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This is a list of people who were murdered in the Sobibor extermination camp. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum states that at least 170,000 people were murdered there. The Dutch Sobibor Foundation lists a calculated total of 170,165 people and cites the Höfle Telegram among its sources, while noting that other estimates range up to ...
Holocaust victims were people targeted by the government of Nazi Germany based on their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, disability or sexual orientation.
Died Age Ethnicity Imprisoned Notability Tova Friedman: A27633 September 10, 1938: Alive 86 Jewish Friedman is among the youngest people to survive the Nazi Holocaust [48] Helen Lewis: June 22, 1916: December 31, 2009: 93 Jewish May 1944 – January 1945 Dancer who trained in Prague.
The majority of Holocaust killings were carried out in 1942, with it being the peak of the genocide, as over 3 million Jews were murdered, with 20 or 25 percent of Holocaust victims dying before early 1942 and the same number surviving by the end of the year.
That same year, a digitized database of Holocaust victims' names was created, and in 2004 the Central Database of Holocaust Victims' Names was launched on the Yad Vashem website. With the dedication of the new Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem in 2005, the Hall of Names was moved to that location.
Lauren Gilbert, a senior manager at the Center for Jewish History (CJH), participate in a global online conference to launch genealogy testing for Holocaust survivors, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, in ...
Auschwitz — the Nazi Concentration Camp where roughly 1 million Jews were murdered — was liberated 77 years ago Friday. In a 2020 study, only 44% said they could identify Auschwitz; 63% didn't ...
Families of Brothers Separated During Holocaust Find Each Other 77-Years-Later For most of her life, 25-year-old Jessica Katz has known that the Holocaust took many of her relatives and a good ...