 1992 (Photo's added to enhance the text) Esther Raab Can you describe for me the transport to Sobibor and your arrival there, and what is was like and what happened? I didn?t come by train, I came by horse and wagon because I came from a small working camp. We were like 800 young girls and men and we rode the whole day to Sobibor and the month it was December 1942, December 22 1943, 42, I?m sorry. And after riding the whole day in the mud and the wagons got stuck in the mud and we had to go down and pull them out, and on the way the farmers were outside, and they said there?s no way your going, they?re going to kill you and they?re going to burn you. As much as we knew before and as much we heard, we didn?t believe. It was very hard to comprehend, to believe. Why take innocent people and just kill them with no re...
Belsen Trials - Irma Grese
2008-05-30 15:43:00 Irma Grese Excerpts from the Belsen Trial and Biography Irma Grese (center) at the Belsen Trials Irma Grese was born on the 7 October 1923 and in 1938 she left elementary school and worked for six months on agricultural jobs at a farm, after which she worked in a shop in Lychen for six months. When she was fifteen she went to a hospital in Hohenlychen where she stayed for two years, she tried to become a nurse but the Labour Exchange would not allow that and sent her to work in a dairy in Furstenburg. In July 1942 she tried again to become a nurse, but the Labour Exchange sent her to Ravensbruck Concentration Camp, although she protested against it, she stayed there until March 1943, when she was transferred to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. She remained in Auschwitz until January 1945. After Auschwitz Irma Grese was sent to the Bergen ? Belsen Concentration Camp where she was captured by the British Army when they liberated the camp on 1... More About: Irma
The end of Aktion Reinhard
2008-05-29 15:36:00 The Conclusion to Aktion Reinhard Panorama of Belzec after the camp was dismantled (circa 1944) Heinrich Himmler the Reichsfuhrer ?SS visited Lublin in March 1943 and toured the death camps of Sobibor and Treblinka, it became clear that the Aktion Reinhard death camps had fulfilled their gruesome task, and that virtually all of the Jews in the General Gouvernment had been exterminated. The SS were determined to erase all traces of their crimes, and Himmler ordered all the corpses to be exhumed and cremated. In addition the camp structures were to be destroyed the area ploughed over, and trees to be planted. The first camp to be dismantled and closed was Belzec, with transports ceasing in mid ?December 1942, thereafter cremations became the main focus of activity. SS-Oberscharfuhrer Heinrich Gley made a statement on the 6 February 1962 about the cremations in Belzec: ?I was assigned with a big Jewish work brigade to the cremation o...
The ghetto in Krakow - Deportations at Zgody Square
2008-05-27 19:25:00 Zgody Square Krakow Ghetto Metal chairs at Zgody Sq. memorializing the victims of the Krakow ghetto The Ghetto which was established here covered the area enclosed within a few streets around Zgody Square and included 320 buildings. It was an area between the Vistula River, Podgorski Square, the Krzemionki hills and the Krakow - Plaszow railway line. Two significant ?Aktions? aimed at deporting the Jews of Cracow took place on the 1-8 June and 27 ?28 October 1942. As a result 11,000 Jews from Cracow were sent to the death camp at Belzec. Not one person survived these deportations. Zgody Square was the main place for the deportation of Cracow?s Jews ? the ?Umschlagplatz?. Here all those who were refused the right to stay in the Ghetto were gathered in the square. All who did not have a stamp in their job cards to confirm employment in a German company were brought here during a deportation Aktion in 1942. Jews in Kazimeiraz & K... More About: Ghettos
Nazi Propaganda Films - Jud Süss
2008-05-25 09:30:00 Jud Süss The most successful anti-Semitic film the Nazi 's ever made. Program cover from the film Jud Süss On the even of war in 1939, while Hitler was working through the details of Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, leading the way for invasion of Poland. Nazi Propaganda minister Goebbel's attention was strongly focused on three anti-Semitic film projects: ? Der Ewige Jude ? Die Rothschilds ? Jud Süss With Jud Süss being the most commercially successful of the three.Long recognized as history?s most incendiary film, Jud Süss was the cultural centerpiece in Joseph Goebbels? campaign against the Jews. Released in 1940, it was a box office sensation across Germany and Europe; alongside the movie?s theatrical distribution, it became a staple of Nazi propaganda evenings organized by the Hitler Youth, SS and others. Li... More About: Films
Nazi Euthanasia - The executions at Koscian
2008-05-21 07:52:00 Koscian Executions and Euthanasia Adolf Hitler Strasse in Koscian during the Occupation Executions in Koscian In Koscian, called Kosten during the occupation, 47 kilometres from Poznan, eight persons were executed together on 2 October 1939, eighteen on 23 October and forty-two on 7 November 1939. These executions were held in the market-place, against the wall of the Town Hall. On 23 October 1939 the Germans shot:Read the full article about the executions at Koscian here:http://www.holocaustresearchproject. org/euthan/koscian.htmlThe Holocaust Education & Archive Research Teamwww.HolocaustResearchProject.orgHitle r; Himmler Shoah; Third Reich; Final Solution; Nazi ; National Socialism; Jews; Judaism; The Holocaust; Auschwitz; Deathcamps; Sobibor; Belze; Treblinka; Krakow; Lublin; Action Reinhard; Wirth; Globocnik; Goering; Goebbels; Anne Frank; Propaganda; Genocide; Murder; Racism; Aryan; anti-Semitism; Israel; Torah; Talmud; Sephardic; Mengele; Euthanasia; Wannsee; ...
Images of the extermination camp Jasenovac
2008-05-19 07:52:00 The Jasenovac Album www.HolocaustResearchProject.org [Next] [Last] A badly mutilated corpse of an inmate at Jasenovac397 X 58642 KB A formal Ustasha order for a Jew Samuel Hirschenhauser to report to Jasenovac448 X 31433 KB A Jasenovac survivor shows his hiding place in the camp634 X 45072 KB Ante Pavelic Head of the Independent State of Croatia442 X 64043 KB Area of the Jasenovac Camp complex440 X 31513 KB Bodies of Jasenovac prisoners on the banks of the Sava river631 X 45069 KB See the full gallery of Jasenovac Images here:http://www.holocaustresearchproject. org/othercamps/galleries/jasengal/index.h tmlThe Holocaust Education & Archive Research Teamwww.HolocaustResearchProject.org More About: Extermination
Terror in Croatia!
2008-05-16 12:58:00 The Jasenovac Extermination CampThe Jasenovac Extermination Camp"Terror in Croatia " Ante Pavelic Head of the Independent State of Croatia The Axis powers invaded Yugoslavia on 6 April 1941. Vladko Ma?ek, the leader of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) which was the most influential party in Croatia at the time, rejected offers by the Nazi Germany to lead the new government. On 10 April the most senior home-based Usta?a, Slavko Kvaternik, took control of the police in Zagreb and in a radio broadcast that day proclaimed the formation of the Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Dr?ava Hrvatska, NDH). The new Independent State of Croatia" was established as a pro-Nazi government. It was dedicated to a clerical-fascist ideology influenced both by Nazism and extreme Roman Catholic fanaticism. On coming to power, the Usta?a Party dictatorship in Croatia quickly commenced on a systematic policy of racial extermination of all Serbs, Jews and Gypsies living w...
The "Looting Dutchman" The Peter Menten Story
2008-05-13 13:13:00 Pieter Menten The "Dutchman" Pieter Menten (dressed in SS Uniform) Pieter Nicloas Menten was born on the 26 May 1899, in Amsterdam into a wealthy Amsterdam family. He claimed descent from the founders of Van den Bergh?s (Unilever) and that his father had been in Royal Dutch Petroleum, but broke away after the Shell take-over. In truth and this was not to become apparent until well after the war, in 1980 at the conclusion of a protracted War Crimes Trial, it was disclosed that his predecessors had never had anything to do with Shell or Unilever. His father had been a dealer in rags and waste paper, the company was named Menten and Stark and his grandfather had been a butcher?s assistant. Pieter had a brother Dirk who was two years younger, had joined the family?s waste paper business, but lived most of his life in the shadow of his elder brother. On his father?s death in 1922 Menten broke away from the family empire and established a busi... More About: Story , Peter
Irena Sendelerowa Dead at age 98
2008-05-12 14:20:00 Pole who saved ghetto Jews dies The Polish parliament honoured Irena Sendlerowa last year for her heroism The death of a Polish woman who almost certainly saved the lives of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II has been announced. Irena Sendlerowa organised the rescue of the children from the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi occupation. She died in a Warsaw hospital at the age of 98, her daughter said. After Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939, she took great risks to help Polish Jews held by the Nazis - an act that was punishable by death. In 1942 Irena Sendlerowa joined the Zegota resistance movement. With the rest of her team of 20, she rescued the children between 1940 and 1943, when the Nazis burned the ghetto, condemning its residents to death. Saved from execution In October 1943 she was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo, but refused to give up the names of the children. She was saved on the day of her scheduled execution after the Polish underground ... More About: Dead
Holocaust Memorials - The Belzec Death Camp
2008-05-10 11:59:00 The Belzec Memorial Wide view of the new memorial at Belzec (circa 2004) The area where the former Belzec Death camp stood (circa 2000) It was not until 1961 that the Polish authorities decided to clean up the site of the former death camp and erect a monument to the memory of the victims. This work was completed and the area of remembrance and memorial officially opened on the 1 December 1963. The monument showed two emaciated figures, and a number of concrete plinths that marked the supposed mass graves. There was also a row of monumental concrete urns, symbolising ever-burning fires, on the west side of the alley to the left of the former gas chamber building. Over the years the monuments and surrounding wall and fence fell into disrepair and littered the site, human remains were visible and the site was totally neglected, and a poor memorial to the hundreds of thousands of Jews who were murdered there.Read the full story of the... More About: Holocaust , Camp , Memorials
Escape from the Death Camp Trains - Sobibor "Jumpers"
2008-05-09 11:30:00 Testimony of Yacov Gurfein about the Sobibor Transport "Jumpers" Photo of a German soldier near the bridge at Sanok Israeli Police 6th Bureau Date: 23.6.1960 Investigating Officer: Rosenfeld Yacov Gurfein Date of Birth: Born 1921 Place of Birth: Sanok, Poland Profession: Carpenter Father?s Name: Abraham GurfeinRead the full testimony here: http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/r evolt/sobijumper.htmlThe Holocaust Education & Archive Research Teamwww.HolocaustResearchProject.orgHitle r; Himmler Shoah; Third Reich; Final Solution; Nazi; National Socialism; Jews; Judaism; The Holocaust; Auschwitz; Death camps; Sobibor; Belze; Treblinka; Krakow; Lublin; Action Reinhard; Wirth; Globocnik; Goering; Goebbels; Anne Frank; Propaganda; Genocide; Murder; Racism; Aryan; anti-Semitism; Israel; Torah; Talmud; Sephardic; Mengele; Euthanasia; Wannsee; World War II; Axis History; Gas Vans; Chelmno; g... More About: Trains , Camp , Escape
Borek & Chelm
2008-05-07 12:41:00 The Jews of Chelm & Escape from Borek Forest The market in pre-war Chelm Jews may have been present in Chelm in the 12th Century and contributed one of the largest and most important communities in Poland by the 16th Century. Over time the Jews of Chem inexplicably earned a reputation for simple ?mindedness, giving rise to many entertaining stories and making Chelm or Chelmer bywords in the Jewish world. Disaster struck the Jewish community in Chelm in the mid-seventeenth century, when one of Bogdan Chmielnicki?s armed Cossack units burst into the town, killing many Jews. On the eve of the Second World War there were about 15,000 Jews in Chelm, by circa 1941/ 1942 the population according to Das General Government by Du Prel, was around 35, 000 made up of 18,000 Poles, 12,000 Jews and 5,000 Ukrainians. The Germans occupied the city on 9 October 1939 immediately instituting a regime of severe persecution, such as the incident d...
Salomon Hercberg Ghetto Prison Commandant
2008-05-05 11:23:00 The Lodz Ghetto Salomon Hercberg Arrest and Resettlement of the Lodz Ghetto Prison Commandant Saloman Hercberg 12 March 1942 The Hercberg affair has made for one of the greatest sensations in the annals of the ghetto thus far. The ?Hercbergiada? will no doubt stand out in bold relief in the history of our Ghetto. Who was Hercberg? A tall obese man of some forty-odd years, bursting with health, splendidly dressed, he was one of the most popular figures among the leading representatives of the ghetto?s administration. His prison commandant?s cap, adorned with thick gold braid, like the beautiful gold- embroidered armband he wore, set him apart from those around him. He was a child of the Balut neighbourhood. In this neighbourhood he had worked as a projectionist in a third rate theatre before the war. it is said that he was initially taken on for the post of Order Service commissioner on the basis of docume...
Neuengamme - Images
2008-05-03 10:35:00 The Neuengamme Image Gallery www.HolocaustResearchProject.org [Next] [Last] Aerial view of Neuengamme concentration camp800 X 56883 KB An SS guard watches prisoner laborers at construction work. Neuengamme concentration camp640 X 40631 KB Fence at Neuengamme521 X 35538 KB Neuengamme Car port799 X 70674 KB Neuengamme crematorium ovens797 X 57789 KB Neuengamme crematorium schematic794 X 671102 KB See the full gallery here:http://www.holocaustresearchproject. org/othercamps/galleries/neugal/index.htm lThe Holocaust Education & Archive Research Teamwww.HolocaustResearchProject.orgHitle r; Himmler Shoah; Third Reich; Final Solution; Nazi; National Socialism; Jews; Judaism; The Holocaust; Auschwitz; Deathcamps; Sobibor; Belze; Treblinka; Krakow; Lublin; Action Reinhard; Wirth; Globocnik; Goering; Goebbels; Anne Frank; Propaganda; Genocide; Murder; Racism; Aryan; anti-Semitism; Israel; Torah; Talmud; Sephardic; Mengele; Euthanasia; Wannsee; World ... More About: Images
The Sporrenberg Interrogation - Harvest Festival
2008-04-30 16:59:00 Operation Erntefest (Harvest Festival ) Jakob Sporrenberg SSPF Lublin Interrogation Report ? Extracts Jakob Sporrenberg (1902--1952), SS and Police Leader in the Lublin district who organized ?Erntefest"---the operation in which some 43,000 Jews imprisoned in the camps of Majdanek, Trawniki, and Poniatowa were massacred. Part 1 Jakob Sporrenberg III. Sporrenberg?s Activities as SS &Police Chief Lublin In the course of the interview described above PW must have been aware of the task facing him. He must have known that he was chosen for this position for quite definite reasons by a man who knew only too well how to select personnel to carry out work to his own satisfaction and conforming with the principles laid down by him. In spite of this alleges that Himmler informed him at the time that he was not to concern himself with the Jewish question in Lublin as this was in t...
Frank Bright tells of the death of his family at Auschwitz and his survival
2008-04-23 13:35:00 The Family Brichta Part One ? Backgrounds and Life in Berlin This is the story of the Family Brichta, as recalled by Frank Bright , in his unpublished memoirs, which due to its length will be completed in several chapters. We are exceedingly grateful to Frank for allowing HEART to share both his family?s and his unique experiences during the Nazis years, before the Second World War and through the Holocaust, which claimed so many of his family and friends. Hermann Brichta Hermann Brichta holding Frank, 1929 Berlin My father, early days My Father was very similar in upbringing and outlook to that of my mother. Born on a farm in 1897 among and surrounded by Czechs that is not all that surprising. There were other Jewish farmers in Moravia and Slovakia, ownership of land and equal, or more equal, opportunities, even in the army, were much more and more widely available within the Habsburg empire than in Russian Poland, the latter... More About: Death , Survival
They fought back!
2008-04-21 11:33:00 The Bielski Brothers Jewish Resistance and the "Otriad" The Bielski partisans Prior to the onset of WWII, conditions throughout occupied Poland & Belarus varied greatly. In some areas, especially in eastern Poland, which the Soviet Union invaded in 1939, and subsequently "formally" annexed, the situation was particularly volatile. During the two year' occupation till the Soviet-German war outbreak in 1941, the Soviets carried out the ethnic cleansing of Poles considered as a potential threat to full annexation of these territories into Soviet Union. Hundred of thousands of Polish officials, officers, soldiers, policemen, teachers, churchmen, landowners, and civilians with their families were sent to Siberian concentration camps. Some Jews had welcomed the Soviets as liberators, believing that life under the communists might be preferable to that of the Poles. However time would soon disprove that theory. Read the full article:http://ww... More About: Back
Witness statement - Leo Freitag speaks on Budzyn
2008-04-16 12:02:00 Budzyn Labour Camp The Leo Freitag Statement Statement sworn at the Consulate General of the Federal German Republic in New York on 12 August 1968 Photo of Jews from the Krasnik Ghetto At the end of 1941 or the beginning of 1942 I went from Krasnik to KZ Budzyn. When I am told that the Budzyn camp was, at the beginning a Zwangsarbeitslager and then later a KZ, when I think that I came there at the time it was a labour camp. That was at the time when the Jews were taken out of Krasnik. We wore civilian clothing. Only later did we get the striped clothing. The time of the change-over I can no longer remember exactly. It was either 1942 or 1943. As the Russians approached the camp was disbanded. We went next to Wieliczka, then to Gross Rosen via Plaszow and finally to Brunnlitz in Czechoslovakia, where we were liberated. I worked in Budzyn – as in all the camps I was in – as a joiner. During the construction of the factory I made for e... More About: Witness
The Josef Mueller Statement
2008-04-14 13:19:00 Statement by Josef Mueller Former Commander of the SS Camps in Krakow Julag 1 in Plaszow - Julag 2 in Prokocim - Julag 3 in Bierzanow Flensburg 17 June 1960 Julian Scherner In the case against Fellenz, it has been necessary to obtain evidence from the witness Mueller which is being taken in the regional court prison. The witness Mueller described the following: In the months between January and February 1942, I have performed normal office duties in the head office of the SS und Polizeifuhrer in Krakow. Nothing special happened during that period. First in March 1942, the exact date I cannot quote, I had to accompany and take part, as a personal bodyguard, the Oberfuhrer Scherner, on a so called Jewish Action. Altogether, I have participated as an escort, in five such Jewish Actions with various SS Fuhrers. All these incidents happened during the period between March and June 1942. At the end of Ju... More About: Statement
Images related to the economics of the Final Solution
2008-04-10 14:22:00 The Holocaust Economics Image Gallery www.HolocaustResearchProject.org [Next] [Last] A building on Kosciuszko Street in Bedzin, housing the local branch of the German Finance Ministry. From a Nazi German propaganda film.789 X 507100 KB A chart designating the chain of command in the Economic and Administrative Main Office (the WVHA)474 X 37036 KB A copy of a draft list, prepared by the Reichsbank, of the forty-sixth shipment to the Prussian State Mint of gold and silver taken from human teeth312 X 44832 KB A crowd of people gather outside the Schocken department store in Nuremberg780 X 600See the full image gallery here: http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/e conomics/economicsgal/index.htmlThe Holocaust Education & Archive Research Teamwww.HolocaustResearchProject.org More About: Images , Final , Related , Solution
Forced Deportations to Lodz
2008-04-09 12:05:00 Deportations from the Greater German Reich to the Lodz Ghetto October ? November 1941 Dawid Sierakowiak wrote in his diary on 4 October 1941: German & Austrian Jews heading for Lodz ?Today Rumkowski met with all the teachers in the ghetto. He said that because 20,000 Jews are arriving from all over Germany, he is extending the school recess now, instead of having it during the winter. I think it?s the end of schooling in the ghetto, at least for me, since I don?t think I?ll be a lyceum student, after all. ? On 16 October 1941 the first of twenty trains left Greater Germany ?for the East.? By 4 November they had all completed their journey, taking 19,837 Jews to the Lodz ghetto. One of these trains, with 512 Jews, came from Luxembourg. Five trains, with 5,000 Jews in all, came from Vienna, a similar number from Prague, and 4,187, in four trains, from Berlin. Other trains came from Cologne, Frankfurt... More About: Forced
The Eichmann Trial -- Avraham Lindwasser Testimony
2008-04-05 06:37:00 Avraham Lindwasser Testimony about Treblinka at the Eichmann Trial 1961 (Selected Extracts) Avraham Lindwasser gives testimony at the Eichmann trial Avraham Lindwasser arrived in the Treblinka death camp on the 28 August 1942 from Warsaw. He escaped during the revolt on the 2 August 1943. ------------------------------- At the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem in 1961, Avraham Lindwasser described his arrival: ?There was a notice, it read? ?Jews after you have bathed and changed your clothes, the journey will continue to the east, to work.? Avraham Lindwasser continued with his arrival at the ramp: ?They opened the freight cars - we heard the order ?Get Out.? There were shouts, we began getting off, so that they did not give us an opportunity to understand where we were or what was happening ? we were chased straight away to the square, and there we were ordered to hand over our money an...
Westerbork Transit Camp
2008-04-01 23:06:00 Westerbork The community of Westerbork is situated in the northeast of the Netherlands in the province of Drenthe, 11 kms from the province capital of Assen and about 130 km (80 miles) north of Amsterdam. In a resolution proposed by the Minister of Home Affairs and approved by the Dutch cabinet on 13 February 1939, it was determined to construct a camp "to house the refugees from Germany that live in this country". Opened on 9 October 1939, the costs of constructing the camp, amounting to 1.25 million gulden, were charged to the Jewish Refugee Committee in the Netherlands. When the Germans invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, there were 750 refugees residing in the camp. Initially moved to Leeuwarden, capital of the province of Frisia, they were moved back to Westerbork following the Dutch surrender. The camp came under the control of the Ministry of Justice on 16 July 1940. Refugees from other camps were subsequently moved to Westerbork, which by 1941 had ... More About: Camp , Transit
The Gelpernus Diary " Resistance in the Kovno Ghetto"
2008-03-26 12:23:00 The Gelpernus Diary Resistance in the Kovno Ghetto Chaim Yelin & Dimitri-Ghelpernus H.E.A.R.T Exclusive! Writer Chaim Yelin, the organizer and leader of the ghetto partisan movement, dreamed of writing a book about the resistance, underground and Kovno ghetto partisans. The proof of that is in the material which he managed to have written during the war. However, only some of that material has survived. Having devoted all his being to the underground movement, Chaim Yelin perished in the fight with the brown plague without making public the Resistance documents, which were at that time written in blood of Kovno ghetto fighters. These lines were written by his brother and his closest friend, who, from the very first days of Kovno ghetto,fought hand in hand with him. The authors of the book aimed to describe the events with utmost precision. They see it as their duty both to the memory of those who were killed, who consciously gave their lives in the fight a...
The Role of the Jewish Council in Prague -By Holocaust Survivor Frank Brigh
2008-03-24 10:13:00 Nazi Restrictions on the Jews of Prague & The Role of the Jewish Community Council [Guest publication by Holocaust Survivor Frank "Brichta" Bright] Adolf Hitler reviews his troops at Prague castle on March 15, 1939 The rules, orders, prohibitions and restrictions with which the Jewish population had to comply are shown in the sequence shown on the original pages, i.e. they are not always in chronological order. The following represents only a small fraction of the total number of prohibitions, restrictions, confiscations and humiliations Jews had to endure before their deportation to the Final Solution. Dates are shown in the order: day, month, year. Words are shown in bold lettering where they are thus shown in the original German text. The Jewish Community in Prague Jews in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Development of the Jewish population in the Protectorate of Bohemia and M...
Eliahu Rosenberg testifies about Treblinka at the Eichmann Trial in 1961
2008-03-20 10:24:00 Eliahu Rosenberg Testimony about Treblinka at the Eichmann Trial 1961 (Selected Extracts) Eliahu Rosenberg "swearing in" at the Eichmann trial Eliahu Rosenberg was deported from Warsaw to Treblinka along with his mother and three sisters in September 1942. He escaped during the revolt on the 2 August 1943. At the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem in 1961, Eliahu Rosenberg described their arrival, a member of the Blau Kommando said: ?He did not say it to me, but to his friend, an acquaintance of his, in Yiddish, ?Moshe, chap a besem un rateve sich!? (Moshe, grab a broom and save yourself) ?This man took hold of a broom that was lying at the side, went into the freight cars and began sweeping the cars. Kurt Franz ? he passed by with a peitsche (whip) in his hand, and took men from the ranks who were sitting on the floor several men, about thirty of them. When I saw this I jumped into this group, with a parcel in my hand, and I sto...
The Flossenbürg Concentration Camp on HolocaustResearchProject.org website
2008-03-17 10:41:00 Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Picturesque village where Flossenbürg would be erected The village of Flossenbürg dated from the Middle Ages and was located in the Oberpfalz Mountains of Bavaria, 40 miles east of Nuremburg, near the Czech frontier and situated close to a number of rock quarries. The first granite quarry was established there in 1875 and soon became the center of the village economy.In the late 1930's the owner of the quarry -- also mayor of the village and a loyal Nazi -- persuaded Heinrich Himmler to establish a major camp at the site. KL Flossenbürg was established in May 1938, and began as a relatively small facility originally intended for criminals, "asocial" persons, and Jews, but it grew to include political prisoners and foreign prisoners of war. Between 1938, when the camp was established, and April 1945, more than 96,000 prisoners passed through Flossenbürg. About 30,000 eventually died there. The Commandants of Flossenburg... More About: Website
The Flossenbürg Concentration Camp on HolocaustResearchProject.org website
More articles from this author:2008-03-17 10:41:00 Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Picturesque village where Flossenbürg would be erected The village of Flossenbürg dated from the Middle Ages and was located in the Oberpfalz Mountains of Bavaria, 40 miles east of Nuremburg, near the Czech frontier and situated close to a number of rock quarries. The first granite quarry was established there in 1875 and soon became the center of the village economy.In the late 1930's the owner of the quarry -- also mayor of the village and a loyal Nazi -- persuaded Heinrich Himmler to establish a major camp at the site. KL Flossenbürg was established in May 1938, and began as a relatively small facility originally intended for criminals, "asocial" persons, and Jews, but it grew to include political prisoners and foreign prisoners of war. Between 1938, when the camp was established, and April 1945, more than 96,000 prisoners passed through Flossenbürg. About 30,000 eventually died there. The Commandants of Flossenburg were... More About: Website 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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