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  Holocaust Webliography
Holocaust and War Victims Tracing and Information Center - A national clearinghouse from American Red Cross that assist persons seeking the fates of loved ones missing since the Holocaust and its aftermath.
Holocaust Memorial Center - Documents the horror of the period and the rich culture and history that was lost.
Holocaust Names - An attempt to compile a list of Holocaust survivors and relatives.
www.sabine.k12.la.us /sleitz/Holocaust.htm   (1018 words)

  
 Holocaust Survivors at Higher Long-Term Cancer Ri - Cancer information on MedicineNet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Breaking down cancer incidence by specific diseases, the authors found that Holocaust survivors were at a significantly higher risk for lung cancer, Kaposi's sarcoma (a rare form of skin malignancy), and prostate cancer.
Female Holocaust survivors faced more than double the risk for cancer of the large intestine and a 50 percent higher risk of developing breast cancer, the study found.
The authors called for Holocaust survivors and their families to be increasingly vigilant about cancer detection, particularly for breast and colorectal cancers, and to avail themselves of the free screenings for such diseases that are currently available in Israel.
www.medicinenet.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=62743   (1180 words)

  
 List of Holocaust survivors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There are many famous Holocaust survivors who survived the Nazi genocides in Europe and went on to achievements of great fame and notability.
Those listed here are, at the very least, residents of the parts of Europe occupied by the Axis powers during World War II targeted by the Holocaust who survived until the end of the Holocaust and the war.
Simon Srebnik, one of the 2 survivors of Chelmno
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Holocaust_survivors   (888 words)

  
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List of Holocaust Survivors from Grodno and Vicinity
This list is a compilation of names of survivors from the Jewish communities that existed in Grodno and vicinity prior to the Holocaust.
We have made strenuous efforts to make this list as inclusive as possible, but it must be assumed that there were survivors who were not in touch with any of the official or other organizations that were involved in assisting survivors after the Holocaust, and are not included in this list.
www.grodnoonline.com /grdn_svr.html   (256 words)

  
 Holocaust Survivors' Assistance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In order to assist Holocaust survivors or the families of Holocaust victims living in Washington State recover the proceeds from unpaid Holocaust-era insurance policies that were improperly denied or processed, the Washington State Legislature unanimously passed the Holocaust Victims Insurance Relief Act in 1999 that, among other things, established the Holocaust Survivors Assistance Office.
The following is a list of 2,301 names of policyholders from throughout Europe, arranged by country.
The establishment of a Holocaust Survivor Assistance Office to assist Holocaust survivors and/or the families and heirs of Holocaust victims in Washington State recover proceeds from insurance policies and other assets that were improperly denied or processed.
www.insurance.wa.gov /industry/holocaust/holocaust.asp   (1059 words)

  
 Holocaust/Shoah -- Survivors and Rescuers
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation: This official Web site for Stephen Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation briefly describes the Foundation's work and provides contact information (via postal mail or the Foundation's toll-free phone number).
Louisiana Holocaust Survivors' Home Page: Louisiana Holocaust survivors share their stories in interviews conducted by Plater Robinson, the Holocaust education specialist for the Southern Institute for Education and Research at Tulane University.
Holocaust Rescuers Bibliography: This bibliography, Rescuers During the Holocaust, lists works in English which discuss the lives and actions of rescuers (individuals and groups) during the Holocaust.
ddickerson.igc.org /survivors.html   (1903 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Holocaust Survivors (The Holocaust Remembered Series): Books: Tabatha Yeatts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Many of the survivors said that it was very tragic to see some of their family members being shot, for some unknown reason or dieing, or from starvation.
Her personalized accounts of Holocaust survivors provide details that give the reader an in-depth understanding of this period of history.
She goes on to relate the experiences of survivors as well as addressing issues and aims of the Nuremberg trials and the task to establish an independent state of Israel.
www.amazon.com /Holocaust-Survivors-Remembered/dp/0894909932   (1048 words)

  
 Treasury opposes bill to aid needy Holocaust survivors - Haaretz - Israel News
According to the wording of the law, "eligible Holocaust survivors" able to receive the new benefits are those who were interned in concentration camps or spent some part of the war in ghettos, or in hiding, whose economic situation is dire.
The second role of the law was to formulate an official list of all Holocaust survivors living in Israel today.
Flug stipulated that a survivor is any resident of Israel that lived part of the war in a state under the control of the Nazis or their allies, or that managed to flee said countries.
www.haaretz.com /hasen/spages/784405.html   (925 words)

  
 Holocaust
Lists of 1,800 people in the three camps including birth dates and places, maiden names and, in a few cases, death dates and residence addresses in Breslau.
The object had been buried since the Holocaust and included three bronze candelabras, a bronze menorah, 10 chandeliers and a Ner Tamid (eternal lamp) that once hung before the synagogue ark. Tomasz Kuncewicz is the director of the Auschwitz Jewish Center, a prayer and study complex near the site of the notorious death camp.
Holocaust Educational Foundation (HEF) - The Holocaust Educational Foundation is a private, non-profit organization established in 1980 by survivors, their children, and their friends in order to preserve and promote awareness of the reality of the Holocaust.
www.jewishwebindex.com /holcaust.htm   (7195 words)

  
 Links about the Holocaust
The intent of Gedenkdienst is to emphasize the recognition of Austria's part of the collective responsibility for the Holocaust and the responsibility for each and every one of us to remember and to fight for "never again" (quote from the speech of the former Austrian chancellor Franz Vranitzky, Jerusalem, June 1993).
A worldwide network of children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, all linked together with the common goals of preserving and honoring our legacy, sharing resources and programming ideas, providing emotional support to our members, and tackling issues of mutual interest.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is located in Washington, DC was constructed with private funds and serves as the US public statement about the Holocaust.
www.holocaust-trc.org /links.htm   (2028 words)

  
 Shalom Plock (6)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
I posted a list of Plock Holocaust survivors, names and the circumstances of their survival, prepared by the Plock Israeli Landsmanschaften, Mrs.
Please note that only Holocaust survivors are listed, excluding those who emigrated from Plock before the war.
Anyone who has information about other survivors not recorded for lack of knowledge, are kindly requested to contact me to update the list.
www.zchor.org /SHALOM6.HTM   (314 words)

  
 A Global Perspective...
As the population of Holocaust survivors ages, their needs are becoming more complex and more acute; more attention is also being drawn to the need to understand the impact of the Holocaust on the children of survivors and provide support to this group.
Firstly, Holocaust survivors are aging rapidly, and more and more are aware of their psychosocial needs.
Finally, it was felt that the issues arising from the situation of Holocaust survivors and their families will continue to be with us for a good number of years.
www.holocaust-trc.org /global.htm   (798 words)

  
 Holocaust
The history of the Holocaust: the systematic attempted destruction of the European Jews by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
Roma (Gypsies) in the Holocaust - O Porrajmos, The Devouring, the Roma Holocaust.
Zipple.com Holocaust - Holocaust education and rememberance site with information on museums, history and the concentration camps.
www.ability.org.uk /holocaust.html   (934 words)

  
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But, survivors often cry, it is obvious that the pain of the Holocaust still affects those who lived through it.
His granddaughter, Bella Steiner, was a survivor of Auschwitz, and she wanted him to be remembered.
At Ner Ya'akov, Holocaust survivors in their sunset years, are receiving healing love from Christians.
www.cbn.com /CBNNews/CWN/021304holocaust.asp   (911 words)

  
 Gorodenka Website -- Main Page
List of all towns within 15 mile radius of Gorodenka, includes distance and direction from Horodenka.
The majority of the Jews in Gorodenka, and those taken to Gorodenka from towns in the surrounding area, were killed in three separate actions: December, 1941 (500 deaths); 4 April, 1942 (1500 deaths); and 8-10 September, 1942 (1500 deaths).
List of Soviet citizens of Horodenka Region shot by German-Fascist invaders,from documents of a Soviet Commission for the investigation of military crimes 1944-46.
www.geocities.com /mrheckman/gorodenka   (545 words)

  
 Websites about the Holocaust
Facing History and Ourselves Facing History and Ourselves is a national educational and professional organization whose mission it is to engage students of diverse backgrounds to examine of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry.
Holocaust Museum Houston Guidelines for Teaching the Holocaust, calendar of events, exhibitions.
Holocaust Teacher Resource Center Educators (kindergarten through college) will find materials which can be brought into the classroom and studied.
www.wcupa.edu /_academics/holocaust/hweb.htm   (1164 words)

  
 Remembrance | Survivors Registry
REGISTRY OF The Museum honors as survivors any persons, Jewish or non-Jewish, who were displaced, persecuted, or discriminated against due to the racial, religious, ethnic, social, and political policies of the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945.
Although most of the survivors who have registered live in North America, the Museum now includes the names of survivors from all backgrounds living all over the world.
In April 1993, the Registry was transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. The Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors is located on the second floor of the Museum, where user-friendly touch-screen monitors allow visitors access to the database.
www.ushmm.org /remembrance/registry   (416 words)

  
 Part III - Faces and Voices of Holocaust Survivors
Mauthausen survivors cheer the soldiers of the 2nd Armored Division of the USThird Army.
She was lucky and survived; yet, she was not always convinced of the blessing of having survived totally alone, bereft of family, friends and her world.
Ella and Samuel Freilich, Holocaust Survivors from Czechoslovakia
isurvived.org /TOC-III.html   (1992 words)

  
 MIGS: The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
The project to collect unpublished diaries and memoirs written by Holocaust survivors in Canada was initiated some years ago by Professors Mervin Butovsky and Kurt Jonassohn.
The collected manuscripts were deposited in the Archives of Concordia University with the addition of an abstract and a list of key words with explanations.
At the present time we are launching the project Memoirs of Holocaust Survivors In Canada that will enable us to bring these testimonies to a wider audience.
migs.concordia.ca /survivor.html   (645 words)

  
 We Remember Anne Frank-- Teacher's Guide
This museum is the United State's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history and serves as this country's memorial to the millions who were murdered.
This site explains the mission of the Survivors of the Shoah [Hebrew for "Holocaust"] Visual History Foundation, which is to videotape and archive the accounts of as many surviving Holocaust victims as possible to provide a record for the future of this shameful chapter of history.
Six Holocaust survivors from Poland are interviewed about their lives before World War II, the changes they experienced as the war neared, and their memories of the Holocaust.
teacher.scholastic.com /frank/tguide.htm   (2628 words)

  
 Other Sites: Holocaust Information
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation was established by Steven Spielberg after the filming of 'Schindler's List' with an urgent mission: to chronicle, before it was too late, the firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and eyewitnesses, liberators and rescuers.
The Foundation is preserving the memory of the Holocaust to form the basis for tolerance education throughout the world.
The Holocaust Educational Foundation is a private, non-profit organization established in 1980 by survivors, their children, and their friends in order to preserve and promote awareness of the reality of the Holocaust.
www.nizkor.org /other-sites/holocaust-information.html   (1225 words)

  
 UNT Department of History: Holocaust, European Studies
The Holocaust History Project is a free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust denial.
Founded by Steven Spielberg in 1994, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to videotaping and archiving interviews of Holocaust survivors all over the world.
This site is dedicated to acknowledge and remember the five million non-Jewish victims and the millions of non-Jewish survivors that were also persecuted, tortured, and incarcerated in camps.
www.hist.unt.edu /web_resources/holocaust.htm   (524 words)

  
 USC College : News : October 2005 : USC Shoah Foundation Institute
The Shoah Foundation visual archives honor Holocaust survivors, their families and the indomitable spirit of the human culture.
Sher, whose 89-year-old grandfather Joseph is a Holocaust survivor, was among the nearly 2,000 people who packed the university’s Bovard Auditorium, where Spielberg and USC President Steven B. Sample announced the establishment of the new institute Oct. 20.
He was in Poland filming “Schindler’s List,” when Holocaust survivors arrived to watch the reenactment of an event in their own lives.
www.usc.edu /schools/college/news/october_2005/shoah.html   (1007 words)

  
 Federation in the News: Holocaust Survivors Gather for Fun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Unlike other institutions and programs geared toward helping survivors with their physical and emotional problems, Cafe Europa's approach stands out in that it brings survivors together not for the express purpose of remembering, but gives them a chance to forget.
Six survivors from different countries — Libya, Greece, France, Romania, Poland and Hungary — lit candles in memory of their families, communities and others who died in the Holocaust.
Durstman was a child of the Holocaust, and said he was jealous of older survivors [like those in the room], who have memories of their families, their hometowns, of life before the war, and who they are in general.
www.jewishla.org /news/html/holocaustsurvivors_2.html   (1009 words)

  
 University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Mission Statement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
CHGS is an independent center that was established with a mixture of private endowment and CLA support at the University of Minnesota in 1997.
To be a center for information and teaching about the Holocaust (destruction of European Jewry) and contemporary aspects of genocide (as defined by the UN Convention).
Establish an inventory of resources on the Holocaust in the Twin Cities to include: Books, original sources, videotape library, list of Holocaust survivors and members of the second generation.
www.chgs.umn.edu /Contact_Information/About_CHGS/CHGS_Mission_Statement/chgs_mission_statement.html   (467 words)

  
 Comprehensive Holocaust Accountability in Insurance Act   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
(10) Holocaust victims and their families should be able to recover claims on Holocaust era insurance policies in Federal court when they consider it necessary to seek redress through the judicial system.
(B) was made by a listed Holocaust victim, or the heirs of beneficiaries of such victim, to the covered foreign insurance company or the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims.
(3) OTHER LISTS- Any individual whose name is on any list of Holocaust victims that is designated as appropriate for use under this Act by the chief executive officer of a State or a State insurance commissioner or other principal insurance regulatory authority of a State.
www.theorator.com /bills108/s972.html   (1174 words)

  
 Shoah
This page and candles are lovingly dedicated to the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust, especially my grandfather's family and extended family.
Holocaust Era Issues, Claims and Restitution: If you are a Holocaust survivor or an heir of a survivor, you may have a legitimate claim from the Holocaust era.
Women and the Holocaust ~ under this link is the story of finding my grandfather's family in Lithuania who survived ~ choose Generation to Generation, then Roots in the Holocaust
home.ptd.net /~nikki/holocaust.htm   (1778 words)

  
 Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs'and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs'and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, is the Jewish people’s memorial to the murdered Six Million and symbolizes the ongoing confrontation with the rupture engendered by the Holocaust.
Containing the world’s largest repository of information on the Holocaust, Yad Vashem is a leader in Shoah education, commemoration, research and documentation.
www.yadvashem.org   (146 words)

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