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Card file of survivors, prepared by the Jewish Historical Documentation Center, Linz, based on questionnaires of survivors, 1946-1949

File Number : 838

Type of Material : List of Survivors, Card File

Language : German

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin for murder (deportation of Jews to extermination camps): Examination of Josef Kania and Josef Kirchhoff, other former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin and Berlin Jewish survivors, 1964 - 1965 The file includes i. A.: - Pre-trial hearing of Josef Kania and Josef Kirchhoff, who were accused to have of working for Section IV-C-3 (=Section for confiscation, administration and seizure of Jewish property); pp. 133-139; 184-190.- Testimonies with information on the participation of former members ...

File Number : 6

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: Testimonies by survivors and perpetrators, 1959 - 1970

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: Testimonies by survivors and perpetrators, 1959 - 1970 The file contains in detail: - Remark of the Attorney Berlin of 31.03.1970 concerning the wittnesses Curt Naumann, Erich Loewenheim and Anni Kronheim (p 1). - Research for and Interrogations of Rudolf aus den Ruthen (date of birth: 09.05.1913 in Bremen), former SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer and editor of "Das schwarze Corps" newspaper concerning the assembly camp "Clou" in Berlin, 20-21.05.1970. (p 2-8). - Testimonies of Erich Moehrs concerning SS-General Kammler and the anti-Nazi...

File Number : 96

Language : German

Testimony of Jakub Trzcina, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Budzin, Mielec, Flossenbuerg and Mauthausen

Testimony

Testimony of Jakub Trzcina, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Budzin, Mielec, Flossenbuerg and Mauthausen Hasidic family; attends a "heder" and a rabbinical "Beit Midrash" (religious study hall); studies economics at the University of Warsaw; displays of antisemitism; membership inf Beitar youth movement; Zionist activities; activities in the Revenge resistance group; establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life; Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Pesach 1943; deportation to Budzin; life in Budzin including forced labor in an aircraft factory; transfer to Mielec; transfer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Interview of Simon Wiesenthal by Dr. Herbert Rosenkranz, regarding the organizational restructure of Jewish life in Austria after 1945, including the establishment of a historical commission and the first attempts to register Holocaust survivors in Europe; interview held at Yad Vashem, 01 December 1986 - Interview of Simon Wiesenthal by Dr. Herbert Rosenkranz regarding the organizational restructure of Jewish life in Austria after 1945, including the establishment of a historical commission, political committees and territorial associations, as well as the first attempts to register Holocaust survivors in...

File Number : 837

Type of Material : Interview(s)

Language : German

Official and legal documentation regarding legal steps taken to achieve the forfeiture of Nazi assets and property in Austria, including Mauterndorf Castle belonging to Hermann Göring and property belonging to Martin Bormann in Braunau, and regarding various Nazis, 1947-1952 Included in the file: - Expropriation proceedings; - Assessment by experts; - Details regarding Hermann Göring's family background, Jewish family members and his relationship with Hermann Epenstein; - Details regarding a top-secret conference of Nazi industrials, held in the "Rotes Haus" Hotel in Strasburg, 10 August 1944,...

File Number : 827

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Official Documentation, Newspaper

Language : German

Official and legal documentation including a top-secret report regarding the rebuilding of a Nazi organization in Austria after the war, and information regarding suspected Nazi war criminals Josef Breitfuss and Walter Gierlinger (unsigned and undated) Included in the file: - Top-secret report regarding the rebuilding of a Nazi organization in Austria after the war; [organization's] structure and objectives; involvement of former high-ranking SS officers and other leading Nazi figures including Major Mandl, who served under Eichmann and is known under his code name "UHU"; involvement of the German Secret...

File Number : 823

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Legal Documentation

Language : German

Testimonies regarding the conduct of Wehrmacht soldiers after the German Army occupation of cities in Poland, Latvia, Ukraine and Belorussia, including the testimony of Simon Wiesenthal; detailed account of the Wehrmacht atrocities, occasionally in collaboration with the local population; testimonies given, 1948 Included in the file: 1) Testimony of Simon Wiesenthal, 17 March 1948, regarding the German Army occupation of Lemberg and the Wehrmacht atrocities, including the humiliation, torture, abuse, looting, enslavement and murder of Jews; shooting of 200 Jews at the site of the former Bregitki prison...

File Number : 818

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Appeal for witnesses to testify against suspected war criminals who tortured and murdered Jews, in particular in Lwow, Stryj, Krakow, Radom and Borislaw; list of 20 perpetrators (SS, SD, and Schupo), prepared, 1948 Unclear origin of the list, along with its place of publication or to whom it was sent; included under each name are various details regarding the suspect's place of activity and the alleged criminal activities; The names of the suspected war criminals are: Ferroli Wippert and comrades Tessar, Franz Janku, Perkonig and comrades Hartmann, Josef Strasser, Ferdinand Kessler,...

File Number : 817

Language : German

List of perpetrators sentenced by the People's Court of Vienna for "harming Jews" (Judenschädigung), and additional material regarding Austrian war criminals, 1945-1948

List of perpetrators sentenced by the People's Court of Vienna for "harming Jews" (Judenschädigung), and additional material regarding Austrian war criminals, 1945-1948 Included in the file: - List of perpetrators sentenced by the People's Court of Vienna for "harming Jews" (Judenschädigung), in addition to individually specified penalties for the loss of all properties and assets for the benefit of the Austrian Republic, 1945-1948; - Memorandum regarding the expropriation and confiscation of property of war criminals and Nazi activists; - Four lists of [mainly] Austrian war criminals.

File Number : 816

Language : German

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