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Testimony of Israel Lolka Blumental born in Vilna [Wilno], Poland in 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto and while in hiding

Testimony of Israel Lolka Blumental born in Vilna [Wilno], Poland in 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto and while in hiding Life before the war; traditional, well-to-do, Revisionist family; Soviet occupation; nationalization of his father's factory; pogrom by the Lithuanian Police in summer 1940; German occupation, June 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; his parents receive work cards; Vilna Ghetto life; his father receives information from a German officer at his place of labor regarding approaching "Aktions"'; his family members escape to hiding places in the homes of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, Volume 49; Trial against Dr. Ludwig Hahn, held in the Hamburg Regional Court: Testimonies by perpetrators (including soldiers from Police Battalion 61) and survivors regarding the Warsaw Ghetto, August 1960 - July 1961

Documentation from trials conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court), Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) and Landesgericht Linz (the Linz District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin: Documentation of the trial, Volume 49; Documentation of the trial against Dr. Ludwig Hahn, held in the Hamburg Regional Court: Testimonies by perpetrators (including soldiers from Police Battalion 61) and survivors regarding the Warsaw Ghetto, August 1960 - July...

File Number : 49

Type of Material : Testimony, Names of Perpetrators, Official Documentation, Record of Persecuted Persons, Investigation Report, Letter(s), Legal Documentation, Record of Survivors

Language : German

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 26, 18 July 1941 Part 1 - Reports from the Einsatzgruppen, including deployment, troop movement and activities; Notification of the Gestapo Headquarters in Tilsit, regarding the murder of 3,302 people in the Saeuberungaktion (purge-"clean-up operation"); on the Lithuanian border; Einsatzgruppe A: : Concentration of manpower and initial plans for Einsatzkommando activities in St. Petersburg...

File Number : 163.26

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 24, 16 July 1941 Part 1 - Political Events: Distribution of an anti-war placard against the war on the eastern front in Krakow, meant for soldiers serving on this front; Part 2 - Reports of the Einsatzgruppen and the subunits under their authority including deployment, movement and activity: Einsatzgruppe A: -Occupation of Daugavpils/Donabuerg by the German Army; fires set off by Jews;...

File Number : 163.24

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 15, 07 July 1941 Part 1 - Political events; Part 2 - Military events (no information given); Part 3 - Reports from the Einsatzgruppen: Among other information there was a report regarding the Ehrenhaft (honorary detention) of Stepan Bandera in Berlin; detention of Communists in Berlin; honorary detention of leaders of Ukrainian organizations in Poland; request directed to Hitler by...

File Number : 163.15

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 12, 04 July 1941 Part 1 - Political events; Part 2 - Military events; Part 3 - Reports from the Einsatzgruppen; Communist activity including the dissemination of propaganda; detention of Communists in Prague and in the Kladno district; deterioration of the supply situation in Poland especially in Warsaw; hunger; morbidity; robberies and plunder in the Warsaw Ghetto; the situation at the...

File Number : 163.12

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Documentation, including reports, protocols, orders and so forth, related mainly to activities of the RSHA, SS, SD, Police and Wehrmacht, 1939-1944; documentation dated, 1939-1946

Documentation, including reports, protocols, orders and so forth, related mainly to activities of the RSHA, SS, SD, Police and Wehrmacht, 1939-1944; documentation dated, 1939-1946 Included in the file: 23/06/1942 Letter, marked as Classified, of SS-Oberfuehrer Viktor Brack to Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler, in which he suggests to select and preserve approximately two-three million fit-for-work Jews following their sterilization or castration by X-ray. (pp. 2-3). 27/10/1943 Letter of SS-Gruppenfuehrer Odilo Globocnik (from Triest) to SS-Gruppenfuehrer Maximilian von Herff in the...

File Number : 120

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Reports, Correspondence, Protocol, Orders, Administrative Documentation

Language : German

Memoir written by Jerzy Bienkowski, regarding helping the Opas family in the Warsaw ghetto

Memoir written by Jerzy Bienkowski, regarding helping the Opas family in the Warsaw ghetto The family of Jerzy Bienkowski lived in Warsaw during the German occupation. Two Jewish families lived in the same building; Bienkowski family was buying goods un their shops; the relations with them were good and friendly. Mr. Opas ran a grocery store, he had a wife and two children: Hala (19) and Henio (11); Jerzy Bienkowski didn't recall the details about the other family. The regular persecutions of the Jewish population began under the German rule; the Jewish neighbors were locked up in the ghetto. One day Henio...

File Number : 3604

Type of Material : Testimony, Memoirs

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Selma Schebschelowitz, born in Kuldiga, Latvia, 1920, regarding her experiences in Riga and the Riga Ghetto and the persecution of Latvian Jews, 1941-1944

Memoirs of Selma Schebschelowitz, born in Kuldiga, Latvia, 1920, regarding her experiences in Riga and the Riga Ghetto and the persecution of Latvian Jews, 1941-1944 Selma Schebschelowitz was born in Kuldiga, Latvia, 1920; family background and education; Escape to Riga together with her parents and her sister following the outbreak of the war; German occupation; working in the ruins of the old city, with the prefecture and as a maid for the Waffen-SS 1941; deportation to the Riga Ghetto together with her parents, 1941; escape from the ghetto, November 1941; living in hiding, for two years; escape...

File Number : 1602

Type of Material : Report, List of Jews, List of Murdered Jews, Memoirs, List of Nazi War Criminals, List of Jewish Survivors

Language : German

Testimony of Yudel Egber, born in Kreizberg, Poland, 1901, regarding his experiences in Riga

Testimony of Yudel Egber, born in Kreizberg, Poland, 1901, regarding his experiences in Riga Occupation of Riga by the German Army, 01 July 1941; escape of Jews from Riga; murder of the escapees by the Latvians; life under the German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation, eviction of Jews from their homes, yellow badge and arrest of Jews; abusive acts and murder of Jews by the Latvian police; desecration of cemeteries; burning of synagogues; establishment of the Riga Ghetto; sealing of the ghetto, 25 October 1941; appointment of a Judenrat; deportation of Jews to forced labor; deportation of Jews to...

File Number : 212

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Yiddish

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