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Telegram sent to Himmler by Hermann Mueller, regarding the supply of manpower to concentration camps, 1942

Telegram sent to Himmler by Hermann Mueller, regarding the supply of manpower to concentration camps, 1942 Implementation of an order regarding increasing the supply of manpower to concentration camps; a possibility exists for the transfer of 45,000 Jews from Bialystok, Theresienstadt, the Netherlands and Berlin [to Auschwitz], including elderly people and children, 11-31/01/1943; estimation that the number of those fit for labor will be 10,000-15,000 "following the imposition of the suitable criterion"; The document is part of the Evidence material at the Nuremberg Trial.

File Number : 254

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Jacob Yaakov Yurgrau, born in Falticeni, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Atachi and Mogilev-Podolski

Testimony

Testimony of Jacob Yaakov Yurgrau, born in Falticeni, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Atachi and Mogilev-Podolski Life before the war; family income based on trade in grain; deterioration of the economic condition of the family; move to Gura Humorului. Deportation to Atachi; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski, October 1941; life in Mogilev-Podolski including his mother's death from typhus during childbirth, August 1942; his father's labor in a foundry; labor digging coal and loading wheat on freight cars; commerce; search for wood for heating. Move to Falticeni with a group of orphans; reunion...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Reports that arrived in Switzerland with an attached letter from Paul Vogt regarding the fate of the Jews of Hungary and their deportation to Auschwitz, 1944

Reports that arrived in Switzerland with an attached letter from Paul Vogt regarding the fate of the Jews of Hungary and their deportation to Auschwitz, 1944 Two reports (based on [eye-witness testimony of] Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler) regarding deportation of the Jews of Hungary in the spring 1944 and regarding Auschwitz-Birkenau.

File Number : 108

Type of Material : Reports, Official Documentation

Language : French, German

Testimony of Renia Froelich, regarding her experiences in Tarnow until her deportation to Plaszow camp

Testimony of Renia Froelich, regarding her experiences in Tarnow until her deportation to Plaszow camp Travel to Tarnow, 15 August 1941; life in Tarnow without work, and subsistence from selling belongings that she brought from Krakow; "Aktion", and the murder of 5,000 Jews in Tarnow, June 1942; establishment of the Tarnow Ghetto, and labor in workshops; her brother and grandmother stay in a hiding place during the second deportation, September 1942; exposure of their hiding place after they are informed on during the "Aktion" of October 1942; deportation of her brother to a death camp, and murder of her...

File Number : 52

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Letter of testimony of Tzilya Baltzan Kozer, born in Varzareshty, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Varzareshty, the Kishinev Ghetto, and in the Domanevka camp

Letter of testimony of Tzilya Baltzan Kozer, born in Varzareshty, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Varzareshty, the Kishinev Ghetto, and in the Domanevka camp Evacuation from Varzareshty to the Soviet Union; murder of her father; disappearance of her mother en route; transfer back to Varzareshty with her sister Sonya by the Germans; deportation to the Kishinev Ghetto with her sister, October 1941; transfer to the Domanevka camp with her sister and the Jews from the ghetto, March 1942; camp life; falling ill with typhus, and life in the camp hospital.

File Number : 3466

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of a corporal in the German Army regarding what he observed in the train cars carrying Jews on their way to Belzec while at the railroad station in Rawa Ruska

Testimony of a corporal in the German Army regarding what he observed in the train cars carrying Jews on their way to Belzec while at the railroad station in Rawa Ruska Stay in Rawa Ruska at the railroad station; watching a transport of Jews from Lwow en route to Belzec, 31 August 1942; description of the train cars; description of the guarding of the cars; repeated attempts by the Jews to obtain water; riding past Belzec on the train that same day; description of the smoke coming up and the smells from the camp. The file also contains: - Testimonies by German soldiers regarding the transports of Jews...

File Number : 1784

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German