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TURK in GERMANY
This page provides information and links that
are specifically German. This page is looking for a Turk family member
familiar with German genealogy to own it. Is that you? send me a
note nturk@searshc.com
The Germany Genealogy Project http://germanproject.hypermart.net/
Hans Bahlow's book on German
surnames for Türck has a "see reference" to Thürck.
He says it is a "young name as the Turks became known only in the 16th
century." In Germany this line seems to have originated with French Huguenot
refugee descendants of Hugo de Turk, who died in northern France in 1601.
His grandson, Jacob de Turk, crossed the border from France into Germany
in 1609 and joined the Huguenot congregation in Frankenthal. After the
revocation of the edict o f Nantes in 1688 the Huguenot scattered into various
nations. The French army pursued the refugees into the Palatinate where
they burned Frankenthal and other Huguenot communities to the ground in
1689 . Emigrees fled east as well as west. There is a Huguenot or Walloon
museum in a Berlin church. The Elector of Brandenburg held them in high
esteem. Probably this is the source of our Turk lineage that spread from
the region of Berlin eastward into the Neumark.
Many German Links on the web . . .
History of the Westphalian noble family Turck
Dear Turck researchers - My mother's maiden name being Turck, I have done
some research work for quite a number of years on the history of this
Westphalian family. Part of the results can be seen on my website http://homepages.compuserve.de/Czoelner/Turck
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This website actually contains a book in German language on the Westphalian
knights of this name, completed by a collection of charters dating from the 12th
to the 18th century. From Hamm in Westphalia members of branches of these
knights went to Cleves (Kleve), Goch and the Netherlands and Belgium. Their
descendants had a coat of arms which is very similar to the original one.
The ancestors of my mother were originally from Werl in Westphalia. They
belonged to a seminoble family which enjoyed hereditary possession of the
salterns there. Only a small number of families at Werl had this privilege, and
as their number decreased the social status of the rest increased. There were
also genealogical links between this family called Turcken (Turcke, Türcke,
Turck) and the knights from nearby Hamm. The genealogical details are stored in
a GEDCOM file (which I recently sent to Toni for inclusion in this site)
together with further information on the numerous branches of my mother's
family. If you are interested, I can send it to you via email. Please let me
know.
Very truly yours,
Robert Czoelner CZOELNER@hotmail.com
Some general information about
the Holocaust and Auschwitz
This is the link to a museum http://www.auschwitz-muzeum.oswiecim.pl/
The number of people murdered at Auschwitz is an open question. The best
estimate is that 1.1 million died there, 90% of them Jews.
Immediately after the war, Soviet and Polish commissions reported four
million victims of the camp; Camp Commandant Rudolf
Hoss testified that three
million died there.
It is impossible to ascertain exactly how many people were at Auschwitz for
two reasons. First of all, no records were kept of people murdered after selections
at the train station; they were never assigned numbers or entered into camp
records but vanished into what the Nazis themselves called "night and
fog" ("nacht und nebel"). Secondly, the Nazis destroyed many
records before abandoning Auschwitz.
Scholars such as Franciszek Piper, writing in Anatomy, pp. 61-76,
arrive at their estimates by looking at the more accurate records of people
deported to Auschwitz from various countries, and then subtracting the number of
people known to have been transferred to other camps or to have survived the
war.
Based on these calculations (1,300,000 deportees minus 200,000 survivors), at
least 1,100,000 persons were killed or died in the camp.
Six million Jews and five million others, including communists, homosexuals,
gypsies and the mentally retarded, perished under the Nazi regime.
Austrian Victims of the Holocaust
:http://www.doew.at/cgi-bin/shoah/shoah.pl?lang=engl
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Lastname |
Firstname |
Birthday |
Deportation |
Death |
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Turk |
Lea |
26.04.1890 |
Wien/Opole |
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Turcsan |
Eduard |
30.07.1871 |
Westerbork/Sobibor |
21.05.1943 |
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Turcsan |
Ida |
24.07.1896 |
Westerbork/Auschwitz |
29.10.1942 |
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Turcsan |
Jetty |
14.05.1872 |
Westerbork/Sobibor |
21.05.1943 |
47 using tur* wildcard for all similiar names:
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Yad Vashem’s databank containing information on approximately
three million victims of the Shoah is not accessible on the Internet.
However, a large subset of it, containing information on about two million
victims, is accessible for visitors who come to the Hall of Names in Yad
Vashem for short queries, or in the new archives building for
research. The use of the facilities is free of charge, but there is
a small fee for the printing of copies.
If you cannot come to Yad Vashem, it is possible to request a names
search via email. In order to insure accurate results, please supply us
with as much specific, or detailed information as you already possess
about the individuals you wish us to look for : First and last names,
place of birth, date of birth, place of residence…. Searches by last
name alone cannot be carried out.
Searches will be carried out on the computerized databank, as well as
on some of the largest or most relevant non-computerized archival
collections. As a general rule, responses will be sent within two weeks.
Search requests should be submitted to; names.search@yadvashem.org.il
Each search carries a minimal fee of $10, unless we can find no
information. Searches that will require substantial research will be
carried out only after the relevant fee has been determined and accepted.
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Copyright ©2001 Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes'
Remembrance Authority |
Response
from Yad Vashem August 2001
Thank you for
your letter. We
are not able to provide lists of Holocaust victims according to last
name.
We can only provide such information on particular victims.We have, in fact, in
our computer databank over 300 people with the name
Turk
and it's variants, and in addition we have numerous other sources, most
of
which can not be searched by name.
Of
course, anyone coming to Yad Vashem would be free to peruse the database
and
our other resources. In addition, our database will be available over
the
Web within the next year or two.
In
future corespondence, please mention reference number 98642.
Zvi Bernhardt
Hall
of Names Yad Vashem
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MUSEUM AND
REFLECTION CENTRE OSWIECIM, POLAND:A
file of names of people deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp was
prepared on the basis of post-war sources (literature, press, data from
veterans' organizations and the name index). (no instructions on how to get it
though!) site is http://remember.org/ideas/auschwitz.html
On its own or in cooperation with other publishers, the Museum has brought
out more than a dozen other titles in the first half of 1996. They include:
- Zeszyty Oswiecimskie (Auschwitz Publications), no. 21
- Hefte von Auschwitz nr 19
- Auschwitz - Voices from the Abyss (an album in English and Italian
versions)
- Karski. Opowiesc o emisariuszu (Karski: Tale of an Emissary) by E. Thomas
Wood and Stanislaw Jankowski.
Excerpts from website: http://www.holocaust-trc.org/uniqueness.htm
Turks that died in Auschwitz
We thank Dr. Piortr Setkiewicz for submitting the following records. . .
From the book titled: "Death Books from Auschwitz" [ed. by The
State Museum of Auschwitz Birkenau. München 1995]. It contains information
about 69000 surviving death certificates that were being issued by the camp
Civil Registration Office (of the SS). I have added to the list an entry about
Mendel Türk from another document, so-called Stärkebuch (daily head-count
register).
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No. |
cathe
gory |
name |
first name |
sex |
confession |
date of birth |
place of birth |
residence |
date of arrival |
date of death |
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Turik |
Michael |
M |
griechischorthodox |
1890-10-21 |
Litzmannstadt |
Litzmannstadt |
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1943-02-05 |
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Turk |
Harry |
M |
mosaisch |
1925-06-11 |
Amsterdam |
Amsterdam |
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1942-10-07 |
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Türk |
Mechel |
M |
mosaisch |
1923-06-26 |
Pilzno |
Debica, Ghetto |
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1943-02-22 |
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17973 |
Schutzh.Jude |
Türk |
Mendel |
M |
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1913-10-29 |
Tarnawka |
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1941-07-11 |
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Türk |
Samuel |
M |
mosaisch |
1900-05-06 |
Preßburg |
Preßburg |
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1942-09-21 |
Yours sincerely,
Dr Piotr Setkiewicz
Comment from
surname
Turkel in Holocaust
My father's brother was Rabbi Zvi Leiter, married to Clare Turkel and I was
thrilled to see their names as well as their daughter, who bears the same name
as I do, remembered in your family tree. We are named after Yaakov, Zvi, and
Israel (my father)'s mother Fraidie, which means joy like Gila does. They died
in the Holocaust and preserving their memory as you do is awesome. thank you,
Gila Leiter
Source of more comments is at http://www.geocities.com/turkel.geo/geobook.html
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