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  List of famous Holocaust survivors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There are many famous Holocaust survivors who survived the Nazi genocides in Europe only to go 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.
The majority of these people survived incarceration in the Nazi concentration camps, but this is not strictly necessary for the purposes of this list.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_famous_Holocaust_survivors   (518 words)

  
 List of Holocaust victims - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of famous victims of the Holocaust, by country.
This list includes people from public life who, owing to their origins, their political or religious convictions, or their sexual orientation, lost their lives as a result of Nazism.
People who died in concentration camps are listed alongside those who were murdered by the National Socialists or who from political motives or to avoid being murdered chose suicide.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_famous_Holocaust_victims   (779 words)

  
 The Holocaust, Crimes, Heroes and Villains
The Holocaust was the systematic annihilation of six million Jews by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis during World War 2.
The Holocaust is a history of enduring horror and sorrow.
Yet there were acts of courage and kindness during the Holocaust - let me mention Men Of Courage, Father Kolbe, the good brother Albert Goering, Wilm Hosenfeld - a man of courage - and the story of Oscar Schindler, who continually risked his life to protect and save his Jewish workers.
www.auschwitz.dk   (596 words)

  
 Overlooked Millions: Non-Jewish Victims of the Holocaust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
This Holocaust has been largely ignored because historians who have written on the subject of the Holocaust have chosen to interpret the tragedy in exclusivistic terms--namely, as the most tragic period in the history of the Jewish Diaspora.
Victims of the Holocaust are those groups of people targeted for immediate death by the Nazis and their accomplices, or treated in such a way so as to knowingly lead to their eventual deaths.
Their victims, according to one survivor of four different concentration camps, "were of some thirty nationalities, from Nepalese to Andorrans, and of a variety of racial and linguistic stocks ranging from Basques to Buriats and from Ladinos to Lapps".
www.uca.edu /divisions/academic/history/cahr/holocaust.htm   (4929 words)

  
 The Purdue Exponent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Disputes continue about who should be included in the list of Holocaust victims, said a professor from the University of Chicago who spoke Sunday at the Holocaust Remembrance Conference.
Novick said one reason for disputes about who should be included in the list of Holocaust victims is because, of the 11 million deaths, five million were not Jewish.
During the war, the consequence for helping victims of the Holocaust would have been physical danger, while the consequence for helping those dying from malnutrition and disease would be foregoing luxuries, he said.
www.purdueexponent.org /2000/04/10/campus/peter.html   (298 words)

  
 Guide to Extraordinary State Commission records
The records are of both genealogical and historical interest because they contain numerous lists of Jewish victims as well as testimonies of witnesses and townspeople to the specific Nazi actions in a given locale.
So if you are looking for Holocaust victims, they may have died in a town other than their town of residence, and might appear on a nearby town's victim list.
Because space was at a premium, if the list for one town ends somewhere in the page, the list for the next town may begin directly after it.
www.angelfire.com /or/yizkor/rg22002m.html   (2377 words)

  
 Fatal Terrorist Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles
The victims: Yael Botwin, 14; Sivan Zarka, 14; Smadar Elhanan, 14; Rami Kozashvili, 20; and Eliahu Markowitz, 40 - all of Jerusalem.
The victims: Shlomo Nehmad (40), his wife Gafnit (32), and their daughters Shiraz (7) and Liran (3), of Rishon Lezion; Shaul Nehmad (15), of Rishon Lezion; Lidor Ilan (12) and his sister Oriah (18 months), of Rishon Lezion; Tzofia Ya'arit Eliyahu (23) and her son Ya'akov Avraham (7 months), of Jerusalem.
The victims: Galila Ades, 42, of Emmanuel; Yonatan Gamliel, 16, of Emmanuel; Keren Kashani, 29, of Emmanuel; Sarah Tiferet Shilon, 8 months, of Emmanuel; Gal Shilon (her father), 32, of Emmanuel; Zilpa Kashi (her grandmother), 65, of Givatayim; Ilana Siton, 35, of Emmanuel.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Terrorism/victims.html   (12463 words)

  
 Students Honor Holocaust Victims With Vigil, 24-Hour Name Reading - Daily Nexus Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
These are the first seven names, out of 72, on page 796 of a list of Holocaust victims.
The list is only partial: a list of some of the victims from one of the camps.
Bernstein, whose grandfather served in the U.S. army and was present for the liberation of a concentration camp, said reading the names tied in with his grandfather's stories on a personal level.
www.ucsbdailynexus.com /print_article.php?a=824   (486 words)

  
 No. 02-722: American Ins. Ass'n v. Garamendi - Amicus (Merits)
ICHEIC publishes a list that includes only the names of policyholders who are believed to have been Holocaust victims (based on information from various sources such as German census records) and those policyholders' years of birth.
HVIRA imposes those requirements for the express purpose of assisting Holocaust victims and their families in pursuing claims with respect to those policies, whether through "international process" or through judicial proceedings or enforcement actions by the State.
See Presidential Advisory Comm'n on Holocaust Assets in the United States, Plunder and Restitution: The U.S. and Holocaust Victims' Assets SR-15 (Dec. 2000) (Nazis "confiscat[ed] insurance monies" of "Jews fleeing Germany"); id. at SR-17 (Nazis "confiscat[ed] payments from insurers that were intended to compensate property owners for their damages" from the Kristallnacht pogrom).
www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/2002/3mer/1ami/2002-0722.mer.ami.html   (6922 words)

  
 Our Town of Urechye
They were produced to remember the events of the Holocaust as well as to remember life in those towns prior to the Holocaust.
On the theory that listing the names of these nearby settlements and place names might jog a few memories, the entire listing of settlements of Gorkovskaya Volost is presented.
Among the items from the Extraordinary State Commission is a victim list of 520 townspeople who were executed by the Nazis.
www.angelfire.com /or/yizkor/urechye.html   (3243 words)

  
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Listings of these records (over 5,000 reels microfilmed as of 1985) were published in "Avotaynu" and "The Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy".
There is usually a narrative section on the town's history, culture, institutions and rabbis, and sometimes a list of Holocaust victims, survivors, or emigrants.
For a list of BBSs that carry the echo, either: 1) download the file GBBSyymm.zip from your local BBS (where yy and mm are the most recent year and month respectively, e.g.
ftp.cac.psu.edu /pub/genealogy/roots-l/genealog/genealog.jewishg2   (3127 words)

  
 The Purdue Exponent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
When she was 29 and living in Austria at the beginning of Hitler's Nazi occupation, one of the speakers at the 19th annual Holocaust Remembrance Conference avoided being arrested by Nazi police by pretending she was a prostitute.
That was just one of the many stories told by Anna Akeley, a 96-year-old survivor of the Holocaust and former physics professor at Purdue, during her informal speech to about 200 students, professors and community members in the Class of 1950 Lecture Hall.
"The fact that I escaped the Holocaust was pure luck — nothing else," she said with an accent and a sigh.
www.purdueexponent.org /2000/04/10/campus   (398 words)

  
 HANDICAPPED
During the war, patients in asylums had ranked low on the list for rationing of food and medical supplies, and as a result, many died from starvation or disease.
There, gas chambers were disguised as showers complete with fake nozzles in order to deceive victims ---prototypes of the killing centers' facilities built in occupied Poland later in the war.
Despite precautions, errors were made: hairpins turned up in urns sent to relatives of male victims; the cause of death was listed as appendicitis when the patient had the appendix removed years before.
www.holocaust-trc.org /hndcp.htm   (2391 words)

  
 Mormons Baptize HOLOCAUST Victims   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Four years after the LDS Church agreed to stop posthumous baptisms for Jewish Holocaust victims, (more) perhaps the best - known of death camp martyrs -- Anne Frank and members of her family -- continue to pop up in Mormon temple and genealogical records.
Recognizing their crimes against humanity, particularly Holocaust victims, submissions for Nazi leaders are deemed inappropriate to a rite originated out of members' love for, and desire to perform sacred temple rites for, their ancestral dead.
"Yad Vashem is against this continued baptism of Holocaust victims and as a signatory to the agreement believes that steps should be taken to prevent future baptisms of this nature," she said.
nowscape.com /mormon/hitler_temple_2.htm   (1529 words)

  
 UWO Gazette - Volume 94, Issue 99   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Students have been reading the names of Holocaust victims into a microphone so passersby can hear the names of those who were killed.
Jewish Students' Union Holocaust awareness commissioners, Carla Lubell and Daniella Laski, who have been stationed outside the University Community Centre for the full 24 hours, said everyone is encouraged to read the names of the Holocaust victims on a volunteer basis.
World wide Holocaust foundations B'Nai B'rith and Yad Vashem, provided the JSU with the list of Holocaust victims' names from their database, said JSU president, Jordan Cares.
www.gazette.uwo.ca /2001/March/28/News4.htm   (362 words)

  
 List of Lipno Holocaust Victims   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Seifer Lipno has a list of names that appears in Hebrew.
That list was compiled for Israeli and overseas survivors and is organized by contributor.
The surnames in this list are in alphabetical order in Hebrew.
www.zchor.org /lipno/necrology.htm   (84 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Latin America/Caribbean / Largest Holocaust database is launched
JERUSALEM -- Israel's Holocaust museum launched a website yesterday giving Internet users access to biographical information on 3 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, the most comprehensive database of its kind.
The Yad Vashem museum's site, which will be formally unveiled today, digitizes the center's 50 years of work compiling information on Holocaust victims.
The list, the largest and most detailed available, can be accessed in both English and Hebrew.
www.boston.com /news/world/latinamerica/articles/2004/11/22/largest_holocaust_database_is_launched   (640 words)

  
 Reincarnation and the Holocaust FAQ (Part 1)
Rabbi Yonassan Gershom is the author of two books specifically on cases of reincarnation from the Holocaust, published by A.R.E. Press (Virginia Beach VA): Beyond the Ashes: Cases of Reincarnation from the Holocaust (1992) and From Ashes to Healing: Mystical Encounters with the Holocaust (1996).
If a Jew says he was a Holocaust victim in another life, people are going to say, "Look, you must have heard about it from your family during childhood, then forgot about it, and now you think it is a past-life memory." Which would be possible in such cases.
In the cases of people who believe they are reincarnated from the Holocaust, many do feel that they want to return to their people, and some have chosen to go all the way and convert.
www.pinenet.com /~rooster/bta-faq1.html   (6035 words)

  
 Switzerland & the Holocaust Assets -- Updates
This is an essential timeline of the events related to the international dispute on the handling and recovering of the Holocaust assets, with a special focus on Switzerland.
Deutsche maintains that Holocaust victims "won't be able to derive any concrete demands from today's discoveries".
The WJC suggested that once the rightful beneficiaires are paid back, 80 percent of the remaining amount should be paid out to victims of the Shoah and 20 percent should be used to fund educational projects.
www.giussani.com /holocaust-assets/updates/timeline13.html   (2701 words)

  
 CNN.com - Swiss banks publish Holocaust era accounts - Jan 14, 2005
Holocaust survivors or their heirs have six months, until July 13, to submit formal claims before a resolution tribunal in Zurich, Switzerland.
The list completes a process begun four years ago when the Swiss Bank Association published the names of 21,000 account holders who might have been the victims of German death camps whose families were unable to access their savings.
Neuborne said most accounts on the new list are not newly discovered but had not previously been published worldwide.
www.cnn.com /2005/LAW/01/13/holocaust.bank.accounts   (572 words)

  
 Comprehensive Holocaust Accountability in Insurance Measure
H. To clarify the authority of States to establish conditions for insurers to conduct the business of insurance within a State based on provision of information regarding Holocaust era insurance policies of the insurer and to establish a Federal cause of action for claims for payment of such insurance policies, and for other purposes.
(10) Holocaust victims and their families should be able to recover claims on Holocaust era insurance policies in Federal court when they deem it necessary to seek redress through the judicial system.
(B) was made by a listed Holocaust victim, or the heirs or beneficiaries of such victim, to the covered foreign insurance company or the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims.
www.theorator.com /bills108/hr1905.html   (1207 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Holocaust museum launches site with names of nearly 3M victims   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Holocaust museum launched a Web site Sunday giving Internet users access to biographical information on 3 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators — the most comprehensive database of its kind.
The Yad Vashem museum's site, which will be formally unveiled Monday, digitizes the center's 50 years of work compiling information on Holocaust victims.
The list — the largest and most detailed available — can be accessed in both English and Hebrew.
www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2004-11-22-nizkor_x.htm   (314 words)

  
 Asian Holocaust : Nanjing Massacre, Sex Slaves, Opium, WMD Unit 731, 100, 516, and Slavery
Victims were burned with flamethrowers, blown up with shrapnel, bombarded with lethal doses of X-ray, spun to death in centriguges, injected with animal blood, air bubbles, exposure to syphilis, surgical removal of stomachs with the esophagus then attached to the intestines, amputation of arms and reattachment on the opposite side, gassed to death in chambers.......
Victims were often taken to a proving ground called Anda, where they were tied to stakes and bombarded with test weapons to see how effective the new technologies were.
She shows visitors the Tragedy Pavilion which lists 1,500 plague victims, and describes how Unit 731 dropped plague-infected fleas from aircraft and killed 20 villagers a day at one point in 1942.
www.skycitygallery.com /japan/japan.html   (16159 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Students and Officials Remember Holocaust
Students, religious authorities and Harvard officials read out the names of Holocaust victims on the steps of Widener Library yesterday in observance of the Israeli holiday, Yom Hashoah.
The day-long reading was par of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel's observance of Yom Hashoah, a state holiday in Israel which commemorates the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, said Aimee L. Kahan '95, the event's organizer.
The names on the list were organized into units by family or camp.
www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=241916   (367 words)

  
 j. - Knesset releases list of Holocaust victims with Israeli accounts
A list of another 4,000 names of possible Holocaust survivors with accounts was also released.
Also released, with the cooperation of the relevant Israeli banks, is a 315-page summary report that details the work of the committee and the system for calculating restitution payments; it provides copies of documents used to prove the report’s veracity.
The calculations used by her committee are similar to those adopted by the Volker Committee, which examined Swiss bank liability to Holocaust victims, she added.
www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/24745/format/html/displaystory.html   (810 words)

  
 MavenSearch - A Portal to the Jewish World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
It is estimated that medical experiments on the victims of the Holocaust were conducted by about 200 Nazi doctors.
It is a list of FBI files that have become publicly available, so it includes many people who are not "criminals" at all, but were merely investigated by the FBI.
I know of no single listing of Nazi War criminals that are still at large with their photographs.
www.maven.co.il /ask/experts-browse.asp?E_ID=9&ID=18   (886 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)

  
 Scam uses memory of Holocaust victims
While the original version of this bogus letter claims to have access to a bank account in Nigeria, Bankrate recently received a version of the scam that claims to be from Switzerland.
Rather than money that belonged to warlords, this person claims to have access to funds that belonged to victims of the Holocaust who are now deceased and left no wills.
The beneficiary was murdered during the holocaust era, leaving no WILL and no possible records for trace of heirs.
www.bankrate.com /brm/news/advice/scams/419.asp   (898 words)

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