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1876. Defendant August Hoehn speaks from the dock at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
August Hoehn was born in 1904 in Lipporn-am-Rhein, Germany. He joined the SS and the Nazi Party in ... August Hoehn was born in 1904 in Lipporn-am-Rhein, Germany. He joined the SS and the Nazi Party in 1933 ... Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Central Archive of the Federal Security Service ... In September 1939 he was transferred to the Waffen-SS, joining the SS-Totenkopf Brigade (later the
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1877. Commandant Amon Goeth stands with his rifle on the balcony of his villa in the Plaszow concentration camp.
Amon Leopold Goeth (1908-1946), a native of Vienna, joined the Nazi party in 1932 and the SS in ... 1940 Amon Leopold Goeth (1908-1946), a native of Vienna, joined the Nazi party in 1932 and the SS in ... 1940. During the war he was sent first to SS headquarters in Lublin and subsequently to Krakow, where ... he was put in charge of the liquidation of the ghettos and labor camps of Szebnie, Bochnia, Tarnow
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1878. Defendant Hinrich Fresemann speaks from the dock at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
joining the Waffen-SS in 1935, he was assigned to the 3rd SS Panzer Division and fought in the Soviet ... Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Central Archive of the Federal Security Service ... Union. Meanwhile, in 1937 he had joined the Nazi Party, and from November 1942 until July 1944 he was ... Master Sergeant of an SS guard unit at Sachsenhausen, serving also as the leader of an SS training
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1879. Defendant Ludwig Rehn is led out of the dock at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
Ludwig Rehn joined the SS in 1935, the Nazi Party a year later, and joined the Berlin SS reserve ... Sta Ludwig Rehn joined the SS in 1935, the Nazi Party a year later, and joined the Berlin SS reserve ... Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Central Archive of the Federal Security Service ... until April 1945. Rehn took part in the mass execution of Soviet POWs and civilians of German-occupied
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1880. Defendant Ludwig Rehn stands in the dock at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
Ludwig Rehn joined the SS in 1935, the Nazi Party a year later, and joined the Berlin SS reserve ... Sta Ludwig Rehn joined the SS in 1935, the Nazi Party a year later, and joined the Berlin SS reserve ... Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Central Archive of the Federal Security Service ... until April 1945. Rehn took part in the mass execution of Soviet POWs and civilians of German-occupied
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1881. Defendant Kurt Eccarius speaks from the dock at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Central Archive of the Federal Security Service ... Kurt Eccarius was born in 1905 in Coburg, Germany. After joining the Nazi Party in 1932 and the ... Waf Kurt Eccarius was born in 1905 in Coburg, Germany. After joining the Nazi Party in 1932 and the ... until 1945 he was part of the so-called "Zellenbau" (of which he became the leader in August 1942), and
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1882. Defendant Ludwig Rehn speaks from the dock at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
Ludwig Rehn joined the SS in 1935, the Nazi Party a year later, and joined the Berlin SS reserve ... Sta Ludwig Rehn joined the SS in 1935, the Nazi Party a year later, and joined the Berlin SS reserve ... Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Central Archive of the Federal Security Service ... until April 1945. Rehn took part in the mass execution of Soviet POWs and civilians of German-occupied
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1883. A member of the prosecution team (left) reads a statement at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Central Archive of the Federal Security Service ... Anton Kaindl, the former commandant, and Paul Sakowski, a kapo who had served as an executioner. The ... Fifteen of the defendants were sentenced to life in prison with forced labor and one, to fifteen years in
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1884. A witness identifies one of the defendants at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Central Archive of the Federal Security Service ... Anton Kaindl, the former commandant, and Paul Sakowski, a kapo who had served as an executioner. The ... Fifteen of the defendants were sentenced to life in prison with forced labor and one, to fifteen years in
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1885. A witness identifies one of the defendants at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Central Archive of the Federal Security Service ... Anton Kaindl, the former commandant, and Paul Sakowski, a kapo who had served as an executioner. The ... Fifteen of the defendants were sentenced to life in prison with forced labor and one, to fifteen years in
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1886. Defendant Ernst Brennscheidt speaks from the dock at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Central Archive of the Federal Security Service ... "Schuhlaeuferkommando," which were between thirty-two and forty kilometers per day. The prisoners were beaten and made ... Anton Kaindl, the former commandant, and Paul Sakowski, a kapo who had served as an executioner. The ... Fifteen of the defendants were sentenced to life in prison with forced labor and one, to fifteen years in
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1887. View of the courtroom of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, as seen from the back of the courtroom.
fighter ace. He joined the NSDAP in 1922. In 1923 he was wounded in the Beer Hall Putsch and forced to ... asset to Hitler, using his connections in the army and business to gain support for the NSDAP. Upon ... -in-Chief of the Prussian Police and Gestapo, and Commissioner for Aviation. Goering set up the first ... concentration camps and organized the Gestapo with Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich. In 1935 he was
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1888. The bodies of Jews removed from the Iasi death train during a stop on the journey, lie beside the tracks.
police, and German SS rounded-up some 5,000 Jews and herded them into the courtyard of the city's police ... Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944. Ivan R Dee ... who succumbed to heat exhaustion, suffocation, dehydration and suicide during the journey aboard ... ." In the evening the survivors (numbering between 2,430 and 2,590 people) were marched to the local
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1889. Abba Kovner in Vilna after the fall of the city to the Red Army.
Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Vitka Kempner Kovner ... Abba Kovner (1918-1988), a Zionist youth leader from Hashomer Hatzair, played a key role in the
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1890. Joef Schlesinger's sketch of Dr. Elkhanan Elkes, head of the Aeltestenradt of the Kovno ghetto.
Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition ... ART OF THE HOLOCAUST -- Artists S ... ART MOTIF (PORTRAITS); ART OF THE HOLOCAUST/WWII; ELKES, ELKHANAN; GHETTO/OCCUPATION; JEWISH ... In the Kovno ghetto he worked in the graphics and toy workshops where--at the request of the Jewish
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1891. View of the courtroom as seen from the interpreters' section during the I.G.
defendants Christian Schneider, Heinrich Buetefisch, and Erich von der Heyde in the SS, a recently-declared ... defense lawyers are in front, and the spectators are in the back. ... indictment filed on May 3 named twenty-four defendants, all in the IG Farben industrial concern, and listed ... five counts: the planning, preparation, initiation, and waging of wars of aggression and invasions of
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1892. An American soldier guards the main entrance to the courtroom during the I.G.
defendants Christian Schneider, Heinrich Buetefisch, and Erich von der Heyde in the SS, a recently-declared ... indictment filed on May 3 named twenty-four defendants, all in the IG Farben industrial concern, and listed ... five counts: the planning, preparation, initiation, and waging of wars of aggression and invasions of ... other countries; committing war crimes and crimes against humanity through the plunder and spoliation of
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1893. The four judges of the Military Tribunal III hearing the Justice Case.
the People's and Special Courts. The defendants were arraigned on 17 February, all pleading not ... with the first three: conspiracy to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity; war crimes against ... crimes against humanity, against German civilians and nationals of occupied territories. The fourth ... count of the indictment charged seven of the defendants with membership in the SS, SD, or the Leadership
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1894. Family celebration on the occasion of the birth of Guenther Knipfer, the son of Kaethe Knipfer, in Schlawe, Germany.
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Germany (pre-1933) -- Family/Friends/Portraits ... Gottschalk, Max Knipfer and Nanny Lewin. In the front row are: Siegfried and Rosa Wolffberg, Johanna and ... Hilde (Anker) Fogelson (the mother of George Fogelson), was the daughter of Georg and Gertrud ... (Gotts Hilde (Anker) Fogelson (the mother of George Fogelson), was the daughter of Georg and Gertrud
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1895. Ita Rozencwajg performs exercises with the children in the kindergarten she established in the Warsaw ghetto.
and Henia, who were married by the time of the German invasion. Ater the death of his first wife, her ... Yeheskel and Shimon, remained at home with her father and stepmother. Ita left home at the age of 17 and ... went to live with her uncle Mendel Miodownik and his family in Warsaw. After the occupation of Warsaw ... apartment. He agreed, and soon Ita had thirty children between the ages of four and seven in her program
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1896. Group portrait of the staff of the soup kitchen in the Kielce ghetto.
the ghetto, directed by SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Ernst Karl Thomas and Hauptmann Hans Geier, was carried ... fines. Within the first weeks of the occupation the Germans set up a Jewish Council and named Dr. Moses ... Pelc refused to execute German directives, he was deported to Auschwitz and replaced with the ... approximately 1,000 Jews from Vienna were transferred to Kielce and several thousand more from the areas of
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1897. Corpses piled in the mortuary below the crematorium.
the SS staff and survivors began to pile corpses behind the crematorium, where they were found by U ... Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; William Grunert ... Corpses piled in the mortuary below the crematorium. These rooms became so full of corpses that
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1898. The members of the War Crimes Executive Committee at the signing of the agreement to create the International Military Tribunal to prosecute German war criminals.
(second from the right) who will be the chief U.S. prosecutor, and Robert Falco (right), who will be the ... criminals. On December 17, 1942, the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union ... issued the first joint declaration officially noting the mass murder of European Jewry and resolving to ... countries in which the crimes had been committed and adjudged according to the laws of the nation concerned
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1899. The members of the War Crimes Executive Committee at the signing of the agreement to create the International Military Tribunal to prosecute German war criminals.
(second from the right) who will be the chief U.S. prosecutor, and Robert Falco (right), who will be the ... criminals. On December 17, 1942, the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union ... issued the first joint declaration officially noting the mass murder of European Jewry and resolving to ... countries in which the crimes had been committed and adjudged according to the laws of the nation concerned
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1900. Heinrich Himmler with other Nazi officials stand in front of the "Grand Hotel" in an unidentified location.
location. To the right of Himmler, and carrying gloves, is Karl Wolff. The man behind Himmler is SS ... Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister ... Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister of the ... In 1929 Himmler was appointed head of the SS, Hitler's personal guard, and the following year, was