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Documentation regarding the bringing to trial of Nazi war criminals responsible for the murder of Jews in the Riga Ghetto and in various places in Latvia, 1945-1949

Documentation regarding the bringing to trial of Nazi war criminals responsible for the murder of Jews in the Riga Ghetto and in various places in Latvia, 1945-1949 Documentation includes: 1) Letter sent by the Committee for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Baltic States to Abraham Sherwood, a British Army soldier; letter regarding his participation in the interrogations work of the committee, 03 August 1949; 2) Memorandum regarding the mass murders implemented in the Riga Ghetto and in areas near the Riga Ghetto during the war, prepared, 09 July 1949; 3) Letter on the subject sent by...

File Number : 103

Type of Material : List of Nazi War Criminals, Official Documentation, Correspondence

Language : English

Documentation regarding Elsa Dannenhirsch who was detained by the Gestapo and murdered, 1942, including a passport, an appeal for her release from detention and an article on the efforts to release her - Passport belonging to Elsa Dannenhirsch, a resident of Tallinn; - Letter to the police from two Estonian friends of Elsa Dannenhirsch appealing for her release on the claim that she is not Jewish and therefore her detention is a mistake; - Newspaper clipping regarding the attempts to rescue Elsa Dannenhirsch from the Gestapo; the article was based on the memories of Aino Villandi, a woman whose aunt,...

File Number : 99

Type of Material : Passport, Article, Letter, Official Documentation

Language : Estonian, Russian

Official documentation by the Germans concerning the partisans combat and the persecution of the Jews in the Soviet Union, 1941-1943; documents dated, 1942-1943

Official documentation by the Germans concerning the partisans combat and the persecution of the Jews in the Soviet Union, 1941-1943; documents dated, 1942-1943 Included in the file: Pages 1-2: Request from the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Amt (Department) I to the Einsatzgruppen, to recruit personnel in the occupied territories for the Schutzmannschaften of the Sicherheitspolizei, 19/01/1942. Pages 3-4: Request by the head of the Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police) and the SD that an order that had accidentally been sent to the wrong office should be destroyed. Pages 5-43: Reports of German local...

File Number : 4

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report, Statistical Data

Language : German

Documentation of the Sicherheitspolizei und S.D. (Sipo and SD), including reports and orders of the Einsatzgruppen in the Soviet territories, 1941-1942

Documentation of the Sicherheitspolizei und S.D. (Sipo and SD), including reports and orders of the Einsatzgruppen in the Soviet territories, 1941-1942 Included in the file: Pages 2-3: Letter from the commander of the Sipo and SD in Vilna to the Gestapo in Tilsit, 30 August 1941, reporting that the couple Emil and Anna Mecklenburger, a man named Jagomastas, his wife and his two sons have all been “dealt with as was advised in your letter of July 24.” He also proposed arresting the relatives of these families who are residing in Tilsit, and the son Emil Jagomastas, born, 04 August 1910, who is in Dresden at...

File Number : 3

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Postcards sent to the Maisel brothers in Eretz Israel by their sisters in Tallin during 1939-1940, and correspondence between Jewish Brigade soldier Jakob Maisel in Europe and his future wife Malka Kleinbaum in Haifa during 1944-1946 Postcards sent to the Maisel brothers (scan): - Postcard sent to B. Maisel in Tallin by Miriam in Viljandi on 16/08/1937; - Postcards sent to Bebu Maisel in Eretz Israel (at the Anglo-Baltic kibbutz) by his sisters Selda Maisel, Raja Maisel and Hansi Simsilevits in Tallin during 1939-1940; - Postcard sent to Bebu Maisel in Eretz Israel by his sister Hansi in Haapsalu on...

File Number : 4286

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Envelope

Language : Estonian, Hebrew, Russian, Yiddish

Personal documentation belonging to the Peker family from Liepaja and Voru from before the war and the postwar period

Personal documentation belonging to the Peker family from Liepaja and Voru from before the war and the postwar period - Birth certificate of Shore Rohel Pecker, the daughter of Slate (Saks) and Meier Pecker, issued in Voru, Estonia, 07 September 1928; - Marriage certificate of Meyer Peker and Zlata Zaks, issued 28 April 1969; they were married in Liepaja, 11 September 1927; - Postcard sent by Zlata Peker in Werro to Ch. L. Cheifetz in Libau, 04 March 1931; on the front side of the postcard there is a photograph of Zlata and her daughters. Notes from Sarah Peker who submitted the material: Meier and...

File Number : 143

Type of Material : Postcard, Personal Documents, Photograph

Language : Estonian, Russian, Yiddish, Latvian

Letters written by Sima Meltzer in the Oshmyany Ghetto to her friend Emilia during the Holocaust period, and a letter sent by Maria Khaitina from Tallin to Miron Mekler and his family members in Israel during the 1990s - Letters written by Sima (Shayevich) Meltzer in the Oshmyany Ghetto in Belorussia at the start of the war to her friend Emilia (a Polish woman who worked at a flour mill in Oshmyany), including details about her family members and the harsh Oshmyany Ghetto life, and a request to give Ayzik food items (barley, legumes, flour, oil, sugar, salt) and other things, and their intention to travel to...

File Number : 3219

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish, Russian