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Interview of Moshe Ortner, regarding the forced eviction of Jews of Polish origin from Germany in 1938 [interview undated]

Interview of Moshe Ortner, regarding the forced eviction of Jews of Polish origin from Germany in 1938 [interview undated] Moshe Ortner speaks in the interview with Dr. Esch, regarding the forced eviction of Jews of Polish origin from Germany following the Kristallnacht riots, 1938; explanation by Ortner regarding the politics of organizations such as the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich Association of the Jews in Germany), and the activities of individuals such as Recha Freier, Heinrich Stahl, Paul Eppstein, and others.

File Number : 8

Type of Material : Testimony, Interview(s)

Language : German

Testimony of Israel Bleyberg, born in Radymno, Poland, 1895, regarding the Polenaktion (expulsion of the Polish Jews from Germany), October 1938

Testimony of Israel Bleyberg, born in Radymno, Poland, 1895, regarding the Polenaktion (expulsion of the Polish Jews from Germany), October 1938 - Move to Germany, February 1913; work as a shoemaker; marriage; births of two children; - Removal of the witness from his home in Berlin by the police without notice in the middle of the night, 28 October 1938; transfer to the Blücher Street barracks; at noon, loaded on trucks with 126 men and brought to a train station (name not mentioned); reason given for the "Aktion": "the Polish government wanted to denationalize its citizens living abroad; the Germans...

File Number : 169

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : German

To be translated

File Number : 1784

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Notebook containing the journals of Yeshayahu Tobiasz, from 1932, and his father Eliyahu Tobiasz, 1940-1941, and memoirs of Yaakov Drori regarding the activities of Eliyahu Toiasz in the Łódź Ghetto - Notebook (scanned) containing the journals of Yeshayahu Tobiasz, from 1932, and his father Eliyahu Tobiasz, 1940-1941; the original of the notebook is located in the Jewish Historical Institute (ZIH) in Warsaw; the copy had already appeared in the Yad Vashem Archives (See Item M.49.P/15); - Journal, apparently from late 1932, kept by Yeshayahu Shaik Tobiasz, born in Łódź, Poland, 1913, containing stories and...

File Number : 10301

Type of Material : Memoirs, Diary

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

Memoirs of Dr. Liviu Schapira, born in Piatra Neamț in 1934, regarding his family's experiences in Piatra Neamț during 1940-1944

Memoirs of Dr. Liviu Schapira, born in Piatra Neamț in 1934, regarding his family's experiences in Piatra Neamț during 1940-1944 His family's life in Piatra Neamț; loss of contact with some of his relatives after the annexation of territories in Serbia and Bukovina to the Soviet Union in June 1940; Second Vienna Award on 30/08/1940, and separation from most of their relatives who remained in the Hungarian part of Transylvania or moved there; persecution of Jews after the rise to power of Antonescu on 14/09/1940; expulsion of the witness from kindergarten; murder of several relatives in Bucharest and Craiova...

File Number : 10142

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Correspondence between Dr. Theodor Lavi Löwenstein and consultants on information regarding the Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, 1960

Correspondence between Dr. Theodor Lavi Löwenstein and potential collaborators regarding collecting information for the Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities (volumes regarding Romania), 1960 - Request information about : --- Names of Jewish community leaders; --- Jewish contribution to economic life. Industrial and economic developments during the Antonescu regime and the influence of the antisemitic persecution; --- Political and Zionist activity, Jewish Party; --- Jewish Press; --- Survivors testimonies; --- Jewish Center and the people who worked there; - Note regarding Dr. Theodor Lavi...

File Number : 41

Type of Material : Bibliography, Correspondence, Study, Documentary, Letter(s)

Language : Hebrew, Romanian, German