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File Number : JM/11212

Type of Material : Official Documentation, List of Residents, Statistical Report, Correspondence

Language : Russian, German

Letters written by Sylvia Brodfeld, an activist in the FTP-MOI underground organization in the Frenses prison in Romainville and in Drancy camp, correspondence of Max and Leon Brodfeld in Drancy camp with their female relative in Paris and letters they wrote in Blechhammer camp, 1941-1943 - Correspondence of Max and Leon Brodfeld in Drancy camp with their female relative in Paris, 1941; - Letters written by Sylvia Brodfeld, activist in the FTP-MOI underground organization in the Frenses prison in Romainville and in Drancy camp, 1942-1943; - Letters written by Max and Leon Brodfeld in Blechhammer camp,...

File Number : 1532

Type of Material : Letter

Language : French

Testimony of Abram Pogrebetzki regarding his experiences in the Red Army in the Mozdok region, in Stary Oskol, in Prokhorovka and in prison in Drogobych

Testimony of Abram Pogrebetzki regarding his experiences in the Red Army in the Mozdok region, in Stary Oskol, in Prokhorovka and in prison in Drogobych Meeting Sasha Tysman at the Military College in Baku; fighting in battles in the Mozdok area in 1942, at Stary Oskol and Prokhorovka; wounded and taken captive on 5 June 1943; manifestations of antisemitism on the part of the Ukrainian soldiers; the murder of Sasha Tysman and two other Jewish soldiers by a German officer in the Prokhorovka area; transfer by train to the camp; escape on the way to the camp; detention in a prison in Drogobych; he and ten other...

File Number : 5821

Type of Material : Record of Murdered Persons, Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Marcel Eintracht, born in Krakow, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Montelupich prison in Krakow

Testimony of Marcel Eintracht, born in Krakow, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Montelupich prison in Krakow Labor in a garage, in reasonable conditions; transfer of the laborers' residence to Montelupich prison in Krakow, 20 October 1942; 80 inmates reside in one cell; he walks to labor at the garage, each day; abuse by the Ukrainian guards; possibility of smuggling food, in exchange for goods from the storerooms; evacuation of the prison before the entry of the Red Army, 18 January 1945; escape from a transport, near Skawina; in hiding for four days, until the liberation.

File Number : 496

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Literary description written by Schalom Ben-Chorin (Fritz Rosenthal), the journalist and religious scholar, regarding his detention, imprisonment and release by the Gestapo at the Ettstarasse prison in Munich, April and November 1933 Arrest of Shalom Ben-Chorin in the home of his mother (Marie Rosenthal) in Munich by the Gestapo; confiscation of a literary manuscript and Hoelderlin's Hyperion; humiliation and a harsh beating leading to fracture of his nasal bone; two separate detentions in the Munich Ettstrasse police prison, one for two days, in April 1933, and one for six days, in November 1933; detailed...

File Number : 109

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German

Documentation from the State Archive in Warsaw, Poland (Archiwum Panstwowe w Warszawie - APW), 1939-1950

Official documentation from the State Archive in Warsaw, including documentation from various places in the Warsaw district. Included in the documentation are the following collections' sub-record groups: Documents of the Warsaw province and the Warsaw municipality, and the local administration (county and commune) in Warsaw, Ostrowia Mazowiecka and Minsk; Courts of Law (the Special Court, District Court, Provincial Court and Municipal Court) in: Warsaw, Żyrardow, Ciechanów, Mława, Przasnysz and Płock; Prosecutors' Offices in Warsaw, Ciechanów and Ełk; Police in Warsaw, Garwolin and Ciechanów; Prisons in...

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Administrative Documentation, Legal Documentation

Language : Polish, Russian, German, Yiddish

Testimony of Fani (Hershkovitz) Nacht, born in Galați, Romania in 1929, regarding her experiences in Galați

Testimony

Testimony of Fani (Hershkovitz) Nacht, born in Galați, Romania in 1929, regarding her experiences in Galați Family life in Galați before the war; anti-Jewish legislation from the late 1930s; expulsion from Romanian schools; antisemitism from the local population; wearing a yellow badge; curfew during some hours of the day; transfer of her brother to forced labor; closure of the Jewish school; use of the school building as a detention center for men; arrest of her father; Zionist activity; liberation by the Red Army in summer 1944; life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1949; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Liselotte Heimeman Vertheim, born in Düsseldorf, Germany in 1926, regarding the Nazis’ rise to power in Germany and her escape to Antwerp in June 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Liselotte Heimeman Vertheim, born in Düsseldorf, Germany in 1926, regarding the Nazis’ rise to power in Germany and her escape to Antwerp in June 1939 Family with roots in Germany; Zionist family; father’s participation in the Zionist Congress; attending a public school; Nazis’ rise to power in 1933; grandfather and uncles move to the Netherlands; father visits Eretz Israel; transfer to a Jewish school; life in Jewish society until 1937; father’s arrest for transferring money to her grandfather and uncle who live in the Netherlands; he is held in several prisons until his deportation to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Documentation of the detention center of the administration for the keeping of order in Mogilev, 1941-1944

Documentation of the detention center of the administration for the keeping of order in Mogilev, 1941-1944 Included in the collection: - Lists of inmates and detainees; - Orders by the local authorities; - Documentation of the Ordnungsdienst (Order Service); - Personal files of detained Jews; - Statistical reports regarding inmates.

Type of Material : Order, Official Documentation, Reports, Correspondence, List of Inmates

Language : Belarusian, Russian, German

Excerpt from a diary kept by Ágnes Nussbaum during her detention in prison in Temesvár, 1944

Excerpt from a diary kept by Ágnes Nussbaum during her detention in prison in Temesvár, 1944 Rules imposed on the inmates on the days that families came to visit at the prison in Temesvár; behavior of the warders; visit of Uncle Lajos and transfer of a parcel to Ágnes; announcement from her uncle that Ágnes' mother is alive and in Budapest.

File Number : 9628

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Hungarian

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