Report regarding the deportation of Jews from Vienna to Sobibor on 14/06/1942

Report regarding the deportation of Jews from Vienna to Sobibor on 14/06/1942 Documentation from a trial conducted against Austrian war criminals, most of whom participated in "Aktion Reinhardt": - Investigation against Hermann Hoefle started in Landesgericht Linz (the Linz District Court) in 1947 (Vg8 6771/47); - Main part of the investigation conducted by Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) from 1956 (11a Vr 1382/56) and Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court) from 1962 (27c Vr 852/62); - Final investigation conducted by Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), 1962-1971 (25 Vr 3123/71); - Transfer of the files to the various courts and emendation of the signatures, as well as commencement of various other trials against other Austrian war criminals during the investigation; - Copying of the documents at Landesgericht Klagenfurt and transfer of the copies to Yad Vashem. The overall arrangement of the files includes three kinds of volumes: - General volumes containing general administrational information regarding the trial, indexes and collections; - Appendix volumes containing statements and information from trials dealing with similar cases from Germany, mostly from Hamburg; - Main volumes containing documentation, statements and correspondence from the trial. This file is part of a General Volume; it contains a copy of a report written by Josef Fischmann regarding the deportation of 1,000 Jews from Vienna ( Wien Aspangbahnhof) to Sobibor on 14 June 1942. The report gives detailed information concerning the deportation of Jews from Vienna, including information regarding the transport and the reception in Sobibor. The report is composed of eight sections: 1. Loading of 1,000 Jews on train cars for deportation, under the supervision of Brunner and Girzik; 2. The trip from from Vienna to Sobibor: selection of 51 of the 1,000 Jews for deportation to a labor camp; deportation of the other 949 to Sobibor; 3. Delivery of the 949 Jews to Sobibor; receipt of the Jews by Strangl; 4. Transport from Sobibor to Vienna via Lublin and Cracow; 5. Stopover in Cracow; 6. Border crossing; 7. Provisions (food); 8. Suggestions; 9. Incidents. Rules: kdo. d. Sch.;1a-6260/42 v. 20.3.1942 [?]