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Documents from the trial conducted in Landesgericht (regional court) in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna against members of the HSSPF Lublin: Documentation of the trial, volume 53; Testimonies by the Austrian and German perpetrators Ernst Lerch, Stephan Baltzer, Johann Offermann, Georg Haller, Leo Bialinski, Oskar Reichwein, Harry Georg Sturm, Otto Hantke and Emil Thomas, 1964 Letter by the ministry of the interior regarding the results of the investigation regarding the two witnesses Jan Karski and Leon Feiner, the former secretary at the SSPF-Lublin Mimi Trsek, Franz Koskowetz, Franz Eigner, Benedikt...

File Number : 111

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Legal Documentation

Language : German

Documentation from the trial conducted in Landesgericht (regional court) in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna against members of the HSSPF Lublin: Volume 52; Testimonies by the German perpetrators Fritz Ernst Tauscher, Waltraut Emma Hanelt, Emil Pistor Talbot, Sturmbannführer Josef Opperbeck and Georg Michalsen regarding the SSPF Lublin, forced labor camps in the General Government, the extermination camp Belzec, the liquidations of ghettos in the General Government, the Warsaw Ghetto, the “Sommeraktion” in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the deportation of Jews to the extermination camp...

File Number : 110

Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, Legal Documentation, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Josef Rosen, [?] Turkeltaub, Alexander Brenowski, Sara (Kleinbaum) Ruer, Josef Ezrahi and Sara Rapaport, witnesses and survivors of the Lublin Majdan-Tatarski Ghetto and the Majdanek camp before the Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court) and Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court), 1962 The file contains: - An identity parade between the witnesses and the defendants, Dr. Harry Sturm and Hermann Worthoff (pp. 4-9); - The names and numbers of the people who participated in the identity parade, 03 December 1962...

File Number : 96

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation from the trial of Dr. Ludwig Hahn, Kommandeure der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (Kds-SIPO and SD Headquarters) in Warsaw, 1943, on the charge of murder of Jews, held in the Hamburg Regional Court; testimonies, mostly by former German officials and soldiers, regarding the Warsaw Ghetto and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, November 1960-February 1961 - Testimony of Hermann Worthoff, head of the Judenreferat (Department for Jewish Affairs) in Lublin, 1941-42-autumn 1943 and a member of the KdS Lublin, May-June 1941-July 1944, regarding the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto under the command of Dr. Hahn...

File Number : 48

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Names of Perpetrators, Photocopy, Reports, Record of Deportees, Testimony, Letter, Questionnaire, Record of Murdered Persons, Official Documentation, List of Soldiers, Record of Survivors, Legal Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Efraim Bochenski Apter, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1939, regarding his experiences as a baby in the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding in Morgi

Testimony

Testimony of Efraim Bochenski Apter, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1939, regarding his experiences as a baby in the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding in Morgi Life before the war; his father's military service in the Polish Army and desertion. German occupation; suggestion of escape from Warsaw by a German officer; sealing of the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life including his mother's labor in the Schultz clothing factory; witness is smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto by Bonczak, a Polish friend; life using a false identity in Bonczak's home; observance of Christian customs; his father's escape from the Warsaw Ghetto to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Shapiro, born in Warsaw, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, villages and on the Aryan side

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Shapiro, born in Warsaw, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, villages and on the Aryan side Life before the war; "heder"; displays of antisemitism. Outbreak of the war; move to the home of a relative; return home; German occupation; anti-Jewish legislation; abuse of his father; deportation to the ghetto; ghetto life; smuggling bread into the ghetto; punishment for smuggling bread into the ghetto; deaths of relatives; escape to the Aryan side; life on the Aryan side; wanderings between villages; labor as a cattle herder; return to the Aryan side of Warsaw; livelihood...

File Number : 12308

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Natan Frydman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and using a false identity in a monastery in Kielce

Testimony

Testimony of Natan Frydman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and using a false identity in a monastery in Kielce Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; burning of his father's shop; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life; his mother's death from typhus; hides during "Aktions"; forced labor in the Tebens workshop in the ghetto; deportation of his father to Treblinka; escape from the ghetto; in hiding on the Aryan side; the Warsaw Polish Uprising and his role as a courier; capture and escape from a deportation train to Auschwitz; move to Kielce;...

File Number : 12297

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Leib Zilberstein, born in Kolbiel, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Budzyn, Plaszow, Sachsenhausen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Leib Zilberstein, born in Kolbiel, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Budzyn, Plaszow, Sachsenhausen and other places German occupation; concentration of the Jews in the synagogue; labor collecting belongings of Jews; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto on foot; meets a relative in the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life; draft of his father and brother to labor; digging bunkers for hiding places; move to another apartment; in hiding in a shelter; interrogation at the Gestapo headquarters; concentration of Jews in a railroad station and the shooting of Germans by a Jewish...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ester (Nisenholc) Fogler, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and life using a false identity in Poland and Vienna

Testimony

Testimony of Ester (Nisenholc) Fogler, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and life using a false identity in Poland and Vienna Her immediate family; her father's work; way of life at home; religious holidays at home; school; relations with the neighbors; her father's family. Air-raids on Warsaw; escape from the residential areas; murder of hostages, including her father; escape of her sisters to the Soviet Union; sealing of the Warsaw Ghetto; life in the small ghetto; death of children from starvation; burial of the children; her brother is handed over to a German...

File Number : 11825

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jacob Gilat, born in Warsaw, 1933, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, various hiding place and hiding with a Pole who was later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations

Testimony

Testimony of Jacob Gilat, born in Warsaw, 1933, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, various hiding place and hiding with a Pole who was later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations The family and their lifestyle; death of the mother; kindergarten; Pesach at home; crossing the border to Vilna to relatives; sealing the ghetto; life in the ghetto; "Aktions"; hiding in an attic; function of the Jewish police; his younger brother stays in a Polish family’s house; false identity; hiding in a kitchen cupboard; search by the Polish police; move to various other hiding places; relations with the son...

File Number : 11395

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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