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Publication titled "Extermination of the Jews in Lithuania - facts from the years 1941-1945", compiled from various documents, edited by M. Segalson, Tel Aviv, 1959

Publication titled "Extermination of the Jews in Lithuania - facts from the years 1941-1945", compiled from various documents, edited by M. Segalson, Tel Aviv, 1959 This file contains: Publication under the title "Extermination of the Jews in Lithuania - facts from the years 1941-1945", compiled from various documents, inter alia testimonials, witness reports, articles, drawings, photographs, edited by M. Segalson in Tel Aviv; the publication gives a historical summary and description of the persecution, torture and murder of Lithuanian Jewry, carried out by the German occupation forces and their...

File Number : 3362

Type of Material : Document(s), Newspaper Clippings, Reports, Documentary, Photocopy, Memoirs, Drawing, List of Nazi War Criminals, Photograph, Excerpt(s), Testimony, List of Perpetrators

Language : German

Report written by Karl Jager, the commander of Einsatzkommando 3, regarding the "Aktions" carried out by Einsatzkommando 3 in Lithuania during 02/07-01/12/1941

Report written by Karl Jager, the commander of Einsatzkommando 3, regarding the "Aktions" carried out by Einsatzkommando 3 in Lithuania during 02/07-01/12/1941 - Report written by Karl Jager, the commander of Einsatzkommando 3, regarding the "Aktions" carried out by Einsatzkommando 3 in Lithuania: Chart with the place where the "Aktion" was carried out (including Kaunas, Vilna, Mariampole, Ukmerge and Minsk - 40 places in total) and the number of victims, divided according to: Jewish men, women and children; Communists; and NKVD agents; and, the number of Jews who were murdered by partisans and during...

File Number : 245

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Letter sent by Hans Gewecke, the Gebietskommissar (District commissioner) in Siauliai, to Lohse, the Reichskommissar Ostland (Reichs commissioner) in Kaunas, regarding the demand by SS factors to murder the Jews of Siauliai, September 1941 The letter constitutes part of the correspondence between the Reichs commissioner in Ostland, and the regional commissioners and the Reichs Ministry for the Occupied Territories in the East, regarding the struggle over authority with the SS on the subject of the Final Solution; Request by high-ranking SS commanders Hamann and Jaeger to murder the Jews of Siauliai...

File Number : 144

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation written by a senior member of the Gebietskommissariat (District commission) of Siauliai, regarding the taking of control over Jewish property in Raseiniai by the SS, 1941

Documentation written by a senior member of the Gebietskommissariat (District commission) of Siauliai, regarding the taking of control over Jewish property in Raseiniai by the SS, 1941 The document (Aktenbermerk - a comment to a file) was written a senior member of the district (Gebietskommissariat), and not by the Gebietskommissar (District commissioner); the document constitutes part of the correspondence between the Reichskommissar Ostland (Reichs commissioner in Ostland), and the regional commissioners and the Reichs Ministry for the Occupied Territories in the East, regarding the struggle over authority...

File Number : 143

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Document written by Hans Gewecke, the Gebietskommissar (District commissioner) of Siauliai, regarding prevention of the murder of the Jews of Siauliai, 1941

Document written by Hans Gewecke, the Gebietskommissar (District commissioner) of Siauliai, regarding prevention of the murder of the Jews of Siauliai, 1941 Gewecke writes that he [personally] received from Hamann, the commander of Einsatzkommando 3, the order from Jaeger to murder the Jews of Siauliai, and that the preparations are to start immediately; ban by Gewecke against the acts of murder due to the order by the Reichskommissar (Reichs commissioner), about preventing the carrying out of further actions for the murder of Jews, [which might cause] the halt of labor in all of the large factories in the...

File Number : 139

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German