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Escape attempt from Auschwitz–Birkenau

Malka & Edek Galinski

Escape attempt from Auschwitz–Birkenau

 

 

 

Malka Zimetbaum

Malka Zimetbaum was the youngest of five children born to Pinkas Zimetbaum and his wife Chaya, in Brzesko, Poland on the 26 January 1918.

 

The family moved to Belgium and Malka was registered as living in the city of Antwerp on the 21 March 1928. Malka was a model pupil and she excelled in mathematics and languages. She had a command of Flemish, French, German, Polish and English.

 

As an adolescent Malka joined Hanoar Hatzioni, a Jewish youth organisation in Antwerp and from this time she now preferred to be called Mala. To support her father who had become blind, Mala took a job as a seamstress for Maison Lilian, a major Antwerp fashion house.

 

Subsequently she worked as a linguist-secretary in a small company in the diamond trade based in Antwerp. Two years after the German occupation of Belgium Mala was arrested on the 22 July 1942, at Antwerp Central Station, on her way back from Brussels, where she had been looking for a hiding place for her family and herself.

 

The Germans took Mala first to the notorious Fort Breendonk, then five days later she was transferred to Mechelen, where German authorities had turned the Dossin Barracks into a collection and deportation point for Jews. Mala worked in the registry.

 

On the 15 September 1942, the tenth deportation train left the Dossin Barracks destined for the East, on board were 1048 deportees, including Malka.

After a nightmare journey lasting two days Mala was subjected to the normal selection at the Juden Rampe outside Birkenau. Mala was one of the 101 females considered fit for labour, whilst 717 were gassed immediately.

 

She was placed in the women’s camp at Birkenau and after undergoing the normal humiliations for new arrivals at Auschwitz-Birkenau, was tattooed on her forearm with the number 19880.

 

Housed in a wooden barrack, originally designed as a horse stable and because of her skill with languages, she was employed in the camp administration as a Lauferin, whose duties were as a messenger and interpreter.

 

According to a fellow prisoner, “These girls had to stand next to the guardhouse waiting for orders. Whenever Camp supervisor Mandel or overseer Margot Drechsler needed them they yelled “Lauferin, and the girl had to do as ordered on the double.”      

 

A prisoner called Raya Kagan who knew Mala in Birkenau, described her as such:

 

“I had known Malka since the summer of 1942. At that time she became a Lauferin – a messenger between blocks and a liaison between the Blockfuerherstube, the Kapo and the prisoners.

 

Mala in 1941 Belgium

She was a young girl, of Polish origin, but she had been living in Belgium and arrived with the Belgian transport. She was very decent, she was known throughout the camp, since she helped everybody.

 

And her opportunities and the power, as it were, that she possessed were never wrongfully exploited by her, as was often done by the Kapo’s. She suffered like everybody else. However, she had better conditions – she was able to take a shower in Birkenau.”

 

Another Birkenau survivor Anna Palarczyk recalled after the war that:

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The fate of the Jews of Mogilev!

Mogilev

 The fate of the Jews under the German Invasion & Occupation

Jews living in Pre-WW2 Mogilev

Mogilev is the district capital in the Belorussian, founded in the thirteenth century. Jews lived in Mogilev from the sixteenth century and in the nineteenth century it was a centre of religious study and of Hassidism and later on of Zionism and Jewish Socialism. Jewish life in the city declined after the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. 

The Jewish population of Belarus in 1897 was more than 911,000 – which is 14,2% of the total population in Belarus. Following World War I and the establishment of the Communist regime, the number of Jews had decreased and by 1926 only 17,105 or 34.1% of the population remained.

 During the 1920s a violent struggle occurred between the religious circles and the  Zionists on the one hand, and the Yevsektsiya (Jewish Communist Section) on the other, which resulted in the liquidation of Jewish communal life in the town. On the eve of the Second World War 16,200 Jews lived in Mogilev, out a total population of 99,440.

View of the Main St. in Mogilev

Then on the 26 July 1941 the Germans occupied the city after a battle lasting twenty-five days. Part of the Jewish population had been evacuated or had managed to get away, but the majority numbering some 10,000 were still there when the Germans occupied the city.

Shortly thereafter Einsatzkommando 8 belonging to Einsatzgruppen B entered Mogilev and launched killing aktions against the Jews, murdering them by the thousands.

Excerpts from one of the Operational Situation Reports submitted by Einsatzgruppe B operating in Mogilev:   

(photos added to enhance the text)

 

When a partisan organization in Mogilev was uncovered, it was noted that its leader, the former Soviet Russian Lieutanant Moktseev, had already managed to recruit 39 men as well as 15 women (mainly adolescents), to serve as spies and to transmit information.

 Among the 55 persons, there were, all told, 22 Jews who worked with fanatical zeal to further strengthen the organization. Moktseev received strong support from a vegetable dealer who put at his disposal his storeroom in which to carry out the work. The 55 persons were liquidated and, in addition, collective measures were carried out against the Jews.
 

Operations against Party functionaries, agents, saboteurs, and Jews.
 

In Mogilev, the female worker Nina Lisunova was arrested. She has an elementary school education (up to fourth grade) and worked in a silk factory in Mogilev. She was a deputy to the Soviet Supreme Council and had participated in eight meetings of the Soviet Council in Moscow.

On October 11, 1941, the Russian Feodor Karyago from Shkov and three more Russians were shot for Communist agitation. On the same day, the Russians Vasily Bertyev, Vladimir Berendovsky, and Andrei Siniakov were shot. They had attempted to build up an organization for Communist activities and had already acquired pistols.

On October 14, 1941, the Russians Micheal Sokishevky, Vasily Terisov, Maxim Rudakov, Georgi Charsevu, and Makar Amsalovich were shot. Under the Soviet regime, they had been active Party functionaries and had handed large numbers of people over to the NKVD, as well as assisting in the deportations.

On October 16,1941, the Russian girl Anna Garbusov was shot for particularly violent expressions of hostility against Germany while a member of the NKVD.

On the same day, the Jews Stanislaus Borsky and Tolia Akhonin were liquidated for being former NKVD agents. The Jews Simen Alexandrovich, Shuster Peiser, and Mikail Saki were shot for being in possession of explosive ammunition.
 

 On the same day the Jewess Kadin Orlov was executed for being found without a Jewish badge and for refusing to move into the ghetto. On October 18, 1941, the Jews Lova Wasman, Fama Birkman, Yakob Saravo, Abraham Baraniche, Solomon Katzman, and Ber Katzman, as well as the Jewess Fania Leikina were liquidated for refusing to wear the Jewish badge and for spreading inflammatory propaganda against Germany.

 

On October 20, 1941, the Jews Stanilov Naum and the Jewish couple Alter were liquidated. They had hidden themselves in Mogilev outside the ghetto.

On October 14, 1941, the Jew Isaak Piaskin was shot by the Vorkommando of Einsatzkommando 9. He had been a political functionary of the Red Army and was found on the road to Viasma is suspicious circumstances.

On October 17, 1941, the woman Maria Spirina was shot for sniping.

On October 21, 1941, the Jew Yoel Liubavin was shot after he was found not far from Viasma in a Russian bunker in possession of firearms.

Measures against criminals and looters.

The Jew Samuel Goffman was shot on October 17, 1941. He was convicted of having falsified his identity card in order to hide his Jewish origins. The Russian, Emil Stubin, was shot on the same day after having been convicted of repeated arson.

Six Russians were shot in Mogilev on October 20, 1941. They had been wandering about the town and lived by committing criminal acts, including extortion.

Twelve persons were shot on October 21, 1941. They were convicted of criminal theft. Two Jewesses who set fire to two houses in Bobruisk during the air attack on the night of October 13, 1941 were liquidated. A larger number of persons were shot in Bobruisk for looting and other criminal acts.
 

“Sonderaktion”

 

83 of the several hundred inmates from the forced labor camp in Mogilev were liquidated on October 15, 1941, for being racially inferior elements of an Asiatic strain. The responsibility for their retention in the Rear Army area could no longer be taken.

According to a report Infantry Regiment 691, the Jews of Asmony in every way possible supported the partisans still holding out in the immediate area. On October 9, 1941, during a mopping-up operation in that area 81 Jews were shot for breaking regulations of the German occupying forces. Russian uniforms were found in several Jewish dwellings.

As a result of numerous complaints about their provocative behavior in Gorki (northeast of Mogilev) as well as in the surrounding area, a total of 2,200 Jews of all ages were liquidated in mopping-up operations in eight localities.

 

They were, for the most part, Jews who had immigrated from the district of Minsk. Like the rest, they committed offences against the regulations of the German [occupation] forces. The operation was carried out in close cooperation with the Military Police.

In Mstislavl, about 80 km east of Mogilev, 900 Jews were liquidated for breaking regulations of the German forces, harboring partisans in transit, and providing them with food and clothing.

 

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The Jews Councils during the Holocaust !

The Judenrat

“Council of Elders”

 

 

 

Meeting of the Jewish council in the Lodz ghetto

The name Judenrat refers to the Jewish Councils established on German orders in the Jewish Communities of Nazi occupied Europe. Jewish councils were first instituted in occupied Poland following instructions given by Reinhard Heydrich on 21 September 1939, and through an order promulgated by Hans Frank, the Gouvenor of the General Government, on 18 November 1939 and subsequently in other countries occupied by the Nazis.

 

The Jewish Councils did not have a uniform structure, some of them held authority in one location only, whilst others administered Jewish communities throughout a district or even an entire country. The role played by the Judenrat in Jewish public life during the holocaust is one of the most controversial issues.

 

Some historians believe that the Judenrat had a debilitating effect on the strength of the Jewish communities, whereas other historians argue that the Judenrat reinforced the Jews power of endurance in their struggle against the Nazi onslaught.

 

On the basis of Heydrich’s instructions Jewish Councils were set up over the course of a few weeks in September and October 1939 in the communities of central and western Poland. The guidelines stipulated that the Jewish Council would be fully responsible for the implementation of German policy regarding the Jews and would be made up of influential people and rabbis.

 

In this way, the Jewish communities had forced on them a body whose function was to receive German orders and decrees and be responsible for carrying them out. The inclusion of prominent personalities in the Jewish council had a dual purpose to ensure that German orders were implemented in full and to discredit Jewish leadership in the eyes of the Jewish population.

 

Under Hans Frank’s order, in places where the Jewish population did not exceed ten thousand the Judenrat was to have twelve members, and in larger towns or cities it was to consist of twenty – four members. Adam Czerniakow the Chairman of the Warsaw Judenrat wrote in his diary on the 4 October 1939:

 

“Unfortunately, before I could enter the building I was stopped by the police and for the time being I can do nothing. I was driven to Szucha Avenue – the location of the Security Police and was ordered to co-opt 24 men for the Community Council and to assume its leadership. I prepared a statistical questionnaire.”

 

The councils were to be elected by the members of their community and were themselves to elect their chairman and vice-chairman. The process of electing the Judenrat and their top two officers was to be completed by 31 December 1939.

 

The results were subject to the approval of the German Kreishauptmann or in the cities, of the German Stadthauptmann. This last provision meant in effect that the elections provided for in Frank’s order were quite meaningless, and that the Germans never intended to have the composition of the Jewish councils determined by elections.

 

Entrance to the Judenrat offices in Warsaw

German intervention in the process, however, was not absolute and on a number of occasions active members of the Jewish community had a say in determining the composition of the council. In some cases, Jewish activists refused to join the Judenrat because they were suspicious of the true German’s intentions regarding the Jewish councils.

 

Generally, however, local Jewish leaders did become members of the council’s, this corresponded to the wishes of the Jewish population, who felt the traditional, experienced leaders of the community who were best equipped to represent them in the day to day dealings with the German authorities.

 

Thus in the initial stages of their existence, the Jewish Councils preserved the continuity of local leadership, but in some instances some members of the Jewish councils had no previous experience of public affairs.

 

Once the Judenrat were established, the Germans lost no time in presenting them with urgent tasks, such as drafting people for forced labour, undertaking a census of the Jewish population, evacuating apartments and handing them over to Germans, paying fines and ransoms, confiscating valuables owned by Jews, and paying for the construction of ghetto walls, etc.

 

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Christian Wirth, death dealer of Action Reinhard!

Christian Wirth

“Dealer in Death”

 

 

Christian Wirth

Christian Wirth was born on 24 November 1885 in Oberbalzheim, Wurttemburg, Germany. Following the completion of his education, he was employed as an apprentice carpenter with the Buhler brother’s timber firm.

 

Entered the police force in 1910 and joined the Stuttgart Criminal police in 1913. As a non-commissioned officer in World War One on the western front, his bravery was rewarded by the golden Military Cross – one of Imperial Germany’s highest decorations.

 

Wirth re-joined the police force after the Great War ended and thanks to his dedication, zeal , he became notorious for his “special” methods of investigation in criminal matters, which eventually resulted in his arraignment before the Wurttenburg Landestag.

 

Nevertheless, by 1939 Wirth had reached the rank of Kriminalkommissar in the Stuttgart KRIPO, a department of the Gestapo under Arthur Nebe.

 

Following special police duties in Vienna and Olmitz, he was transferred to the Fuhrers Chancellery to help with the planning and organisation of the Euthanasia operation, from October 1939.

 

Wirth, Lassman, & Schwarzenbacher

Wirth personally participated in the first gassing experiments in Brandenburg, and straight after that in February 1940 to May 1940 he served at Grafeneck castle killing centre, and then a brief stay at Hartheim castle in Austria killing centre.

 

Between June 1940 and August 1941 Wirth served as a roving inspector of all euthanasia institutions throughout the Third Reich. His whereabouts between September and December 1941 are unknown, but some sources say he was involved at seeking to establish a Euthanasia killing centre in Lublin and passing on his experience at Chelmno death camp. It is alleged that local Poles identified Wirth from selections of photographs.

 

On the 22 December 1941 Wirth arrived in Belzec to inspect the construction of the Death Camp, and he returned with Adolf Eichmann and Hermann Hofle a week later.

 

On the 1 January 1942 Wirth was appointed the first Commandant of the Belzec death camp. He was a brutal commander, who perfected the killing process, with ruthless efficiency.

Wirth’s SS File

He was in command when Belzec became operational in March 1942 with the mass extermination of the Lublin ghetto. After Belzec was established Wirth was appointed Inspektor of the SS Sonderkommado Aktion Reinhard, and after a temporary stay in the Aktion Reinhard Headquarters in the Julius Screck Barracks, he moved to a new Headquarters on the old Lublin airfield, and took over control of the Old Airfield Camp..

 

Wirth frequently visited the three death camps (Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka) bringing fear and terror, which earned him the nickname from his subordinates of “Christian the Terrible”.

 

Funeral for Christian Wirth

One of Wirth’s first task as Inspektor was establishing order at Treblinka death camp during late August early September 1942, following a complete breakdown in order at the camp, because Eberl accepted too many transports and the gas chambers could not cope.

 

 

 

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The Jews of the Sudetenland

The Jews of the Sudetenland

Bohemia & Moravia

 

 

 

1939 Map of Bohemia-Moravia

The Sudetenland is the German name used in the first half of the 20th century for the western portions of Czechoslovakia inhabited mostly by ethnic Germans. Located on the border with Germany and Austria it encompasses the areas of Bohemia, Moravia, and those parts of Silesia associated with Bohemia.

 

When Czechoslovakia was forced to accept the terms of the Munich Agreement on Sept 29th 1938, the region was relegated to German control between October 1 and October 10, 1938. The remaining parts of Czechoslovakia were subsequently invaded by Germany in March 1939, with a portion being annexed and the remainder turned into a satellite state, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

 

Administration of the Protectorate was placed under the supervision of the Reichsprotektor, Konstantin von Neurath and shortly there after Hitler summoned Czechoslovak President Emil Hácha to Berlin and intimidated him into accepting the German occupation of the Czech rump state.

 

Four days after the occupation, a huge German military parade was held on Wenceslas Square. A live report from a popular Czechoslovak Radio host Franta Kocourek from the balcony of the Hotel Sroubek described the confusion amongst the Czech populace at the time:


"! I would like to talk about one thing that has nothing to do with the military. From somewhere far away, a huge, black crow has flown into Prague.  I have seen it spread its wings and sweep down the square over the searchlights and listening devices being paraded here by the German army. It must be surprised at the noise and all that is going on beneath it."

 

Emil Hacha

Hácha remained as technical head of state with the title of State President; German officials manned departments analogous to cabinet ministries, while small German control offices were established locally.

 

The population of the protectorate was mobilized for labour that would aid the German war effort, and special offices were organized to supervise the management of industries important to that effort.

 

Czechs were drafted to work in coal mines, the iron and steel industry, and armaments production; some young people were sent to Germany. Consumer goods production were largely directed toward supplying the German armed forces. The  government and political system, reorganized by Hácha, continued in formal existence. Gestapo activities were directed mainly against Czech politicians and the intelligentsia.

 

At the close of 1938 elections in the Reichsgau Sudetenland. Polls showed that 97.32% of the adult population voted for NSDAP. Close to a half million ethnic Germans joined the Nazi Party roughly 17.34% of the entire German population in region, making the Sudetenland the most "pro-Nazi" region in the Third Reich.

 

On the eve of the German occupation, 118,310 Jews lived in the region, centralized mostly in Prague. Immediately after the occupation, a wave of arrests began, mostly of refugees from Germany, Czech public figures, and Jews. Fascist organizations began harassing Jews: synagogues were burnt down and Jews were rounded up and attacked in the streets.
 

As early as November 3, 1938, the immediate expulsion of Czechs and Jews from the region became a daily occurrence and groups of Czech nationals were forced from the Sudetenland towards the Czech frontier. Some of these managed to escape to Prague or Brno, but all Jews were turned back by the Czech boarder guards.

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The Controversial attemp to Save Hungarian Jews! The Kastner Report!

The Kastner Report

Affidavit of Dr. Rudolf Kastner, former President of the

Hungarian Zionist Organization, 9/13/1945

 

This report has been transcribed from the original report and sworn statement made by Dr. Rudolf Kastner in London to the United States Major Judge Advocate General Warren Farr.

[The photo's have been added to enhance the text]

 

 

Rudolf Kastner

Dr. Reszco (Rudolf) Kastner, being duly sworn deposes and says:

I was born in 1906 at Kolozsvar (now Cluj, Romania), solicitor and journalist, residing at Chemin Krieg, 16, Pension Sergey, Geneva, now temporarily at 109, Clarence Gate Gardens, London.

I was in Budapest until November 28, 1944; as one of the leaders of the Hungarians Zionist organization. I not only witnessed closely the Jewish persecution, dealt with officials of the Hungarian puppet government and the Gestapo but also gained insight into the operations of the Gestapo, their organization and witnessed the various phases of Jewish persecution.

The following biographical data of mine might be of interest:

Between 1929-1931 – Political editor of “Uj Lelet? Jewish daily newspaper published in Koliszvar; Secretary-General of the Parliamentarty Group of the Jewish party in Romania.

Between 1929-1931 -Worked in Bucharest; member of the Executive of the Palestine Office of the Jewish Agency.

In Dec. 1940 -Being a Jew I was excluded from the Chamber of Lawyers. “Uj Kelet” the daily, was closed down by the Hungarian authorities: I moved to Budapest.

Between 1943-1945 -Associate President of the Hungarian Zionist Organization.

July 1942 -I have been called up for Labor Service: together with 440 other Jewish Intellectuals and citizens we worked in South-Eastern Transylvania on fortifications along the Hungarian-Rumanian border.

 

In Dec. 1942 -I was demobilized, and later returned to Budapest. Some time before being drafted I have begun to organize relief work for refugee Slovakian Jews. After my demobilization I succeeded in establishing – through diplomatic couriers – contact with the Relief Committee of the Jewish Agency, working in Istanbul. On their instructions I have taken over the leadership of the Relief Committee in Budapest.

 

Our task was:

  1. To help smuggle Jews from Slovakia and Poland into Hungary to save them from the threat of the gas-chamber.

  2. To feed and clothe them and to assist in their emigration to Palestine.

  3. To forward the minutes based on the declaration of the refugees on the question of deportation and annihilation of Jews to Istanbul, later to Switzerland, to the hands of the representatives of the Jewish Agency and the Joint distribution committee.

  4. To co-operate with the Relief Committee of Bratislava in matters concerning saving, hiding, of refugee Jews and exchange of information. After German occupation of Hungary, on the 19th March 1944, the Relief Committee concentrated its efforts on the saving of Hungarian Jewry.

  5. The Relief Committee of the Jewish agency which I was a president was engaged in helping Allied prisoners-of-war. More-ever we sent confidential reports to the Allies thru Istanbul and Switzerland about our connections with officials of the German government. We helped to hide and supported leaders of the Hungarian underground and gave a wealth of information to those Hungarian authorities which were working against the Germans. During the siege of Budapest, when I was already out of the country, other members of the Relief Committee participated in street fighting against the Germans.

On 15 May 1944 One of my collaborators, Eugen Brand was sent by the Germans to Istanbul to pass on certain business proposals in connection with the saving of Hungarian Jews.

On 21 August 1944 I travelled from Budapest under German escort to the Swiss frontier and acted as intermediary for the first conversation between Kurt Becher and Saly Mayer, Swiss representative of the Joint D.C to discuss the price of abandoning the gassing.

 

The conversation took place between St. Margaraten and Hochst on the bridge. From there I returned to Budapest.

On 14 October 1944 I travelled for the second time to St Margathen.

On 30 October 1944 I travelled to St. Gallen, accompanied by Kurt Becher and Dr. Wilhem Billitz, director of the Manfred Weiss Works. On this occasion an interview took place between Becher and McClelland, Swiss representative of the War Refugee Board in the Savoy Hotel, at Zurich. I returned to Budapest.

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  • 12/31/2008 3:20 PM Jamie O’Donoghue wrote:
    Greetings to the Holocaust Education and Archive Research Team.

    I saw an interview recently with actor Daniel Craig where he mentioned your website and how he used it to research his role for the movie Defiance.

    Does the HEART team often provide consultation to film & television media?

    Jamie O’Donoghue
    Dublin
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    1. 12/31/2008 3:33 PM HEART wrote:
      Jamie,

      Thank you for your note.

      H.E.A.R.T is often asked to provide historical consultation to the film/television industry as well as online & print media.

      Since all consultation is strictly voluntary – (H.E.A.R.T accepts no compensation for any Holocaust related consultation) – it is often difficult to assist with the many requests we receive on a regular basis.

      Team members are often on location throughout Europe, and or working in various archives in the US, UK, Germany and Poland.

      UK Director Mr. Chris Webb manages one of the rarest and most comprehensive photo archives to be found anywhere in the world. He spends much of his time identifying, and labeling the many thousands of pictures from the ghettos, and locations of Holocaust atrocities.

      US Director Mr. Carmelo Lisciotto spends most of his available time in eastern Poland and the areas of the former Soviet Union conducting extensive research on the activity of the Einsatzgruppen for his book due to be released in 2009.

      Other members of the team conduct Holocaust tours, or perform services for Jewish groups as well as with various archives in the review and translation of documents, decodes and other artifacts.

      We appreciate your feedback and encourage your continued education in the most infamous period of world history.

      -H.E.A.R.T
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  • 12/31/2008 2:15 PM Bill Davies wrote:
    An amazing collection of images!

    Thank you for making this gallery available for all to view.

    Dr. William Davies
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  • 12/28/2008 10:50 AM Mikhail Aronson wrote:
    Your website is an absolute masterpiece!

    By far the greatest Holocaust memorial as well as historical record is www.holocaustresearchproject.org
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  • 12/20/2008 8:20 AM Marjorie Stockton wrote:
    I attended two of the seminars that Carmelo Lisciotto spoke out and found his lecture on Nazi Propaganda especially interesting.

    I am sure his book will be just as interesting
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  • 12/20/2008 8:17 AM Eugene Blavovitz wrote:
    Thank you for this article on Maly Trostnets. I lost family there and it I am happy to see this memorial website at www.holocaustresearchproject.org
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  • 12/15/2008 10:58 PM Josephine Mavari wrote:
    I really love your website and I hope your team will continue your great work and memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.

    Josephine Mavari
    Tuscon Arizona
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  • 12/14/2008 2:22 PM Phyllis Kalman wrote:
    Thank you for posting these heart wrenching stories of the Holocaust.

    We must never forget!

    Phyllis Kalman
    USA
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  • 12/14/2008 11:03 AM Maribel Santos wrote:
    This article was very helpful for a report on World War 2 and the Holocaust.

    www.holocaustresearchproject.org is the best website I’ve found in some time.

    My brother sent me the URL, he spends more time reading your website than he does reading any printed books on the subject.

    Maribel Santos
    from Trenton, NJ
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  • 12/9/2008 12:45 AM Alena wrote:
    I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first

    comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this

    blog very often.

    Alena

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  • 12/6/2008 10:13 AM Joanne Sima wrote:
    Raoul Wallenberg was a great hero of the 20th century.
    I thank you www.holocaustresearchproject.org for honoring him on your website.
    Reply to this

  • 11/29/2008 5:12 PM LaRouche Sucks! wrote:
    LaRouche is scum!

    He promotes hatred and bigotry!
    Reply to this

  • 11/28/2008 7:11 AM Michal wrote:
    This is very good article on Slovak Jews.
    Michal
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  • 11/25/2008 9:35 AM personal shredder wrote:
    This blog Is very informative , I am really pleased to post my comment on this blog . It helped me with ocean of knowledge so I really belive you will do much better in the future . Good job web master .
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  • 11/24/2008 3:05 PM JP wrote:
    OUTSTANDING RESEARCH!

    A Masterpiece!
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  • 11/22/2008 3:00 PM Erland Svenson wrote:
    I thank you for this article on the plight of the Norwegian Jews. Your website is very comprehensive and you don’t often find this level of detail in electronic media.

    My thanks,

    E. Svenson
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  • 11/7/2008 3:30 PM Trisha Moreley wrote:
    A very courageous man Mr. Karski was.
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  • 11/4/2008 11:21 AM Terry Rather wrote:
    Very interesting story! Rarely do we get to read about the more subtle aspects of how the Nazi’s exploited Jews during the Holocaust.
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  • 11/3/2008 6:54 AM Gabor Hirsch wrote:
    It is more an enquiry as a comment.
    Does any records of former inmates exist to Gross Rosen? can you say when a camp number would probably issued.
    The number in Question is 39969

    Best regards
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  • 10/30/2008 4:06 PM Samuel Martin wrote:
    This article depicts a lot of stuff very well. How jews were treated while this time period with concentration camps was going on. It shows how they were over powered and didn’t get much to eat at all. Very good article.
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  • 10/27/2008 2:38 PM Ilya Vonich wrote:
    Barbarians!!!

    The Nazi SS were barbarians!
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  • 10/23/2008 7:02 PM William Benaret wrote:
    Your piece on the SS is very well done. I appreciate the depth of information as well as the addition of photos and timelines.

    Thank you for producing such a great website.

    William Benaret
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  • 10/14/2008 8:18 PM Aaron Scheliekin wrote:
    A unique deposition. Where does your group uncover these documents? German archives?

    Aaron Scheliekin
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  • 10/12/2008 9:00 AM STRIDER wrote:
    I’m glad this murderer got what he deserved!

    STRIDER
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  • 10/6/2008 10:59 AM Jimmy Calliardi wrote:
    I read a report at the USHMM authored by Carmelo Lisciotto and was very impressed.

    Is he lecturing?

    JC
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  • 10/6/2008 10:57 AM Ian Woods wrote:
    Thank you for raising the case of Jeremiah Duggan.

    To have the support of the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team means a lot to those dedicated to the cause of fighting anti-Semtism and hatred throughout the world.

    Ian Woods

    Manchester, UK
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  • 9/25/2008 6:01 AM Dr Bloom wrote:
    Your team does a very nice job with the photo galleries.

    They are a great learning tool.

    Dr. Bruce Bloom Conn.
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  • 9/15/2008 11:31 PM Sascha Schwartz wrote:
    I own a copy of "Shutter Falls" by Mr. Chris Webb and it’s an utterly fantastic photo journey into the many faces of the Holocaust in Poland and Russia!

    I highly recommend it.

    Sascha Schwartz
    Toronto, Canada
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  • 9/15/2008 3:21 AM Thomas Fletcher wrote:
    I received my pre-release copy of "Postcards from the Past" by Chris Webb and Arthur Hojin.

    I wrote to Mr. Webb regarding the 1st edition print but I understand that he and other members of the team are currently on a site in the Ukraine.

    I look forward to the Lisciotto book though.

    Tom
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  • 9/14/2008 11:23 AM Jill St. Claire wrote:
    Dear H.E.A.R.T I was told that a book was forthcoming authored by some or all of the members of the team. Do you know when this book will be available and where?
    Thanks very much and please keep up the great work.
    JSC
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    1. 9/14/2008 11:37 AM H-E-A-R-T wrote:
      Dear Jill St Claire

      We thank you for your kind remarks.

      The H-E-A-R-T U.S Director Carmelo Lisciotto has a book expected to be released in spring of 2009. More information on this release will be posted in the Publications section of the HolocaustResearchProject.org website.

      In addition several contributors to the H-E-A-R-T website have publications on Aktion Reinhard being released in December.

      Stay tuned a lot of material on the way!

      Thank you for your interest.

      -The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team.
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  • 9/11/2008 2:47 AM Prasad Kumar wrote:
    Very good blog!

    PK
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  • 9/3/2008 1:25 PM Elaine Trudari wrote:
    AMAZING! I’ve searched the Internet for months trying to find a full English version of this text for a lecture I am delivering in November.

    The Holocaustresearchproject.org team really came through. I can’t thank you enough.

    Elaine Trudari
    Penobscott, Maine USA
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  • 9/3/2008 10:11 AM Zman wrote:
    Hey guys, you have a very well produced website here
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  • 8/30/2008 8:29 PM Deanna Lee wrote:
    I CAN’T TELL YOU ENOUGH HOW MUCH I LOVE THE HOLOCAUSTRESEARCHPROJECT.ORG WEBSITE!

    I’VE USED IT FOR PERSONAL RESEARCH AND SIMPLY GENERAL INFORMATION.

    IT IS TRULY A GREAT ONLINE RESOURCE!
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  • 8/29/2008 8:29 PM Frank Vickers wrote:
    Hello,
    I saw your wonderful website quoted on a BBC broadcast about the American Media man Jerry Springer and his family that was killed in the Holocaust.

    A very interesting programme indeed.

    Frank Vickers
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  • 8/27/2008 9:09 AM Tina McElroy wrote:
    Amazing! I knew there were Jewish police and corrupt officials but heard nothing of this 13!

    Your website is very balanced and resourceful
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  • 8/27/2008 9:06 AM Marco Destrius wrote:
    Very powerful essay on the Croatian Holocaust. I must say the that the images of Jasenovac are horrific but I believe it is important that websites such as the Holocaustresearchproject.org publish them in such a professional and educational manner.

    Well done.
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  • 8/25/2008 11:11 AM Lisa Ludmul wrote:
    I agree with Andrew!

    The very best Holocaust website on the Internet is: www.Holocaustresearchproject.org

    I send all of my students there and highly recommend it to any history buff.

    Lisa Ludmul – Youngstown, Ohio
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  • 8/24/2008 2:38 PM Andrew Darlykin wrote:
    The HOLOCAUSTRESEARCHPROJECT is by far the defacto website on the internet in relation to anything to do with the Holocaust.
    No other website even comes close!

    A.D
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  • 8/22/2008 10:31 AM Jose Amaris wrote:
    I had a similar question that you have answered. I enjoy MR LISCIOTTO’s writing very much and look forward to his new book.
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  • 8/21/2008 12:48 PM Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team wrote:
    Dearest Norbert.

    Thank you for your kind remarks. There is currently one photo publication available entitled "The Shutter Falls" by H.E.A.R.T UK Director Mr. Chris Webb.

    You can expect a full length research publication from Mr. Carmelo Lisciotto in the spring of 2009.

    Stay tuned.

    -The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team.
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  • 8/21/2008 12:41 PM Norbert Ersteiner wrote:
    An utterly intriguing story of these mass murderers and the Holocaust!

    My humble thanks on your great work! I would love to see a book from the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team. Is one available?

    Norbert Ersteiner
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  • 8/19/2008 9:04 AM Marteen Salomar wrote:
    I thank you for such a great compilation of Holocaust research and materials.

    Your website rivals even the USHMM.

    Marteen
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  • 8/19/2008 9:02 AM Tomaz Igneiasky wrote:
    Everytime you post something new on your fantastic website I see the others try to copy you!

    www.holocaustresearchproject.org is not only the best holocaust website its the most orginal!
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  • 8/14/2008 10:07 AM Joachim Bunt wrote:
    I must repeat the sentiments of many of the people here when I say that the Holocaustresearchproject.org offers the very best and most comprehensive online resource that I have sound so far.

    JB
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  • 8/2/2008 3:02 PM Kurt Peters wrote:
    You have best website about Holocaust!

    In Germany we have not very good resource for this material.

    Kurt Peters
    Bamberg, Germany
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  • 7/29/2008 9:46 AM Gerald Rosenbloom wrote:
    An interested story about Chelmno!
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  • 7/23/2008 8:18 PM Richard Barris wrote:
    Thank you for posting another interesting article on your website.

    I enjoy reading this blog because it summarizes all the articles at www.holocaustresearchproject.org and I can pick and choose which sections to vist.

    My sincere thanks on your great work.

    Richard Barris Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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  • 7/17/2008 8:58 AM Tanya Taylor wrote:
    FASCINATING!

    I LOVE YOUR WEBSITE!

    Tanya
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  • 7/14/2008 8:33 AM Shane Denison wrote:
    Arguably the best summary of Nazi propaganda available on the Internet!

    My hat off to the holocaust education and archive research team!
    Reply to this

  • 7/14/2008 8:29 AM Tina D. wrote:
    Interesting to learn that Sigmund Freud lost family in the deathcamps.
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  • 6/30/2008 12:45 PM cel mai misto tip din Romania wrote:
    Very interesting.
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  • 6/30/2008 11:09 AM Stephan C. wrote:
    I LIKE THE WAY YOU WROTE THIS STORY OF HOLOCAUST IN ROMANIA
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  • 6/30/2008 11:08 AM Jan Henning wrote:
    Your story on Preben Munch is very impressive. The facts are all very much correct.
    Do you have Danish members of your staff?

    Jan Henning
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  • 6/25/2008 3:22 PM Shawn Meckel wrote:
    My thanks to the Holocaustresearchproject.org group for their great work. You have a very good website about the Holocaust.
    Reply to this

  • 6/22/2008 4:01 PM Omar Varshnik wrote:
    Your website on the Holocaust is better presented that even the US Holocaust Museum web pages and far superior to almost all the others. I thank you for creating and maintaining this great work.

    Omar Varshnik

    Cinncinati, Ohio USA
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  • 6/7/2008 6:02 PM Lea Setmer wrote:
    She was a very strong woman.
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  • 6/4/2008 12:29 PM Jeffrey Rascher wrote:
    A very interesting article on how Jewish Policemen acted in the ghettos. You rarely see this perspective presented online.

    Jeffrey R.
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  • 6/1/2008 7:25 AM Ajna Shah wrote:
    I really enjoy your website it is a nice resource for education.
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  • 5/30/2008 1:50 PM MAX wrote:
    What a bitch Grese was!
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  • 5/27/2008 5:25 PM Ezra K. wrote:
    The brutality is incomprehensible!
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  • 5/26/2008 10:07 PM Katya Andrapol wrote:
    Thank you for posting this story about Irena
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  • 5/25/2008 7:48 PM Katan Patel wrote:
    Riveting article!

    Simply well done!
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  • 5/21/2008 4:17 PM Romyk Kepec wrote:
    I lived 20 kilometer from this place.

    Nothing very nice about it.
    Reply to this

  • 5/20/2008 7:52 PM Eugene Steinbaum wrote:
    All I can say is that I’m blown away by these images.

    Powerful is an understatement.

    Eugene
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  • 5/16/2008 1:47 PM Jessica Fornhauser wrote:
    Such brutality committed by these Ustasha men is incomprehensible!

    I’m confused about why the U.S and Nato backed Croations in the recent ethnic cleansing in Bosnia-Hercegovina?
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  • 5/15/2008 10:56 AM Josef Martinkoff wrote:
    I thought that I knew a lot about the Holocaust but every time I visit the Holocaustresearchproject.org website I learn something new.
    This story on Pieter Menten is very interesting.

    Josef Martinkoff
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  • 5/10/2008 10:07 AM Ronald Rukenstein wrote:
    NEVER FORGET THE HOLOCAUST!

    I thank you for your great website!

    RR
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  • 5/3/2008 9:00 AM Jose Alicaro wrote:
    FABULOUS GALLERY!

    I’ve never seen many of these photos! Where does the holocaustresearchproject.org team find these photos? GREAT STUFF!

    J.A
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  • 5/2/2008 2:08 PM John Masters wrote:
    A very moving story. Is Mr. Bright still alive?

    I’m curious to how he feels about Gemans?
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  • 4/22/2008 8:03 PM Paul Annunzio wrote:
    What a great story. I was impressed with the accomplishments of these Jewish partisans.

    PA
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  • 4/22/2008 8:02 PM Eric fFinkel wrote:
    I read the book Tough Jews and I thought those guys were bad asses!
    The Bielksis really kicked butt!
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  • 4/10/2008 12:24 PM Sarah Rothenheim wrote:
    Many warm thanks for publishing your wonderful website.

    The Holocaustresearcproject.org is the an inspiring and enligntening resource that taught me more about the Holocaust then I’ve ever learned anywhere else.

    Sarah Rothemheim
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  • 3/26/2008 11:25 AM Martin Goldberg wrote:
    WOW! What a powerful story!

    I never knew that Jewish resistance was so tough!

    My thanks www.holocaustresearchproject.org for presenting such an inspiring peiece of work.

    Martin Goldberg Columbus, Ohio
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  • 3/24/2008 9:11 AM Sara Schiffer wrote:
    Your website really moved me.
    I learned so much in just an hour of reading through the plethora of pages and articles.
    Please keep up the fantastic work!

    I regard the Holocaustresearchproject.org website as the best source of information available about the Holocaust.

    Sara Schiffer
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  • 3/20/2008 9:54 AM James Stark wrote:
    great article about the eichmann trial!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  • 3/12/2008 10:55 AM Joshua Chartaye wrote:
    My thanks to the HOLOCAUSTRESEARCHPROJECT.ORG your website always has interesting articles and history that simply can’t be found on the Internet! I’ve read a lot on wikipedia but have found that much of what they present as credible is in fact erroneous and of dubious nature.

    My thanks again for making your resource available to us all.

    Joshua Chartaye
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  • 3/6/2008 6:49 PM Ezra Mandel wrote:
    Yours is the only website I’ve located the tells of Mr. Kartin.

    I must also comment the Holocaust education and archive researchers for such work.

    EZRA MANDEL Tel Aviv
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  • 2/7/2008 10:55 AM Gerard Malachim wrote:
    I agree with you Ms Alicia! The website www.Holocaustresearchproject.org has the best collection of holocaust photos, the most detailed articles and is presented in a very comprehensive and user-friendly way!

    Gerard
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  • 2/1/2008 2:34 PM Robert Mcnamee wrote:
    Your transcription of the Vrba – Wetzler report is top notch.

    My thanks to the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team for maintaing such a great Holocaust Website.
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  • 2/1/2008 2:32 PM Luis Gonzales wrote:
    THANKYOU FOR POSTING THE VRBA REPORT!

    THE HOLOCAUSTRESEARCHPROJECT.ORG WEBSITE IS THE ONLY SITE THAT HAS THE FULL TEXT!

    YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!

    LUIS GONZALES
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  • 1/28/2008 10:19 AM Frank McConnely wrote:
    Hi!

    Saw your website www.holocaustresearchproject.org on a BBC programme a few evenings past. What a tremendous resource for those interested in learning about the Holocaust.
    -Frank McConnely
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  • 11/26/2007 8:44 PM Johannes wrote:
    My compliments to Mr. Schlüter on a very good piece.

    Johannes
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  • 11/20/2007 2:37 PM Mauro Goldschein wrote:
    I am currently working on my thesis regarding Euthanasia and the Nazi T4 program. This article posted on the www.holocaustresearchproject.org website was an exellent resource!

    Mauro
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  • 11/13/2007 1:37 PM Norbert Bortin wrote:
    Great photo gallery!
    Best Dachau image collection I’ve seen on the net so far!
    Reply to this

  • 11/12/2007 10:00 AM Jan Kopec wrote:
    This piece on Przemysl at www.holocaustresearchproject.org should be considered the "definitive" authority on the Ghetto there and its history. I was born in Przemysl and even in Poland it is difficult to find such a well prepared page.
    Thank you.
    Jan
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  • 11/7/2007 12:24 PM Brian McCallister wrote:
    WOW!
    This is a great article! Where do the people behind the Holocaustresearchproject find all this great material on the Holocaust?

    By far the best site on the Internet!
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  • 10/31/2007 8:00 AM Lori Maatz wrote:
    My thanks to the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team for publishing such a comprehensive list of Holocaust ghettos.
    Overall I’ve found the website to be one of the best resources available online.
    –Lori Maatz
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  • 10/25/2007 11:32 AM Mitch Ariston wrote:
    Fantastic article! No other Holocaust website I’ve ever found presents such a well written piece on the Judenrat as what is availabe at www.holocaustresearchproject.org

    -MA
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  • 10/24/2007 11:54 AM Dino Krevlach wrote:
    Very Powerful writing!
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  • 10/24/2007 11:50 AM Julley Salei wrote:
    A very moving article indeed. Mr. Grossman made an enternal contribution to memorializing the victims of the Lodz ghetto with his photography.

    -Julley Salei
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  • 10/19/2007 6:18 PM Achmed Danda wrote:
    Very nice website! I am putting links to www.holocaustresearchproject.org on my on blog.
    Achmend Danda
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  • 10/19/2007 8:50 AM Alexi Marvrilitov wrote:
    A tremendous achievement by your website!
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  • 10/19/2007 8:49 AM Laura McMillan wrote:
    What a heartbreaking story! Mr. Grossman was a hero! I am surprised I haven’t found much more about him on the Internet!
    The HolocaustResearchProject seems to be the only place for detailed background on many of these specialized stories.
    Reply to this

  • 10/17/2007 9:08 AM Melanie Remford wrote:
    What a heart wrenching story I was saddened when I read it but happy to see the story being told on the HOLOCAUSTRESEARCHPROJECT!

    Melanie Remford UK
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  • 10/13/2007 8:37 AM Tsi Stennek wrote:
    Thank you for producing such a fabulous website about the Holocaust.

    www.holocaustresearchproejct.org is the defacto online resource relating to this period of history.

    Tsi Stennek
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  • 10/12/2007 5:49 AM Ernst Hansett wrote:
    Some great photos of Bergen-Belsen! I have never seen many of these before!
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  • 10/11/2007 12:06 PM Vance Telly wrote:
    Pretty good summary of Wannsee!
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  • 10/10/2007 9:36 AM Gwendolyn Martinez wrote:
    I want to thank you for your beautiful website on the Holocaust!

    I’ve read many of the articles covering the tragic fate of Jews and the murderous SS.

    The balanced approach use by the HolocaustResearchProject to cover such a vast subject is expertly done.

    I want to thank you on behalf of all men and women of the world!

    Gwendolyn Martinez (Madrid)
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  • 10/9/2007 11:20 AM Jillian Loew wrote:
    Thank you for taking the time to produce such a thoughtful and provocative website.

    I am very impressed with articles and editorials.

    Jillian
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  • 10/9/2007 11:18 AM Evan Renndt wrote:
    The depravity of the Nazi regime was sickening!
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  • 10/9/2007 5:09 AM Shara Tallis wrote:
    Thank you for producing such a lovely website.
    The Holocaustresearchproject is by far the best online resource for learning about the Holocaust that I’ve ever come across on the Internet.
    Reply to this

  • 10/8/2007 5:26 PM Shelly Johannsen wrote:
    Great website!
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  • 10/2/2007 2:29 PM Eric Stossel wrote:
    An incredible website for certain!
    Reply to this

  • 10/1/2007 9:10 AM David Hoffman wrote:
    I was bowled over by the depth of information regarding the infamouse Majdanek concentration camp that I found available on the the holocaustresearchproject website!
    Reply to this

  • 9/27/2007 6:21 AM Tara Bartolo wrote:
    WHAT AN AMAZING STORY!

    YOUR WEBSITE IS FILLED WITH SUCH GREAT ARTICLES AS THIS ONE! I AM VERY MUCH IN AWE OF YOUR WORK!
    Reply to this

  • 9/24/2007 10:53 AM Pavlic wrote:
    Thankyou so much for posting this great article on Brody.

    You have an excellent website about the Holocaust
    Reply to this

  • 9/23/2007 11:42 AM Trever Blanchett wrote:
    Great website!
    Reply to this

  • 9/19/2007 1:27 PM James Dreschler wrote:
    A poignant report of the deathcamps transports.
    Reply to this

  • 9/17/2007 3:33 PM Raymond Tysler wrote:
    I comment your team on a fabulous website!!!!

    www.holocaustresearchproject.org is hands down one of the best sites online covering the HOLOCAUST
    Reply to this

    1. 9/19/2007 1:28 PM Nadya Stemster wrote:
      I agree! Utterly fantastic!
      Reply to this

  • 9/11/2007 10:28 AM Vikram Kumar wrote:
    I must admit that the HolocaustResearchProject is by far the best website available online for information concerning the Jewish Holocaust.
    Reply to this

  • 9/10/2007 1:00 PM Adrian Smeller wrote:
    A lovely educational website and a fantastic online resource!

    Adrian Smeller
    Hereford, UK
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  • 9/6/2007 12:01 PM Jennier Tratari wrote:
    Thank you for this detailed piece on the Treblinka deathcamp! Your website is a great education resource!
    Reply to this

  • 9/6/2007 12:00 PM Robert Strasller wrote:
    What a great website!
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  • 9/5/2007 10:49 AM James Jelster wrote:
    That murdering bastard Heydrich!

    Thanks to Holocaustresearchproject for posting about this mass murderer for all to learn!
    Reply to this

  • 9/4/2007 8:22 AM Lisa Kalirteroff wrote:
    A wonderful presentation on Anne Frank

    My thanks to the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team for such a well done piece.
    Lisa K.
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  • 8/31/2007 8:43 AM Tremaine Johhnson wrote:
    Glad I found the Holocaust Research Project website! This will help big time in my Thesis paper!

    Tremaine
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  • 8/30/2007 3:41 PM Mellissa Ratchitt wrote:
    A very sad story but well reported.

    How does one become part of the Holocaust Education and Archive Research Team???
    Reply to this

  • 8/29/2007 10:10 PM Simka Moyerson wrote:
    A unique glimpse into the horror of Babi Yar thank you to the Holocaust Researh Project and their fabulous website.
    Reply to this

  • 8/29/2007 3:15 PM John Dalton wrote:
    Amazing story about Rumkowski!
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  • 8/28/2007 3:30 PM William Artiete wrote:
    The first Stroop Gallery was great as well!

    The trip to the Ukraine sounds like a serious adventure!
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    1. 9/4/2007 8:21 AM Arti Schlosser wrote:
      I wrote to the HEART team and they were very helpful.
      Not like a lot of the other sites where no one responds. These guys are for real and they truly know their stuff!
      High praise for the holocaustresearchproejct !
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Jurgen Stroop! Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Jürgen Stroop

 

Jürgen Stroop

The son of a policeman, Josef Stroop, was born on 26 September 1895 in Detmold, Germany, but he later changed his name in honour of his deceased son in 1941. During World War One Stroop served in several infantry regiments at the front and won an Iron Cross 2nd Class. He was also wounded in action.

 

Stroop joined the SS on 1 July 1932 and received SS number 44611, he was admitted into the Nazi Party shortly thereafter on 1 September 1932. Stroop was promoted to SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer on 8 March 1934, to SS- Sturmbannfuhrer on 20 April 1935 and to SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer on 20 April 1936.

 

During the 1930’s he attended various leadership courses and commanded several General SS units in Germany proper. He was promoted to SS-Standartenfuhrer on 12 September 1937 and to SS-Oberfuhrer on 10 September 1939.

 

From 7 July to 15 September 1941 Jurgen Stroop served in combat on the eastern front with the 3rd SS Totenkopf Infantry Regiment of the SS Division “Totenkopf,” during the fighting he was awarded a Clasp to the Iron Cross 2nd Class and an Infantry Assault Badge in Bronze. Stroop served in the Sudetenland, after the occupation of Poland in September 1939 Stroop was transferred to Poznan as head of the German Selbschutz – self defence units of ethnic Germans.

 

Stroop was then promoted to SS-Brigadefuhrer on 16 September 1942 and assigned as an Inspector of the Sipo and SD of the Higher SS and Police Leader for Russia South, where he helped secure a key logistical route through October 1942.

 

He then briefly commanded an SS garrison at Kherson before becoming SS and Police Leader for Lemberg (Lvov) in February 1943. From that position he moved to Warsaw on 18 April 1943. Franz Konrad the SS officer in charge of the Werterfassung in von Sammern’s headquarters gave testimony that related to the first day of the aktion:

 

“A week before Easter 1943 – it was a Sunday morning – SS und Polizeifuhrer von Sammern convened a meeting of the heads of the Security Police, Obersturmbannfuhrer Hahn, the commanders of the SS units in Warsaw, the commanders of the cavalry and infantry reserve units, the commanders of the Sipo (Security Police) and the Orpo (Regular Police) and the officers in his headquarters (myself among them).

 

At this meeting we were notified that on Monday he intended to transfer out the Jews who still remained in the Warsaw ghetto. During the discussion about the appropriate time for sending the various SS and police units into action, Brigadefuhrer Jurgen Stroop entered and announced that he had been appointed to the post of SS und Polizeifuhrer by order of the Reichsfuhrer –SS.”

 

On the first day of the Warsaw ghetto uprising Stroop took over command of the German forces, replacing Dr Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg, and he produced a detailed report of the operation to destroy the Jewish residential quarter.

 

Max Jesuiter Warsaw ghetto travel pass

Stroop recorded his deeds in a boastful seventy-five page report bound together in black pebble leather and including copies of all daily communiqués sent to Kruger – SS Police Leader East, as well as photographs with captions in Gothic script.

 

Former SS- Hauptsturmfuhrer Georg Michalsen, who was a member of Odilo Globocnik’s Aktion Reinhard staff, and had been sent to Warsaw to oversee the transfer of enterprises to the Lublin district, recalled his short time in Warsaw, serving under Stroop:

 

“The witness Max Jesuiter stated that Stroop had an outspoken hatred against Jews. If it had gone according to Stroop, not one train with Jews would have left Warsaw, but Stroop would have liquidated all Jews right there.”

 

Michalsen – “I consider this description as valid. I also was under the impression that Stroop was negatively disposed towards a transfer of Jews and under the circumstances only bent to higher pressures.

 

I also stated that it never happened before Stroop’s time that houses were burnt down. But as soon as Stroop arrived, and that was even on his first day, houses were set on fire. I have witnessed myself how people jumped from burning houses. Most probably they died.”

 

After the Ghetto Uprising, SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Friedrich- Wilhelm Kruger awarded an Iron Cross 1st Class to Stroop on 18 June 1943 for the action at a gala reception in Warsaw’s Lazienki Park.

 

Read more here: http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/jurgenstroop.html

 

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Copyright Carmelo Lisciotto H.E.A.R.T 2009

Nazi Euthanasia Centers – Hartheim!

Hartheim Euthanasia  Center

Hartheim castle, situated in the village of Alkoven near Linz in Austria, and close to the Mauthausen concentration camp, originally dated from the ninth century. The present castle was built at the end of the 16th century. By 1793 the building belonged to the princes of Starhemberg. In 1898 Hartheim castle was donated to the Landes wohltätigkeitsverein in Oberösterreich (Provincial Charity Club of Upper Austria), for the establishment of a home for physically and mentally handicapped children.

 

Floor plan of Hartheim

After the Anschluß, the building was confiscated, and between late 1939 and early 1940 the castle was converted into an Aktion T4 euthanasia centre with a gas chamber (5.8m long, 3.8m wide and 2.7m at its highest) and at least two crematoria, one located in a room on the east side of the interior courtyard and one in the courtyard itself. Offices and staff quarters were located on the upper floors of the castle, while the killing installation occupied the ground floor, which surrounded the inner courtyard. The gas chamber, also located on the east side of the courtyard, was disguised as a shower room and had a capacity of up to 150 persons. Senior stoker (Oberbrenner) Josef Vallasta often administered the gas and oversaw the gassing in place of a physician.

At the western side of the castle a wooden annex was built for the reception of the victims, constructed so that their arrival remained unseen by others. During May 1940 the first 633 patients were gassed. Four drivers operated the large grey buses of the Gekrat organisation which carried the victims to the castle. After they had been gassed, any gold teeth were extracted from the corpses. If, following cremation, bones were still visible among the ashes, these were pulverized into dust with a bone mill.

At least once a week a lorry left the castle and drove to the Rivers Donau and Traun to scatter the ashes on the water. The Austrian Vinzenz Nohel was assigned work as a stoker (brenner) at Hartheim, receiving wages of 170 Reichsmark (RM) per month, plus a 50 RM family separation allowance, a 35 RM stoker’s allowance, and a 35 RM premium for keeping quiet. Further, "because the work [as a stoker] was very strenuous and nerve-shattering, we also received ¼ litre schnapps every day."

Although it is impossible to calculate a definitive figure for the number of victims in respect of any of the euthanasia centres, it has been estimated that by August 1941 the death toll at Hartheim had risen to at least 18,269; later, during the Sonderbehandlung 14f13 operation, a minimum of 12,000 further victims were murdered., among them more than 8,000 inmates of the concentration camps Dachau and Mauthausen / Gusen .These included Russian prisoners-of-war, Hungarian Jews, Jehovah’s Witnesses and other Muselmänner.

The first prisoners selected from Dachau (some of whom had voluntarily registered for transfer to a “convalescent camp” or “sanatorium”) arrived at Hartheim no later than January 1942. When the personal effects of transferees were returned to the camp with the address of the sender marked as “Hartheim”, the voluntary registrations ceased.

Prisoners were also transferred to Hartheim from the Groß-Rosen, Sachsenhausen, and Ravensbrück concentration camps. They all shared a common fate. After late August 1941, when Hitler ordered a stop to the murder of the handicapped by gas, only concentration camp prisoners were gassed in T4 killing centres.

 

Read more here: http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/euthan/hartheim.html

 

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Nazi Propaganda – Der Untermensch!

Der Untermensch

"The subhuman"

The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team has faithfully translated this infamous Nazi text from the original versions printed in both the German and Russian language. The purpose of this translation is for readers to understand the methods in which the Nazi propaganda machine would seek to dehumanize the victims of its  genocidal actions.

Editor:
The Reichsführer-SS
SS Office

Berlin, 1942
DHM, Berlin
Do 56/685
 

Revised:
SS Office – Training Office
SS Hauptsturmführer King, SS-Obersturmführer Ludwig Pröscholdt
in conjunction with the Association of Graphic Jupp Daehler

Pictures: Atlanrik (18), the Associated Press (16), FF Bauer (3), DAF-Gau-Image (1), Georg Ebert (1), Enit (1), Helga Glassner (1), Max Göllner (3) , Hehmke-Winterer (1), Walter Hege (1), Historia Photo (1), Heinrich Hoffmann (5), country image Vienna (1), Ema Lendvai-Dircksen (2), Mauritius (6), Nibelungen Publisher (3) Orbis (7), Press Photo Center (2), Hans Retzlaff (9), Risch-Lau (1), Charloüe Rohrbach (5), collection Seiler (5), Jutta ropes (1), SS Office ( 12), SS-PF (21), Scherl (6), Sport Bild-Schimer (1), State body image (4), Ilse Steinhoff (2), Hans Tschira (4), Paula Armed Forces (3), the world (8) , Anna Winterer (1)

 
V E R T R I E B

N O R D L A N D V E R L A G

 

 

The cover to the infamous Nazi  publication Der Untermensch

As long as there have been men on the earth, the struggle between man and the subhuman will be the historic rule; the Jewish-led struggle against the mankind, as far back as we can look, is part of  the natural course of life on our planet. One can be convinced with full certainty that this struggle for life and death is just as much a law of nature as is the struggle of an infection to corrupt a healthy body."

Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler 1935


 

Just as the night rises against the day, the light and dark are in eternal conflict. So too, is the subhuman the greatest enemy of the dominant species on earth, mankind.  The subhuman is a biological creature, crafted by nature, which has hands, legs, eyes and mouth, even the semblance of a brain. Nevertheless, this terrible creature is only a partial human being.

Although it has features similar to a human, the subhuman is lower on the spiritual and psychological scale than any animal. Inside of this creature lies wild and unrestrained passions: an incessant need  to destroy, filled with the most primitive desires, chaos and coldhearted villainy. 

A subhuman and nothing more!

Not all of those, who appear human are in fact so.  Woe to him who forgets it!  Every great creation, idea, and artistic expression on this planet were brought forth by real man. It was this true man that thought to invent and to create. It is for him there is only one objective:

To pave the way to a higher form of existence, to give shape to the endless nothing, to make progress on the elusive quest for continuous improvement.

Thus evolved culture.

So just as the plough, modern tools and the concept of hearth and home helped to form human society and create the family, the people and the state. So then must mankind become good and great, rising above all other living creatures. Dwelling in the realm of God!

However, along side of mankind dwells the subhuman.  This subhuman hates all that is created by man. This subhuman has always hated man, and  always secretly sought to bring about his downfall, first like a thief, and then like a brazen killer.

The subhuman is united with his peers. Like beasts among beasts, never knowing peace or calm. The subhuman thrives in chaos and darkness, he is frightened by the light. These subhuman creatures dwell in the cesspools, and swamps, preferring a hell on earth, to the light of the sun. 

But in these swamps and cesspools the subhuman has found its leader – The Eternal Jew!  The Jew understands the desires and needs of his fellow creature. The Jews endeavors to corrupt and manipulate this horror of inhumanity until they are rallied towards a common goal in the destruction of true man.

Beginning as early on as the destruction of Persians, the Jew has glorified this destructive nature. Even honoring it and declaring the holiday Purim that celebrates the organized mass murder of 75,000 Aryan Persians, who died as victims of Jewish hatred and evil.  

Even now world Jewry still glorifies this terrible act – as its greatest religious holiday.

The eternal hatred of the subhuman for mankind exists; they envy the clean and noble character of man. So they have tried to destroy what they hate, and from out of the vast deserts and endless steppes they have gathered hordes of their Huns whose leaders Attila, and Genghis Khan descended on western civilization bringing with them violence, fire and death, to every part of Europe they came.

The subhuman hordes would stop at nothing in their bid to overthrow the world of light and knowledge, to bring an apocalypse to all human progress and achievement. Their only goal is to make a desert wasteland of any nation or race that shines with creativity, goodness and beauty.

The only goal of the subhuman is chaos.

So for millennia this law of nature, the conflict between man and his anti-man, the subhuman has occurred. Over and over a new Attila, and new Genghis Khan, appears at the gates of Europe attempting to wreak havoc and destruction on mankind and his creations.

But today Bolshevism is the new Attila, the personification of the subhuman horde and its destructive power! But Bolshevism is not a phenomenon of just our time, not a product of our modern era. Neither has Bolshevism evolved within the framework of human history.

Bolshevism is as old as the Jew itself! Lenin and Stalin are only two who have prepared the way for this new horde!

 

When a nation loses its leaders by blood and violence, the next step becomes their state, then economic, cultural and spiritual slavery. All that remains of such a nation, tainted by the mixing of blood and race, is the feeling of lost identity. They lose their own unique significance, and soon enough the nation ceases to exist. Only those that can be preserved, untainted, can prove that this nation ever existed.             

Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler 1935


On the infinite a steppes of Russian territory lay Eastern Europe. A sharp contrast is noticed when comparing central Europe with this enormous space. On both sides of the border is the same earth but not the same man.

It is the man who makes his mark on the landscape, while on the German side is planned orderly fields yielding abundant harvests; the other side is only impenetrable forests, vast and unkempt, miles of uninhabited steppes where even the rivers wind endlessly through the nothingness.

This poorly kept land which hides fertile soil could be a paradise for man, a potential "California of Europe" alive with fields and fruit, but instead it lies neglected and wasted, lost to the abyss of cultural nihilism.

 

Read more here: http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/holoprelude/deruntermensch.html

 

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Copyright Carmelo Lisciotto H.E.A.R.T 2009