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Doc. 5: Interview with a rescued Jewish woman

Submitted by Constanze on Wed, 06/08/2014 - 11:16

Eva Brust 1944Eva Brust Cooper was born on March 18, 1934

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The child survivor Eva Brust Cooper remembers the rescue of her family by Raoul Wallenberg.

Eckdaten: 

  • Interview with Eva Brust Cooper, 9 December 1991. Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, RG 50.030*0056 (extract).

Doc. 4: Rescuer Raoul Wallenberg – a legend

Submitted by Constanze on Wed, 06/08/2014 - 10:22
Passport photo from June 1944Raoul Wallenberg
Worum geht es: 

A clandestine contemporary photograph shows the rescuer Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest in November 1944.

Eckdaten: 

  • Christoph Kreutzmüller & Julia Werner: Fotografische Quellen zur Verfolgung und Ermordung der Juden in Europa. Eine pädagogische Handreichung. Berlin: Hentrich&Hentrich 2012.

  • Passport photograph of Raoul Wallenberg. Sweden, June 1944. CCL, Wikipedia.

Doc. 3: Knowledge about Auschwitz in Hungary in 1944

Submitted by Constanze on Tue, 05/08/2014 - 18:42
Who Informed Whom in the Outside World of the Horrors of Auschwitz?
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The Hungarian historian Zoltán Szabó analyses how much Hungarian officials knew about Auschwitz in 1944.

Eckdaten: 

Zoltán Tibori Szabó: The Auschwitz reports: Who got them, and when?, in: The Auschwitz reports and the Holocaust in Hungary. Ed. by Randolph L. Braham/William J. Vanden Heuvel. Columbia University Press 2011, pp. 85–120 (extract).

Yehuda Bauer: Rescue Attempts: The case of the Auschwitz Protocols, in: Yehuda Bauer, Rethinking the Holocaust. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001, 213-241.

Yehuda Bauer: Anmerkungen zum „Auschwitz-Bericht" von Rudolf Vrba, in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 45(2), 1997, pp. 297–307.

Yehuda Bauer: Rudolf Vrba und die Auschwitz-Protokolle. Eine Antwort auf John S. Conway, in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 54(4), 2006, pp. 701–710. 

Doc. 2: Testimony of Kató Gyulai, 1944

Submitted by Constanze on Tue, 05/08/2014 - 18:19

Kató Gyulai writing her report in 1947Kató (Ka

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In 1947, Kató Gyulai remembers the ordeal of her deportation to Dachau. Guarded by Hungarian Cross Arrow men, she had to march nearly all the way from Hungary to Bavaria in an ice cold winter.

Eckdaten: 

  • Linde Apel, Constanze Jaiser: Zwei Schwestern. Geschichte einer Deportation. German translation from the Hungarian by Barbara von Boroviczény. Berlin, Metropol 2001 (extract). Photos courtesy of Dr. Linde Apel and Metropol Verlag.

Doc. 3: Cross examination of the SS-doctor Herta Oberheuser

Submitted by Nadja on Tue, 05/08/2014 - 17:49

Question: “[…] You indicated, Miss Oberheuser, that the operations were carried out by Dr Fritz Fischer, and you say: ‘sometimes assisted with the operations and had the

Worum geht es: 

In her cross-examination in 1946 Herta Oberheuser denies any responsibility in the murder of inmates and pretends not to remember important facts.

Eckdaten: 

  • Angelika Ebbinghaus/Klaus Dörner (Eds.), Vernichten und Heilen. Der Nürnberger Ärzteprozess und seine Folgen, Berlin 2001.

Doc. 2: SS-Doctor Oberheuser's affidavit concerning medical experiments

Submitted by Nadja on Tue, 05/08/2014 - 17:01
Extract from Dr Oberheuser’s affidavit

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Affidavit made by Herta Oberheuser in 1946 in which she tries to minimise her role in the experiments but admits having murdered at least five inmates.

Eckdaten: 
  • Trials of War Criminals before Nuernberg Military Tribunals, 2 November 1946, HLSL Item No.: 1798, Evidence Code No.: NO-487, Harvard Law School Library.

Doc. 8: Photos after the pogrom in November 1938

Submitted by Constanze on Tue, 05/08/2014 - 16:12

Photo after the pogrom in November 1938

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Two photos taken on 10 November 1938 in Berlin showing the plunder of Jewish shops and absence of police.

Doc. 9: The ID of Ernst Simon Oppenheim

Submitted by Nadja on Tue, 05/08/2014 - 15:36

Identity card of Ernst Simon Oppenheim, 1941

 

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The case of Ernst Simon Oppenheim (1941) shows the consequences of registration and identification.

Eckdaten: 

  • Nederlands Roode Kruis.

Doc. 8: The first deportations

Submitted by Nadja on Tue, 05/08/2014 - 15:29
Translation:

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Report of the representative of the German Ministry for Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands, Otto Bene, 31 July 1942 about the first deportations. The representative did not foresee any problems and quoted the view of the Dutch State Secretary of the Ministry for the Interior, stating that the deportations were an "European problem" one could do nothing about.

Eckdaten: 

  • Political Archive of the German Foreign Office, Bonn, R 100876 Bl. 12 u. 12r.

 

Doc. 7: Extract from the protocol of the Wannsee Conference

Submitted by Nadja on Tue, 05/08/2014 - 15:00

Extract from the protocol of the Wannsee Conference

Worum geht es: 

Extract from the protocol of the Wannsee Conference, 20 January 1942, noting the number of "Jews" in the Netherlands.

For unknown reasons, Adolf Eichmann included the number of all the registered Jews in the Netherlands, even though the officials would decide to use the First Regulation of the Reich Citizenship Law as a bureaucratic basis for murder. Still, the inclusion shows that registration and (possible) deportation went hand-in-hand.

Eckdaten: 

  • Political Archive of the German Foreign Office, R.100857.

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