Documentation from a trial conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Hoehere SS- und Polizeifuehrer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin; Copies of documents from the volumes 60, 61 and 64, Testimony by the survivor Israel Trager regarding the Sobibor death camp, 1965

Documentation from a trial conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Hoehere SS- und Polizeifuehrer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin; Copies of documents from the volumes 60, 61 and 64, Testimony by the survivor Israel Trager regarding the Sobibor death camp, 1965 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 copies of various documents, mostly testimonies. A description of these documents can be found in the description of Main Volumes 60, 61 and 64; the documents can be found in Aktenverzeichnis (Docket)(TR.21/1). Only one document does not exist in the Main Volume. Testimony of Israel Trager, born in Orbach, Germany, 05 March 1906, a resident of Jaffa, Israel, 16 June 1965: Deportation from the Chelm camp to Sobibor, March 1943; arrival at the camp; access to Camp III, the extermination site; witness to the murder of Jews by SS men Gustav Wagner and Karl Frenzel; description of Wagner and Frenzel's sadistic behavior; witness ordered to burn the personal documents and clothes of the people murdered in the camp; victims from the Netherlands, France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union; escape during the uprising in the camp.