Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Newspaper clippings regarding the Darmstadt Trial against the men of Sonderkommando A-4 who were accused of participating in the mass murder at Babiy Yar and other murders of Jews, 1963-1968
The clippings are from the following newspapers: "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", "Darmstadter Tageblatt", "Neue Zuercher Zeitung", "Volksrecht", "Juedische Rundschau Maccabi" (pp. 2-37) and the "Darmstadter Echo" (pp. 39-220);
The principal defendants at the trial were: August Haefner, Adolf Janssen, Kurt Hans, Kuno Callsen and Viktor Woithon, those responsible for the atrocities at...
Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Handwritten notes regarding the trial proceedings at the "Babi Yar" Trial in Darmstadt, 1967-1968
In the file:
- Eight notebooks of handwritten notes by B. Sagalowitz regarding the trial proceedings at the trial held in Darmstadt against 11 Nazi criminals accused of mass murder of Jews in different places in Ukraine, including Babi Yar. The criminals served in Sonderkommando 4a, a part of Einsatzgruppe C.
Also in the file:
- A sketch of the seating arrangements in the courtroom.
There is more information about the trial: Yad Vashem Archives P.13/51.
Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Articles regarding the "Babiy Yar" Trial in Darmstadt, 1967-1968
In the file:
- Articles and drafts of articles by B. Sagalowitz regarding the proceedings in the trial against SS soldiers from Sonderkommando 4a, which was part of Einsatzgruppe C; the SS soldiers were accused of mass murder of Jews in Ukraine, especially in Zhitomir, Luck, Charkov, Bjelaja Zerkov and Babiy Yar. Among the 11 defendants were Kurt Hans, August Haefner, Kuno Callsen, Victor Woithon and Adolf Janssen. The trial opened in Darmstadt, 02 October 1967. Sagalowitz' articles were published in the "Neue...
File Number : 51
Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, Research Article, Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings
Article by Marek Rabij about the murder of children in Belaya Tserkov, Ukraine by the Nazis and their helpers in 1941
- an excerpt from the "Historia" weekly magazine, published in Poland in September 2017 with an article by Marek Rabij about the murder of children in Belaya Tserkov, Ukraine, in 1941 by the Nazis and their helpers:
-the trial of Paul Blobel, commander of the Sonderkommando 4a, active in the Einsatzgruppen (sentenced to death and executed); August Häfner (command post in Sonderkommando 4a); murder of Jews from Belaya Tserkov; report by priests to Division 295 headquarters regarding the...