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Title

Todesmarsch zur Bernsteinküste : das Massaker an Juden im ostpreussischen Palmnicken im Januar 1945 ; Zeitzeugen erinnern sich / Martin Bergau ; mit einem Vorwort von Hans-Jochen Vogel.

Author

Bergau, Martin, 1928-

Publication

Heidelberg : Winter, c2006.

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Additional Authors

Vogel, Hans-Jochen, 1926-2020

Description

233 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.

Summary

Based on eyewitness accounts, and German as well as Soviet investigation protocols, recounts the massacre of 3,000 Jews outside Palmnicken (now Yantarnyi, Russia) on the East Prussian "amber coast" in January 1945. Of the 5,000 Jews who were taken on a death march from Königsberg to Palmnicken, where they were to be killed in one of the amber mines, 2,000 died on the way. Emphasizes that, whereas the contemporaneous German flight from East Prussia before the advancing Red Army has been well documented, the mass murder of the Jews has been hushed up. Most of the victims were women who were sent as slave laborers from Auschwitz to Stutthof's satellite camps in East Prussia. A previous death march to Königsberg took place in mid-January, when the satellite camps of Stutthof were liquidated. Only 16 Jews survived the massacre. Bergau, a non-Jewish native of Palmnicken, documented his own impressions of the death march in his memoir "Der Junge von der Bernsteinküste" (1994). Pp. 217-223 contain a "Nachwort" by Andreas Kossert, discussing the silence concerning the Palmnicken massacre in German and Soviet historiography. According to Kossert, over 7,000 Jews participated in the death march.

Subject

• Konzentrationslager Stutthof
• Geschichte 1945
• 1939-1945
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Prussia, East (Poland and Russia) > Personal narratives
• Death marches > Prussia, East (Poland and Russia) > Personal narratives
• Jews > Prussia, East (Poland and Russia) > History
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Prussia, East (Poland and Russia)
• Jews > Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai͡a oblastʹ) > History
• Jews > Persecutions > Prussia, East (Poland and Russia)
• World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities > Prussia, East (Poland and Russia)
• Death marches > Prussia, East (Poland and Russia)
• Prussia, East (Poland and Russia) > Ethnic relations
• 20th century
• 20. Jahrhundert
• Yantarny

Genre/Form

Personal narratives

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-226).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9783825352011 (hd.bd.)
• 3825352013 (hd.bd.)

LCCN

9783825352011

OCLC

• 76685912
• SCSB-10821359

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library