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The Names Book is a large commemorative book listing the names and brief details about some 4,800,000 Jewish victims of the Holocaust known to Yad Vashem and documented through the Names Recovery Project, out of the total 6 million victims. The book has been published in two editions, in 2004 and a decade later.
Jewish women faced inconceivable brutality during the Holocaust that was not fully acknowledged until decades after the war. As noted above, Jewish women faced difficulties for not only being Jewish, but for being women. [8] Women were stripped of their dignity and identity through sexual assault, either directly or through murder. [7]
Anna Maria (Settela) Steinbach (23 December 1934, Buchten – 31 July 1944) was a Dutch girl who was gassed in Nazi Germany's Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Initially identified as a Dutch Jew, her personal identity and association with the Sinti group of the Romani people were discovered in 1994.
The Encyclopædia Britannica defines "Holocaust" as "the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women and children, and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II", [26] although the article goes on to say, "The Nazis also singled out the Roma (Gypsies). They were the only other group ...
The girls attended the 6th Montessori School (renamed after Anne Frank in 1957) in Amsterdam and then the Jewish Lyceum. During The Holocaust, they saw each other again whilst imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Goslar and her young sister were the only family members who survived the war, being rescued from the Lost Train.
The Book of Names is a large-scale commemoration book, whose pages detail the names and short biographical information about approximately 4,800,000 Jewish victims of the Holocaust known to and documented by Yad Vashem, out of a total of 5.8 million victims. The book was printed in two editions, in 2013, and a decade later.
Stella Ingrid Goldschlag, also known by her married names Stella Kübler, Stella Kübler-Isaaksohn and Ingrid Gärtner, (10 July 1922 – 26 October 1994) [1] was a German Jewish woman who collaborated with the Gestapo during World War II, operating around Berlin exposing and denouncing Berlin's underground Jews, after being tortured in Gestapo custody and falsely being promised the safety of ...
Schloss began to speak of her family's experiences during the Holocaust at educational institutions. [7] [3] She is a co-founder of The Anne Frank Trust UK, [6] [7] and playwright James Still described her experiences as a persecuted young Jewish woman in the play And Then They Came for Me – Remembering the World of Anne Frank. [3]