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Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, Volume 56: Trial against Dr. Ludwig Hahn, held in the Hamburg Regional Court: Testimonies by perpetrators and survivors, 1962

Documentation from trials conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court), Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) and Landesgericht Linz (the Linz District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin: Documentation of the trial, Volume 56; Documentation of the trial against Dr. Ludwig Hahn, held in the Hamburg Regional Court: Testimonies by perpetrators and survivors, 1962 - Criminal proceedings against Dr. Hahn and others (p. 2); - Testimony of Hermann Reese; joining the SS in Iserlohn in 1938 or 1939; service in the Waffen SS in Danzig, Bromberg, Berlin, Brno and East Prussia; fighting in the USSR in 1941; transfer to the SSPF Lublin following an injury; service as an instructor in the Trawniki camp, early 1942-early 1944; guarding an estate 40 km from Krasnik; retreat via Breslau and Dresden to Karlsbad (pp. 3-14): the Streibel Battalion (p. 4); Streibel, commander of the battalion (pp. 4, 6-8, 11, 13, 14); Willi Franz (pp. 4, 5); Kollaritsch, bridge control squad (p. 4); SS Unterfuehrer Georg Langnickel (pp. 5, 8); SS Unterscharfuehrer Viktor Knorr (pp. 5, 8); Mickeleit, deputy commander of the Streibel Battalion (p. 5); Schwarzenbacher, commander of the Ukrainian soldiers in Warsaw, and Streibel's deputy commander (pp. 5, 8); Rolixmann (p. 5); deportation from the Lublin Ghetto , March-April 1942 (pp. 5-8); Ukrainian soldiers (pp. 5-10, 14); SS Unterfuehrer Baltzer (p. 5); regarding the SSPF (pp. 7, 14); SD (p. 7); Hoefle (SSPF Lublin) (p. 8); deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto (pp. 8-10); deportation of Jews from the Lublin District, 1942 (p. 10); execution of 8,000 Jews from the Trawniki camp (pp. 10-13); Jewish women in the Trawniki camp (p. 13); - Testimony of Erich Franz Wilhelm Schneider, detective, SS Rottenfuehrer from August 1939, but not a member of the SS, member of the Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei (KdS) Warsaw Department IV a 1 (combating of Communism) (pp. 15-20): managing directors of Department IV a: Scherer, Johannes Boehm (p. 15), Kurt Nicolaus (pp. 15, 20), Inspector Walter Jurk (pp. 16, 20); members of Department IV a: Walter Schween, Paul Schwarzwald, Ewald Czorny and Hermann Brinkmann (p.16), Hermann Schimmann, Fritz Nowack (p.16); members of Department IV b: Karl Brandt, Gerhard Mende (pp.16, 17) and Karl Klaustermeyer (p.16); participation of the Warsaw KdS Department in the deportation of the Warsaw Ghetto, summer 1942 (p.17); participation of the Warsaw KdS Department in the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, April-May 1943 (pp.17-18); Dr. Hahn, commander (pp.18, 19); Wolfgang Birkner, inspector (p.18); the Warsaw Polish Uprising, 1944 (pp. 19-20); General Günther Rohr (pp. 20); - Testimony of Hermann Adler (p. 21): Guenther Imlau, publisher; Franz Fritsch, an active German resistance fighter; Kersten, a German police inspector in Warsaw, who helped Jews; Dan, director; - Testimony of Aaron Kaufman, inmate of the Rembertow Ghetto (pp. 22-25), the Rembertow Ghetto, 10 km from Warsaw, 12,000 inmate (pp. 23-25); Lieutenant Lipcze (?), SS officer and head of the Rembertow Ghetto; SS Unterscharfuehrer Schlicht; Ukrainian and Latvian soldiers (p. 23); the physician Dr. Friedman (pp. 23, 24); Oberfeldwebel "Olek", head of the Pocisk ammunition depot in the Rembertow Ghetto (pp. 24, 25); guards in the Pocisk ammunition depot Biernbaum, Nickel, Schultz and Engel (p. 24); Gerson Monitz, a Jewish survivor from the Rembertow Ghetto and a possible witness (p. 25); - Testimony of Jakob Gora (pp. 26-31): Karl Klaustermeyer and Josef Bloesche "Frankenstein" (both nicknamed "Die Schiesser" [the shooters]), Karl Brandt, Franz Konrad, Hofmann (?) (pp. 26-29); Brandt's command post at the end of Zelazna Street (p. 29); the SS and Gestapo office in a former military prison on Zamenhof-Zytnia Street (p. 29); a sketch of a plan (p. 31); - Testimony of Mozesz Szmulewicz, an Israeli citizen (pp. 32-44): Karl Klaustermeyer, Josef Bloesche (pp. 33-43); Karl Brandt (p. 33); the execution of a Jewish woman on Nalewki-Street, early 1942 (pp. 34-35); the execution of 50 men in the SD Pawiak prison in Warsaw, September 1942 (p. 35); the execution of Marjem (Ciechanowiecka) Szmulewicz, Hanelore (Assenheim) Szmulewicz and Kuba Szmulewicz, September 1942 (pp. 35-36); the execution of 250 Jewish women, children and men in Zamenhof, MIla, Kupiecka, November-December 1942 (p. 36); the execution of approximately 100 Jewish male workers for the SD at Zamenhof Square 19, April 1943 (pp. 36-37); the burning of Jews at Zamenhof Square 19 as part of the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, probably April 1943 (pp. 37-38); SS Untersturmfuehrer Werner (?) Schmidt (p. 39); the command office at Zelazna Street 103 (p. 41); Dulag (Durchgangslager-transit camp) at Lezsno Street 109 and 111 (p. 41); a sketch of a plan (p. 44); - Documentation regarding attempts to interrogate the following people (pp. 45-48): Guenther Wisliceny; Walter Bartholomai; Dr. (of Philosophy) Albert Kessel; Erich Wazlawik; Felix Jahn; Fritz Schultz; Wilhelm Brinkmann; Georg Hollmann; Hermann Herbst and Israel Spiegelstein (p. 45); the late Oskar Hesel and Burghard Dietterle (p. 46); - The following people could not be found or identified: Hans-Georg Becker (pp. 45-47); SS Untersturmfuehrer Hugo Schwarze, an official at the KdS office in Warsaw; Police Hauptmann Kurt Schmidt, an official at the 22nd Police Regiment in Warsaw (p. 47); Leo Miller; Hans Beiss; Rudolf Witzig; Mohrmann, the former manager of the Toebbens Company (p. 48); - Testimony of Guenther Eberhardt Wisliceny, member of the SS Verfuegungstruppe Der Fuehrerregiment, later the Waffen SS, from the start of the war 1939; member of the guard regiment in the Reichsprotektor in Prague; army reserve as part of the Oberrhein army in the area north of Freiburg-Breisgau, from 10 September 1939; later in Pilsen; commander of the 8th company of SS Regiment 11, from October/November 1939-late summer 1941; in Warsaw, from December 1939- April/May 1940; transfer via Braunschweig to the Netherlands; after some transfers and wounds POW of the Allied Forces (pp. 49-52): Polizeimajor Kolb (?) (p. 49); Josef Meisinger, chief of the Sicherheitspolizei and the SD; Arno Groebel, Meisinger's adjutant (p. 50); SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Dieter Wisliceny, member of the Sicherheitsdienst (p. 51 - 52); - Testimony of Hans-Georg Becker, member of the Schutzpolizei in Braunschweig, from 01 January 1938; Unterfuehrer of the 3rd company of the 112th Police Battalion for evacuation tasks in Saarland; in Tilburg, the Netherlands, from spring 1940; wounded near Hertogenboos, the Netherlands, 26 October 1944; in the military hospital in Bad Rodenfelde and Braunlage, until February 1945; then again member of the Schutzpolizei in Braunschweig (pp. 53-54): denial of any connection to the events in the Warsaw Ghetto; - Testimony of Walter Bartholomaei, member of the Schutzpolizei in Stuttgart, from 1937; Oberleutnant of the Schutzpolizei and adjutant of the SAK Essen, fall 1938; Police Hauptmann in Geldern-Kleve, January 1940; campaigned with the 18th army through the Netherlands and Belgium to France, until August 1940; commander of the 4th company of the 308th Police Battalion in Duisburg-Hamborn; from spring 1941 in the Warsaw Ghetto; transfer to Ede, the Netherlands, autumn 1941 (pp. 55-57): Oberst von Heimbusch, commander of the Schutzpolizei in Essen (p. 55); Muenster, commander and inspector of the Ordnungspolizei (p. 55); Major der Schutzpolizei Fleckner, commander of the 308th Police Battalion in the Warsaw Ghetto (p. 56); Hauptmann der Schutzpolizei Karl Schuster, commander of the 1st company of the 308th Police Battalion in the Warsaw Ghetto (p. 56); Hauptmann der Schutzpolizei Kirsten, commander of the 2nd company of the 308th Police Battalion in the Warsaw Ghetto (p. 56); Oberleutnant Boerner, commander of the 3rd company of the 308th Police Battalion in the Warsaw Ghetto (p. 56); - Testimony of Dr. (of Philosophy) Albert Kessel, born in Jasien, Poland; manager of a pharmaceutical factory in Warsaw, who escaped from the advancing Red Army, July 1944 (pp. 58-59): information regarding Kutschera (p. 59); Testimony of Erich Wazlawik, born in Kořenov, Czechoslovakia; member of the Schutzpolizei in Reichenberg, from 23 January 1939; Police Revierdienst (police station duty) in Lodz, from October 1939; 10th company of the III battalion of the 22 Police Regiment (53rd Police Battalion) in the Warsaw Ghetto, from January 1943 (pp. 60-63): Karl Schoeppe, commander of the 53rd Police Battalion in the Warsaw Ghetto; police officer Oskar Zisenis; Hauptfeldwebel Sieber, 10th company of the 53rd Police Battalion in Warsaw Ghetto (p. 60); SS Gruppenfuehrer Terwey; Hexel (p. 62); Zilke; SS Obersturmfuehrer Schulze; Juergen Stroop (p. 63); - Testimony of Felix Richard Jahn, SS Unterscharfuehrer in Warsaw, from May 1941; SS Oberscharfuehrer, fall 1941; SS Untersturmfuehrer, June 1942; SS Obersturmfuehrer, end of 1943; SS Hauptsturmfuehrer, April 1945; POW of the Red Army (pp. 63 - 66): information regarding Friedrich, commander of the SS cavalry 1st unit (p. 62); - Testimony of Fritz Schultz, owner of the Schultz Company with 17,000 Jewish laborers in the Warsaw Ghetto, summer 1940-summer 1943 (pp. 67 - 69): the Toebbens Company; SS Oberscharfuehrer Schulte (p. 67); Colonel (Oberst) Freter; Walter Toebbens; Odilo Globocnik; Georg Michalsen; Karl Klaustermeyer; Franz Bartetzko; Rudolf Neumann, authorized signatory of the Schultz Company; Franz Scherf, manager of the Schultz Company; Mohrmann, manager of the Toebbens Company; Engineer Dr. Hassler; Ms. E. Topelson, a Jewish survivor (p. 68); - Testimony of Wilhelm Brinkmann, engine driver and lieutenant within the I battalion of the 13 Police Regiment (6th Police Battalion) in Warsaw, from December 1939; Hundertschaftsfuehrer and later adjutant in Kattowitz, late 1939-September 1942; adjutant of the 8th Police Regiment in Wiesbaden-Bibrisch, until mid-November 1942; assignment in Waluiki, Russia, mid-December 1942; injured near Passekowo, 09 January 1943; assignment in the Netherlands within the Landstorm-Nederlandesquad, May 1943; Pol.-Waffenschule III in The Hague, 1943 08 May 1945 (pp. 70-71): information regarding mentioning Major Menzel (p. 70); - Testimony of Georg Hollmann, police assistant and later detective at the police authority in Bielefeld, from 1935; SS Oberscharfuehrer of the Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (KdS-commander of the Sicherheitspolizei and SD) Department in Warsaw, from September 1939-September 1943; member of the Sicherheitspolizei in Bielefeld, until 08 May 1945; POW of the British Army (pp. 72-76): Josef Meisinger; Johannes Mueller; Dr. Ludwig Hahn (pp. 73, 74); Arno Groebel; Waldemar Sterk; Walter Stamm; Krim. Rat Mueller (?); Krim. Rat Bauer (?); Erich Ehrlinger; Dr. Ernst Kah; Harry Geissler (p. 73); Juergen Stroop; Karl Brandt (p. 74); Karl Klaustermeyer (p. 74, 75); regarding the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (p. 75); SS Untersturmführer Hugo Schwarze, from the KdS internal discipline section (p. 75); Gottschalk, manager of the card indexes and registration in Warsaw (p. 75); - Testimony of Hermann Herbst, member of the SS Cavalry Replacement Detachment (SS Kav. Ers. Battalion (Abteilung)-Farhtruppen-Ersatz-Battalion (Abteilung) in Warsaw, from October 1942; in Kielce, from April 1943; instructor in Warsaw, from the end of 1943; partial participation with his squad in suppression of the Warsaw Uprising, August 1944; afterwards with his squad in Czechoslovakia; later in Munich, until 08 May 1945 (pp. 77-78): SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Franz Pulter; SSSturmscharfuehrer Max Klose (p. 77); - Testimony of Israel Speigelstein (pp. 79-80): Karl Klaustermeyer; Josef Bloesche; Otto Hantke; Hofmann (?); Karl Brandt; - Two documents of unknown origin, probably translated from Polish, titled "Evaluation of executions carried out at the General Inspector of the Armed Forces (GISZ) and the sports field" and "Executions at the GISZ and the Stauffer barracks", both relating to massacres of Polish resistance fighters and civilians by the Germans during the Warsaw Polish Uprising in 1944 and containing names of suspected perpetrators. The description of the people is not always clear (pp. 81-83); the following names are mentioned: Schweizer; Bindernagel; Krondschnidt; the couple Szymanski; Buerkner, a high ranking officer; Ludwig Hahn; SS Sturmbahnfuehrer Wilke, a member of the SD; SS Obersturmfuehrer Schneider; Florian Halter, chef; Lebog; Klein, a member of the SA (p. 81); Waldemar Sterk; Alfred Baumstark, Sterk's deputy (pp. 81 - 82); Freilich, a Gestapo man; Marta Basinska, the housekeeper at the Gestapo office; Marian and Zofia Jackowski; Aleksandra Grynoze; Jan (Schlaeger) Kulawski and Bronislaw Bienkowski, Antoni Wasikowski and Altmann, Polish Gestapo men (p. 82); SS (Ober) Sturmfuehrer Platz; SS Rottenfuehrer Eduard Franckowiak; Rudolf Baumeister; Ecelt/Scelt/Soelt (?); Noel; Alexander Liedtke (p. 83); additionally, testimony of Zofia Jackowski and a waitress called Maria regarding the executions that took place on 04 August 1944 near Bagatela Street and the officers' mess in Warsaw (p. 82); - Testimony of Dr. Joanna-Ewa Krynska, a physician at the Home Army field hospital on Wolska Street at the time of the Warsaw Polish Uprising in 1944, employed as an interpreter after the capture of the hospital by German soldiers on 05 August 1944 (pp. 84-87): SS Oberfuehrer Oskar Dirlewanger (pp. 84, 85, 87); Kampfgruppe Reinefarth; the Hermann Goering Division (p. 84); Dr. Kubica, the Chief of Staff of the Stanislaus Hospital (pp. 84, 85); regarding the consideration of Slavs as Untermenschen (subhuman); the Warsaw Gestapo; Alfred Spilker; the St. Wojciech Church; the Pruszków camp; Lamprecht, the District Manager of the health system (p. 85); Dr. Hartlieb, captain of the medical corps of the Kampfgruppe Reinefarth (pp. 85, 86); Dr. Rygalski (p. 85); Dr. Manteufel; Dr. Wesolowski (p. 86); Ukrainian soldiers (p. 87); - Testimony of Antoni Jozef Porzygowski, born in Warsaw; sentenced to four years in Abteilung X (Section X) of the Mokotów Prison in Warsaw due to illegal trade; escape, 02 August 1944 (in Polish, pp. 88-89) (in German, pp. 90-93): Hitzinger, the German head of the Mokotów Prison in Warsaw (p. 90); regarding the execution of more than 600 inmates of the Mokotów Prison by the SS, 02 August 1944 (pp. 90-92); Jan Landzki and Adolf Lopat, inmates of the Mokotów Prison (p. 91); Zygmunt Szypulski, escaped inmate of the Mokotów Prison; Ratajski, inmate of the Mokotów Prison (p. 92); Kapinski, head of Abteilung X at the Mokotów Prison; Dunajczyk, guard at the Mokotów Prison; Szperlek, prison inspector (p. 93); - Testimonies regarding mass executions carried out by members of the German Sicherheitspolizei and SD in Warsaw, 01 August-02 October 1944 (pp. 95-101); the following execution places in Warsaw: the Kadettenanstalt (Cadet Corps), the GISZ until 1939, the Sportplatz der Sicherheitspolizei (sports field of the Sicherheitspolizei),12-14 Aleja Szucha and Jordanowski-Garden (pp. 95, 96); Waldemar Sterck (p. 96); Warsaw Polish Uprising, 01 August 1944-early October 1944 (pp. 96-100); Paul Otto Geibel; Ludwig Hahn (pp. 97, 100, 101); Tramwajarki (women trolley car drivers who were inmates of the Sicherheitspolizei prison at 25 Aleja Szucha) (p. 98); execution of residents of Warsaw-Wola until 05 August 1944; execution of men of Warsaw-Wola, 06-12 August 1944; execution of resistance fighters of Warsaw- Wola, between 12 August-07 September 1944 (p. 98); regarding the TeNo (Technische Nothilfe-Technical Emergency Corps, the police unit commissioned with the final demolition of the Warsaw ruins) (p. 100); - Decree No. 293 from the Polish government regarding the investigation of German crimes committed in Poland, 10 November 1945 (pp. 102-104); - Testimonies of Zofia Jackowska, Weronika Lowsinska, Jozefa Marian and Maria Szczepanska regarding 12-14 Aleja Szucha and Jordanowski Garden at the corner of Bagatela Street and Stalin Avenue (Ujazdowska Avenue) in Warsaw (in German, pp. 105-109) (in Polish, with sketches, pp. 110-114) and regarding the Warsaw Polish Uprising, 01 August 1944-early October 1944 (pp. 105, 106); - Investigation of the area of 12-14 Aleja Szucha in Warsaw, 24-31 July 1946 and 01 August 1946 (in German, pp. 115-116) (in Polish, pp. 117-118): exhumation of ashes and burnt bones from the building at 12-14 Aleja Szucha in Warsaw (pp. 115-116); - Investigation of the area at 12-14 Aleja Szucha in Warsaw, 26 July 1946 and 05 August 1946 (pp. 119-124): description of the area at 12-14 Aleja Szucha in Warsaw (in German, pp. 119-124) (in Polish, pp. 125-127); - Testimonies of Jozefa and Zdislaw Ratajczyk including a description of the area at 12-14 Aleja Szucha in Warsaw (in German, pp. 128-129) (in Polish, p. 130); - Testimony of Marek Korganow, tenant of the building at 33 Marszalkowska Street in Warsaw: escape from execution in Warsaw, 05 August 1944; transfer to Okecie; deportation via Pruszkow to Auschwitz, 11 August 1944 (in German, pp. 131-132, 134-135) (in Polish, pp. 133, 136-137); Alexander Langowy, escape from execution with Marek Korganow, 05 August 1944 (p. 131); 12-14 Aleja Szucha in Warsaw (p. 131); Jordanowski Garden in Warsaw (p. 131); Pawel Korganow, Marek Korganow's father (p. 132); the Polish military unit hiding in the building at 33 Marszalkowska Street in Warsaw; Major Antoni Tomczak and Siwek, commanders of the unit; the use of weapons by the unit, 01-05 August 1944 (p. 134); Helena Siwkowa/Siwka and Langowy; the execution of approximately 100 men at the corner of Marszalkowska Street and Oleandrow Avenue in Warsaw by the Waffen SS Sonderdienst and Russian Liberation Army soldiers, August 1944; the execution of approximately 200 men in the Jordanowski Garden in Warsaw, August 1944; Henryk Siwka, Rzymowska, witnesses (p. 135); - Testimony of Halina Prawdzic-Leyman, housekeeper at the Wawelberg School at 6 Mokotowska Street in Warsaw; escape from the school during an air-raid; escape with her parents and 14-year-old son to the building at 33 Marszalkowska Street, 05 August 1944; arrest by the Gestapo together with her mother opposite the garrison casino; deaths of her father and husband (in German, pp. 138-139) (in Polish, pp. 140-141), Adam Bedynski, director of the Wawelberg School at 6 Mokotowska Street in Warsaw (p. 138); - Testimony of Franciszek Wlodarczyk, a priest living in the Zbawiciel presbytery at 37 Marszalkowska Street: arrest by the Gestapo together with other priests, 05 August 1944; release, 06 August 1944 (in German, pp. 142-143) (in Polish, pp. 144-149); - Testimony of Alexander Ceglowski, provost: arrest by the Gestapo, 05 August 1944; release, 06 August 1944 (in German, pp. 150-151) (in Polish, pp. 152-153): information regarding the shooting of a young resistance fighter by a Gestapo man at the corner of Oleandrow Street and Marszalkowska Street in Warsaw, 05 August 1944 (p. 150); Eligiusz Ziatka, Kazimierza Ogórka, Maria Romanowska, Henrika Romanowska's cousin, witnesses (p. 151); - Testimony of Witold Józef Fultyn, a school prefect in Pruszkow; residence in the presbytery of the Zbawiciel Church at 37 Marszalkowska Street; detention and interrogation by the Gestapo, 05 August 1944; release, 06 August 1944 (in German, pp. 154-155) (in Polish, pp. 156-157): regarding the shooting of two young Armia Krajowa male fighters in front of the military hospital at Marszalkowska Street in Warsaw, 05 August 1944 (p. 154); Jan Ostrowski, Józef Sykulski, witnesses (p. 155); - Testimony of Józef Zdunek, a vocational school prefect, attending an ecclesiastical seminar at 54 Krakowskie Przedmiescie Street in Warsaw at the outbreak of the Warsaw Polish Uprising, 02 August 1944; arrest by German soldiers on Pulawska Street; detention at 25 Aleja Szucha, 03 August 1944; release, 06 August 1944 (in German, pp. 158-159) (in Polish, p. 160): Ceglowski; Fultyn; Romanczuk; Wlodarczyk, from the Zbawiciel presbytery; witnesses (p. 158, 159); - Testimony of Konstantyn Pogorzelski, provost of the presbytery of the Zbawiciel Church, residing at 37 Marszalkowska Street: arrest and interrogation together with other priests by the Gestapo in the main Gestapo building on Aleja Szucha Street, release on the same day, 05 August 1944 (in German, pp. 161-163) (in Polish, pp. 164-165); Wlodarczyk; Fultyn; Ceglowski (p. 161), Dlugoleski, witnesses (p. 162); - Testimony of Marian Jackowski, employee of the city tramway in Warsaw, residing at 4 Litewska Street: search for shelter with his wife Zofia in the Mokotow tramway building due to a skirmish, 01-02 August1944; arrest and interrogation by the Gestapo in the main Gestapo building on Aleja Szucha, 02-03 August 1944; work as a forced laborer for the Gestapo in Warsaw, 03 August 1944-01 September 1944; transfer with his wife by the Gestapo from Warsaw via Kompiny (the Lowicz district) to Sochaczew, 01 September 1944; work with his wife in the main catering depot of the Warsaw Gestapo at 18 Reymont Street in Sochaczew, 01 September-late October 1944; escape to Krakow with his wife with the help of Waldemar Sterk; move to Jędrzejów where he and his wife lived with Budry (in German, pp. 166-173) (in Polish, pp. 174-177); Ralkowski, a Gestapo man (p. 167); Marta Basinska (pp. 167, 168); Jan Kukawski, a Gestapo man (pp. 168, 172); Freilich, a Gestapo man from Beuthen (p. 168); Waldemar Sterk, later transferred to Krakow via Sochaczew (pp. 168, 169, 171, 172); Alexandra Grinschel, an employee of Sterk (p. 168); Alfred Baumstark (pp. 168,169); 12-14 Aleja Szucha; the running over of approximately 1,000 children and women by Gestapo tanks in Warsaw, 04-07 August 1944 (p. 169); execution of approximately 2,000 men and male children from Czerniaków in groups of 50 people in the burnt building at 12-14 Aleja Szucha in Warsaw, on 19 August 1944 or 20 August 1944; execution and burning of groups of people in the burnt building at 12-14 Aleja Szucha in Warsaw (sometimes several times per day), August 1944 (p. 170); execution of the Polish residents of 4 Litewska Street in the ruins at 12-14 Aleja Szucha in Warsaw, 02 August 1944 (pp. 170, 171); Kazimierz and Zbigniew Tomczak, Konstanty and Stanislaw Balcerzak, Jan Wach, victims of this execution; the probable execution of Polish blue uniformed policemen in the ruins at 12-14 Aleja Szucha in Warsaw, August 1944; detention of about 100 Poles in the building at 14 Litewska Street and forcing them to burn the corpses of the victims of the shootings in the ruins at 12-14 Aleja Szucha in Warsaw, August 1944, and probable shooting of the 100 Poles, 01 September 1944; Maximilian Langowski, a Gestapo man (p. 171); Karpinski, an interpreter; Bronislaw Bienkowski, Anton Wasikowski (p. 172), Altmann, Polish Gestapo men (p. 172); - Testimony of Zofia Jackowska, a housewife living with her husband Marian Jackowska at 4 Litewska Street in Warsaw: search for shelter with her husband in the Mokotow tramway depot at 13-15 Pulawska Street because of a skirmish, 01- 02 August 1944; detention and interrogation by the Gestapo in a military prison in Warsaw after separation of women and men in the air force barracks, 02-04 August 1944; life together with her husband in the building at 12 or 14 Aleja Szucha; forced labor at 16 Aleja Szucha cleaning the Gestapo Officers' mess, 04 August-01 September 1944; labor for the Gestapo in Kompiny (the Lowicz district), from 01 September 1944 (in German, pp. 178-183) (in Polish, pp. 184-186): Marta Basinska (pp. 179-181); Waldemar Sterk (pp. 179, 180); Freilich, a Gestapo man from Beuthen (p. 180); Maria, a waitress from Poznan (p. 181); witnesses (p. 183); the execution and burning of approximately 700 men (including handicapped people) in the ruins at 12-14 Aleja Szucha in Warsaw (pp. 181, 183); Polish inmates from 14 Litewska Street in Warsaw (p. 183); departure from Warsaw by Gestapo units (except one) for Lowicz, Sochaczew, Kompiny, Skierniewice, Zyrardów and Blonie (p. 182); probable execution of 3,000 persons from Czerniaków in the ruins at 12-14 Aleja Szucha in Warsaw, 19 August 1944 or 20 August 1944 (p. 182); - Testimony of Jozefa Marian, deputy manager of the Strójwas Company, residing at 10 Bagatela Street in Warsaw, 05 August 1944; arrest by Ukrainians and detention at the rear of the main Gestapo building together with the other tenants of 10 Bagatela Street, 05-06 August 1944; release, 06 August 1944 (in German, pp. 187-189) (in Polish, pp. 190-191): the execution and burning of approximately 100 naked women in the Jordanowski Garden in Warsaw, 02-03 August 1944 (pp. 187-188); transfer of the executions and burnings of corpses from the Jordanowski Garden to the ruins at 12-14 Aleja Szucha in Warsaw, 04 August 1944 (p. 188); Hatler, the commander of the catering department in the Gestapo (p. 189); the hiding by Hatler of three Polish women and four Polish men (working for the catering department of the Gestapo) in the building at 10 Bagatela Street in Warsaw, 01-probably 05 August 1944 (p. 189); - Testimony of Maria (Rejman) Felicja Szczepanska, residing at 10 Bagatela Street in Warsaw; arrested by Ukrainians together with her husband, her six-year-old son, Jadwiga Fontanowa and other tenants, 06 August 1944; detention together with her son, Fontanowa and other women in the garden of the casino, 06-10 August 1944; shooting of her son by a Ukrainian, 07 August 1944; burial of her son with the help of a German officer, 09 August 1944; nearly raped by a Ukrainian, 10 August 1944; release together with Fontanowa, 11 August 1944; in hiding at 4 Belwederska Street in Czerniakow with Fontanowa, 11- 20 August 1944; escape to Nabielaka Street, 20-21 August 1944; in hiding in a church on Nabielaka Street, 21 August 1944-15 September 1944; deportation to Pruszkow by the Germans,15 September 1944; detention in Pruszkow until October 1944; life in Uniow near Kielce from late October 1944 (in German, pp. 192-196) (in Polish, pp. 197-199): the execution of naked people (including children) at the Jordanowski Garden in Warsaw, 04 August 1944 (p. 192); Jadwiga (Fontanowa) Pietron (pp. 193-196); Cyganiak; Kazimierz; Maria and Kazimierz Gryglarzewski; Polinski, witnesses (p. 193); Mass, a Gestapo man (p. 193); the setting on fire of a Red Cross hospital in an orphanage in Chelmska Street, 02 September 1944 (p. 195); the burning of 30 inhabitants of Uniow in a hut (p. 196); - Testimony of Jadwiga (Fontanowa) Pietron, Piotr Szczepanski's subtenant, residing at 10 Bagatela Street in Warsaw; raped by two Ukrainians in the building at 10 Bagatela Street, 05 August 1944; expulsion from the building at 10 Bagatela Street and detention in shacks between the main building of the Gestapo and the casino together with Maria Szczepanski and her six-year-old son Jedryk, 06 August 1944; raped in the casino by two Ukrainians, 10-11 August 1944; release, 11 August 1944; detention in the Pruszkow camp together with Szczepanski (in German, pp. 200-202), (in Polish, pp. 203-205); the robbery of jewelry and valuables belonging to Maria and Piotr Szczepanski by Ukrainians, 06 August 1944 (p. 200); the shooting of Maria Szczepanski's son Jedryk, 07 August 1944 (p. 201); the shooting of a Polish railroader in the courtyard of 10 Bagatela Street at the beginning of the Warsaw Polish Uprising (p. 201); the demolition of the Red Cross hospital at Chelmska Street, 29 August 1944 (pp. 201 - 202); - Testimony of Weronika Katarzyna (Baszczak) Losinska: transfer with other people to Unia Lubelska Square by the Germans and then to Aleja Szucha to a square at the corner of Aleja Ujazdowska on the fourth or fifth day of the Warsaw Polish Uprising; leaving the group of Poles and illegally joining the group of foreigners pretending to be Ukrainian; transfer to 4 Litewska Street as part of this group; work in the barracks in Aleja Szucha opposite Litewska Street bringing rotten cabbage and other slops out of the cellar and later peeling potatoes in the German kitchen in Aleja Szucha in front of the building (in German, pp. 206-209) (in Polish, pp. 210-211), - Testimony of Bronislaw Polak; captured by the Germans, 11 August 1944; labor repairing Schutzpolizei vehicles at 14 Aleja Szucha, 11 August 1944-16 September 1944 (in German p. 212) (in Polish p. 213): the execution of Poles, predominantly men, by the Gestapo in the Jordanowski Garden, 11-22 August 1944 (p. 212); execution of the men who were forced to remove the corpses, 20 August 1944 (p. 212); - Testimony of Halina Józefa (Porulska) Piotrowska; expulsion, together with other tenants, from the building at 10 Bagatela Street by Russian Liberation Army soldiers; transfer to 24 Aleja Szucha as part of a group of 15 people, 05 August 1944; release, 06 August 1944 (in German, pp. 214-215) (in Polish, pp. 216-217): the robbery of jewelry and valuables by the Russian Liberation Army soldiers in the building at 10 Bagatela Street, from 02 August 1944 (p. 214); Stefania Porulska and Halina Józefa Piotrowska, witnesses (p. 214); the execution of 60 naked women and children (probably employees of the city tramway) in the Jordanowski Garden by Germans, 03 August 1944 (p. 214); Kazimierz Cyganiak, a witness (p. 215); - Testimony of Stefania Popielnicka, a cook at the SPB company, cooking for Polish laborers of the SS staff of Aleja Ujazdowska at 8 Bagatela Street; escape to 10 Bagatela Street at the outbreak of the Warsaw Polish Uprising; remaining at 10 Bagatela Street until 05 August 1944; brought to the Jordanowski Garden as part of a group of 100 people; transfer to the main Gestapo building at 25 Aleja Szucha, 05 August 1944; detention in the courtyard of the main Gestapo building at 25 Aleja Szucha together with the other people, 05-06 August 1944; continues working in the kitchen on Halter's order, 06 August-15 October 1944; transfer to Sochaczew together with the other kitchen laborers; escape from the Germans to Suchy Stare; in hiding in Suchy Stare until the liberation by the Red Army (in German, pp. 218-220) (in Polish, pp. 221-222): Florian Halter, the manager of the Gestapo kitchen (pp. 218-220); Kubicki, the couple providing shelter in the building at 10 Bagatela Street (p. 218); the execution of approximately 30 women in the Jordanowski Garden, 02 August 1944 or 03 August 1944 (p. 218); - Testimony of Kazimierz Cyganiak who resided at 10 Bagatela Street in Warsaw: in hiding together with his wife inside the family apartment, 01-18 August 1944; brought to Aleja Szucha by two Gestapo men; deportation to Pruszkow, 18 August 1944 (in German, pp. 223-224) (in Polish, pp. 225-226): Halina Piotrowska, a witness (p. 224); - Testimony of Jozéf Kierz: transfer from 4 Litewska Street to 23 Aleja Szucha, and then to the Gestapo at 25 Aleja Szucha together with other tenants, 02 August 1944; detention at 25 Aleja Szucha for five hours together with his 14-year-old son and his neighbors; release and return to 4 Litewska Street, 02 August 1944; (in German, pp. 227-229) (in Polish, pp. 230-231); Tomszak, Konstantin and Stanislaw Balcerzak, witnesses (p. 227); Jozef Raczkowski, hairdresser for the Gestapo (pp. 227-228); Lebog, a German officer; Szelig; Klein, a German, an SA functionary (p. 228); Stanislaw Buchler, Franciszek Zielinski, Popielnicka, witnesses (p. 229); - Testimony of Maria Palinska, a janitor at 10 Bagatela Street: transfer to 25 Aleja Szucha by the Germans together with her husband, two sons and other tenants, 05 August 1944; detention of approximately 4,000 women, including Palinska, in the courtyard of the Gestapo main building; transfer of the men to 21 Litewska Street, 05-06 August1944; release, 06 August 1944 (in German, pp. 232-234) (in Polish, pp. 235-236); - Testimony of Walenty Migdal, a janitor at 50 Sloneczna Street (in German, pp. 237-238) (in Polish, p. 239): confiscation of the building at 50 Sloneczna Street by soldiers in German uniforms and the removal of all the men residing in the building at that moment, 05 August 1944; Sarnecki, Wladyslaw Urbanieo, Antoni Kloch, Mieczyslaw Wasowski, two people named Wasowski, Szaray, witnesses (p. 237); - Testimony of Stanislaw-Jozef Wisniewski: expulsion from 2b Opaczynska Street together with the other tenants; unsuccessful attempt to escape to the building of the main agricultural college, arrest by the Germans; deportation to Okecie, 11 August 1944 (in German, pp. 240-241) (in Polish, p. 242); Jerzy Wisniewski, Waclaw Ciepielewski, Eustachy Piotrowski, Stronski, Ryszard and his two sons, Debski (p. 240); Roman Lichy (p. 241), witnesses; - Testimony of Maria Gryglaszewska, residing at 10 Bagatela Street in Warsaw: in hiding in her apartment until 05 August 1944; in hiding in the cellar until 12 August 1944 or 13 August 1944; in hiding in another room until 27 August 1944; discovery and transfer to the Gestapo with her brother Kazimierz by German soldiers, 27 August 1944; brought via Narutowicz Square to the Pruszkow camp, 27 August1944- 29 August 1944; detention in Stutthof (in German, pp. 243-244) (in Polish, p. 245), Kazimierz Gryglaszewski, witness (p. 243); - Testimony of Edward Kryszkiewicz, owner of a barbershop at 18 Marszalkowska Street in Warsaw: forced labor for the Germans in the barbershop at 25 Aleja Szucha together with his employees, 07 August 1944 or 08 August 1944-late August 1944; brought to Sochaczew by Szymanski, a Polish Gestapo man, together with Durski, one of his employees, late August 1944; escape from the village of Kompina (between Sochaczew and Lowicz) (in German, pp. 246-249) (in Polish, pp. 250-251); the setting on fire of the buildings at 9, 11-13 and 15 Marszalkowska Street by members of the Gestapo with skulls on their caps and Ukrainians, 03 August 1944 or 04 August 1944 (p. 246); Szymanski, manager of the barbershop at 25 Aleja Szucha and a Polish Gestapo man (pp. 246-249); deportation of Edward Kryszkiewicz's employees by Szymanski, 07 August 1944 or 08 August 1944 (pp. 246-248); Jerzy Durski, Jadwiga Kowalska, Marian Brezinski, Kryszkiewicz's employees and witnesses (pp. 248, 249); regarding the shooting and burning of a young girl who refused to tidy up Szymanski's barbershop, 12-15 August 1944; Raczkowski, Stanislaw Miczarek, Tadeusz Raczkowski and his wife, employees at 25 Aleja Szucha; Burkner, a high ranking Sipo officer and customer of the barbershop at 25 Aleja Szucha (p. 249); - Testimony of Jerzy Kazimierz Durski, an employee at the barbershop at 18 Marszalkowska Street in Warsaw: employment at the barbershop of Szymanski, a Polish barber and Gestapo man, at 25 Aleja Szucha, 07 August 1944-01 September 1944; brought to the village of Kompino together with Kryszkiewicz as part of the transfer of the SD unit under the command of Schneider from Warsaw, which had initially been planned to be evacuated to Vienna, 01 September 1944; escape from Kompino, 16 September 1944; meeting with Wilke in Skiernewice, 25 September 1944 (in German, pp. 252-255) (in Polish, pp. 256-257); the setting on fire of 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 Marszalkowska Street, 01 August 1944 and 02 August 1944; Ukrainians (p. 252); Stanislaw Milczarek, a witness (pp. 252-253); Szymanski, manager of the barbershop at 25 Aleja Szucha; the execution and burning of people living at 21 and 31 Marszalkowska Street by Germans and Ukrainians; Andziak, a witness (p. 253); Kryszkiewicz, Stanislaw Milczarek, Raczkowski, employees at the 25 Aleja Szucha barbershop (pp. 253, 254); SS Sturmbannfuehrer Wilke, Szymanski's superior, SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Schneider, both German SD men and customers of the 25 Aleja Szucha barbershop (p. 254); the transfer of the SD unit under the command of Schneider from Warsaw towards Vienna, 01 September 1944 (p. 254); - Testimony of Marian Brzezinski: residence at 14 Nowosieliecka Street; brought to Aleja Szucha by the Gestapo; detention at Aleja Szucha, 19-20 September 1944 (in German, pp. 258-261) (in Polish, pp. 262-264), the Warsaw Polish Uprising (pp. 258, 259); evacuation of the Ujazdowska Hospital, 10 August 1944; Tadeusz Olszewski, victim of the Gestapo at 25 Aleja Szucha; execution of 30 men in the barracks of I. DAK in Warsaw, 02 August 1944; Tadeusz Rostkowski, one of the victims among the 30 men executed in the barracks of I. DAK in Warsaw, 02 August 1944; Zofia Zelichowska, witness; evacuation of Nowosieliecka Street and Czerniakowska Street by German infantry, 19 September 1944 (p. 259); Szymanski, manager of the barbershop at 25 Aleja Szucha (p. 260); Kazimierz Wedlak, Ludwicki, Biegemski, witnesses (p. 261); - Testimony of Jozef Raczkowski: residence at 4 Litewska Street, hairdresser in the barbershop at 25 Aleja Szucha since 1941; brought to the main building of the Gestapo by Gestapo men and Ukrainians, 03 August 1944; employed in the 25 Aleja Szucha barbershop, 03 August-late August 1944 (in German, pp. 265-266) (in Polish, p. 267): Waldemar Stelle, barbershop owner (p. 265); Szymanski, manager of the branch of Waldemar Stelle's barbershop at 25 Aleja Szucha (pp. 265, 266); Kryczkowicz, Durski, employees in the 25 Aleja Szucha barbershop (p. 266); Ludwig Hahn, nicknamed "Kommandeur" (commander) (p. 266); - Testimony of Michal Roszczyk: residence at 2 Nowosielecka Street; unsuccessful attempt to escape to 49 Gosciniec Street with his wife and two sons; deportation of his wife and children to Stutthof via the Pruszkow camp; transfer with others to the courtyard of 25 Aleja Szucha by the SA; transfer together with other bricklayers by the SD to the GISZ at 12-14 Aleja Szucha, 23 August 1944; work as a bricklayer in the GISZ together with Jan Madejak, 19 August 1944-late September 1944; transfer to Kompina (between Sochaczew and Lowicz) together with Madejak by Kronszmidt, late September 1944; escape from Kompina, January 1945 (in German, pp. 268-272) (in Polish, pp. 273-275); information regarding the shooting of Tadeusz, Michal Roszczyk's son, 01 August 1944 (p. 268); the Warsaw Polish Uprising, August 1944 (p. 268); Jan Madejak, Jozef Swiderski, witnesses (p. 269); Schweizer, the housekeeper in the GISZ (pp. 269, 272); executions of civilians in the Jordanowski Garden by two SD men, 23 August 1944 and 24 August 1944 (pp. 269-270); burning of the corpses in the Jordanowski Garden, 25 August 1944 (p. 271); execution of men in the Jordanowski Garden, 15 September 1944 (p. 271); Bindernagel, Schweizer's superior (p. 272); Kronszmidt, a German master builder from Sochaczew (p. 272); -Testimony of Jan Madejak: residence at 98 Czerniakowska Street; expulsion from 98 Czerniakowska Street together with other tenants; transfer to the courtyard of 25 Aleja Szucha with approximately 200 other men; transfer as a bricklayer to 12-14 Aleja Szucha, and then to 25 Aleja Szucha, 19 August 1944; work in the GISZ, 20 August 1944-late September; transfer to Kompina together with Roszczyk, late September 1944; transfer to Sochaczew; transfer to Germany via Leszno; liberation by the Polish Army, 1945 (in German, pp. 276-279) (in Polish, pp. 280-281); the attack of the resistance fighters on the fire station at 224 Czerniakowska Street and the German barracks on Agricola Street, 01 August 1944 (p. 276); Brzezinski, Eugeniusz Oporski, witnesses (p. 277); Schweizer, the housekeeper (pp. 277, 278); Michal Roszczyk, Swiderski, witnesses (p. 278); executions of men in the Jordanowski Garten (pp. 278, 279); - Testimony of Jozef Swiderski, a butcher: expulsion from 22 Siekierkowska Street by the SA together with other people; transfer via the fire station in Czerniakowski Street to the courtyard of 25 Aleja Szucha, 13 August 1944; work as a butcher in the GISZ building at 12-14 Aleja Szucha; quartered with five men in the labor camp on Litewska Street and later in the kitchen at 25 Aleja Szucha, 13 August-October 1944; transfer to Piastów by the Schupo together with the women working in the kitchen, October 1944; release before Christmas 1944 (in German, pp. 282-286) (in Polish, pp. 287 - 289); Schweizer, the housekeeper (pp. 283, 284); Michal Roszozyk; Madejak, (p. 284); Józef Ratajczyk and Zdislaw Ratajczyk (father and son), witnesses (p. 285); the evacuation of the SD from Warsaw, September 1944 (p. 285); execution of the inmates from Litewska Street in the ruins of the GISZ, September 1944 (pp. 285-286); Jan Staskiewicz, witness (p. 285); Schneider (p. 286); - Testimony of Józef Ratajczyk: residence at 7 Bartycka Street in Warsaw; transfer to the courtyard of the Gestapo at 25 Aleja Szucha by the SA together with his son Zdislaw, his cousin Marian Grzelec and about 150 other people via the school at 53 Gosciniec Street, 23 August 1944; detention in the Strassenbahn (tramway) prison cells in the cellar of the Gestapo building together with Zdislaw and Grzelec; work in the GISZ building and the Jordanowski Garden, from 23 August 1944; work for the Schupo department as part of a group of 15 laborers in the camp on Litewska Street together with Zdislaw and Grzelec, September 1944 (in German, pp. 290-294) (in Polish, pp. 295-297); Janowski, the resistance group commander in Skiekierki shot accidentally by Ukrainians (p. 290); Zdislaw Ratajczyk, Marian Grzelec, witnesses (pp. 290-292, 294); Anton Porebski, a Pole working for the Gestapo as an assistant driver (pp. 291, 294); Marian Szuba, witness (p. 291); executions of civilians (pp. 292-293); Linders/Lindes, Taube, SD men; withdrawal of the SD from Warsaw towards Sochaczew, 15 September 1944 (p. 294); - Testimony of Zdislaw Ratajczyk, residing with his parents at 7 Bartycka Street in Warsaw: transfer to the courtyard of the Gestapo at 25 Aleja Szucha by the SA via the school at 53 Gosciniec Street together with his father and his cousin Marian Grzelec, 23 August 1944; detention in the Strassenbahn(tramway) prison cells in the cellar of the Gestapo building, 23-24 August 1944; forced labor loading shells on an armored vehicle in the Jordanowski Garden together with Stanislaw Gorski and Odachowski, 24 August-early September 1944; work in the labor camp at 14 Litewska Street, early September-02 December 1944 or 03 December 1944; escape (in German, pp. 298-301) (in Polish, pp. 302-304); Stanislaw Gorski, Odachowski, witnesses (p. 298); Jozef Janowski and Jan Wrzoska, executed in the Jordanowski Garten, 24 August 1944 (pp. 299, 300); the execution of three groups of 20 civilians in the Jordanowski Garten, 24 August 1944 (p. 299); execution of three groups of 20 men from Siekierki in the Jordanowski Garten by the SD, 25 August 1944; Anton and Jozef Radzki, Zulawik, Siekierki residents executed in the GISZ building (p. 300); - Testimony of Stanislaw Sikorski, residing at 54 Stepinska Street: expulsion from the building by the SS, together with other tenants; detention in the barracks on 29 November Street, 28-probably 30 August 1944; detention in the Strassenbahn (tramway) prison cells in the cellar of the Gestapo building, probably 30-31 August 1944; work in the camp at 14 Litewska Street burying the corpses of German soldiers in the area of the Jordanowski Garten, probably 31 August 1944-second half of December 1944 (in German, pp. 304-307) (in Polish, pp. 308 - 309); General v. d. Bach (p. 304);the Pruszkow transit camp; transfer of the camp from 14 Litewska Street to 4 Chalubinski Street, second half of December 1944; Kowalski, Jan Trzaska, Franciszek Wozniak, witnesses (p. 305, 306); Krueger, commander of the Technische Polizei (Technical Police) unit (p. 307); - Testimony of Franciszek Zielinski, a horticulturist: 23 Aleja Szucha, Nowosielecka Street and 26 Marszalkowska Street; escape from Aleja Szucha two weeks before the Warsaw Polish Uprising (in German, pp. 310-312) (in Polish, pp. 313-314); Stanislaw Buchler, witness (pp. 310, 312); Schupo inspector Schalinski, Kobra, Lieutenant Krohsz, Major Rekling, commander of the Schutzbataillon (protection battalion), all of them members of the 22nd Schupo regiment at 23 Aleja Szucha (p. 310, 311); Franciszek Ziólkowski, inmate in the forced labor camp in Gesia Street (p. 311); - Testimony of Jadwiga Stanislawa Gorgolewska: escape from 15 Marszalkowska Street to Polna Street after the building is set on fire by the Germans, 03 August 1944; transfer to Aleja Szucha by German soldiers, 04 August 1944; work in the German hospital at 23 Aleja Szucha from probably 04 August 1944; living in an apartment at Litewska Street 7 from 13 August 1944 or 15 August 1944; forced labor cleaning officers' rooms on the third floor at 23 Aleja Szucha, 20 August 1944; transfer to Wlochy by the gendarmerie; escape from Wlochy, 28 August 1944 (in German, pp. 315-316) (in Polish, p. 317); Kober, the gendarmerie inspector; Roemml, Kober's deputy; Koenig, adjutant; the camp for approximately 15 Polish inmates at 14 Litewska Street (p. 315); - Testimony of Mieczyslaw Stefan Ceglarek, residence at 1 Szara Street in Warsaw: transfer to the Frascati Garden in the cellar of the Sejm Hotel building by Ukrainians, together with other tenants, 15 September 1944; transfer to the Ujazdowska Hospital in Szucha Avenue next to the GISZ building at 12-14 Aleja Szucha by the SS as part of a group of approximately 3,000 people; transfer from Aleja Szucha to the camp on 14 Litewska Street as part of a group of approximately 30 young men together with his brother Kazimierz, 16 September 1944; labor carrying water and burying corpses, 17 September1944-October 1944; building bunkers on the waterfront of the Vistula, October 1944; maintenance work, 15 August 1944-07 December 1944; release, December 1944 (in German, pp. 318-321) (in Polish, pp. 322-323); Kazimierz Ceglarek, witness (pp. 319, 320); the Pruszkow transit camp; Stefania Ceglarek; Czieslikowski, witnesses (p. 319); Waluga, commander of the labor camp at 14 Litewska Street and member of the Technische Polizei; Piotr Nowakowski, interpreter at the labor camp at 14 Litewska Street; Oberleutnant Krueger, a member of the Technische Polizei (p. 320); Major Vogel (p. 321); - Testimony of Kazimierz Ceglarek (Sergiusz), residence at 1 Szara Street in Warsaw: transfer to the cellar of the Sejm Hotel via the Frascati Garden together with other tenants; transfer to the courtyard of the GISZ building; transfer to the Aleja Szucha, 13 September 1944; transfer to the camp at 14 Litewska Street together with his brother Mieczyslaw Stefanto as part of a group of approximately 35 young men; forced labor digging pathways along the GISZ building and 6th August Street; forced labor burying corpses in the area of the Vistula, 25 September 1944-mid-October 1944; forced labor transporting ammunition to the front line on the Vistula, mid-October 1944; forced labor boring blast holes, late October 1944-early December 1944; work as an electrician, early December 1944-16 January 1945; escape en route way to Sochaczew, 16 January 1945 (in German, pp. 324-328) (in Polish, pp. 329-331); Mieczyslaw Stefan Ceglarek and Stefania Ceglarek, witnesses; the Pruszkow transit camp; Edward Szczepanski; Wendlarek, inmates at the camp at 14 Litewska Street from 1 August 1944 (p. 325); Technische Polizeikompanie-Bataillon 63 (pp. 326-327); Polizei Unteroffizier Waluga, a German citizen of Polish origin and commander of the camp at 14 Litewska Street from probably late 1944; SS Oberleutnant Schultz (p. 327); SS Oberleutnant Krueger (p. 328); - Testimony of Jan Szewczyk: expulsion from 4 Wilanowska Street by the SS; transfer to the housing cooperative of the Polska Partia Socjalistyczna (PPS-Polish Socialist Party) on Solec Street together with approximately 500 people, early August 1944; quartered in the hospital in the Citroen factory building at the corner of Czerniakowski Street and Zagórna Street; brought to the Gestapo at 25 Aleja Szucha by the SS; forced labor in the camp at 14 Litewska Street burying corpses, August 1944 (in German, pp. 332-333) (in Polish, p. 334); Krueger; Stanislaw Sikorski (p. 333); - Testimony of Czeslaw-Wladyslaw Krulisz: in hiding at 5/7 Idzikowski Street after the burning of the building at 8 Solec Street following a German tank attack, 03-17 September 1944; transfer to 25 Aleja Szucha by the SS and Ukrainians via the Batory high school in Lazienkowski Street together with the other tenants, 17 September 1944; transfer to the camp at 14 Litewska Street together with more than 10 other young men, 18 September 1944; forced labor digging trenches and burying corpses in the area of the Vistula as part of a group of 40 inmates, from 06 October 1944 (in German, pp. 335-336) (in Polish, p. 337); the Pruszkow transit camp; Polizei Feldwebel Waluga, commander of the camp at 14 Litewska Street and a member of the Technische Polizei; Ratajczyk; Jan Szewczyk; Jakob Dawidowicz, inmates at the camp at 14 Litewska Street (p. 335); - Testimony of Edward Szczepanski: expulsion from the building at 7 Matejko Street together with the other tenants; transfer to the Sejm Hotel, 03 August 1944; forced labor building a barricade in the Sejm area; transfer to 25 Aleja Szucha; detention in an isolation cell in the Gestapo cellar, August 1944; transfer to the camp at 14 Litewska Street by a unit of the Technische Polizei; forced labor most of the time in the kitchen (in German, pp. 338-340) (in Polish, pp. 341-342); Georg Kulig, German superintendent of the gasworks; Kowalski, an inmate of the camp at 14 Litewska Street; Krueger, a Technische Polizei officer (p. 339); the transfer of the camp from 14 Litewska Street to 4 Chalubinska Street, October 1944 (p. 340); - Testimony of Kazimierz Gryglaszewksi: residence at 10 Bagatela Street: ordered to report to the Gestapo together with Maria Gryglaszewska and Julian Chmielewski; in hiding in the cellar and later in the attic of the building at 10 Bagatela Street, 5-27 August 1944; capture by the Germans; transfer to the Gestapo in Aleja Szucha together with Maria Gryglaszewska; forced labor in the camp at 14 Litewska Street transporting food and building barricades for the Germans, 27 August 1944-December 1944; forced labor cleaning the streets and removing corpses, from December 1944 (in German, pp. 343-345) (in Polish, pp. 346-347); regarding Maria Gryglaszewska, who was deported to Pruszkow, 27 August 1944 and Julian Chmielewski, who was probably shot in August 1944 (p. 343); - Testimony of Kazimierz Wendlak: transfer to the courtyard of 25 Aleja Szucha together with other people by the SS; detention in the Strassenbahn (tramway) cells in the cellar of the Gestapo building, 23 August 1944; forced labor cleaning the casino at Aleja Szucha 29 as part of a group of 15 men, 24-31 August 1944; forced labor transporting ammunition from the Western station to the Jordanowski Garten, digging ditches and building barricades as part of a group of 15 men, September-December 1944; forced labor boring blast holes, December 1944-16 January 1945; escape en route to Blonie, 16 January 1945 (in German, pp. 348-351) (in Polish, pp. 352-353); Henryka Wendlak; M. Zielinski, witnesses; the Pruszkow transit camp (p. 348); Jozef Grzelec, Wladislaw Sikorski, Kawka, Grzelec, members of the group of 15 men who were forced to clean the casino at 29 Aleja Szucha, 24-31 August 1944 (p. 349); the camp at 14 Litewska Street; Unteroffizier Waluga, commander of the camp at 14 Litewska Street (p. 350).
item Id
7060862
Type of material
Legal documentation
Names of perpetrators
Official documentation
File Number
56
Language
German
Record Group
TR.21 - Trial documentation - Austria
Date of Creation - earliest
1/1945
Date of Creation - latest
4/1962
Original
NO
Archival Signature
25VR 3123/71 (former 27cVR 852/62), Band 15
Location of Originals
LANDESGERICHT KLAGENFURT
Connected to Item
Documentation from a trial conducted against Ernst Lerch and other Austrian war criminals from the SSPF headquarters in Lublin, who participated in "Aktion Reinhardt"
Subjects
Dedication
Yad Vashem Document Collection, Moshal Repository