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Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin: Volume 24, Trial against Hermann Hoefle: Testimonies by perpetrators and survivors regarding the persecution and extermination of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto and Lublin area; documentation regarding Hoefle, 1961-1962

Trial 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: Volume 24, Documentation from the trial against Hermann Hoefle: Testimonies by perpetrators and survivors regarding the persecution and extermination of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto and Lublin area, and documentation regarding Hermann Hoefle, 1961-1962 - Interrogation of the defendant Helmuth Pohl regarding his activities in the Lublin area, including receiving the trains with the deported Jews; mention of Hermann Hoefle (p. 22), 06 April 1962 (pp. 6-25); - Interrogation of the defendant Ernst Lerch, the personal secretary of Globocnik, including a discussion of the Madagascar Plan (p. 45), forced labor by Jews (pp. 46-50) and the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto (p. 52), 14 September 1962 (pp. 26-54); - Correspondence between the Landesgericht in Vienna and various judicial and research institutions abroad (including Yad Vashem), as well as with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding legal aid in investigating survivors, potential witnesses and suspected criminals (pp. 55-65, 80, 141-149, 227-231); - Questionnaire for Warsaw Ghetto survivors regarding daily life in the ghetto, the situation, liquidation of the ghetto, transports and specific questions regarding some of the SS personnel (for example: Hermann Hoefle) (pp. 66-71). - Testimony of Nathan Spinner (Jewish), an inmate of the Warsaw Ghetto, November 1940-June 1943 (pp. 72-75); - Testimony of Wolf Jonisz (Jewish), a former inmate of the Radzymin Ghetto (pp. 76-78); - Protocol of the 102nd session of the Eichmann Trial, 19 July 1961, (pp. 81-113); - Interrogation of SS Gruppenfuehrer Jakob Sporrenberg regarding; Majdanek (p. 128); the prison in Lublin (p. 130); the Poniatowa camp (p. 131); the Trawniki camp (p. 131); the Sobibor camp (p. 131); extermination of the Jews in Lublin (pp. 133-136) personnel, staff and units (p. 139) (pp. 117-140); - Testimonies of Felix Eisenstadt (a Jewish survivor) regarding the Warsaw Ghetto and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (pp. 150-190); - Summary of the research results regarding Hermann Hoefle (pp. 191-226), including personal data; Selbstschutz (Self-protection- a paramilitary organization created by ethnic Germans in Central and Eastern Europe) crimes in Nowy Sacz; extermination of Jews at the Lipowa camp, 1940-1941; Operation Reinhard; Hermann Hoefle; the Belzec camp; Sobibor; Treblinka; extermination of Jews in Lublin, Warsaw and Bialystok; list of witnesses from Treblinka (pp. 206-208); and "Aktion" Erntefest (Harvest Festival "Aktion"-murder of the last Jews in Majdanek); - Original war-time documentation regarding Operation Reinhard (pp. 232-236); - Testimonies of Zygmunt Warman and Edward Reicher (Jewish survivors) regarding Hermann Hoefle (in Polish) (pp. 237-244); - Documents regarding Hermann Hoefle (pp. 245-248); - Report regarding the situation in the Warsaw Ghetto, 15 November 1942 (pp. 250-255); - War-time personal documentation regarding Hermann Hoefle (pp. 256-277); - Testimonies of Dr. Wilhelm Pfannenstiel, regarding his war-time activities in Lublin, 09 November 1959 (pp. 278-284); - Report regarding the situation in the Warsaw Ghetto, 15 November 1942 (in Polish) (pp. 285-287); - Official letter from Odilo Globocnik to Heinrich Himmler with the statement that Operation Reinhard has been completed (pp. 288-289); - War-time detailed economic reports regarding Operation Reinhard (pp. 290-300).
item Id
7188756
Type of material
Legal documentation
Names of perpetrators
Official documentation
File Number
81
Language
Polish
German
Record Group
TR.21 - Trial documentation - Austria
Date of Creation - earliest
19/04/1961
Date of Creation - latest
14/09/1962
Original
NO
No. of pages/frames
301
Archival Signature
25VR 3123/71 (former 27cVR 852/62), Band 24
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"
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection