Isaiah Kuperstein Papers
Scope and Contents
The papers pertain to the experiences of David Gertler, a functionary of the Jewish administration in the Lodz ghetto. Gertler was head of the Sonderabteilung (Special Unit) which performed the function of secret police in the ghetto. He was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. Recorded interview with Gertler by I. Kuperstein. Kuperstein's observations and evaluation of the interview, 1974. Proceedings of the Court of Honor of the Jewish Rehabilitation Commission against Gertler, 1948, including reports of witnesses. Correspondence of Gertler. Summary report of the trial of the former Gestapo leaders in Lodz, Fuchs, and Bradfisch, at which Gertler was a witness.
Dates
- Creation: 1940 - 1947
Creator
- Kuperstein, Isaiah, 1950- (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Historian. Director of the Education Department of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
Extent
.5 Linear Feet (5" (1 5"ltr))
Language of Materials
English
Yiddish
Subject
- Fuchs, Günther, 1911- (Person)
- Bradfisch, Otto, 1903-1994 (Person)
- Gertler, David (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Repository
