How You Can Help Holocaust Survivors
HOW THESE FUNDS WILL BE USED TO HELP HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
There are over 5,000 frail and lonely Holocaust survivors living throughout New York City.
iVolunteer is a dynamic visitation program that sends volunteers to the homes of Holocaust survivors, providing them with companionship and much-needed assistance. Our volunteers are [...]
Ravensbrück. Ravensbrueck Woman’s Concentration Camp
Ravensbrück or Ravensbrueck (German pronunciation: [ʁaːfənsˈbʁʏk]) was a notorious women’s concentration camp during World War II, located in northern Germany, 90 km north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel).
Construction of the camp began in November 1938 by SS leader Heinrich Himmler and was unusual [...]
Jewish Women During The Holocaust
More then 3 million women and children were killed in concentration camps. This film depicts some of the atrocities performed om women before murdered by the nazi’s
Jewish women, gypsy women, and other women including political dissidents in Germany and in Nazi-occupied countries were sent to concentration camps, forced to work, subjected [...]
Holocaust. Auschwitz Birkenau Video
Nazi Germany built a facility in 1942 known as A Death Factory for the purpose of exterminating the Jewish race.
Around 300 barracks were built on a 170-hectare site.
At its peak, 90,000 people were detained here at any one time to be killed.
Once people passed through this gate, [...]
Pictorial record Hungarian Jews arrive at Auschwitz May 44
The photos were taken at the end of May or beginning of June 1944, either by Ernst Hofmann or by Bernhard Walter, two SS men whose task was to take ID photos and fingerprints of the inmates (not of the Jews who were sent [...]
Auschwitz Concentration Camp Timeline 1940-1945
AUSCHWITZ CAMP OPENS
May 20, 1940
The Auschwitz I concentration camp opens with the arrival of 30 German prisoners. They are the first prisoners to receive serial numbers in the camp. German authorities will begin the deportation of Polish prisoners to Auschwitz in June 1940. Auschwitz I, the first camp opened in the [...]