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Memoirs of Edith Weiner regarding her experiences as a child in Berlin until 1939, on an agricultural training farm in Cologne and in Eretz Israel from 1940

Memoirs of Edith Weiner regarding her experiences as a child in Berlin until 1939, on an agricultural training farm in Cologne and in Eretz Israel from 1940 Life in her parents' home in Berlin including religious life and musical studies; attempts to leave Germany following her father's return from a concentration camp, 1938. Leaving their apartment; move to an attic in the home of relatives due to their lack of income; attendance at a Youth Aliyah school; going to agricultural training in Cologne, July 1939; discussion with a Gestapo man in the police station including attempts to persuade her to remain...

File Number : 8549

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

העדה- בת למשפחה דתית אורתודוקסית משכילה; ביקורים בבית הכנסת; תפקיד האב בתור ראש הקהילה היהודית; הפעלת בית הספר היהודי מטעם הקהילה וניהולו בידי האב; לימודי עברית, כינור ופסנתר; עליית הנאצים לשלטון ב-1933; הרעת מצב האוכלוסייה היהודית; חקיקה אנטי יהודית; סגירת בית הספר היהודי ב-1938; אירועי ליל הבדולח; כניסת חיילי הגסטפו לבית המשפחה; בריחת הדודים בעקבות הרדיפות; גירוש אחד הדודים ל-Dachau למשך שישה שבועות; שחרורו בשל היותו חייל פצוע ממלחמת העולם הראשונה; ארגון קבוצת ילדים בקינדרטרנספורט בידי הארגון Joint ב-Frankfurt; עלייה עם האח וכ-400 ילדים נוספים על הרכבת לכיוון הגבול עם שוויץ בינואר 1939; עצירת הרכבת ב-Basel;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Announcement of registration times for places in the synagogue for prayers during the High Holidays, posted by the Synagogue Organization

File Number : 1210

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : Yiddish

Personal documentation and correspondence belonging to Yitzchak Felix Meyer and his parents, Michael and Amalia Meyer, who made aliya to Eretz Israel from Germany, survived the "Patria" tragedy and were detained in Atlit, 1881-1997 Volume I (pp. 1-262) This volume contains personal documentation belonging to Yitzchak Felix Meyer from his birth: Page 1: Copy of the opening page ("Index") with 12 chapters, nine of which (1-6, 10-12) mention their topics; the topics are (the numbers of the pages of the present file containing material matching the topic in the "Index" are given in parentheses): 1. "I As a...

File Number : 356

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Announcement, Diary, Book, Letter, Personal Records, Booklet(s), Inventory List, Postcard, Official Documentation, Memoirs, Poems/songs, Newspaper, Lecture, List of Deportees, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Letters from Rabbi Dr. Alexander Carlebach (originally from Hamburg) from Germany regarding his activities in the British Occupied Zone and accompanying documents, 20 August 1946-03 July 1947 In the file: - Gemeindestatistik - statistical data regarding a community (with no mention of which community); handwritten notes (p. 2); - Letter from Rabbi Carlebach from Eilshausen to his wife, Marga, regarding a work tour he made in Germany; the letter is written on Jewish Committee For Relief Abroad from London stationery (pp. 3-5), 20 August 1946; - Letter from Rabbi Carlebach...

File Number : 12

Type of Material : Newspaper, Lists, Letter, Survey Report, Newspaper Clippings

Language : English, German

Documentation regarding Orthodox Jewry in Germany, especially the organizations associated with the separatist Orthodoxy, 1930-1941

Documentation regarding Orthodox Jewry in Germany, especially the organizations associated with the separatist Orthodoxy, 1930-1941 Volume I: Correspondence of Rabbi Yehiel Michel Schlesinger with the members of the Halachische Kommission (the Halacha [Religious Law] Commission attached to the Vereinigung traditionell gesetztreuer Rabbiner [Association of Halachic Law Observant Rabbis]); In the volume (the page numbers refer to the frame numbers in the Scan): Pp. 2-3: Letter dealing with administrational matters written on stationery from the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin, 29 Tammuz 5682 [??] (25...

File Number : 44

Type of Material : Survey Report, Letter

Language : Hebrew, German

Announcements by the Jewish community in Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany regarding the distribution of food and regarding the elections for the religion department of the community's committee, 1946; list of addresses of Jews from various countries; list of names of Nazi war criminals

File Number : 128

Type of Material : Placards, List of Perpetrators

Language : German

Testimony of Rabbi Max Nussbaum, born in Suczawa, Bukovina, 1908, regarding the Gestapo order given to him on his wedding day, 15 July 1939, to leave the Zionistische Vereinigung fuer Deutschland (ZVfD -Zionist Federation of Germany) and join the Revisionist movement, 24 May 1956 - Receipt of a summons to appear at the Gestapo office the following day, which was his wedding day, 14 July 1938 [1939 - authenticated elsewhere in the documentation]; discussion with Otto Kuchmann, Director of the Gestapo Department of Jewish Affairs; demand that the witness officially leave the ZVfD (termed by Kuchmann as the...

File Number : 139

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Documentation from the Kultusministerium (Ministry of Religions and Education) of the Saar region, 1920-1945

Documentation from the Kultusministerium (Ministry of Religions and Education) of the Saar region, 1920-1945 The collection includes files regarding the financial matters, taxes and the religious life of Jewish communities before and during the Nazi period; anti-Jewish orders and instructions during the Nazi period; Jewish teachers; statistical data on student numbers and their religious affiliation; Nazi and antisemitic content in school education. The documentation was photocopied for Yad Vashem in 2018.

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Robert John Yisrael Aumann, born in 1930 in Frankfurt am Main, about his experiences as a boy in Germany up to 1938

Testimony

Testimony of Robert John Yisrael Aumann, born in 1930 in Frankfurt am Main, about his experiences as a boy in Germany up to 1938 Offspring of a haredi family that had been living in Germany for some 250 years; father: a well known owner of a commercial firm; father fought in World War I; attending Hirsch School; religious life; anti-Jewish signs; abuse by German children; family moves to England and back to Germany; moving to New York in 1938; immigration to Israel in 1956; adjustment to life in Israel; receives Nobel Prize in Economics in 2005.

File Number : 13897

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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