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Question: Need help with Holocaust death records!!?
I'm looking for information on my great-aunt's death!. She was my namesake, and I feel a really special connection to her!. I'm at a bit of a dead end!. Here's what I have:
Name: Hanka Orensztejn
Birth: February 1926, in Hrubieszow, Lubelskie, Poland
Death: Between 1/26/45 - 2/4/45, on the Stutthof Death March (Sztutowo, Pomorskie, Poland)
Parents: Lejb Orensztejn and Golda (Sztrum) Orensztejn
I need help finding her exact date of birth, exact date of death, birth certificate, or death certificate!.
Any help you can provide is GREATLY appreciated! Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
http://www!.ancestry!.com --Holocaust: Records from Ten Ghettos
Ghetto: Vilnius
Name: Hanka Orenstein (this would be, I think, the English spelling)
Birth Date: 1931
Residence: Rudninku 16 - 5
Document Date: May 1942
Volume: 1
Page: 272
JewishGen Yizkor Book Necrology Database
Name: Hannah Orenshtein
Town: Praga
Country: Poland
Book: 531
(Description:
The JewishGen Yizkor Book Necrology Database indexes the names of persons in the necrologies — the lists of Holocaust martyrs — published in the Yizkor Books appearing on the JewishGen Yizkor Book Translation Project!. This database is only an index of names; it directs researchers back to the Yizkor Book itself, where more complete information may be available!. Because most of these names were transliterated from Hebrew and Yiddish, the spellings of the surnames may not be as you are used to seeing them in Latin-alphabet sources!.
Her sister, perhaps!?!?
Holocaust: ?Lodz? (Poland) Ghetto Hospital Death Records, 1941-1944
Name: Golda Orensztajn
Death Date: 21 Jun 1942
Cause of Death: Intoxicatio alim!.
Birth Date: 1939
Birth Place: Lodsch
Residence: AX Str!. 26
Occupation: Kind
Publication Date: 22 Jun 1942
Source: Hospital Records
Page: 2
Line: 47
Her family!?!?
Golda Orenstein
Birth: not stated
Death: 28 OCT 1942 ,Hrubieszow, Poland
Married:
Leib Orenstein
(Birth/death dates not stated)
Children:
Henry Orenstein--Birth: 1923 ; Death: not stated; no wife added
Other relatives!?!?
Esther Orenstein --d!. about 1944, Holocaust
Orenstein, Leah --d!. about 1944 - Holocaust (Spouse: Morris Orenstein -- Birth: 20 Jan 1902 - Poland ; Death: 2 Sep 2004 - Brooklyn, NY)
Hoped this helped a little!.
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While you should not stop trying, it's doubtful that a death certificate exists beyond a soldier's checklist marking who was counted at the begining of a trip and who remained at the end!. That may be why you have a 10 day period in which she died!.
I can not find a microfilm of Hrubieszow records at FamilySearch!.org!. It appears the town would have been under Russian control prior to the re-establishment of Poland in 1918!.
I did find a Hrubieszow research group that may help!. The link is below!.
The book "The Holocaust" by Martin Gilbert also mentions an earlier deportation of older males on Dec 1, 1939!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
You might consider going to the following website as it has an index you can search for Stutthof Concentration camp deaths!. There is also a link on this website that will take you the the Holocaust Memorial Museum website which also has a research section with data bases!.
http://www!.jewishgen!.org/databases/germa!.!.!.
Hope this helps!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
In addition to what the others have said, check the Yad Vashem website: it's considered the authority on Holocaust remembrance!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
At one stage, the Red Cross were assembling a list of Halocaust survivors and victims with all sorts of related info!.
Try their website!.Www@QuestionHome@Com