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April 2023 - Addition of a map with the candles that were lit all over the world in memory of Simon Wiesenthal

A new map was added that displays the distribution of candles that were lit all over the world in commemoration of Simon Wiesenthal. Click "Read more" first and then click this link to use the interactive map.

Announcing the Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Journeys

We deeply believe that the houses in which Jews lived prior to second World War and during the Holocaust should be visited physically or virtually. Such journeys reveal the living environment, the house inhabitants and their family connections, and the demography of Shtetls, villages, and cities.We develop Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Commemoration Journeys in Galicia, nowadays in the Ukraine, Lodz, Vienna, and the Netherlands (NL):A geographical area, such as The Plein area in the Hague, NL or from “Heldenplatz to Judenplatz ...

September 2022 - Two new maps: Last addresses and deportations from the Netherlands

In september 2022 two new maps were added: a map of the Netherlands with last addresses of almost all Dutch Holocaust victims and a map with the deportation destinations of those Holocaust victims.SWIGGI now contains maps of three shtetls, two cities and one country. Additionally, two maps of deportations are displayed.