incoming to KL Auschwitz Nummernwerzeichnis, information from Auschwitz Chronicle 1939-1945 by Danuta Czech, How many people died in KL Auschwitz by Franciszek Piper, lists of Jews transported from occupied France by Serge Klarsfeld, or publication by Ward Adriaens, Dr. Maxime Steinberg, Dr. Laurence Schram, Patricia Ramet, Eric Hautermann and Ilse Marquenie Mecheln-Auschwitz 1942-1944: The destruction of the Jews and Gypsies from Belgium. Data about the deported Jews from Hungary comes from memoirs collected by Prof. R. Braham, letters of the prisoner Leo Glaser, or lists of transports prepared by Mikulas Gaško compiled by Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz, head of the Museum Research Center.
“To the new system we also added data about transports from five districts in occupied Poland, which were gathered in the Memorial Books of Poles deported to KL Auschwitz published between 2000 and 2013,” added Ewa Bazan.
“The website is being created thanks to the cooperation of the Museum with volunteers and university students doing their internships at the Memorial. A huge thank you goes to the volunteers and interns who translate texts into English. This includes: students and teachers of the International British School from Kraków together with their history teacher Robert Nicholson, and university students of philology and linguistics. This cooperation would not be possible without the involvement of the Volunteering and Internships of the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocuast, and the work on making this data available would continue for many more years,” said Anna Jawień, from the Analysis and Archival Information Section, coordinating translations into English.
“The data available on the new website are not yet comprehensive, as the process of gathering and updating them will take years to come. However, the tool is already so advanced that we decided to share it with the public in its current state. It will certainly be very helpful for the families of Victims, researchers, teachers, and educators dealing with the history of Auschwitz and the Holocaust. Data on prisoners and transports will be supplemented as the work progresses,” said Dr. Krzysztof Antończyk, head of the Analysis and Archival Information Section, responsible for the cooperation with other memorials in this project.
“Importantly, other memorials and museums have already declared cooperation with us, including: Memorial de la Shoah from Paris. This will ensure that any information about the victim's name will be published with reciprocal links directing users to partner websites. This is a truly huge undertaking that goes beyond a strictly archival project,” emphasized Dr. Antończyk.
All persons wishing to support the development of the victims.auschwitz.org project are welcome to contact the Analysis and Archival Information Section [email protected].
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