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Affidavit of Frank Ziereis, the commander of Mauthausen camp, submitted at the Nuremburg Trials

Affidavit of Frank Ziereis, the commander of Mauthausen camp, submitted at the Nuremburg Trials Methods of murder in Mauthausen and in the Gusen, Linz and Ebensee sub-camps and others; order given by Himmler and Kaltenbrunner at the end of the war to murder all of the camp inmates, but Ziereis refused to carry out the order; denial of guilt; names and the current location of the staff personnel who carried out the acts of murder, including Dr. Krebsbach, who ordered the building of the gas chamber in Mauthausen, and the Police and SS men Jantsch, Richter, Pohl and Eigruber, who murdered inmates; operation...

File Number : 287

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimonies of survivors recorded at the end of the war and distributed by the Jewish Central Information Office in London

Testimonies of survivors recorded at the end of the war and distributed by the Jewish Central Information Office in London -Testimony of Dr. Z. Grinberg, former head physician in the hospital for political prisoners in Germany; focusing on his experiences in Kovno, camps and on a death march. The testimony was presented during a lecture marking the liberation, 27 January 1945; - Testimony of a Jew regarding his experiences during 18 months in Auschwitz; - Report regarding the situation of the Jews of Poland during the war compiled according to testimonies.

File Number : 171

Type of Material : Survey, Testimony

Language : English

Letter sent by Dr. Wetzel, from the Reichsministerium fuer die besetzten Ostgebiete (Reichs Ministry for the Occupied Territories in the East), to the Reichskommissar Ostland (Reichs commissioner in Ostland), regarding the production of gas vans for the purpose of the murder of Jews, 1941 Report by Wetzel regarding a discussion held with Brack, a representative of Hitler's bureau, including an agreement to act for the production of gas vans and the accompanying gas equipment; it is Brack's intention to send chemist Kallmeyer to Riga for the purpose of organizing the production and to request auxiliary forces...

File Number : 201

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Survey regarding the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries as reported in the Nazi and local press, September 1943

Survey regarding the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries as reported in the Nazi and local press, September 1943 Poland: History of the Majdanek camp; murder methods in the camp; torture of female inmates; a female SS guard who habitually abused the women; the camp on Janowska Street in Lwow; abuse of inmates by Steiner, commander of the Vilna camp; female partisans in the "Avengers" unit; partisan life in the Bialystok and Nowogrodek forests; Bielski's partisan unit; Ehrenburg report regarding activities of the partisans in Vilna and Kaunas; Children's "Aktion"; murder of 40,000 Jews including...

File Number : 39

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and the neighboring countries as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses, September 1943

Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and the neighboring countries as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses, September 1943 Poland: Life in the Warsaw Ghetto according to a witness; annihilation in Treblinka according to an inmate who escaped to Bratislava; murder of Globocnik by Polish partisans; increase in the size of food rations to citizens of the Generalgouvernement; Germany: Executions of citizens; Goebbels' speech regarding Italy; life in Theresienstadt; Slovakia: Information from coded letters regarding the situation in the...

File Number : 19A

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Survey of the situation in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and the neighboring countries as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by visitors with emphasis on the condition of the Jews, September 1943 Poland: Transfer of inmates from Auschwitz to camps in Germany and the bringing of new inmates; murder of Polish inmates by gas in Majdanek; central role of the Jews in the Polish economy; Caucasus Region: Mass murders of Jews according to an eye witness; Minsk: There were Jews and now they are not; Germany: The harsh situation of the Germans; rubble and the condition of the population in...

File Number : 18

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence and reports of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and US diplomatic legations in Europe regarding the situation of Polish Jews, April-December 1944

Correspondence and reports of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and US diplomatic legations in Europe regarding the situation of Polish Jews, April-December 1944 Page 1: Memorandum from the Polish Embassy in Washington announcing the deportation of Polish Jews interned in Vittel camp. These Jews are holding visas to South American countries, and the ambassador is asking from Switzerland and Spain for help in providing them with protection by accepting the validity of these visas, May 1944; Pages 2-3: Declaration by the Polish Government in Exile in London regarding its...

File Number : 88

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Telegram, Survey Report

Language : English

Memoirs of Abram Mosze Charap, regarding the murder of the Jews of Kolo

Memoirs of Abram Mosze Charap, regarding the murder of the Jews of Kolo Transfer of Jews from Kolo to Izbica Lubelska; abuse of the remaining Jews in Kolo by the Germans; murder of the Jews in Chelmno camp in 1941; Included in the file: - Translation to English of the testimony of Abram Mosze Charap, regarding the murder of Jews in Chelmno camp.

File Number : 4967

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, English, Yiddish

Memoirs of Sofiya Anvayer, born in Moscow, Russia, regarding her experiences in Vyazma POW camp, Smolensk camp, in Elbing, Stutthof camps and more

Memoirs of Sofiya Anvayer, born in Moscow, Russia, regarding her experiences in Vyazma POW camp, Smolensk camp, in Elbing, Stutthof camps and more Life in Vyazma POW camp in October-November 1941; selection; hiding her Jewish origin; work in a camp hospital; outbreak of a typhus epidemic; contracting typhus and life in a hospital; transfer to Smolensk in March 1942; life in the camp; work in a hospital; transfer to forced labor in Germany; life at Elbing camp; working in a factory; helping the underground; sabotage at a factory; missions for the underground in Neuteich; work in a camp hospital; arrest by the...

File Number : 4339

Type of Material : Article, Memoirs

Language : Russian

Excerpts of lists prepared by Leib Langfus, a Sonderkommando man in Auschwitz camp, written by him in the camp

Excerpts of lists prepared by Leib Langfus, a Sonderkommando man in Auschwitz camp, written by him in the camp Included in the lists are descriptions of transports that arrived to Auschwitz from Poland and Hungary, and particular events remembered by him regarding the arrival of these transports and their transfer to the gas chambers; murder and torture of Russian POWs in Belzec camp during 1940-1941, to which he was a witness in the context of his labor in the Sonderkommando in the camp; Langfus' will, in which he calls for the collection of everything written and to bury it in various hiding places in the...

File Number : 2674

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Yiddish

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