Book of Memory (reference book)

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The book of memory. The deported to the Baltic German, Austrian and Czechoslovakian Jews is a reference to the memory of some 31,400 German, Austrian and Czechoslovakian Jews that the era of National Socialism from 1941 to 1945 in the Baltic to Riga , Kaunas and Reval abducted were. The compendium in German and English with the English title Book of Remembrance. The German, Austrian and Czechoslovakian Jews deported to the Baltic States contains the names with the birth name, date and place of birth, the last address and the last sign of life or the date of death of those victims of the Holocaust , sorted according to the transports that left the various cities. Each of these transports was preceded by a bilingual description of the local situation of the Jewish population at the time. If appropriate materials could still be found in the individual memorials , the paths of the individual people could also be traced.

In the directory edited by the historians Diana Schulle and Wolfgang Scheffler , Scheffler also wrote an overview of the fates of those displaced in the Riga ghetto , Gut Jungfernhof , the Salaspils camp and the numerous concentration camps and sites of forced laborers .

The two-volume work was published by the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge and the Riga Committee of German Cities together with the New Synagogue Berlin Foundation - Centrum Judaicum and the House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial .

The directory was published in Munich in 2003 by KG Saur Verlag with ISBN 978-3-598-11618-6 and ISBN 3-598-11618-7 and in Berlin by De Gruyter .

Review comments

The two-volume reference work was commented on as follows:

  • March 31, 2003, Die Welt , Berlin: "... the 'Book of Remembrance' [is] not only important as a printed memorial for the victims, but also a milestone in Holocaust research"
  • October 17, 2003, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 241: “[…] outstanding importance of the […] standard work on the fate of the German, Austrian and Czechoslovakian Jews, who were first robbed of their rights, then their homeland and finally their lives. "
  • February 13, 2004, Humanities, Berlin: "... well-founded reference work that [...] will also occupy an outstanding place in international scientific research."
  • September 2004, Information - Journal for Library, Archive and Information in Northern Germany , Hamburg, No. 273: “This very thoroughly worked and very precise work not only expands the current state of knowledge, it also creates an important and weighty memorial of memory. Its importance cannot be overestimated! "
  • 2004, Yearbook for the History of Central and Eastern Germany , Potsdam: "[...] should become a standard work and at the same time give local and regional research on the persecution of Jews under the Nazi dictatorship new impetus."
  • 2005, Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft , Berlin, No. 12: "... an internationally usable, well-founded reference work"

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Compare the information from the Danish Royal Library on primo.kb.dk [ undated ], last accessed on July 12, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c d Compare the information and cross-references in the catalog of the German National Library