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Persecution of Jews in Poland: various documents (microfilm)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 522

Held at: Wiener Library

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 AND 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.

Physical characteristics:

Microfilm

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Jewish Central Information Office

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Wiener Collection, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Concentration camps | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Holocaust | Genocide | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Jews | Religious groups
Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
Polish history | European history | National history
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Human rights violations

Personal names
Streckenbach | Bruno | 1902-1977 | Gestapo officer

Corporate names
Gestapo x Geheimes Staatspolizei

Places