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Documentation from the trial conducted in Landesgericht (regional court) in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna against members of the HSSPF Lublin: Volume 52; Testimonies by the German perpetrators Fritz Ernst Tauscher, Waltraut Emma Hanelt, Emil Pistor Talbot, Sturmbannführer Josef Opperbeck and Georg Michalsen regarding the SSPF Lublin, forced labor camps in the General Government, the extermination camp Belzec, the liquidations of ghettos in the General Government, the Warsaw Ghetto, the “Sommeraktion” in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the deportation of Jews to the extermination camp...

File Number : 110

Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, Official Documentation, Legal Documentation

Language : German

Documentation from the trial of Hermann Hoefle held in the Salzburg Regional Court; Testimonies by survivors living in Israel regarding the Sobibor death camp; Statement by Georg Michalsen (SSPF Lublin) regarding the activity of the SSPF Lublin and "Aktion Reinhard", 1963 - 1964 Requests for testimonies Transcript of a letter by the state prosecutor at the Regional Court in Hamburg regarding the testimony of Benjamin Eichner and the request to ask him about the activities of Dirke, Bernd and Schubert (28/02/1964) pp.6-7 Requests by the Vienna Regional Court to Israeli authorities to gather information...

File Number : 109

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, French, German

Testimony of Rejza Reizia Klingberg, born in Krakow, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences as a member of the underground in the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) in the Krakow Ghetto, Bochnia, Koszyce, Sandomierz, and other places German occupation; move to Koszyce with her parents, until 1942; contact by letters with her girlfriends, and information about the fate of the Jews in Tarnow and Warsaw, and the organization by members of Hashomer Hatzair into a fighting underground; receives a forged Aryan document; move to Krakow; meets Roman Leibowicz, whose underground nickname was Laban; joins the...

File Number : 198

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

To be translated

File Number : 3668

Type of Material : Correspondence, Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of an anonymous Jewish woman, regarding her experience in the Warsaw ghetto, hiding on the Aryan side, and involvement in the ghetto resistance movement

Testimony of an anonymous Jewish woman, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, hiding on the Aryan side, and involvement in the ghetto resistance movement Document entitled "Disclosure". The author found a mention of herself in the newspaper article; she disagrees with part of the facts, and, unwillingly, she speaks out after 50 years; her name remains unknown due to the request for anonymity. The author was in the Warsaw ghetto; she managed to escape to the Aryan side after the loss of mother during the Aktion in July 1942; made friends with the smugglers and started trading food. The woman...

File Number : 3595

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

To be translated

File Number : 3586

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Dorka Goldkorn regarding the activities of the Spartakus Organization in the Warsaw Ghetto and concerning the progress of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Memoirs of Dorka Goldkorn regarding the activities of the Spartakus Organization in the Warsaw Ghetto and concerning the progress of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Participation in the union of Polish Socialist youth and the socialist Spartakus Organization before the war; activities within the Spartakus framework after the establishment of the ghetto, including participation in shooting lessons at a firing range and other activities; activities of Spartakus members on behalf of the ghetto residents; activities of the organization's Intelligence Deportment; attempts to assist people during the "Aktions" and...

File Number : 180

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Diary of Ernest Stefan entitled, "Trzeci Front - o Wojnie Wielkich Niemiec z Zydami Warszawy 1939-1943" (The Third Front - Great Germany's War Against the Jews of Warsaw 1939-1943)

Diary of Ernest Stefan entitled, "Trzeci Front - o Wojnie Wielkich Niemiec z Zydami Warszawy 1939-1943" (The Third Front - Great Germany's War Against the Jews of Warsaw 1939-1943) The diary was written in hiding on the Aryan side, 07-28 May 1943; the real name of the writer and his fate are not known; already in the beginning of the text the author is aware of the extinction of the Jews of Poland; his aim is to write about the fate of the Jews of Warsaw during the war and rescue a people that was murdered from being forgotten, and therefore there is almost no mention of his personal fate and that of his...

File Number : 158

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Polish

Reports and letters from Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews) reports regarding the situation in the Warsaw Ghetto before, during and after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943

Reports and letters from Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews) reports regarding the situation in the Warsaw Ghetto before, during and after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943 - Call by W. Toebbens to the Jewish workers employed at the ammunition factories in his ownership in the Ghetto Warsaw to listen to the instructions of the Germans and not to believe the propaganda of the Jewish underground regarding the destination of the deportees on transports from the ghetto; - Report submitted by Zegota, the Council for Aid to the Jews of the Polish Government-in-Exile Legation in Poland, for the period between...

File Number : 86

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Polish, German

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Testimony of Mirka Pizyc on her and her family life in the Warszawa ghetto On April 17-18, 1942 the Gestapo took 50 Jews from their houses in Warszawa ghetto and shot them. Among them were Mgr. Linder, Ing. Newding, Szaro, Blajman, Tekel.On July 20, the Germans launched wave of deportations from the Warszawa Ghetto. Many Jewish intellectuals were arrested including several members of Jewish council. The deportations were in the beginning under control of the Jewish police. The commanders leading the deportation were Lejkin, Erlich and Szerynski. In the end of July 600 children from the ghetto orphanage...

File Number : 1215

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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