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Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin: Volume 27, Trial against Hermann Hoefle: Testimonies of perpetrators and Jewish survivors from Poland regarding the persecution and extermination of Jews in the Lublin area, 1962-1967

Documentation from a 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 27, Documentation of the trial against Hermann Hoefle: Testimonies of perpetrators and Jewish survivors from Poland regarding the persecution and extermination of Jews in the Lublin area, 1962-1967 - Testimony of Sol Liber, a Jew, a former inmate of Treblinka, Majdanek and Lublin, now residing in Los Angeles, regarding the actions of Hantke against Jews in Lublin, 1943 (pp. 5-6); - Testimony of Werner Wehrheim, a German police squadron commander in Lublin, 1943, regarding the actions of his squadron, including mass executions, obliteration of mass graves, executions of Soviet POWs, and "Aktions" against Jews in Lublin (pp. 7-17); - Testimony of Jerzy Rozenbaum, a Jew, and Estera Rubinstein, a Jewess, regarding the Poniatowa camp, 1943 (pp. 21-31); - Testimony of Heinrich Karl Johann Gley, a German who served in the SS in Grafeneck, Sonnenstein, Lublin, Belzec, Poniatow and Prague, regarding executions of Jews in Poniatowa, liquidation of the camps and the obliteration of the corpses in Poniatowa (pp. 32-40); - Testimony of Jacob Sporrenberg, a German, a former SS Gruppenfuehrer (pp. 41-68), regarding his activities as an SD officer (pp. 43-50), SS and Polizeifuehrer in Lublin (pp. 50-53), in concentration camps (pp. 53-58), and during the "Erntefest Aktion" (pp. 58-63); - Report regarding material from Polish archives concerning Nazi criminals active in the Lublin area (pp. 64-95); - Testimony of Johann Wendelinus Kornelius Offermann, a German, a member of the SS staff in the Krasnik camp, regarding the Lipowa camp, the removal of the camps in the Lublin area, the mass execution of Jews in November 1943 and the Krasnik camp (pp. 96-112); - Testimony of Alexander Pflanzer, a Volksdeutsche (ethnic German), formerly a Polish citizen, regarding the German policy concerning the gold taken from Jews, and his knowledge about the fate of the Jews during "Aktion" Reinhard (pp. 113-118); - Testimony of Hermann Reese, a German, SS and Polizeifuehrer staff member in Lublin, regarding his participation in the liquidation of the Lublin Ghetto, March-April 1942, the fate of the Lublin Jews, other participants in the liquidation, his participation in the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, executions of Jews, the execution of 8,000 Jews in the Trawniki camp and the use of the clothes of those who were murdered (pp. 119-130); - Testimony of Ernst Brosig, a member of the Lublin SS administration, regarding "Aktion" Reinhard, the deportation of Jews from Zamosc and the connection of the local SS administration in Lublin to the deportation and extermination of Jews (pp. 131-139); - Testimony of Helmuth Pohl, a German serving in an SS guard detachment in the Lipowa camp, regarding the treatment of Jews in the camp (pp.141-143); - Testimony of Rudolf Johann Babitzka, a German serving in the local SS u. Polizeifuehrer administration in Lublin regarding the Lipowa camp, the "Erntefest Aktion" and Franz Hoskowetz, who was Hermann Hoefle's secretary (pp. 144-162); - Testimony of Michael Dorndorf, a German serving in the SS in Lublin, regarding SS actions against Jews in the Lipowa camp and the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto (pp. 163-173); - Testimony of Dr. Kurt Hermann Paul Sickel, a German physician, active in the Standortkommandatur Lublin, 1942-1943, regarding actions against Jews in Lublin and Warsaw, 1942, Hermann Hoefle and "Aktion" Reinhard (pp. 174-184); - Testimony of Erwin Mittrach, a German who served in Trawniki, 1941-1943, regarding executions of Jews in Trawniki and the Lublin district, the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto and the extermination of the Jews in eastern Europe (pp. 185-193); - Testimony of Heinrich Sottmann, a German who worked in the Lublin Standortverwaltung (local administration), regarding "Aktion" Reinhard and the Gestapo; his job in the local administration was the registration of gold taken from Jews (pp. 194-199); - Testimony of Josef Napieralla, a German who served in the Krychow camp in 1941, and from 1942 in the Trawniki camp, regarding Georg Michalsen and the liquidation of the Trawniki labor camp (pp. 200-210); - Testimony of Hermann Ernst Firtz Heinrich Ley, a German who was active in the local SS administration of Lublin, regarding "Aktions" against Jews in the Lublin district (pp. 211-216); - Testimony of Fritz Emil Schultz, the German former owner of the Schultz factory in Warsaw (pp. 217-231); - Testimony of Hartmuth Pfeiffer, a German former member of Globocnik's staff in Lublin, regarding "Aktions" against Jews in Lublin (pp. 232-234); - Testimony of Helmut Struck , a German, active in the local administration in Lublin, 1941-1942, regarding the deportation of Jews from the Lublin Ghetto (pp. 235-241); - Testimony of Hans-Joachim Ulig, a German, located in Lublin during the war, regarding "Aktions" against Jews in the district of Lublin (pp.242-249).
item Id
7188849
Type of material
Legal documentation
Names of perpetrators
Official documentation
File Number
84
Language
German
Record Group
TR.21 - Trial documentation - Austria
Date of Creation - earliest
12/02/1962
Date of Creation - latest
13/04/1967
Original
NO
No. of pages/frames
249
Archival Signature
25VR 3123/71 (former 27cVR 852/62), Band 27
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