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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

To be translated

File Number : 2380

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Aharon Bejlin, born in Surazh, Belorussia, 1908, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz and Reichenau

Testimony

Testimony of Aharon Bejlin, born in Surazh, Belorussia, 1908, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz and Reichenau Life before the war. German occupation; deportation to Bialystok; life in the Bialystok Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; death march; transfer to Reichenau; liberation.

File Number : 2039

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Chaim Frosch, born in Lodz, Poland, 1902, regarding his experiences in Opoczno and in Auschwitz

Testimony of Chaim Frosch, born in Lodz, Poland, 1902, regarding his experiences in Opoczno and in Auschwitz Deportation from Opoczno to Auschwitz; camp life; abuse of inmates by SS men; assassination of Unterscharfuhrer Schillinger by Franciszka Mann from Warsaw; implementation of the assassination at the entrance to the gas chambers; implementation of medical experiments on women; Sonderkommando uprising; list of Nazi war criminals.

File Number : 18

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

To be translated

Yeldel, Shoshan: Testimony on his service in the Polish army in Skidel; escape from a POW camp in Germany; in the Soviet army; Zbelski and Beretski (Poles) and a Jew by the name of Leon Greenbaum(?) - war criminals at Auschwitz; murder of a criminal by the name of Shilinger by a Jewish actress; death march to camps in Germany; Itzek Gridzenmacher, a collaborator at the Dachau camp.

File Number : 1787

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

"Birkenau - The Camp of Death", 30 chapters of a manuscript written by the physician, Dr. Marco Nahon from Demotika, Greece, regarding his experiences in Demotika, the Salonica Ghetto, Birkenau, Stutthof, Echterdingen, Ohrdruf and Dachau (translated from French ), 1941-1945

A manuscript written by the physician Dr. Marco Nahon from Demotika, Greece, regarding his experiences in Demotika, the Salonica Ghetto, Birkenau, Stutthof, Echterdingen, Ohrdruf and Dachau (translated from French ) A report of a Greek Jewish physician regarding his experiences in Birkenau, beginning with the German occupation of Greece, April 1941, and ending with his liberation, April 1945; manuscript not published.(translated into English by Jacqueline Havaux, 1959). - Chapter 1, "The Invasion", 06 April 1941: German declaration of war against Greece; escape of the officials and many inhabitants...

File Number : 9029

Type of Material : Reports

Language : English