Most of these copy statements re the activities of former SS officers at Auschwitz by former inmates were collected by the International Auschwitz Komitee^[1]. The witnesses submitted their statements to the IAK in response to notices published in Polish and German newspapers, asking for evidence against former SS officers at Auschwitz. Many of the statements make reference to this fact. Many also end with a declaration that the witness is ready to repeat the statement under oath.^[2]

According to correspondence between Hermann Langbein, secretary of the IAK, and the Wiener Library in 1959, the original statements were collected with a view to prosecuting former SS officers at Auschwitz, and the copies were deposited here at different times during the course of 1959.

The statements have been arranged according to the name of the SS officer. Most of the statements are 1 or 2 pages long except that of Dr. Eduard Wirth, former doctor at Auschwitz, who described what he did to alleviate the suffering of inmates (20 pages). All of the statements are in German.

1173/1

Copy statement re the activities of Wilhelm Boger in Auschwitz by Mieczyslaw Paszkowski

(18 Apr 1959) copy nd

1173/2

Copy statement re the activities of Wilhelm Boger in Auschwitz by Filip Mueller

(10 Dec 1958) copy nd

1173/3

Copy statement re the activities of Wilhelm Boger in Auschwitz by Szajna Jozef

(10 Apr 1959) copy nd

1173/4

Copy statement re the activities of Wilhelm Boger in Auschwitz by Joseph Polak

(6 Apr 1959) copy nd

1173/5

Copy statement re the activities of Wilhelm Boger in Auschwitz by Joseph Neumann

(17 Apr 1959)
copy nd

1173/6

Copy statement re the activities of Wilhelm Boger in Auschwitz by Waclaw Mazinski

(29 Jul 1959) copy nd

1173/7

Copy statement re the activities of Wilhelm Boger in Auschwitz by Antoni Rojek

(27 Jul 1959) copy nd

1173/8

Copy statement re the activities of Oswald Kaduk in Auschwitz by Wladislaw Pagowski

(17 Jul 1959) copy nd

1173/9

Copy statement re the activities of Oswald Kaduk in Auschwitz by Stanislaw Klodzinski

(10 Apr 1959) copy nd

1173/10

Copy statement re the activities of Oswald Kaduk in Auschwitz by Zdzislaw Wieczorek

(3 Aug 1959) copy nd

1173/11

Copy statement re the activities of Oswald Kaduk in Auschwitz by Mieczyslaw Pruba

nd

1173/12

Copy statement re the activities of Josef Mengele in Auschwitz by Stanislawa Davidowicz

(30 Jul 1959) copy nd

1173/13

Copy statement re the activities of Josef Mengele in Auschwitz by Stefanis Fabrykant

(22 Jul 1959) copy nd

1173/14

Copy statement re the activities of Josef Mengele in Auschwitz by Irene Przybysz

nd

1173/15

Copy statement re the activities of Josef Mengele in Auschwitz by David Nagel

16 Aug 1959

1173/16

Copy statement re the activities of Franz Hofmann in Auschwitz by Karl Bracht

16 Jun 1959

1173/17

Copy statement re the activities of Rudolph Höss in Auschwitz by witness unknown

(10 Aug 1959) copy nd

1173/18

Copy statement re the activities of Hans Stark in Auschwitz by Tadeusz Szymanski

(24 Jul 1959) copy nd

1173/19

Copy statement re the activities of Josef Klehr in Auschwitz by Bartosz Oziemkowski

(21 Jul 1959) copy nd

1173/20

Copy statement re the activities of doctors in Auschwitz by Dr. Ella Lingens

(2 Jun 1959) copy nd

1173/21

Copy statement re the activities of Lachmann and Wosnitza in Auschwitz by Zdzislaw Sokol

(10 Jun 1959) copy nd

1173/22

Copy statement re his activities and those of Professor Clauberg in Auschwitz by Dr. Eduard Wirth. Wirth was made to work in the camp, first Dachau, then Auschwitz. He tried his best to alleviate conditions for the inmates and was near a nervous breakdown from having to witness the atrocities being carried out by the SS men in the camp. He was interrogated by the SS and accused of sabotaging their work. Afterwards he was continually spied upon. He drove to Berlin to see the authorities there and to inform them about the total lack of hygiene and the impossibility of doing medical work there and was told that Auschwitz was a death camp and not a place for healing.

nd

1173/23

Copy letter from Obersturmführer Hoessler, Auschwitz, to an official in Weiblingen, near Stuttgart, to say that no personal letters may be sent to inmates

(15 Jun 1944) copy nd

Auschwitz

Wilhelm Boger

Franz Hofmann

Rudolph Höss

Oswald Kaduk

Lachmann

Josef Mengele

Hans Stark

Eduard Wirth

War crimes

Wosnitza

Josef Klehr

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