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Legal testimonies of Israel Izaak, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1905, regarding war crimes and including mass murders carried out by the Nazis in Tarnow during the war

Legal testimonies of Israel Izaak, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1905, regarding war crimes and including mass murders carried out by the Nazis in Tarnow during the war Life in Tarnow during the Nazi occupation; work as the owner of a drushka (horse-drawn carriage) including taking Gestapo personnel; description of the Gestapo personnel whom he chauffeured; description of Grunow, a Gestapo activist including a description of his crimes including murder; crimes of the various Gestapo people including mentioning them by name with a full description (Rommelman, Kastura, Hufer, Schachner and others); murder of two...

File Number : 8566

Type of Material : Investigation Report, Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Letter by Colonel Melnichenko, regarding the murder of Jews in Yurevichi and a trial of the collaborators held on 17/12/1943

Letter by Colonel Melnichenko, regarding the murder of Jews in Yurevichi and a trial of the collaborators held on 17/12/1943 Following the draft to the Red Army of most of the men in the town of Yurevichi, approximately 300 elderly people, women and children remained in the town; an order was given on 27/10/1941 for the children to assemble on Podgornaya Street, from where they were taken to the banks of the Pripyat River and murdered; a group of young women, who attempted to escape from the murder site, was captured and taken to a separate house where they were raped; they were murdered several days later;...

File Number : 135

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Names of Perpetrators

Language : Russian

Memoirs written by Avraham Balzar in 1946 regarding his experiences in Vilna, the Vilna Ghetto, detention by the Gestapo, in hiding, rescue twice from the killing pit in Ponary, labor digging pits and burning of corpses under Lithuanian supervision Verdict from the trial held in the United States of Aleksandras Lileikis, former head of the Saugumas in Vilna, Lithuanian Security Police, 24 May 1996; translation to German of the testimony of Avraham Blazar submitted to the Soviet authorities in Vilna, 28 August 1944; documents from 1941 of the Saugumas and the German authorities on the fate of Avraham Balzar...

File Number : 8312

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs, Official Documentation, Testimony, Investigation Report, Sentence

Language : Lithuanian, Hebrew, Polish, English, Yiddish

Testimony of Moshe Zagorski, born in 1927 in Wadowice, Poland, about being sent to the Groeditz, Faulbrück, and Gunzlau camps for forced labor, death march, and additional camps

Offspring of a well-to-do family; war breaks out in September 1939; escaping to relatives in Kraków; back to Wadowice; forced labor in Wadowice; deportation to Annaberg in autumn 1940 for forced labor; finds an uncle in the camp; transfer to Groeditz and life at a flour mill; cultural life in the camp; construction work in Faulbrück and separation from uncle; transferred to the Bunzlu camp apparently in summer 1942; Bunzlau becomes a concentration camp and assignment to young peole's block in May 1944; death march to Dora Mittelbau in February 1945 and several days in the camp; taken to Ellrich satellite camp;...

File Number : 13440

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Abram Chojna, born in Wlodawa, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Wlodawa Ghetto and as a partisan in the Pinsk area

Memoirs of Abram Chojna, born in Wlodawa, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Wlodawa Ghetto and as a partisan in the Pinsk area Life in the Wlodawa Ghetto; escape from the deportation train; life as a partisan in the Pinsk area. Also in the file: - Invitation to testify at a War Criminal trials in Hamburg, including the names of the criminals,1972; - Confirmations regarding his experiences as a partisan; - Postcard sent from Wlodawa to Chil Helfman in Chelm Lubelski, 31 January 1932; - Exit permit from the Brest region issued by the Soviet authorities including a directive to the...

File Number : 8215

Type of Material : Certification, Postcard, Personal Documents, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Russian, German, Yiddish

Letters sent to Aron Moshe Presman in Buenos Aires by his family in Ostrog, 18 January 1939 and 05 April 1940, and personal documentation of Aron

Letters sent to Aron Moshe Presman in Buenos Aires by his family in Ostrog, 18 January 1939 and 05 April 1940, and personal documentation of Aron Letters sent to Aron Moshe Presman in Buenos Aires, 18 January 1939 and 05 April 1940, from his family in Ostrog; Included in the file: - Draft notice for the Polish Army for Aron Moshe Presman; - Boat ticket to Argentina for Aron Moshe Presman; - Medical certificate for Aron Moshe Presman; -Birth certificate for Aron Moshe Presman, born in Luck, Poland, 1909; - Polish passport for Aron Moshe Presman; - Argentinian identity card for Aron Moshe...

File Number : 1683

Type of Material : Letter, Travel Ticket, Identity Card, Certification, Passport, Personal Documents

Language : Spanish, Polish, Yiddish

Documentation from the trials of Ignat Cheban and others, charged with collaboration with the German-Romanian occupation authorities and the murder of Jews and Soviet activists in Doybany-I, 09/1941

Documentation from the trials of Ignat Cheban and others, charged with collaboration with the German-Romanian occupation authorities and the murder of Jews and Soviet activists in Doybany-I, 09/1941 Investigation file of MGB Counter-Espionage Department, the Ministry of State Security of Moldavia, against Ignat Cheban and others, conducted in Kishinev, 18/07/1946-20/01/1947: - Arrest warrant against the village mayor, Ignat Cheban, issued on 18/07/1946; - Arrest warrants against Stepan Kirsey, Prokopiy Sandul and Prokofiy Chebotar, issued in Dubossary, 30/11/1946; - Investigation reports of Ignat...

File Number : 53

Type of Material : List of Witnesses, Detention Order, Legal Documentation, Record of Murdered Persons, Investigation Reports, Indictment, List of Murdered Jews, Sentence

Language : Russian

Documentation from the trial of Konstantin Zhdanov, charged with collaboration with the German-Romanian occupation authorities in the murder of Jews in Skulyany, July 1941

Documentation from the trial of Konstantin Zhdanov, charged with collaboration with the German-Romanian occupation authorities in the murder of Jews in Skulyany, July 1941 Investigation file of the NKGB Counter-Espionage Department, National Commission of State Security of Moldavia, against Konstantin Zhdanov, conducted in Beltsy, 04/10/1945-26/11/1945: - Arrest warrant against Konstantin Zhdanov, issued in Beltsy, 04/10/1945; - Investigation reports of the accused, Konstantin Zhdanov, regarding his part in the murder of Jews in Skulyany, July 1941, compiled in Beltsy, 25/10/1945-15/11/1945; -...

File Number : 50

Type of Material : Investigation Reports, Sentence, Detention Order, Legal Documentation, List of Witnesses, Indictment

Language : Russian

Documentation of Moisey Grinberg, Chairman of the Judenrat in the Obodovka Ghetto, charged with collaboration with the German-Romanian occupation authorities and persecution of the Jews in the Obodovka Ghetto, 1941-1943 Investigation file of the NKGB Counter-Espionage Department, National Commission of Internal Affairs of Moldavia, against Moisey Grinberg, Chairman of the Judenrat in the Obodovka Ghetto, conducted in Kishinev, 18/01/1945-31/08/1945: - Decision to open up an investigation file against Moisey Grinberg, handed down in Kishinev, 09/04/1945; - Arrest warrant against Moisey Grinberg, issued...

File Number : 47

Type of Material : Sentence, Legal Documentation, Record of Survivors, Detention Order, Investigation Reports, Indictment, List of Witnesses

Language : Russian

Documentation from the trial of the brothers, Ivan Sandulyak and Petr Sandulyak, charged with collaboration with the German-Romanian occupation authorities and helping with the murder of Jews in Petresti, July 1941 Investigation file of the NKVD (National Commission for Internal Affairs) of Moldavia, against the brothers, Ivan Sandulyak and Petr Sandulyak, conducted in Ungeny, 16/12/1944-05/06/1945: - Decision to open up a criminal file against the brothers, Ivan Sandulyak and Petr Sandulyak, for their part in the persecution of the local population and the murder of Jews in Petresti, July 1941, handed...

File Number : 45

Type of Material : Detention Order, Legal Documentation, List of Witnesses, Investigation Reports, Indictment, Sentence

Language : Russian

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