Metadata: Persecution of Jews in Poland: various documents (microfilm)
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- The Wiener Holocaust Library
- Holding institution (official language):
- The Wiener Holocaust Library
- Postal address:
- 29 Russell Square London Greater London United Kingdom WC1B 5DP
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7636 7247
- Web address:
- https://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/
- Reference number:
- 522
- Title:
- Persecution of Jews in Poland: various documents (microfilm)
- Title (official language):
- Persecution of Jews in Poland: various documents (microfilm)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Streckenbach, Bruno, 1902-1977, Gestapo officer Vajsblum, Marek, fl 1955, journalist
- Date(s):
- 1941/1955
- Language:
- English
- German
- Polish
- Extent:
- 168 frames
- Scope and content:
- 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'.
- 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.
- Access points: locations:
- Poland
- Access points: persons/families:
- Streckenbach, Bruno
- Vajsblum, Marek
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust
- Nazism
- Nazism--Nazis
- Post-WWII trials
- Access, restrictions:
- Open
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/70498
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- 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.
- Wiener Library
