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One-Way Schedule. Interrogations of Former Reichsbahn Clerks Regarding the Deportation of Jews from Prużany to Auschwitz in 1943

Katrin

KatrinStoll@gmx.de

PhD, works at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. Her field is Holocaust Studies, mainly in the historiography of the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and the prosecution of Nazi crimes in the Federal Republic of Germany. Author of Die Herstellung der Wahrheit. Strafverfahren gegen ehemalige Angehörige der Sicherheitspolizei für den Bezirk Bialystok (2012). Editor and co-editor of several collective volumes: Der Judenrat von Białystok. Dokumente aus dem Archiv des Białystoker Ghettos 1941–1943 (2010, together with Freia Anders and Karsten Wilk), Die Transformation der Lager. Annäherungen an die Orte nationalsozialistischer Verbrechen (2011, together with Alexandra Klei and Annika Wienert), 8. May 1945. Internationale und interdisziplinäre Perspektiven (2016, together with Alexandra Klei and Annika Wienert), Personal Engagement and the Study of the Holocaust (2016, together with Noah Benninga).

German Historical Institute in Warsaw

Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 12 (2016), pages: 281-297

Publication date: 2016-11-30

https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.417

Abstract

Drawing on the example of the deportations of the Jews of Prużany to Auschwitz in January 1943, the article examines the efforts on part of the Bielefeld district court to establish that the organization of the transport of Jews from Bezirk Bialystok was a decentralized undertaking for which German local and regional occupation authorities were responsible. The regional departments of the German national railway system (Deutsche Reichsbahn) were in charge of the administrative coordination of the Sonderzüge. The article analyzes the examinations of two former employees of the special train unit of department 33 of the Reichsverkehrsdirektion Minsk under German occupation. During the so-called Białystok Trial (1966-1967) the Bielefeld jury court examined former Reichsbahn officials Hermann Kayser and Hans Wieck as witnesses. Having received an order by the KdS in Białystok they drew up the timetable and railway telegrams for the deportations of Jews from the train station of Oranczyce to Auschwitz. They were not brought to justice for their participation in the Holocaust.

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Stoll, K. (2016). One-Way Schedule. Interrogations of Former Reichsbahn Clerks Regarding the Deportation of Jews from Prużany to Auschwitz in 1943. Zagłada Żydów. Studia I Materiały, (12), 281-297. https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.417

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No. 12 (2016)

ISSN:
1895-247X
eISSN:
2657-3571

Data publikacji:
2016-11-30

Dział: Materials