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Testimony of Elazar Lasar Kloizner Klausner, born in Frankfurt, Germany, 1923, regarding his experiences in Frankfurt before the war, in Calais, Antwerp, France and Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Elazar Lasar Kloizner Klausner, born in Frankfurt, Germany, 1923, regarding his experiences in Frankfurt before the war, in Calais, Antwerp, France and Switzerland Childhood in a religious home; Hitler's rise to power, 1933; displays of antisemitism before the war; his father's emigration to Antwerp, Belgium; joining his father in Belgium, 1937; escape to Calais, France; return to Antwerp for security reasons. German occupation, 1940; anti-Jewish legislation: yellow badge, travel restrictions, confiscation of property; obtains false documents of a Christian; travel to Paris with a smuggler,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Ralf Joseph Strausberg, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gleiwitz camp, Blechhammer and in hiding in a forest

Testimony

Testimony of Ralf Joseph Strausberg, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gleiwitz camp, Blechhammer and in hiding in a forest Life before the war; religious family with hardships; attends Yavneh school; Beitar and Hashomer Hatzair activities. German occupation, 1939; restrictions on the Jews; confiscation of property; yellow badge; restrictions on movement; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, 1940; ghetto life including forced labor in construction; "Aktions" and in hiding in an attic in a large container; Judenrat activities under the leadership of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Reports sent to the US State Department by US diplomatic delegations in Germany, regarding the Boycott of 01 April 1933 against Jewish businesses, and regarding the Kristallnacht riots, 1933-1938

Reports sent to the US State Department by US diplomatic delegations in Germany, regarding the Boycott of 01 April 1933 against Jewish businesses, and regarding the Kristallnacht riots, 1933-1938 Reports regarding the Boycott of 01 April 1933: - Report by the US Embassy in Berlin, 03/04/1933: Description of the background and aims of the boycott; Nazi Party propaganda; establishment of the "Central Committee for the Struggle against the Propaganda of Terror and for the Jewish Boycott" in Munich, and the local committee for the implementation of the boycott; regulations published regarding the...

File Number : 277

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Survey Report, Lists of Businesses and Skilled Workers, Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Testimony of Rivka Lipkes, born in Radom, 1912, regarding her experiences in hiding in Paris and Saint Martin d'Uriage

Testimony

Testimony of Rivka Lipkes, born in Radom, 1912, regarding her experiences in hiding in Paris and Saint Martin d'Uriage Traditional family; her father owns a workshop for frames and mirrors; witness attends a public school; learns Hebrew in private lessons at home; work with her brother in her father's shop. Illegal immigration to two of her brothers who live in Paris, 1938; odd jobs; in hiding in various places in Paris from May 1940; hidden by a male friend in Saint Martin d'Uriage until the end of the war. Return with her male friend to Paris; marriage to the friend who hid her; aliya to Israel,...

File Number : 8447

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 2787

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Testimony of Bernardo Grosser regarding his activities as Secretary of Delegazione per l'Assistenza degli Emigranti Ebrei (Delegation for the Assistance of Jewish Emigrants- DELASEM)

Testimony of Bernardo Grosser regarding his activities as Secretary of Delegazione per l'Assistenza degli Emigranti Ebrei (Delegation for the Assistance of Jewish Emigrants- DELASEM) Delegazione per l'Assistenza degli Emigranti Ebrei (Delegation for the Assistance of Jewish Emigrants- DELASEM) activities in Genoa, 1939-1941; - Economic support from the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC); - Organizing the emigration of the Jews to Palestine and the United States; - Support for the Jews of Genoa when they were deported to the Ferramonti di Tarsia and Civitella del Tronto detention camps; -...

File Number : 111

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Italian

Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF-General Union of Jews in France), Zone Nord reports regarding the implementation of German directives, a survey of Jewish organizations in France and more, 1942 The material was created by: UGIF, Zone Nord Group 1 Department 14 Liaison Records SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Dannecker In the file: UGIF reports regarding the implementation of various German directives Also in the file: - Directives issued,10 July 1942, by the Reich Security Main Office to Theodor Dannecker regarding prevention of immigration of Jews from France to the United States via Spain,...

File Number : 65

Type of Material : Survey Report, List of Names, Official Documentation, Drawing, Charter

Language : French, German

Gestapo files from the National Archives in Düsseldorf, 1936-1940, in the name of Sally Blumenthal, born in Hemer, Germany, 1878, a resident of Mönchengladbach

Gestapo files from the National Archives in Düsseldorf, 1936-1940, in the name of Sally Blumenthal, born in Hemer, Germany, 1878, a resident of Mönchengladbach Documentation from the Düsseldorf National Archives - Gestapo: - Files of the Geheimen Staatspolizei (Gestapo:Secret State Police) in the name of Sally Blumenthal, born in Hemer, Germany, 27 January 1878, a resident of Mönchengladbach, containing documents issued in the years, 1936-1940; the documentation contains information regarding his wife: Henriette (Winter) Blumenthal, born in Rheydt, Germany, 30 January 1880; arrest of Sally for being a...

File Number : 1044

Type of Material : Police File

Language : German

Memoirs of Ruth (Ellern) Frumkin regarding the experiences of her family in Germany, Amsterdam, Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen; postcards and documentation pertaining to the Ellern family

Memoirs of Ruth (Ellern) Frumkin regarding the experiences of her family in Germany, Amsterdam, Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen; postcards and documentation pertaining to the Ellern family Memoirs pertaining to Ruth (Ellern) Frumkin (original): - Memoirs of Ruth (Ellern) Frumkin, born in Escherheim Frankfurt am Main, 23 December 1927, regarding the experiences of her family during the Holocaust, written in Jerusalem, September 1997: - Parents: Alexander and Lotte (Guttmann) Ellern; one brother, Heinrich Heinz Chaim Ellern; move of the family from Escherheim Frankfurt am Main to Römerstadt; Nazi rise to...

File Number : 9425

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Genealogy, Memoir Book, Memoirs, Postcard

Language : English, German

"The Jews in San Martin Vesubie and the Dismantling of the Italian 4th Armata", an essay by Alberto Cavaglion regarding the escape of the Jews from south-eastern France to Italy following the armistice between the Italians and the Allies - Experiences of the Jews who arrived in San Martin Vesubie; - Rescue attempts through escape via the mountains with the 4th Armata in its retreat following the armistice between Italy and the Allies after 08 September 1943; - Extraction of the group of Jews that arrived in San Martin Vesubie including mention of the many sources and direct testimonies written on the...

File Number : 87

Type of Material : Survey Report, Letter

Language : Italian

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