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Letters and postcards sent by Max Mendelsohn from Saint Cyprien, Savigny and Gurs camps in France to his wife Betty and his daughter Anne in Brussels, Belgium, 1940-1942

Letters and postcards sent by Max Mendelsohn from Saint Cyprien, Savigny and Gurs camps in France to his wife Betty and his daughter Anne in Brussels, Belgium, 1940-1942 Comments (by the submitter of the material, Anne [Mendelsohn] Wigoda): Max Mendelsohn was born in Breslau, Germany, 11/11/1902; he resided in Berlin where he met his wife Betty Barnas, who was born on 03/02/1902; their daughter Anne was born in Berlin, 03/08/1923; move of the family to Brussels, 1938; capture of Max, and his deportation to Saint Cyprien camp, 1940; his transfer to Savigny and Gurs camps later; his transfer to Drancy camp,...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1846

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Postcard, Letter, Red Cross Letter

results.listIds.lang : French, German

Personal file of Zaja Szmir and his family, Jewish refugees from Poland who illegally crossed the Swiss border; information regarding the return of Zaja and Fanny Szmir across the border by the Swiss authorities, and the fate of their son, Hory, 1944 Police report regarding Zaja Szmir and his family, Jewish refugees from Poland, completed by a Swiss border police officer in Chancy, Switzerland, 14 April 1944: - Zaja Szmir, a leather craftsman, born 15 March 1903, his wife Fanny, born 05 April 1912, and their child, Hory, born 20 April 1938, were arrested on the Vers Vaux road, near Chancy, Switzerland, by...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 119

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Record of Persecuted Persons, Official Documentation, Questionnaire, Form

results.listIds.lang : French

Memoirs of Lilly Reckendorf regarding her experiences in Freiburg, Gurs camp and Switzerland

Memoirs of Lilly Reckendorf regarding her experiences in Freiburg, Gurs camp and Switzerland Deportation from Freiburg, 22 October 1940; life in Gurs camp; escape to Switzerland. Life in Switzerland.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1870

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : German

Testimony of Yitzhak Kramer, born in Bonn, Germany, 1925, regarding his experiences in Germany and France

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Testimony of Yitzhak Kramer, born in Bonn, Germany, 1925, regarding his experiences in Germany and France Antisemitism in Worms before the war; Kristallnacht events, November 1938. Life in Mannheim, 1938-1940; deportation with his family to Gurs and Rivesaltes camps in France and his stay in camp until June 1942; camp life; help to children by the Swiss Red Cross; Jewish Scouts activities with help from the YMCA; transfer to Lautrec, June 1942; unsuccessful attempt to escape to Switzerland, September 1942; detention in a prison in Annecy; release from prison because he is a minor; life in Guitalens while...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 6677

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Amira (Charlotte Siesel) Getzov, born in Coesfeld, Germany, 1929, regarding her experiences as a child in Gurs, Rivesaltes, Montintin, Grenoble and other places

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Testimony of Amira (Charlotte Siesel) Getzov, born in Coesfeld, Germany, 1929, regarding her experiences as a child in Gurs, Rivesaltes, Montintin, Grenoble and other places From an assimilated family; family moves to Mannheim, 1934; relations with the local population. Deportation to Gurs with the Jews, late 1940; camp life for a few months; transfer to Rivesaltes; transfer to a Jewish children's home in Montintin with a group of children, late 1941; transfer to a Jewish children's home in Couret; return to Rivesaltes after a few months; transfer in the direction of Drancy with her parents; rescue by a...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 5987

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Letters sent by members of the Fishel family in Antwerp to Leonard and Bernard Fishel in a camp in Germany in 1942, and documentation regarding the extended Fishel and Brunner families from Belgium

Letters sent by members of the Fishel family in Antwerp to Leonard and Bernard Fishel in a camp in Germany in 1942, and documentation regarding the extended Fishel and Brunner families from Belgium - Letters sent by Mendel and Emily Fishel and their son Leon Fishel in Antwerp, to Leonard and Bernard Fishel in Camp Ilag VIII in Tost, during April-August 1942. The last letter was written on 21 August 1942, the day Mendel and Emily Fishel were transferred to Mechelen camp; The letters are presented as an appendix to the research paper "Caught up in the Torments of the Shoah" - records of Melvyn George Fishel...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 5055

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Genealogy, Documentary, Letter, עבודת מחקר

results.listIds.lang : English, Dutch

Letters and postcards written by Josephine (Suess) Levi in Mannheim, and in Gurs, Recebedou, Noe and Le Vernet camps, and sent to her daughter Ilse in Eretz Israel during 1938-1944; personal documentation regarding Ernst Sender and Ilse (Levi) Sender Letters (original): - Letters written by Josephine (Suess) Levi in Mannheim and sent to her daughter Ilse in Eretz Israel, 1938-1939; - Additional letters written by Josephine Levi (apparently in Mannheim) and sent to her daughter in Eretz Israel, undated; - Letters to Ilse and Ernst, written by their relatives in Amsterdam, 1938-1940; - Two letters...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 4426

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter, Postcard, Red Cross Letter, כתובה, Personal Documents

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, English, German

Letters from Samuel Billig in the Les Milles camp to his wife Erna and their daughter Recha in the Gurs camp, 1941-1942; correspondence with their relatives in Karlsruhe, and more from that same period The file includes: - Letter written by Samuel Billig in the Gurs camp to the Koenig family and Frieda, 01 January 1941; - Letters sent by Samuel Billig from the Les Milles camp to his wife Erna Billig and their daughter Recha in the Gurs camp, 1941-1942 (the last letter was written 08 February 1942); - Letters sent to Erna and Recha by the Koenig family (the main writer was Frida) in Saint Junien,...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 4540

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Postcard, Envelope, Letter

results.listIds.lang : German

Red Cross letters sent by Therese Vogelhut in the Noe camp to her son Karl Vogelhut in England, August-December 1942

Red Cross letters sent by Therese Vogelhut in the Noe camp to her son Karl Vogelhut in England, August-December 1942 - Four Red Cross letters sent by Therese Vogelhut in the Noe camp to her son Karl Vogelhut in England, August-December 1942; the last letter was written by her on 28 December; in these letters Therese expresses dissatisfaction because she has not had any information regarding her sons Heinrich and Leopold (Zvi Vogelhut Zippori, the father of Yair Zippori) who at that time were already in Eretz Israel. Also in the file: - Photocopies of ITS documents pertaining to Therese (Ribas) Vogelhut...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 3757

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Official Documentation, Documentary, Red Cross Letter

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, English, German

Letter written by Herbert Berger at the Noé camp, 17 August 1942

Letter written by Herbert Berger at the Noé camp, 17 August 1942 - Very low resolution copy (almost illegible) of a letter written by Herbert Berger at the Noé camp, 17 August 1942. Notes from Ilana Drori who submitted the material: Herbert Berger was born in Berlin in 1894. When he was 10 years old, he moved to his cousin in Chemnitz who had a factory where Herbert learned his profession. Afterwards he also became a factory owner. He perished in Majdanek in 1943; his daughter Ilana Drori, who submitted the material, was sent to Sweden when she was 14 years old.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 3011

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter

results.listIds.lang : German

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