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Rabbi Joseph Schachter, comp. Polen: Bosatta i Auschwitz (Oshpitsin), 1919-1941 [webbaserad databas]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.
Originaldata: Ch. Wolnerman, A. Burstin, M.S. Geshuri, ed. Sefer Oshpitsin. Oswiecim; Auschwitz memorial book. Jerusalem: Oshpitsin Society, 1977. This data is provided in partnership with JewishGen.org.

 Polen: Bosatta i Auschwitz (Oshpitsin), 1919-1941

Det här är en databas över judar från staden Oshpitzin (polska: Oswiecim [Oshvyentzim], tyska: Auschwitz). Informationen har sammanställts utifrån Sefer Oshpitsin, minnesboken över Oswiecim, och andra källor. Ett försök har gjorts att få med alla personer som antingen föddes i Oshpitzin och närliggande byar, eller som bodde där någon gång mellan 1919 och 1941. Det finns 5 511 poster.
This is a database of Jews from the town of Oshpitzin (Polish: Oświęcim [Oshvyentzim], German: Auschwitz). The information has been compiled from Sefer Oshpitsin, the Oswiecim memorial book, and from other sources. The database attempts to include all individuals who were either born in Oshpitzin and surrounding townlets, or lived there for a period between 1919 and 1941. There are 5,511 entries.

The database contains the following fields:

  • Family name + first name(s)

  • Maiden surname

  • Date of birth or Age

  • Status:

    • HY'D = Holocaust victim ("Hashem Yikom Damam" = "May G-d avenge their blood")

    • N'Y = Living at time of submission of memorial ("Nero Ya'ir" = "May their light shine")

    • Z'L = Died before or after the war ("Zichrono Livracha" = "of blessed memory")

    • P'V = Presumed victim

    • UND = Undetermined - possible duplicate

    • MZV = Matzeva - tombstone at the Oshpitzin cemetery

    • RHS = appears in Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1996)

  • Father

  • Mother + mother's maiden surname

  • Spouse + spouse's maiden surname

  • Sources:

    • HoN = Hall of Names - Yad Vashem Page of Testimony (when doubled, indicates two sources with additional or differing details)

    • Y568 = Mentioned in Sefer Oshpitsin Yizkor Book, on page 568.

    • SKL = Listed in Serge Klarsfeld's Deportations List - Le memorial de la deportation des Juifs de France.

    • JS = Added by Joseph Schachter from personal knowledge

    • SWD = Swedish Yizkor book by survivors - Gloem Oss Inte (Stockholm: Hillelforlaget, 1999)

    • TRZ = Theresienstadt Lists - Terezinska Pametni Kniha, (Praha, 1995).

    • OGS = Oorlogsgravenstichting - Dutch deportations lists

  • Photograph - A photograph exists at Yad Vashem's Photo Archives.

    • A120, denotes 120th in Szrodula Ghetto list for the initial letter A.

    • (Photos were taken in 1942-3 and signed by the victims)
  • Remarks - Added information about individual or about family members. Not all were killed, nor were all from Oshpitzin.

  • Reported by - There are often more sources, but only one is given here.

  • Birthplace

  • Residence pre 1939

  • Lived - Where survivor or former Oshpitziner lived before or after the War.

  • War Years - Only one of several possibilities. Most lived in Oshpitzin until expulsion to Szrodula or Chrzanow in 1941. By the end of 1943 the ghettoes were "liquidated".

  • Death date

  • Death details - KZ = Kazet = Concentration camp - forced labor