Glickstein, Lutek: and the resistance in Czestochowa, 1
Glik, Hirsh: his poem about resistance, 1; deported, and never seen again (1943), 2
Glimberg, Peisakh: hanged (1941), 1
Gliniany: anti-Jewish incitement in (1941), 1; Jewish Council in, 2
Globocnik, SS General Odilo: and the labour camp system (1940), 1; and a ‘method that does not attract too much attention’ (1942), 2; and a deportation from Wurzburg (1942), 3; and ‘Operation Reinhard’ (1942), 4; urges ‘a faster pace’, 5; seeks a ‘faster working gas’, 6
Glogojeanu, General: killed (1941), 1
Glozman, Golda: and the fate of the Jews of Kiev (1941), 1
Glozman, Shlomo: his death (1941), 1
Glueks, SS General Richard: and medical experiments, 1; reports on ‘special buildings’ (crematoria) at Birkenau, 2; his death (1945), 3
Gluski, Michal: shot (1943), 1
‘Goebbels calendar’: 1, 2, 3, 4
Goebbels, Dr Joseph: and an ‘imposing spectacle’ (1933), 1; his ‘calendar’, 2, 3, 4, 5; ‘Not much will remain of the Jews’ (27 March 1942), 6; ‘We are holding the Jews to account’ (May 1942), 7; ‘this filth’, 8; ‘even among our allies, the Jews have friends,’ 9
Goering, Field Marshal Hermann: 1, 2; and the ‘doubtless imminent final solution’ (20 May 1941), 3, 4; and a ‘complete solution’ (31 July 1941), 5, 6; and the Wannsee Conference (20 January 1942), 7
Goeth, Amnon: his sadism, 1
Goethe: 1
Goetz, Adam: dies (1943), 1
Gojnberg, Moses: killed (1939), 1, 2 n. 3
Gol, Szloma: and an escape from the pit, 1
Gold, Bela: murdered, after liberation, 1
Goldberg (a barber): killed, with his wife (1942), 1
Goldberg (a saw-mill owner): and a German deception, 1
Goldberg, Jehuda: ‘where will I go?’, 1
Goldberg, Netka: her family deported, 1
Goldblum family: all killed (1939), 1
Golde (an engineer): killed by shrapnel (1944), 1
Goldenberg, Helene: aged nine, killed (1942), 1
Goldenberg, Lotte: aged five, killed (1942), 1
Goldfarb, Dawid: killed (1939), 1, 2 n. 3
Goldin (Jewish Council member): 1
Goldin, Chayim: dies (1943), 1
Goldman, Ania: survives, 1
Goldman, Maria: murdered (1944), 1
Goldmann (a Jewish merchant): killed in Dachau (1933), 1
Goldmann, Mahmens: escapes, but recaptured, 1; shot (1942), 2
Goldschmid, A. I.: killed (1941), 1
Goldsmith, Sam: sees Dachau at liberation, 1
Goldstein, Chaim: sees a Jew killed by a Pole, 1; and the moment of liberation, 2
Goldstein, Dr Pawel: dies of typhus (1942), 1
Goldstein, Peretz: his death, 1
Goldwasser, Shlomo: organizes mass escape, 1
Golleschau (Goleszow): a labour camp at, 1; rescue of Jews from, 2
Golta: murder of Jews near (1941), 1, 2
Golub, Abraham: recalls events in Kovno (1941), 1, 2
Gomerski, SS Staff Sergeant Hubert: kills children, 1
Gordon, Leslie: recalls massacre of Jews at Kamenets Podolsk (1941), 1
Gorodetsky, Dvoira: killed (1941), 1
Gorodetsky, Yakov: killed (1941), 1
Gorodok: death of Jews from (1941), 1
Gotha: Jews shot at (1945), 1
Gothelf, Yerucham: organizes mass escape, with his brother Yaakov (1942), 1
Gotthart, Dr: in Vilna, 1
Graber, Dr Adam: falls in battle (1944), 1
Graber, Dawid: buries archives, 1
Grabner, SS Lieutenant Maximilian: and a massacre at Budy (1942), 1
Grabow: a Jew escapes to, 1
Grabowski (a Pole): near Chelmno, 1
Grabowski, Heniek: brings news of mass murder, 1, 2
Gradowski, Salmen (Zalmen): ‘search everywhere’, 1
Gradowski, Sonia: murdered, with most of her family, 1
Graebe, Hermann: eye-witness to a deportation (13 July 1942), 1, 2; eye-witness to mass murder (5 October 1942), 3
Graf-Weisenberg, Dr Kornelia: killed (1941), 1
Graftek, Baruch: killed (1943), 1
Gransdorf camp: 1
Greater East Prussia: Jews expelled from (1939), 1
Greece: 1, 2; Jews fight in defence of (1940), 3; invaded by Germany (1941), 4; conquered, 5, 6; and the ‘final solution’, 7; Jews born in, deported to Auschwitz, 8; a deception concerning (1943), 9; deportations from (1943), 10; medical experiments on girls from, 11, 12; deportees from, in Warsaw, 13; escape and resistance in, 14; fate of Jews in the islands of, 15; Jewish resistance in, 16; Jews from, in a labour camp in Warsaw, 17; Jews from, in a revolt at Birkenau, 18; notes of a Jewish Sonderkommando from, discovered at Birkenau (1980), 19
Greenberg (a tailor): leads resistance, 1
Grinberg, Zalman: his diary of events in Kovno, 1, 2, 3, 4; and Hitler’s ‘war against the Jews’, 5; and vengeance, 6
Griva (Dvinsk): ghetto at (1941), 1
Grobas, Mordechai: helps an act of revenge, 1; murdered, 2
Grodno: occupied by Soviet troops (1939), 1; Jews driven in direction of (1941), 2; plans for resistance in, 3; and a deception, 4; a deportation to Auschwitz from (1943), 5; Jewish partisans active in region of, 6
Grodzisk: the moment of liberation in, 1
Grojanowski, Yakov: an eye-witness to mass murder, 1, 2, 3, 4; his possible fate, 5
Grosbart, Zygmunt: his courage, 1
Grosfeld, Joseph: his testimony, 1, 2 n. 3
Gross, Dr: and the deportation from Kalisz (October 1941), 1
Gross Rosen: Jews deported through, 1; Auschwitz apparatus sent to, 2; Jews evacuated from, 3
Grossbart, Zygmunt: a Jewish interpreter, and a mass execution (1941), 1; his sustained act of espionage (1941), 2
Grossman, Chajka: her courage, 1
Grossman, Mendel: ‘such despair was never seen’, 1
Grostower, Zeli: shot (1941), 1
Grot, SS Staff Sergeant Paul: his cruelty recalled, 1
Grüber, Heinrich: seeks to warn Jews (1940), 1; and news of the internment camp at Gurs, 2; a witness at Sachsenhausen (1940), 3; and ‘the worst thing that befell us’, 4
Grüber, Mieczyslaw: sets up a partisan group, 1
Gruenwald, Dr Kruza: murdered (1943), 1
Gruszka Zaporska: a Polish family executed at, for helping Jews (1943), 1
Gryn, Gabi: seen for ‘the last time’, 1
Gryn, Geza: ‘to give with a warm hand’, 1; dies (1945), 2
Gryn, Hugo: and an example of ‘human dignity’, 1; and the Gestapo’s first moves in Hungary, 2; and the first moments at Birkenau, 3; and the death marches, 4, 5; his father’s death, 6; and the ‘denial of God’, 7
Grynbaum, Josek: hanged (1941), 1
Grynszpan, Hirsch: his family’s expulsion (1938), 1; assassinates a German diplomat, 2, 3; a street named after him, in mockery, 4
Grynszpan, Yekhiel: protects his fellow Jews, 1, 2
Grynszpan, Zindel: expelled from Germany (1938), 1
Grzybacz, Nachum: buries ‘the treasure’, 1
Grzybowski Place (Warsaw): smiles in, 1
Gunskirchen: a camp at, 1; a death march to, 2; and the ‘hope’ of revenge by inmates of, 3
Gunther, SS Major Rolf: 1
Gunthergrube: slave labour at coal mines of, 1
Gunzenhausen: two Jews killed in (1934), 1; two more Jews killed in (1934), 2
Gunzig, Jacques: killed (1944), 1
Gurfein, Yaacov: recalls a deportation, 1
Gurs: internment camp at (1940), 1, 2, 3; Jews deported from, 4
Gusen: Jews sent on a death march to, 1; last days at, 2; an evacuation from, 3
Gustloff, Wilhelm: assassinated (1936), 1
Gutman, Gizela: deported, 1
Gutman, Israel (Yisrael): an eye-witness at Majdanek, 1; and the revolt at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 2
; and the death marches, 3; and the ‘hope’ of revenge, 4
Gutstadt (of Radomsko): urges flight, 1
Guttman, Dolek: his wife whipped (1942), 1
Guz (a carpenter): and a labour camp revolt, 1
Guzanyatskii, Yakov: resistance by (1941), 1
Gyor: mass murder at (1944), 1
Gypsies: and Martin Luther, 1; and ‘special treatment’, 2; in the Lodz ghetto, 3; gassed at Chelmno, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; victims of medical experiments at Auschwitz, 9; murdered at Mauthausen, 10; the death toll of, 11
Haas, Dr Ludwig: killed in action (1914), 1
Haber, Fritz: deprived of his professorship (1933), 1
Haberfeld, Rabbi: receives assurances, 1
Hadjerat M’ Guil: internment camp at (1941), 1
Hafner, Falik: killed (1942), 1
Hague, the: occupied by German forces (1940), 1
Hahn Warburg, Lola: 1
Haidar camp (Athens): Jewish deportees held at, 1
Haifa: and the Patria tragedy (1940), 1; death of a Jew from (1941), 2
Haj Amm al-Husseini: his protest, 1
Hajfec, Chaim: and the Lachwa revolt, 1
Halbenstock (a Jewish boy): hanged, 1
Halder, General: records death of Jews (1939), 1
Halpern, David: killed (1942), 1
Halter, Monik: at Chelmno, 1, 2, 3, 2732
Hamann, SS First-Lieutenant: and mass murder of Jews (1941), 1, 2, 3
Hamburg: Jews deported from dockside of (1939), 1; Jews deported to Lodz from (1941), 2, 3; Jews deported to Minsk from (1941), 4; Jews deported to Riga from (1941), 5; deportees to Riga shot (1942), 6; deportees to Lodz, sent to Chelmno (1942), 7; death of a distinguished engineer from (1944), 8; Jews sent to factories and bomb sites at, 9, 699; and a deception (1945), 10; fate of Jewish women near (1945), 11
Hamm: death of a Jew in (1933), 1
Handelsman, Chana: deported, 1 n. 2
Handelsman, Jankiel: deported, 1; arrested, and killed (1944), 2
Hanover: 1, 2, Jews deported to Riga from (1941), 3 n. 4, a death march from (1945), 5
‘Hans the killer’: at Mauthausen (1941), 1
Hardaga, Mustafa: helps a Jewish family, 1
Harder, Albert: gives shelter to three Jewish girls, 1
Harmuszko, Pawel: saves Jews, 1 n. 2
Hart, Kitty: recalls an act of defiance at Auschwitz, 1
Hartheim, Schloss: euthanasia centre at, 1
‘Harvest Festival’ massacre: in Lublin region, 1
Harwich: Jews reach safety at (1938), 1; (1939), 2
‘Hatikvah’ (‘Hope’—the Jewish anthem): sung at Chelmno, 1, 2; sung during a deportation, 3, 4, 5; nephew of author of, deported, 6; sung at Auschwitz, on the way to death, 7, 8,9
Hauser, SS Captain, Dr: his assurances, 1
Hausman, Helena: dies, after liberation (1945), 1
Havana (Cuba): 1
Havas, Geza: dies (1945), 1
Hawryluk (a priest): incites local population (1941), 1
Head Office for Reich Security: discussion of deportations at (6 March 1942), 1
Hebrew: taught in the Lodz ghetto, 1; beggars speak in, in Warsaw, 2; resistance leaders whistle a song in, 3; act of defiance by a teacher of, 4; a translator of Heine into, murdered, 5; ‘the language of the future’, 6; the final prayer in, to be spoken by ‘some new, clean generation’, 7
Heckenholt (the driver of a diesel): at Belzec, 1
Heckenholt Foundation: at Belzec, 1
Hedin, Sven: appeals on behalf of a Jew, 1
Heine: a translator of, murdered, 1
Hejdi, Mrs: at Sobibor, 1
Helfgot, Arieh: recalls a death march (1940), no Helfgott, Ben: recalls pre-war Poland, 1; recalls the deportation trains passing his home town (1942), 2; survives a round-up (1942), 3; tries to return to his home town after liberation (1945), 4
Helfgott, Gershon: nearly killed, after liberation, 1
Helfgott, Lusia: murdered (1942), 1
Helfgott, Sara: murdered (1942), 1
Helfing, Izak: recalls journey to Treblinka, and an act of defiance there, 1; and the mood among the labour force, 2
Hemmelrijk, Professor: hides a Jew, 1
Hemmerstein: a girl from, half frozen (1940), 1
Henschel, Hildegarde: recalls suicides among deportees, 1
Hepner, Dr Joseph: commits suicide (1942), 1
Herman, Chaim: deported to Auschwitz, 1; ‘our enemy is broken’, 2
Hermann, SS Technical Sergeant Michel: eye-witness to a ‘crime’, 1; at Sobibor, 2
Hersbruck (Franconia): ‘Jew free’ (1934), 1
Hertz, Ludwig: a survivor, murdered after liberation, 1
Herzog, Vivian (Chaim Herzog): 1 n. 2
Hess, Henrietta: aged eleven, deported and killed (1944), 1
Hess, Roger: aged nine, deported and killed (1944), 1
Hess, Rudolf: his mission (1941), 1
Hessler (as SS guard): strikes naked women on the way to their deaths, 1
Hewel, SS Brigadier Walther: reports Hitler’s anger as Majdanek camp is exposed, 1
Heydebreck: a labour camp, and a deception, 1
Heydrich, Reinhard: head of SS Intelligence Service (1931), 1; and Jewish emigration (1939), 2; and the ‘planned overall measures’ against Jews (21 September 1939), 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; and ‘the physical extermination of the Jews’, 8; and a ‘complete solution of the Jewish question’, 9; and ‘no more Jews’, 10; and the ‘final solution’ (29 November 1941), 11; and the Wannsee Conference (20 January 1942), 12, 13, 14, 15; fatally wounded (27 May 1942), 16; repercussions of the death of, 17
Heyman, Eva: her death at Auschwitz (1944), 1
Hiller, Helen: entrusts her son to Catholics, 1; deported, 2
Hiller, Moses: entrusts his son to Catholics, 1; deported, 2
Hiller, Shachne: saved by Catholics, 1, 2
Himmelfarb, Meir: plans revolt, 1
Himmler, Heinrich: and the SS (1931), 1; overrules sentences against SS men (1939), 2; his thoughts (of 3 May 1940), 4; and ‘no more Jews’, 5; witnesses mass murder at Minsk (1941), 6; and the maintenance of deception (10 April 1942), 7; presides over a meeting to discuss medical experiments (7 July 1942), 8; orders ‘a total cleansing’, (19 July 1942), 9; told of the need for ‘a faster pace’ (23 July 1942), 10; ‘help me to get more trains’ (20 January 1943), 11; and the deportation of Jews from Finland (1943), 12; and a ‘quantity of old garments’ at Birkenau and in the Lublin region, 13; visits Treblinka, 14; visits Sobibor, 15; receives a list of Jewish property for ‘utilization’, 16; and medical experiments on Jews, 17; his speech at Poznan (4 October 1943), ‘a page of glory’, 18; proposes to release seven thousand women (20 April 1945), 19, 20
Hindenburg: labour camp at, 1
Hindenburg, Field Marshal: 1
Hirsch, Alice: shot (1942), 1
Hirsch, Freddy: his attempted suicide, and death (1944), 1
Hirsch, Hella: shot (1942), 1
Hirsch, Helmut: executed (1937), 1
Hirsch, Otto: pleads for funds (1935), 1
Hirsch, Rachel: records her father’s meeting with her brother after liberation, 1
Hirshaut, Julien (Julian Hirszhaut): his recollections of Pawiak prison, 1; his recollections of the last days of Emanuel Ringelblum, 2
Hirschler, Rabbi René: deported with his wife (1944), 1
Hirszberg, Lota: commits suicide (1942), 1
Hirszman, Chaim: his eye-witness account of Belzec, 1, 2; murdered, after liberation (1946), 3
Hirszman, Pola: and her husband’s testimony, 1
His Great Love: death of a young actress from, 1
Hitler, Adolf: 1, ‘anti-Semites of the World, Unite!’, 2; and the murder of Rathenau (1922), 3; and his book Mein Kampf, 4, 5; becomes Chancellor (1933), 6, 7; and the boycott (1933), 8; and the definition of ‘Jew’, 9; and the Nuremberg Laws (1935), 10; and the Rhineland, 11; in power for five years (1938), 12; and German national interests (1938), 13; and the Sudetenland
(1938), 14; and the Kristallnacht (1938), 15; and the ‘annihilation’ of the Jews (1939), 16; and Poland (1939), 17; and Jewish resettlement (1939), 18; a protest to (1940), 19; and Himmler’s thoughts (of 20 May 1940), 21; and the fall of France, 22; and the bombing of Berlin, 23; his fellow fighters and the Jews, 24; his ‘minions’, 25; his end ‘near’ (1941), 26; his order concerning ‘the physical extermination of the Jews’ cited, 27; military ascendancy of (1941), 28, 29; his Chancellery, and poison gas (October 1941), 30; a protest to (October 1941), 31; and euthanasia, 32; and the ‘end’ of the Jews in Europe, 33; to be thanked (at Chelmno), 34; warns of ‘the complete annihilation of the Jews’ (30 January 1942), 35; his name deliberately not mentioned, 36; rumours of resistance against his ‘hangmen’, 37; his fate forecast (at Belzec), 38; his intentions discussed (in Warsaw), 39; a ‘satrap’ of, 40; rumoured ‘collapse’ of, 41; vengeance on the Germany of, ‘an advance payment’, 42; advice of the euthanasia expert on the staff of, 43; the ‘very grave order’ of (28 July 1942), 44; a German policeman does not ‘give a damn’ for, 45; and a spurious agreement of, with Roosevelt, 46; a protest to (25 March 1943), 47; urges deportation of Jews from Hungary (17 April 1943), 48; his ‘orders’ cited (31 May 1943), 49; his ‘instructions’ on public references to ‘a future overall solution’ (11 July 1943), 50; and the deportation of the Jews of Hungary (1944), 51; attempt on the life of (20 July 1944), 52; his anger about failure to ‘erase’ traces of crimes against the Jews, 53; hopes to continue war (1945), 54; his ‘political testimony’ and the Jews, 55; commits suicide (30 April 1945), 56; called a ‘madman’ by a murderer of Jews, 57; his ‘war against the Jews’, 58; and the ‘pride of the survivor’, 59
Hitler Youth: established (1926), 1; shown an anti-Semitic film (1940), 2; and an ‘action’ in Lodz (1942), 3; and a death march (1945), 4; and the murder of Jews at Lübeck, 5
Hlinka Guard: a Jewess in action against, killed (1944), 1
Hoch (a German Jew): ‘dying’ (1943), 1
Hoch, Nachum: recalls a punishment in Auschwitz, 1; recalls an attempted escape in Auschwitz, and its sequel, 2
Hochberg, Aaron: killed (1941), 1
Hochberg-Marianska, Maria: an eye-witness to the murder of children, 1
Hochberger, Moritz: killed, trying to escape (1944), 1
Hochman, Leib Michel: killed (1939), 1
Hochshild, Don Mauricio: and release of Jews (1937), 1
Hoengen: the Kristallnacht (1938) in, 1
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