Bad Rabka and Zakopane – SD School’s
“The Schools for Scoundrels”
Establishment of SD School at Zakopane
During the first months after the occupation of Poland, the Commander –in – Chief of the Security Police (Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienst) SS- Brigadefuhrer Bruno Streckenbach founded the Sipo- SD School close to the Slovak border in Zakopane.
Zakopane a winter resort at the bottom of the high Tatra mountains, the purpose of the school was to train selected candidates of the Sipo-SD, collaborating Ukrainians, Polish Police Officers and other Sipo-SD personnel including intelligence gathering sympathisers (V- Agents) under the leadership of the Commandant SS- Hauptsturmfuhrer Hans Kruger.
Zakopane was turned into an entertainment centre for senior officers of the SS and Werhmacht, all Jews were supposed to have been removed from the district by the end of November 1939, and in 1940 this was achieved.
The Nazis had set them to work uncovering hidden Jewish “treasures” in the town. Some two-hundred documents relating to the three years of the activity of the Judenrat in Zakopane have survived the war. Immediately after the Nazi take-over, Zakopane’s largest hotel, the “Palace” was converted into the headquarters of the Gestapo. The main hall on the first floor of the hotel was reserved for dances and entertainment for the officers.
Part of the building served as the “labour bureau,” where Jews were sent to register for forced labour. The deep cellars served as an interrogation centre and prison for Jews accused of breaking Nazi rules. According to a number of Jewish witnesses who survived the war, as many as 300 Jews were murdered at the “Palace,” many of them women and children. The “Palace” was known locally as “Death’s Head Resort.”
The leading Nazi officials at the time were the Chief of Gestapo, Robert Weissmann, and his deputy Richard Samish. In late 1939, on the outskirts of Zakopane the Sipo- SD Academy was established in the Hotel “Stamary.” On 20 April 1940, SS- Untersturmfuhrer Wilhelm Rosenbaum was appointed as Police Secretary at the school and deputy to the Commandant SS- Hauptsturmfuhrer Hans Kruger.
Rosenbaum’s duties were more of a pastoral care nature, arranging board and lodgings, salaries, welfare of conscripts and general administrative duties. Among the other permanent staff were the brothers Wilhelm and Johann Mauer, who had been seconded for duty at the school.
The brothers, once officers in the Polish army and who spoke Ukrainian, their sister, Lisa Schumacher, nee Kaufmann, performed office work. The kitchen and feeding arrangements were organised by local Polish personnel, the curriculum and training at the school, underwent changes as the war progressed of the war.
Selective recruitment of the SS security services, Ukrainian and Polish collaborators were trained in intelligence and counter-intelligence activities. In Zakopane, through the intermediary of the Jewish Council (Judenrat) Rosenbaum selected male and female workers from the Jewish population for maintenance and cleaning work, care of the gardens and other heavy manual tasks.
The Jew, Paul Beck, was appointed overseer of the Jewish workers to liaise with the SS. With his experience in practical things and a good portion of deceitfulness, Beck who spoke a number of languages knew how to conduct himself and mediate between the Jewish workers and the German authorities.
When in July 1940, the school and its permanent staff moved from Zakopane to Bad Rabka, a number of Jewish workers, among them Paul Beck, to move there. It was at this time the Jews residing in the surrounding areas began to feel and experience the Nazi onslaught on their communities.
The SD School Moves to Bad Rabka
Bad Rabka was a small health resort located on both sides of the Raba River and halfway between Krakow and Zakopane. At the outbreak of war there were approximately 7,000 inhabitants in Rabka. The Jewish population was about 1,500, which increased during the early part of the war. Relatives and friends of the local Jews moved from the larger towns to the area less exposed to persecution elsewhere. This was an age-old custom of Jews who sought protection and comfort in numbers in times of stress.
Institutions and offices of the Reich and Wehrmacht as well as other organizations, established themselves in Bad Rabka. Apart from the local Governor’s office and government departments, there was a military convalescent home, children’s homes and a German guesthouse. Bad Rabka enjoyed all the trappings of a small town, well-served by both road and rail. The adjoining railway station of Chabowka was a central junction for the larger towns in Poland, which also served Bad Rabka.
The SD School initially occupied premises of a requisitioned Jewish religious institution for children, situated near the Chabowka railway station. In the late autumn the school moved to new and much larger premises to the “Theresianeum,” also called Thereska, a high school for girls.
The four-storey building was located in the northern part of the town called Slonna, on a tree –covered slope alongside the Slonna River, that flowed into the the Raba River. SS- Hauptsturmfuhrer Hans Kruger arrived with his entourage to the newly converted school and remained there for a short time, when he was recalled to Krakow to take up the duties of deputy to the BdS Dr Eberhardt Schongarth.
For a short period SS- Hauptsturmfuhrer Rudolf Voigtlander took over the command of the school, but within a few weeks Rosenbaum was appointed Commandant of the school, where he remained until April 1941, when he was also recalled to Dr Schongarth’s office for preparatory work for “Operation Barbarossa”, the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
The SD – Sipo school at Bad Rabka’s activities were suspended but retained a small staff to look after the premises. The school did not recommence activities until November 1941, when both Dr Schorngarth, and Rosenbaum returned from military duties in East Galicia.
In the late autumn of 1941, when Dr Schongarth’s Einsatzgruppen (zbV) had been disbanded and the personnel distributed throughout East Galicia, Schongarth and Rosenbaum returned to Krakow. Dr Schongarth resumed his duties as Commander –in Chief of the Security Police (BdS), whilst Rosenbaum returned to Bad Rabka as Economic Leader (Wirtscharfuhrer) of the SD- Sipo school to prepare and rebuild the school for new courses.
Within days of the Rabka School becoming operational, a large black flag and a swastika was prominently mounted on the roof, and in large black letters, the following was displayed across the top floor of the building.
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BEFEHLSHABER der SICHERHEITSPOLIZEI und des SD im GG SCHULE des SICHERHEITSPOLIZEI
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Rosenbaum had no authority or influence in the educational training at the school. As “Wirtschaftsbeamter” his duties were the same as in Zakopane, that is to arrange accommodation for students attending courses.
As a measure of Dr Schongarth’s opinion of him, Rosenbaum was titled “Headmaster” but despite this unflattering title, as Commandant of the School he wielded enormous power. Rosenbaum remained as administrator of the School until the spring of 1943, when the activities of the school were the subject to internal SS criminal and corruption investigations, when he was removed to other duties. During this period, the crimes for which he was indicted after the war were committed.
Candidates
Selected candidates for the school were recruited from a number of sources, but mainly from the Security Services, Polish Police officers, Ukrainian Security collaborators, including Ukrainian Prisoners of War from internment camps, and the more established SS training camp at Trawniki, near Lublin. Ukrainian candidates were required to be healthy men between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five who were ranked and segregated according to their standard of education.
The Rabka School since its transfer from Zakopane had introduced specialist Ukrainian instructors, namely the Mauer brothers, and SS-Scharfuhrer’s Wosdolowicz, Jaworski and Vasilko, who were all previously at Zakopane, and transferred to Bad Rabka to supervise and train Ukrainian recruits.
In overall command of training was SS-Scharfuhrer’s Bohnert and Schuppler, who had been members of the permanent staff since November 1940. SS- Scharfuhrer Bandure was the school driver and SS-Scharfuhrer Dziuba was the clerical officer. SS-Oberscharfuhrer Hermann Oder joined the school in March 1942 and SS- Hauptscharfuhrer’s Walter Proch and Pohland joined the small team in July 1942, and acted as deputies to Rosenbaum.
Read more here: http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/sdschool.html
The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
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We live with Holocaust deniers who poison vulnerable young minds with their venomous drivel. If we allow them to revise history, then the Holocaust can occur again in a future generation.
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I wrote about the Holocaust because I felt it critical to discount Holocaust deniers. These mendacious historical revisers desire only one thing – to finish that which Hitler began with the Jewish people. There are many vulnerable individuals whose weak minds can be turned into hatred of minorities. It happened in 20th Century Europe. It can happen again. If we had learned from the Holocaust, we would not have witnessed Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda or Darfur. Prejudice continues. Someone has to stop the blind hatred.
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The worst characterization of the human experience is revealed through religious, ethnic, gender or racial prejudice. Only when we learn to value the differences among us will humankind move forward into a bright future. If we fail to learn this lesson, only darkness remains for our progeny.
You can learn more about the Holocuat here http://jacobscourage.wordpress.com/. The book is available through all major retailers, as a Kindle book and a Smashwords download. Let’s hope that our children will be more tolerant than our parents were.
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Debating with Holocaust Denier is a foolish endeavor.
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Whilst many “Self-Proclaimed Debunkers of Revisionism” believe they are doing something noble by “giving the Deniers a hard time” you are in essence accomplishing nothing but validating that a ludicrous revisionist viewpoint has any merit what so ever.
Forcing Holocaust Deniers to lose composure doesn’t discredit the Denier. It simply proves the Denier is just as human as the rest of us and can react adversely when challenged.
(We would remind all that the Holocaust isn’t a game where points are awarded to whichever side makes a better argument. Millions died in unimaginable suffering. If you need to play a game that proves your intellect we would recommed a friendly game of Chess perhaps?)
It is the view of the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team that the period of history known as the Holocaust [Shoah], the program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, and its collaborators towards the Jewish peoples in Europe but also including ethnic Poles, the Romani, Soviet civilians, Soviet prisoners of war, people with disabilities, gay men, and political and religious opponents can NEVER BE DENIED.
Any claim that the Shoah never happened, that the resources of the Third Reich never murdered almost a million Jews and political opponents in mass shootings. That entire communities of Jews and Romani were not crammed into ghettos before being transported by freight train to extermination camps where, if they survived the journey, the majority of them were killed in gas chambers is a claim designed purely to stir controversy.
Validating the arguments of Holocaust Deniers via anonymous online debates offers no value to the cause of Holocaust remembrance and no value to history or posterity.
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So mankind won’t forever be doomed to repeat the evils of the past.
The Holocaust can never be denied.
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Dear H.E.A.R.T
I couldn’t agree more with your statements.
60 years after the Holocaust happened arguing with those who choose to deny out of their own racial hatred is just silly.
I don’t care about making a Holocaust denier look badly.
They already do that themselves the moment they promulgate their venomous propaganda.
Maya Jansen
New York, NY
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I NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE LOGIC IN ARGUING WITH HOLOCAUST DENIERS IT ALWAYS SEEMED TO ME TO BE AN EXERCISE IN FUTILITY.
YOU GUYS ALSO MAKE A GOOD POINT ABOUT THOSE SELF PROCLAIMED DEBUNKERS OF REVISIONISM.
WHEN YOU READ HOW THEY BEHAVE ITS CLEAR THEY ARE ONLY DEBATING FOR THE FUN OF THE DEBATE AND REALLY COULD CARE LESS ABOUT THE VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST.
I THINK IN MANY CASES THEY DO MORE FOR THE REVISIONIST CAUSE THAN THE DENIERS DO THEMSELVES!
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Intriguing article. I will have to rewatch the Lanzmann documentary SHOAH as I now have some deeper understanding thanks to your website.
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My grand parents perished in the Holocaust and were both from Brody.
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Los Angeles, California
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An incredible read! My thanks to Mr. Lisciotto for posting this report.
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New York, NY USA
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Your organization name: the Holocaust Education and Archive Research Team is proving to be “spot on”.
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Great photo gallery!
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Your website articles are robust and informative and truly honor the victims of the Holocaust.
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Great Britain
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I was intrigued by this peice on Bingel. Your website provides so much depth of coverage on the subject matter I find myself spending hours reading the pages.
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What a bastard this character Mulka was!
I never would have heard of this guy if it wasn’t for the holocaustreseachproject website.
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Your website is really quite excellent.
Your photographic pages are truly rare examples of what Holocaust research is meant to be.
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A very good article on Der Sturmer! One of the best I’ve read online!
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I would love to see some of these stories on the Discovery channel or the History channel!
It seems the only real place to learn about the Holocaust is your website!
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I want to thank the Holocaust Education and Archive Research Team for their wonderful work in creating such an awesome digital memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.
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Thank you for producing these great works!
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To my freinds at HEART – A very well done website you have!
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I saw this revolt portrayed in the film “The Grey Zone”.
A very heartbreaking tale. Both on celluloid and online.
Thank you for publishing it.
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I have never seen the full version of this anti-Semitic publication online anywhere else. I am finding your website to be ever helpful in all of my research initiatives.
Especially those relating to early propaganda and media.
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Mt. Vernon, NY
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Thanks again for posting more of these organisational charts of the Einsatzgruppen reporting structure and areas of operations.
This is great stuff!
Raymond Matz
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Excellent website!
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Does anyone even pay a nutcase like larouche any attention? The guys is a sorry piece of trash!
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Brooklyn, NY
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Best Einsatzgruppen chart I’ve ever seen on the Internet. Will the team be doing the other major groups and kommandos?
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Your website is amazing!
I could spend weeks going through all of this well researched material!
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I WAS RIVETED!
MG
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Does there exist any archival material from the company Hasag (Hugo-Schneider-Aktiengesellschaft), Leipzig, Germany, specifically its armaments division at Skarzysko-Kamienna and affiliated plants, Werke A, B, C, located in Distrikt Radom, of the then Reich Generalgouvernement Polen? The main archive of Hasag no longer exists. The central office building in Leipzig, together with the business archive, was damaged through Allied bombs and then destroyed by self-detonation in early 1945.
Any help is most welcome.
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Great maps! Do you have map like this of Babi Yar?
Izzy
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Greetings to the Holocaust Education and Archive Research Team.
I saw an interview recently with actor Daniel Craig where he mentioned your website and how he used it to research his role for the movie Defiance.
Does the HEART team often provide consultation to film & television media?
Jamie O’Donoghue
Dublin
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Jamie,
Thank you for your note.
H.E.A.R.T is often asked to provide historical consultation to the film/television industry as well as online & print media.
Since all consultation is strictly voluntary – (H.E.A.R.T accepts no compensation for any Holocaust related consultation) – it is often difficult to assist with the many requests we receive on a regular basis.
Team members are often on location throughout Europe, and or working in various archives in the US, UK, Germany and Poland.
UK Director Mr. Chris Webb manages one of the rarest and most comprehensive photo archives to be found anywhere in the world. He spends much of his time identifying, and labeling the many thousands of pictures from the ghettos, and locations of Holocaust atrocities.
US Director Mr. Carmelo Lisciotto spends most of his available time in eastern Poland and the areas of the former Soviet Union conducting extensive research on the activity of the Einsatzgruppen for his book due to be released in 2009.
Other members of the team conduct Holocaust tours, or perform services for Jewish groups as well as with various archives in the review and translation of documents, decodes and other artifacts.
We appreciate your feedback and encourage your continued education in the most infamous period of world history.
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An amazing collection of images!
Thank you for making this gallery available for all to view.
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Your website is an absolute masterpiece!
By far the greatest Holocaust memorial as well as historical record is www.holocaustresearchproject.org
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I attended two of the seminars that Carmelo Lisciotto spoke out and found his lecture on Nazi Propaganda especially interesting.
I am sure his book will be just as interesting
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Thank you for this article on Maly Trostnets. I lost family there and it I am happy to see this memorial website at www.holocaustresearchproject.org
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Tuscon Arizona
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Thank you for posting these heart wrenching stories of the Holocaust.
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USA
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This article was very helpful for a report on World War 2 and the Holocaust.
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LaRouche is scum!
He promotes hatred and bigotry!
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This is very good article on Slovak Jews.
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I thank you for this article on the plight of the Norwegian Jews. Your website is very comprehensive and you don’t often find this level of detail in electronic media.
My thanks,
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A very courageous man Mr. Karski was.
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Very interesting story! Rarely do we get to read about the more subtle aspects of how the Nazi’s exploited Jews during the Holocaust.
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It is more an enquiry as a comment.
Does any records of former inmates exist to Gross Rosen? can you say when a camp number would probably issued.
The number in Question is 39969
Best regards
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This article depicts a lot of stuff very well. How jews were treated while this time period with concentration camps was going on. It shows how they were over powered and didn’t get much to eat at all. Very good article.
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Barbarians!!!
The Nazi SS were barbarians!
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Your piece on the SS is very well done. I appreciate the depth of information as well as the addition of photos and timelines.
Thank you for producing such a great website.
William Benaret
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A unique deposition. Where does your group uncover these documents? German archives?
Aaron Scheliekin
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I’m glad this murderer got what he deserved!
STRIDER
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I read a report at the USHMM authored by Carmelo Lisciotto and was very impressed.
Is he lecturing?
JC
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Thank you for raising the case of Jeremiah Duggan.
To have the support of the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team means a lot to those dedicated to the cause of fighting anti-Semtism and hatred throughout the world.
Ian Woods
Manchester, UK
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Your team does a very nice job with the photo galleries.
They are a great learning tool.
Dr. Bruce Bloom Conn.
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I own a copy of “Shutter Falls” by Mr. Chris Webb and it’s an utterly fantastic photo journey into the many faces of the Holocaust in Poland and Russia!
I highly recommend it.
Sascha Schwartz
Toronto, Canada
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I received my pre-release copy of “Postcards from the Past” by Chris Webb and Arthur Hojin.
I wrote to Mr. Webb regarding the 1st edition print but I understand that he and other members of the team are currently on a site in the Ukraine.
I look forward to the Lisciotto book though.
Tom
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Dear H.E.A.R.T I was told that a book was forthcoming authored by some or all of the members of the team. Do you know when this book will be available and where?
Thanks very much and please keep up the great work.
JSC
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Dear Jill St Claire
We thank you for your kind remarks.
The H-E-A-R-T U.S Director Carmelo Lisciotto has a book expected to be released in spring of 2009. More information on this release will be posted in the Publications section of the HolocaustResearchProject.org website.
In addition several contributors to the H-E-A-R-T website have publications on Aktion Reinhard being released in December.
Stay tuned a lot of material on the way!
Thank you for your interest.
-The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team.
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