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Aufseherin ([ˈaʊ̯fˌzeːəʁɪn], pl. Aufseherinnen) was the position title for a female guard in Nazi concentration camps. Of the 50,000 guards who served in the concentration camps, training records indicate that approximately 3,500 were women. [1] In 1942, the first female guards arrived at Auschwitz and Majdanek from Ravensbrück. The ...
Jan 16, 2012 · The bilingual (German/English) Book of Remembrance is available from the Bergen-Belsen Memorial for EUR 28 plus shipping. The book is free of charge for survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
"The Genesis and Structure of the National Socialist Concentration Camps". Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps and Subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA). Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945. Vol. 1. Indiana University Press. pp. 183–196. ISBN 978-0-253-35328-3. Piper, Franciszek (1994).
After the beginning of the war, the concentration camps also became sites for the mass murder of small targeted groups deemed dangerous for political or racial reasons by the Nazi authorities. For example, several hundred Dutch Jews were rounded up in retaliation for a Dutch transit strike in protest of Nazi persecution of Jews in the Netherlands in the winter of 1941.
Reel 15 contains an alphabetical typed list of Dachau prisoners prepared after WWII. Contains only names from Babel to Bystrom. Includes survivors. Generally includes name, date and place of birth, last residence, type of prisoner and what happened to that individual. Reel 16 continues Reel 15 for names beginning with the letter A and C-G.
Nazi concentration camps in Czechoslovakia (1 C, 6 P) E. Nazi concentration camps in Estonia (1 C, 2 P) F. Nazi concentration camps in France (3 C, 11 P) G.
Killing centers (also referred to as "extermination camps" or "death camps") were designed to carry out genocide. Between 1941 and 1945, the Nazis established five killing centers in German-occupied Poland —Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Auschwitz-Birkenau (part of the Auschwitz camp complex). Chelmno and Auschwitz were established ...
