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DOCUMENTS CONCERNING THE MURDER OF 29000 JEWS OF GRODNO BY THE GERMANS, 1941 - 1943

GHETTO AND DEPORTATIONS TO DEATH CAMPS COLOGNE AND BIELEFELD TRIALS

             

 

PUBLISHED AND DISTRIBUTED BY:

GRODNER ASSOCIATION OF ISRAEL (G.A.I.)

ADDRESS: G.A.I., C/O J. STAROWOLSKI

6, LAMDAN Bld.

RAMAT-GAN 52443, ISRAEL

 

 

 

P R E F A C E

 

This publication was put together by Jews from the town of Grodno, who survived the German occupation of 1941 1944. It is aimed primarily at their descendants. It contains

1. A verbatim translation from German of the judgment, by The Court of Justice in Cologne (West Germany) in 1968, of two officers of Gestapo in Grodno. The first was Kurt Wiese, commander of Ghetto No. 1. The second - his superior, Heinz Errelis, commander of the two Ghettos and the Kelbasin Camp near Grodno.

2. Excerpts from the judgment by The Court of Justice in Bielefeld, in 1967, of officers of Gestapo in the district of Bialystok (to which Grodno belonged). One of them was the above mentioned Heinz Errelis. The excerpts concentrate on the transports to death camps.

3. Appendices They provide a key to the Documents Concerning the Destruction of The Jews of Grodno 1941-1944, published by the "Beate Klarsfeld Foundation". Through this key, the reader can obtain a copy of the original specific testimonies in German.

 

 

The Publishers

Tel-Aviv, May 1989

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

JUDGMENT IN THE COLOGNE COURT OF JUSTICE

Grounds

EXCERPTS FROM THE BIELEFELD TRIAL

Glossary of German Terms and Abbreviations

APPENDICES