Names of Jewish victims of National Socialism in Dresden between 1933 and 1945

The database “Jews in Dresden 1933-1945” includes the names of circa 6 000 Jewish citizens of the City of Dresden who got persecuted, deported or murdered in the period of National Socialism. Others emigrated or are missing.

These names have been researched in national and international archives or received it from Jewish communities, cemetery administrations, archives of memorial museums, private sources and by comprehensive correspondence with former persecuted. They got acquired by the Book of Remembrance task force of the Society for Christian-Jewish Collaboration in Dresden chaired by Mrs. Lilli Ulbrich. The project of clarifying the destinies of Dresden Jews got promoted by the Saxon Memorial Foundation. At desire of the Jewish community and the Society for Christian-Jewish Collaboration in future the Foundation itself will take care for.

On behalf of the consecration of the new Dresden Synagogue in November 2001 the achieved results of the investigations got handed over to the Jewish Community of Dresden as “Book of Remembrance” (17 volumes as single edition). In 2006 the „Buch der Erinnerung. Juden in Dresden – deportiert, ermordet, verschollen. 1933 – 1945“ (“Book of Remembrance. Jews in Dresden – deported, murdered, lost. 1933 – 1945”) [ISBN 13: 978-3-93888-14-7] was published as representative edition. As far as possible the book presents destinies of over 2 000 Jews and their families who died in a concentration camp or took one´s own life or are missing since deportation.

After a population census in June 1933 in the City of Dresden lived 4 397 citizens who confessed oneself to Jewish faith. Approximately 7 100 have been effected by the National Socialist persecution of Jews. Based on their racist ideology the Nazi’s definite somebody as a Jew in dependency of one´s Jewish parts of grandparents. Nearly two thirds of the Dresden Jews succeeded to emigrate before the extermination apparatus started to work. Just a few of the deported men, women and children survived the Shoah. At the end of World War II the Dresden Jewish community counted only 41 members.

As far as present the database arranged in alphabetical order includes details of surname, first name, date and place of birth and death. As far as available more information are receivable on application. Please send us an email to: gedenkbuch@jg-dresden.org or call us under phone number:  +49 351 6560710.