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Chairman of the Bialystok Judenrat
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Efraim Barasz was born in 1892 in Volkovysk, Bialystok district, into an affluent and prominent Jewish family. Barasz had both a Jewish and a general education, studying in Germany and earning an engineering degree there.
He joined the Zionist movement while still in his youth. During World War One he lived in Russia with his family, returning to Volkovysk at the war’s end. He became a businessman, was active in many Jewish institutions, and chaired the local Zionist organisation.
Moving to Bialystok in 1934, Barasz kept up his activities in Zionist affairs, and was appointed executive director of the Bialystok Jewish community, a post in which he excelled because of his initiative and his organisational talents.
He visited Palestine in the early 1930’s in order to prepare for his family’s immigration there. His son, whom he had enrolled in the Hebrew University, joined the British forces in the Second World War and became one of the first Jewish fighter pilots from Palestine.
At the end of June 1941, following the German occupation of Bialystok, Rabbi Gedaliah Rosenmann was appointed chairman of the Judenrat, but in actuality it was Barasz, the deputy chairman, who was in charge, both of the first Judenrat and its successor a month later.
Many of the members of the Bialystok Judenrat had previously held major posts in the Jewish community. The ghetto in Bialystok established on 31 July 1941, held about thirty-five thousand Jews, Bialystok came to be incorporated into a district that was joined to East Prussia.
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In the autumn of 1942 the Bialystok region was subjected to deportations and the liquidation of ghetto’s, although the Bialystok ghetto itself was not affected.
Barasz was aware of the mass murder of Jews by the Einsatzgruppen, of the deportations, and of the destruction of Jewish communities, but he believed that work would “serve as a protective shield,” as he put it “Our main rescue effort has to be based on the establishment of a highly developed industry.”
Barasz felt a new security for the Jews of the ghetto when the German military authorities indicated a possible future order for the manufacture of boots for the German army. Summoning the Jewish Council, he told them, as the protocol of the meeting recorded, that he was certain “that this order for boots will protect the ghetto from calamity.”
He therefore demands “that industry be assigned top priority in Jewish Council activities.” Five months later, the order for boots arrived. “This is sufficient to ensure our security and that of the ghetto.” Barasz told his fellow Jewish Council members.
On the 21 June 1942 Barasz spoke at a mass meeting of the Jews of Bialystok:
Read more here: http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ghettos/barasz.html
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Copyright Carmelo Lisciotto H.E.A.R.T 2009
Essays & Editorials [home] The Department of History, University of Northampton & The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team |
“What is it good for?” - “Absolutely Nothing!”
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In nearly 40 years of holocaust research, I have never given more than a few seconds thought regarding Holocaust Denial.
"But is that wise?"
Up to now I thought so, what would be the point, of spending any substantial amount of precious time on debating with Holocaust Deniers, given the abundance of evidence available, ranging from films, photographs, eyewitness testimony, documents and admissions from those who took part in one of the worst crimes in the history of mankind.
Thanks to the internet, the Deniers have had priceless opportunities to speedily put forward their views, and this in turn has led to a number of websites, countering their views, and thus a cottage industry of sorts has grown up.
Visiting some of these sites one is struck by the enormous amount of wasted effort, both in terms of arguing with Deniers, who will never change their particular view, unless some “ultimate proof” is provided, and the Deniers spending their time, peddling their seemingly senseless viewpoints, happy to be engaged in ‘debate.’
In addition, those self proclaimed “Debunkers” of revisionist theories are in many ways no different than the Deniers themselves. Most are only seeking a conflict or debate to engage in, and debunking revisionism affords them some sort of “moral high ground” to do it from.
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Clearly, a view could be formed that the “ultimate proof” has already been provided, but the Deniers choose not to believe it. And no matter what – the Deniers views are unlikely to change and does the world doesn’t really need “Noble-Debunkers” to keep the rest of us safe from such idiotic theories or treatises.
So in essence, debating the number of victims at Belzec and Sobibor death camps at length, the type of engine used at Treblinka to gas hundreds and thousands of innocent Jewish men, women and children, the true nature of deportations East - was it six million murdered or 8 million, what does all this effort achieve?
It is difficult to know why someone should choose to go down the Denier path, perhaps as a result of anti-Semitism, or seeking their fifteen minutes of fame through controversial outbursts, whilst ignoring the overwhelming evidence for the Holocaust, even just as a mechanism for spreading hate and intolerance- who can be sure.
With recent well publicised comments from Bishop Dr Richard Williamson, who in a Swedish television interview in January 2009 said:
Read the full editorial here: http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/essays&editorials/deniers&debunkers.html
The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
www.HolocaustResearchProject.org
Copyright Carmelo Lisciotto H.E.A.R.T 2009
4/29/2009 8:38 PM Joeseph Steinman wrote:
Great story! In this wimpy age of Obama its good to know that there actually were some heroes!
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4/29/2009 8:36 PM Lina Brancato wrote:
I can't begin to imagine what it must have been like for a Jewish family during this sad time.
Please continue your great work to remind us all about the horrors that man can perpetuate on his brethren.
My warmest thanks for the holocaustresearchproject.org website.
Lina Brancato
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4/29/2009 3:40 PM ingerid wrote:
Thank you for this article. I have been researching my families history. Mainly because my Danish Grandfather was taken by the Nazi's in 1940. I lived in Norway as a child and now live in the US. I am in the process of Converting to Judaism. My love and respect for the Jewish People started after I found out what my family went through. I am so grateful when I read an honest article about what happened.
Sincerely,
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A great website being used for a noble purpose!
My congratulations to the Holocaust Education and Archive Research Team for all their wonderful efforts.
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4/18/2009 7:58 PM John Kaligannis wrote:
I agree!
All Higher Education institutions should partner with the Holocaustresearchproject to truly educate students about the atrocities of the Holocaust.
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4/9/2009 5:39 PM Paul Silberklein wrote:
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Great photo gallery!
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3/30/2009 11:55 AM Lind Goldschein wrote:
I really appreciate the depth of information each article on the Holocaustresearchproject.org website contains. Most other sites publish a paragraph or two and that’s it.
Your website articles are robust and informative and truly honor the victims of the Holocaust.
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I was intrigued by this peice on Bingel. Your website provides so much depth of coverage on the subject matter I find myself spending hours reading the pages.
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3/18/2009 5:31 PM Lorisa Stenck wrote:
Your website is really quite excellent.
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3/2/2009 7:17 PM Dennis Picinich wrote:
A very good article on Der Sturmer! One of the best I've read online!
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I would love to see some of these stories on the Discovery channel or the History channel!
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2/23/2009 4:36 PM John Powell wrote:
I want to thank the Holocaust Education and Archive Research Team for their wonderful work in creating such an awesome digital memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.
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To my freinds at HEART - A very well done website you have!
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2/10/2009 5:01 PM Jonas Drescher wrote:
I saw this revolt portrayed in the film "The Grey Zone".
A very heartbreaking tale. Both on celluloid and online.
Thank you for publishing it.
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2/3/2009 7:32 AM Misha Vashik wrote:
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2/3/2009 7:31 AM Thomas Pillary wrote:
I have never seen the full version of this anti-Semitic publication online anywhere else. I am finding your website to be ever helpful in all of my research initiatives.
Especially those relating to early propaganda and media.
Thomas Pillary
Mt. Vernon, NY
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2/2/2009 3:44 PM Raymond Matz wrote:
Thanks again for posting more of these organisational charts of the Einsatzgruppen reporting structure and areas of operations.
This is great stuff!
Raymond Matz
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1/19/2009 7:21 PM Raymond Matz wrote:
Best Einsatzgruppen chart I've ever seen on the Internet. Will the team be doing the other major groups and kommandos?
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1/18/2009 2:34 PM Dan Selstek wrote:
Your website is amazing!
I could spend weeks going through all of this well researched material!
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1/4/2009 12:24 PM Novalis wrote:
Does there exist any archival material from the company Hasag (Hugo-Schneider-Aktiengesellschaft), Leipzig, Germany, specifically its armaments division at Skarzysko-Kamienna and affiliated plants, Werke A, B, C, located in Distrikt Radom, of the then Reich Generalgouvernement Polen? The main archive of Hasag no longer exists. The central office building in Leipzig, together with the business archive, was damaged through Allied bombs and then destroyed by self-detonation in early 1945.
Any help is most welcome.
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1/3/2009 2:36 PM Izzy wrote:
Great maps! Do you have map like this of Babi Yar?
Izzy
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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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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.
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from Trenton, NJ
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I thank you www.holocaustresearchproject.org for honoring him on your website.
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11/29/2008 5:12 PM LaRouche Sucks! wrote:
LaRouche is scum!
He promotes hatred and bigotry!
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11/28/2008 7:11 AM Michal wrote:
This is very good article on Slovak Jews.
Michal
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11/24/2008 3:05 PM JP wrote:
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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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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!
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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:
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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
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9/23/2007 11:42 AM Trever Blanchett wrote:
Great website!
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9/19/2007 1:27 PM James Dreschler wrote:
A poignant report of the deathcamps transports.
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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
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9/19/2007 1:28 PM Nadya Stemster wrote:
I agree! Utterly fantastic!
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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???
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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.
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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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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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8/28/2007 12:09 PM Tomasow Lubeleski wrote:
VERY GOOD WEBSITE!
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8/27/2007 11:17 AM JP Slayton wrote:
A very powerful image gallery!
I agree with the other commentors that the Holocaustresearchproject is the best resource on the Internet for information on the Holocaust.
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8/27/2007 9:54 AM Mitchell Simmons wrote:
Am amazing article!
My compliments to the Holocaustresearchproject!
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8/25/2007 7:36 AM Vikram Antsil wrote:
What a bastard that Hoess was!
Great website! HolocaustResearchProject is a stellar achievement!
Vikram
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8/24/2007 1:12 PM Theresa Walton wrote:
What a heart gripping story! Many thanks to the Holocaust Research Project for sharing this with us.
Theresa
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8/24/2007 9:17 AM Heinz Innsman wrote:
Holocaust research project thank you!
Very good photos!
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8/17/2007 1:49 PM Tim T. wrote:
This site is the best!
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8/14/2007 7:01 AM Paolo Darizzio wrote:
Grazie
Your website www.holocaustresearchproject.com is the best on the internet
mille grazie
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8/8/2007 10:08 AM Martin Situatine wrote:
A fascinating page on Mr Glazar
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8/7/2007 2:47 PM James Cargogo wrote:
Thank you for posting this. Hilberg was a great man.
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8/6/2007 9:18 AM Jonathon Sallis wrote:
The Holocaustresearchproject is the best site on the net for work on the Holcoaust!
Thanks for providing us with such a great resource!
Jonathon
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8/6/2007 9:12 AM Tony Fronksi wrote:
Great website!!
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Copyright Carmelo Lisciotto H.E.A.R.T 2009
These former SS officers who served in the Belzec death camp were brought to trial in Munich, during August 1963, indicted with murdering Jews:
The Belzec trial in Munich lasted only three days from 18 January – 21 January 1963 Only Josef Oberhauser was found guilty and sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment, the following SS men were acquitted:
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Werner Dubois
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Erich Fuchs
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Hans Girtzig
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Heinrich Gley
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Robert Juhrs
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Karl Schluch
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Heinrich Unverhau
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Ernst Zierke
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The crimes of genocide committed in the three Aktion Reinhard Camps, Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka only began to come to light during the euthanasia trials in 1948.
Heinrich Unverhau who had been in charge of the locomotive depot at Belzec, where the clothes was sorted and stored and cutting out the yellow stars, from the clothes of the murdered Jews, was the first to be arrested and charged.
This was in connection with the killing of patients at Grafeneck euthanasia centre, it was during the course of the trial that information began to emerge about the Aktion Reinhard death camps.
Unverhau, after a lengthy hearing into the euthanasia allegations, was acquitted of all charges and released. His references to the death camps were held to be inadmissible and were disregarded by the court.
Even then, the wheels of justice were slow to turn, it was only in 1959 that the West German government instigated a wide-ranging investigation into the Aktion Reinhard death camps.
Belzec was the first Aktion Reinhard death camp was first to be identified as a major killing centre in Poland. At the conclusion of these enquiries speedily the Belzec personnel were arrested and interrogated. They were arraigned at the Munich Assizes charged with several counts of murdering several hundred thousand Jews in Belzec.
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Although the defendants had made admissions, the defence put forward a mixture of defensive lies, self exoneration to the actual killing, and not without some foundation, that they were in fear of their very lives and their families lives, should they not carry out the express orders of the Belzec camp commandants Wirth and Hering.
The defendants attempted to lessen their own involvement in the genocide, by suggesting that the “actions of destruction” could not have been carried out without the assistance of the Jews.
They had suggested to the court that the Jews carried out the whole operation – removed the victims from the transports, cut the hair of the females, removed their bodies from the gas chambers, extracted gold teeth and buried the bodies in the pits, which they had previously prepared.
Fortunately, on this point the court was not persuaded. To convict these men of the Belzec crimes there had to be direct evidence identifying them as the perpetrators of destruction. Whilst there was circumstantial evidence or loose admissions by the accused, the main requirements the witnesses to events implicating individual defendants was absent.
Rudolf Reder also known as Roman Robak who had travelled from Toronto, Canada was unable to positively identify any of the defendants.
To rebut the general defence proffered collectively by the defendants, the prosecution relied on one principle – that the defendants were guilty of collective participation, even though they had not acted as instigators.
In principle, the one in charge who gives the orders, in this case Wirth or Hering, is solely responsible, the one who carries out these orders must also share the responsibility if he knows the task in hand is unlawful. The jury disagreed. At the end of January the trial collapsed and all the defendants with the exception of Oberhauser, were acquitted. The defence of “acting out of fear for life” was accepted by the court
Immediately on leaving the court as free men, Dubois, Fuchs, Juhrs, Unverhau and Zierke, were re-arrested and held in custody on similar charges relating to the Sobibor death camp. The case against Josef Oberhauser was adjourned, and a new trial was ordered. In January 1965 Oberhauser again appeared before the Munich Assizes, but this time the prosecution were better prepared.
Immediately Oberhauser claimed to the court that he had already been sentenced to a term of imprisonment for the Belzec crimes at the Magdeburg court in 1948, where a Soviet Military Tribunal sentenced him to a term of fifteen years imprisonment.
When the Munich court investigated Oberhauser’s claims, it was established that he had been tried and sentenced for crimes relating to euthanasia and not the Belzec crimes, as these were not known at the time. The trial continued.
Read more here: http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/trials/belzectrials.html
The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
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Copyright Carmelo Lisciotto 2009 H.E.A.R.T
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Maly Trostinets is a village in Eastern Belorussia some 12 kilometres East of Minsk, where the Nazis established a camp. The site chosen was a former collective farm. Russian prisoners of war and Jews were forced to build the barracks for the six hundred slave labourers and their guards.
The camp initially held Soviet prisoners of war that were captured after the German advance on the Soviet Union, which began on June 22, 1941, known as Operation Barbarossa. But it became a Vernichtungslager, or an extermination camp, on May 10, 1942, when the first transport of Jews arrived there, from Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Austria, and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
However, the primary purpose of the extermination camp was the eradication of the Jewish population of Minsk and the surrounding areas, such as the adjacent village of Bolshoi Trostinets. Jews were killed by means of mobile gas chambers between the 28 July 1942 and 31 July 1942, and subsequently on the 21 October 1943.
However, many were even killed before reaching the camp, as they were brought to the nearby Blagovshchina and Shashkovka Forests, where they were shot in the back of the neck. Most of the victims were lined up in front of large pits and shot. Tractors then flattened the pits out. The prisoners in the camp were forced to sort through the victims’ possessions and maintain the camp.
The killing routine at Maly Trostinets:
Beginning on the 10 May 1942 and continuing every Tuesday and Friday Jews were brought to Minsk from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Austria, Germany and driven by truck towards Maly Trostinets. Some of the trucks were gas vans, and after they had been gassed a sonderkommando took them out of the gas vans and threw them into deep pits.
One such transport destined for Maly Trostinets was from Theresienstadt in Bohemia Moravia. On the 4 August 1942 a train with a thousand Jews left the Theresienstadt camp. Six days later it reached Maly Trostinets where it stopped in open country.
Forty “experts” were removed from the train at Minsk. The remaining 960 deportees were ordered out of the train and into vans for the next stage of their journey, and were driven off towards the Blagovschchina forest. The vans were gas vans, once they reached the forest the doors were unlocked and the bodies of the gassed deportees were thrown into open graves.
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Of a thousand Jews sent from Theresienstadt to Maly Trostinets in a further deportation on the 25 August 1942 only twenty-two of the younger men were taken to work at an SS farm. The rest entered the gas vans and were murdered.
Of the twenty-two men sent to the SS farm, only two survived the hard labour and brutal treatment of their overseers and escaped in May 1943 to join the partisans. One was killed fighting the Germans and one survived the war, but his name is not known.
On the 23 September 1942 2,004 Jews were deported from Theresienstadt, to Maly Trostinets, there were no survivors. Three days later on the 26 September a further two thousand were deported from Theresienstadt and this was repeated and another two thousand were sent to Maly Trostinets.
Read more here: http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/malytrost.html
The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
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Copyright 2009 Carmelo Lisciotto H.E.A.R.T
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