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Booklet titled, "Analysis of Nazi Criminal Organizations”, published by the Office of Military Government, United States (OMGUS) in Germany, 1947

Booklet titled, "Analysis of Nazi Criminal Organizations”, published by the Office of Military Government, United States (OMGUS) in Germany, 1947 - Organizational structure of the Sicherheitsdienst - SD Security Service, the Gestapo, the SS, and Das Korps der Politischen Leiter der NSDAP (NSDAP Political Leaders Corps); - Information regarding the Einsatzgruppen, the Reichssicherheitshauptamt - RSHA (Reich Security Head Office), the SS Hauptamt (SS Head Office), the SS Rasse und Siedlingshauptamt (SS Racial and Settlement Affairs Head Office), the SS Lebensborn organization, and the SS...

File Number : 290

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Affidavit submitted by Otto Ohlendorf, the commander of Einsatzgruppe D, in advance of the Nuremberg Trial, 1945

Affidavit submitted by Otto Ohlendorf, the commander of Einsatzgruppe D, in advance of the Nuremberg Trial, 1945 Details regarding the Einsatzgruppen, including the names of the commanders and the activity that took place in the Soviet Union; the function of the Einsatzgruppen was the murder of Jewish men, women and children and Communist functionaries by means of execution [and burial] in pits, according to an order established by Himmler; subordination of the secondary units of the Einsatzgruppen to Military Divisions of the Wehrmacht that defined the areas of the activities; receipt of operational orders...

File Number : 277? מס' תיק כפול לתת מס' חדש

Type of Material : Legal Documentation

Language : English

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

Testimony of Zeev Albert, born in Korzec, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences in the Korzec Ghetto and in hiding at home, a forest and in the home of a farmer

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Albert, born in Korzec, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences in the Korzec Ghetto and in hiding at home, a forest and in the home of a farmer Life before the war. German occupation; deportation to the Korzec Ghetto; ghetto life; escape back home and life in hiding in a storeroom; his father's rescue from an unsuccessful attempt to murder him; escape to forests; life in a forest; departs the forest; life in hiding in a hayloft of a farmer who was in contact with the partisans; liberation by the Red Army. Return home; move to Lodz; move to Germany; DP camp life; illness and...

File Number : 12328

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arthur Kostiner, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto, Marculesti , Yampol, Tipolovca and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Arthur Kostiner, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto, Marculesti , Yampol, Tipolovca and other places Life before the war; displays of antisemitism. Soviet occupation; termination of Zionist youth movement activities; economic distress, 1940; displays of antisemitism; murder of Jews next to the Prut River; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to Marculesti; transfer to the Ukrainian side of Yampol; life in Yampol including robbery and murder; transfer to Tipolovca Veche; transfer to Obodovka; transfer to the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Israeli, born in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Mukačevo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Israeli, born in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Mukačevo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee Poor large family; attends a "heder". Re-annexation to Hungary; increase in antisemitism; yellow badge; confiscation of Jewish owned property; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Mukačevo Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selection; murder of his mother and little brother; transfer to Mauthausen; transfer to Melk; camp life and labor digging tunnels; transfer on foot to Ebensee; camp life and labor tdismantling bombs;...

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

Pre-trial hearing of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin for murder (deportation of Jews to extermination camps); Testimonies by a Riga Ghetto survivor and former employees of different concentration camps and Gestapo offices, mainly of the "protective custody department" (Schutzhaftreferat), 1966 - 1967 The file contains in detail: - Interrogation of Helmut Sachs (date of birth: 25.04.1930) on 02.12.1966. Sachs was one of the survivors of the Ghetto in Riga. He was first interrogated in the trial 141 Js 534/60 against Gerhard Maywald (p 1-7, interim report on p 4). -...

File Number : 64

Language : German

Preliminary proceedings of the Bielefeld District Court regarding the complicity of Ernst Gerke in the deportation of the Jews of Breslau to extermination camps, 1966-1968

Preliminary proceedings of the Bielefeld District Court regarding the complicity of Ernst Gerke in the deportation of the Jews of Breslau to extermination camps, 1966-1968 The file contains pre-trial hearings of Ernst Gerke, former head of the Staatspolizeistellen (Stapo offices) in Hildesheim, Elbing (Western Prussia), Chemnitz, Breslau (Wroclaw) and the Gestapo in Prague, and Hermann Fey, Kriminalassistent (Deputy Detective Superintendent) at the Stapo offices in Breslau. - Indictment: Complicity in the crime of murder of many thousands of people by participation in their deportation to extermination...

File Number : 52

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Names of Perpetrators, Personal Records, Investigation Report, List of Names, Names of Rescuers, Official Documentation, Record of Survivors

Language : German

Testimony of Israel Segal, born in Dorohoi, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences in Dorohoi, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and Vinnitsa

Testimony

Testimony of Israel Segal, born in Dorohoi, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences in Dorohoi, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and Vinnitsa Life before the war; special position of his grandfather; celebrating Pesach in the home; attends school. Pogrom in Dorohoi and the surrounding; the pogrom in Iasi and the murder of his brother; burial in a mass grave; pogrom in Bucharest; deportation by train to Atachi; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; march on foot and murder of Jews who could not keep up the pace; forced labor; punishments; burial of Jews; search for food in a kolkhoz; falling out of a high tree; murder of...

File Number : 11078

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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