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Testimony of Charlotte Lederer, born in Lundenburg, Czechoslovakia, 1897, regarding her experiences in Brno and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Charlotte Lederer, born in Lundenburg, Czechoslovakia, 1897, regarding her experiences in Brno and Theresienstadt Life before the war; her husband's work as a cantor and director of the Jewish Museum in Nikolsburg until 1938. Annexation to Germany, 1938; escape of her family to Brno; her husband looks after 16 needy residents; transfer of displays and valuables from the museum to Brno; German occupation; attitude towards her husband; transfer to Theresienstadt with the family, late November 1941; camp life including setting up a Chevra Kadisha (burial society) and maintaining death records by...

File Number : 3606

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Letters from Bertha Stein in Breslau, 1941–1942, and documentation associated with her daughter, Erna (Stein) Blumenthal, who managed the Jewish Museum in Berlin and immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1935

Letters from Bertha Stein in Breslau, 1941–1942, and documentation associated with her daughter Erna (Stein) Blumenthal, who managed the Jewish Museum in Berlin and immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1935 Letters: - letter sent by Bertha Stein in Breslau, via the Red Cross, to her daughter Erna (Stein) Blumenthal in Tel Aviv on November 10, 1941, stating her intention of emigrating to Cuba and thence to Kate [her daughter in the United States] as Sofie [her sister] remains in Breslau; - letter sent by Bertha Stein in Breslau, via the Red Cross, to her daughter Erna (Stein) Blumenthal in Tel Aviv on January 18,...

File Number : 5019

Type of Material : Genealogy, Certification, Newspaper Clippings, Letter, Red Cross Letter, כתובה, Official Documentation, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Aramaic

Memoirs of Edmond Ambers (b. Mundek Abrahm in Katowice) about moving to France before the war and joining the French resistance, and letters related to a search for information about him

Memoirs of Edmond Ambers (b. Mundek Abrahm in Katowice) about moving to France before the war and joining the French resistance, and letters related to a search for information about him Memoirs of Edmond Ambers (b. Mundek Abrahm): - letter from Shmuel Avrahami, Israel, to Museum of the Jewish Fighter in World War II, Israel, February 1, 2015, with history of his paternal uncle, Edmond Ambers, in the Holocaust, as reported to him by Mundek when Mundek visited his uncle in Paris in 1958; - Mundek moves from Katowice, Poland, to France before World War II to study aircraft engineering; the war breaks out and...

File Number : 10018

Type of Material : Memoirs, Letter

Language : French

Documentation written in memory of Martin Cohn, born in Berlin, Germany, 1884, who perished in Auschwitz in 1943

Documentation written in memory of Martin Cohn, born in Berlin, Germany, 1884, who perished in Auschwitz in 1943 "Martin Cohn, 1884-1943-In memoriam-Kaddisch für meinen Großvater'' (Martin Cohn, 1884-1943-In Memoriam- Kaddish (Mourner's Prayer) for My Grandfather), documentation written by Dr. Jörg Skrzypczak in memory of his grandfather Martin Cohn, based on various sources of information: The parents of Jörg Skrzypczak were Meinhard and Dora Skrzypczak; Jörg's paternal grandmother was Hedwig Skrzypczak, born in Berlin, 19 October 1883, the daughter of Kasper and Marianne (Kaczmark) Skrzypczak; death of...

File Number : 180

Type of Material : Documentary, Biography

Language : German

Text of an interview with Walter Weil, born in Frymburk, Czechoslovakia, regarding his experiences in Prague before the war, and during the war in the Lodz Ghetto, in Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and in a factory in Görlitz Text of an interview held with Walter Weil by the Jewish Museum in Prague: Walter Weil's childhood and studies in Frymburk and Kaplice; assimilated family; move to Prague in 1925 and marriage to Heda Bischitzká in Prague; deportation of Walter Weil with his wife and his mother-in-law on the 4th transport to the Lodz Ghetto in 1941; labor for the Germans in electrical work; deportation of...

File Number : 9220

Type of Material : Interview(s)

Language : Czech

Food ration card of Menachem Silberstein, from Buchenwald camp, and a letter from his wife regarding the story about the jugs from the Warsaw Ghetto

Food ration card of Menachem Silberstein, from Buchenwald camp, and a letter from his wife regarding the story about the jugs from the Warsaw Ghetto Documentation related to Menachem Silberstein [or: Zilberstein] (scan): - Food ration card of Menachem Silberstein, from Buchenwald camp; Documentation related to Nechama Silberstein, the wife of Menachem Silberstein [or Zilberstein] (original): - Letter written by Nechama (Opatovski) Silberstein in Tel Aviv to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, 26/12/2011, regarding the story about the jugs from the Warsaw Ghetto that were displayed in the Jewish Museum in...

File Number : 751

Type of Material : Personal Records, Letter

Language : Hebrew, German

Invitation to the wedding of Ernst Heilbut and Flora Kalker which was held in the Netherlands in 1916; diploma of the Amsterdam synagogue issued to their son in 1942

Invitation to the wedding of Ernst Heilbut and Flora Kalker which was held in the Netherlands in 1916; diploma of the Amsterdam synagogue issued to their son in1942 - Invitation to the wedding of Ernst Heilbut and Flora Kalker which was held in the Netherlands, 27 June 1916; - Diploma issued by the Ashkenazi Synagogue in Amsterdam in the name of Robert Emanuel Heilbut certifying that Robert is registered in the synagogue, 20 December 1942. Notes from David Hashavit who submitted the material: Robert Emanuel Heilbut was the uncle of David Heilbut Hashavit, the submitter of the material. Robert's...

File Number : 159

Type of Material : Diploma, Invitation

Language : Dutch

Audio testimony of Yaakov Kuba Wodislavsky, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1925 and Irena (Zimmerman) Wodislavsky, born in Zakopane, Poland, regarding the "Holocaust and Heroism Memorial House" they established in Ariel

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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