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Testimony of Moshe Haran, born in Zilina, Slovakia, 1937, regarding his experiences as a young child using a Catholic identity in Martin, the mountains and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Haran, born in Zilina, Slovakia, 1937, regarding his experiences as a young child using a Catholic identity in Martin, the mountains and Bergen-Belsen From a patriotic secular family; his father's work at a zincographic printing press. Travel restrictions placed on Jews, 1940; appearance of the Hlinka Guards; yellow badge; forced lodging of a Hlinka Guard in his family's home; Aryanization of Jewish property; family move to Martin; attends a Slovakian school; studies the New Testament and prays in church; life as Catholics until 1944; observance of Jewish holidays in secret; Slovak...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin for murder (deportation of Jews to extermination camps): Examination of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle; Testimonies by Jewish survivors from Berlin, 1966 - 1967 The file includes i.A.: - Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle as witnesses: Eugen Wörner (pp. 1-2), Irmgard Goldkuhle (pp. 27-29), Karl-Heinz August (pp. 33-37) (here: information on the act of confiscation and seizure of Jewish property). - Testimonies of Jewish survivors from Berlin (including members of mixed...

File Number : 29

Type of Material : Document(s), Testimony

Language : German

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle Berlin and Jewish victims concerning deportations of Jews to the camps, 1962 - 1966 The file contains interrogations of former employees and Jewish victims, and general information concerning transports from Berlin and internment camps in Berlin. The file also includes documents of the proceedings against Kurt-Heinrich Erdmann from 1962 and onwards. Erdmann worked since 1942 in the Political Section of the Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen and was since September 1943 the...

File Number : 18

Type of Material : Record of Survivors, Legal Documentation, Record of Deportees, Record of Murdered Persons, Investigation Report, Names of Perpetrators, Official Documentation, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : German

Surveys, letters and testimonies regarding the rescue of children by the OSE (Oeuvre de Secours Aux Enfants) organization, help from the Protestant church, return of children after the liberation and more, 1940-1982 The material was created by: Secret Department for Placement of Children In the file: Surveys, letters and testimonies regarding the rescue of children by the OSE organization, help from the Protestant church, return of children after the liberation and more Also in the file: - Booklet with memoirs of Enea Averbouh, an OSE social worker during the war.

File Number : 142

Type of Material : Reports, Names, Testimony, Photograph, Booklet(s), Official Documentation

Language : French, English, Russian

Alfred Cassierer, born 1882 in Kattowitz, regarding his experiences in hiding and his escape to Switzerland

Testimony of Alfred Cassierer, born in Kattowitz, Poland, 1882, regarding his experiences in hiding and his escape to Switzerland Born in Kattowitz, Poland; move to Germany; life on Dreysen Street in Berlin-Charlottenburg and work as a lawyer in Berlin; considered to be an Altanwalt (a senior lawyer who had received his license before 1914), so he is given a work permit until 1938; serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Palästinaamt, until it closes in July [?] 1940; chooses to remain in Berlin; receives information from the Gestapo and Jewish Community officials that he is about to be deported...

File Number : 198

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of Jews from Enschede and the surrounding area, who were hidden in various places in the Netherlands with the help of the Leendert Overduin group during the Holocaust period

List of Jews from Enschede and the surrounding area, who were hidden in various places in the Netherlands with the help of the Leendert Overduin group during the Holocaust period - List of last names of Jews from Enschede and the surrounding area, who were hidden in various places in the Netherlands with the help of the Leendert Overduin group during the Holocaust period, including comments related to the family's composition, the hiding place or financial help given by members of the underground to those in hiding; Comments by the submitter of the material: Dr. Coen Hilbrink submitted to Yad Vashem...

File Number : 1887

Type of Material : List of Jews

Language : Dutch

Follow-up reports regarding the condition of German Jewry prepared by II 112, the SD Jewish Department, 1935-1939

Follow-up reports regarding the condition of German Jewry prepared by II 112, the SD Jewish Department, 1935-1939 Periodic bi-monthly, quarterly or annual reports according to areas; the reports are divided into subjects and sub departments. The main subjects under consideration in the reports: - Lists of Jewish organizations in Germany; - Anti-Jewish legislation, enforcement of the laws and their implications; - Changes in the membership in Jewish organizations by German Jews, political preferences, relations between the organizations, dismantling local groups, and so on; - Jewish emigration...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Hester Davids née Schep, born in 1929 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, about her experiences in hiding with various families in the Netherlands

Testimony

Testimony of Hester Davids née Schep, born in 1929 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, about her experiences in hiding with various families in the Netherlands Life in Rotterdam; sent to Vught; German occupation; camp established in Vught; anti-Jewish legislation; loss of livelihood; placed in a Jewish school in Den Bosch; deportations begin; witness placed in hiding with help from the Dutch resistance in 1942; escapes to seven different hiding places due to denunciations; father and brother captured; father murdered and brother sent to Sobibór; witness endures sexual abuse in her hideouts; area liberated in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew