Showing posts with label holocaust resistance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holocaust resistance. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

The Lebensborn Project




The Lebensborn project was founded on December 12th, 1935 by Heinrich Himmler. Within the same year, the Nuremberg Laws were passed which prohibited the intermarriage, sexual relations and citizenship of all Jews and "Non-Aryans".


The purpose of the Lebensborn project was to increase Germany's declining birthrate and create a new generation that would lead the Nazi/Aryan nation by allowing "racially pure" women to secretly conceive with an SS officer and give birth to a "racially pure" child. The children born into Lebensborn nurseries were taken by the SS. Expectant mothers through the program, regardless of their marital status, were provided with a home and a safe environment for birthing the child.

Here are links for further research:
1. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Lebensborn.html
2. http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/General/LebensbornEng.html

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Kazimierz Piechowski, an Escaped Prisoner from Auschwitz.


Kazimiers Piechowski is one of just 144 prisoners to have resisted and escaped Auschwitz and to survive his escape. 
Piechowski was born in Poland in 1919. He was arrested in 1939 and survived imprisonment in Sanok, Nowy Wiśnicz, and Krakow. He was transfered to Auschwitz in 1940. After spending some time in the Ukraine after escape, Piechowski joined the partisan Polish Army and fought the Nazis. 

Here is a link to an article for more research: 
1. http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn45137
2. http://www.yadvashem.org
3. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org 

Note: The first link is a oral history interview with Kazimierz Piechowski.