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Reports prepared by the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) in Hesse-Nassau, regarding the persecution of local Jews, 17/11/1934-28/10/1938 Reports regarding various incidents of persecution of Jews in the Hesse-Nassau area, including: - Ban on making purchases in Jewish businesses; registration and photographing of people who violate the ban; imposition of economic sanctions on violators of the ban; - Ban on the sale, supply or giving of all other services to Jews and Jewish businesses; registration and photographing of people who...

File Number : JM/28890

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Brochure, Newspaper Clippings

Language : German

Testimony of Miriam Marila Liber Prague née Kostin, born in 1921 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, in Hungary, with the partisans in Yugoslavia, and as a forced laborer in Germany

Life before the war; German occupation ensues; dispossession; deportation to the Warsaw ghetto; life in the ghetto; escaping to the "Aryan" side with help of forged papers; marrying; escaping to Lwów; escaping back to Warsaw; escaping to Hungary; receiving privileges from the Polish Consulate; escaping to Yugoslavia; joining the partisans in March 1944; sabotaging a railroad track; arrested by the Germans and taken to Germany; working in a factory that manufactures spare parts for tanks; posing as a Croat; receiving extra privileges; liberated by American forces; reaching Buchenwald; encountering Holocaust...

File Number : 13612

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of the Special Court (Sondergericht) in Munich

Documentation of the Special Court (Sondergericht) in Munich The Special Court (Sondergericht) in Munich was one of the regional courts of law established in Germany to try charges of crimes against the Nazi regime and Nazi ideology. The collection includes files of trials and investigation proceedings against Jewish and non-Jewish Germans who were charged with crimes, such as expressing criticism of the Reich and its leaders and the Reich's attitude toward the Jews, and "race defilement" crimes. The Special Courts (Sondergerichte) were established in the spring of 1933. At first, 25 courts of this...

Type of Material : Legal Documentation

Language : German

Documentation from the trial of Hermann Hoefle held in the Salzburg Regional Court; Testimonies by survivors living in Israel regarding the Sobibor death camp; Statement by Georg Michalsen (SSPF Lublin) regarding the activity of the SSPF Lublin and "Aktion Reinhard", 1963 - 1964 Requests for testimonies Transcript of a letter by the state prosecutor at the Regional Court in Hamburg regarding the testimony of Benjamin Eichner and the request to ask him about the activities of Dirke, Bernd and Schubert (28/02/1964) pp.6-7 Requests by the Vienna Regional Court to Israeli authorities to gather information...

File Number : 109

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

Language : Hebrew, French, German

Documentation regarding sterilization and the termination of pregnancy in cases of hereditary illnesses and "Race Defilement", and Police orders for the arrest or release of asocial people, 1935-1942

Documentation regarding sterilization and the termination of pregnancy in cases of hereditary illnesses and "Race Defilement", and Police orders for the arrest or release of asocial people, 1935-1942 - Directive regarding the implementation of the Gesetz zur Verhuetung Erbkranken Nachwuschses (Law for Sterilization due to Hereditary Illnesses), including establishing the obligation for silence imposed on the physicians, as well as the clerks, who receive information regarding these surgeries in the context of their position, 28/06/1935 (page 1); - Directive by the Bavarian Office of the Interior,...

File Number : 284

Type of Material : Laws and Decrees, Official Documentation

Language : German

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin, 1964-1965: Testimonies by perpetrators and Jewish survivors regarding the Lodz Ghetto and the deportation from Berlin to Lodz, 1945 - 1968 Note: This file includes not only material of the proceedings against former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle, but also memoirs of a Jewish survivor from Berlin and material of other proceedings against Nazi Criminals in the years since 1956. The recording of these material here was in order to substantiate the evidences against former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle. The file includes...

File Number : 41

Type of Material : Testimony, Diaries and Memoirs, Reports, Letter, List of Names

Language : German

Testimonies by the Jewish Auschwitz survivors Otto Wolken and Hans-Peter Messerschmidt; Petition to the court by Bovensiepen's lawyer for his release, 1945, 1968

Testimonies by the Jewish Auschwitz survivors Otto Wolken and Hans-Peter Messerschmidt; Petition to the court by Bovensiepen's lawyer for his release, 1945, 1968 The file includes i.A.: - Petition (dated on 04/03/1945) of Dr Otto Wolken, a Jewish physican and Auschwitz survivor, to the "international public" in order to accuse Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and all other Nazi criminals of systematical murdering of "millions of Jews", detailed information on Auschwitz: pp 1-6 - Testimony of -above mentionend- Dr Otto Wolken in front of a Polish commision: Wolken, an Austrian social-democrate, was arrested...

File Number : 36

Type of Material : Letter, Testimony

Language : German

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin for murder (deportation of Jews to extermination camps): Examination of Berlin Jewish survivors and former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) in Berlin, Lodz and Duesseldorf concerning deportation of Jews and mixed families from Berlin and Duesseldorf, 1962 - 1968 Note: This file includes not only material of the proceedings against former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle, but also of the proceedings against former employees of the RSHA for murder (1967f) and of other proceedings against Nazi criminals...

File Number : 44

Type of Material : Letter, Testimony

Language : German

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests and trials, 12 December 1942 - 16 July 1943

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests and trials, 12 December 1942 - 16 July 1943 Among other items in the report: Information about Transport Number J 14 with 17 Jews deported by train to Theresienstadt, 15 July. Arrest of a Jew who hid from deportation and hid his origins; release of a Mischling after being reprimanded and forbidden to remain in the Melk area on the charge of "race defilement" (his arrest is also reported on in YVA file no. M.69 3579 = item no. 4013195) (p. 4). The file also contains a report of the sentencing of a Communist to death; report regarding Communist activity; the...

File Number : 3580

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Survey Report

Language : German

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests, 11 September 1942 - 05 October 1942

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests, 11 September 1942 - 05 October 1942 Transport Number 44 with 549 Jews deported by train to Minsk, the Soviet Union, from the Aspang station in Vienna, 05 October 1942. Arrests of the following persons: - A Jewish woman and two Austrians, the parents of her husband, who hid her in their home, confiscation of the Jewish woman's property and the Jewish woman's deportation to an assembly camp for those to be deported; - Deportation of two Jews who had hidden from deportation to the East; - Arrest of a converted Jewish woman for expressing hope for a...

File Number : 3501

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Survey Report

Language : German

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