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Correspondence of Efraim and Kathe Preschel in France and Bolivia with their family in Germany, Poland, Belgium, Argentina, Holland and other places, from the years 1938-1946

Correspondence of Efraim and Kathe Preschel in France and Bolivia with their family in Germany, Poland, Belgium, Argentina, Holland and other places, from the years 1938-1946 - Correspondence conducted by Efraim Preschel and his wife Kathe (Korn) in Paris and Bolivia with their family, friends and various organizations including: --- Correspondence with Leser and Anna Korn in Dortmund, Gorlice and Zbąszyń from 1938-1941. Attached is a postcard sent by Leser Korn in Zbąszyń to the Baumwald family in Mandatory Palestine in 1939; --- Red Cross letter sent by Efraim and Kathe Preschel in Bolivia to David Leser...

File Number : 5160

Type of Material : Envelope, הודעה, Application, Letter, Postcard, Passport, Telegram, Personal Documents, Announcement, כתובה, קבלות, Red Cross Letter, Certification, Appeal to the Authorities, תעודת בית הספר, Financial Records, Death Certificate, Genealogy, Birth Certificate

Language : Spanish, Polish, French, English, German, Yiddish, Aramaic

Testimony of Esther Maria Katz (Chik), born in 1927 in Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in the Slatina Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Sudetenland

Testimony of Esther Maria Katz (Chik), born in 1927 in Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in the Slatina Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Sudetenland Daughter of a large Orthodox religious family in Czechoslovakia; her father's work as a tailor; antisemitism; the area’s re-annexation into Hungary; publication of anti-Jewish decrees and laws; life under curfew; the cessation of school studies; sawmill work; deportation to the Slatina Ghetto during Passover of 1944; life in the ghetto for seven weeks; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selection in the camp; the murder of her mother and little...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chana (Shtargarter) Kochman, born in 1926 in Glogau, Germany, about her experiences in Nazi Germany and emigration to Wembley, England, in the Kindertransport

Testimony

Testimony of Chana (Shtargarter) Kochman, born in 1926 in Glogau, Germany, about her experiences in Nazi Germany and emigration to Wembley, England, in the Kindertransport Childhood in Glogau; Hitler and the Nazis rise to power in 1933; antisemitism and restrictions; Kristallnacht riots; father arrested and sent to Sachsenhausen in 1938; witness expelled from public school; father released; witness crosses Breslau and Berlin and joins a Kindertransport group in 1939; crosses the Netherlands and reaches London in July 1939; placed with adoptive parents, Richardand Rose Cohen, in Wembley, England, in 1939; the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew