Given name: Gerhard Family name: Mende (11)

(1)

From the beginning of 1940 the manager of the Gestapo department dealing with Jews. SS-Oberstumfuehrer. One of the people in charge of the Great Action in the Warsaw ghetto.

(2)

he took part in forming the Labour Battalion during ghetto formation

(3)

SS Obersturmfuehrer- the representative of Szucha Street, the head of the SS board in the ghetto during the action, he administered at Ogrodowa Street No. 17 in colonel Szerynski's office. Tall, stout, with cheerful face, he looked like a man who never hurt anyone in his life. He came to work by car at 8 a.m. and left between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m., sometimes he stayed until late in the night. This SS-man in white gloves never beat and never shoot.

(4)

Brandt's helper, Gestapo

(5)

Brandt's assistant. SS-Oberscharfuehrer

(6)

a high-ranking officer of Section IV-B of the Gestapo. After shooting Fuerst he paid a condolence visit to the chairman of the Judenrat M. Lichtenbaum - November/December 1942

(7)

SS-Oberscharfuhrer; Szerynski reports to him

(8)

SS-Untersturmfuehrer

(9)

From October 1939 to April 1943 - Brandt's assistant; tall, fair-haired, well-built, languid. He did not change the pitch of his voice and did not show his emotions. Came from Pomerania, he knew Poland very well

(10)

an SS-man, after Brandt the second figure in the Befehlstelle

(11)

28-year-old [in 1939 - JL] SS sergeant from the 'Jewish' Department (IV B4) of the Security Service (SD). [He was not tried, dead - list of the Main Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes (GK BZH), Adam Czerniakow, appendix 10)]

(3)

fragments partly printed in 'Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto'

(11)

a German

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Ernest, Stefan Pam. „Trzeci Front. O wojnie wielkich Niemiec z Żydami Warszawy 1939-1943” (On the War of Great Germany with the Jews 1939 – 1943)

(3)

Warm, Ber; fragments of testimonies in: Michal Grynberg, Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto, transl. Philip Boehm, Picador, New York, 2003.

(4)

Tyszka, Leon; Sukcesy i kleski jednego zycia (Successes and Failures of One Life)

(6)

Documents from the State Archive of New Records regarding the Warsaw Ghetto

(7)

Adler, Stanisław, <> , <>

(9)

name unknown

(11)

Czerniakow, Adam; Adama Czerniakowa dziennik getta warszawskiego. 6 IX 1939 - 23 VII 1942, (The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow)

(1) 71,277, (3) [3,7,11,12], (4) [51], (5) , str. 75, cz.2 str.33, (6) [28,, s., 79], (8) 50, (9) [s., 122], (10) ,168, (11) 62(przyp.) - 64;86; 297