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:
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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:
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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