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Report, probably by a German security agency, regarding the political, economic and demographic situation in the Reichkommissariat Ostland, especially in the occupied Baltic countries, including the "Jewish question", 1941 (?) File number: 184 unreadable. (pp. 1 - 2) Description of the war at the Eastern front in Estonia and Russia. (pp. 2 -3) first part unreadable, then: short description of the work of the Sicherheitspolizei. (Security police) (p. 4) unreadable (p. 5) Einsatzgruppen reach Riga. Focus on "pacification of Lithuanian and Latvian land". The Sicherheitspolizei was responsible for...

File Number : 184

Documentation of the Sicherheitspolizei und S.D. (Sipo and SD), including reports and orders of the Einsatzgruppen in the Soviet territories, 1941-1942

Documentation of the Sicherheitspolizei und S.D. (Sipo and SD), including reports and orders of the Einsatzgruppen in the Soviet territories, 1941-1942 Included in the file: Pages 2-3: Letter from the commander of the Sipo and SD in Vilna to the Gestapo in Tilsit, 30 August 1941, reporting that the couple Emil and Anna Mecklenburger, a man named Jagomastas, his wife and his two sons have all been “dealt with as was advised in your letter of July 24.” He also proposed arresting the relatives of these families who are residing in Tilsit, and the son Emil Jagomastas, born, 04 August 1910, who is in Dresden at...

File Number : 3

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Wolf Kojranski, born in Vilna in 1927, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and in camps in Estonia during 1941-1944

Testimony of Wolf Kojranski, born in Vilna in 1927, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and in camps in Estonia during 1941-1944 German occupation of Vilna; deportation of his family to the Vilna Ghetto; transfer to forced labor in the Swieciany district and in a camp in Palimonas; deportation back to the Vilna Ghetto; "Aktions"; transfer with Jews from the ghetto, via Pohulanka, for execution in Ponary; escape en route to the murder site, with help from local Poles; escape back to his family in the ghetto; Vilna Ghetto life; deportation with his brother Itzhak to camps in Estonia; attempts to...

File Number : 9445

Type of Material : Application, Interview(s), Testimony, Questionnaire

Language : Hebrew, English, Russian, German