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Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, Volume 13: Trial against Hermann Hoefle: Testimonies by German perpetrators and Jewish survivors, 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: Trial against Hermann Hoefle; Testimonies by German perpetrators and Jewish survivors, 1961 Documentation from a trial conducted against Austrian war criminals, most of whom participated in "Aktion Reinhardt": - Investigation against Hermann Hoefle started in...

File Number : 70

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Testimonies of Antoni?owski [name not fully decipherable] about the Wlodawa ghetto and the Sobibór extermination camp in 1941–1944, of Eda Richtman about deportation from Kraków to Sobibór, of Rubin Floman about various camps, of Jehuda Elberg about the Warsaw ghetto uprising, and of Pinkus about the liquidation of the amp in Poniatowa. - Testimony of Antoni?owski [name not fully decipherable], a Polish physician from Wlodawa, about the establishment of the Wlodawa ghetto in 1941, construction of the Sobibór extermination camp, and the camp's internal structure. Arrival of trains carrying Jews from Poland...

File Number : 875

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Diary written by Paulina Stein, regarding her experiences in Vilna following the German occupation, including in the Vilna Ghetto, her escape to Bialystok, and in the Bialystok Ghetto from 22/06/1941 until November 1943, and an excerpt of the testimony of Marta Klein, regarding her escape from deportation in the Bialystok Ghetto in September 1943 Personal experiences of the witness and her family, and the daily Vilna Ghetto and Bialystok Ghetto life, including the institutions, organizations, people and events: - Heavy air-raids on Vilna on 22/06/1941; German occupation of the city of Vilna, including the...

File Number : 5932

Type of Material : Diary, Testimony

Language : Polish

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: Testimonies by survivors and perpetrators, 1945 - 1969

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: Testimonies by survivors and perpetrators, 1945 - 1969 The file contains in detail: - Documents concerning a reparation case of Albert Loewy (date of birth: 02.10.1914 in Berlin) who was deported from Berlin to Riga and later to Stutthof (p 1-2). - Documents concerning research and reparations for Siegfried Loewy (date of birth: 12.04.1884 in Berlin) and his wife Emma (maiden name: Oettinger; date of birth: 14.10.1885 in Berlin; p 3-6). - Documents concerning research for Ruth Amalie Loewy (maiden name: Lefebre; date of birth:...

File Number : 68

Language : German

Announcement by the regional Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in Lublin to the central Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in Warsaw, regarding the opening of an investigation concerning the murder of Jews in Frampol, in the Bilgoraj district, in 1942 - Announcement, dated 15/01/1969: During the investigation, it was established that German Police arrived to Frampol from Bilgoraj on 02/11/1942, and murdered approximately 1,000 Jews. Some of the Jews were shot to death during the deportation march, when they were forced to walk to Belzec camp; - Included with the appeal...

File Number : 152

Type of Material : Legal Documentation

Language : Polish

Testimony of Samuel Eisen, born in Tluste, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences and those of his brother Jakub Eisen, born in Tluste, 1935, in Tluste after the German occupation, working on a farm, in hiding and with the Soviet partisans in the forests Arrival of Jewish refugees from the surroundings and from Hungary; mass murder of the Hungarian Jews while crossing the Dniester River on the way back to Hungary; deportation of his mother and baby brother to Belzec; mass murder at killing pits in a second "Aktion", with the children buried alive inside the pits; labor with his father and brother Jakub on a...

File Number : 73

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Leon Polaniecki, a Pole, regarding his experiences during the German occupation in Rzeszow and Tarnow, in Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen and other camps, and regarding the fate of the Jews in the camps Family background; education supportive of the ideas of socialism. Arrest after being informed on for his opposition to the German occupation regime; detention in Rzeszow camp, 1942; transfer to Tarnow camp, January 1943; transfer to Auschwitz; selection and transfer to labor in barracks construction in Rajsko camp; routine murder of Jewish inmates by the SS; murder of sick inmates on the spot, or...

File Number : 543

Type of Material : Memoirs, Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Rachela (Suess) Scheer, born in Jaworow, Poland, 1912, regarding the experiences of the Jews of Jaworow

Testimony of Rachela (Suess) Scheer, born in Jaworow, Poland, 1912, regarding the experiences of the Jews of Jaworow German occupation, 25 June 1941; marking of Jewish homes and establishment of the Judenrat; murder of 13 Jews, arrested according to a list prepared by local Ukrainians, eight days after [the occupation]: Mojsze Bauer, Mojsze Strassberg, Izak Szwarc, Fischel Adler, Munio Seiler, Izak Kreibik, Kirszenbaum, Majer Rath, Majer Gerstenfeld, Schlaff, Mojzesz Pomeranc, and Sauerbrunn; forced contributions; night curfew from 6 at night; torture to death of Jews, including children, for staying outside...

File Number : 511

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Erna (Beller) Landau, born in Dabrowa Tarnowska, Poland, 1908, regarding deportation of the last Jews from Tarnow, and murder of mothers with their children by Amon Goeth, September 1943

Testimony of Erna (Beller) Landau, born in Dabrowa Tarnowska, Poland, 1908, regarding deportation of the last Jews from Tarnow, and murder of mothers with their children by Amon Goeth, September 1943 Deportation of the Jews from the Tarnow Ghetto to the Plaszow camp under the command of Amon Goeth, 07 September 1943; deportation of over 10,000 people to Auschwitz in train cars with lime, of whom only 400 arrive in Birkenau alive; attempts by mothers deported to Plaszow to hide their children in suitcases; in hiding with her daughter (9); searches for hidden children; murder by shooting of approximately 60...

File Number : 490

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Dawid Kohane, born in Rzepiennik, Poland, 1917, regarding the fate of the Rzepiennik Jews during the German occupation

Testimony of Dawid Kohane, born in Rzepiennik, Poland, 1917, regarding the fate of the Rzepiennik Jews during the German occupation Army service at the outbreak of the war. Taken as a POW near Lwow; escape to his home in Rzepiennik, 22 September 1939; German order to submit all Jewish-owned furs, December 1941; visits by the Gestapo; their taking food and alcohol as bribes; deportation of young men to a camp near Sanok; frequent demands by the Germans who arrived in the village, together with the local priest named Krzemien, for vodka and [other alcoholic] beverages; demand to pay a forced contribution of...

File Number : 47

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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