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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

Testimony of Wilhelm Freihahn, chairman of the Jewish community in Breslau, regarding his detention in Buchenwald camp in summer 1938; testimony of the wife of the rabbi of the Jewish community in Koenigsberg, Rabbi Josef Dunner, regarding Kristallnacht in Koenigsberg, her husband's detention and release, and the family's emigration from Germany Testimony of Freihahn, written in Basel in August 1938, second-hand, from the words of Max Bollag, apparently due to Freihahn's fear for his life: Detention of the witness and his deportation to Buchenwald camp; separation of the Jewish inmates, and they are...

File Number : 73

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German