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Documentation by an unknown Latvian regarding the Jewish community in Jelgava including lists of Jewish residents of Jelgava and the surrounding areas before the outbreak of the war

Documentation by an unknown Latvian regarding the Jewish community in Jelgava including lists of Jewish residents of Jelgava and the surrounding areas before the outbreak of the war Notes: Documentation is partially based on the testimonies of people who witnessed the murder and persecution of the Jews of Jelgava during the war and it includes data from the Jelgava Security Services during the German occupation; Listings of the Jewish residents of Jelgava and the surrounding areas were taken from an address book, 1935, and from telephone directories, late 1930s-early 1940s.

File Number : 108

Type of Material : List of Jewish Residents, Documentary, Testimony

Language : Latvian

Memoirs of Aviva (Nieburg) Braver, born in Liepaja, Latvia, 1937, regarding her experiences in Liepaja and in hiding in Riga

Memoirs of Aviva (Nieburg) Braver, born in Liepaja, Latvia, 1937, regarding her experiences in Liepaja and in hiding in Riga Life in the Liepaja Ghetto until 1943; life in hiding in Riga from 1943; life being hidden by Zhenya and Friedrich Kumerow in their home (Friedrich Kumerow was later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations); knowledge of the Kumerow children that the witness was being hidden; keeping the secret by the Kumerow children; end of the war. Return of the witness' mother to Riga. Also in the file: Testimony by the witness regarding the experiences of her husband, Kalman Braver,...

File Number : 8038

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, Volume 3: Trial against Hermann Hoefle; Testimonies by Austrian and German perpetrators, 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 Austrian and German perpetrators, 1961 Documentation from a trial conducted against Austrian war criminals, most of whom participated in "Aktion Reinhardt": - Investigation against Hermann Hoefle started in Landesgericht...

File Number : 60

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

Language : German

Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, Volume 2: Trial against Hermann Hoefle: Testimonies by Austrian and 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 Austrian and 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...

File Number : 59

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

Language : German

Arrest warrant against Eduard Roschmann, commandant of the Ghetto Riga in 1942 - 1944, issued by the Hamburg Regional Court (Landgericht), 1967

Arrest warrant against Eduard Roschmann, commandant of the Ghetto Riga in 1942 - 1944, issued by the Hamburg Regional Court (Landgericht), 1967 Roschmann was charged of murdering at least 12 Jews in Riga and around in 1943. The warrant contains names of Jewish victims, murdered by Roschmann: Starobin, Cohn, Fritz Satzmann and Ilja Karp. The file contains also a list of witnesses against Roschmann.

File Number : 216

Language : German

Report, probably by a German security agency, regarding the political, economic and demographic situation in the Reichkommissariat Ostland, especially in the occupied Baltic countries, including the "Jewish question", 1941 (?) File number: 184 unreadable. (pp. 1 - 2) Description of the war at the Eastern front in Estonia and Russia. (pp. 2 -3) first part unreadable, then: short description of the work of the Sicherheitspolizei. (Security police) (p. 4) unreadable (p. 5) Einsatzgruppen reach Riga. Focus on "pacification of Lithuanian and Latvian land". The Sicherheitspolizei was responsible for...

File Number : 184

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: Testimonies by Jewish survivors and an employee of the HSSPF Russland-Nord in Riga, 1950 - 1969

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: Testimonies by Jewish survivors and an employee of the HSSPF Russland-Nord in Riga, 1950 - 1969 The file contains: - List of survivors of the deportations from Berlin between 1941-1945 (p 2). - List of deported persons of the transport of 02.06.1942 from Berlin, supposed destination: Lublin (p 4-5). - Interrogation of Friederike Cohn (maiden name: Heymann; date of birth: 03.11.1894 in Berlin ) on 11.04.1969. Cohn and her family were deported to the camp Grosse Hamburgerstrasse and later to the camp Schulstrasse. She mentioned...

File Number : 66

Language : German

Trial against former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin for murder (deportation of Jews to extermination camps); Testimonies, mostly by survivors, regarding deportation of Jews from Germany to Latvia and Estonia and the history of the Riga Ghetto, 1968 - 1969 The file contains in detail: - Interrogation of Brigitte Opfer (maiden name: Kaufmann; date of birth: 27.01.1935 in Berlin) on 11.11.1968. Opfer was deported to the camp Raasiku near Reval in Estonia in 1942, later she was brought to Stutthof, Hamburg-Ochsenzoll and Bergen-Belsen (p 1-2). - Interrogation of Margot Behrens...

File Number : 65

Language : German

Trial against Gerhard Maywald and others accused of murder of Jewish citizens in Riga and Latvia in 1941-1944, Hamburg, 1959-1967; Pre-trial hearings of Jewish survivors and former SS and police men

Trial against Gerhard Maywald and others accused of murder of Jewish citizens in Riga and Latvia in 1941-1944, Hamburg, 1959-1967; Pre-trial hearings of Jewish survivors and former SS and police men This file contains pre-trial hearings of -Jewish survivors from the Riga ghetto and other ghettos and concentration camps in the Riga area; - former SS- and police men active the Riga area during the war. The protocols of the pre-trial hearings contain mainly information about the Riga ghetto, the Salaspils concentration camp, the Jungfernhof concentration camp and the Kaiserwald concentration camp.There...

File Number : 61

Type of Material : Investigation Report, Testimony

Language : German

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

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