Online memorial aims to list all Holocaust victims

Times
From David Sharrock in Jerusalem

THE names of more than three million victims of the Holocaust are being posted on the internet this weekend, giving a boost to efforts to compile a definitive list of all those who died.

The Hall of Names at Yad Vashem, on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem, will for the first time be available to researchers at the click of a mouse, detailing ages of victims, places of birth, occupations and where they were murdered by the Nazis.

Its launch is the culmination of five years of intensive labour, at the height of which 1,000 people worked around the clock to transfer more than three million handwritten forms on to a computer database.

The organisation is urging Jewish families around the world to check it and submit unrecorded names via the site.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1366057,00.html

Gypsies were persecuted, as were little people and others with physical abnormalities. And let's not forget homosexuals. And finally, don't forget the brave souls who worked for the Reistance, were captured, tortured and killed. These include many Christians and at least one Sufi, Nooranisa Khan, who was "Madaliene" on Reistance radio until betrayed by a neighbor. She was taken to Dachau, never to be seen again.

perhaps you can direct us to the Gypsy Memorial website. . .

It is, as you point out, important to remember that the Holocaust encompassed many different peoples. We hear more about the Jews, however, for a variety of reasons, not least that they constituted the largest percentage of people caught in the Nazis' web of death, and more so since they, as a group, work harder to keep alive the memory of the dead.

I believe it is important to note as well that Germans were the first people sent to the death factories (the insane, the mentally deficient, the terminally ill), and that, under the proposed Reich Health Bill, in the event of German success in the War the intent was to "isolate" from the rest of the population those with heart and lung ailments. Such "racially unfit" peoples would be forbidden to reproduce, and what would happen to them and their families would be "subject of further orders of the Fuehrer."

So the first product of the death factories were Germans, the same hapless souls who would be processed last, as well. A good thing for all people to remember. . . especially those who would make compromise with incipient fascism.

While it's not the official Roma memorial site, the Patrin has more info about Roma in the Holocaust than any other site I've found.

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/5121/holcaust.htm

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