Hoess, Rudolf: commandant of Auschwitz, 1; and a massacre at Budy (1942), 2; asked for human hair (1943), 3; and medical experiments, 4; and a Jewish act of defiance, 5; and a reprisal, 6
Hoessler, SS Lieutenant Franz: and the death of Jacob Edelstein, 690 Höfle, SS Major Hermann: in charge of deportations from Warsaw (1942), 1
Hohlfelder, Professor: and medical experiments, 1
Hoichbaum, Hersh Getzel: commits suicide (1942), 1
Holender, Yankel: and the day of liberation, 1
Hollaender, Gerta: recalls an ‘action’, 1
Holland: Jews find refuge in, 1, 2; occupied by Germany, 3; Jewish refugees trapped in, 4; a deportation from (1941), 5; and the ‘final solution’, 6; Jews deported to Sobibor from (1942), 7; Jews deported from, on the river Bug, 8; Jews deported to Auschwitz from, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25; a Jew from, at Sobibor, and a reprisal, 26; Jews from, in a Warsaw labour camp, 27; a painter from, killed at Sobibor, 28; a Jewish girl from Germany, in hiding in, 29; Jews from, in transit, 30; western allies advance towards, 31; final deportees from Auschwitz to, 32; a German Catholic rescues some Jews from, 33
Hollender, Albert: recalls a deportation to Auschwitz, 1
Holzer, Isaac: deported to Auschwitz (1940), 1
Home Army: a member of, witnesses a round-up of Jews, 1; members of, kill Jews, 2, 3, 4; offers to rescue Jewish underground leaders, 5
Homosexuals: sent to concentration camps (1933), 1; murdered at Mauthausen, 2; the death toll of, 3
Hong Kong: 1
Hook of Holland: Jews leave (1938), 1; (1939), 2
Horbacki, Wladyslaw: shelters two Jewish women, 1
Horodenka: mass murder at (1941), 1, 2 n. 3; Jews deported to Belzec from (1941), 4
Horodzei: mass murder at (1942), 1
Horowicz, Irena: murdered with her child (1943), 1
Horowitz (a dancer): her act of defiance, 1
Horthy, Admiral: Hitler urges deportation of Jews at meeting with (17 April 1943), 1; Hitler again urges deportation of Jews on (18 March 1944), 2; agrees to halt deportations (7 July 1944), 3; his promises overtaken by events (15
October 1944), 1
Hoshana Rabba (the Great Prayer): a day of judgement, and of massacre (1941), 1
Hoszcza: Jews given refuge in, 1
Hoter-Yishai, Aharon: recalls death of survivors (1945), 1
House of Commons (London): 1, 2
Hrubieszow: a deportation from (1939), 1; a further deportation from (1942), 2; Jews seek safety near (1943), 3
Humour: in the ghettos, 1, 2
Hungary: 1; anti-Jewish legislation in (1938), 2; Jews seek refuge in (1938), 3 and (1939), 4 and (1940), 5; Jews of (1941), 6; mass murder of Jews from (at Kamenets Podolsk, 1941), 7; Jews of (1942), 8; and the ‘final solution’, 9; and the murder of Jews in Yugoslavia, 10; fate of a Jewess from, 11; and the German wish for deportations from, 12; a citizen of, deported from Belgium to Auschwitz, 13; sends Jews to forced labour (February 1943), 14; Jews not being deported from (1943), 15; Hitler urges, in vain, deportation of Jews from (17 April 1943), 16; and a German propaganda proposal, 17; the deportation of the Jews of, planned and begun, 18, 19, 20; continued deportations from, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25; medical experiments on Jews from (1944), 26; deportations from, halted, 27; Jewish deportees from Rome reach, 28; Jews from, in a labour camp in Warsaw, 29; Jews from, sent from Auschwitz to factories near Berlin, 30; fate of boys from, at Auschwitz, 31; Jews once more at risk in (October 1944), 32; Jews from, killed in Warsaw (October 1944), 33; a German Catholic rescues some Jews from (1945), 34; guards from, at Belsen, 35
Huppert, Heinrich: deported from Finland to Auschwitz, 1
‘Hurrah’: a signal for revolt, 1, 2
Huttenbach, Henry R.: and courage, 1
Ijmuiden: Jews reach, on way to safety (1940), 1
Imber, S.J.: deported, 1
Inotest: and a death train (1941), 1
International Red Cross: its protest, 1; seeks to protect Jews in Budapest, 2, 3; takes over Theresienstadt after SS flee, 4
‘Internationale’: sung on the way to death, 1
Ipp, Dr. Tania: saved, 1
Irish Republic: fate of Jews in, discussed, 1
Iron Gates: Jews reach (1939), 1
Iron Guard: and anti-Jewish violence in Rumania, 1, 2
Irrman (an SS-man): at Belzec, 1, 2
Isaac, Rabbi: an act of defiance by, 1
Israel: Jews refused permission to emigrate to, 1 n. 2, 3 n. 4; trees planted in the ‘Avenue of the Righteous’ in, 5 n. 6, 7 n. 8; the survivor of a ‘Blobel Commando’ reaches, 9 n. 10; re-union of twins at (1984), 11 n. 12; President of, formerly with the British troops who entered Belsen, 13 n. 14
Israel, Wilfrid: 1; reports on concentration camps (1938), 2; warns of reprisals (1938), 3
Issaszeg: a death march through (1944), 1
Istanbul: a Jewess saved at (1942), 1; fate of a Jew born in, 2; Jews allowed to land at (1943), 3; a Jewess born in, deported from Italy (1944), 4; an emissary from Eichmann at, 5
Italian Front (1915): fate of a former soldier on, 1
Italy: 1, 2, 3; Jews of, listed, 4; and the Jews of Croatia, 5, 6; Jews of, not deported, 7; protects Jews, 8, 9, 10, 11; Germans deport Jews from (1943), 12, 13; further deportations from (1944), 14, 15; Jews sent to safety in, 16
Iwje: mass murder at (1942), 1
Izbica Kujawska: fate of the Jews of (1942), 1; Jews from, at Chelmno, 2, 3, 4, 5; mass murder of Jews from (14 January 1942), 6, 7, 8
Izbica Lubelska: deportations to Belzec through (1942), 1, 2, 3
Izbizki, Haim Reuben: at Chelmno, 1, 2
Izieu (France): Jewish children deported from, to their deaths, 1
Izraelit (a tailor): saves himself, 1
Izykson, Joshua: shot (1942), 1
Jablonica: Jews drowned in (1941), 1
Jacob, Max: dies at Drancy (1944), 1
Jacobi, Dr: and the deportation of Jews by rail, 1
Jachowicz, Josef: a Jewish child entrusted to, 1, 2
Jacobi, Harry: rescued from Holland (1940), 1
Jaeckeln, SS Lieutenant-General Franz: promises ‘liquidation’ of 1,000 Jews (1941), 2
Jaeger, SS Colonel Karl: reports on fate of Lithuanian Jewry (1941), 1, 2
Jaffa: riots in (1933), 1; nine Jews killed in (1936), 2
Jajinci: Jews shot at (1941), 1
Jakobowitz (‘a healthy and strong man’): shot (1942), 1
Jakubowicz, Jehuda: at Chelmno, 1, 2
Jakubowski, Zalman: at Chelmno, 1
Jamniak, Sure: shot (1942), 1
Jan, J. von: his courageous sermon (1938), 1
Jankelewicz, Chaim: commits suicide (1943), 1
Jankowski, Stanislaw: recalls two acts of defiance at Birkenau, 1; recalls (under his original name, Alter Feinsilber), the deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 2
Janover, Hillel: shot (1941), 1
Janowska Camp (Lvov): sadism at (1942), 1; death of a Jew at (1942), 2; and a massive reprisal (1943), 3; and the digging up and burning of corpses, 4; and the fall of Mussolini, 5; the fate of twenty-four girls at, 6; continued killings in, 7; revolt at, 8
Japan: Jews find refuge in (1940), 1; attacks the United States (1941), 2
Jasenovac: murders at, 1, 2; revolt at (1945), 3
Jasiolka river: bones thrown into (1943), 1
Jasionowka: a round-up in (1943), 1
Jassy (Iasi): massacre at (1941), 1; death trains from, 2
Jawiszowice: a labour camp at, 1
Jaworow: Jews tormented in (1942), 1; Jews deported to Belzec from, 2
Jaworzno: labour camp at, 1, 2
Jedwabne: mass murder at (1941), 1
Jehovah’s Witnesses: murdered at Mauthausen, 1
Jejkowice: Jews shot at (1945), 1
Jerusalem: Jews exhorted to go to (1933), 1; Arab protests in (1933), 2, 3; and the city of Worms, 4; Chelmno gassings recalled in, 5; Roman siege
of, recalled in Warsaw, 6; fate of a Jew born in, 7; a massacre (of 1942) described in (in 1961), 8; information about German intentions reaches, 9; and Marseilles, 10; of Lithuania, destroyed, 11; trees planted in the ‘Avenue of the Righteous’ in, 12 n. 13, 14 n. 15; a funeral in, of a Catholic who saved Jews, 16; survivors gather in (1981), 17; a child’s shoe from Treblinka on display in, 18 n. 19
Jesus: abused as a Jew (1934), 1; his ‘non-Aryan’ followers, 2; and the Kristallnacht in Baden Baden (1938), 3; and the fate of a young Jew at Ejszyszki (1941), 4
‘Jew free’ villages: 1, 2
Jew Suss: a film suffused with hatred (1940), 1
Jewish Brigade: a soldier from, recalls fate of the survivors at Dachau and Belsen, 1
Jewish Chronicle: Churchill’s message to (1941), 1
Jewish Councils: established (1939), 1, 2, 3; in Warsaw, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12; in Piotrkow, 13, 14; in Wlodawa, 15; in Szczebrzeszyn, 16, 17; in Lodz, 18, 19; in East Upper Silesia, 20; in German-occupied Russia, 21; at Dubossary, 22; at Kovno, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27; at Vilna, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33; at Stanislawow, 34; at Kalisz, 35; in Minsk, 36, 37; at Kleck, 38; at Nowogrodek, 39; in Bialystok, 40, 41, 42; at Izbica Kujawska, 43; at Brailov, 44; at Baranowicze, 45; at Zdunska Wola, 46, 47; at Drohobycz, 48; at Jaworow, 49; at Bilgoraj, 50; at Dambrowa (Silesia), 51; at Markuszow, 52; at Iwje, 53; at Zdzieciol, 54, 55; in Ozorkow, 56; in Cracow, 57; at Pilica, 58; in Holland, 59, 60; at Molczadz, 61; at Nieswiez, 62, 63; at Szarkowszczyzna, 64; in Minsk, 65; at Zwierzyniec, 66; at Krzemieniec, 67; at Wlodzimierz Wolynski, 68, 69; at Lachwa, 70; at Tuczyn, 71; at Korzec, 72; at Serniki, 73; at Kaluszyn, 74; in Siemiatycze, 75; at Marcinkance, 76; at Zloczow, 77; from Zamosc (at Belzec), 78; at Turobin, 79; of Opoczno, 80; in Radomsko, 81; at Lomza, 82; at Lvov, 83; in Bialystok, 84; at Khmielnik, 85; at Sosnowiec, 86; in Siauliai, 87; in Theresienstadt, 88; in Budapest, 89
Jewish Fighting Organization: established (in Warsaw), 1, 2; and the killing of Jewish policemen, 3; in Bialystok, 4, 5; near Rzeszow, 6; in Cracow, 7, 8; in Czestochowa, 9, 10; and the Warsaw ghetto uprising, 11, 12; a founder of, shot, 13; in Bedzin, 14; in Kovno, 15; in Warsaw after the ghetto uprising, 16; and the Polish uprising in Warsaw (August 1944), 17
Jewish Labour Federation (Palestine): and the rescue of Greek Jews, 1
‘Jewish Nation in Poland’, the: once glorious, 1; destroyed for ever, 2
Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana): Jews attacked during (1931), 1; Jews shot during (1939), 2; Warsaw ghetto established on (1940), 3; a deportation from Warsaw on (1942), 4; Jews escape from Denmark on (1943), 5; at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1944), 6
Jewish Police: in Warsaw, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; in Minsk, their commander co-operates with resistance groups, 9; in Baranowicze, murdered, 10; shot, in Warsaw, 11, 12; at Szczebrzeszyn, 13; in Oszmiana (‘rescue what you can’), 14; at Lomza, 15; at Rohatyn, 16; in Lodz, 17; in Vilna, 18; in Kovno, 19, 20
Jewish Sabbath: anti-Jewish indignities during (1938), 1; at Chelmno death camp (1942), 2; in Warsaw (1942), 3, 4; in Birkenau (1943), 5; in Koldyczewo camp (1943), 6; and the death of Jews after liberation (1945), 7
Jewish Scout Movement: and resistance in France, 1
Jewish Self Defence: in Poland (1936), 1
‘Jews not wanted’ placards: 1, 2
Joachimsman, Ruth: a survivor, murdered after liberation, 1
Jody: mass murder at (1941), 1 n. 2
Joffe, Chaim: joins partisans, 1
Johst, Hans: an enemy of ‘culture’, 1
Joint Boycott Council: 1
‘Joker’, the: and the news of Hitler’s death, 1
Jolles, Rose: act of defiance by, 1
Jordan, SS Captain: his promise of work and life, 1
Jozefek, Kazimierz: hanged for helping Jews (1944), 1
Jozefow: labour camp at, 1
Jozio (from Lvov): no hope of seeing again, 1
Judenzug (‘Jew train’): returns empty, 1
Jungsztajn, Zeev: recalls a bombardment, 1
Jup (a Kapo): at Auschwitz, 1
Jurezkaya, Niuta: executed (1943), 1
Justman, Reginka: shot (1942), 1
K., Moniek: killed (1943), 1
Kacyzne, Alter: beaten to death (1941), 1
Kacza Street (Warsaw): and the uprising, 1
Kaczerginski, Shmerl: learns of a massacre, 1; hears about the Warsaw uprising, 2; hears a poem about resistance, 3
Kaczmarski, Stefan: killed for hiding Jews (1943), 1
Kadomskiy, Leonid: escapes, later killed in action, 1
Kafka, Franz: his friend commits suicide (1940), 1
Kagan, Dvora: killed (1943), 1
Kagan, Idel: an eye-witness of events in Nowogrodek, 1, 2, 3, 4; and an escape bid, 5
Kagan, Moshe: sent in the direction of ‘life’, 1
Kagan, Nehama: killed (1943), 1
Kagan, Raja: recalls incidents of an escape from Auschwitz, 1
Kagan, Rakhil: helps revolt, 1
Kagan, Yankel: killed (1941), 1
Kahana-Shapira, Rabbi Avrohom: ‘to save as many as can be saved’, 1
Kahane, Rabbi David: given sanctuary, 1
Kahane, Dr Seweryn: killed, after liberation, 1
Kahn, Artur: killed in Dachau (1933), 1
Kahn, Erwin: killed in Dachau (1933), 1
Kaiserwald camp (Riga): final deportation from, 1
Kakol, Jan: shelters a Jewish child, 1
Kalarash (Calarasi): and a death train (1941), 1, 2
Kaldo, Rosa: commits suicide (1942), 1
Kalenczuk, Fiodor: gives Jews refuge, 1
Kalisz: a Jewess escapes from (1939), 1; Jewish women slave labourers near (1940), 2; Jews murdered by gas near (October 1941), 3
Kallman, Frans Olof: aged twenty-two months, gassed at Auschwitz (1943), 1
Kallmeyer (a chemist): and poison gas, 1
Kalmanovitch, Zelig: the price of life commented on by, 1
Kaltenbrunner, Ernst: and a propaganda proposal, 1
Kaluszyn: a deportation from, 1
Kamen Koszyrski: first victims in (1941), 1
Kamenets Podolsk: mass murder at (1941), 1
Kamienna Gora: a death march to, recalled, 1
Kaminski Brigade: soldiers of, kill Jews (1944), 1
Kaminsky, Suzanne: a tiny baby, deported, 1
Kamionka: mass murder at (1941), 1, 2 n. 3
Kampinos forest: punishment camp in (1941), 1
Kanal, Yisrael: his act of revenge, 1
Kantor, Alfred: deported from Auschwitz to a labour camp (1944), 1; and a hanging (1945), 2; and the end of a death train, 3
Kaplan, Dr: his daughter’s death (1943), 1
Kaplan, Chaim: his recording of the fate of Warsaw Jewry, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; and the establishment of the Warsaw ghetto, 9, 10, 11, 12; and the fate of Lodz Jewry, 13; and news reaching Warsaw, 14, 15; and forced labour (1940), 16, 17; and the Pruszkow deportees (1941), 18; and the ‘final victim’, 19; and the Chanukkah killings (1941), 20; and news of killings at ‘some unknown place’ near Lublin (1942), 21; and a ‘calamity’ in Warsaw (22 April 1942), 23; and three ‘candidates for death’, 24; deported to Treblinka, 25; and the fate of those ‘expelled’ from Warsaw, 26; and those who ‘escaped from the trap’, 27
Kaplan, Joseph: shot (1942), 1
Kaplan, Yosef: and plans for resistance, Kaplanas, Zahar: saved by a non-Jew, 1
Kapler, Jacob: and a mass escape, 1
Kaplinsky, Hirsh: forms a partisan unit, but killed in action (1942), 1
Karasick, Abraham: recalls death of Yitzhak Maimed (1943), 1; and the Bialystok ghetto revolt, 2, 3; and an act of defiance in Bialystok (1944), 4
Karczew: Jews murdered at, 1
Karelicze: fate of Jews from, 1
Karmelicka Street (Warsaw): Jews beaten up on (1940), 1; a Jew killed on (1942), 2; a deportation reaches (1942), 3
Karp, Israel: shot for resistance (1940), 1
Karrer, Lukos: saves Jews, 1
Karstatt, Eliezer: wi
tnesses a deportation to Sobibor, 1
Kartun, Berl: killed (1943), 1
Kasche, Siegfried: and the Jews until Italian military occupation, 1
Kasprzykowski, Ignacy: saves Jews, 1 n. 2
Kastner, Rudolf: questions Eichmann’s deputy, 1; Eichmann’s warnings to, 2,752
Katowice: fate of a rabbi from, 1
Katz, Aron: killed (1943), 1
Katz, Edita: a partisan commander, killed in action (1944), 1
Katz, Hillel: shot (1943), 1
Katz, Jacob: saves fellow Jews, 1
Katz, Josef: eye-witness to a deportation, 1
Katz, Manuel: deported (1942), 1
Katz, Rozalia: dies, after liberation (1945), 1
Katz, Dr Theo: killed (1933), 1
Katzmann, SS General: and Jewish attempts to avoid deportation, 1
Katznelson, Benjamin: murdered (1943), 1
Katznelson, Bension: murdered (1943), 1
Katznelson, Yitzhak: attends a play, 1; told of an incident during a deportation, 2; his relatives deported, 3; ‘The Jews are shooting!’, 4; his song, and his death, 5; ‘Sing a hymn to the hero’, 6
Kaufman, Aron: shot (1939), 1
Kaye, Sala: recalls Day of Atonement in Auschwitz, 1
Kazinets, Isai (Joshua) Pavlovich: leads partisans in Minsk, 1
Kecskemet: arrival of postcards at, 1
Kedainiai: mass murder at (1941), 1
Keiler, Maria: ‘she simply walked away’, 1
Keilis camp: Jews smuggled out of, 1
Keitel, General (later Field Marshal): and the need for ‘ruthless measures’ against Jews (12 September 1941), 1
Kelme: ‘sanctification of the name of God’ by martyrdom at (1941), 1
Kem, Jeszyk: his family remain outside the ghetto, 1; deported, 2
Kempner, Vitka: and the flight of Jews from Poland (1939), 1; and resistance near Vilna (1943), 2, 3; and ‘the last Jew in the world’, 4
Kenigswein: commands a ‘battle unit’ in the Polish Warsaw uprising, 1
Kerch: mass murder at (1941), 1
Kfar Maccabia: re-union of twins at (1984), 1 n. 2
Kharash, Leonid: escapes, later killed in action, 1
Khazanovich, S. M.: leads a Jewish partisan group (1942), 1
Kherson: mass murder at (1941), 1; executions in (1942), 2
Khmelnik: killing of Jews at (1941), 1; (in 1942), 2, 3; (in 1943). 4
Kibel, Raizl: helps a revolt, 1; recalls a death march, 2
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