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Die Sammlung enthält: Häftlingslisten und Unterlagen betr. verschiedene Lager und Zwangsarbeit in Norwegen (Falstad, Osen) (Nachkriegsaufstellungen) Geschichte des Kriegsgefangenenlagers Falstad 1941-1945: “The Falstad building was erected by Norwegian public authorities in 1921 as a reformative school. In 1941 the German occupiers seized the school and established a prison camp at the premises. “SS ...

Following World War II trials with Nazi criminals and their collaborators were organized on the territory of restored Czechoslovakia just like in many other European countries of those days. Three-tier retributive justice system was established in the Slovak part of post-WWII Czechoslovakia by the Regulation of the Slovak National Council no. 33/1945 on the Punishment of Fascist Criminals, Occupants, ...

A single word--Auschwitz--is often used to encapsulate the totality of persecution and suffering involved in what we call the Holocaust. Yet a focus on a single concentration camp--however horrific what happened there, however massively catastrophic its scale--leaves an incomplete story, a truncated history. It cannot fully communicate the myriad ways in which individuals became tangled up on the side ...

Dr. Mieczyslaw (Mietek) Dortheimer, born in 1911 in Krakow, Poland, set out to be a lawyer after graduating from Krakow’s Jagiellonian University. When the Nazis marched into Krakow, he fled with his wife and father to Lwow. His father later moved to the Warsaw Ghetto and was subsequently gassed at Treblinka. Later, Dortheimer worked in Tarnow as a factory administrator, on false papers. After the ...

Following the Second World War trials with Nazi criminals and their collaborators were organized on the territory of restored Czechoslovakia just like in many other European countries of those days. Three-tier retributive justice system was established in the Slovak part of post-war Czechoslovakia by the Regulation of the Slovak National Council no. 33/1945 on the Punishment of Fascist Criminals, Occupants, ...

The Koranyi family papers include a postcard, two Swedish protective documents, a photograph, and a photocopied clipping documenting the survival of Zsigmond (Sigmund), Sara, and Marta Koranyi in Budapest during the Holocaust. Marta’s friend Gabrielle (Gabi) sent her the postcard in June 1944 from a sealed deportation train destined for Auschwitz, where Gabi was killed. A rough English translation ...

In 2017, the Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the bequest of Heinz Friedrich Meyer-Velde (1926-2015) from his daughter. In September 2018, an addition was made. Heinz Friedrich Meyer-Velde grew up in Brunswick where he worked as a court reporter for the local newspaper of Brunswick in the late 1940s. This way he came to know the then presiding judge of the Landgericht and later Attorney General of the ...

Close-up of the Nuremberg Laws, as published in the Volkischer Beobachter. Aerial shots of rows and rows of tents at the Reich Party Day are followed by aerial shots of rows and rows of barracks at Auschwitz. Staged scene of a Nazi judge sentencing to death a Jew who violated the Nuremberg Laws. Biographical information on Wilhelm Stuckart, a Wannsee conference participant and his connection to Globke: ...

Traces the history of German claims to western Poland from the Middle Ages to its annexation as the Warthegau in 1939, focusing on the city of Łódź, an important textile center with some 230,000 Jewish inhabitants in 1939. After the occupation, the Germans deported 80,000 Jews and many Poles, in order to resettle the Warthegau with ethnic Germans, until it was decided to exploit the city's industries. ...

Describes phases of the Holocaust in France, concentrating on matters on which there exists relatively little research. Examines the extent to which the German officials responsible for anti-Jewish measures were aware, or could and should have been aware, of their fatal consequences, and their denial of such awareness under interrogation in preparation for war crimes trials in the 1960s-70s. This denial ...