Deportations in the Nazi Era: Sources and Research

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2023

Deportations in the Nazi Era

Sources and Research

Edited by: Henning Borggräfe and Akim Jah
On behalf of: Arolsen Archives

Volume 2 in the series Arolsen Research Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110746464

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During the Nazi era, about three million Jews – half the victims of the Holocaust – were deported from the German Reich, the occupied territories, as well as Nazi-allied countries, and sent to ghettos, camps, and extermination centers. The police and the SS also deported tens of thousands of Sinti and Roma, mainly to the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, where most of them were killed. Deportations were central to National Socialist persecution and extermination. In November 2020, an international conference organized by the Arolsen Archives focused on the various historical sources, their research potential, and (digital) methods of cataloging them. It also explored new (systematizing and comparative) approaches in historical research. This volume features over 20 contributions by scholars from different countries and with a variety of perspectives and questions. The main geographical focus is on deportations from the German Reich and German-occupied Southeastern Europe.

Deals with the deportations of Jews, Sinti and Roma
Focuses on (new) research questions and digital methods as well as sources
Focuses not only on deportations from the Reich, but also from other regions, esp. in Southeastern Europe

Author information

Henning Borggräfe, Arolsen Archives; Akim Jah, Arolsen Archives.

Supplementary Materials

Borggraefe_Deportation_Supplementary

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Foreword by Floriane Azoulay Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Foreword by Sigmount A. Königsberg Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Foreword by Petra Rosenberg Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Deportations in the Nazi Era – Introduction Akim Jah Open Access Download PDF	1
Archival Sources, Online Portals and Approaches
Sources on Deportations A General Model and a Methodological Approach for Researching Person-Related Records based on the Berlin Transport Lists Henning Borggräfe Open Access Download PDF	29
An Overview of Sources on Deportations of Jews and Sinti and Roma in the Arolsen Archives Kim Dresel and Christian Groh Open Access Download PDF	55
Potential of Databases for Research and Culture of Remembrance Using the Deportation of Jews under the Nazi Regime as an Example Maximilian Strnad Open Access Download PDF	83
Deutsche Reichsbahn and Deportation The Personal Archive of Alfred Gottwaldt Susanne Kill Open Access Download PDF	103
Interaction, Confusion and Potential On the Clash between Archives (on Nazi History) and Family Research Aya Zarfati Open Access Download PDF	119
Discussing Visual Sources of Deportations from Germany
A Deceptive Panorama Photos of Deportations of Jews from Germany Christoph Kreutzmüller Open Access Download PDF	135
Deportations from the Perspective of the Remaining Jews and the Surrounding Population Narratives, Pictures and Films as Reflections of Social Reality Elisabeth Pönisch Open Access Download PDF	155
Racial Registrations, Forced Housing, and Local Deportation Dynamics
The ‘Prevention Department’ within the Criminal Police An Example of Learning Administrations and the Core of Organizing Transports of Sinti and Roma to Concentration Camps Verena Meier Open Access Download PDF	181
‘Gypsies’ in the Police Eye Identification, Census and Deportation of Sinti and Roma from Annexed Alsace, 1940 to 1944 Théophile Leroy Open Access Download PDF	207
Forced Accommodation for Jews in the Context of the Deportations at the Düsseldorf Abattoir (1939–1944) Joachim Schröder Open Access Download PDF	229
Gerlachstraße Assembly Camp in Berlin, 1942 to 1943 History, Function, and the Current State of Research Akim Jah Open Access Download PDF	249
The Fate of ‘Protected’ Groups during the Last Years of the War Deportations from Vienna’s Nordbahnhof – a Largely Unknown Site of the Shoah Michaela Raggam-Blesch Open Access Download PDF	275
“Put My Mother on the List Too!” – Reconstructing the Deportation Lists of the Szeged Jewish Community Dóra Pataricza Open Access Download PDF	297
Trajectories of Deportation and Subsequent Persecution
The Deportation of Sinti and Roma from Hamburg and Northern Germany to the Belzec Forced Labour Camp in the ‘Generalgouvernement’ of 1940 Kristina Vagt Open Access Download PDF	319
Deportation Train ‘Da 32’ from Nuremberg and its 1,012 Occupants Alfred Eckert Open Access Download PDF	341
Mapping Jewish Slave Laborers’ Trajectories Through Concentration Camps Daan de Leeuw Open Access Download PDF	363
Escaping the Death Train The Survival Strategies of Errikos Botton Alexandra Patrikiou Open Access Download PDF	385
The DEGOB Protocols and the Deportations of Jewish Prisoners to the Dachau Camp Complex A Critical Source Analysis Johannes Meerwald Open Access Download PDF	405
After the Arrival in Ghettos and other Deportation Destinations
Deportations of Jews to the Ghetto of Litzmannstadt (Łódź) Some Thoughts on the State of Research, on Older Discussions and Open Questions Ingo Loose Open Access Download PDF	429
Looking for the Money Using a Bank Account of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto as a Source in the History of Deportations Anna Veronica Pobbe Open Access Download PDF	449
Preparations for and Organization of the Transports from Terezín to Auschwitz-Birkenau in September 1943 Tomáš Fedorovič Open Access Download PDF	467
The Petitions of Roma Deportees as a Source for the Study of the Deportation Sites in Transnistria Viorel Achim Open Access Download PDF	487
‘Aktion Zamosc’ and its Entanglements with the Holocaust Alexandra Pulvermacher Open Access Download PDF	509
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	529

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Holocaust Historians; Former Persecutees of National Socialism and their Relatives; Interested Public
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 534
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 18
- Coloured Illustrations: 30
Keywords: Holocaust; Shoah; Porajmos; transports; national socialism

eBook

Published: November 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783110746464

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Published: November 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783110742305