Memoirs of Mrs. - (Levin) Vakhtel, born in Riga, Latvia, 1915, regarding her experiences in Riga
Life before the war; witness attends school until 1932; sewing studies; marriage to Heinrich Vakhtel, 25 December 1938.
Outbreak of the war; German occupation; abuse of the Jews by Latvians.
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...
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...
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...
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. 26, 18 July 1941
Part 1 - Reports from the Einsatzgruppen, including deployment, troop movement and activities;
Notification of the Gestapo Headquarters in Tilsit, regarding the murder of 3,302 people in the Saeuberungaktion (purge-"clean-up operation"); on the Lithuanian border;
Einsatzgruppe A: :
Concentration of manpower and initial plans for Einsatzkommando activities in St. Petersburg...
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. 24, 16 July 1941
Part 1 - Political Events:
Distribution of an anti-war placard against the war on the eastern front in Krakow, meant for soldiers serving on this front;
Part 2 - Reports of the Einsatzgruppen and the subunits under their authority including deployment, movement and activity:
Einsatzgruppe A:
-Occupation of Daugavpils/Donabuerg by the German Army; fires set off by Jews;...
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;...
Memoirs of Kh. Lebedeva, born in Daugavpils, Latvia on 01/12/1915, regarding her experiences in the Daugavpils Ghetto and in Ereda, Stutthof and Schivelbein camps
Life in Daugavpils before the war; she studies in the Jewish high school, and teaches in a Jewish school in the city; outbreak of World War II; air-raids on Daugavpils, and her mother is injured; establishment of the Daugavpils Ghetto, under the administration of Voldemar Zaube; Daugavpils Ghetto life; abuse by the Germans and the guards in the ghetto; "Aktion" on 27/07/1941 and the murder of elderly people; murder of children; disease; manhunt for...
File Number : 5979
Type of Material : Record of Murdered Persons, Memoirs
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...