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Salaspils Concentration Camp was established at the end of 1941 at a point 18 km (11 mi) southeast of Riga (Latvia). The Nazi bureaucracy drew distinctions between different types of camps. Officially, Salaspils was a Police Prison and Work Education Camp (Polizeigegfängnis und Arbeitserziehungslager). It was also known as camp Kurtenhof after the German name for the city of Salaspils. Planning...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors, who were residents of the Landeck Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Landeck , Austria.
The purpose of this project is to keep track of all of the displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors who were housed at Bad Wörishofen Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Bad Wörishofen , Germany.
Help is requested to find the former owners==Genealogists are being asked for help in providing information leading to the original owners of a large collection of approximately 10,000 books so-called the “Stürmer or Streicher Library”currently in the possession of the Jewish Community of Nuremberg (IKG). Remnants of the books were given to the city library on permanent loan by the Jewish Commu...
>> El Male Rachamim Holocaust Prayer Natzweiler-Struthof was a German concentration camp located in the Vosges Mountains close to the Alsatian village of Natzwiller (German Natzweiler) in France, and the town of Schirmeck, about 50 km south west from the city of Strasbourg.Natzweiler-Struthof was the only concentration camp established by the Nazis on present-day French territory, though there ...
Belarus lost a quarter of its pre-war population, including most of its intellectual elite and 90% of the country’s Jewish population. Altogether, between 2,230,000 to 3.0 million people were killed in Belarus during the three years of German occupation.The Nazis imposed a brutal regime, deporting to Germany some 380,000 young people for slave labour, and killing hundreds of thousands of civili...
Grodno Ghetto was created by Nazi Germans in November 1941, in the city of Hrodna (Grodno), which was part of the Second Polish Republic until the Soviet invasion of Poland, and subsequently incorporated by the Soviets into the Belarusian SSR. Hrodna (German: Garten) was annexed by the Nazis to the Bezirk Bialystok district of East Prussia in the aftermath of the German attack on the Soviet Uni...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors, who were residents of the Traunstein Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Traunstein , Germany.
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors, who were residents of the Ingolstadt Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Ingolstadt , Germany.
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors, who were residents of the Salzgitter Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Salzgitter , Germany.
Dedicated to the memory of 400 years of a Jewish community that was brutally annihilated by the Nazis, in WWII. 'מוקדש לזכרון 400 שנה לקיומה של קהילה יהודית שהוכחדה באכזריות ע״י הנאצים ומשתפי הפעולה המקומיים שלהם בתקופת השואה, במלחמת העולם השניה A sub-Project of ]
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors, who were residents of the Dedelstorf Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Dedelstorf , Germany.
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from Bershad, Ukraine, also known as Bershad' [Rus, Ukr, Yid], Berschad, Barsad, Bersad', Berszad, Berșad [Rom], Berszada [Pol]. KehilaLinks - Bershad Ukraine SIG - Bershad BERSHAD, small town in *Vinnitsa district, Ukraine. Jews started to settle there at the end of the 16th century. They were butchered by one of the Cossack bands during...
Transnistria was a geographic freak, but a historic reality. The name was coined by the Fascists to designate a territory of about 16,000 square miles, designated for the annihilation of Jews deported from Romania. It was an area situated in south-western Ukraine, between the River Dniester to the west, the River Bug to the east, the Black Sea to the south, and a line beyond the city of Moghile...
This will be the master project or portal for Concentration Camps. camps were liberated by the Allied and Soviet forces between 1944 and 1945. * The first major camp, Majdanek, was discovered by the advancing Soviets on July 23, 1944. * Auschwitz was liberated, also by the Soviets, on January 27, 1945; * Buchenwald by the Americans on April 11; * Bergen-Belsen by the British on April 15; * Dach...
Dedication From The H.E.A.R.TIt was once said that not remembering the Holocaust means to side with the executioners against its victims; not to remember means to kill the victims a second time; not to remember means to become an accomplice of the enemy. On the other hand, to remember means to feel compassion for the victims of all persecutions. By solemnly commemorating the tragedy of the Holo...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the names of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors who were residents of the Gabersee Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Gabersee , a borough of the town Wasserburg am Inn , Germany.
The Lviv Ghetto or the Lwów Ghetto (also known as Lvov or Lemberg Ghetto , Polish: getto lwowskie) was a World War II ghetto set up in the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) on the territory of Nazi-administered General Government in German-occupied Poland. It was one of the largest Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany after the joint Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland. The city was a home to o...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors, who were residents of the Esslingen am Neckar Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Esslingen am Neckar , Germany.
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors, who were residents of the Wentorf bei Hamburg Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Wentorf bei Hamburg , Germany.
The Kielbasin Transit Camp, outside of Grodno was the holding and deportation locus for Jews from surrounding towns in the Grodno and Sokolka sub districts of the Bialystok District. In Nov 1942 there were 22,000 to 28,000 Jews from 22 cities, towns, and villiages in the Kielbasin Camp. The Nazis first took Jews from towns near Grodno to Kielbasin and then begin a series of Aktions to deport th...
The Jews of Tarnów and the Ghetto==* Jews of Tarnow YIVO* Yizkor Tarnow JewishGen* Tarnow's Jewish Cemetery Before World War II, about 25,000 Jews lived in Tarnów. Jews, whose recorded presence in the town went back to the mid-15th century, comprised about half of the town's total population.[citation needed] A large portion of Jewish business in Tarnów was devoted to garment and hat manufactur...
This project is meant to gather the profiles of Jewish children from Belgium who lost their parents in the Holocaust. This includes orphaned Holocaust survivors from Belgium, but also Jewish children who were living in Belgian orphanages during the war, who were arrested in the orphanage and then deported to, and murdered in, Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Subproject of the master project Stolpersteine.* Stolpersteine in Oslo* Stolpersteine in Bergen* Stolpersteine in Trondheim* Stolpersteine in Ålesund
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors, who were residents of the Eichstätt Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Eichstätt , Germany.