For us, forgetting was never an option. Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered. Elie Wiesel Holocaust Survivors' Children: Cham...
Landsberg Concentration Camp and displaced person camp==The Landsberg camp began as a Nazi concentration camp. By October 1944, there were more than 5,000 prisoners in the camp.The camp was liberated on April 27, 1945 by the 12th Armored Division of the United States Army. Upon orders from General Taylor, the American forces allowed news media to record the atrocities, and ordered local German ...
Bergen-Belsen DP camp was a displaced persons (DP) camp for refugees after World War II, in Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle, stablished in July 1945 in a former German army camp near the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. After liberating the concentration camp on April 15, l945, the British burned the camp barracks as a health precaution. Though ...
==SURVIVED SMALLPOX== ===This project is for those who SURVIVED Smallpox.=== If they died of Smallpox, add to the Died of smallpox project. Be sure to list or include any complications that may have resulted in the person’s About section. These are possible complications: pitted scaring (most frequently on the face), blindness caused by corneal ulcers and scaring or any other eye related proble...
A displaced persons camp or DP camp is a temporary facility for displaced persons coerced into forced migration. The term is mainly used for camps established after World War II in West Germany and in Austria, as well as in the United Kingdom, primarily for refugees from Eastern Europe and for the former inmates of the Nazi German concentration camps. Even two years after the end of World War I...
The purpose of this project is to keep track of all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors who were residents of the Deggendorf Displaced Persons Camp. The camp was located in Deggendorf , Germany.Deggendorf was the site of a displaced persons camp for Jewish refugees after World War II. It housed approximately 2,000 refugees, who created a cultural center that included two...
This project is to keep track of all of the displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors that were residents of the Ansbach Displaced Persons camp in Ansbach , Germany.
This project is for all of the profiles of displaced persons who were in the Lager Lechfeld Displaced Persons Camp in Germany.Most of the displaced persons who where in this camp came from the Ainring Displaced Persons Camp when it was closed down.
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors, who were residents of the Zeilsheim Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Zeilsheim , Germany.==History of the camp==Zeilsheim became famous for its camp created by the Allies to hold Displaced Persons and exiles after World War II, and in 1946 it was visited by Zionist leader (...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors who were residents of the Frankfurt-Zeilsheim Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in the Zeilsheim district of Frankfurt , Germany.Zeilsheim became famous for its camp created by the Allies to hold Displaced Persons and exiles after World War II, and in 1946 it was visited by Zion...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors, who were residents of the Kassel Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Kassel , Germany.
Cyprus internment camps were camps run by the British government for internment of Jews who had immigrated or attempted to immigrate to Mandatory Palestine in violation of British policy. There were a total of 12 camps, which operated from August 1946 to January 1949, and in total held 53,510 people.Great Britain informed the United Nations (UN) on February 14, 1947, that it would no longer adm...
1918 lnfluenza Pandemic - British Isles: Survivors="I had a little bird its name was Enza I opened the window, And in-flu-enza."(1918 children’s playground rhyme) Pleased add to this project any profiles of survivors of the 1918 "Spanish Flu" pandemic resident in the UK"To participate in any project - you do need to first be a collaborator - so please join the project using the request link und...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the Geni profiles of the displaced persons who had to report to Funk Kaserne, UNRRA's Emigration and Repatriation Center in Munich, Germany for medical examinations.
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors, who were residents of the Hanau Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Hanau , Germany
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors, who were residents of the Zierenberg Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Zierenberg , Germany.
Please add profiles of people diagnosed with Tuberculosis & are living with it, or have died, but their cause of death was attributed to another cause.=== “TB” is short for a disease called tuberculosis. TB is spread through the air from one person to another. TB germs are passed through the air when someone who is sick with TB disease of the lungs or throat coughs, speaks, laughs, sings, or sn...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors, who were residents of the Seedorf Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Seedorf , Germany.
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors who were residents of the Fürth Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was also called Finkenschlag and was located in Fürth , Germany.After the end of the Second World War, a Displaced persons camp for Jewish Holocaust survivors was established in Fürth (Finkenschlag). In 1945 it housed 850 inh...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors, who were residents of the Memmingen Airport Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located at the Memmingen Airport in the town of Memmingerberg , near Memmingen , Germany.
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors who were residents of the Saalfelden Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Saalfelden , Austria.
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors, who were residents of the Ebelsberg Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in the town of Ebelsberg, Austria. This town is now part of Linz , Austria.
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors who were residents of the Braunau am Inn Displaced Persons Camp. The camp was located in Braunau am Inn , Austria.
The purpose of this project is to keep track of all of the displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors that were residents of the Augsburg Displaced Persons Camp in Augsburg , Germany
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.