Persecution of Jews in Poland: various documents (microfilm)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1556 WL 522
Held at	: Wiener Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/ ›
Full title	: Persecution of Jews in Poland: various documents (microfilm)
Date(s)	: 1941-1955
Level of description	: collection
Extent	: 168 frames
Name of creator(s)	: Streckenbach | Bruno | 1902-1977 | Gestapo officer Vajsblum | Marek | fl 1955 | journalist

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Bruno Streckenbach, SS Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant der Polizei was born Hamburg, 17 February 1902; head of Gestapo, Hamburg, 1933; Führer der Einsatzgruppe I in Poland and commanding officer of Sicherheitspolizei and Sicherheitsdienst, Cracow, September 1939; joined Waffen SS, 1943; made General, 1944; arrested by the Red Army, 10 May 1945; sentenced to 25 years hard labour, 1952; released October 1955; thereafter he became an office clerk. He was indicted for the murder of at least 1 million people in 1973. The court in Hamburg suspended the proceedings on account of his ill health. Died, 28 October 1977.

Marek Vajsblum was a Polish journalist and author.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Documents about the persecution of Jews in Poland by Bruno Streckenbach and on his postwar trial.

Marek Vajsblum: article about the fate of Polish archives entitled 'Mutability of the Past- nazi-made'.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
German English Polish

System of arrangement:

522a papers re Bruno Streckenbach.

522b Marek Vajsblum article.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Finding aids:

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Jewish Central Information Office

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Klee, Ernst Das Personen Lexikon zum Dritten Reich: Wer war was vor und nach 1945, (Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2003)
Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
October 2007