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  1. Trial against Albert Forster Proces Alberta Forstera (Sygn. GK 196)

    Contains investigation materials, evidence, and court documents relating to the trial of Albert Forster. Includes preliminary hearings and presentation of evidence against Albert Forster, trial protocols, testimonies of Polish legal and medical expert witnesses, German documents on restrictions on use of the Polish language, on Polish citizens, and informatoin about the germanization of Polish children; personal documents and speeches of Albert Forster, names lists of Poles killed by Germans, names lists of Poles enrolled in the "Volksliste," census of 1939 of Gdansk and West Prussia, press...

  2. Trial against the staff of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Proces członków załogi Oświęcimia (Sygn. GK 196)

    Contains investigation materials and court documents relating to the trial of Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camp staff, also records on crimes in other concentration camps. Records contain court cases against many war criminals, such as Adolf Eichmann, Rudolf Hoess (Höss), Dr. Goebel, Karl Ernst Moeckel, Maximilian Grabner as well as against SS physicians accused of experimental operations on Polish women, against female SS camp guards, and other Auschwitz SS staff members. Includes documents on historical background on Nazi leadership; an illustrated SS guidebook for German personn...

  3. Trial against Amon Göth Proces Amon Göth (Sygn. GK 196)

    Contains investigative materials, evidence, and court documents relating to the trial of Amon Goeth, the commandant of the Płaszów concentration camp. Includes testimonies and name lists of witnesses, protocol of the description of Płaszów camp, and documents about the interrogation of prisoners of war.

  4. Trial against Hans Biebow Proces Hansa Biebowa (Sygn. SOŁódź, 3-5a)

    Contains investigation files, evidence, and court documents relating to the war crimes trial of Hans Biebow. Includes testimonies and name lists of witnesses, documents on Chelmno concentration camp, report on Łódź ghetto, lists of confiscated Jewish jewelry, list of Jewish victims, lists of SS staff, and list of ghetto leaders. Contains also Biebow autobiography, letters and correspondence.

  5. Proces zaloga Chełmna nad Nerem, I (Sygn. Ob.217)

    Contains investigation files, evidence, and court documents relating to the war crimes trial of certain Chełmno extermination center staff.

  6. Proces zaloga Chełmna nad Nerem, II (Sygn.Ob.19)

    Contains investigation files, evidence, and court documents relating to the war crimes trial of certain Chełmno extermination center staff.

  7. Proces ośrodek zagłady Sobibór (Sygn. Ob.60)

    Contains investigation files, evidence, and court documents relating to the war crimes trial of certain Sobibór extermination center staff.

  8. Proces obozu jenów wojennych w Łambinowicach (Stalag VIIIB) (Sygn. Ob.33)

    Contains investigation, evidence, and court documentation information for the trial of Lambinowice (Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf) prisoner of war camp.

  9. Proces Eryka Engelsa (Sygn. SAW)

    Contains investigation materials, evidence, and court documents relating to the trial of Eryk Engels, and accusitions against other war criminals: Piotr Frischkorn, Kurt Knigge, Hans Luetje, Reinhold Aust, Eryk Mamsch, and Henryk Schaub.

  10. Trial against Jürgen Stroop Proces Jürgena Stroopa (Sygn. GK 196)

    Contains investigation files, evidence, and court documents relating to the war crimes trial of Jürgen Stroop, the SS and police chief who crushed the Warsaw ghetto uprising and ordered the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto. Also includes materials on crimes committed by his assistants, Franz Konrad and Herman Hoefle. Jürgen Stroop was tried by American military authorities in Dachau in January 1947, then extradited to Poland. In July 1951 Stroop was tried at the Warsaw District Court and executed by hanging that September.

  11. Sarah Eckstein Grebenau a memoir

    Contains a memoir, 12 pages, about Sarah Eckstein Grebenau's work as a member of the Jewish Relief Unit formed toward the end of World War II under the auspices of the Central British Fund.

  12. Joseph and Margaret Weiss family papers

    The Joseph and Margaret Weiss family papers include correspondence, writings, genealogical materials, newspaper clippings, cardboard tags, and photographs documenting Joseph and Margaret Weiss’s immigration to the United States from Vienna via Czechoslovakia, France, and England in 1939 and their efforts to help their mothers emigrate from Prague and Vienna. Most of the correspondence is between the Weisses and their mothers Mathilde Goldstein in Vienna and Olga Weiss in Prague. Correspondence with Mathilde Goldstein sometimes includes Mathilde’s niece Bertha Reichmann, and correspondence w...

  13. Dreier and Tarnowski families papers

    The Dreier and Tarnowski families papers measure 0.5 linear foot and date from approximately 1939‐1944. The collection includes correspondence and photographs documenting the Dreier and Tarnowski families, their hardships in East and West Prussia and Pomerania under Nazi rule, and their efforts to emigrate. Correspondence primarily consists of letters to Elli and Alfred Burchardy in Shanghai from Flora and Wolff Tarnowski in Stargard, from Edith and Siegfried Tarnowski and Taübchen Tützer in Piaski, and from other family members and friends in Stargard, Piaski, and various cities in Germany...

  14. Centralny Zarzad Budowlany Oddzialow Wojskowych i Policji w Lublinie

    Contains files 61 and 99 from the record group 22, Zentralbauleitung der Waffen SS und Polizei in Lublin, dating from 1940 to 1944.

  15. Okręgowy Urząd Likwidacyjny w Bialymstoku (Sygn.87)

    Contains a registry and records relating to real estate “abandoned” by Jews in Białystok.

  16. Centrala Przesiedleńcza Policji Bezpieczeństwa, Ekspozytura w Zamościu (Sygn. 43)

    Contains files 1 through 72 from the record group 513, records of the Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD Umwandererzentralle Posen, Zweigstelle Zamosc, dating from 1942 to 1944.

  17. Records of the United States Mission to the Polish Government in Exile in London

    Contains information about relations between the United States and the Polish government in exile in London. Subjects include underground activities in Poland, relations between Poland and the Soviet Union, and relations between the London and Moscow Polish leadership.

  18. Stadthauptmann der Stadt Krakau. Kennkartenlisten Starosta Miasta Krakowa (Sygn. 450). Wykazy dowὀdow osobistych (Kennkartenlisten) wydanych Żydom

    Contains questionnaires of Jews who applied for personal I.D. cards from circa 1940 -1941.

  19. Miriam Winer memoir

    Miriam Winer's memoir describes her experiences in Bialystok and Treblinka, and her move to Bolivia after the Holocaust.

  20. Peter Mansbacher papers

    The Peter Mansbacher papers include a memoir, correspondence files, and subject files documenting Mansbacher’s efforts to obtain a visa to the United States, his passage to England on a Kindertransport, subsequent internment in England and Canada, and eventual immigration to the United States. Mansbacher's 1991 memoir, Refugee from Nazi Oppression: an Autobiography by Peter Mansbacher, describes his childhood in Lübeck, his wartime experiences in England, the completion of his education in Canada, and his eventual move to the Chicago, Illinois area. It includes photographic copy prints and ...