Birkenau may mean the following. Germany Birkenau Odenwald , a municipality in the Odenwald located in the South of Hesse in Germany Poland German name for the Polish village Brzezinka Auschwitz Birkenau , a German concentration camp during World War II located near Brzezinka See also Brzezinka disambiguation geodis Category German toponyms Category German exonyms de Birkenau es Birkenau fr Birkenau id Birkenau it Birkenau disambigua nl Birkenau ja no Birkenau pl Birkenau ... more details
Infobox German location Name Birkenau image photo Birkenau rathaus.jpg image caption Town hall Wappen Wappen Birkenau Odenwald .png lat deg 49 lat min 33 lat sec 45 lon deg 8 lon min 42 lon sec 25 Lageplan Birkenau in HP.svg Bundesland Hessen Regierungsbezirk Darmstadt Landkreis Bergstra e H he 120 Fl che ... 06 4 31 004 LOCODE DE BIA Gliederung 8 parts Adresse Hauptstra e 119 br 69488 Birkenau Website http www.birkenau.de www.birkenau.de B rgermeister Ingrid Berbner Partei Birkenau in the Odenwald ..., green and dotted with horse farms and forests. Neighbouring communities Birkenau borders in the north ... Neckar Kreis in Baden W rttemberg . Constituent communities Birkenau s Ortsteil e are Birkenau, Buchklingen ... to its location near the Bergstra e, a mild climate prevails in Birkenau, which can often be seen in what for Germany is a very early blossoming of almond trees. History Image Birkenau schloss.JPG thumb 200px Schloss BirkenauBirkenau had its first documentary mention in 795 in the Lorsch Codex as a cell ... denominations. In 1532 the town hall was built, and in 1771 the palace, Schloss Birkenau, of the Lords ..., Birkenau celebrated its 1,200 year jubilee. Politics Image Birkenau rathaus.jpg thumb 200px ... right 2 FWV Freie W hlervereinigung Birkenau align right 21.0 align right 8 align right 13.6 align right ... to bear these arms. Economy and infrastructure Tourism In the Birkenau constituent community of Schnorrenbach ... Birkenau lies in the area served by the Verkehrsverbund Rhein Neckar , a transport authority serving the Rhine Neckar Area . Birkenau railway station is on the Weschnitztalbahn railway Weinheim F rth ... times. Until 1999, Bundesstra e 38 ran through Birkenau. With the opening of the Saukopftunnel , this road ... 3408. Public institutions Freibad Birkenau outdoor swimming pool Hallenbad Langenberg indoor ... wand Schloss Birkenau, a Baroque architecture Baroque palatial residence with the palace park of the Baron ... Birkenau, a primary school Nature Around Birkenau are several nature conservation areas ... more details
Infobox Museum name Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum native name native name lang Polish image Entrance Auschwitz I.jpg imagesize 250 caption Entrance to Auschwitz Auschwitz I , May 2006 alt map type map ... 13 Museum timeline , Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum, accessed December 21, 2009. ref dissolved ... curator publictransit network website http en.auschwitz.org.pl m The Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum Polish language Polish Pa stwowe Muzeum Auschwitz Birkenau is a memorial and museum in O wi cim ... Birkenau. It is devoted to the memory of the murders in both camps during World War II . The museum ... I , Auschwitz II Auschwitz concentration camp Birkenau , the train ramp between Auschwitz and Birkenau, which was used as a debarkation stop between 1942 1944. The three kilometres between Auschwitz and Birkenau are within walking distance. The museum is situated in several original buildings ... Birkenau Walk of Death.jpg left thumb Gate in Auschwitz Birkenau leading to crematorium IV and V. 300px ... Paul II held a mass in Birkenau and called the camp a Golgotha of our times . In 1962 a prevention zone around the museum in Birkenau and in 1977 one around the museum in Auschwitz was established in order ... cross File Auschwitz snow near block 11 .jpg left thumb Photo of Auschwitz Birkenau near block 11 ... Article on Auschwitz Birkenau Museum http www.jewish guide.pl sites auschwitz birkenau museum ref ... was Auschwitz Birkenau, with the subtitle German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp ... investigate the theft. Notes reflist External links http en.auschwitz.org.pl m Auschwitz Birkenau ... Auschwitz Birkenau Museum http www.jewish guide.pl sites auschwitz birkenau museum coord 50 2 ... Poland Voivodeship de Staatliches Museum Auschwitz Birkenau el es Museo estatal Auschwitz Birkenau fr Mus e national Auschwitz Birkenau ja nl Staatsmuseum Auschwitz Birkenau pl Pa stwowe Muzeum Auschwitz Birkenau w O wi cimiu ru ... more details
Infobox Non profit Non profit name Auschwitz Birkenau Foundation Non profit logo Non profit type Foundation nonprofit organization foundation founded date 2009, Warsaw , Poland location Warsaw , Poland key people Piotr Cywi ski , President of the Foundation br W adys aw Bartoszewski , Chairman of the Council ... Birkenau Memorial Site method fundraising and managing funds for conservation homepage http en.auschwitz.org.pl ... Auschwitz Birkenau Foundation created in 2009 by Wladyslaw Bartoszewski , aims in gathering ... of the Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial Site. Aim and objectives of the Foundation The main objective of the Foundation ... camp KL Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II Birkenau concentration camp supervised by the Auschwitz Birkenau ... dla biura Fundacji Auschwitz Birkenau publisher www.warschau.diplo.de work 18 June 2010 accessdate ... bodies of the Auschwitz Birkenau Foundation the Council, the International Committee, the Management ... , Rafa Pi ro and Jacek Kastelaniec who is the Director General of the Auschwitz Birkenau ... Council creating the new main exhibition at the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum. Henryk Flug former ... about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum Birkenau. Edward Kosakowski ... of Fine Arts in Krak w, member of the Board of Trustees of the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum. Pawe ... Board and also Director of the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum, long serving secretary ... 2010, Ph.D. in history. Rafa Pi ro deputy director of the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum responsible ... at the Museum and creator of the conservation workshops and laboratories at the Auschwitz Birkenau ... for fundraising for the statutory activity of the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum, graduate ... Birkenau Foundation selectively choose the appropriate banking institution in which the endowment ... , Antoni F. Reczek , Ekkehard Thiesler and Claude Trink . See also Auschwitz Birkenau International ... Fundacja Auschwitz Birkenau ... more details
Franciszek Piper born 1941 is a Polish scholar, historian and author. Most of his work concerns the Jewish Holocaust , especially the history of the concentration camps at Auschwitz . Dr. Piper is credited as one of the historians who helped establish a more accurate number of victims of Auschwitz Birkenau death camps. According to his research, at least 1.1 million people perished at Auschwitz Birkenau, of whom about 1 million were Jewish. He is the author of several books and chair of the Historical Department at the Auschwitz State Museum. External links http www.nizkor.org ftp.cgi people p piper.franciszek press daily.texan.1093 Piper on David Cole http www.auschwitz.org.pl Auschwitz Birkenau Museum Official Website Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Piper, Franciszek ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1941 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Piper, Franciszek Category 1941 births Category Living people Category Historians of the Holocaust Category Polish historians Holocaust stub Poland historian stub cs Franciszek Piper de Franciszek Piper nl Franciszek Piper pl Franciszek Piper uk ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2008 Liana Millu b. Pisa , December 21 1914 February 6 2005 was a Jewish Italian journalist, resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor, best known for her autobiography Smoke over Birkenau . Bio Millu was raised by her grandparents, and has spent most of her life in Genoa. She worked as a journalist for il Telegrafo and schoolteacher and joined the Italian partisans in 1943. She was arrested in 1944 and deported to Auschwitz Birkenau. After the war she returned to Italy became a book author. Her work is included in the Italian anthology, Twentieth Century Ligurian Writers. Works Smoke over Birkenau translated by novelist Lynne Sharon Schwartz, who won the 1991 PEN Renato Poggioli translation award 1994 ISBN 0 8101 1569 7 The Bridges of Schwerin novel , winner of the 1978 Viareggio Prize Josephia s Shirt collection of stories From Liguria to the Extermination Camps non fiction See also Primo Levi Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Millu, Liana ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1914 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH February 6, 2005 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Millu, Liana Category Italian Jews Category Italian memoirists Category Italian novelists Category Italian resistance members Category Jewish writers Category Nazi concentration camp survivors Category 1914 births Category 2005 deaths de Liana Millu it Liana Millu ... more details
Brzezinka German Birkenau is a village in southern Poland, site of the Auschwitz Birkenau Nazi death camp. Brzezinka may also refer to the following places Brzezinka, Lower Silesian Voivodeship south west Poland Brzezinka, Byt w County in Pomeranian Voivodeship north Poland Brzezinka, Krak w County in Lesser Poland Voivodeship south Poland Brzezinka, Gmina Andrych w in Lesser Poland Voivodeship south Poland Brzezinka, Gmina Brze nica in Lesser Poland Voivodeship south Poland Brzezinka, Gmina Karczew in Masovian Voivodeship east central Poland Brzezinka, Gmina Sobienie Jeziory in Masovian Voivodeship east central Poland Brzezinka, Greater Poland Voivodeship west central Poland Brzezinka, Lubusz Voivodeship west Poland Brzezinka, Krosno Odrza skie County in Lubusz Voivodeship west Poland Brzezinka, Opole Voivodeship south west Poland Brzezinka, S upsk County in Pomeranian Voivodeship north Poland Brzezinka, West Pomeranian Voivodeship north west Poland Brzezinka redzka geodis DEFAULTSORT Brzezinka Category Polish toponyms de Brzezinka nl Brzezinka pl Brzezinka ... more details
Jan Sehn April 22, 1909 December 12, 1965 , was a Poland Polish lawyer , 1945 47 investigation judge , and professor at Jagiellonian University since 1961. He was member of the Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes , and Chairman of the Krak w District Commission until 1953. In 1945 46 he led the investigations on the site of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz Birkenau . As an investigation judge he prepared the accusation act of the former camp commandant Rudolf H . From 1949 director of the Institute of Forensic Research in Krak w . Sehn died suddenly 1965 in Frankfurt . In 1966 Institute of Forensic Research in Krak w was named after Jan Sehn. He was the cousin of Wanda Szczerba 1910 1998 , who was married to engineer and technical director of Fablok Klemens Stefan Sielecki 1903 1980 . Selected publications Wspomnienia Rudolfa Hoessa komendanta obozu o wi cimskiego , ed. Jan Sehn, Warsaw, 1960. Konzentrationslager Oswiecim Brzezinka Auschwitz Birkenau , Warsaw, 1957. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Sehn, Jan ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1909 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1965 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Sehn, Jan Category Polish lawyers Category 1909 births Category 1965 deaths Category Jagiellonian University faculty Poland bio stub lawyer stub pl Jan Sehn ... more details
The berwald is a wooded area in the southeast of Bergstra e district Bergstra e district in Hesse , Germany , between the Anterior and Hinder Odenwald , comprising the communities of Abtsteinach , Grasellenbach and Wald Michelbach . Wald Michelbach is the berwald s central community. The name was likely first used by the inhabitants of the neighbouring Weschnitz valley. The direction of view from this valley goes over the higher elevation at the Tromm, over the forest ber den Wald in German language German towards the higher lying places Wald Michelbach, Abtsteinach and Grasellenbach. The places lying in the berwald from Abtsteinach to Grasellenbach are Unter Abtsteinach , Ober Abtsteinach, Mackenheim, Siedelsbrunn, Kreidach, Stallenkandel, Ober Mengelbach, Gadern, Wald Michelbach , Ober Sch nmattenwag, Unter Sch nmattenwag, Aschbach, Hartenrod, Affolterbach, Kocherbach, Grasellenbach Wahlen , Scharbach, Tromm a place as well as a hill , Litzelbach, Hammelbach and Gras Ellenbach. Neighbouring communities The places neighbouring the berwald are Gorxheimertal Bergstra e district , Heiligkreuzsteinach Baden W rttemberg , Sch nau Odenwald Sch nau Baden W rttemberg , Birkenau Odenwald Birkenau Bergstra e district , M rlenbach Bergstra e district , Rimbach Odenwald Rimbach Bergstra e district , Heddesbach Baden W rttemberg , Eberbach Baden Eberbach Baden W rttemberg , Rothenberg Odenwaldkreis , F rth Odenwald F rth Bergstra e district , Mossautal Odenwaldkreis , Reichelsheim Odenwald Reichelsheim Odenwaldkreis and Beerfelden Odenwaldkreis . References de coord 49.5833 N 08.8166 E display title DEFAULTSORT Uberwald Category Forests and woodlands of Germany Category Bergstra e district de berwald ... more details
Emil Kaschub was a German doctor who conducted experiments on Nazi concentration camp prisoners. On the instructions of the Wehrmacht , healthy prisoners were subjected to applications and injections of toxic substances. The subsequent wound s, often festering and blister ed, were documented for scientific enlightenment. ref Auschwitz, A History in Photographs ed. Teresa Swiebocka Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum, 1990. ref References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Kaschub, Emil ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Kaschub, Emil Category Nazi physicians Category Nazi human subject research Category Holocaust perpetrators Germany med bio stub Holocaust stub WWII bio stub de Emil Kaschub nl Emil Kaschub pl Emil Kaschub ... more details
Smole may refer to the following places Smole , Silesian Voivodeship south Poland Smole , Warmian Masurian Voivodeship north Poland Smole , West Pomeranian Voivodeship north west Poland Smole is the name of the following persons Bohdan Smole born 1947 , Polish comedian and actor Kazimierz Smole 1920 2012 , Polish political prisoner of KZ Auschwitz and latterly long term director of Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum Other meanings The Stayman convention Smolen Smolen convention is used in the game of contract bridge disambig de Smole pl Smole ... more details
rlh class wikitable float right BS header Weschnitz Valley Railway br Weschnitztalbahn BS daten DE KBS 654 STRECKENNR 4104 L NGE convert 16.5 km mi 1 abbr on SPURWEITE RailGauge 1435 STROMG STROMW STROMD ZAHNSTANGE NEIGUNGA NEIGUNG RADIUS V MAX BILDPFAD KARTE Karte weschnitztalbahn in deutschland.png PIXEL KARTE BS table BS BHF 0 Weinheim station Weinheim BS ABZlf Branch off to the Main Neckar Railway BS WBR CKE Weschnitz BS BUE Bundesstra e 3 B 3 BS TUNNEL1 1,6 Tunnel 1 Weinheim Tal 132 m BS eHST 1,7 Weinheim Tal BS WBR CKE 1,8 Weschnitz and Birkenau Valley Road Length 104.11 m BS eABZrf 1,9 Hildebrand sche M hle Steinbruch abgebrochen BS BR CKE 2,0 Weschnitz und Birkenau Valley Road Length 52.2 m BS TUNNEL2 2,2 Tunnel 2 Weinheim Tal 136 m BS TUNNEL2 2,4 Tunnel 3 Weinheim Tal 85 m BS SBR CKE 2,6 Forstweg BS BUE old B 38 BS WBR CKE Weschnitz BS BHF 3,3 Birkenau Odenwald Birkenau BS HST 6,7 Reisen Hessen Reisen Hess BS BUE Bundesstra e 38 B 38 BS HST 9,1 M rlenbach Keilbahnhof BS eABZrf to the berwald Railway Points lifted BS HST 11,3 Zotzenbach BS WBR CKE Weschnitz BS HST 13,4 Rimbach Odenwald Rimbach BS BUE Bundesstra e 38 B 38 BS HST 14,9 L rzenbach Fahrenbach Odenwald Fahrenbach BS WBR CKE Weschnitz BS BHF 16,4 F rth Odenwald F rth Odenw BS xENDEe 16,6 current end of the line buffer stop BS exENDEe 16,8 original end of the line The Weschnitz Valley Railway German Weschnitztalbahn is a railway line in Germany that runs from Weinheim an der Bergstra e the in the valley of the River Weschnitz to F rth Odenwald F rth im Odenwald . External links http www.efweinheim.de Weinheim Railway Society http weschnitztalbahn.de.vu History of the Weschnitztalbahn and information about the work of IG Pro Schiene Weschnitztal and berwaldbahn http www.eisenbahn tunnelportale.de lb inhalt tunnelportale 4104.html Tunnel portals on the Weschnitz Valley Railway http www.grimmbahnfotos.de gallery2 main.php?g2 itemId 59 Photographs of the berwald and Weschnitz Valley Railways Category ... more details
H cker also transliterated Hoecker in other languages is a German surname. People and things named H cker include People Hanskurt H cker , German Wehrmacht military officer Karl Friedrich H cker , German SS military officer Karl Heinz H cker , German theoretical nuclear physicist. Wilhelm H cker , German politician Four notable German writers Oskar H cker 1840 1894 Gustav H cker 1832 1911 Oskar s brother Paul Oskar H cker 1865 1944 Oskar s son Karla H cker 1901 1992 Paul Oskar s daughter Other H cker Album , an album of photographs collected by SS officer Karl Friedrich H cker at Auschwitz Birkenau See also Hocker disambiguation disambig ... more details
Peter Voss sometimes misspelled as Foss , ref name bezwinska cite book last Bezwi ska first Jadwiga title Amidst A Nightmare of Crime year 1973 publisher Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum pages 51 52 coauthors Czech, Danuta ref Vost or Vast , ref name memorial cite book last Memorial de La Shoah title Des voix sous la cendre manuscrits des Sonderkommandos d Auschwitz Birkenau year 2006 publisher Hachette publisher Librairie g n rale fran aise isbn 9782253115250 pages 185 ref born December 18, 1897, in Flensburg , Germany , date of death unknown was an Schutzstaffel SS Oberscharf hrer , known for his role as a commander of the crematoria and gas chambers at Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz Birkenau , ref name debski cite book last D bski first Jerzy title Death Books from Auschwitz Remnants year 1995 publisher K. G. Saur Verlag . Original from the University of Michigan Press isbn 9783598112621 pages 277 coauthors Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum ref buildings which were used to gas and burn some 900,000 of the 1.1 million people that perished at Auschwitz in Poland . ref name bbc cite web url http www.bbc.co.uk history worldwars genocide holocaust overview 05.shtml title A View of the Holocaust Industrial killing Auschwitz Birkenau last Paulsson first Steve date January 1, 2003 publisher BBC accessdate 2011 07 07 ref Life During the spring and early summer of 1943, the four crematoria at Auschwitz Birkenau became operational. ref name anatomy165 cite book title Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp publisher Indiana University Press isbn 9780253326843 author Piper, Franciszek chapter Gas Chambers and Crematoria page 165 ref It was this time that Voss became their commander, thus becoming the first of three people who would be in charge of all four Birkenau crematoria during the history of the camp. Subsequent commanders were SS Oberscharf hrer Eric Muhsfeldt and SS Hauptscharf hrer Otto Moll . Voss is frequently mentioned in the memoirs of Sonderkommando member Fil ... more details
name Polska He was one of the creators of the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum , established in 1947 ... of the liberation of Auschwitz Birkenau. ref name dailymail http www.dailymail.co.uk news article ... 1945 . Route Sixty Six Publishing, 1995. K. Smole , translated by Stephen Lee. Auschwitz Birkenau ... more details
concentration camp in late 1942 or early 1943 br Photograph credit Auschwitz Birkenau State ... was ordered to take at Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz memorialized in the Auschwitz Birkenau ... Birkenau, in Poland, and is among those memorialized in the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum ... Czes awa Kwoka work Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial and Museum publisher Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum, Poland accessdate 2008 08 29 quote Kwoka, Czeslawa Wolka Zlojecka b.1928 ... Block no. 6 Exhibition The Life of the Prisoners format World Wide Web Web publisher Auschwitz Birkenau ... department. Photograph by Ryszard Domasik. Copyright 1999 2008 Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum ... to Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz Birkenau from 1940 to 1945. ref name LatestNews2006 cite ... Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum, Poland date June 6, 2003 accessdate 2008 08 29 ref The Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum s Centre for Education About the Holocaust and Auschwitz ... duress at Auschwitz Birkenau by Wilhelm Brasse , a young Polish inmate in his twenties known as Auschwitz ... camp Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial and Museum format World Wide Web Web publisher Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum accessdate 2008 08 29 quote Brasse, Wilhelm b.3.12.1917 ywiec ... populate memorial displays at the Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum , where ... Lucas ref name Shoffman Captions attached to the photographs in the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum ... Birkenau State Museum s photographic memorial to prisoners who did not survive ... Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum, Poland date Copyright 1999 2008 accessdate 2008 09 03 quote Taking ... photographs or mug shots displayed on a wall in the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum s permanent ... thumb right Czes awa Kwoka in 1942 or 1943. Photograph credit Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum and Wilhelm ... of these photographs of Kwoka. ref name Keane As a visitor to the Auschwitz Birkenau State ... more details
Birkenau occupation Photographer 1940 1945 nationality Polish Wilhelm Brasse born 3 December ..., along with other young men, at the Polish Hungarian border and deported to KL Auschwitz Birkenau as prisoner ... b zgonow&s Brasse&language EN title Wilhelm Brasse work Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial and Museum format Web publisher Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum accessdate 29 August 2008 quote Brasse, Wilhelm ...? some 500 ? are on display in the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum and at Yad Vashem , the Holocaust ... returning home to ywiec, a few miles from KL Auschwitz Birkenau, Brasse tried to start taking pictures ... business. ref name Keane Although he has gone back to the State Museum at Auschwitz Birkenau, to talk ... Mensfelt, spokesman of the Auschwitz Birkenau museum, says some 200,000 such pictures were ... Lucas blockquote Some photographs credited to Brasse are in the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum s permanent ... of the Prisoners format Web publisher Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum, Poland date 5 October 2006 ... Domasik. Copyright 1999 2008 Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum, Poland. Dead link date October ... the Site of the Death Camp format Web publisher Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum, Poland date ... Silesia Poland Birkenau Auschwitz III Monowitz Auschwitz II. Photographer Wilhelm Brasse. Credit ... identification photographs credited to the National Auschwitz Birkenau Museum the Auschwitz Birkenau .... Auschwitz, Poland, between 1940 and 1945. National Museum of Auschwitz Birkenau. ref ref name ID3163 .... National Museum of Auschwitz Birkenau ref ref name ID3164 cite web url http www.ushmm.org wlc ... later. Auschwitz, Poland. National Museum of Auschwitz Birkenau ref Documentary film The Portraitist ... concentration camp prisoners exhibited in the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum, in Poland ... new index.php?tryb news big&language EN&id 660 New Book from Auschwitz Birkenau Museum Memorial Book ... The Expulsion of Polish Civilians from the Zamosc Region . Auschwitz Birkenau ... more details
Infobox person image imagesize 150px name Olga Lengyel caption birth date 1908 birth place Transylvania , Romania death date 2001 aged 93 death place residence title occupation Author Olga Lengyel October 19, 1908 April 15, 2001 was a Romanian woman who became a prisoner at the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp, and later wrote about her experiences in her book Five Chimneys . Life and career Olga Lengyel was a trained surgical assistant in Cluj Napoca Cluj , Romania , working in the hospital where her husband, Dr. Miklos Lengyel, was director. She was deported with her husband, parents and children to the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp, south west Poland , in the spring of 1944. She was the only member of the family to survive. She wrote about her experiences in the Holocaust in her autobiography, Five Chimneys , first published in 1947. After the war, she emigrated to the United States. According to the website of the Memorial Library, Olga founded the Memorial Library, located at 58 East 79th Street, which was chartered by the University of the State of New York. Olga died in 2001 at the age of 93, having battled and survived three separate bouts of cancer. In 2006, the Memorial Library began the Holocaust Educator Network, a national program for teachers interested in and committed to Holocaust education, especially in rural schools and small towns, in a partnership with the National Writing Project s Rural Sites Network. The program is directed by Dr. Sondra Perl, author of On Austrian Soil Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate . ref http www.novelguide.com a discover rghl 01 rghl 01 00138.html ref ref http jewwishes.wordpress.com 2008 06 27 jew wishes on five chimneys by olga lengyel ref ref http www.thememoriallibrary.org olga.html ref See also List of Holocaust survivors References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Lengyel, Olga ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1908 PLACE OF BIRTH Transylvania , Romania DAT ... more details
Orphan date March 2011 Tadeusz Wiejowski died 1941 was a Poles Polish shoemaker , and victim of Nazism . Tadeusz Wiejowski was imprisoned in Auschwitz on 14 June 1940, his number was 220. He escaped on 6 July 1940 with help from Polish civil workers employed in Auschwitz, Boles aw Bicz, Emil Kowalowski, Stanis aw Mrzyg d, J zef Muszy ski i J zef Patek. Four of them were members of Zwi zek Walki Zbrojnej , Polish military organization. Wiejowski received from them civil clothes, food and money and ran away by train. On 8 July 1940, Wiejowski s helpers were arrested and imprisoned in Auschwitz. They died there only Boles aw Bicz survived the war. Wiejowski spent a year in Ko aczyce , where he lived secretly with family. But at the end of 1941 he was again arrested and imprisoned in Jas o , where he was killed. References http pl.auschwitz.org.pl m index.php?option com content&task view&id 61&Itemid 12 Muzeum Auschwitz Birkenau Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wiejowski, Tadeusz ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION First who escaped Auschwitz Birkenau DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1941 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wiejowski, Tadeusz Category People who died in Nazi concentration camps Category Deaths by firearm in Poland Category 1941 deaths Category Shoemakers Category Polish civilians killed in World War II Category Auschwitz concentration camp inmates cs Tadeusz Wiejowski pl Tadeusz Wiejowski sk Tadeusz Wiejowski ... more details
The following few lines create the Infobox table template. Please scroll down to edit the main content of the article. Infobox river name Weschnitz image name Verlaufskarte Weschnitz.png image size image alt The course of the Weschnitz. caption The course of the Weschnitz. image map map size map alt map caption origin coord 49 38 22.4 N 8 49 43.1 E name Weschnitz source mouth coord 49 42 39 N 8 24 36 E name Weschnitz mouth basin countries progression Rhine North Sea length 58.9 km elevation 455 m mouth elevation 84.9 m discharge watershed 435.725 km river system Rhine left tribs right tribs End Infobox template table The Weschnitz is a 58.9 km long right tributary of the Rhine Rhine River running through the German state s of Hesse and Baden W rttemberg . The name of the river traces to the Gallo Roman religion Celtic god Visucius , who was worshiped in the region. The river source is in the Odenwald , in the town of Grasellenbach . It then flows in a westerly direction through a number of communities, including F rth, Hesse F rth , Rimbach Odenwald Rimbach , M rlenbach and Birkenau Odenwald Birkenau . At Weinheim , the river splits into two branches as it enters the Upper Rhine Plain . The two courses join at Lorsch . It then flows through the communities of Einhausen and Biblis before emptying into the Rhine at the Biblis Nuclear Power Plant . Rhine Tributaries Category Rivers of North Rhine Westphalia BadenWurttemberg geo stub Hesse geo stub da Weschnitz de Weschnitz no Weschnitz nn Weschnitz ru ... more details
Auschwitz , in English, commonly refers to the Auschwitz concentration camp complex built by Nazi Germany during World War II. Auschwitz may also refer to A former German name for the Polish town of O wi cim , after which the concentration camp was named Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum , a museum and memorial for the victims of the concentration camp Auschwitz A Doctor s Eyewitness Account , the 1961 book by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli Auschwitz film Auschwitz film , film by director Uwe Boll Auschwitz The Nazis and the Final Solution or Auschwitz Inside the Nazi State , a six part BBC documentary about the concentration camp See also Austerlitz, Czech Republic Slavkov u Brna , occasionally confused with Auschwitz disambig geo DEFAULTSORT Auschwitz Category German exonyms Category Slavic toponyms Category Slavic loanwords br Auschwitz dishe velout de Auschwitz el es Auschwitz desambiguaci n eo O wi cim apartigilo fr Auschwitz homonymie it Auschwitz disambigua lmo Auschwitz nl Auschwitz no Auschwitz andre betydninger ... more details
no footnotes date November 2010 Margot Dreschel May 17, 1908, Neugersdorf &ndash June 1945? was a prison guard at Nazi concentration camps . Before her enlistment as an SS auxiliary, she worked at an office in Berlin . On January 31, 1941, Margot Dreschel arrived at Ravensbr ck to begin guard training. At first she was an Aufseherin , a low ranking female guard, at Ravensbr ck concentration camp Ravensbr ck a concentration camp primarily for internment of women . She trained under Oberaufseherin Senior Overseer Johanna Langefeld in 1941, and quickly became a Rapportf hrerin Report Overseer , a higher ranked guard. On April 27, 1942, Dreschel was selected for transport to the newly opened Auschwitz Birkenau I camp in Poland . Dreschel began her duties at Birkenau in August 1942 when the women s camp was established, when all the women were transferred from Auschwitz to Birkenau. She was very devoted to her work there and served under Maria Mandel . Dreschel was also head of all camp offices in Auschwitz. Dreschel s appearance was reportedly repellent, as one female Auschwitz prisoner recounted And Camp Leader Dreschel was there, her buck teeth sticking out, even when her mouth is closed. Inmates described her as vulgar, thin and ugly. After the war, many survivors testified of her brutal treatment. She carried out indoor selections wearing a white coat and white gloves, disguised as a doctor. She regularly moved between the Auschwitz I camp and Auschwitz II Birkenau , and involved herself in selections of women and children to be sent to the gas chamber s. On November 1, 1944, she went to Flossenb rg concentration camp as a Rapportf hrerin. In January 1945, she was moved back to the Ravensbruck subcamp at Neustadt Glewe , and fled from there in April 1945 as Nazism Nazi Germany fell. In May 1945, several former Auschwitz prisoners recognized her on a road from Pirna to Bautzen , and took her to the Russian Military Police. The Soviets condemned her to death and execu ... more details
Infobox River river name So a image name Sola 2.jpg caption So a near Wieprz, Silesian Voivodeship Wieprz origin Rajcza br coord 49 30 25 N 19 06 27 E mouth Broszkowice north of O wi cim br coord 50 3 12 N 19 14 47 E display inline basin countries Poland length convert 88.9 km mi abbr on elevation convert 776 m ft abbr on discharge convert 18.8 m3 cuft abbr on watershed convert 1375 km2 sqmi abbr on The So a is a river in southern Poland , a right tributary of the Vistula . So a originates in the Western Beskids mountain range near the border with Slovakia . It is made up of the confluence of several small creeks at the village of Rajcza . It runs downhill northeastwards to the towns of ywiec and K ty , forming the border between the Silesian Beskids Silesian and the ywiec Beskids . After convert 89 km mi abbr on the So a empties into to the Vistula River after having passed the town of O wi cim . ref http www.rajcza.com.pl s.php?ogolne Oficjalny serwis gminy Rajcza rajcza.com pl icon ref The river flows within metres of the Auschwitz concentration camp . The Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum informs that the human ashes and ground bones of those murdered there were sometimes dumped into the river. ref name auschwitz Dr. Franciszek Piper, http en.auschwitz.org.pl h index.php?option com content&task view&id 29&Itemid 32&limit 1&limitstart 4 The extermination procedure in the gas chambers , Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum Pa stwowe Muzeum Auschwitz Birkenau w O wi cimiu , 1999 2010 ref So a flows through or near the following settlements Rajcza , Mil wka , Cisiec , W gierska G rka , Ci cina , Radziechowy , Wieprz , ywiec , Tresna , Czernich w, Silesian Voivodeship Czernich w , Mi dzybrodzie ywieckie , Mi dzybrodzie Bialskie , Por bka, Silesian Voivodeship Por bka , Czaniec , Kobiernice , K ty , Nowa Wie dn date March 2012 , Hecznarowice , Bielany , ki dn date March 2012 , and O wi cim . Notes and references Reflist coord 50.0533 N 19.2464 E source kolossus plwiki ... more details
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