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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 ...
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...
Naomi Klein Uses New Orleans Housing Protest To Push Her Ridiculous Book
2007-12-22 00:02:00 Naomi Klein uses every opportunity to try and prove her ridiculous book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is true. Her far-left conspiracy book sounds more like the ramblings of a paranoid schizophrenic than anything else. Her latest attempt to prove her theories is the current protests going on in New Orleans over the ...
By: The Hot Joints
Holocaust Ghettos
2007-11-11 20:51:00 Przemysl Ghetto 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. The Germans immediately began to humiliate the Jewish inhabitants and started to arrest members of the Jewish intelligentsia, physicians, lawyers, industrialists and Jewish political activists. Forty-three leading Jewish citizens were arrested, taken for forced labour, savagely beaten and then shot. Among the forty-three was Asscher Gitter, whose son had emigrated...
Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team List of Ghettos during the Holo
2007-10-24 13:47:00 The Grodno Ghetto The ghetto in Grodno During the interwar period Grodno a city in the western part of Belorussia was part of Poland, however, in September 1939 it was occupied by the Soviet forces and annexed to the Soviet Union, as part of the Ribbentrop ? Molotov pact. Grodno had one of the oldest and largest Jewish communities with numerous social and cultural institutions and was a well-known centre of Zionism, on the eve of the Second World War Grodno?s Jewish population was circa 25,000. On the first day of Operation Barbarossa ? the German name for the invasion of the Soviet Union, the Germans reached Grodno on 22 June 1941. As soon as the Nazis entered the city, they forced all male Jews aged sixteen to sixty on forced labour, the following month eighty Jews belonging to the intelligentsia were murdered. A Gestapo office (Nebenstelle) was established in Grodno dealing with Jewish affairs, initially headed by Kriminalsekretar Gross, a...
Brody
2007-09-24 12:52:00 The Ghetto at Brody Entrance to the ghetto at Brody Brody a town in the Lvov Oblast(district) Ukrainian SSR. Founded in the sixteenth century, Brody was under Polish rule in the period from 1918 to 1939, and was annexed to the Soviet Union in September of that year, 9000 Jews lived there in 1939. It was one of the important Jewish communities in Galicia and for many years Jews constituted a majority of the population. Brody was well known on the one hand it was a renowned Hassidic centre, yet at the same time at the beginning of the 19th Century Brody also became one of the first locations of the Haskala (Jewish Enlightenment) in the province. The prominent Jewish ? Austrian novelist Joseph Roth came from Brody. The town itself was also well- known from the 18th Century when it became a major trading place, and in the 19th Century because of its location close to the Russian border, many Jewish refugees passed through Brody fleeing Russian pogroms. Re...
Prague
2007-09-23 10:35:00 Jewish Life in Prague Panorama of Prague The Prague Ghetto, as it has been called since the 16th century, began as a colony of Jewish tradesmen who came to Prague and settled in this area permanently. In the 13th century, by order of the city administration and the church authorities, an independent district was created and named the Jewish Quarter. In the 17th century, the Ghetto grew considerably and was a Hebrew metropolis in Central Europe. In spite of this, the Ghetto ceased to operate as an independent district in 1850 and was dissolved by the late 19th century for administrative reasons when it became District V, the so-called Josefov. The Prague Ghetto was a typical complex and certain important historical monuments still remain to this day. In the gothic period, the Ghetto was shut off from the outside world by fortified walls with gates (1230-1530). However, during the Renaissance (1530-1630), the Jewish community spread beyond the walls of the city. Re...
Ghettos in Poland
2007-09-23 10:33:00 Bialystok Ghetto Map of Poland & Bialystok (circa 1935) The city of Bialystok is situated in North-Eastern Poland, 188 km from Warsaw and 54 km from the border with Belarus. In common with the region named after it, the city had fallen under the control of many different countries in the course of its history. Bialystok became part of Prussia in 1795 before being annexed to Russia in 1807. In 1921, following the cessation of hostilities between Poland and the Soviet Union, the city was incorporated into the state of Poland. The 1931 census revealed a total population in excess of 91,000, of whom nearly 40,000, or 43% were Jewish. On the outbreak of war on 1 September 1939, the Jewish population of Bialystok had risen to approximately 50,000. By 15 September 1939 the Germans had captured the city. Following the invasion of Eastern Poland by the Soviet Union on 17 September, Bialystok became part of the area to be occupied by the Soviet Union under...
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2007-09-20 12:34:00 Alfred Nossig &-nbsp; &n-bsp; &nb-sp; &nbs-p; -; - &-nbsp; &n-bsp; &nb-sp; &nbs-p; -; - Alfred Nossig Alfred Nossig was a writer, sculptor, and Zionist theoretician whose interest in Jewish emigration made him a collaborator with the German authorities. Nossig was born in Lvov in 1864 and attended several universities, studying natural sciences, medicine, law, and philosophy. In his youth he favoured assimilation into Polish culture, but later he became a Zionist. Nossig was active as an artist, intellectual, and founder of Jewish public projects and institutions. He made a name for himself, with his many talents and his efforts t...
Holocaust Ghettos
2007-09-17 11:48:00 The Minsk Ghetto &-nbsp; &n-bsp; &nb-sp; &nbs-p; -; - &-nbsp; &n-bsp; &nb-sp; &nbs-p; Jewish Minsk Minsk, capital of the Belorussian SSR, in 1926 the Jewish population of Minsk was 53,686, by June 1941 the number had grown to 80,000, constituting one- third of the city?s population. Only a small fraction of the Jews managed to escape from the city in the six days between the German invasion of the Soviet Union and the conquest of Minsk on 28 June 1941. German parachutists who had been dropped east of the city intercepted thousands of Jews who were trying to flee and forced them to return. When the civil administration was set up Minsk became the headquarters of the Generalkommissar for Belorussian Wilhelm Kube. ...
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2007-09-17 11:47:00 The Minsk Image Gallery www.holocaustresearchproject.or-g [Next] [Last] A sign at the entrance to the Maly Trostinets concentration camp480 X 31934 KB Entrance to the Minsk ghetto320 X 21516 KB Forced Labour in Minsk700 X 44639 KB See more HERE
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...
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
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...
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...
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 &-nbsp; Br...
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 - &-nbsp; &n-bsp; &nb-sp; &nbs-p; -; Brought to you by the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
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2007-08-01 10:28:00 Israel?s government long abandoned the concept of Jewishness and consciously molds Israeli nation. The Newspeak is readily available: State of Israel instead of the Land of Israel and the West Bank instead of Judea and Samaria. Israel-born secular youth identifies less with Jewish people and more with Israeli nation; polls show opposition to government spending ...
By: Samson Blinded
The facts of ghettos
2007-05-14 11:03:00 The ghetto is not about weakness or isolation; Jews don’t seek physical strength or intermingling. The ghetto is about fear: the fear of staying in and the fear of moving out. Witness the life in Israel. The settlements offer much higher quality of life than crowded, expensive Israeli cities. Most Jews, however, are afraid to live there. The excuses are irrational. Uncertainty? Israeli government will certainly reimburse the price of houses if evacuating the settlements. Insecurity? Suicide attacks are more common in Israel than in the settlements. Road conditions? Stoning incidents are less common than car accidents in Israel proper. Most Israelis have never been to the settlements but only listen to frightening media reports and rumors. Forget the settlements, it’s frightful enough inside Israel. Jews at the north wait for Hezbollah to resume the attacks. Jews at the south wait for Hamas to improve the Kassam missiles to reliably target Ashkelon. Jews everywhere in Israel live...
By: Samson Blinded
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