The Holocaust in East Upper Silesia

Liquidation of Sosnowiec Ghetto to Auschwitz concentration camp, 1943

The Holocaust in East Upper Silesia resulted in the murder of most of the Jews living in East Upper Silesia during World War II. It is best known as the site of Auschwitz concentration camp, but it also hosted many of the forced-labor camps of Organization Schmelt and seventeen ghettos, including Sosnowiec Ghetto, Będzin Ghetto, and Dąbrowa Górnicza Ghetto. Part of the region had been in Poland before World War II and other parts in Germany.

References

• Fulbrook, Mary (2012). A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-960330-5.
• Gruner, Wolf (2006). "The SS Organisation Schmelt and the Jews from Eastern Upper Silesia, 1940–1944". Jewish Forced Labor Under the Nazis: Economic Needs and Racial Aims, 1938-1944. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 214–229. ISBN 978-0-521-83875-7.
• Lehnstaedt, Stephan (2010). "Coercion and Incentive: Jewish Ghetto Labor in East Upper Silesia". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 24 (3): 400–430. doi:10.1093/hgs/dcq056.
• Namysło, Alexandra; Dean, Martin (2012). "Eastern Upper Silesia Region (Ost-Oberschlesien)". In Geoffrey P., Megargee; Dean, Martin (eds.). Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe. Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945. Vol. 2. Bloomington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. pp. 131–138. ISBN 978-0-253-00202-0.
• Steinbacher, Sybille (2015). "East Upper Silesia". In Gruner, Wolf; Osterloh, Jörg (eds.). The Greater German Reich and the Jews: Nazi Persecution Policies in the Annexed Territories 1935–1945. War and Genocide. Translated by Heise, Bernard. New York: Berghahn Books. pp. 239–266. ISBN 978-1-78238-444-1.

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