Documentation regarding Nazi war criminals in France, 1936-1980
The documentation was collected in light of the trials of the following criminals: Fritz Merdsche, Ernst Achenbach, Ernst Heinrichsohn, Herbert Hagen and Kurt Lischka, and published by Beate and Serge Klarsfeld.
File Number : 217
Type of Material : Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Photograph, Legal Documentation, Article(s), List(s), Text(s)
Correspondence and reports of the SD-SIPO commander in France regarding deportation trains to Auschwitz from southern France and from various transit camps such as Drancy and Pithiviers, 1942
The material was created by:
SIPO-SD commander in France
Also in the file:
- Report regarding a transport of 1,000 Jews from Drancy, among them, for the first time, children, 14 August 1942;
- Memorandum of a discussion with Jean Leguay, General Secretary of the Vichy police regarding the arrest and deportation of 15,000 Jews from the southern area, 18 August 1942;
- Memorandum regarding the start of arrests...
File Number : 199
Type of Material : Manifesto, Telegram, Survey Report, Official Documentation, Newspaper, List of Persecuted Persons
Correspondence of the SIPO-SD commander in France with the German military commander in France regarding prevention of immigration of Jews from Germany to France and from France to other countries, and regarding deportations from camps in France to extermination camps in the East, 1940-1942
The material was created by:
SIPO-SD commander in France
In the file:
Correspondence including the sending of telegrams to the German military commander in France and the Reich Defense Ministry regarding prevention of immigration of Jews from Germany to France and from France to other countries; regarding arrests and...
File Number : 197
Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, List of Detainees, Survey Report, Personal Documents, Telegram
Telegrams and instructions regarding the wearing of the yellow badge by intermarried people, and means to prevent demonstrations of support planned by Communist and Gaullist circles in Paris including detentions and even deportations
Telegrams from SS-Standartenfuehrer Helmuth Knochen, supervisor of the Sipo (Sicherheitspolizie) in France, to Ernst Ehlers, supervisor of the Sicherheitspolizie und Sicherheitsdienst in Belgium, and to his assistant, Obersturmfuehrer Kurt Lischka, supervisor of department II, and instructions to the propaganda department; telegrams and instructions regarding the wearing of the...
Heiner Lichtenstein Collection: Indictment submitted against Hagen, Lischka and Heinrichsohn, 1978
Note:
The indictment can also be found in Yad Vashem Archives file no. TR-10/878.
Historical opinion by Wolfgang Scheffler regarding the Nazi policy toward the Jews in France, including the policy of the Nazi security police in France, written, 1978
Included in the file:
Indictment submitted against Hagen, Heinrichsohn and Lischka; indictment found also in file TR-10/878;
Note:
The opinion can also be found in O.9/972.
Heiner Lichtenstein Collection: Documentation regarding the trial of Kurt Lischka, 1942-1976
- Documents from Nazi offices in Paris during the war period, including documents from the Security Police and the Office for Jewish Affairs that were taken from the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation (CDJC) Archives in Paris;
- Documents from the Eichmann trial including the personal file of Helmut Knochen taken from the Berlin Document Center (BDC) Archives in Berlin;
Included in the file:
- Reports, newspaper clippings and hearings in the Bundestag (the German parliament) regarding the public...
File Number : 7
Type of Material : Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings
Heiner Lichtenstein Collection: Newspaper reports regarding the trial of Heinrichsohn, Hagen and Lischka including focus on the continued functioning of Heinrichsohn as the mayor of Burgstadt and membership in the Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern (CSU - Christian-Socialist Union Party in Bavaria)
Heiner Lichtenstein Collection: Radio broadcasts by Heiner Lichtenstein regarding the trial being conducted against Kurt Lischka, 1979-1982
Included in the file:
- Summation delivered by the accessory prosecutor, Professor Kaul, 25 January 1980;
- Indictment by France submitted against Heinrichsohn, 1950;
- Material in the public domain regarding the trial of Kurt Lischka, from the late 1970s and 1980;
- Bundestag (German parliament) Committee hearings regarding changing the agreement between France and Germany of putting Nazi war criminals on trial in Germany, 1974..
File Number : 5
Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Legal Documentation
Documentation regarding the activities of Kurt Lischka in France, including translations from French to German of excerpts from the book "Le Memorial De La Deportation Des Juifs De France" ("Memorial to the Jews Deported from France") written by Serge Klarsfeld and published, 1978; documentation dated, 1942-1978
- Documentation regarding Ernst Heinrichsohn, a Gestapo man in Paris; letters from the Gestapo in Paris; testimonies of Jews regarding the deportation of children, July 1942;
- Photocopies of books published in France regarding the deportation of the Jews; some of the documentary material was...
File Number : 2
Type of Material : Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings