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Letter from Simon Wiesenthal to Tuviah Friedmann regarding the search for witnesses of Nazi criminals in Lviv and the Janowska concentration camp, 1958

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1958-09-08 | no place

Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Simon Wiesenthal Archives (on loan from BJVN), VWI-SWA,III.1.5.112 Original in German.

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September 8, 1958

Mr.

Tadek Friedmann,

P.O.B. 4950

Haifa

Dear Mr. Friedmann,

First of all, I wish you all the best for the New Year.

I would like to inform you that in the course of a trial against a railroad inspector who caused the death of a Jewish child in Lviv, the German police came across the trail of Schoenbach, who shot this child.

Schoenbach was the head of the work detail in the Lemberg-Janowska camp and was often a leader in all the executions in this camp.

I have also learned the whereabouts of Mrs. Willhaus. Her husband, who was the concentration camp commander in the Janowska camp, was killed at the end of the war. However, I somehow darkly remember that Mrs. Willhaus was not entirely correct with regard to the prisoners of the Janowska camp.

I also know the address of Martens, who was a Gestapo man in the Gestapo prison in Lemberg Lonckiego and an outright sadist. Here, too, I can only be a witness by hearsay and no eyewitness.

Unfortunately, there are no persons in Austria who could be eyewitnesses to the deeds of these three persons. I have written to Dr. Borwicz in Paris, but so far no news.

Would you like to take over this matter for Israel? There are certainly enough witnesses there.

With best regards

Yours

Simon Wiesenthal, Dipl. Ing.

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