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Personal files opened by the Gestapo, November 1938, for Felix Hanauer and Alfred Hanauer, both born in Wiesenfeld and living in Wuerzburg, [later] deported to Riga, 19 November 1941

Personal files opened by the Gestapo, November 1938, for Felix Hanauer and Alfred Hanauer, both born in Wiesenfeld and living in Wuerzburg, [later] deported to Riga, 19 November 1941 Included in the file: An excerpt from a list of people deported from Wuerzburg containing the names of Felix and Alfred Hanauer and the name of Alfred's wife, Helene (Leiter); Taken from a book titled, "Wege in die Vernichtung: Die Deportation der Juden aus Mainfranken 1941-1943", published in Munich, 2003.

File Number : 477

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Record of Deportees, Record of Persecuted Persons, Personal Documents

Language : German

Testimony of Eric Wasserman, born in Wuerzburg, Germany, 22 July 1921, regarding his experiences in the Jungfernhof camp and concerning mass murders which took place there

Testimony of Eric Wasserman, born in Wuerzburg, Germany, 22 July 1921, regarding his experiences in the Jungfernhof camp and concerning mass murders which took place there In the file: - Legal report regarding Rudolf Seck, the commandant of the camp; - Personal documentation of Eric Wasserman from the period after his liberation from Buchenwald; - Two letters from June-July 1946 telling of the fate of Wasserman's sister, Ilsa Wasserman, who perished in the Holocaust; - Death certificate for Wasserman's father, Karl Wasserman, who was in the Riga camp and perished. Personal documentation...

File Number : 8080

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Death Certificate, Investigation Report, Letter, Reports

Language : English, German

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin; Trial by the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) in Hamm against Karl Grassmann, mayor of Oelde, accused of assistance to deportation of 12 Oelde Jews to the Riga ghetto in December 1941, from 1961 Trial against Karl Grassmann took place in February-March 1961. Grassmann participated in the deportation of 12 Oelde Jews to the Riga ghetto on the 13 December 1941, organized by the Muenster gestapo, which led to the death of at least 4 of the deportees (p.2). The victims that survived until 1943 were deported to the Kaiserwald...

File Number : 159

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Indictment, Sentence, Testimony, Verdict

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: Documentation concerning the deportation of Jews from Dortmund area and Schleswig-Holstein by the local Gestapo offices

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: Documentation concerning the deportation of Jews from Dortmund area and Schleswig-Holstein by the local Gestapo offices Document (Summary): Preliminary investigation by Public Prosecution because of the assistance to murder by Gestapo officers: Deportation of more than 5,000 Jewish citizens from Bochum, Hagen, Hamm, Meschede, Siegen and Luedenscheid between 1942 and 1945 to Riga, Zamosc near Lublin, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Weissenfels near Halle and Kassel-Bettenhausen; Killing of the majority of the Jewish deportees. (p....

File Number : 142

Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, Official Documentation

Language : German

Protocol from the trial conducted against Gerhard Maywald and others, in Berlin, 1949-1967, including pre-trial testimonies of survivors from the Riga Ghetto and the protocol of a pre-trial hearing of former SS men in Berlin, 1949-1967 "Aktions" mentioned in the protocol, including: - Murder of Jews from the Riga Ghetto, 30 November-01 December 1941 and 07 December 1941; - "Aktion" Hochwaldkommando Krause I, II and III, which included executions in a forest near Riga; - "Aktion" Dünamünde, which included execution mainly of the elderly and the young; - "Aktion" Blechwand, which included...

File Number : 59

Type of Material : Investigation Report, Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Elza Weinheber, born in Krakow, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences in Vienna, Riga and in Kaiserwald, Ponevezh, Siauliai, Stutthof, Baumgarten, Leibitsch and Cieszyny camps

Testimony of Elza Weinheber, born in Krakow, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences in Vienna, Riga and in Kaiserwald, Ponevezh, Siauliai, Stutthof, Baumgarten, Leibitsch and Cieszyny camps Life in Vienna before the war, including work in a hat factory owned by her father; move of her parents to Paris, 1939. Forced labor in factories in Vienna until 1941; deportation to Riga in a transport in a passenger train, with food, late 1941; selection by the SS commander at the Riga railroad station; deportation with a group of 140 women to the Riga Ghetto; labor assignments in Riga, for two months; arrival of...

File Number : 18

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Bella (Lehmann) Strauss regarding her deportation from Germany to Estonia, detention in Stutthof, liberation while on a death march, wanderings until succeeding in reaching Belgium, 1942-1945 Included in the file:: Cover letter by Hilde M. Scheraga, Bella Strauss' daughter, regarding her mother's testimony sent in a letter after the war, 11 August 1945, letter from Hilde Scheraga, 25 February 1996, (p. 2); Postwar letter from the survivor Bella (Lehmann) Strauss, including testimony regarding her deportation from Frankfurt am Main to Estonia, September 1942; transfer to Stutthof, summer...

File Number : 4687

Type of Material : Testimony, Letter(s)

Language : English, German

Letter of testimony written by Sigi Ziering to his father regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto, the Kaiserwald camp, during the transfer to Liepaja (Latvia), Hamburg and Kiel (Germany) and his emigration to Sweden, 1941-1945 - Deportation from Kassel, Germany, to Riga, Latvia, 09-12 December 1941; forced march to the Riga Ghetto; selection for transfer to the Salaspils camp; murder of 29,000 Latvian Jews, 07-09 December 1941; - Arrival of a total of 11,000 Jews from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia; selections and transfer of the strongest men to Salaspils; - Selection of approximately...

File Number : 225

Type of Material : Memoirs, Letter

Language : German

Official documentation regarding the Final Solution of the Jewish Question, 1939-1944

Official documentation regarding the Final Solution of the Jewish Question, 1939-1944 Included in the file: Report regarding the activity of Einsatzgruppe A: Killing of 229,052 Jews in Reichskommissariat Ostland, including detailed reports regarding: 1) Estonia: most of the Jews were sent to forced labor, the remainder of the Jews were killed; 2) Latvia: 30,000 Jews were killed by Sonderkommandos by October 1941; 11,043 Jews were killed in Duenaburg, 09 November 1941; 27,800 Jews were killed in Riga, early December 1941; 2,350 Jews were killed in Libau, mid-December 1941; 3) Lithuania: 3,800...

File Number : 836

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

List of 2, 000 Jews deported from the Theresienstadt Ghetto to Treblinka (to the East) on Transport Bo, 19/09/1942

List of 2,000 Jews deported from the Theresienstadt Ghetto to Treblinka (to the East) on Transport Bo, 19/09/1942

File Number : 300

Type of Material : Deportation List

Language : German

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