Shoah
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Major Announcement: Completely Revised Genealogy Tutorials
🗺️ A New Home for ManyRoads Tutorials! Hello, fellow researchers and ManyRoads users, I have some exciting news to share about the evolution of our genealogy resources! To provide you with a faster, more flexible, and technologically advanced learning environment, the entire collection of ManyRoads Genealogy Tutorials, Checklists, and Historical Biographies has been successfully migrated to our new, dedicated documentation platform: TreeMagic.org/Genealogy. What This Means for You The new platform at TreeMagic.org is powered by the Ardens Documentation System, a robust and efficient system designed to enhance your research experience. Here’s what you can look forward to: ⚡️ Lightning-Fast Performance: The new system is optimized for speed, ensuring quick access…
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This Is Not a Misstatement. It’s Moral Collapse.
I never, never imagined that grandfathers of Jewish children—figures like [redacted] and Benjamin Netanyahu—would dare to entertain, let alone allow, such words to be spoken in their presence. [redacted], while standing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, invoked the Holocaust to draw a grotesque analogy. Speaking of hostages held by Hamas, he asked whether they had received any signs of “love” from their captors—then suggested that Jews in Nazi camps had sometimes received extra food or acts of compassion from their guards. I am incensed. This is not a gaffe. This is not a quirk of language. This is Holocaust distortion. Let us dispense with euphemism: the Nazis engineered a…
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Leo Hubert & Hedwig Schülein (Their Life and Fate)
The following post represents the latest information I have on my partner and friend’s grandparents, mother, and uncle. May they never be forgotten. Leo Hubert, merchant, was born on 14 November 1891 in Cronheim, Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, Bayern, Germany to Ruben Hubert and Emma, née Ebert. Leo fought with distinction in the First World War and was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class, the Bavarian Military Cross 3rd class, and the insignia of the wounded. (Military records are available from Ancestry.com or from the author, if requested via the ManyRoads contact page.) On 16 May 1922 he married Hedwig Sara Schülein. Hedwig Sara geboren Schülein was born 25 Feb 1901 Thalmässing, Regensburg,…
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Add’l Holocaust Resources Uncovered
For those of you who are seeking good sources of information regarding the Holocaust- Shoah, hopefully you will find the following sites of value. While conducting a Holocaust- Shoah site development activity with a colleague from Germany and in performing Shoah client work, I have recently uncovered several extremely valuable websites. Included among these are: The International Tracing Service “ITS Digital Collections Online“ The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI)-Countries A general introduction to the EHRI country reports can be found on the EHRI project website. The EHRI also has three very interesting recent BLOG entries: Forced Labourers and the Water Works Camps in the Lublin District Online Finding Aid on…
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The beginning of World War 2- Beginn Zweiter Weltkrieg
Adolf Hitler: Reichstagsrede mit Kriegserklärung an Polen vom 01.09.1939 Abgeordnete! Männer des deutschen Reichstages! The recording of Hitler’s address is below. Note: Adolf Hitler is first introduced and begins speaking about 55 seconds into the recording. Seit Monaten leiden wir alle unter der Qual eines Problems, das uns auch der Versailler Vertrag, d.h. das Versailler Diktat, einst beschert hat, eines Problems, das in seiner Ausartung und Entartung für uns unerträglich geworden war. Danzig war und ist eine deutsche Stadt.Der Korridor war und ist deutsch. Alle diese Gebiete verdanken ihre kulturelle Erschliessung ausschliesslich dem deutschen Volke. Ohne das deutsche Volk würde in all diesen Östlichen Gebieten tiefste Barbarei herrschen. Danzig wurde…
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Mennonites, Zeyer, and the Holocaust
Sometimes genealogy research leads to unexpected places. It can dash assumptions and destroy illusions; such was the result of my casual search for information and photographs from the ‘former’ area of Zeyer in Kreis Elbing. I had hoped to find photos of churches and hidden information about the community; instead I uncovered something more ominous and disturbing. Perhaps like many of you, I had always assumed that Mennonites did their best to avoid military service as well as political involvement in more ‘earthly’ pursuits. I had assumed Mennonites were people of peace. I even have their pages labelled as such here on ManyRoads. But, I was wrong. The first revelation…
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Demise of the Elbing Synagogue and Jewish Community
November 9-10, 1938 – “Kristallnacht” Elbing, Germany (today Elbląg, Poland) On the night of 9 to 10 November 1938 in the presence of the Mayor (Johannes O. H. Woelk), of Elbing, Germany officials of the Gestapo, the SS, the Elbing Fire Brigade, set fire to the Elbing synagogue and Jewish community house. Jewish men were arrested, beaten and robbed of their property. Windows were broken in all the Jewish shops in the city. At two o’clock in the morning, Elbing was steeped in a damp darkness and fog. Lantern light barely broke through the darkness. A large portion of the city was awake. Dressed in long military coats, people marched…
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Shoah Research (Holocaust) Resources
For those conducting Shoah (Holocaust) research, you know how difficult good resources and information are to find. Recently I came across a number of ‘less well-known’ (to me) web sites that offer a wealth of source and context information. Hopefully, these links will be of some use in your research efforts. Nazi holocaust documents found: 6,300 files discovered behind wall of Budapest apartment Many educators appreciate the value of using primary source materials in the classroom. The documents selected for this section provide many possibilities for classroom discussion or student activities. The Virginia Holocaust Museum BYU Harold B. Lee Library Shoah (Holocaust) Selected Digitized Documents Related to the Holocaust and…
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Shoah Research- Getting Started
This material has been significantly update and moved to our new tutorials. Are you embarking on Shoah (Holocaust) research? Would you like a little coaching in this area of research? Although I can hardly claim to be a Shoah research expert, I am more than willing to share what I have learned. By way of providing some background, for the past nine months, or so, I have been helping folks attempt to unearth the stories behind their Jewish roots in Poland and Germany, trying to discover ‘lost’ family records, and more. It has been quite the adventure. Needless to say, the Shoah is an area of emotion, sadness, mystery, frustration,…
