The Holocaust (152 page)

Klompul, Michael: deported to Birkenau (1943),
1

Klompul, Rachel: killed (1941),
1

Klooga: massacre at (1944),
1

Kluger, Ladislaus: attempts to save Jews,
1

Klukowski, Zygmunt: records fate of Polish Jews (from 1940),
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,480; and a ‘strange brutalization’ on the part of Poles towards Jews,
9
; and the fate of a Pole who sheltered Jews,
10

Knapajs, Szama: executed (1941),
1
,
2
n. 4

Knect, Majer: shot (1939),
1

Kneibel, Corporal: murders a child,
1

Knoll (from Izbica): at Chelmno,
1

Kobe (Japan); Jews find refuge in (1940),
1

Kobrowski, Aron: urges Jews to flee,
1

Kobryn: executions near (1942),
1

Koerner, Dr: attempts to save Jews,
1

Kogen, Jacob: commits suicide (1942),
1

Kohan, Albert: his resistance activities,
1
; killed,
2

Kohn, Max Hans: killed in Dachau (1935),
1

Kohn, Pinkus: killed (1941),
1

Kohut, J.: remains with his students,
1

Koldyczewo camp: escapes from,
1
; a revolt at,
2

Kollman, Dr Georg: deported from Finland to Auschwitz,
1

Kolo: death of Jews from (1941),
1
,
2
,
3
; Jews pass through, on way to a death camp (1942),
4
; an alleged work camp at,
5
; Jews deported through (1944),
6

Kolomyja: mass murder at (1941),
1
,
2
n.
3
; Jews deported to Belzec from (1942),
4

Koluszki: Jews said to have been ‘set free’ in (1941),
1

Komoly, Otto: helps fellow Jews, then murdered (1944),
1
,
2

Koniecpol: many Jews killed by Poles near (1943),
1

Königsberg: and the ‘final solution’,
1
; death of a Jewish fighter near,
2
; a massacre near,
3

Konin: labour camp revolt at,
1

Konskowola: a reprisal at (1941),
1
; Jews tormented, and shot at (1942),
2

Kopecky, Lilli: recalls scenes at Auschwitz,
1

Kopernik camp: resistance in,
1

Kopf, Abish: tormented (1939),
1

Koplows, the: in hiding,
1

Koppe, SS Police Chief: his circular (1939),
1
n. 3

Kopyl: a Jew from, escapes,
1

Koral (a lawyer): commits suicide (1940),
1

Korczak, Janusz: a play in the orphanage of (18 July 1942),
1
; deported to Treblinka,
2

Koren, Arieh: and a German manhunt,
1

Koren, Zipora: describes the perils of life as a Jewish partisan,
1

Korenblum, Szmuel: executed (1941),
1
,
2
n. 4

Korn (from Lvov): his escape,
1

Korn, Hans Robert Martin: reaches Warsaw from Finland, through Auschwitz,
1

Korn, Josef: warns his fellow Jews,
1

Kornitzer, Rabbi: killed (1941),
1

Korzec: resistance in,
1

Kos: deportation of Jews from (1944),
1
; some Jews from, protected,
2
,
3
; Jews from, reach Auschwitz,
4

Kosciuszko Alley (Warsaw): synagogue destroyed on (1939),
1

Kosherowski (from Tomaszow): murdered (1941),
1

Kosow Huculski: mass murder in (1941),
1

Kossak, Zofia: helps Jews,
1

Kosow-Lacki: eleven Jews killed in, after liberation (1945),
1

Kostopol: escape from,
1

Kostshevski, David: murdered after liberation (1945),
1

Kotarbinski, Professor Tadeusz: saves Jews,
1
n.
2

Kotin (Hotin): mass murder at (1941),
1

Kotnowski (an engineer): his act of defiance,
1

Kott, Andrzej: the consequences of his arrest (1940),
1

Kovner, Abba: and the fate of the Jews of Vilna,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
; and the Jewish partisans in the Vilna region,
5
,
6
; and the liberation of Vilna,
7

Kovno (Kaunas): restrictions against Jews in (1936),
1
; Jews helped in (1940),
2
,
3
; the ‘peaceful life’,
4
; and Madagascar,
5
; mass murder at (1941),
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,
7
; a street hunt in (1941),
8
; further killings at,
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; Jewish Council set up in (1941),
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; killings in (1941),
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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; German Jews deported to (1941),
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,
18
; only
19
,000 Jews left in,
19
; and a ruling on suicide,
20
; and the Casablanca Conference (1943),
21
; and a deception,
22
; a deportation from, to Estonia,
23
; escape and reprisals in,
24
; a further escape from,
25
; children killed in a camp near,
26
; a deportation from Paris to,
27
; the final deportation from,
28
; a taxi driver from, ‘calls for justice’,
29
; reflections of a survivor in,
30
; death of a Jewess from, in Stutthof (1945),
31
; a Jew from, among the survivors at Dachau,
32

Kowale Panskie: death of Jews from (1941),
1
; a further deportation from (1942),
2

Kowel: an act of resistance near (1941),
1
; visitors to,
2
; ‘recent’ lies about resistance in (1942),
3
; an act of resistance near (1941),
4

Kozibrodska, Lonka: her courage (1941),
1
; active in resistance,
2
; brings ‘new hope’ (1942),
3
; dies in Auschwitz (1943),
4

Kozlowska, Helena: leads resistance,
1

Kozlowszczyzna: Jews murdered at (1942),
1

Kozy: two escapees from Auschwitz reach,
696
Kracowski, Dr: killed (1941),
1

Kraft (a German Commander): killed (1941),
1

Krakinovsky, Pinchas: and an escape,
1

Krakinowski, Miriam: saved,
1

Krakowski, Shmuel: his descriptions of the perils confronting Jewish partisans,
1

Kranzberg, Pessah: given refugee,
1

Krasnostavski, Moshe: leads resistance,
1

Krasnowka: Jews deported through,
1

Kraus, Ota: a maintenance man at Birkenau,
1
,
2
n.
3

Krausz, Miklos: attempts to save fellow-Jews,
1

Krauwiert (an engineer): hanged,
1

Kravitz, Kalman: sees his two brothers killed (1942),
1

Kreipe, General: his planned abduction, and a possible reprisal (1944),
1
n.
2

Kremer, Dr Johann: reaches Auschwitz and witnesses an ‘action’,
1
; conducts medical experiments at Auschwitz,
2
; and ‘terrible scenes’,
3
; joined by Dr Mengele,
4

Kremnica (Kremnitz): battle of (1944),
1
; three Jews executed at (1944),
2

Kreutzberger, Max: pleads for funds (1935),
1

Kriegel, Olga: a twin at Auschwitz,
1

Kriegel, Vera: recalls Dr Mengele,
1

Krieger (a pregnant woman): deported,
1

Kristallnacht
(November 1938):
1
,
2

Krosniewice: mass murder of Jews from (1942),
1
; sewing machines of Jews from,
2

Krüger, SS Lieutenant-General Friedrich Wilhelm (Commander of the Police and SS forces in the General Government): ordered to carry out ‘a total cleansing’,
1
; and the ‘elimination’ of Jews,
2

Krugloje: Jewish women shot at (1941), Krugman, Anna: killed (1941),
1

Krugman, Luba: recalls the passing of a deportation train,
1
; recalls a deportation march,
2

Krugman, Tewja: killed (1942),
1

Krumey, SS Lieutenant-Colonel Hermann: and the deportation of Jews from Hungary,
1

Kruszyna: resistance at,
1

Krysia (a Polish orphan): cared for, by a Jewess,
1

Krzemieniec (Kremenets): mass murder and defiance at (1942),
1
; further resistance at (1942),
2

Krzepicki, Abraham Jacob: escapes (1942) from Treblinka,
1
; killed (1943),
2

Krzepicki, Rafal: shot (1941),
1

Krzewacki (from Klodawa): commits suicide (1942),
1

Ksanskiewicz, Miriam: her act of defiance,
1

Kube, Wilhelm: a protest to,
1
,
2
; and the murder of children in Minsk (1942),
3
; a report from,
4

Kudasiewicz, Julian: saves Jews,
1
n.
2

Kudlatschek (a Sudeten German): helps Jews,
1

Kulka, Erich: a maintenance man at Birkenau,
1
,
2
n.
3

Kulmhof:
see index entry for
Chelmno

Kulok, Josef: his act of courage,
1

Künzel, Captain: report of,
1
,
2
n. 3

Kurcwajg, Hersh: escapes from Auschwitz,
1

Kushnir, Shlomo: escapes, caught, commits suicide (1944),
1

Kutno: Jews from, at Chelmno,
1
; sewing machines of Jews from,
2
; a deception concerning,
3

Kutorgene, Dr Helen: in Kovno,
1
,
2

Kuznetsov, Anatoli (A. Anatoli): and an eye-witness to mass murder,
1

Kyron, Sara: and Babi Yar after the war,
1

Lachewicki, Miss: supports resistance,
1
; escapes,
2

Lachowicze: mass murder in (1941),
1
; ‘the spirit of death’ in (1944),
2

Lachwa: resistance in,
1

Ladino: language spoken by deportees from Rhodes and Kos (1944),
1
,
2
,
3

Lagedi: a massacre at (1944),
1

Laja (from Plonsk): ‘We are going nobody knows where’,
1

Lammers, Dr Hans: a protest to, about ‘the policy of exterminating the Jews’,
1

Lamsweerde, Baron van: affidavit by, about a death march,
1
n.
2

Lancut: Jews driven from (1939),
1

Landau, Leib: shot (1943),
1

Landau, Ludwik: reports on reprisals (1939),
1

Landau, Margalit: helps an act of revenge,
1
; killed (1943),
2

Landau, SS Sergeant: and mass murder of Jews, recorded in his diary (1941),
1
,
2

Lange, Jacob: in Stutthof (1940),
1

Lange, SS Major Dr Rudolph: torments a rabbi,
1
; meets deportees,
2

Langer, Mandel: shot (1943),
1

Langhort, Pieter: affidavit by, about a death march,
1
n.
2

Laon: deportation through,
1

Lapy: Jews flee from,
1
; a Jew from, betrayed,
2

Larissa, Errera de: prepares for revolt,
1

Lask: two Jews hanged in county of,
1
; a deportation from,
2
; Jews from, in Lodz,
3
; Jews from, in Dzialoszyce,
4

Lasko, Shalom: kills a Polish attacker (1936),
1

Latin America: Jews driven to seek new homes in (1946),
1

Latowicz, Janina: recalls scenes of murder at Majdanek,
1

Latvia:
1
; anti-Jewish decrees in (1941),
2
; fate of a Jewish child from (1942),
3
; deportations from (1944),
4

Latvians: auxiliaries, help Germans,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
; help Jews,
9
,
10

Lau, Rabbi Moshe Chaim: deported to his death (1942),
1

Lau, Israel: on the day of liberation (1945),
1

Lau, Naftali: protects his brother,
1

Lauenburg: liberation at (1945),
1

Laufer, Jehuda: helps a revolt,
1

Laufer, Leo: recalls torments at a labour camp (1940),
1
; recalls torments at a second labour camp (1942),
2
; recalls the evacuation of Ohrdruf (1945),
3

Lausanne: fate of a graduate of the university of,
1

League of Nations, the:
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

Lebel, Reb Bunem: killed (1939),
1

Le Chěne, Evelyn: her account of Mauthausen,
1

Lederer, Zdenek: witnesses a ‘census’,
1
; and the ‘lot of the Jews’,
2

Leer, Wim van: recalls
Kristallnacht
(1938),
1
; recalls a friend of the Jews,
2

Leftkowitz, Abraham: shot (1939),
1

Legnica (Leignitz): a Jew murdered in, after liberation,
1

‘Lehayim’ (‘to life’): password for a break-out,
1

Lehburger, Karl: murdered (1933),
1

Leibowicz, Abraham Leib: escapes, captured, shot (1943),
1

Leichert, Dr: and plans for revolt,
1