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Return to Home Page Read Pearls and Lace: Poetry by Magdalena Klein (1920-1946), the youngest child of a middle-class Jewish family in northwestern Romania. She was an eyewitness to the rise of fascism in Europe and the horrors of World War II. The Ghosts That Haunt Us An in depth and moving survey of…
Return to “The Final Solution” | Facts “Resettlement” In a report entitled “Resettlement of Jews,” SS-Sturmbannführer Gricksch provided the following information for SS-Col. von Herff and Reichsführer-SS Himmler, after inspection between the 14th. and 16th. of May, 1943. (Fleming, 142) The Auschwitz camp plays a special role in the resolution of the Jewish question. The…
Return to “The Final Solution” | Facts “Special Treatment” In January of 1943, Dr. Richard Korherr, a noted statistician who was outside SS circles, working with Adolf Eichmann and camp commanders, began compiling reports and figures to present to Himmler. As Breitman relates,Korherr’s job was complicated by the fact that, even in a report designed…
Return to “The Final Solution” | Facts Tattooing Buszko, writing in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, explains why some prisoners were tattooed, while others were not: Prisoners were registered and received numbers tattooed on their left arm upon leaving the quarantine in Birkenau for forced labor in Auschwitz or in one of the subcamps. The…
Return to Witnesses of the Holocaust Kristallnacht Perspective “Among the emigrants was Zindel Grynszpan, who had been born in western Poland when it was part of the Imperial Reich and had moved to Hanover, where he established a small store, in 1911. On the night of October 27 Grynszpan and his family were rousted out…