Holocauste

1987 · réf. 75666 — New York: Beate Klarsfeld Foundation 1987-. First edition. Five large octavo volumes. 22 493 `; 4 364; 4 467 plus some facsimile illustrations; 4 643 1; 4 561 1 pp/ Pubisher's yellow wrappers lettered in black and each front with an illustration of the Jews of the Grodno Ghetto. Unfortunately a couple of volumes have some tide marks but not horrifiically so. Part 3 has taken the brunt of it. Still an invaluable source record of a great sin of mankind.Comprosed of; v. 1. A. Accounts by Jewish survivors residing in the West. B. Accounts recorded in Poland and the Soviet Union. -- v. 2. Accounts by German witnesses or perpetrators of the final solution. -- v. 3. A. German justice seeking the truth. B. Documents. -- v. 4. Grodno in the Bialystok trial 1966-1967. -- v. 5. The Grodno trial in Cologne 1968. Jewish community in pre-war Grodno includes "Lista Platnikow Skladki Gmninnej Gminy Wyznaniowej Zydowskiej w Grodnie na rok 1937" v. 5 p. 1-97 in the section headed "Jewish Community in Pre-War Grodno"; German documents in Grodno archives: Testimonies concerning Grodno gathered by Jewish underground and recovered after the war; Testimonies gathered in years 1944-1946.; Testimonies gathered in Israel around 1957 in archives of Yad Vashem.From 1939 to 1941 the Soviet Union occupied Grodno. During this time some 4000–5000 Jewish refugees arrived from German-occupied lands to the west. About half of these refugees were later deported into the interior of the USSR. On 13 July 1941 after taking over the city the Germans executed 100 Jews among the intelligentsia and in November of that year they created two ghettos one in the city’s center—to house 15000 Jews designated as “productive”—and the other in its suburb of S obodka to house 10000 “unproductive” Jews. The liquidation of the ghettos began in November 1942. The Germans deported Grodno’s Jews to Auschwitz—some via a transit camp in nearby Kelbasin where many died as a result of disease and inhumane conditions—and to Treblinka. On 12 March 1943 the approximately 1000 Jews remaining in the city were deported to the Bia ystok ghetto. When the Red Army entered Grodno on 14 July 1944 only about 250 Jews remained. Beate Klarsfeld Foundation unknown