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Place Note: Palästina was the region in 1922 - 1948 that included todays Israel, East-Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, Gaza and the Palestinian Autonomy as well as Jordania.
See: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pal%C3%A4stina_%28Region%29
Place Note: Ponischowitz ( - 1936)
Muldenau O. S. (1936 - )
Poniszowice (1945 - )
Place Note: Bielschowitz, Kreis Hindenburg
a.k.a. Bielszowice, Ruda Slaska, Slaskie
See: http://www.maplandia.com/poland/slaskie/ruda-slaska/bielszowice/
Place Note: See: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loslau
Wodzis?aw ?l?ski (German: Loslau) is a town in south Poland with 51,835 inhabitants (2002).
Situated in the Silesian Voivodship since 1999, it was previously in Katowice Voivodship (1975-1998).
Place Note: King Frederick II of Prussia conquered most of Silesia from Austria in 1740 during the Silesian Wars; Prussian control was confirmed in the Peace of Breslau in 1742. From 1816-1945 Opole was the capital of Regierungsbezirk Oppeln within Prussia. The city became part of the German Empire during the unification of Germany in 1871.
Opole was the administrative seat of the Province of Upper Silesia from 1919-1939. With the defeat of Poland in the Polish September Campaign at the beginning of World War II in 1939, eastern Upper Silesia was readded to the Province of Upper Silesa and Opole lost its status as provincial capital to Katowice.
After the end of the Second World War in 1945, Oppeln was transferred from Germany to Poland according to the Potsdam Conference, and given its old Slavic name of Opole. Opole became part of the Katowice Voivodship from 1946-1950, after which it became part of the Opole Voivodship. Unlike other parts of historical eastern Germany ceded to remapped Poland, Opole and the surrounding region's German population remained and was not forcibly expelled, even though many left to West Germany to flee the Eastern Bloc. Today Opole, along with the surrounding region, is known as a centre of the German-speaking Silesian minority in Poland.
Place Note: Miedzybórz (Neumittelwalde, bis 1886: Medzibor)
Place Note: In Bayern, Hessen, Or Saarland ?
Place Note: See: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bytom
See: http://www.maplandia.com/poland/slaskie/bytom/bytom/
Place Note: Ohlsdorf ist ein Stadtteil von Hamburg im Bezirk Hamburg-Nord.
Place Note: See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubliniec
Lubliniec (German Lublinitz) is a town in south Poland with 24,359 inhabitants (2004). It is the capital of Lubliniec County.
Situated in the Silesian Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Czestochowa Voivodship (1975-1998).
By the turn of the 13th to the 14th century Lubliniec had obtained the status of a town. Until 1532 it was part of the Duchy of Opole, originally as a fief of the Bohemian Crown (since 1327) and later as fief of Habsburg (since 1526). It became part of Austria in 1532 and passed to Prussia in 1742. After World War I, Upper Silesia was divided in 1921, and the eastern part, including Lubliniec, was incorporated into Poland. Occupied by Germany again during World War II, it returned to Poland in 1945.
Place Note: Strzelin, Poland (german: Strehlen) ?
Wikipedia (German):
Strzelin (deutsch Strehlen) ist eine Stadt in der Woiwodschaft Niederschlesien, in Polen. Strzelin ist Sitz des Powiat Strzelinski und liegt an der Ohle am Fuß der Strehlener Berge (Wzgórza Strzelinskie), etwa 40 km südlich von Breslau.
Place Note: Wolfenbüttel, near Braunschweig (Brunswick)
Place Note: Wikipedia (German):
Góra (deutsch Guhrau) ist eine Stadt in Polen in der Woiwodschaft Niederschlesien, etwa 30 km östlich von Glogów und 90 km nordwestlich der niederschlesischen Hauptstadt Breslau. Góra ist Kreisstadt des Powiat Górowski (Landkreis) und hat etwa 13.000 Einwohner.
Place Note: Burgstaden, , Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany ?
Burgstädtl, , Sachsen, Germany ?
Place Note: Wikipedia (German):
Neubabelsberg ist eine zu Potsdam-Babelsberg gehörende und um 1900 entstandene Villen-Siedlung, welche sich vom S-Bahnhof Griebnitzsee entlang des landschaftlich reizvollen Griebnitzsees bis nahe an das Schloss Babelsberg erstreckt. Zunächst war Neubabelsberg Siedlungsgebiet wohlhabender Berliner.
Potsdam ist die Landeshauptstadt und einwohnerstärkste Stadt des Bundeslandes Brandenburg sowie Kreisfreie Stadt. Im Nordosten grenzt sie unmittelbar an die Bundeshauptstadt Berlin und gehört zur Europäischen Metropolregion Berlin/Brandenburg.
Place Note: Wikipedia (German):
Jastrzebie Zdrój (deutsch Bad Königsdorff-Jastrzemb) ist eine oberschlesische Stadt im Süden Polens. Sie liegt rund 100 km westlich von Krakau sowie etwa 30 km nordöstlich von Ostrava in unmittelbarer Nähe der tschechischen Grenze.
Place Note: From March until June 1942 around 27,000 Jews from abroad were deported to Izbica (17,000 persons).
Izbica was the largest transit ghetto located between Belzec and Sobibor. Except from German, Czech, Austrian and Slovakian Jews, about 4,000 Jews from Zamosc and some groups of Polish Jews from nearby small towns and villages in Krasnystaw county were relocated to Izbica during the final phase of the ghetto liquidations in the Lublin district. The Izbica Ghetto was not closed because its location in the valley, surrounded by hills and a river, facilitated the separation of the victims.
The exact death camp, to which people were sent, is nearly impossible to pinpoint. Transports could be sent from Izbica to Belzec or Sobibor. According to testimonies and literature the first two deportations from Izbica (on 24 March 1942 and 8 April 1942) were sent to Belzec. Most of these victims were Polish Jews. They were deported due to the SS requiring space for deportees from western countries. The transport of 14 - 15 May 1942, during which German and Czech Jews were rounded up, went to Sobibor and Majdanek (young men, fit for work were sent to this camp) other deportations were sent to Belzec and Sobibor.
Source: http://www.deathcamps.org/occupation/transit%20ghettos.html
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Izbica
Between April 9 and June 5, 1942, altogether four deportation transports with 4,000 Jewish men, women and children aboard went from Vienna Aspang Station to Izbica. The village of Izbica is situated about 18 km south of the Kreisstadt Krasnystow in Lublin district, whose original population of about 6,000 was about 90 percent Jewish. By means of deportations from other parts of Poland, from the "Protectorate" (Austrians among them), from the old "Reich" and from Vienna the number of Jewish residents rose at times to 12,000.
Most probably to make room for the new arrivals about 2,200 people were deported from Izbica to Belzec extermination camp as early as March 24, 1942.
After a gap of a few months an "Umsiedlungsstab" (resettlement unit) of the SS took over the organisation of the deportations in the summer of 1942. From summer 1942 at the latest, Izbica seems to have functioned as a kind of "waiting room" for the Belzec extermination camp, whose intake was determined by the capacity of the Belzec gas chambers. On October 15, 1942, 10,000 Jews were hoarded together at Izbica railway station and 5,000 taken away. During this "selection", there occured a massacre in the course of which about 500 people were shot.
Of the 4,000 Austrian Jews deported to Izbica not one survived.
Sourrce: http://www.doew.at/projekte/holocaust/shoahengl/izbica.html
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Place Note: See: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finkenwalde
Szczecin-Zdroje is a municipal neighborhood of the Szczecin City, Poland situated on the right bank of Odra river, south-east of the Szczecin Old Town, and south-west of Szczecin-Dabie.
Before 1945 when Szczecin (Stettin) was a part of Germany, the German name of this suburb was Stettin-Finkenwalde.