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Testimony of David Desider Steinmetz, born in 1925 in Satu Mare, Romania, about his experiences in Heide, Oostende, Marseille, the Les Milles camp, and other locations

Testimony

Testimony of David Desider Steinmetz, born in 1925 in Satu Mare, Romania, about his experiences in Heide, Oostende, Marseille, the Les Milles camp, and other locations Life before the war; offspring of a Satmar and Sighet Hasidic family; emigration to Belgium in 1937; life in Antwerp; attending a yeshiva in Heide; German occupation ensues in 1940; escaping to Oostende; bombardment of Dunkirk; escaping to Gravelines in 1940; fleeing back to Antwerp; life under German occupation; escaping to Paris in 1941 after receiving a deportation order in Limbourg; escaping to Marseille (in the Free Zone) in 1941; life...

File Number : 13437

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Report written by George Haering, the US Consul in Warsaw, regarding the German policies and administration in the Generalgouvernement, 30/12/1939

Report written by George Haering, the US Consul in Warsaw, regarding the German policies and administration in the Generalgouvernement, 30/12/1939 - Administration during the military occupation: Establishment of local authorities and German civilian organizations under the supervision of the Wehrmacht; activities by the Nationalsozialistische Wohlfart for the supply of food to the population; "cleansing" "Aktions" by the Sicherheitspolizei-SIPO (Security Police); kidnapping of hostages; attitude of the Wehrmacht toward the Jews; lack of coordination between the Wehrmacht and the SIPO: arguments regarding...

File Number : 275

Type of Material : Survey Report, Map

Language : English

Letters sent by Max Einstein and Hermann Simon from Mainz, Germany to Alfred Fred Simon in the Netherlands and in the United States

Letters sent by Max Einstein and Hermann Simon from Mainz, Germany to Alfred Fred Simon in the Netherlands and in the United States - Family's desire to leave Germany due to the situation of the Jews in Germany; inability to receive entrance visas from the US authorities; difficulty in receiving a place on a ship leaving Europe; cessation of the correspondence following the declaration of war between the United States and Germany, 12/1941; mention in one of the letters regarding relatives who were in the part of German-occupied France who were sent [deported] to a detention camp; some of the letters are...

File Number : 890

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Envelope, List of Names

Language : German

Letter sent by A. I. Jacobson, the Gabbai of the Yeshurun Synagogue in Stockholm to Fred Olsen, attaché in the United States Legation in Stockholm, 13 July 1944

Letter sent by A. I. Jacobson, the Gabbai of the Yeshurun Synagogue in Stockholm to Fred Olsen,attaché in the United States Legation in Stockholm, 13 July 1944 Request to intervene on behalf of the return to work of Mr. Manuel Munes Borrero, the Consul from Ecuador who assisted Jews holding Ecuadorian passports to escape from Europe.

File Number : 637

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English

Letters sent by Nathan-Hersch and Etel (Bernfeld) Bernstein from Hamburg to their children in the United States, 1938-1941

Letters sent by Nathan-Hersch and Etel (Bernfeld) Bernstein from Hamburg to their children in the United States, 1938-1941 Daily life, including the economic and residential situation; attempts to obtain visas, including requests for assistance from their children; imposition of difficulties by the American Consulate; information regarding relatives and friends; interest in the adjustment of their children and granddaughter to the United States; demand for letters and photographs from the children; preparations in the winter-spring of 1941 for a journey; hope to meet their children and relatives in the...

File Number : 608

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Reports by US diplomatic representations in Europe to the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington regarding relief and rescue operations for the Jews of Yugoslavia, Romania and Bulgaria, May-October 1944 - Page 1: Report that was sent from the US legation in Bern, Switzerland, to the WRB regarding the supply of food to Jews from Croatia who are interned in camps in Serbia, 13 May 1944; - Pages 3-6: Report from the US legation in Bern regarding extrication of children and other rescue activities of Romanian Jews and refugees in Romania with the assistance of the International Committee of the Red Cross...

File Number : 89

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report, Statistical Data

Language : English

Correspondence and reports of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and US diplomatic legations in Europe regarding the situation of the Jews in Romania and Hungary (also after the war) and rescue attempts, May 1944-January 1945 Pages 1-6: Report transmitted from the US Legation in Bern regarding rescue activities in Romania and a plan to take 5,000 children out of Romania (French original, English translation), a cover letter from the US Legation in Stockholm regarding the treatment of Jews by various Romanian personalities, May 1944; Pages 7-12: Document of the War Refugee...

File Number : 87

Type of Material : Survey Report, Statistical Data, Record of Persecuted Persons, Telegram, Official Documentation

Language : English

Correspondence and reports from the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and United States diplomatic legations in Europe regarding the mission of Joel Brand and efforts to save the Jews of Hungary, May-December 1944 Page 1: - Telegram from the US legation in Bern to the US State Department in Washington regarding the proposal to exchange Hungarian Jews for Hungarian POWs in the Soviet Union and in other countries; 27 May 1944; Pages 2-3: - Copy of a report by the British High Commissioner in Eretz Israel regarding his meeting with David Ben Gurion and Moshe Shertok about the...

File Number : 85

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Telegram

Language : English

Correspondence and reports of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and diplomatic missions of the United States in Europe regarding the Nazi occupation of Hungary, deportation of Jews and rescue attempts, August-December 1944 Pages 1-15: Telegrams from the US legation in Bern to the US State Department in Washington and from McClelland in Switzerland to the War Refugee Board (WRB) regarding the situation of the Jews in Budapest, rescue possibilities and rescue attempts, August 1944; Pages 16-17: Report from London regarding a debate in Parliament regarding the provision of...

File Number : 84

Type of Material : Survey Report, Telegram, Official Documentation

Language : English, German

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