Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw (Poland) (1949) | Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Name: Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw (Poland) (1949)

Historical Note: The document contains depositions of the Dawid Gertler trial. The trial was against Dawid Gertler who was accused of corruption and collaborating with the German administration in Lodz ghetto during the war. The Central Committee of Liberated Jews began investigating Dawid Gertler after a group of Jews, who had lived in Lodz ghetto, made their accusations. Estera Epstein was the defense attorney for Dawid Gertler and the trial was held in the Jewish Courts of Honor in Munich (Germany). The document is in Yiddish (German script) and Polish. The document comes from the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw (Poland).

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