Annihilation
The Final Solution of the Jewish Question

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[Note: Much information on the annihilation programmes can be found linked to from the following files:

War Crimes and Criminals
SS, Security Services and Police
Crimes, Trials and Laws
The Wehrmacht, the Holocaust, and War Crimes]

Destruction of European Jewry Explanatory Timeline

Babi Yar

Babi Yar by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Nothing is Forgotten: Jewish Fates in Kiev (1941-1943) Personal reminiscences by David Budnik and Yakov Kaper, edited and published by Erhard Roy Wiehn. Original html by Dmitry Peysakhov

Detailed descriptions of the experienes of two Jewish males, one who was in Kiev at the time of the Babi Yar massacre in September 1941, both of whom were sent to the Syretsk concentration camp, some of whose inmates were forced to participate in the exhumation and burning of the corpses of those murdered at Babi Yar.  Both also describe how they escaped.  These reminiscences are reproduced here by kind permission of their editor and publisher, Prof. Dr.Dr.h.c. Erhard Roy Wiehn, Universität Konstanz. The original source is at http://www.peysakhov.com/NiF/

Goering Order to Heydrich Concerning the finding of a "solution of the Jewish problem". July 31, 1941 For a discussion of the significance of this document, see Destruction of European Jewry Explanatory Timeline, July 31, 1941

Correspondence and Report Concerning the Aktion of Police Battalion 11 in Sluzk, 27 October 1941

Report by Untersturmfuehrer Becker on the Operation of Gas Vans May 16 1942

Discussion of Thierack and Goebbels Concerning Extermination of Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Czechs and others, 14 September 1942

Ernst Kaltenbrunner (Chief of the RSHA 1943-1945) Nuremberg Tribunal Charges, 1945

Artur Seyss-Inquart, Nuremberg Tribunal Charges, 1945

The Concentration Camps, Nuremberg Charges, Part I, Part II

The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) Nuremberg Charges Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V,  Part VI

The Persecution of the Jews Part I, Part II, Part III

The SS, Nuremberg Charges, 1945. Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V

Statistics on European Jewish Citizens who died during the Holocaust

Other Relevant Pages

Crimes, Trials and Laws

SS, Security Services and Police

The Wehrmacht, the Holocaust and War Crimes