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Affidavit of Frank Ziereis, the commander of Mauthausen camp, submitted at the Nuremburg Trials

Affidavit of Frank Ziereis, the commander of Mauthausen camp, submitted at the Nuremburg Trials Methods of murder in Mauthausen and in the Gusen, Linz and Ebensee sub-camps and others; order given by Himmler and Kaltenbrunner at the end of the war to murder all of the camp inmates, but Ziereis refused to carry out the order; denial of guilt; names and the current location of the staff personnel who carried out the acts of murder, including Dr. Krebsbach, who ordered the building of the gas chamber in Mauthausen, and the Police and SS men Jantsch, Richter, Pohl and Eigruber, who murdered inmates; operation...

File Number : 287

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Affidavit submitted by Alois Hoelriegl, regarding the visit by Ernst Kaltbrunner in Mauthausen camp in autumn 1942

Affidavit submitted by Alois Hoelriegl, regarding the visit by Ernst Kaltbrunner in Mauthausen camp in autumn 1942 Alois Hoelriegl served in the Totenkopf (the SS "Death Skulls" unit) in Mauthausen camp; Kaltenbrunner was found, with the camp commander Ziereis, at the site of the gas chambers while the inmates were being put to death; The document is part of the Evidence material at the Nuremberg Trial.

File Number : 70

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Names of Perpetrators

Language : German

Testimony of Franz Ziereis, Commander of Mauthausen

Testimony of Franz Ziereis, Commander of Mauthausen Translated into English.

File Number : 42

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Letters written by US Army soldier Norman Kaslowitz Winiker during his service in Austria, and sent to his family members in the United States, 06-08/1945

Letters written by US Army soldier Norman Kaslowitz Winiker during his service in Austria, and sent to his family members in the United States, 06-08/1945 Included in the file is the confession (investigation report) of Franz Ziereis, the commander of Mauthausen camp (translated from German to English by Charles-Heinz Pilarski), 24/05/1945; Comments by the submitter of the material (Linda Winiker): The parents of Norman Kaslowitz Winiker emigrated to the United States during 1915-1916. Norman grew up in "Brooklin" [Brooklyn]. He had a brother and three sisters. Several of Norman's cousins also served...

File Number : 4489

Type of Material : Letter, Investigation Report

Language : English

Two booklets regarding Holocaust memory and commemoration, one by Simon Wiesenthal regarding Mauthausen camp (illustrated, in German), and the other by engineer Moshe Moisey Gildenman, “Misha Dyadya” (Uncle Misha), regarding Jewish partisans (in Yiddish), 1943-1945 - Booklet, "Without a Mask", by Simon Wiesenthal, born in Buczacz, Poland in 1908, a former inmate in Mauthausen camp, published in Linz, Austria, 1945; Simon Wiesenthal dedicated the booklet in memory of those who perished in the Nazi camps; protocol of the confession before his death of Franz Ziereis, the commander of Mauthausen camp, after he...

File Number : 154

Type of Material : Memoirs, Drawing

Language : German, Yiddish