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Zagłada Żydów na polskich terenach wcielonych do Rzeszy

Aleksandra Namysło, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej--Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu Instytut Pamięci Narodowej. Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, 200

Zagłada Żydów zagłębiowskich Muzeum Zagłębia w Będzinie, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej--Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu. Biuro Edukacji Publicznej. Oddział w Katowicach

http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/holocaust/0054_BreslauDeportations.htm

The history of Breslau/Wrocław mirrors all the catastrophes of the 20th century: racist based nationalism, the mass murder of Jews, the nonsense of war, flight, expulsion, displacement and other results of totalitarianisms. Before the beginning of the Second World War, Breslau, along with the whole region of the Lower Silesia, fervently supported National Socialism. During the war, the city has been declared a fortress – ‘Festung Breslau’ –and was almost completely destroyed. Before the fortress surrendered in the spring 1945, the Jewish inhabitants had been deported and killed. Only a few of the Breslau Jews survived the Holocaust. The third largest Jewish community of Germany seized to exist. The centuries of cultural, economical, political and scientific traditions of the Breslau Jews were gone.

The Holocaust, Fascism and Memory: Essays in the History of Ideas

Dan Stone - 2013 - Preview - More editions In Western Europe, our image of the Holocaust centres on Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous death camp that has ... to be killed.8 With its numerous auxiliary camps spread around the area of Upper Silesia, Auschwitz

'In the Shadow of Auschwitz: The Murder of the Jews of East Upper Silesia', in David Cesarani (ed.), Holocaust: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies (London: Routledge, 2004),

Einsatzgruppe VII, SS-Obergruppenführer Udo von Woyrsch and SS-Gruppenführer Otto Rasch, acted in Upper Silesia and Cieszyn Silesia-between 1,400 to 1,500 victims in September 1939 on the territory of Silesia.Holocaust. 2. From the persecution of the jews to mass murder edited by David Cesarani, Sarah Kavanaugh page 128, in addition around 85 synagogues either destroyed or demolished between Sept-Oct, 17,257 Jews in Lower Silesia in 1939 May

Dzieje Żydów we Wrocławiu Leszek Ziątkowski Wydawn. Dolnośląskie, 2000

New article name goes here new article content ... Holocaust. 2. From the persecution of the jews to mass murder edited by David Cesarani, Sarah Kavanaugh 158-full details on genocidal measures against Jews in Silesia

Fresh Wounds: Early Narratives of Holocaust Survival - Page 27

books.google.com/books?isbn=0807823937 Donald L. Niewyk - 1998 - Preview - More editions Although large numbers of Jews lived in the Polish district of Eastern Upper Silesia, the Holocaust there (except of course for Auschwitz itself) is comparatively unknown.

During World War II Poles and Jews were classified as subhumans by Nazi Germany and subject to ethnic cleansing and mass murder

After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, the Jewish population of Silesia was subjected to executions and murdered, placed in ghettos or ethnically cleansed into the newly created General Government. Those sent to ghettos would from 1942 be expelled to concentration and work camps as well as death camps. Between May 5 and June 17, 20,000 Silesian Jews were sent to Birkenau to gas chambers and during August 1942 10,000 to 13,000 Silesian Jews were gassed in Auschwitz In Autumn 1945 there were only 15,000 Jews left in Lower Silesia. +	Most Jews in Silesia were exterminated by the Nazis, but by the end of the war, Jewish survivors from other regions in Poland were relocated to Silesia, it is estimated that there were seventy thousand Jews were relocated to Lower Silesia at the end of the war although other estimates suggest that in Autumn 1945 there were only 15,000 Jews left in Lower Silesia. After the war Silesia became a major centre for repatriation of Jewish population in Poland which survived Nazi German extermination and in 1946 there were seventy thousand Jews in Lower Silesia.