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O.68 - Personal Files of SS Members from the Berlin Document Center

O.68 - Personal Files of SS Members from the Berlin Document Center The documentation in this Record Group came to Yad Vashem from the Berlin Document Center (BDC), which was established on 10 May 1945, immediately after the occupation of Berlin by the Allied forces. The purpose of the BDC was to concentrate the archival documentation of the German government institutions, the Nazi party and the organizations associated with the party. The Collection was officially returned to German ownership in the 1990s. The documentation in this Record Group came to Yad Vashem from the Berlin Document Center...

Type of Material : Personal Records, Official Documentation

Language : German

The Holocaust of Jews from Ropczyce. Eugeniusz Antoni Taras in "Znak", Krakow, Nr. 5-6, 1988

"The Holocaust of the Ropczyce Jews" by. Eugeniusz Antoni Taras published in "Znak", Krakow, Nr. 5-6, 1988 The history of the Ropczyce Jews till the outbreak of WWII. Anti- Jewish measures enforced since the begining of German occupation, which escalated fast. From the marking of their shops and houses, humilition and abuse, plunder of Jewish property to, forced labor to mass killings and deportation to death camps.In February 1940, 130 young Jews from Ropczyce were deported to Debica forced labor camp. In the spring of 1940 most of the Jewish population from Ropczyce was deported to Pustkow, where the...

File Number : 2412

Type of Material : Article, Memoirs Literature, Survey

Language : Polish

Testimony of Chana Goldberg (Zang), born in Lublin, Poland, 1920, regarding her experience in Jastkow and Dorohucza labor camps, and hiding in villages

Testimony of Chana Goldberg (Zang), born in Lublin, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Jastkow and Dorohucza labor camps, and hiding in villages Chana Goldberg lived in Lublin with her family: father - Aron Lejb Zang, mother - Cypora Rotblit and 3 brothers - Eliachu, Mordechai (killed by Germans in Lithuania later) and Pinchas. When the Germans entered Lublin, the captures of people for forced labor has begun. In May 1940 13 Jews and 3 Poles were shot (with Chana's boyfriend, her uncle and his son-in-law among others). Thousands, including Chana's father and brother Pinchas, died during typhus...

File Number : 2092

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Investigation report regarding Dr. Hugo Roessner, born in St. Johann, Styria, 1908, prepared by the Austrian criminal investigation department concerning Roessner's role in the Neo-Nazi Soucek-Rössner plot, 1947 - Investigation report regarding Dr. Hugo Roessner, born in St. Johann, Styria, 1908, prepared by the Austrian criminal investigation department concerning Roessner's role in the Neo-Nazi so-called Soucek-Rössner plot, 1947; - Roessner, along with another 200 former Nazis, including Theodor Soucek, Friedrich Schiller (both Waffen SS officers) and Sigfried Ueberreither (Gauleiter), attempted to...

File Number : 824

Type of Material : Investigation Reports

Language : German

Survey of Treblinka, January 1943-08 February 1943

Survey of Treblinka, January 1943-08 February 1943 Description of the camp by the survivors who succeeded in escaping from the camp; establishment of the Treblinka concentration camp, 1940; conversion of the concentration camp into an extermination camp, March 1942; stages in construction of the camp; setting up facilities for extermination; Sauer's tenure as camp commandant; tenure of SS men and Ukrainians as staff people at the camp; murder of Jews in gas chambers in the camp. Notes: - Published in "Glosu Warszawy" - Copy of the original material dug up from deep in the gorund and taken out of the...

File Number : 20

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Testimony of Regina Wilder, born in Drohobycz, Poland, 1914, regarding her experiences in Drohobycz and in Germany

Testimony of Regina Wilder, born in Drohobycz, Poland, 1914, regarding her experiences in Drohobycz and in Germany Occupation of Drohobycz by the German Army, 25 June 1941; riots against the Jews including abuse and murder of Jews by Poles and Ukrainians, 27 June 1941; establishment of a Judenrat led by Dr. Rosenblatt; Dr. Bernfeld's term of office as Judenrat treasurer; life under the German occupation including robbery of property and yellow badge; murder of Jews, including Professor Szymon Epstein; deportation of approximately 800 Jews including children and women to an unknown destination; "Aktion", 08...

File Number : 170

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Documentation by SS and Police authorities concerning service matters regarding SS man and police officer Gunther Kloss in the Galicia region, 1940-1943

Documentation by SS and Police authorities concerning service matters regarding SS man and police officer Gunther Kloss in the Galicia region, 1940-1943 Included in the file: Documentation regarding SS man and police officer Guenther Kloss, concerning his being moved from the Police Department in Lemberg (Lwow) to Danzig (Gdansk), as well as regarding the proposal for his promotion to the rank of a Hauptwachtmeister (police-constable): "... during his service in my unit, the SS and Police Command in Galicia, during 05/08/1941-16/02/1942 and 06/09/1942-16/07/1943, Kloss took part several times in...

File Number : 70

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation by the German Security Authorities in the annexed or occupied Polish territories, in particular regarding the deportations of Poles and Jews from Reichsgau Wartheland in the context of the Generalplan Ost, 1939-1944 Included in the file: Correspondence by the command of the POW camp of the Waffen-SS in Lublin, including: 09/02/1943 Request regarding an SS man accused of desertion (page 3), 09/02/1943 List of SS men who are farmers or agricultural workers (pp. 4-6), 09/02/1943 Various letters regarding SS staff matters (pp. 7-11), 09/02/1943 Report of an offense...

File Number : 66

Type of Material : Orders, Administrative Documentation, Correspondence, Statistical Reports, Official Documentation, Reports

Language : German

זיכרונותיו של Richard Glazer, יליד Prague ב- 29/11/1920, על תקופת שהותו במחנה Treblinka ועל השתתפותו במרד Treblinka בשנים 1942- 1943

File Number : 1152

Type of Material : Article, Article, Correspondence

Language : Czech, English

עדויות אחדות על רצח האסירים במחנות GOTHA ו-GARDELEGEN

File Number : 1257

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Article, Letter, Testimony, Memoirs

Language : English, German, Yiddish

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