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Testimony of Eric Wasserman, born in Wuerzburg, Germany, 22 July 1921, regarding his experiences in the Jungfernhof camp and concerning mass murders which took place there

Testimony of Eric Wasserman, born in Wuerzburg, Germany, 22 July 1921, regarding his experiences in the Jungfernhof camp and concerning mass murders which took place there In the file: - Legal report regarding Rudolf Seck, the commandant of the camp; - Personal documentation of Eric Wasserman from the period after his liberation from Buchenwald; - Two letters from June-July 1946 telling of the fate of Wasserman's sister, Ilsa Wasserman, who perished in the Holocaust; - Death certificate for Wasserman's father, Karl Wasserman, who was in the Riga camp and perished. Personal documentation...

File Number : 8080

Type of Material : Reports, Letter, Investigation Report, Death Certificate, Personal Documents

Language : English, German

Trial against Gerhard Maywald and others accused of murder of Jewish citizens in Riga and Latvia in 1941-1944, Hamburg, 1959-1967; Pre-trial hearings of Jewish survivors and former SS and police men

Trial against Gerhard Maywald and others accused of murder of Jewish citizens in Riga and Latvia in 1941-1944, Hamburg, 1959-1967; Pre-trial hearings of Jewish survivors and former SS and police men This file contains pre-trial hearings of -Jewish survivors from the Riga ghetto and other ghettos and concentration camps in the Riga area; - former SS- and police men active the Riga area during the war. The protocols of the pre-trial hearings contain mainly information about the Riga ghetto, the Salaspils concentration camp, the Jungfernhof concentration camp and the Kaiserwald concentration camp.There...

File Number : 61

Type of Material : Investigation Report, Testimony

Language : German

Memoirs of Werner Sauer regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto, Goddentow camp, Stutthof, Burggraben camp and more

Memoirs of Werner Sauer regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto, Goddentow camp, Stutthof, Burggraben camp and more Deportation to the Riga Ghetto, February 1941; ghetto life; labor in workshops; activity of various SS commanders; activity of Jewish inmates including that of cruel Kapos; murder of many Jews; transfer to Danzig by ship, November 1943; transfer to Stutthof; camp life with well-known inmates from various countries; transfer to Burggraben camp; camp life; transfer on foot to Goddentow, February 1943; unsuccessful escape attempt; capture and transfer to a prison; life in prison using a false...

File Number : 4126

Language : German