Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

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Testimony of Joseph Erwin Steinbrecher, born in Vienna, Austria, 1923, regarding his experiences in Dachau, Buchenwald, Vienna and and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Erwin Steinbrecher, born in Vienna, Austria, 1923, regarding his experiences in Dachau, Buchenwald, Vienna and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939 From a well-to-do family; his father was a soldier in World War I; education; Hanoar Hatzioni activities. Anschluss, 1938; deportation to Dachau; transfer to Buchenwald; camp life including labor cleaning streets; Kristallnacht, November 1938; escape attempts to Belgium; return to Vienna; life in Vienna including his brother's transfer to the United States; aliya to Eretz Israel on, the ship, "Galileo", 1939. Emigration of his parents to the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of the German News Service, 1934-1945

Documentation of the German News Service, 1934-1945 News and articles of the News Service, relating to, among others, the Jewish influence on the arts and the struggle against it in Germany and in other countries; the study of race; sport and physical education activity in Nazi Germany; antisemitism in various countries (among others, news regarding the showing of the film, "Jud Suess" in various countries); The material also includes collections of earlier news from the News Service that are related to Jewish matters, among them material from the years before the Nazis' rise to power.

Type of Material : Article, Film

Language : German

Blank form for a membership card in the Lodz Maccabi Sport Club, 1946

File Number : 251

Type of Material : Membership Cards

Language : Polish

Testimony of Chava (Hahn) Goldstein, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Chava (Hahn) Goldstein, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt From a non-observant well-to-do family; attends school until Grade 11; her twin sister makes aliya to Eretz Israel before the outbreak of the war; Hechalutz agricultural aliya training; return to Prague. Volunteers in the Jewish community during the deportation of many of the Prague Jews to Theresienstadt; deportation to Theresienstadt, July 1943; labor as a caregiver for children; labor sewing uniforms which spares her from deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; participation in the...

File Number : 9809

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dr. Robert Atlasz, born in Berlin, Germany, 1898, regarding his experiences as a Jewish sports official in Germany after 1933, Jewish sport associations and Jewish sport activities under Nazi rule Dr. Robert Atlasz, a Berlin dentist who was active in Macabbi in Germany made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1937, where he continued in his lifelong commitment to sport and Macabbi. He was in charge of sports for the World Maccabiah Games of 1950, 1953, 1957, and 1961, and a member of the Israel Olympic Committee from 1959 until his death in 1990. - Introduction prepared by Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri...

File Number : 233

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

To be translated

Type of Material : Survey Report, Record of Persecuted Persons, Official Documentation, Charter

Language : German

Documentation of the Magistrates Court of Law in St. Wendel (Amtsgericht St. Wendel) in the Saar region, 1933-1939

Documentation of the Magistrates Court of Law in St. Wendel (Amtsgericht St. Wendel) in the Saar region, 1933-1939 Included in the collection are, in most part, the regulations of local associations (the Red Cross organization, Volunteer Firefighters, and sports organizations), including a clause that bans the membership of "non-Aryans" in the organization. Also in the collection: a file that includes an order from 1933 that details the conditions of the detainees in the prison in St. Wendel; the file mentions Jewish detainees.

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Official Documentation, Charter

Language : German

Documentation of the Magistrates Court of Law in Neunkirchen (Amtsgericht Neunkirchen) in the Saar region, 1925-1935

Documentation of the Magistrates Court of Law in Neunkirchen (Amtsgericht Neunkirchen) in the Saar region, 1925-1935 Included in the collection are excerpts from regulations of German and Nazi organizations, in which they ban the membership of Jews.

Type of Material : Charter, Official Documentation, Legal Documentation

Language : German

Documentation from the Magistrates Courts of Law (Amtsgerichte) of Blieskastel, Merzig, Nohfelden and Tholey in the Saar region, 1930-1952

Documentation from the Magistrates Courts of Law (Amtsgerichte) of Blieskastel, Merzig, Nohfelden and Tholey in the Saar region, 1930-1952 Included in the collection: Files of Jewish communities (Brotdorf, Sötern and Bosen) and files of various associations - mainly sports and Nazi associations, including excerpts from the regulations of the business association that ban membership by Jews.

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Charter, Official Documentation

Language : German