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Memoirs of Leon Ginsburg, born in Maciejow, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences in Kowel and Chelm using a false identity

Memoirs of Leon Ginsburg, born in Maciejow, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences in Kowel and Chelm using a false identity Murder of family members in Maciejow and Luboml, 1942; escape from Kowel, 1942; transfer to Chelm, summer 1943; life in Chelm using the false identity of Stanislaw Kwiatkowski, an orphaned Polish Catholic boy; work as a shepherd for the Pyra family in exchange for room and board, 1943-1944; watching the trains transporting Jews to Sobibor; watching passengers who were Jews from the Netherlands; commerce in the victims' shoes when the trains returned from Sobibor en route to...

File Number : 8263

Type of Material : Testimony, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, English

Documentation from the trial of Hermann Hoefle held in the Salzburg Regional Court; Testimonies by survivors living in Israel regarding the Sobibor death camp; Statement by Georg Michalsen (SSPF Lublin) regarding the activity of the SSPF Lublin and "Aktion Reinhard", 1963 - 1964 Requests for testimonies Transcript of a letter by the state prosecutor at the Regional Court in Hamburg regarding the testimony of Benjamin Eichner and the request to ask him about the activities of Dirke, Bernd and Schubert (28/02/1964) pp.6-7 Requests by the Vienna Regional Court to Israeli authorities to gather information...

File Number : 109

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, French, German

Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, Volume 43: Testimonies regarding the Sobibor extermination camp, 1960-1963

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 43; Testimonies regarding the Sobibor extermination camp, 1960-1963 Large sections of the document are illegible. - Testimony of Hans Wagner (pp. 4-5); - Testimony of Erich Fuchs, driver for Department T4, 1939-1941, gas chamber...

File Number : 101

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Legal Documentation

Language : German

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...

File Number : 41

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Legal Documentation, Names of Perpetrators

Language : German

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; Statements by Franz Hoedl, 1963 - 1966 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...

File Number : 10

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Official Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Map

Language : German

Testimonies of Antoni?owski [name not fully decipherable] about the Wlodawa ghetto and the Sobibór extermination camp in 1941–1944, of Eda Richtman about deportation from Kraków to Sobibór, of Rubin Floman about various camps, of Jehuda Elberg about the Warsaw ghetto uprising, and of Pinkus about the liquidation of the amp in Poniatowa. - Testimony of Antoni?owski [name not fully decipherable], a Polish physician from Wlodawa, about the establishment of the Wlodawa ghetto in 1941, construction of the Sobibór extermination camp, and the camp's internal structure. Arrival of trains carrying Jews from Poland...

File Number : 875

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Salomea Hanel, born in Ustrzyki Dolne, Poland, 1916, regarding her experiences in Drohobycz, Ustrzyki Dolne, Zaslaw, Sobibor, and while using a false identity in Krakow

Testimony of Salomea Hanel, born in Ustrzyki Dolne, Poland, 1916, regarding her experiences in Drohobycz, Ustrzyki Dolne, Zaslaw, Sobibor, and while using a false identity in Krakow Move from Ustrzyki Dolne to Drohobycz, five weeks before the outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 1941; taking of Jews to forced labor while abusing them, immediately following the occupation of Drohobycz; return home, two weeks later; forced labor and the theft of property; "Aktion" against Communists, late April 1942; murder of families whose relatives worked in service to the Soviets before the war;...

File Number : 27

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Leon Cymiel, born in 1924 in Chelm Lubelski, Poland, about his experiences in Chelm Lubelski, the Chelm camp, Sobibór, with the partisans in the Lublin area, etc.

Testimony of Leon Cymiel, born in 1924 in Chelm Lubelski, Poland, about his experiences in Chelm Lubelski, the Chelm camp, Sobibór, with the partisans in the Lublin area, etc. Establishment of an open ghetto in Chelm Lubelski; imposition of “contributions” by the authorities; execution of hostages as punishment for failure by the Judenrat to meet the deadline or for failing to raise the requisite sum; toughening of anti-Jewish policies in 1941, including the establishment of camps in and around Chelm; imposing a harsh regimen on prisoners in the camps in the Chelm area; beatings, starvation, assignment of...

File Number : 4057

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

To be translated

File Number : 3371

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Polish

To be translated

File Number : 2812

Language : Russian

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