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New Page 1 Sobibor survivor Thomas Tovi Blatt confronts Death Camp Commandant Karl Frenzel (forced labour section) in 1983 Thomas Tovi Blatt (left) and Karl Frenzel meet in a hotel room in Hagen Germany in 1983 Thomas Blatt: Here you are drinking beer. With that smile on your face you could be anybody’s neighbour, anybody’s fellow sporting club member. But you are not anybody. You are Karl Frenzel, the SS commandant. You ranked third in the chain of command at the extermination camp of Sobibor. You were the commandant of Lager 1. Do you remember me?   Karl Frenzel: Not exactly you were a small boy then   Thomas Blatt: I was fifteen years old. I survived because you made me your shoeshine boy. Besides me nobody survived; not my father, not my mother, not my brother, none of the two thousand Jews from my town, Izbica.   Karl Frenzel: That was terrible, just terrible... (more)

Images of the Holocaust

Images of the Holocaust at Klooga www.holocaustresearchproject.org   The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team  [Next] [Last] Burial pit for corspes of the victims of the Klooga camp 400 X 607 72 KB Estonia ,Klooga, 1944, Bodies in a barrack in the camp 637 X 440 76 KB Half burned body at Klooga 207 X 328 32 KB Klooga, Estonia, 1945, Bodies between logs 637 X 422 62 KB Klooga, Estonia, A corpse beside a pile of burnt corpses, September 1944 637 X 438 112 KB Klooga, Estonia, A woman's corpse which was prepared for burning by Commando 1005, 1944 637 X 417 69 KB Klooga, Estonia, Corpse... (more)

Letters to London - Life and Death in the Kovno Ghetto

Dr Elchanan Elkes chairman of the Kovno Judenrat Letters to London 1943 - the chairman writes to his children about life in the Kovno ghetto Dr Elchanan Elkes of the Kovno Judenrat My beloved son and daughter! I am writing these lines, my dear children, in the vale of tears of Vilijampole, Kovno Ghetto, where we have been for over two years. We have now heard that in a few days our fate is to be sealed. The Ghetto is to be crushed and torn asunder. Whether we are all to perish, or whether a few of us are to survive, is in God’s hands, we fear that only those capable of slave l... (more)

Rawa Ruska

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Hans Frank on the record in 1945

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