W

Wachalska, Anna, 423
Wachalska, Stanislawa, 423, 486
Wachter, Otto, 222
Waffen-SS, 557
 Belgian recruits, 334
 Bosnian Muslims in, 365, 464
 Dachau training site, 591
 enlistments, 238
 execution observation by, 268
 Finnish battalion, 452
 Gerstein in, 396
 grave digging, 320
 graves, 681
 Mengele in, 458
 Red Army victory, 240
 retreating, 546
 training camp, 573
 war crimes, 694
Wagner, Eduard, 232
Wagner, Richard, 30
Wagner, Robert F., 550, 557
Wagner-Rogers Child Refugee Bill, 550
Wajda, Andrzej, 671
Wala Przbyslawski, Poland, 397
Waldeck-Pyrmont, Josias Erbprinz von, 658
Waldheim, Kurt, 498, 681
Waldman, Yaakov, 630
Wallenberg, Raoul, 656
 Budapest arrival of, 540-41
 intervention of, 572
 monument to, 688
 protective passports by, 432, 507, 557, 568, 571
 Protectors of Jews and, 573
 safe homes and, 584
 Soviets arrest, 570, 570, 586, 588
Wallonian Legion (Belgium), 201, 251-52
Walloon Volunteers, 245
Walter, Bernard, 246
Wannsee Conference, 92, 529, 220, 294-95, 297, 300-303, 310, 352, 395
Wannsee Haus, 300, 301
"War of Annihilation: Crimes of the Wehrmacht," 667
War crimes
 Brack's, 662-63
 China-European resolution, 301
 Daluege's, 374
 doctors' trial, 658
 Frank's, 574
 Greiser's, 287
 hangings, 668
 Kaltenbrunner's, 418
 Natzweiler administrators, 647
 Priebke's, 519
 Ribbentrop's, 566
 Schirach's, 676
 Speer's, 676
 Stangl's, 358
 Szálasi's, 643-44
War Crimes Commission (United Nations), 298-99
War-crimes trials, 437, 580, 557, 572, 617, 634, 635. See also Nuremberg Trials
War Crimes Tribunal, 632
War criminals, 299, 373, 641, 653, 658-59, 671, 678. See also specific criminals
Warendorf, Germany, 287
"War guilt clause," 21
"War of Annihilation: Crimes of the Wehrmacht," 667
War Refugee Board, 432, 509
 Auschwitz bombing view of, 572
 basis for, 497, 508
 Jews for trucks, 530
 meeting of, 518
 Roosevelt creates, 436, 510
 Wallenberg and, 570, 588
Warsaw, Poland, 551, 559, 574, 310, 357, 616-17, 688
 arrest of Kaplan in, 362
 Aryan executions, 582-83, 462, 475, 514-15, 541
 Aryan section, 450, 471
 Aryan section searches, 520
 Bialystock rail line, 310
 bombing of, 568-69
 burning of, 567
 falls to Germans, 572
 Jewish Bund in, 327, 328
 Jewish Quarter of, 568
 memorial plaque, 683
 Nazis shoot Jews in prison, 327
 policeman killed in, 228
 Polish thugs in, 644
 Polish women in, 238, 605
 riot in, 528
 ruins of, 575
 Soviet troops in, 583, 586, 589
 trial, 657
 underground, 297, 393, 395
 war crimes, 668
 weapons raid, 576
Warsaw (Poland) Ghetto, 581, 583, 295, 338, 405, 425, 450, 469, 520, 655, 683, 697
 abuse in, 215
 book burning for warmth in, 589
 bunkers and hideouts in, 448, 449, 450, 457, 569
 care center in, 225
 children in, 206, 230, 234, 269, 270, 329, 348, 409, 558
 construction of, 579
 contraband, 374
 culture in, 401
 Czyste Hospital, 445
 dead horses for meat in, 205
 death march from, 546
 death train to Dachau, 549, 550
 deportation to Treblinka, 339-40, 345, 347, 350, 352, 364, 365, 366, 417, 418, 446
 deportees to, 216, 220, 224
 diary of, 208, 342-43, 346, 650, 665
 doctors studying starvation in, 305
 documentation of, 673
 establishment of, 596, 206-7
 executions for leaving without permission, 281, 315
 fires, fighting in, 445-46
 food smuggling, 305
 forced labor and, 228
 fortified bunkers in, 373
 German Jews deported to, 273
 German policeman fires on funeral procession, 287-88
 ghetto administration armband, 235
 inspiration for others, 449
 Jewish Council, 580, 221
 Jewish Fighting Organization in, 341
 Jews denied fuel in, 214
 Jews in hiding, 453, 457, 468
 Karski in, 389, 468
 killings, 288, 323, 363, 417-18
 Lejkin assassination, 383
 Lubetkin in, 583
 map of deportations to, 227
 medical training, 422
 moving into, 205
 newspaper in, 325-26, 381, 392
 "Night of Blood, The," 314
 Nissenbaum, Rabbi Yitzhak, 370
 nurse diary, 222
 pilgrimage, 676
 policeman in, 383
 Polish labor battalion sent into, 475
 population of, 216
 propaganda photos, 218, 219
 public-library prohibition for residents of, 590
 quotas, 295
 raid in, 229
 religious, family celebrations in, 291
 resistance in, 209, 382, 409, 419, 448-49, 450
 Ringelblum at, 514-15
 sealing of, 587
 special children's day, 320
 Star of David armbands in, 577, 583
 starvation in, 218, 307, 312, 316, 325
 survivors of, 329
 teenage girls' rape in, 591
 textile factory in, 289
 uprising, 405-6, 417, 444, 447, 449, 450, 451, 452
 valuables search, 465
 wall around, 204
 woman escapee, 328
Warthegau province (Poland), 573, 579, 583, 437, 649
Washington Agreement, 647
Washington Conference, 691-92
Washington, D.C., 546, 299, 304, 596, 682, 685, 694, 695
Washington Evening Star, 627
Washington, George, 89
Washington Heights, New York, 547
Wasserman, Meir, 393
Watchtower, The, 571
Watnicki, Marian, 533
Watnicki, Mietek, 533
Wawer, Poland, 583
Wedekind, Adolf, 250
"Wednesday Club, The," 541
"Week of the Absent," 575
Weer Afdeeling, 49
Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces) 88, 675
 attacking France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, 586
 despondent officers, 555
 destruction of Jews and, 670
 filming riot, 245
 France and, 498
 Gestapo. See Gestapo
 High Command, 660
 Hitler and, 538, 576
 invasion of Soviet Union by, 212, 246
 killings of, 242
 Luftwaffe. See Luftwaffe
 Militarized Standby Troops in 83
 officers, 657
 Operations Staff, 640
 Operation White, 550
 Poland and, 568
 retreating, 545, 546, 613
 Schutzstaffel. See Schutzstaffel
 security services, 520
 soldiers, 399
 Soviet Union and, 232, 273, 302, 498
 Sturmabteilung. See Sturmabteilung
 supreme commander of, 524-26
 uniforms, 285
 Waffen-SS. See Waffen-SS
 war of annihilation, 269
Weiler, Samuel, 393
Weimar, Germany, 516
Weimar Republic
 Der Stürmer in, 43
 Esterwegen "protective custody" camp, 60
 Gestapo in, 78
 Haavara agreement, 68
 Hitler and, 25, 45, 56, 67, 81
 inflation, government debt in, 20, 22, 41, 50, 53
 money, 23
 Nazi Storm Troopers in, 66, 273
 prison, 517
 Socialists and, 69
 Versailles Treaty and, 21
Weiner, Z., 433
Weinsaft, Harry, 633
Weintraub, Abraham, 240
Weiss, Ernst, 597
Weiss, Rabbi Naftali Zvi, 527
Weiss, Reska, 532
Weizmann, Chaim, 517, 380, 538, 570, 669
Weizsåcker, Ernst von, 490, 490, 491
Weliczker, Leon, 499
Wells, H. G., 65
Weltsch, Robert, 62
"We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah," 683
Wesembeek-Oppen, Belgium, 355
Wesola, Poland, 352
Wessel, Horst, 545
West Germany, 641, 681, 689
 apology for Nazi persecution, 668
 Central Office for the Investigation of National Socialist (Nazi) Crimes, 671
 Luxembourg Treaty, 669
 reparations legislation, 673-74
 united with East Germany, 683
West Prussia, 21
Westerbork (Holland) transit camp, 561, 257, 337, 352, 432-33, 473, 485, 499, 506
 deportation from, 292, 470
 deportation to Auschwitz, 333-34, 512, 515, 556, 561
 deportation to Sobibór, 512, 529
 deportation by train, 424
 propaganda photo of, 347
Western Europe, 565, 567, 586, 444
 Allies, 554, 555, 589, 591, 592
 concentration camps in, 371
 deportations from, 311
 Gypsies in, 24
 Polish Jews to, 649
 rescuers in, 432
Western Front/Theater, 32, 399, 577
Westerweel, Joop, 550
Westphalia, Germany, 77
Wetzel, Alfred, 276
Wetzler, Alfred, 521
Wewel castle, 459
Wewelsburg fortress, 77
We Will Never Die, 434, 435
Wheeler, Burton, 253, 258
Whippings, 512
White House (U.S.), 695, 697
White Paper: Great Britain, 550, 554, 560, 563, 595, 598, 372, 547, 657
White Rose
 flyer, 350
 organization, 429, 430, 464, 497
Wieliczka, Poland, Jews killed at Belzec, 356
Wielka Wola, Poland, 346, 393
Wielun, Poland, 354
Wiemar Republic, 38
Wiener, Ruth, 511
Wierzbica village, 421
Wiesbaden, Germany, 358
Wiesel, Elie
 Auschwitz and, 40
 Auschwitz-Birkenau and, 51
 background of, 627, 627
 memoir, 57
 rebuke to Ronald Reagan, 627
 remembering Holocaust, 57, 58, 368, 412, 424, 505-7, 528, 695, 697
Wiesel, Shlomo, 507
Wiesel, Tzipora, 505
Wiesenthal, Simon, 673
Wigodsky, Dr. Jacob, 258
Wilck, Gerhard, 570
Wilhelm II, Emperor, 479
Wilhelmshaven, Germany, 421
Wilson, Hugh, 546
Winrod, Rev. Gerald B., 43, 289
Winterthur, 694
Wirth, Christian, 272, 299, 310, 523-24, 524
Wirths, Dr. Eduard, 384
Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt, 561, 305, 656
Wise, Rabbi Stephen S.,
 American Jewry's leader, 293, 380, 388, 436, 519
 attack on, 397
 background of, 71
 "Final Solution" cable reception by, 357
 House Foreign Relations Committee hearing, 502
 Jewish slaughter confirmation by, 391
 Madison Square Garden address, 344
 Roosevelt meeting, 396, 466
Wisten, Fritz, 564
"With Burning Concern," 512, 516
Wittenberg, Yitzhak, 465, 480
Wloclawek (Poland) Ghetto, 576, 377
Wlodawa, Poland
 attack on Turno Estate, 484
 forced labor in, 325
 resistance in, 447
Wlodzimierz Wolynski, Poland, 501
Wlodzislaw, Poland, 586
Wöebbelin (Germany) concentration camp, 619-20
Wolenska, Zofia, 469
Wolff, Karl, 301
Wolfratshausen, Germany, 590
Wolf's Lair," 543
Women
 as camp guards, 376
 Holocaust and, 567. See also Ravensbrück
 Polish POWs, 605
 in Red Army, 515
 serving in British Armed Forces, 375
 sexual abuse of, 473, 474
Work camp, 581. See also Forced labor
Work obligation decree, 576-77. See also Forced labor
Work permit, 247, 433
"Work Will Set You Free," 215, 283, 428. See also Arbeit Macht Frei
World Alliance Against Jewish Aggressiveness, 77
World History of the Jewish People, 289
World International Zionist Organization, 411
World Jewish Congress
 German reparations payments and, 692-93
 Germans slaughtering Jews announcement, 391
 Goldmann, Nahum and, 513
 intermediary with SS, 590
 knowledge of French Jew deportations, 362
 London conference of, 328
 Masur, Norbert and, 599
 New York announcement of, 324
 Reigner, Gerhart and, 293, 342
 rescue operations of, 432
 Romanian Jews fund, 443
 Wise, Stephen and, 71, 357, 396
World Jewish Restitution Organization, 695
World War I, 26, 45, 48, 515
 German government after, 53
 German soldiers after, 20
 Germany's defeat in, 25, 36, 597, 498
 Göring in, 559
 Hitler's experience in, 32, 34, 40
 Jews serving in German Army during, 45
 Treaty of Versailles and, 503. See also Treaty of Versailles
 veterans of, 60, 73
World War II
 Allies condemn German atrocities, 295
 American Jewish Conference and, 475
 beginning of, 512, 568-69
 deportations of Jews during, 470
 ending of, 588, 619, 630, 662, 672, 682
 eve of, 594, 337
 Hagana in. See Hagana
 Jewish combatants in, 366
 Jewish women during, 567
 Jews in countries occupied by Germany, 45
 Jews killed during, 606
 lives lost in, 581
 outbreak of, 281, 348, 390
 people killed during, 634
 Pope Pius XI and, 511
 Red Cross and, 539
 Stalingrad and, 350
 Swiss misappropriation of Jewish funds after, 687, 698
 United States entry into, 213, 294, 535
 Vichy regime during. See Vichy regime
 years leading up to, 330, 684
World Stage, The, 503
World Zionist Congress, 22nd, 628
World Zionist Organization, 31, 504, 517, 570, 576
Worms, Germany, 24
Wurm, Bishop Theophil, 599, 202, 288, 465
Württemberg, Germany, 519, 202, 288, 465
Wyman, David, 507