The Holocaust (143 page)

Berliner, Jacob: killed (1941),
1

Berliner, Meir: his act of defiance,
1

Berman, Adolf: and the ‘tragic race’ in the Warsaw ghetto (1942),
1
; and the deportation of children,
2
,
3
; and the site of Treblinka after liberation,
4

Bernadotte, Count Folke: negotiates release of Jews (1945),
1

Bernburg: Jews gassed at (1941),
1

Bernheim, Franz: his petition,
1

Bernholz, Joseph: denounced, and killed (1944),
1

Bernholz, Towa: killed in an air raid (1939),
1

Bernshtein, Zalman: leads a resistance group,
1

Bernstein (a Jew from Berlin): given a hundred lashes (1933),
1

Bessarabia: deportations (1941),
1
; death marches (1941),
2
; deportation to death camps from (1942),
3

Besser, Aliza: recalls a death train to Belsen (1945),
1

Biala Poldlaska: a death march to (1940),
1
,
2
; a deportation from (1941),
3
; a further deportation from (1942),
4
; a survivor returns to (1944),
5
; two Jews murdered in, after liberation (1946),
6

Bialer, Toshia: witnesses establishment of Warsaw ghetto,
1

Bialka: Poles shot for helping Jews,
1

Bialas, Wanda: recalls fate of children at Majdanek,
1

Bialystok: occupied by Soviet troops (1339),
1
; and the first days of the German occupation (1941),
2
,
3
; killings continue in,
4
,
5
; Jews hope for a haven in,
6
; Jews in region of (1942),
7
; visitors to,
8
; and the survival of the ghetto,
9
,
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,
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,
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,
13
; the Jewish Fighting Organization in (by the end of 1942),
14
n.
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; and a train deception at Treblinka,
16
; and a deportation to Auschwitz (1943),
17
; an act of defiance in,
18
; a further deportation to Auschwitz (1943),
19
; a decision to resist in,
20
; a final deportation from, and revolt in (August 1943),
21
; fate of children from,
22
; resistance in the region of (March 1944),
23
; the final defiance in (July 1944),
24
; fate of a survivor from (1945),
25

Bibedgal, Schmuel: at Chelmno,
1
,
2

Biblis (near Worms):
1
,
2

Biebow, Hans: strikes Chaim Rumkowski,
1
; gives Jews assurances,
2
,
3

Bielefeld: Jews deported from,
1
,
2
n.
3

Bielsk Podlaski: liberation of a Jew from, at Ebensee,
1

Bierman, John: records the fate of a deportee and his family,
1
,
2

‘Big Whip’: at Chelmno,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7

Bikernieker forest (Riga): mass murder at (1942),
1

Bilgoraj: deportations from (1942),
1

Bilhaus, SS Second Lieutenant: his sadism (1942),
1

Bilski, Dr Richard: and a ‘cruel hoax’,
1

Bin, Szymon: shot (1942),
1

Bingel, Lieutenant Erwin: an eye-witness to mass murder (1941),
1
,
2

Binsztejn-Syrkin, Zofia: commits suicide (1943),
1

Birenbaum, Halina: recalls punishment at Auschwitz,
1

Birkenau: established (1942),
1
; gas-chambers at, not yet ready,
2
,
3
; Jews held in barracks at,
4
; labour camps near,
5
,
6
; Jewesses sent to, after medical experiments,
7
; the ‘numbering’ of Jews at,
8
; an eyewitness to mass murder at,
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,
10
; Jews from Theresienstadt deported to,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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; mass murder at,
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,
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,
18
; Norwegian Jews deported to,
19
; postcards from,
20
; a Sabbath in,
21
; mental defectives arrive at, from Holland,
22
; suicides at,
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; a ‘quantity of old garments’ at,
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; continued deportations to (1943),
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; new crematoria at (March 1943),
47
; medical experiments at,
48
; Jews from, sent to a camp in Warsaw,
49
,
50
; those judged too sick in, gassed,
51
,
52
; acts of defiance at,
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,
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; ‘Hatikvah’ (the Jewish anthem) sung at,
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,
56
; escapes, and attempted escapes at,
57
,
58
; the fate of the ‘Czech Family Camp’ in,
59
; and deceptions at,
60
,
61
; further deportations to 1944),
62
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; deportations from,
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,
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,
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; teeth strewn ‘all over the terrain’ as evidence,
78
; Sonderkommando murdered at,
79
; revolt of Sonderkommando in (1944),
80
; fate of several hundred boys in,
81
; dismantled,
82
; hunger and exposure at,
83
; last hours and liberation at (1945),
84
,
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deportees from, rescued,
86
; fate of survivors from (1945),
87
,
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,
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,
90
; disappearance of a survivor from, after liberation,
91
; and ‘normal people’,
92
; a survivor of, murdered after liberation,
93
; ‘I will tell the world’,
94

Birkenfeld, Leopold: provides a ‘feast’ for music lovers (1941),
1
; deported and gassed (1942),
2

Birnbaum (in Warsaw): a round-up at his house (1942),
1
; killed, with his family,
2

Bischoff, SS Major: letter of (1939),
1
n.
2

Biskowitz, Yaakov: his recollections of a death camp (Sobibor),
1
,
2
; recalls the Sobibor revolt,
3

Black Forest: an act of defiance in,
1

Black Sea: and Jewish refugees,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
; and the sinking of the
Struma
,
5

Blagovshchina: mass murder-site near (1941),
1
,
2
n.
3

Blajman, David: murdered, with his wife (1942),
1

Blaskowitz, Field Marshal: reports death of Jewish children (1939),
1

Blaszczyk, Henryk: and the Kielce pogrom (1946),
1

Blechhammer: labour camp at,
1
; death march to,
2

Bleyer, Moshe: a twin who survived,
1

Bleyer, Tibi: killed,
1

Blizyn: labour camp at,
1
; labourers at, evacuated to Auschwitz,
2

Blobel, SS Colonel Paul: and the digging up and burning of corpses (1943),
1
,
2

‘Blobel Commando’: in Lvov,
1
; at Ponary,
2
,
3
; at Babi Yar,
4
; near Chelm,
5
,
6
; at Kovno,
7
; at Bialystok,
8

Bloch, Marc: executed (1944),
1

Bloch, Zelo: and plans for revolt,
1

Blom, Jacob: deported, aged ninety,
1

Bloom, Marcus: his death at Mauthausen (1944),
1

Bluestein, Motl: shot (1942),
1

Blum, Abrasha: tortured, then shot (1943),
1

Blum, Cwajga: shot (1941),
1

Blum, René: deported,
1

Blumenfeld, Rabbi Jechiel Meir: saved, and then shot (1942),
1

Blumenfrucht, Harry: hanged (1942),
1

Bobrek: labour camp at,
1

Bobruisk: ‘rebellious’ Jews shot (1941),
1

Bochnia: Jewish fighting organization in,
1
n.
2
; Jews deported from (September 1943),
3
n.
4

Bodzentyn: three Jews murdered at (1942),
1
; two more Jews murdered at (1942),
2

Boetim, Dr Karol: dies (1941),
1

Bogdanovka: mass murder of Jews at (1941),
1
,
2

Bohdanowicz, Stanislaw: an eye-witness to deportation trains,
1
; witnesses a deportation,
2
; and the death of an escapee,
3

Bohemia:
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,
2
,
3
; to be placed ‘ahead of the line’,
4
; further deportations planned from (1942),
5

Boim, Efim: leads a resistance group (1941),
1

Boleslawiec: eight Jews killed in, after liberation (1945),
1

Bolivia:
1

Bologna: Jews deported from (1943),
1

Bolzano: a train reaches Auschwitz from,
1

Bor: forced labour camp at,
1
; a death march from,
2

Bordeaux: Jews saved in (1940),
1
; an act of resistance in (1940),
2

Borenheim, Albert: shot (1941),
1

Borki: bodies dug up at,
1

Bormann, Martin: and ‘instructions’ from Hitler (1943),
1

Bornstein, Dr Roman: reports Jews killed by Poles,
1

Boryslaw: mass murder at (1941),
1
,
2
n.
3

Borzykowski, Tuvia: and resistance in Warsaw (1943),
1
,
2
; and the Warsaw ghetto uprising (April 1943),
3
,
4
; and the Polish uprising in Warsaw (August 1944),
5
; given shelter,
6
; and the moment of liberation,
7

Bosel, Siegmund: shot (1942),
1

Bosnia: destruction of Jews in,
1

Bothmann, SS Captain Hans: and a reprisal (1944),
1
; and the final executions at Chelmno (1945),
2

Botter, Aryeh: shot (1941),
1

Botwin, Dawid: in the Lodz ghetto,
1

Boycott: of Jewish shops (Berlin, 1933),
1

Bracha (from Opoczno): ‘My baby hasn’t even been born yet’,
1
; ‘why is he doomed’,
2

Brack, SS Colonel Dr Viktor: and poison gas,
1
; and need for ‘a faster pace’,
2

Braham, Randolph: ‘nothing was impossible’,
1

Braier, Gedalia: urges Jews to escape,
1

Brailov: an act of courage in (1942),
1

Brajtman, Elja: executed (1939),
1
,
2
n.
3

Brams, Hannah (Ania): shot (1943),
1

Brams, Dr Maurycy: shot (1943),
1

Brand, Joel: and a proposed ‘sale’ of Jews,
1

Brandt, Dr Karl: provides skeletons,
1

Brandt, Rudolf: and the ‘secrecy’ needed for medical experiments (1942),
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,
2
n. 1

Braslaw, Shmuel: helps organize an attack on a warehouse in Warsaw,
1
; killed (1942),
2

Bratislava: Jews escape through (1941),
1
; Jews deported from (1944),
2
; a Jew from, liberated (1945),
3

Braunschweig (Brunswick): anti-Jewish attacks in (1933),
1

Bräutigam, Otto: and ‘clarification of the Jewish question’ (1941),
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,
2
n.
3

Brazil:
1

Bremen:
1
; Jews deported to Minsk from (1941),
2

Breslau: anti-Jewish measures in (1933),
1
; Jews deported to Kovno from (1941),
2
; and the ‘final solution’,
3
; the results of medical experiments sent to,
4
; Jewesses from camps in the region of, evacuated to a camp near Lübeck,
5

Breslauer, Arie: and attempts to protect Jews in Budapest,
1

Brest-Litovsk: Jews attacked in (1937),
1
; occupied by Soviet troops (1939),
2
; mass murder of Jews after German conquest of (1941),
3
,
4
; executions near (1942),
5

Bretholz, Leo: deported from Drancy,
1
; escapes from the deportation train,
2

Brezany: mass murder at (1941),
1
,
2
n.
3

Briedys, Janis: helps Jews,
1

Brisgys, Bishop: ‘will not admit any Jews’,
1

Britain:
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,
2
; German Jews emigrate to (1933),
3
,
4
,
5
; Jews flee to (1939),
6
; declares war on Germany (1939),
7
; takes no offensive action against Germany,
8
,
9
; abused by Nazis,
10
; Jews reach from Holland (1940),
11
; puts pressure against Jewish refugees (1940),
12
; and the death of Heydrich (1942),
13
; an officer from, witnesses the fate of seven Jews at Mauthausen (1943),
14
; protests from, concerning the Hungarian deportations (1944),
15
; a Jew from, killed at Mauthausen,
16
; revulsion in (1945),
17
,
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; Jews driven to seek new homes in (1946),
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