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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

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 : Testimony, Investigation Report

Language : German

Report regarding the life and activities of Eduard Roschmann concerning the crimes he committed as part of his job as commandant of the Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp and the Riga Ghetto, 1977

Report regarding the life and activities of Eduard Roschmann concerning the crimes he committed as part of his job as commandant of the Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp and the Riga Ghetto, 1977 In the report there is also a description of his escape after the war, and his hiding places in Italy and South America.

File Number : 282

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : French, English, German

Memoirs of Werner Sauer regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto, Goddentow camp, Stutthof, Burggraben camp and more

Memoirs of Werner Sauer regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto, Goddentow camp, Stutthof, Burggraben camp and more Deportation to the Riga Ghetto, February 1941; ghetto life; labor in workshops; activity of various SS commanders; activity of Jewish inmates including that of cruel Kapos; murder of many Jews; transfer to Danzig by ship, November 1943; transfer to Stutthof; camp life with well-known inmates from various countries; transfer to Burggraben camp; camp life; transfer on foot to Goddentow, February 1943; unsuccessful escape attempt; capture and transfer to a prison; life in prison using a false...

File Number : 4126

Language : German

Four testimonies of Max Bunzl regarding atrocities committed by SS personnel at the Riga Ghetto as well as the Salaspils and Dondangen concentration camps, 1942-1944

Four testimonies of Max Bunzl regarding atrocities committed by SS personnel at the Riga Ghetto as well as the Salaspils and Dondangen concentration camps, 1942-1944 Evidence against Major Dr. Lange, Scharführer Tekemeier and Unterscharführer Nickl at the Salspils concentration camp between January 1942 and summer 1943 (?): More than 150 persons were either shot by Lange and Tekemeier, or shot or hanged on Lange's orders by Latvian SS and in the presence of Tekemeier and other prisoners. 10 hostages were threatened with being hanged; one was hanged after severe beating; the nine remaining ones died from...

File Number : 862

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German