WARSAW GHETTO and 'ARYAN SIDE' DATABASE
22.07.2020 11:23:13
12,583 PLACES, 30,925 PEOPLE, 31,230 EVENTS, AND 1,511 SOURCES – we give you the thoroughly improved Internet Database of the Warsaw Ghetto and ‘Aryan’ Side, supplemented with a few dozen thousand new records and an interactive map and an atlas of the ghetto.
New release of the Internet Warsaw Ghetto and 'Aryan Side' Database
12,583 PLACES, 30,925 PEOPLE, 31,230 EVENTS, AND 1,511 SOURCES – we give you the thoroughly improved Internet Database of the Warsaw Ghetto and ‘Aryan’ Side, supplemented with a few dozen thousand new records and an interactive map and an atlas of the ghetto. This website, which constitutes a homage to all nameless and unidentified Holocaust victims in Warsaw as well as survivors and helpers, is the effect of the work of a few dozen people, who carried out search queries in archives, entered and analyzed data, did cartographic and geolocation editing, created IT and graphic tools, etc.
The database has new interface and we have significantly improved the search tools and query filtering. With the use of cartographic tools we can present selected data on the map and place onto the contemporary street network historical layers from the ghetto and entire Warsaw in its prewar borders. We also added the atlas of the ghetto, where users will find a set of 14 ghetto maps in high resolution, accompanied with Professor Jacek Leociak’s essay on the topography of the Warsaw closed quarter. Although this stage of work is behind us we are embarking on a new one, ordering and editing new sources, verifying the records already entered, allocating geolocations, translating records into English, aggregating data for social network analysis, etc.
Our work on the database was possible owing to the research project carried out by Professor Barbara Engelking, Agnieszka Haska, and Jakub Petelewicz’s team at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences within the framework of the National Science Center’s grant no. 2016/21/B/HS3/00577 entitled Hiding in Warsaw on the ‘Aryan’ Side, 1940‒1945 and also owing to the support from the Foundation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.
We would like to thank all those engaged in the project, predominantly (in alphabetic order): Dominik Batorski, Dominika Czerniawska, Magdalena Czyż, Paweł Jagoda, Stanisław Kierwiak, Marta Korotaj, Bartoszo Matyja, Beata Osipiak, Ewa Teleżyńska-Sawicka, Joanna Wysocka, and Zofia Zięba. The cartographic editing of the maps has been done by Paweł Weszpiński. The IT side of the project was in the hands of Kaliop Poland, predominantly Jakub Bilski, Stanisław Klimaszewski, Maciej Koplin, Radosław Kuchta, Kamil Skurat, and Paweł Szczepaniak.