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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.
Documents pertaining to Beshenkovichi, Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus which was decimated by the Nazis in 1942.A Jewish community was established in Beshenkovichi at the beginning of the 17th century. In the period between the two world wars local Jews worked in crafts and small trade until the latter was forbiden at the beginning of the 1930s. In the area there were also more than one Jewish kolkhoz,...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors, who were residents of Santa Maria di Leuca Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Santa Maria di Leuca , Italy.==History of the camp==After WWII the town hosted Jewish Holocaust survivors for two years (1946-1948), giving them warm hospitality.
The Rothschild Hospital , named after its founder Baron Anselm von Rothschild , was the hospital of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in Vienna, Austria from its opening in 1873 until its closure by the Nazis in 1943. After World War II, it served as a hospital for sick and infirm displaced persons, housing as many as 600 refugees. The American Joint Distribution Committee aka "the Joint" (AJDC)...
The Ebensee concentration camp was established by the SS to build tunnels for armaments storage near the town of Ebensee, Austria in 1943. It was part of the Mauthausen network. Due to the inhumane working and living conditions, Ebensee was one of the worst Nazi concentration camps for the death rates of its prisoners . The SS used several code names: Kalk (English: limestone), Kalksteinbergwer...
The mass killings in Kremnička near Banská Bystrica by the Germans and their Slovakian fascist collaborators, the Hlink guard, took place from 5 November 1944 to 17 March 1945. A total of 747 (mostly Jewish) people were murdered in the forest: 478 men, 211 women and 58 children. The figure was confirmed in post-war exhumations from the massive trenches containing the bodies. Victims were made t...
This project is to connect with folks with ancestors who lived in Sárospatak. My grandfather's family came from there. I will be posting links and photos that I have found. =Links= Visit to Budapest Holocaust Memorial in 2013 Photos and stories from my visit with my wife, granddaughter and cousin. Includes photos of the Páva Street Synagogue. Sárospatak in 1977 My dear friends (and distant co...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Tovste, Ukraine, also known as Tolstoye, Tłuste, Toist, Tlusta, Tłuste Miasto, Tłuste Myasto, Toyst, Tolstoya. Gesher Galicia - Tovste Urban Type Settlement Jewish History ===Overview=== Tovste (Ukrainian: Товсте) is an urban-type settlement in the Zalischyky Raion (district) of Ternopil Oblast (province) in western Ukrai...
A project trying to restore the names of the holocaust victims of the village Oboltsy, Orsha district, Vitebsk region, Belarus.== History ==The town of Oboltsy, Tolochinsky district, has been known since the end of the 14th century. A brief history of the ancient Obolets can be found on Wikipedia. The landowner was the landowner Zaretsky. His estate consisted of two houses. Some rooms were loca...
Background === Berga an der Elster , a subdivision of Buchenwald, was a Nazi slave labor camp that held and tortured 350 American Prisoners of War (POW) after their capture at the Battle of the Bulge on December 16, 1944. While thousands of POWs were captured on that ill-fated day, the Nazis held a subset of 350 American soldiers at Berga beginning February 13, 1945. The American POWs were iden...
Holocaust slachtoffers Rotterdam -Namenlijst J tot en met L== Dit project is sub-project van het project Holocaust slachtoffers Rotterdam ENG : This project is a sub project of Holocaust Victims Rotterdam ==Slachtoffers/ Victim lists==(alphabetical sub-projects with names)* Namen/Names A -C * Namen/ Names D - F * Namen/Names G - I
The town of Bilgoraj is the principal town of its county in Lublin province. As of 2009 its population was 27.341. It is located on Bilgoraj Plateau, on the Lada River (right tributary of the Tanew River), in the vicinity of Roztoczanski National Park. On August 2, 1919 the province of Lublin consisting of 19 districts was established, including Bilgoraj district with the principal town being B...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors, who were residents of the Würzburg Displaced Persons Camps. There were 3 displaced persons camps during and after World War II, mainly for Baltic refugees.Camps were located in Würzburg , Germany. DP ProjectCamps in Germany - B
The Swieciany Ghetto was liquidated April 4, 1943. The people were told that they were being resettled in either the Vilna or the Kovno ghettos.The train with the Jews of Swieciany was detained at the Vilna depot while murder operations proceeded with the Jews of Sol. Then the train went to Ponary. When Swieciany Jews found themselves at Ponary they realized that they had been tricked. They bur...
The Föhrenwald Displaced Persons camp was one of the largest DP camps in post-World War II Europe and the last to close (in 1957). It was located in the section now known as Waldram in Wolfratshausen in Bavaria, Germany.The camp facilities were originally built in 1939 by IG Farben as housing for its employees at the several munitions factories that it operated in the vicinity. During the war i...
Radom Ghetto was a World War II ghetto set up in March 1941 by Nazi Germany in the city of Radom in occupied Poland, for the purpose of persecution and exploitation of the local Polish Jews. Liquidation of the ghetto began in August 1942 and ended in July 1944, with approximately 30,000–32,000 victims sent to their deaths in cattle trucks at the Treblinka extermination camp.* האנציקלופדיה של הג...
The place name "Dąbrowa", derived from the Polish word dąb (oak), denotes an "oak grove", as the territory of the original village is believed to be covered by oak forests back in the early days of its existence. Since in the 19th century the settlement grew to be an important coal mining center, its name was supplemented by the adjective "Górnicza" ("mining") in 1919.During World War II, on Se...
Following the Nazi–Soviet Invasion of Poland, a murderous Action T4 euthanasia program was carried out by the Nazi Germans in a local psychiatric hospital. In December 1939, German authorities established a Jewish ghetto in Otwock, in order to confine its Jewish population for the purpose of persecution and exploitation. The Ghetto was liquidated between August and September 19, 1942, when 75% ...
Daugavpils Ghetto Following the occupation of Latvia by Nazi Germany in the summer of 1941, the Daugavpils Ghetto (German: Ghetto Dünaburg) was established in an old fortress near Daugavpils. Daugavpils is the second largest city in Latvia and the principal city of the Latgalia region. It was located in southeastern Latvia on the Daugava River. The city was militarily important as a major road ...
Holocaust slachtoffers Rotterdam -Namenlijst D tot en met F== Dit project is sub-project van het project Holocaust slachtoffers Rotterdam ENG : This project is a sub project of Holocaust Victims Rotterdam ==Slachtoffers / Victim lists==* Namen/Names A -C * Namen/ Names D - F * Namen/Names G - I
(Polish: Ponary, Yiddish: פאנאר/Ponar) is a neighborhood of Vilnius, situated about 10 kilometres away from the city center. It is the largest elderate in the Vilnius city municipality and is located on low forested hills, on the Vilnius-Warsaw road.The Ponary massacre (or Paneriai massacre, Polish: zbrodnia w Ponarach) was the mass-murder of 100,000 people, mostly Polish Jews, by German SD and...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors, who were residents of the Lintorf Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Lintorf quarter of the town of Ratingen , Germany.==History of the camp and area==Lintorf was the site of a displaced persons camp after World War II, providing a home for Ukrainians, Poles and Yugoslavs awa...
Holocaust slachtoffers Rotterdam= ENGLISH : Between July 30, 1942 and April 22, 1943 6536 Jewish people were deported through Hangar 24 in Rotterdam. This project commemorates all victims of the Holocaust who were deported from Rotterdam. Please add profiles to this main-project and to the relevant alphabetical sub-projects Due to the many names the project is divided in alphabetical sub-projec...