The Holocaust was unprecedented genocide, total and systematic, perpetrated by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, with the aim of annihilating the Jewish people. The primary motivation was the Nazis' anti-Semitic racist ideology. Between 1933 and 1941 Nazi Germany pursued a policy that dispossessed the Jews of their rights and their property, followed by the branding and the concentration of the Jewish population. This policy gained broad support in Germany and much of occupied Europe. In 1941, following the invasion of the Soviet Union, the Nazis and their collaborators launched the systematic mass murder of the Jews. By 1945 nearly six million Jews had been murdered. More...
Gabor in a sailor outfit.
Gabor Neumann was born on February 10th, 1940 in Bekescsaba, Hungary. The son of Elek and Margit Neumann, Gabor was just four years old when he was deported to Auschwitz and murdered on June 29th, 1944.
The photograph was submitted to Yad Vashem by Gabor’s brother Peter Namenyi, who lives in Hungary.
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The happy couple on their wedding day.
Louis (Adolf) Swabe was born on January 13, 1902, in Groningen, Netherlands. He married Geertruida Feeler, and they lived in Amsterdam. Louis and Geertruide were both murdered on July 23, 1943, in the Sobibor extermination camp. 250,000 Jews were gassed in Sobibor.
The photograph was submitted to Yad Vashem by David Kool, the couple’s nephew, who lives in Holland.
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The Jacobys in Berlin, 1940
Heinrich Jacoby was born in Belgard, Germany on October 15, 1864. His wife Margarete was born in Eidtkonen, Germany on November 11, 1875. They were deported from Germany and perished in Theresienstadt – Heinrich on January 18, 1943, age 79, and Margarete on August 22, 1943, age 68.
The photograph was submitted by their daughter, Julia Faerber Jacoby, who lives in France.
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Marina, daughter of Nahum and Anna-Nyuta Smargonski, was born in Riga, Latvia on 30 August 1938. During the war, the family lived in Riga, and Marina perished in the Riga ghetto in December of 1941. She was only 3 years old. Her father, Nahum, perished in a concentration camp in Germany.
The photograph was submitted to Yad Vashem by Anna Yarshov (formerly Smargonski), Marina’s mother.
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Moshe Manela and his daughter, Guta
Moshe Manela was born in the town of Kielce, Poland in 1908. He married Bluma Citron, and their daughter, Guta, was born in 1937. All three were murdered in Treblinka in 1942 – Moshe was 34, his wife Bluma 33, and Guta was just five years old.
The Pages of Testimony in their memory and the photograph were submitted to Yad Vashem by Arieh Citron-Hadari, Moshe's brother-in-law and Guta's Uncle.
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Kurt Peckel, son of Adolf and Pauline Peckel, was born on 9 March, 1897 in Inse, Germany. He married Frania Kalter, and they had a son, Adolf. The family lived in Leipzig, Germany, and during the war, they moved to Southern France.
On 31 August 1942, Kurt, Frania and Adolf were deported on the 26th transport from the Drancy transit camp to Auschwitz, where they all perished.
The family photograph was submitted to Yad Vashem by Horace Peck (formerly Peckel), Kurt’s brother, who lives in the US.
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Valentina, daughter of Arkadi and Liudmila Zbar, was born in 1935 in Kharkov, Ukraine. She perished there with her parents in 1941. She was six years old.
The photograph was submitted to Yad Vashem by Dmitri Kamyshan, Valentina’s cousin.
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Yehiel, son of Abek (Abba) and Miriam Mintzberg, was born in Radom, Poland. He lived in Radom during the war, until October 1942, when he was deported to Treblinka, where he was murdered. He was ten years old.
The photograph was submitted to Yad Vashem by his aunt, Lola Politanski, who lives in Israel.
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