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Documentation by the German Security Authorities in the annexed or occupied Polish territories, in particular regarding the deportations of Poles and Jews from Reichsgau Wartheland in the context of the Generalplan Ost, 1939-1944 Included in the file: Correspondence by the command of the POW camp of the Waffen-SS in Lublin, including: 09/02/1943 Request regarding an SS man accused of desertion (page 3), 09/02/1943 List of SS men who are farmers or agricultural workers (pp. 4-6), 09/02/1943 Various letters regarding SS staff matters (pp. 7-11), 09/02/1943 Report of an offense...

File Number : 66

Type of Material : Reports, Correspondence, Statistical Reports, Orders, Official Documentation, Administrative Documentation

Language : German

Testimony regarding the fate of Tarnow Jews

Aktionen in Tarnow, December 1941; deportation to Auschwitz of about 132 Jews accused of attempting to revolt; families of the deportees were required to pay 25 zloty for receiving the ashes of their loved ones; random shooting of Jews by Germans, while the germans sometimes disguised themselves as forced laborers; during the Aktion on 28 April 1942, led by Wilhelm Heinrich Rommelmann, Grunow, and others, Judenrat representatives from Brzesko were murdered; during the Aktion from 11 June-18 June 1942, Jews who were not able to work were murdered in the Tarnow cemetery; establishment of the ghetto; overcrowded...

File Number : 490

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish