A: Historical Sources on the Literary Narrative

Simon Wiesenthal’s Synopsis for “The Sunflower”

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Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Simon Wiesenthal Archives (on loan from BJVN), VWI-SWA,II.1A.1.6.1 Original in English.

Three Drawings of the Janowska Concentration Camp by Zeev Porath, 1943

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1943-04 | Janowska Concentration Camp

Ghetto Fighters Archives, Israel, The Zeev Porath Collection, Catalogue No. 33363.6 Original in Polish. Translated by Katarzyna Nowak.

Simon Wiesenthal’s Curriculum Vitae, 1945. Sent to the U.S. Camp Commander, Camp Mauthausen. Date: May 25, 1945.

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1945-05-25 | Mauthausen DP Camp

Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Simon Wiesenthal Archives (on loan from BJVN), VWI-SWA,II.1A.II.6.1 Original in English.

Simon Wiesenthal’s Map of the Jewish Mass-Graves and Concentration Camps-Cemeteries in Austria, 1948

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1948 | Linz

Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Simon Wiesenthal Archives (on loan from BJVN), VWI-SWA,XI.3 Original in German, English, French and Russian.

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.

Correspondence between Simon Wiesenthal and H. G. van Damm regarding the Janowska concentration camp commander Gustav Willhaus and his widow

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1958-12-09 | Düsseldorf

Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Simon Wiesenthal Archives (on loan from BJVN), VWI.SWA,III.1.5.216. Original in German.

Correspondence between Simon Wiesenthal and Isidor Gelbart regarding their time together in Buczacz and possible witnesses for the upcoming Galicia Trial, 1960

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1960-07-24 | Munich

Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Simon Wiesenthal Archives (on loan from BJVN), VWI-SWA, III.1.6.153 Original in German.

Letter by Simon Wiesenthal to the Austrian Ministry of Interior about the crimes committed by the Wachtbataillon 171 in Dnepropetrovsk attaching an excerpt of a memoir of a former member, 1964

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1954-08 | Vienna

Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Simon Wiesenthal Archives (on loan from BJVN), VWI.SWA,I.1.691_Dnepropetrowsk Original in German.

Letter from the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Regional Court of Stuttgart to Simon Wiesenthal regarding his testimony, 1966

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1966-09-16 | Stuttgart

Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Simon Wiesenthal Archives,I.1.2328.2_Lemberg. Original in German.

“Victims were selected for the ‘death tango’”, an article about the Lemberg Trial in “Stadt-Nachrichten”, 1966

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1966-11-23 | Stuttgart

Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Simon Wiesenthal Archives,I.1.2328.11_Lemberg. Original in German.

Simon Wiesenthal’s witness statement in the Lemberg Trial, an article in the “Stadt-Nachrichten”, 1966

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1966-12-16 | Stuttgart

Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Simon Wiesenthal Archives,I.1.2328.11_Lemberg. Original in German.

Excerpt of an interview with Hermann Lewinter, photographer of the Janowska concentration camp, 1989

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1989-07-03 | no place

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), RG-50.165*0066. Original in English.

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