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Testimony of Yochanan Joachim Strassman, born in Altenburg, Germany, 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in Altenburg, Berlin and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Yochanan Joachim Strassman, born in Altenburg, Germany, 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in Altenburg, Berlin and Theresienstadt Life before the war; son in a traditional family; deportation of his father who is a Polish citizen to Poland. Kristallnacht and destruction of the family business, 09 September 1938; eviction with his mother and brother from their home; escape between German homes; his mother is forced to go to Gestapo headquarters; Gestapo attempts to persuade the mother to give up on the witness and his brother in exchange for her rescue; deportation of the mother by...

File Number : 13051

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Official documentation including the protocol of the trial of Hermann Krumey, Gerhard Maywald, Friedrich Bosshammer and others in Berlin; protocols from pre-trial hearings of senior Gestapo, Police and SS personnel, and testimonies of Jewish survivors, 1953-1968 - General information regarding the German administration, the SS, Gestapo and Police in the Lodz Ghetto, the organizational structure of the Lodz Ghetto; deportations from the Lodz Ghetto; executions in the Lodz Ghetto; interviews with German perpetrators in the Lodz region; - Execution in Zgierz ; - Sonderkommando 1005; re-opening of mass...

File Number : 60

Type of Material : Investigation Report, Testimony

Language : German

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin for murder (deportation of Jews to extermination camps); Examination of witnesses and Jewish victims; general information concerning the camps in Berlin and "Special Actions" ("Sonderaktionen") against the Berlin Jews, 1964 - 1965 The file includes i. A.: - Testimonies by junior officials of the Gestapoleitstelle and the RSHA (mostly from the administration) with little or no relevant information about the prosecution and deportation of the Jews. - Testimonies of Jewish survivors from Berlin, including baptized Jews;...

File Number : 1

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German

Documentation and memoirs of Hilda Kahan, a nurse in the Jewish hospital in Berlin, 1939-1945

Documentation and memoirs of Hilda Kahan, a nurse in the Jewish hospital in Berlin, 1939-1945 In the file: - Memoirs of Hilda Kahan from the Holocaust period, regarding her work as a nurse in the Jewish hospital in Berlin, 1939-1945 (two copies), and photocopies of newspaper clippings regarding the Jewish hospital; - Photocopies of personal documents of Hilda Kahan (originals in the safe); - Testimony of Hilda Kahan at the trial of Fritz Wohrn regarding the deportation of the Jews of Berlin, including correspondence and newspaper clippings concerninging the trial, and a schematic map of the...

File Number : 190

Type of Material : Interview(s), Legal Documentation, Personal Documents, Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation, Memoirs, Map, Investigation Report

Language : English, German

Correspondence between members of the Brüg family and members of their family in Gera, Berlin, England, and the Belzyce and Radawiec camps, 1938-1942; other documentation pertaining to the members of the family Correspondence in German between members of the Brüg family and members of their family in Germany, England, and the camps in Poland, along with comments, explanations and translations by Günter Brüg in English (scan); - Letters sent by Günter Brüg to members of his family, May-September 1938; - Letters and postcards sent by Günter Brüg from England to members of his family in Germany, July...

File Number : 3620

Type of Material : Telegram, Personal Documents, Correspondence, Postcard, Letter, Photograph, Red Cross Letter, Certification

Language : English, German