Excerpt from the Prisoners Registry of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp: Jewish prisoners liberated at Farsleben on April 13, (ID: 33358)
Authorship or Source:
- Stiftung Niedersächsische Gedenkstätten.
- Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen.
- Horstmann, Bernd.
Year:
2008
Title or Main Description:
Excerpt from the Prisoners Registry of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp: Jewish prisoners liberated at Farsleben on April 13, 1945. [Computer file]
Place Published or Holding Institution:
[Lohheide, Germany : Stiftung Niedersächsische Gedenkstätten - Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen]
Description:
- 1 computer file in PDF-format (37 p.; 164KB)
- Number of Names or Other Entries-- Approx. 2,000 Names.
Date:
July 29, 2008
Type of Work:
Electronic resource
Alternate or Series Title:
- Bergen-Belsen Prisoners Registry - Liberated At Farsleben.pdf
- Memorial Bergen-Belsen: Excerpt from the Prisoner's Registry of the Bergen-Belsen Conentration Camp: Jewish Prisoners liberated at Farsleben on April 13, 1945 [sic].
- Gedenkbuch: Häftlinge des Konzentrationslagers Bergen-Belsen. Excerpts
- The Death Train at Farsleben, Germany, 13 April 1945.
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
- Survivors Registry Collection [Computerized data]: Available to authorized Survivors Registry staff only on the USHMM Computer Network in the folder S:\DATA\REGLISTS\Farsleben\.
- Note: The S:\DATA\REGLISTS\Farsleben\ folder also includes several other informational materials, personal narratives articles and so forth concerning this Farsleben transport including "The Death Train at Farsleben, Germany, 13 April 1945" by former member of the U.S. Army 30th Inf. Div., which liberated the train, Mr. Frank W. Towers. .
Provenance:
Computer file received July 29, 2008 by U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Survivors Registry volunteer Peter Landé via email attachment from Mr. Bernd Horstmann of the Stiftung Niedersächsische Gedenkstätten - Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen [= Foundation for Memorials of Lower Saxony - Bergen-Belsen Memorial]. This Farsleben transport data seems to have been derived from the data of the larger 2005 Bergen-Belsen memorial book project for the compilation of: Gedenkbuch : Häftlinge des Konzentrationslagers Bergen-Belsen. ([Celle] : Stiftung Niedersächsische Gedenkstätten : Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen, 2005)).
Keywords:
- Holocaust survivors --Germany --Bergen-Belsen --Registers.
- Holocaust survivors --Germany --Farsleben --Registers
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Germany --Bergen-Belsen --Registers.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Germany --Celle --Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Concentration camps --Liberation --Registers.
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) --Registers.
- Farsleben (Germany) --Registers.
Abstract:
Alphabetical list of ca. 2,000 Jews who were aboard a transport train that left Bergen Belsen concentration camp on or about April 10, 1945 intended for Theresienstadt, but which only got as far as Farsleben, Germany (near Magdeburg) where it was liberated on April 13, 1945 by American soldiers of the 30th Infantry Division. Virtually all passengers aboard this transport survived the end of the War. Columnar entries contain surname, first name, date of birth, place of birth, date of liberation, and place of liberation.
Language and Other Notes:
- Cataloger-assigned title.
- Head of document reads: "Memorial Bergen-Belsen: Excerpt from the Prisoner's Registry of the Bergen-Belsen Conentration Camp: Jewish Prisoners liberated at Farsleben on April 13, 1945" [sic].
Location of Electronic or Internet File:
S:\DATA\REGLISTS\Farsleben\