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What Happened to Jewish Luxembourgers during World War II?

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005363

"Before the war, over 3,500 Jews lived in Luxembourg. A majority of them had emigrated from eastern Europe. In addition, over 1,000 German Jewish refugees found shelter in the tiny duchy . . . Only 36 Jews from Luxembourg are known to have survived the Nazi camps. Estimates of the total number of Luxembourg Jews murdered during the Holocaust range from 1,000 to 2,500. These figures include those killed in Nazi camps, in Luxembourg, or after deportation from France."
 
http://www.haruth.com/JewsLuxembourg.html  Jews of Luxembourg--photo/stamp of synagogue
 
"Only 1,555 of the 3,500 Jews who lived in the country in 1939 survived the Holocaust. The Nazis murdered 1,945, a third of whom died in camps after being deported from Luxembourg, and the rest in the country itself or in the occupied countries to which they fled. Only 36 Luxembourg Jews survived Nazi concentration camps."
 

The Jews of Luxembourg during the Second World War by Ruth Zariz and Hannah Lasch

Yad Tabenkin Institute Tel Aviv, Israel

Abstract: The destruction of the small jewish community of Luxemborg has been recorded through documents, testimonies, and actual lists of names tht allow us to reconstruct events during the Holocaust that affected both the community and individuals. While the small size of this community may explain why the fate of the jews of Luxembourg has so far failed to attract scholarly attention, the significant documentary material allows us to make a detailed reconstruction of events and may serve as an example of the Final Solution in Western Europe. Moreover, the events in Luxembourg relate not only to the fate of the local jewish community, but also to Nazi policy towards the non-jewish population in areas annexed to the Third Reich.

http://www.nizkor.org/  Nizkor Project

http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/HolocaustAppendices.html 

http://www.ww2sites.com/index.php?action=jump&page=lulux WWII Sites: Luxembourg

"Like The Netherlands, Belgian and France, neutral Luxembourg was invaded by Germany on May 10th, 1940. This was part of "Fall Gelb", the invasion-plan of General Erich von Manstein, chief of staff of Army Group A.
In London a government-in-exile was formed. In 1942 Germany annexed Luxembourg. In the years 1942-1943 674 Jews from Luxembourg were deported to Auschwitz. Thousands of Luxembourgers were used as forced labourers.
A small Luxembourg army joined Operation Overlord. The Allies liberated Luxembourg at the end of 1944. In January 1945 part of the Ardennes Offensive was fought on Luxembourg soil."
 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_Luxembourg_during_World_War_II  Military history of Luxembourg during WWII

http://www.cicb.be/eng/start_eng.htm    Shoah Transport and Resistance Museum of Belgium in Mechelen
Museum van DEPORTATIE EN VERZET - PRO MUSEO JUDAICO V.Z.W.
Goswin de Stassartstraat 153, 2800 Mechelen, Belgium
E-Mail: infos@cicb.be

Jewish Museum of Belgium
Daniel Dratwa, Curator of the Jewish Museum of Belgium
74, Avenue Stalingrad
Brussels 1000
Tel.: +32 (0)2 5121963, Fax : +32(0)25134859

http://www.luxembourg.co.uk/museums.html  Museums in Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Deportation Memorial    3 a, Rue de la Déportation
Tel: 48 32 32    Tel: 35 00 14   Hours: May1 to Sept.30:   Tuesday to Friday:   2 to 5.30 p.m.
"While the Nazis were occupying the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg (1940-44), the station of Hollerich, situate a few hundred metres from the main station of Luxembourg, became one of the main centres of deportation.From here thousands of political deportees and young people recruited by force into labour services or into the German "Wehrmacht", were shipped away to an undertain future. The memorial pays homage to the victims of nazism, and complements the existing monuments and museums that commemorate our compatriots' heroic resistance, and the deportees who perished in the concentration camps."

http://www.remus.museum/html/en/museum.php?id=979  Musée National de la Résistance 

Place de la Résistance    B.P. 145    4041 Esch sur Alzette   Contact Clement Jeannot
00352 54 73 83 483 / 00352 021 16 66 07
clement_jeannot@hotmail.com

http://www.musee-hist.lu/Dix_questions_sur_le_Luxembourg_et_la_2e_guerre_mondiale.html 

"Dix questions sur le Luxembourg et la 2e guerre mondiale":  10 Questions about Luxembourg and the Second World War: 2002 exhibit  

Musée d'Histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg
 
14, rue du Saint-Esprit
L-2090 Luxembourg
Tél :  +352 47 96 4500
Fax :  +352 47 17 07
musee@vdl.lu

 http://worldatwar.net/nations/luxembourg/timeline.html   The World at War: Luxembourg 1918-1949 by Richard Doody

28 September 1943 Last of 674 Jews expelled from Luxembourg deported to Poland - Simon declares Luxembourg "judenrein" i.e. free of Jews
http://www.eurojewcong.org/ejc/news.php?id_article=96  The Jewish Community of Luxembourg
"In the 1930s, the Jewish population swelled from 1,500 to 4,000, thanks to immigration from Germany. Evacuations to France and efforts by Christian rescuers enabled the majority of these Jews to survive. Some 720 Jews were eventually deported, of whom 690 were murdered."

Jewish Community of Luxembourg     Consistoire Israélite de Luxembourg
PRESIDENT : Guy AACH   45 Avenue Monterey    2018 Luxembourg
Tel : 352 452 914
Fax : 352 473 772
Email : cil@pt.lu