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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

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

Testimony of Czeslaw Mordowicz, born in Mlawa, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Plonsk Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bratislava and Friedland

Testimony

Testimony of Czeslaw Mordowicz, born in Mlawa, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Plonsk Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bratislava and Friedland Life before the war. German occupation; deportation to the Plonsk Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz; escape to Bratislava; deportation to Friedland; liberation. Aliya to Israel, 1965.

File Number : 3023

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish