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In the summer of 1941, German soldier Willi Georg entered the Warsaw Ghetto and took photographs of the people living there. This rare collection shows life and death in the Ghetto during the Holocaust.
Birth: 1935 Gender: Female child Nationality: French Background: Jewish (white/Caucasian) Residence: Paris, France Age: 7 years
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Since 1596 Warsaw has been the capital of Poland. In Polish Warsaw (“Warszawa”) literally means “belonging to Warsz”—a 12th-13th-century nobleman who owned land in the Mariensztat district. Warsaw was home to Europe’s largest Jewish population—around 337,000 in 1939, and 445,000 by 1941. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1st 1939, the Nazis quickly surrounded the capital city and launched a deadly blitzkreig that claimed many lives and destroyed buildings. The Germans were now in control of the country and in November 1939, an edict issued by Hans Frank, the Governor General, decreed all Jewish men, women and children over the age of ten had to wear a Star of David armband to identify themselves. All Jewish shops had to be similarly marked with a Star of David, and severe restrictions were placed on the Jewish population. Further laws limited the amount of money Jews were able to withdraw, with strict rules on buying produce, letting and owning property and travel. In March 1940, groups of Polish gangs launched a series of violent attacks on the Jewish population—stealing money, gold, food, clothes and anything they could find of any value. These attacks lasted for eight days until the Germans intervened. In February 1940, the...
Children were especially vulnerable to Nazi persecution. Learn more about the fates of Jewish and non-Jewish children.
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Gala Herman was born in 1936 in Kyiv, Kyiv City County Ukraine, and died at age 4 years old in September 1941 at Babyn Yar in Kyiv. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Gala Herman.
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Seventy years ago, the Germans started the Blitz more or less out of frustration, without clear planning, as a sequel to the Battle of Britain. During the first half of the summer of 1940, the Luft…
On 2 October 1940, Ludwig Fischer, Governor of the Warsaw District in the occupied General Government of Poland, signed the order to officia...
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Claudine was only 3 and Jeanine was only 9 when they were sadly killed at Auschwitz Birkenau on August 23,1942
Yehudit was sadly killed at Belzec extermination camp in 1942 at age 2
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Eva was only 7 when she was sadly killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau on June 1944
Herschel was only 5 when he was sadly killed during a massacre at Molczadz plot on Aug 15,1942
Veronika was only 4 when she was sadly killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau on July 15,1944
Ahuva was only 5 when she was sadly killed at Treblinka extermination camp in 1943
Yehudit was only 4 when she was sadly killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau on May, 1944
Tomy Lachman Birth: 1936 Gender: male child Nationality: French Background: Jewish (light) Residence: Paris, France Death: August 23, 1942 Cause: Murdered Age: 6 years
