Zegota is the code name of the Council for Aid to Jews (Rada Pomocy Zydom), an underground organization that operated in occupied Poland from 1942-1945. Its express purpose was to aid Poland's Jews, finding them places of safety. Zegota was the only rescue organization that was run jointly by Jews and non-Jews from a wide range of political move...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Kulmhof, or Chelmno, located in Poland, was the first Nazi extermination camp. After the victims arrived at Chelmno, they were taken in groups of fifty - men, women and children - to the ground floor of the Schloss (manor-house). There, they were told to strip and put their valuables in a basket. The victims were then taken to the cellar, past s...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Created:
1990?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
One of the cruelest stories of the Holocaust is the deportation of orphans. This took place in nearly every country, but the best-known stories are the deportations from France and from the Polish cities of Krakow and Warsaw."At Jozefinska Street, the Germans started to liquidate the Kinderheim (home for children). Wagons arrived into which the ...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Created:
1990?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
The names in the painting refer to places where pogroms occurred against Jews after liberation in Poland, between 1945 and 1946: Kielce, Lublin, Krakow, Turek, Boleslawiec and Mordy.
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Created:
1990?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
On April 19, 1943, the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto began. The remaining Jewish population, depleted by transports to the death camp at Treblinka, was exterminated. Units of SS stormed the Ghetto under the command of General Stroop. Unexpectedly, Jewish resistance was strong, and it took more than a month for the Germans to subdue the Warsaw...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
