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Lists of the names of the 134 witnesses at the trials of David Cohen and Abraham Asscher, 1947

Lists of the names of the 134 witnesses at the trials of David Cohen and Abraham Asscher, 1947 - List of the names of the 106 witnesses who testified at the trials of Abraham Asscher and David Cohen; the list is organized by last name; among the witnesses are Willi Lages, Sluzker and Gemmeker (pp. 20-25); - List of the names of the 25 Jews who testified at the Asscher-Cohen Trials regarding the summons to report for deportation that they received; the warning from the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) that the summons must be obeyed; the list includes last names (pp. 119-120); the lists are located in Yad...

File Number : 60

Type of Material : List of Names

Language : English, Dutch

Pre-trial hearing of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin for murder (deportation of Jews to extermination camps); Testimonies by a Riga Ghetto survivor and former employees of different concentration camps and Gestapo offices, mainly of the "protective custody department" (Schutzhaftreferat), 1966 - 1967 The file contains in detail: - Interrogation of Helmut Sachs (date of birth: 25.04.1930) on 02.12.1966. Sachs was one of the survivors of the Ghetto in Riga. He was first interrogated in the trial 141 Js 534/60 against Gerhard Maywald (p 1-7, interim report on p 4). -...

File Number : 64

Language : German

Miscellaneous documentation concerning 1) The occupation of the Netherlands, in particular the persecution of Jews, their concentration and eventual deportation to extermination camps in the East; 2) The persecution and murder of Jews in Transnistria and surrounding areas, 1940-1944; 3) Postwar legal proceedings regarding war crimes in the Netherlands, Germany and Romania, 1945-1961

Documentation regarding the German occupation of the Netherlands and the persecution, concentration and deportation of Jews to extermination camps in the East, and the persecution and murder of Jews in Transnistria and the surrounding areas, 1940-1944, and postwar legal proceedings concerning war crimes in the Netherlands, Germany and Romania, 1945-1961 Miscellaneous documentation concerning 1) The occupation of the Netherlands, in particular the persecution of Jews, their concentration and eventual deportation to extermination camps in the East; 2) The persecution and murder of Jews in Transnistria and...

File Number : 155

Type of Material : Lists, Administrative Documentation, Reports, Statistical Reports, Testimony, Instruction, List of Camp Inmates, Document(s), Laws and Decrees, List of Jewish Women, Circular, Official Documentation, Investigation Reports, Protocol

Language : Dutch, German

Documentation regarding the German occupation of the Netherlands, in particular regarding the persecution of the Jews in the occupied Netherlands, their concentration and eventual deportation to extermination camps in the East, 1940-1945, and partial postwar documentation regarding the investigation of Nazi war crimes in the Netherlands, 1945-1966 Included in the file: Part One: 03/02/1942 Circular by the Commander of the Security Police and the SD in the Netherlands, Wilhelm Harster, concerning the competences in Jewish questions, including the transfer of competences to the "Central Office for...

File Number : 154

Type of Material : Correspondence, Document(s), List of Camp Inmates, List of Sick People, List of Disabled People, Protocol, Reports, List of Persecuted Persons, Questions and Answers, List of Evacuated Persons, Draft, Official Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Index, List of Names, List of Deportees, Circular, Investigation Reports, Radio Broadcasts, Testimony, Deportation List, Record of Survivors, Administrative Documentation, Laws and Decrees, Lists, Legal Documentation

Language : French, English, Dutch, German

Recommendations, letters and certificates attesting to the talents of Isaac Roet, an inventor by profession, 1943-1944

Recommendations, letters and certificates attesting to the talents of Isaac Roet, an inventor by profession, 1943-1944 Roet's inventions are listed in the file, including a calculator that makes bookkeeping work noticeably more efficient; the purpose of these certicicates and recommendations was to exempt Roet from deportation. - Certificate from the Jewish Council (Joodse Raad) attesting to the essential nature of Roet's work to the Jewish Council (p. 1), 03 February 1943; - Letter from the Philips Company in Eindhoven to Roet regarding the inability of the factory to help him because his inventions...

File Number : 67

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Dutch, German

Direct examination of David Cohen at the trial held against him, 1947

Direct examination of David Cohen at the trial held against him, 1947 - Testimony of David Cohen, one of the leaders of the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) in the Netherlands, 02 May 1947: establishment of the Joodse Raad; German use of Council-generated lists for deportation of the Jews from the Netherlands; German use of the card file prepared for them by the Council in order to indicate the Jews who had already been deported; only one incident of the Council turning in the name of a Jew designated for deportation; blow to the Council's plans to rescue a large number of Jews through temporary dismissal from...

File Number : 62

Type of Material : Testimony, Investigation Report

Language : Dutch

Testimony of Abraham Asscher, one of the leaders of the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) at his trial, 1947-1948

Testimony of Abraham Asscher, one of the leaders of the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) at his trial, 1947-1948 - Description of the circumstances under which he was appointed as Chairman of the Joodse Raad; the support and trust he received from most of the Dutch Jews; attempts to end the "February strike" in order to prevent executions of Jews; murder of the group of Dutch Jews who were sent to Mauthausen in 1941, according to what he heard from a German soldier; attempts to sabotage the German plan to transfer the diamond industry to Bergen-Belsen; rejection of the claim that he discouraged Jews from...

File Number : 61

Type of Material : Testimony, Investigation Report

Language : Dutch

Summaries of meetings between the leaders of the Jewish Council (Joodsche Raad) and the German authorities in the Netherlands, 1941-1943

Summaries of meetings between the leaders of the Jewish Council (Joodsche Raad) and the German authorities in the Netherlands, 1941-1943 - Summary of the meeting between the leaders of the Jewish Council and Witte, Erich Rajakowitsch and Karl Rahm at which the Joodsche Raad leaders were ordered to register the Jewish population in the Netherlands (p. 2). Throughout 1941 a number of meetings were held regarding the following subjects: - Meeting with Reinhardt regarding the implementation of travel restrictions on the Jews (p. 3); - Handing over Jewish property to Lippmann, Rosenthal & Co, (p. 6); -...

File Number : 51

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Dutch

Directives issued by Wilhelm Harster regarding the Jews of the Netherlands, August 1943, and notes by Willi Lages concerning books published after the war dealing with the persecution of the Dutch Jews by the Nazis, 1952-1953 - Secret circulars sent in August 1943 by SS- Brigadefuehrer und Generalmajor der Polizei, Wilhelm Harster, to the Zentralstelle fuer juedische Auswanderung (Central Office for Jewish Emigration) in Amsterdam, the administration of the Vught camp and the Westerbork camp and all the local offices dealing with matters pertaining to the Jews with directives on the following topics: -...

File Number : 40

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Document

Language : German

To be translated

File Number : 487

Type of Material : Correspondence, Telegram

Language : German