HAMBURGER JÜDISCHE OPFER DES NATIONALSOZIALISMUS: GEDENKBUCH
Hamburg: Staatsarchiv Hamburg, 1955. Item #42979
First edition. Original printed black cloth binding. 4to. xxiii, 450 pages. 28 cm. In German. Title translates as, “Hamburg Jewish Victims Of National Socialism: Memorial Book.”
Contains a list of 8,877 Hamburg Jews who were murdered during the Nazi period, giving date and place of birth, and the date and destination of their transport. Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-450).
“Memorial book listing the fates of 8,877 Hamburg Jews, including the towns of Altona, Wandsbek and Harburg, who perished during the Holocaust. Listings are alphabetically arranged and include the following:
1) Jews who were born in Hamburg, lived there during the Nazi period and were deported and died
2) Jews who left Hamburg prior to January 1, 1933 and who subsequently perished in the Holocaust
3) Jews who died in Hamburg during the Nazi period, including suicides.
Neither survivors nor persons whose fate was unknown at the time of the book's compilation are listed. Persons who survived through 9 May 1945 and later passed away are likewise not listed. Entries include last and first name (other names people used are in parentheses as well as maiden names, where applicable). Academic and other titles and honorifics are occasionally given. Entries also include date and place of birth, date(s) and destination(s) of deportation, and place of death, where known. More specific data on individual transports can be found on p. xix. Entries on this page include the dates and destinations of deportations, the number of deportees, and, of these, the number that perished.
Place names are given often without specifics as to whether a ghetto, camp, prison, or simply a locale is being referenced.
For the purposes of this book, Hamburg is defined as including the towns of Altona, Wandsbek and Harburg as well as 27 smaller communities.
See p. xii-xiv for a discussion of the relationship of this work's methodology to that used earlier by the Bundesarchiv in creating the GEDENKBUCH for the whole of West Germany, including Berlin” (USHMM).SUBJECT(S): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Registers of dead -- Germany -- Hamburg. OCLC: 34203366.
Very Good+ Condition. (YIZ-23-24-LEXCC).
Price: $125.00