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Official documentation of the regional Committee for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in Poznań, regarding Czarkow camp

Official documentation of the regional Committee for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in Poznań, regarding Czarkow camp Establishment of Czarkow camp in 1941; population of the camp with approximately 1,000 Jews including young people above age 13; Czarkow camp life including hunger, beatings and beatings to death by German and Polish guards, and labor in the preparation of the ground and the construction of railroad tracks; executions of inmates by the Germans, including the execution of 12 inmates near the camp and the leaving of their corpses in the camp for several days; administration of the labor...

File Number : 36

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Research and History

Language : Polish

Announcement by the regional Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in Lublin to the central Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in Warsaw, regarding the opening of an investigation concerning the murder of Jews in Frampol, in the Bilgoraj district, in 1942 - Announcement, dated 15/01/1969: During the investigation, it was established that German Police arrived to Frampol from Bilgoraj on 02/11/1942, and murdered approximately 1,000 Jews. Some of the Jews were shot to death during the deportation march, when they were forced to walk to Belzec camp; - Included with the appeal...

File Number : 152

Type of Material : Legal Documentation

Language : Polish

Booklet of the Polish-Soviet Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in the Majdanek annihilation camp in Lublin, published in 1945

Booklet of the Polish-Soviet Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in the Majdanek annihilation camp in Lublin, published in 1945 In the booklet of the Polish-Soviet Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes regarding Majdanek there is information concerning the construction of the camp, its administration, the composition of its inmates and their number, conditions in the camp, starvation, forced labor, abuse of inmates, executions of Soviet POWs and mass executions of other inmates. A separate chapter is devoted to the murder of inmates by Cyklon B gas in the gas chambers. In the...

File Number : 406

Type of Material : Investigation Reports

Language : Polish

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File Number : 446

Type of Material : Survey Report, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Polish

Testimonies of Schlomo Dragon regarding his experiences in the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz; documentation and newspaper clippings regarding the Sonderkommando

Testimonies of Schlomo Dragon regarding his experiences in the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz; documentation and newspaper clippings regarding the Sonderkommando Testimonies pertaining to Schlomo Szlama Dragon: - Protocol of the testimony (declaration) of Szlama Dragon, born in Żuromin, Poland, 19 March 1920, taken down in Auschwitz, 10-11 November 1945 by members of the Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes: - Deportation to Auschwitz, December 1942; selection; transfer of Schlomo and his brother to a Sonderkommando group, 10 December 1942; forced labor in the Sonderkommando; description of the...

File Number : 9397

Type of Material : Maps, Brochure, Letter, Article, Protocol, Declaration, Newspaper Clippings, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, English, German