Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

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Documentation from the trial of Helmut Pohl and other members of the staff of the HSSPF ("Hoeherer SS- und Polizeifuehrer" - Higher SS and police leader) held in the Klagenfurt Regional Court; Testimonies by perpetrators from SSPF Lublin, Grafeneck and Hadamar euthanasia centers and Belzec extermination camp, 1959 - 1964 Testimony of Hans-Joachim Uhlig, born 1901 in Quedlinburg, member of the staff of the SSPF Lublin since summer 1940: His activities and different operating sites; information about staff members and their activities; disclaiming any precise knowledge about the fate of the Jews and the...

File Number : 112

Type of Material : Reports, Names of Perpetrators, Drawing, Testimony, Official Documentation, Letter, Legal Documentation

Language : German

Examination of witnesses regarding the activity of the Gestapo "Jewish department" - RSHA IV-B-4; Testimonies regarding Auschwitz from previous West German trials, 1952 - 1967

Examination of witnesses regarding the activity of the Gestapo "Jewish department" - RSHA IV-B-4; Testimonies regarding Auschwitz from previous West German trials, 1952 - 1967 Note: This file includes material of the proceedings against other Nazi criminals in the years since 1952, especially in the periode since 1959ff, as well as the proceedings against "former employees of RSHA IV-B-4 ("Judenreferat") for assistance of murder", 1967. -- The central question of the pre-trial hearings of former RSHA IV-B-4-employees concerned the extent of knowledge on the systematic murder of the Jews. The file includes...

File Number : 39

Type of Material : Letter, Testimony

Language : German

Report prepared by the US military authorities in 1945, regarding the interrogation of the POW Fritz Bleich, who was involved in the Aktion T4 Euthanasia Campaign

Report prepared by the US military authorities in 1945, regarding the interrogation of the POW Fritz Bleich, who was involved in the Aktion T4 Euthanasia Campaign The personality of Karl Brandt, who was the Reichskommissar fuer das Sanitaets und Gemeindheitswesen (Reichs Commissioner for Health) and the chief supervisor of the Aktion T4 Euthanasia Campaign and [for] the Gemeinnuetzige Stiftung fuer Anstaltspflege, the institution responsible for the "mercy killing" of mentally ill people; organizational structure of the Gemeinnuetzige Stiftung fuer Anstaltspflege; Anstalten - the places of the murder...

File Number : 88

Language : German

Official documentation regarding the Final Solution of the Jewish Question, 1939-1944

Official documentation regarding the Final Solution of the Jewish Question, 1939-1944 Included in the file: Report regarding the activity of Einsatzgruppe A: Killing of 229,052 Jews in Reichskommissariat Ostland, including detailed reports regarding: 1) Estonia: most of the Jews were sent to forced labor, the remainder of the Jews were killed; 2) Latvia: 30,000 Jews were killed by Sonderkommandos by October 1941; 11,043 Jews were killed in Duenaburg, 09 November 1941; 27,800 Jews were killed in Riga, early December 1941; 2,350 Jews were killed in Libau, mid-December 1941; 3) Lithuania: 3,800...

File Number : 836

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Official documentation regarding sterilization experiments carried out on inmates in Auschwitz camp

Official documentation regarding sterilization experiments carried out on inmates in Auschwitz camp Letter of accompaniment by Bekalny, from the office of the Fuhrer, to a report prepared by Horst Schumann; report sent to Heinrich Himmler, dealing with sterilization experiments carried out on inmates in Auschwitz camp.

File Number : 459

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation regarding the extermination of Jews using gas vans, and experiments in mass sterilization using X-rays

Documentation regarding the extermination of Jews using gas vans, and experiments in mass sterilization using X-rays Draft of a report prepared by Erhard Wetzel, the expert for Jewish affairs in the office of occupation in the East, for Reichskommissariat Ostland, the Reich commissioner of the East, regarding the extermination of Jews by the method developed by Viktor Brack, using gas vans; attached letter with a report regarding experiments developed by Horst Schumann for mass sterilization using X-rays.

File Number : 350

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English, German

Testimony of Jack Oran, born in Sierpc, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Sierpc Ghetto, the Ceglow Ghetto, Birkenau and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Jack Oran, born in Sierpc, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Sierpc Ghetto, the Ceglow Ghetto, Birkenau and other places Life before the war. German occupation; deportation to the Sierpc Ghetto; decrees; transfer to the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life; transfer back to the Sierpc Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation of his father to a labor camp; transfer to the Ceglow Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Birkenau; camp life including sterilization; transfer to Auschwitz; learns the building trade; camp life; surgery related to the sterilization, 1943;...

File Number : 8181

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Aliza Baruch, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1927, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrueck and Malchow

Testimony

Testimony of Aliza Baruch, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1927, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrueck and Malchow Deportation to Auschwitz with the Jews, 07 April 1943; camp life including selection; joined to a group of young women that underwent medical experiments in block number 10; life in a laboratory for sterilization surgeries; medical experiments and the side effects; implementation of radiation experiments under the supervision of Schumann, for the duration of one week; side effects following the radiations; threat by Schumann with a weapon following opposition to...

File Number : 5866

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea Lucy Chimino, born in Saloniki, Greece, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Saloniki Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Malchow

Testimony

Testimony of Lea Lucy Chimino, born in Saloniki, Greece, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Saloniki Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Malchow Deportation of the Jews to the Saloniki Ghetto; concentration in a yard; deportation to Auschwitz, April 1943; camp life including separation from her parents during a selection; transfer to a special block with her sister; block life; attitude of the German female block supervisor; hospitalization in a hospital for approximately one month; transfer to the medical experiments block for women, administered by Dr. Mengele; life in a group of 25 young women who...

File Number : 5114

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Adelaide Hautval, Righteous Among the Nations, born in France, 1906, regarding her experiences in detention in Bourges and help to Jews in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ravensbrueck

Testimony

Testimony of Adelaide Hautval, Righteous Among the Nations, born in France, 1906, regarding her experiences in detention in Bourges and help to Jews in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ravensbrueck Life before the war; work as a physician. German occupation, 1940; arrest in Bourges; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including help to Jews who were sick; transfer to Ravensbrueck; liberation, 1945.

File Number : 2963

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : French

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