New Holocaust camp and ghetto projects

Holocaust Remembrance Day, "Yom HaShoah" - Thursday, April 19, 2012.

We hope that the continuance of an eternal chain of remembrance, of those who sacrificed in the Shoah, will be honored and sanctified by active participation to resurrect living descendant connections for them in these projects.

PROJECTS:

1. "Holocaust: The Final Solution" http://www.geni.com/projects/The-Final-Solution/10996 - Master Project & Concentration Camp / Ghetto Directory

2. "Courageous Fighters against Hitler's Nazi Regime" http://www.geni.com/projects/Heroes-of-the-Holocaust-The-Courageous...

3. "Holocaust Survivor's Children: Champions of Challenge" http://www.geni.com/projects/Holocaust-Survivors-Children-Champions...

4. "Victims of the German Nazi Holocaust" http://www.geni.com/projects/Victims-of-the-German-NAZI-Holocaust/1318

5. "European Rabbis that Perished in the Holocaust" http://www.geni.com/projects/Memorial-to-European-Rabbis-that-Peris...

Please note: In order for a profile to be added to a project, the manager must make it "public" and not "private".

There are family profiles I should like to link with a number of the camps and ghettos listed and am also interested in adding to a forced labor camp, Duderstadt, identified for (and survived by) two members. How extensive are the plans to include these peripheral (but still iniquitous) locations...or is it early days yet?
This is a wonderful project -- thank you both for coordinating a memorial format for everyone.

We can add more sub-projects to the main portal. If you want to create the project first, just let me know and I can add it to the portal.

Alyson Breuer (Banks) Slave Labor Camp project is now established. Please feel free to edit, add more information, testimony, and profiles. http://www.geni.com/projects/Duderstadt-Polte-Luftwaffenmunitionswe...

Thank you, we greatly appreciate your interest and for pointing out that Labor Camps were missing from the project.

I believe Duderstadt was a satellite of Bergen-Belsen and involved a munitions factory. Many Hungarian women were sent there to work and the 700 or so who were left by about March 1945, were deemed a potential embarrassment and were therefore shipped out to Theresienstadt in a transport without food or water, taking weeks to arrive. The silver lining is that my husband's two aunts (sisters of his father) who were on this transport and half dead on arrival were found by another aunt (a sister of his mother) who was interned at Theresienstadt herself. A pharmacist like her husband (who was not interned), she managed to get medicine and food into the camp through him and thus saved the lives of her sister's sisters-in-law! Shortly afterwards, the Red Cross arrived followed by the Russian army and some semblance of civilization resumed. It's a bit complicated but well worth the telling, with a wonderful outcome from such grim circumstances. But I gather I must have permission to add profiles to any of the Holocaust locations... Maria de Diamant (Breuer) Klára Klari Mešková Eva Ulrichova
I will stand by until it becomes clear how to handle this!

I have so many relatives who were murdered in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, shot as hostages in Wieliczka and a number of children who perished somewhere along the way. Only a handful survived. Of my mother's 6 siblings(she was the youngest), only she and one nephew survived. Shall I add the names to this project?
Stephan Pepper

Yes. Add all names to the appropriate projects. If you need to add sub-projects please do so, or ask for help. The profiles need to be "public" to add them to the project. And you have to request to join the project before adding, but after those preliminaries it is very easy and you can add profiles to the project from the profile's home page.

Can someone add the Plaszow concentration camp.

see http://www.deathcamps.org/occupation/plaszow.html

Thanks

Private User Done!

1. http://www.geni.com/projects/Bochnia-Ghetto/11072

2. http://www.geni.com/projects/Plaszow/11073

Thanks!

Stephan Pepper There are now twelve Shoah projects. The Einszatzgruppen Death Squads Project - http://www.geni.com/projects/Einsatzgruppen-Death-Squads/11075 memorializes those victims who like your relatives were executed somewhere along the way.

I have been more specific and made projects for those massacred in Lithuania and in Ukraine, since we have information for numbers and towns and some eye witness accounts or the German records.

Ok... so I haven't been able to figure out how to attach the profiles of any of my relatives so, please advise (I should also have mentioned Plaszow).

Stephan Pepper - The following conditions need to apply:
1 - you manage the profile or collaborate with one of the managers
2 - you have joined the project you want to add the profile to
3 - the profile is public (Master Profiles are also public)

There are several ways to add a profile to a project:
(a) There is an "Actions" button on the upper right hand side of each profile. Click on Actions and choose the "Add to Project" from the options on the drop down menu
(b) OR - on the middle right hand side of the profle there is an Add to Project link that you can use if the profile isn't already in any project
(c) OR - click on FOLLOW on the upper right hand of the profile you want to add to the project and then go to the project you want to add it to and from the "Actions" button for the Project, on the drop down, choose "Add Profile" and type in the last name or the first if it's fairly unique and click on the correct choice, if there are several.

If you do not manage the profile or collaborate with one of the managers, copy the link here and one of us will see if we can add it.

My grandfather was in Auschwitz, then Mauthausen, in the end he died in Ebensee, Austria.

Can someone add the Ebensee concentration camp? or just it was Mauthausen camp's annex?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebensee_concentration_camp

Where can i write my grandfather's name?

Private User Please add your grandfather to all three camps. We will create an Ebensee concentration camp sub project.

Thanks, Malka!

Please could we list all the names in alphabetical sequence on the various camp and ghetto projects. I have placed a request for this at the top of lists on some of the projects to which names have been added. Still a way to go.

This would be helpful when checking if names have already been included as the lists lengthen and stretch over pages.

What about people that died after the war due to starvation etc

My relatives from Przerosl, Poland were deported to Biala Podlaska Lublin Poland according to testimony. The father (age 70) died there of disease and the son died somewhere murdered in the Shoah. I don't think there is a place to put them, and there's not enough information to add a project other than those who perished.

I have found the same with relatives in Lithuania, they simply were reported as having died in the Shoah.

Pam - as Randy said elsewhere, the number in any project prevent us from adding names to the narrative. The numbers are huge. Geni will be allow search on project profiles in the future and I hope will sort them alphabetically.

It's only feasible to have names in the narrative when the number is 50 or lower.

Hatte, thank you for the explanation. The initial issue is now resolved.
At the time of Randy's response I was unaware that profiles could be created on a stand alone tree.

Malka added a Holocaust Place Holder which so far has worked very well. I do not forsee the necessity to add numbers into the narrative at all at this point. The names already added will be removed as the profiles are included.

In fact, maybe the complete list of names should be deleted totally, which I will attend to. If you or Malka find a list that has not been removed, feel free to go right ahead.

The more I learn about Geni, the more I enjoy it.

Malka did something that I do for my projects (see Margolis and Frankel) which is have a list with links to a few specific people who stand out for some reason, in this case famous people who suffered or were murdered in the Holocaust. We could do this if it makes sense for various projects. For instance, I am reading a book about the Vilna Ghetto and I would certainly like to mention in the project, the inspiring performers such as Volf Durmashkin. The Durmashkin profiles were on Geni already and I saw them and added them to the project a few days before I read about them.

The book is Until Our Last Breath by Michael Bart, son of two Jewish partisans from Vilna Ghetto.

One good source is Yiskor Books. These are memorial books written by former residents of a town.

Hatte Blejer , Kevin Lawrence Hanit If you have any works by survivors or children of survivors please remember to add them to the other relevant Holocaust projects as well. They will all be updated after the Passover Holiday. Thanks.

1. http://www.geni.com/projects/Holocaust-Survivors-Children-Champions...

2. http://www.geni.com/projects/Heroes-of-the-Holocaust-The-Courageous...

I did add the model of the Lodz Ghetto which was done during the time of the Ghetto by a survivor. But added it to the Lodz Ghetto project.

Malka & Randy,
Have you seen my efforts to automate submission of Pages of Testimony to Yad Vashem? See www.yadpot.org

I'll take a close look. Thanks. Randy