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File Number : 1222

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : English

Testimony of Gabi Gros Gonen, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Kosice Ghetto, Birkenau, Auschwitz I, Hof Auschwitz and Buchenwald

Testimony

Testimony of Gabi Gros Gonen, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Kosice Ghetto, Birkenau, Auschwitz I, Hof Auschwitz and Buchenwald His family owns properties including a quarry; life before the war. Hungarian occupation, 1938; anti-Jewish legislation; Aryanization of the family business, 1941; deportation to the Kosice Ghetto, March 1944; ghetto life; transfer to Birkenau; transfer to Auschwitz I; camp life; transfer to Hof Auschwitz; camp life including labor in horse stables; death march to Buchenwald, January 1945; camp life in the children's block; transfer in the...

File Number : 12352

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Henryk Zimermann, born in Skala, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow, in hiding in a forest using a Polish identity, with an organization to free Poland based in Hungary and other places Life as an orphan during World War I; move to Tarnow; life with his adult brothers; studies Law at Krakow University; student organization activities. Joins the Judenrat at the time of the German occupation; ghetto life including labor as a social worker in the ghetto's welfare department; help to deportees during "Aktions"; member of a delegation checking on the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin; Trial by the State Prosecutor Office (Staatsanwaltschaft) in Duesseldorf against Kurt Venter and Erich Preckel from the Duesseldorf Gestapo, accused of deportation to concentration camps of prisoners held in protective custody, 1970 Indictment by the public prosecution department (Staatsanwaltschaft) Düsseldorf against Kurt Venter, April 15th 1970. The defendant, being deputy head of the Duesseldorf Gestapo in the years 1940-1941 was involved in putting at least 44 people under so-called "protectuve custody", which led to the death of...

File Number : 163

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Sentence

Language : German

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 12 December 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 12 December 1949 Volume 57 Summing up of the evidence relating to the 17 Charges, by the Judge Advocate: (pp. 4-66) General application to all of the Charges: (pp. 4-10) Individual Charges: Charge 1 to Charge 4. (pp. 10-66) Charge 1: (p. 10) Charge 2: (pp. 10-38) Charge 3: (pp. 39-46) Charge 4: (pp. 59-66) General application to all the Charges: Question of knowledge of von Manstein (p. 5); War crime definitions (p. 6); Questions of international law (pp....

File Number : 57

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

Language : English

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 27 October 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 27 October 1949 Important note: This is the Cross-examination of Field Marshal von Manstein in the witness box: (pp. 4-54) Discussion between the Defense and the Prosecution regarding a translation of a document. (pp. 4-6) Continuation of the commissar case concerning the 11th Army: Commissar Order; Order regarding the sort [sorting?] of commissars in a POW camp; Killing of male and female commissars by the SD; Handing over of civilians to the SD (pp. 6-12);...

File Number : 35

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

Language : English

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 21 October 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 21 October 1949 Examination of Field Marshal von Manstein in the witness box by Dr. Laternser (for the Defense): Biographical data: Full name: Fritz Erich von Lewinski, called von Manstein; Born in Berlin, 24/11/1887 (p. 4); Family background: Old military family (Lewinski and von Manstein); Adoption by his family of [the name of] von Manstein; both families had served for many generations in the Prussian Army and the German Army. (pp. 4-5) Short Resume [Curriculum...

File Number : 31

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

Language : English

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 14 October 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 14 October 1949 Important note: The following statement is from the point of view of the Defense. Charge 4: The inhumane treatment of POWs: Number of POWs; There were a total of 430,000 POWs between 09/1941 until von Manstein left the Crimea in July 1942 (p. 4); History of the campaign (pp. 4-5); Food situation (pp. 5-9); Handing over of POWs to the SD: Persons in the hands of the SD were not candidates for a death sentence; Employment of persons, even Jews, by the SD;...

File Number : 27

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

Language : English

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 13 October 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 13 October 1949 Important note: Point of view of the Defense. Note: New person: Mr. Croom, Defense assistance and support. (p. 4) Polish Charges: Presentation of the Polish case, in general and in particular: Establishment of a commission by the Polish Government concerning war crimes by the Germans during the battles and the occupation of Poland (p. 5); Killing of Polish civilians by German troops of units belonging to Army Group South (p. 5); Burning down of the...

File Number : 26

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

Language : English

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 06 September 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 06 September 1949 Continuation: Charge 9: Heydrich report (09/03/1942): Arrest of more than 1,000 Jews and Gypsies in Simferopol (p. 2); Shooting of 1,515 persons, including 739 Jews in the Crimea, between 16-28/02/1942. (p. 3) Report of the town major of Eupatoria (16/03/1942): Killing of 114 Jews from the Shaumia (Shaumyana) collective farm by the SD, between 01/-15/03/1942; They are the so-called mountain Jews, called Tats; They were settled there in 1939...

File Number : 11

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

Language : English

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