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Affidavit of Frank Ziereis, the commander of Mauthausen camp, submitted at the Nuremburg Trials

Affidavit of Frank Ziereis, the commander of Mauthausen camp, submitted at the Nuremburg Trials Methods of murder in Mauthausen and in the Gusen, Linz and Ebensee sub-camps and others; order given by Himmler and Kaltenbrunner at the end of the war to murder all of the camp inmates, but Ziereis refused to carry out the order; denial of guilt; names and the current location of the staff personnel who carried out the acts of murder, including Dr. Krebsbach, who ordered the building of the gas chamber in Mauthausen, and the Police and SS men Jantsch, Richter, Pohl and Eigruber, who murdered inmates; operation...

File Number : 287

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Ilana (Veler) Avni, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 1925, regarding her experiences in hiding in Nieukerk, Schaffelaar, Westerbork, in hiding in Hyken and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Ilana (Veler) Avni, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 1925, regarding her experiences in hiding in Nieukerk, Schaffelaar, Westerbork, in hiding in Hyken and other places Life before the war; relations with the Dutch population. Outbreak of the war; taking care of refugees from Germany; German occupation, May 1940; gradual restrictions on the Jews; hidden by a farmer acquaintance who owns a flour mill in Nieukerk; deportation to Schaffelaar, January 1943; camp life and labor as a nurse in a hospital; labor of her mother teaching and her father logging trees; transfer to Westerbork; camp life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ludwik Fleck, born in Lwow, Poland, 1896, regarding his experiences in Lwow and his labor in the field of serology and bacteriology in the Laokoon factory laboratory in Lwow and in the medical experiments block for women in Auschwitz and in Buchenwald Deportation from his home in Lwow, September 1941; labor in the Jewish hospital on Koziewicza Street; stay in hiding, and the death of his two sisters and brothers-in-law during an "Aktion", 1942; transfer to the Jewish quarter; detention in the hospital with his wife and son, who worked as laboratory technicians, November 1942; labor in a...

File Number : 460

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Ludwik Fleck, born in Lwow, Poland, 1896, regarding his experiences in Lwow, in hiding, and in Auschwitz and Buchenwald camps

Testimony of Ludwik Fleck, born in Lwow, Poland, 1896, regarding his experiences in Lwow, in hiding, and in Auschwitz and Buchenwald camps Eviction with his family from their apartment in Lwow, September 1941; life in a rented room in the home of a Pole, in exchange for 10,000 zlotys; work as a physician in the Jewish hospital, under the administration of Dr. Kurzeck; in hiding with his wife and his 14 year old son while hidden in the home of Kurzeck during the "Aktion", 1942; death of his two sisters and his brothers-in-law; deportation to the Lwow Ghetto; Lwow Ghetto life, including living in one room...

File Number : 430

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Szaja Zalcberg, born in Kielce, Poland, 1906, regarding his experiences in the Kielce Ghetto and in Skarzysko

Testimony of Szaja Zalcberg, born in Kielce, Poland, 1906, regarding his experiences in the Kielce Ghetto and in Skarzysko Occupation of Kielce, three days after the outbreak of the war; abuse of Jews, theft of property, and forced labor; establishment of the Kielce Ghetto, one week before Pesach [April], 1941; Kielce Ghetto life, including overcrowded living conditions (ten people in a room), a typhus epidemic, and the death of dozens of people each day; labor in stone quarries located 14 kilometers from Kielce, and dragging the stones back to Kielce on a train each day; selection made following the...

File Number : 305

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Anonymous testimony regarding the experiences of the male witness using a false identity in Stutthof, and during a death march

Anonymous testimony regarding the experiences of the male witness using a false identity in Stutthof, and during a death march Detention in Gdansk; deportation as a political prisoner to Stutthof, while using a false Polish identity; camp life, including methods of murdering the inmates: shooting of women, who are lead one after the other into a barrack, injection of phenol into the heart, and murder by gas in sealed railroad cars; cessation of murder by gas, three months before the end of the war and establishment of the "Death Block", Block 30; healthy and sick female inmates are left together to die from...

File Number : 129

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony

Testimony of Ludwig Woerl, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Munich, Germany, 1906, regarding his experiences in activities to rescue Jews before the war, in Auschwitz, Buna-Monowitz, Dachau and Guntergrube Life before the war; activities against Nazi propaganda. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; arrest; deportation to Dachau; transfer to Auschwitz; transfer to Buna-Monowitz; camp life including setting up sanitary services; transfer to Guntergrube; camp life including setting up sanitary services; liberation, 1945. Recognition as a Righteous Among the Nations.

File Number : 2876

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German

Testimony of Jizchak Imrich Gonczi, born in Ivanka Pri Nitre, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in Lublin camp, Rajsko, Auschwitz and using a false identity in Ebensee

Testimony

Testimony of Jizchak Imrich Gonczi, born in Ivanka Pri Nitre, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in Lublin camp, Rajsko, Auschwitz and using a false identity in Ebensee Life before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; persecution by Hlinka Guardsmen; German occupation; deportation to Poland; construction of a camp near Lublin; camp life including murder of his father; transfer to Rajsko; transfer to Auschwitz; transfer to Ebensee; camp life using a false identity; liberation, 1945.

File Number : 2874

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Excerpts of testimonies about sadism and abuse by Germans who loosed dogs on prisoners and doctors who killed prisoners and, by means of selection, sent people to the gas chambers in Auschwitz, Stutthof, Treblinka, Majdanek, Oranienburg, and Skarzysko; about the Klooga camp in Estonia and the cities of Charkow and Lwów. Excerpts of testimonies about German doctors who killed prisoners by injecting phenol into their hearts, placed the ill in isolation without water and food until they were taken to the gas chambers, and conducted selections in which prisoners were sorted for life and for death. Also...

File Number : 1464

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish