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Protocols from pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Gestapo Regional Headquarters) in Berlin accused of murder by the Public Prosecutor on the charge of deportation of Jews to extermination camps, 1965-1966 In the protocols are the testimonies of passers-by and Jewish survivors; the purpose of the hearing is to determine whether and how much the employees in the Gestapo Regional Headquarters knew regarding the transports and the murders in the extermination camps; information concerning the transports from Berlin; -Testimonies of employees of the Gestapoleitstelle;...

File Number : 17

Type of Material : Letter, Testimony

Language : German

Preliminary proceedings of the Bielefeld District Court regarding the complicity of Ernst Gerke in the deportation of the Jews of Breslau to extermination camps, 1966-1968

Preliminary proceedings of the Bielefeld District Court regarding the complicity of Ernst Gerke in the deportation of the Jews of Breslau to extermination camps, 1966-1968 The file contains pre-trial hearings of Ernst Gerke, former head of the Staatspolizeistellen (Stapo offices) in Hildesheim, Elbing (Western Prussia), Chemnitz, Breslau (Wroclaw) and the Gestapo in Prague, and Hermann Fey, Kriminalassistent (Deputy Detective Superintendent) at the Stapo offices in Breslau. - Indictment: Complicity in the crime of murder of many thousands of people by participation in their deportation to extermination...

File Number : 52

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Investigation Report, List of Names, Personal Records, Names of Rescuers, Record of Survivors, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : German

Reports regarding police and SD activities in Latvia, Bohemia and Moravia, and concerning deportations from France, September 1941-August 1943, and evidence used in war crime trials, 1956-1967

Reports regarding police and SD activities in Latvia, Bohemia and Moravia, and concerning deportations from France, September 1941-August 1943, and evidence used in war crime trials, 1956-1967 Included in the file: * List of names of members of the general staff of the Waffen-SS (pp 2-28) * Telegram sent by the Reich Commissioner to the Commissioner of the city of Riga concerning the capture of "politically unreliable persons" (p 29) * Order to put "Operation Sommerreise" into action (22/08/1943), issued by the head of the German Security Police and the SD in Latvia (KdS Lettland). The operation was...

File Number : 172

Type of Material : Order, List of Partisans, Reports, List of Deportation From France, Deportation List, Legal Documentation, Official Documentation, List of Deportees, Record of Murdered Persons

Language : French, German

Documentation from Austria regarding criminal investigations of Communist railroad trade unionists for alleged Communist propaganda activities, including criminal investigations of Josef and Anna Schwarz and the trial against them, 1936-1937 Documentation regarding criminal investigations of Josef and Anna Schwarz and the trial against them for alleged Communist activities, in particular the possession and distribution of Communist propaganda material; Josef Schwarz sentenced to one year in prison by the Graz District Court; Anna Schwarz acquitted; appeal of the verdict of Josef Schwarz before the Austrian...

File Number : 241

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Legal Documentation

Language : German

Documentation regarding the deportation of Jews from Germany to the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1942

Documentation regarding the deportation of Jews from Germany to the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1942 Announcements regarding transports sent to the Ghetto administration - Ghettoverwaltung by Kriminalkommissar Fuchs of Gestapo in Lodz; details of the transports according to departure place, date, ages of the deportees, division by families or individuals, professions, illnesses. List of transports that arrived from Cologne, Prague, Vienna, Berlin, Duesseldorf and Frankfurt am Main, 16 October 1941 - 04 November 1941. List of Gypsies who arrived, 05 November 1941 - 09 November 1941. Receipts and lists of...

File Number : JM/805

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report

Letter of appointment of Dr. Josef Loewenherz as Chairman of the Altestenrat (Council of the Elders of the Jews) in Vienna

Letter of appointment of Dr. Josef Loewenherz as Chairman of the Altestenrat (Council of the Elders of the Jews) in Vienna - Advisory members: Wilhelm Bienenfeld; Dr. Heinerich Dessauer and Dr. Benjamin Murmelstein; - Copy of an official letter from Gestapo Stapo (Statepolice) Engelbert Huber in Vienna to Dr. Josef Loewenherz, 01 January 1943; - Photocopy of the Letter of Appointment.

File Number : 17

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Letter from the Gestapo Düsseldorf to the branch offices in Essen and Duisburg regarding the deportation of nine Jews to Theresienstadt, 1943

Letter from the Gestapo Düsseldorf to the branch offices in Essen and Duisburg regarding the deportation of nine Jews to Theresienstadt, 1943 The letter instructs the executing branch to have the nine Jews sign an asset declaration, arrest them and keep them from escaping or commiting suicide. They shall be deported to Theresienstadt via Düsseldorf. Exceptions shall not be made. Jewish names: Leopold Baum Lina Baum, neé Kohn Max Blumenthal Walter Hurwitz Thekla Lüdtke, neé Bloch Martha Meinholz, neé Leven Fritz Ostermann Siegfried Sänger (All on page 4; birthdates and birth places are...

File Number : 1148

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Handling of Jewish refugees in the city of Leipzig by the STAPO

File Number : 92

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Disagreement between the Reichsvertretung (National Legation of German Jews) and the Berlin Community Administration regarding the authority of the Reichsvertretung to represent all the Jews of Germany - Involvement of Jewish leaders abroad, among them Lord Herbert Samuel; - List of members of the Reichsvertretung administration; - Matters for internal discussion by the organizations; - Surveillance of Jewish artistic events by the Stapo.

File Number : 137

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Dr. Fritz Berger, Director of the Department for Polish and Stateless Affairs in the Berlin Palästinaamt (Palestine Office), regarding his meeting with Mr. Hennig in the German Foreign Ministry and their discussion regarding the destruction lists prepared by the Gestapo - Meeting with Mr. Hennig, the Acting Director of the Fremdenamt (Foreigners Police Department), a part of the Staatspolizei (State Police) in Alexanderplatz, Berlin, the morning after Kristallnacht to ask why the Palästinaamt (Palestine Office) was included on the Kristallnacht distruction list aimed at Jewish targets to be...

File Number : 318

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German

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