Object numberM1996/023:010
DescriptionArchival material and document from the Russian Government archives related to the Genocide of the Jewish people there. Copies, in Russian with English translations attached. Originals are in the Moscow archives. Includes notices of restrictions and laws placed against the Jewish people. Documents include testimonies of Nazi brutality, material presented at Nuremberg trial and photographs.
This is the official document submitted by the Polish Government to the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg on 8 December 1945. The translation is incomplete but the document outlines many atrocities committed again the Poles and the Jews in particular.
The document details the increasing persecution of the Jews, from being forbidden theatres, cinemas, parks etc. to being conscripted into forced labour. There are details about the terrible conditions in the ghetto particularly in Warsaw. It states that Jews were given rations of 1/8 the pre-war diet and that they estimate given the amount of housing available in the ghetto (1359 houses) would average 393 people per house thus 13 people to live I one room.
It talks about the increasing punishment for the Jews where in the end any minor infringement resulted in capital punishment.
There is a lot of details into the extermination camps and mass murder. Information on each of the extermination camps (Majdanek, Auschwitz, Sobibor, Chelmno and Kosuv Podliaski) is included.
This is the official document submitted by the Polish Government to the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg on 8 December 1945. The translation is incomplete but the document outlines many atrocities committed again the Poles and the Jews in particular.
The document details the increasing persecution of the Jews, from being forbidden theatres, cinemas, parks etc. to being conscripted into forced labour. There are details about the terrible conditions in the ghetto particularly in Warsaw. It states that Jews were given rations of 1/8 the pre-war diet and that they estimate given the amount of housing available in the ghetto (1359 houses) would average 393 people per house thus 13 people to live I one room.
It talks about the increasing punishment for the Jews where in the end any minor infringement resulted in capital punishment.
There is a lot of details into the extermination camps and mass murder. Information on each of the extermination camps (Majdanek, Auschwitz, Sobibor, Chelmno and Kosuv Podliaski) is included.
Production placePoland
Subjecttestimonials, Nuremberg Trials, Nazism, resistance
Language
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by the Russian Government Archival Service