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Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 57, 19/08/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Notification of the SIPO in Radom regarding the scattering of placards from a Soviet plane containing a call to oppose the occupation authorities; Part 2 - Reports of the Einsatzgruppen and the units subservient to them: - Einsatzgruppe z.b.V: The situation in the former Soviet territories of Poland; division into the various populations; the...

File Number : 163.57

Type of Material : Survey Report, Manifesto

Language : German

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 53, 15/08/1941 Part 1 - Political events: No reports received; Part 2 - Reports of the Einsatzgruppen: Lagebericht (activity report) of the Einsatzgruppe A and the subunits under its jurisdiction: 1) Advance and positioning of the Einsatzkommandos 1A, 1B, 2 and 3 in the Baltic States territories; strengthening of the partisan movement in the territories of North Estonia and the Soviet...

File Number : 163.53

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 40, 01/08/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Annexation of eastern Galicia to the Generalgouvernement (Polish territories that were not directly annexed to the German Reich), 01 August 1941; preparation of a ceremony on the occasion of the annexation, in Lwow; attempt to murder a Serbian collaborator, in the Krain area; detention of 20 Communists with the help of the Italian Police in retaliation to...

File Number : 163.40

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding the activities taking place in the Soviet Union including the activities of the Einsatzgruppen The initial reports are reports (Referat) from the Director of the IVA1 (Gestapo-struggle against the Communists) in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA-Reich Security Headquarters) that were distributed among officials in the RSHA, with Himmler foremost among them; beginning with Report No. 4, the reports received the SIPO and SD Headquarters heading, with the acronym IVA1 below the title;...

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

An anonymous testimony of a yeshiva student, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Dwinsk and Riga

An anonymous testimony of a yeshiva student, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Dwinsk and Riga Life in Bialystok during the outbreak of the war; life in Hapoael Hamizrachi aliya training; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union; deportation with the Jews to Dwinsk; murder of the Jews and rescue from murder; life in Riga; murder of the Jews in Riga and the surrounding area; attitude of the Estonians to the Jews. The testimony was recorded during the war.

File Number : 37

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Part of an activities and situation report of the Einsatzgruppen in the Soviet Union, regarding the persecution and murder of Jews in Estonia and Belorussia, 10/1941

Part of an activities and situation report of the Einsatzgruppen in the Soviet Union, regarding the persecution and murder of Jews in Estonia and Belorussia, 10/1941 The first part of the "Taetigkeits- und Lagebericht nr. 6. Der Einsatzgruppen der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in der USSR", regarding the activities of the Einsatzgruppen A and Einsatzgruppen B in the Ostland areas (Estonia) and in Belorussia, 01-31/10/1941: Ostland: Combat against the partisans; the situation in Leningrad; Jews; Belorussia: Combat against the partisans; capture and shooting of Communists, functionaries and criminals;...

File Number : 9

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : German

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 Mindel Offenbach, born in Bistrita, regarding the lives of Jews before World War II and their fate after the German occupation

Emilia ,Offenbach: - Life of the Jews before the war; life under the rule of the Hungarian Nazis in Bistrita; prohibition for Jews to pursue higher education, her 16-year-old sister had to quit school and work in a factory; a decree to wear the yellow badge, 1944; the establishment of the ghetto, May 1944; hunger; deportation to Auschwitz, June 1944; her arrival at Auschwitz with her parents and two sisters; deportation to Riga, 15 June 1944; continued travel towards Estonia and arrival at Kivioli; entry to Kivioli camp and meeting many Jews; German supervisor Ernest Runde, known as a war criminal; his...

File Number : 1524

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish