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Testimony of Daniel Herbert Spier, born in Guxhagen, Germany, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto and in Kaiserwald and Stutthof camps

Testimony

Testimony of Daniel Herbert Spier, born in Guxhagen, Germany, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto and in Kaiserwald and Stutthof camps Childhood in the village of Guxhagen; life under the Nazi regime and strengthening of antisemitism, 1933; Kristallnacht, 1938; deportation of his father to Buchenwald and his return, in 1938; deportation of the family to the Riga Ghetto, Latvia, 1941; ghetto life and forced labor of his parents; deportation of the family to labor in the Wehrmacht warehouses, in the Riga area, 1942; deportation to the Kaiserwald labor camp, 1943; being separated from his mother;...

File Number : 13386

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Bulletin: Information from various sources distributed by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Committee for the Jews in Occupied Europe regarding the situation of the Jews in the occupied countries of Europe, October 1944 Excerpts from a report issued by the National Jewish Committee in the underground in Poland, May 1944; experiences of a refugee from Poland in Belgium during the war; report regarding Sobibor; testimony regarding Majdanek; testimony of Rivka Kleiner, born in Eretz Israel, who was in Sosnowiec during the war; the situation of the Jewish refugees from Poland in Romania; testimony of a female...

File Number : 107

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew, English

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

Testimony of Lea (Saker) Kusznir, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strassenhof and Stutthof

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Saker) Kusznir, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strassenhof and Stutthof Life before the war; attends a high school. Soviet occupation, 1939; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; ghetto life; labor for an estate owner in exchange for food; liquidation of the ghetto, 1943; disappearance of her parents after a selection; deportation to Kaiserwald; transfer to Strassenhof; camp life including forced labor digging trenches and in a carpet factory; deportation to Stutthof; camp life including forced labor digging...

File Number : 12447

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Protocol from the trial conducted against Gerhard Maywald and others, in Berlin, 1949-1967, including pre-trial testimonies of survivors from the Riga Ghetto and the protocol of a pre-trial hearing of former SS men in Berlin, 1949-1967 "Aktions" mentioned in the protocol, including: - Murder of Jews from the Riga Ghetto, 30 November-01 December 1941 and 07 December 1941; - "Aktion" Hochwaldkommando Krause I, II and III, which included executions in a forest near Riga; - "Aktion" Dünamünde, which included execution mainly of the elderly and the young; - "Aktion" Blechwand, which included...

File Number : 59

Type of Material : Investigation Report, Testimony

Language : German

Secret report prepared by Einsatzgruppe A, regarding the status of the Final Solution in the Baltic States and Belorussia, 1941

Secret report prepared by Einsatzgruppe A, regarding the status of the Final Solution in the Baltic States and Belorussia, 1941 Translation to English of the report, which describes the situation of the Jews in the Baltic States and Belorussia before the German occupation and at present, including numerical statistics; the organizations that dealt in the murder of the Jews, including local residents and the Selbstschutz (self-defense) organization; ghettos; Included in the file: Two versions of a map, on which the number of people who were murdered in the various areas is indicated; on one of the maps,...

File Number : 2

Type of Material : Map, Statistical Data, Survey Report

Language : English, German

Report by Einsatzgruppe A, regarding the status of the Final Solution in the Baltic States and in Belorussia, Part III, 1941

Report by Einsatzgruppe A, regarding the status of the Final Solution in the Baltic States and in Belorussia, Part III, 1941 Status of the Jews in the Baltic States and in Belorussia, before the German occupation; status of the Jews [during the writing of the report], including numerical data; organizations that dealt with the murder of the Jews, including local residents and Selbstschutz self-defense [units]; mention of the ghettos; Comments: - The last page and maps are missing; - Translation to English can be found in file O.18/2; The document is part of the Evidence material at the Nuremberg...

File Number : 126

Type of Material : Statistical Data, Survey Report

Language : German

Official documentation by the Germans concerning the partisans combat and the persecution of the Jews in the Soviet Union, 1941-1943; documents dated, 1942-1943

Official documentation by the Germans concerning the partisans combat and the persecution of the Jews in the Soviet Union, 1941-1943; documents dated, 1942-1943 Included in the file: Pages 1-2: Request from the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Amt (Department) I to the Einsatzgruppen, to recruit personnel in the occupied territories for the Schutzmannschaften of the Sicherheitspolizei, 19/01/1942. Pages 3-4: Request by the head of the Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police) and the SD that an order that had accidentally been sent to the wrong office should be destroyed. Pages 5-43: Reports of German local...

File Number : 4

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Statistical Data, Survey Report

Language : German

Testimony of Alter Ritov, born in Riga, Latvia, 1909, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto, HKP (Heeres-Kraftfahr-Park / Vehicle Repair Park) and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Alter Ritov, born in Riga, Latvia, 1909, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto, HKP (Heeres-Kraftfahr-Park / Vehicle Repair Park) and in hiding German occupation; robbery, looting and murder of Jews by Latvians and police; murder of Jews in forests; Jews attack their guards and escape; establishment of the Riga Ghetto, 25 October 1941; ghetto life including the first "Aktion", 30 November 1941; second "Aktion", 09 December 1941; murder in the Romboli forests; deportation of Jews from Germany, Czechoslovakia and the Netherlands; cooperation with Jewish policemen in obtaining weapons and...

File Number : 4048

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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