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Documentation from the trial of Ludwig Hahn, KdS in Warsaw, 1944, accused of murder of Jews, held in the Hamburg Regional Court, testimonies by German perpetrators and Jewish survivors, 20/07/1961 - 12/12/1961 Comments of the leading prosecutor at the Landgericht (regional court) Hamburg on the reliability of the following witnesses: Szlama Bines, Mojsche, Marek Levin, [Ted Aron] Back and [Mordecha] Markusfeld (pp.2f); Note of the leading prosecutor concerning the fact that witness Mieczyslaw Kamionek is not resilient and that interrogations will damage him (pp.4f); Three testimonies of witness Dr....

File Number : 53

Type of Material : Investigation Reports, Names of Perpetrators, Official Documentation, Record of Survivors, Record of Persecuted Persons, Testimony, Legal Documentation

Language : German

Reports written about the Vilna Ghetto and the Bialystok Ghetto, 1943

Reports written about the Vilna Ghetto and the Bialystok Ghetto, 1943 1. Excerpt from a report written by the Bialystok Judenrat for the Gestapo regarding the employment of Jews in the ghetto, 02 April 1943, and evacuation, February 1943; Note: One page; the excerpt is a copy of the original material dug up from deep in the ground and taken out of the ghetto. 2. Report written, apparently by Hermann Adler in Budapest, Hungary (after he escaped from Warsaw, Poland), regarding Mordechaj Tenenbaum, the Hechalutz movement, and activities of Anton Schmidt in the Vilna Ghetto, November 1943. Note: 24...

File Number : 14

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Veser Collection survey regarding the activities of the Righteous Among the Nations, Anton Schmid, in Vilna, 1941-1942

Veser Collection survey regarding the activities of the Righteous Among the Nations, Anton Schmid, in Vilna, 1941-1942 Occupation of Vilna by the Germans, June 1941; putting together Jewish forced laborers and German overseers who provided them with protection from "Aktions"; case of a German officer with the rank of Lieutenant who took care of 900 Jews who worked for him and received from them clothing and footwear as a gift, September 1941; Jewish forced laborers who gave presents to German overseers at the end of every month in order to earn the extension of their employment; spread of the knowledge...

File Number : 50

Type of Material : Survey Report, Survey

Language : Yiddish

Publications, correspondence and articles regarding the character of Righteous Among the Nations, Anton Schmid; documentation of the German-Jewish writer Hermann Adler who survived due to Anton Schmid and wrote about him; documentation regarding Righteous Among the Nations Carl Lutz, 1944-1990 - Audio cassette containing a broadcast by Hermann Adler devoted to Anton Schmid (pp. 2-4); - Correspondence between Hermann Adler, a German-Jewish writer who was rescued by Anton Schmid, and Bronia Klibanski on the subject of Schmid, dated 1987-1990, including much information regarding Schmid and pertaining to his...

File Number : 51

Type of Material : List, Article, Research Article

Language : French, German, Yiddish, Hungarian

Farewell letter sent by Righteous Among the Nations Anton Schmid to his wife, Stefanie, and accompanying documents, 13 April 1942

Farewell letter sent by Righteous Among the Nations Anton Schmid to his wife, Stefanie, and accompanying documents, 13 April 1942 There are three letters in the file: - Letter of response sent by an officer holding the rank of Captain to Stefanie Schmid, regarding the field trial conducted against her husband, Anton Schmid, 25 March 1942; - Farewell letter sent by Anton Schmid from Vilna to his wife and daughter telling of his imminent execution on the charge of rescuing Jews and others, 13 April 1942; - Letter sent by the military chaplain Fritz Kropp to Stefanie Schmidt containing an announcement of...

File Number : 49

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

"Overview from the Diaspora" by K. Klausner regarding the condition of the Jews in the eastern European countries and concerning welfare methods required for their rescue, dated 27 January 1944

"Overview from the Diaspora" by K. Klausner regarding the condition of the Jews in the eastern European countries and concerning welfare methods required for their rescue, dated 27 January 1944 Condition of the Jews still alive in hiding places, on the Aryan side, in the forests with the partisans, in labor camps and in concentration camps; efforts to rescue them concentrate on secretly crossing the border to Romania, Slovakia and Hungary with Christians in exchange for money; the problems in caring for those rescued from a medical point of view and the large expenses involved in doing so; sources for the...

File Number : 26

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliezer Englstern born in Vilna, Poland, 1902, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Werenow, the Lida Ghetto and with Tuwia Bielski's partisans in the Zurawielnik and Naliboki forests

Testimony

Testimony of Eliezer Englstern, born in Vilna, Poland, 1902, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Werenow, the Lida Ghetto and with Tuwia Bielski's partisans in the Zurawielnik and Naliboki forests Public leader in Yiddish cultural institutions. Soviet occupation of Vilna, September 1939; detention of Jewish cultural figures by the NKVD; German occupation; escape during an "Aktion" carried out by Germans and Lithuanians before the establishment of the Vilna Ghetto, September 1941; murder of approximately 15,000 Jews in Ponary; labor as a servant for Anton Schmidt, a German; transfer from the...

File Number : 3608

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Memoirs of Hermann Adler regarding his experiences in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Vilna, liberation in the Bergen-Belsen camp with the help of Israel Kasztner and more

Memoirs of Hermann Adler regarding his experiences in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Vilna, liberation in the Bergen-Belsen camp with the help of Israel Kasztner and more Move from Germany to Czechoslovakia, 1934; life in Czechoslovakia including work as a teacher. German occupation; escape to Krakow; escape to Vilna; life in Vilna; Zionist underground activities; contact with German Army soldiers who helped in smuggling Jews, among them Anton Schmidt, (who was executed for his role in helping Jews, 1942); deportation to Bergen-Belsen; liberation with the help of Israel Rudolf Kasztner and transfer to...

File Number : 2199

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Original, Memoirs, Documentation, Poems/songs

Language : German