Auschwitz 2025 Q&A May 8th 12pm Eastern (USA)

Question

Sandy Patak and I are hosting a YouTube Q&A, Wednesday May 8th (12pm Eastern USA, 4pm UTC) about the Holocaust Project's Auschwitz 2025 initiative.

You can ask questions in the live chat, or write them here so I can try to ensure the Holocaust Project has the answer ahead of time.

Since this is a new and busy part of the project, there are some kinks to be worked out, thank you for letting us know about them & for your patience.

I will try to do another call in a few weeks accommodating other time zones; I realize that 12pm in New York City is 2am in Sydney, Australia.

Answer 1

Is this REALLY scheduled for next year?

Comments

No, the date is today. The project is called Auschwitz 2025 as it is the 80th anniversary of the liberation, and the aim is to add profiles for all victims and prisoners to WT.

Answer 2

Question- My personal mini-project is to add all people of Jewish faith, who were residing in one German city in 1933. Not all of them were born in that city, and many did have other fates than being imprisoned or victims at Auschwitz. Many were born elsewhere and some fled to locations I have very little genealogical knowledge of.

Should I ask on G2G  for each one individually to try to get help to research them further, both for their own profile, but also for their ancestors?

Countries I have identified so far are Netherlands, Belgium, US, South Africa but also in rare cases, countries that don’t have a WT project, yet. I am just concerned to „annoy“ or overburden the other projects if I post too many. Maybe i focus on Auschwitz victims and prisoners first? What is your recommendation? Thanks Sven

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Hi Sven - there's no set answer here.... if it were me I would just post about it on G2G once a month or so, and put the relevant countries in the tag space. I wouldn't worry too much about troubling people, they won't open the email from Wikitree on Wednesdays if they don't want to see the new items on G2G :-) Also, what I did for a Dutch Gedcom I inherited, so to speak, is put it at the top of my profile page.... I have gotten a bit of help that way.

On your page Holocaust Persecution Victims from Osnabrück - just curious, do you have about one third of the full list in the table right now? Just guessing based on the surnames sort of ending at "E", except for the notable Nussbaum family.

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Oh, Elaine, there are pages and pages, and I am too slow to add them. Thank you and Sandy for picking up my question on the YT video. I have started to ask questions on G2G now in one case for a Dutch victim and the Netherlands project is a wonderful group of people. I will try to trickle them out as I make progress to not overburden any particular project - maybe I can see how best to distribute it to different countries, idk. Thanks for all you are doing for this initiative. It is so important!!

Answer 3

Has a decision been made yet on how to categorize people who were liberated from a concentration camp, but who died soon after in a hospital or at home?

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I just asked in the project group. We'll figure something out, whether it uses categories, or carefully constructed WT plus searches, etc.