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  1. War atrocities; exhumation of bodies

    War Atrocities, Dortmund, Germany, April 30, 1945. INTs, sick and tubercular slave laborers in hospital beds at former German concentration camp. MSs, US doctors and medics care for the sick. CUs, doctor treats severe head wound. CUs, various sick prisoners, many with wounds and bruises. The majority of the prisoners are emaciated. Exhumation of Bodies, Landwehr (sp?), Germany, April 30, 1945. HSs, MSs, CUs, former Nazi Gestapo agents and civilians remove bodies of murdered political prisoners from mass grave. MSs, entrance to cave where prisoners were held before their assassination. CUs, ...

  2. Autopsies, human skin discussed at Nuremberg Trial

    War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 11, 1946. Thomas J. Dodd continues reading Dr. Franz Blaha's signed affidavit which tells of the Gestapo forcing him to work in the autopsy room. Dr. Blaha performed 7000 autopsies during his stay. He filled many requests for human skin that was cured in the sun and used for making saddles, gloves, and ladies' handbags. In his testimony, Dr. Blaha identifies Wilhelm Frick and Alfred Rosenberg, whom he saw touring the Dachau camp.

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  4. Col. Joseph Albert Meisinger (Butcher of Warsaw) surrenders

    Butcher of Warsaw, Kawaguchi, Japan, September 6, 1945. MSs, Gestapo Col Joseph Albert Meisinger, known as the "Butcher of Warsaw," walking into deserted dining room of Fuji Hotel and surrendering to war correspondents. CUs, MSs, correspondents interrogating Meisinger. MSs, CUs, Meisinger is shown to jeep by correspondents and escorted by them as they drive along road. CUs, Meisinger. Mitsubishi Aircraft and Engine Works, Nagoya, Japan, September 7, 1945. VS, US officer with Japanese civilians inspecct the aircraft plant. Scenes showing complete destruction of factory and equipment. AV, wre...

  5. Alexander Primavesi papers

    The Alexander Primavesi papers contain German reports written by Alexander Primavesi relating to activities of the Gestapo in Dortmund, Germany between 1933 and 1945. The papers include records relating to the development of the Westphalian state police office in Dortmund, Arnsberg, forced labor, persecution of Jews, religious communities and other minorities in the district of Arnsberg. The Alexander Primavesi papers primarily contain German reports written by Alexander Primavesi concerning Gestapo activity in Dortmund Germany from 1933-1945. The contents of each report are as follows: Fol...

  6. Walka Wiery Gran z Cieniami

    Consists of a Polish translation of an affidavit given in Tel Aviv in 1971 regarding Polish singer Wiera Gran. In the affidavit, the unidentified claimant accuses Ms. Gran of collaborating with the Gestapo responsible for the Warsaw ghetto.

  7. Von Tohathy affidavit

    Contains an affidavit dated Sep. 8, 1943, written by Ludwig Victor von Tohathy. The affidavit indicates that Mr. von Tohathy was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in October 1941 by the Gestapo.

  8. Ernest Kaufman papers

    1. Ernest Kaufman collection

    Photostats of "Kennkarte" for Ernst Kaufmann, and photocopy of his certificate of release from Gestapo prison in Aachen, November 1938. Also, photocopy of typescript translation of an article by Nobel laureate Heinrich Boell, titled "The Jews of Drove."

  9. Polizeipräsident in Stettin Prezydium Policji w Szczecinie (Sygn. 93)

    Records created by the General Department and Department on Foreigners of the Police President in the province of Pomerania (Stettin), which supervised lower level entities: including regencies and counties. This collection contains orders and correspondence of the Gestapo related to foreigners, and records of the Department on Foreigners with the card files of foreigners, mainly Polish and Jewish people. Includes regulation for Germans how to behave towards Polish workers, name lists of Polish workers, indexes of private firms employed Polish workers, a list of foreigners sought by the Ges...

  10. Kommandeur der SIPO und SD für den Distrikt Radom records (Sygn.184)

    Contains information about the activities of the police and Gestapo in the area of Radom, including investigations of members of various underground movements, the organization of the Gestapo, the investigation of Communists, and prisoners found guilty of resistance who were sentenced to concentration camps.

  11. Komendant policji bezpieczeństwa i służby bezpieczeństwa Dystryktu Krakowskiego Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienst für den Distrikt Krakau (Sygn. GK 678)

    Contains personnel files of the officers of KdS Distrikt Krakau (Commander for the Cracow region of the Security Police [Sicherheits­polizeiand] and the Intelligence Service [Sicherheits­dienst]). Including are a general list of officers, a list of telephone numbers, and orders of admission to the Montelupich prison, as well as the files of Gestapo officers Eric Wüstenhagen and Wilhelm Klüger.

  12. Eva W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1937. She recalls her parents' comfortable, bohemian life; her father's residency at the Jewish hospital; moving into the hospital with the families of other staff members in October 1941; friendship with two girls (Eva and Rita); the Gestapo presence; monthly deportations; food shortages; her parents' strained marriage; remaining underground during the Battle of Berlin; spending a summer recuperating in Switzerland; her father's death in 1947 after delaying surgery, which she believes was a form of suicide; living in the hos...

  13. Organization of SS and German police presented at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 457) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 20, 1945. Maj. Warren Farr of the US prosecution explains the subdivisions of the SS organization. CU, rear view, Maj. Farr. LS, side view of the Tribunal in the courtroom. "The personal staff. ... First, when the question is asked, how many persons in the SS had something to do with the concentration camp program... you may find out how many people were in the Deaths Head ..." CU, SS organization chart. "I shall read only the Himmler directive appearing on Page 2 of the translation. The Tribunal will note that it is addressed to e...

  14. Peter Rosen papers

    The Peter Rosen papers contain training materials from the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie; drafts, correspondence, and research created during the production of a 1945 handbook titled The German Police prepared by MIRS (London Branch) and SHAEF’s Evaluation and Dissemination Section (EDS); two Gestapo files; and a Sicherheitsdienst (SD) file. Camp Ritchie training materials include handouts on the organization and tactics of the French and German armed forces; recognizing the uniforms of allies and enemies; technical instruction in aerial photography, signal communica...

  15. Barbie Trial -- Day 12 -- A witness and a civil party testify

    16:07 The next witness, Mrs. Raymonde Guyon, presents herself to the court and is sworn in; the witness describes her participation in the dissemination of clandestine Resistance newspapers during the war, while in high school and then university; her fiancé at that time met law professors who were involved in the Resistance and they both became formally involved through these professors; she describes creating false papers, with which entire families of Jews were able to escape to Switzerland, and outlines the challenges involved in writing, printing, and distributing the newspaper 'Témoig...

  16. "Shari's Story"

    Consists of one memoir, 52 pages, entitled "Shari's Story" by Charlotte Wiesner Kuna, originally of Michalovce, Czechoslovakia. In the memoir, she describes pre-war family life in Michalovce, the beginning of anti-Jewish restrictions, and the fate of many friends and family members in Michalovce. In 1944, Charlotte (known as Shari or Shandele) and her sister received identity papers with Aryan names and moved around frequently to escape the Gestapo. They were imprisoned by the Gestapo in the spring of 1945, escaped after five weeks, hiding until they were liberated. She reunited with surviv...

  17. Selected records of the Russian State Military Archives (Former Osobyi Archives Collections) from the Yad Vashem

    Contains fragmentary excerpts from captured German documents, including directives, decrees, name lists relating to the emigration of Jews from Germany, reports, correspondence, and various other documents relating to the administration of the SD and Gestapo, Zionist organizations; RSHA and Gestapo personnel; religious conversions of Jews and Christians; the Vienna Jewish community; activities of various Jewish organizations; anti-Jewish laws; Jewish emigration; activities of the German Labor Front; activities of the Zentralbauleitung der Waffen-SS und Polizei in Auschwitz; liquidation of J...

  18. Selected records from the National Archives of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

    Records relate to the Fünfbrunnen concentration camp. Included are name lists of Jews deported from Luxembourg to Poland, Sipo reports on arrested Jews and resistance members, investigation files and survivor accusation statements against Gestapo man Fritz Hartmann, and excerpts from the trial of Gestapo man Klöker and many others charged with war crimes in 1948.

  19. "Fort Montluc and Ravensbrück" a record of imprisonment

    Consists of copies of a memoir of an anonymous Holocaust survivor. A member of the French resistance, the young woman was captured by the Gestapo and subjected to severe treatment. The testimony describes her deportation from France to Ravensbrück, slave labor in a German plane factory, experiences with female SS guards, her many illnesses as a prisoner, and her eventual liberation by the Red Army.

  20. Testimony of Sister Marie-Aurelie, Mother Superior of the Convent of the Sisters of the Very Holy Savior...

    Contains a 21-page photocopy of a translation of a July 31, 1945, memoir by Sister Marie-Aurelie, Mother Superior of the Convent of the Sisters of the Very Holy Savior, in Brussels, Belgium. In the memoir Sister Marie-Aurelie describes how her convent cared for Jewish girls and hid them from the Gestapo during the German occupation of Belgium in World War II.