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)
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 : Names of Perpetrators, Letter of Testimony
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, Sentence, Investigation Report, Testimony
Language : Lithuanian, Hebrew, Polish, English, Yiddish
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;...
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 : Postcard, Certification, 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, 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, Certification, Personal Documents, Travel Ticket, Identity Card, Passport
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 : Investigation Reports, List of Witnesses, Legal Documentation, Sentence, List of Murdered Jews, Indictment, Detention Order, Record of Murdered Persons
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 : Legal Documentation, Investigation Reports, Indictment, Sentence, List of Witnesses, Detention Order