M.84 - Documantation regarding the Holocaust from Archives in Serbia
The Record Group was created following the division of the former Yugoslavian Record Group - M.70. In the Record Group there is archival documentation photocopied from the Central Archive of Serbia, the Military Archive, and the Foreign Ministry Archive.
Included in the Record Group:
- Documentation of the Yugoslavian Government-in-Exile including the Foreign Ministry, from the World War II period and afterwards;
- Documentation regarding rescue activities of Jews in the areas of Yugoslavia during the war period;
- Investigations...
Language : Italian, English, German, Hungarian, Serbian-Croatian
Testimony of Shoshana Suzana Geron, born in Somcuta Mare, Romania, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in Somcuta Mare, Cluj, Baia Mare, Auschwitz and other places
Life before the war; traditional family; attends a Romanian school.
Annexation to Hungary; restrictions on the Jews; numerous clausus; life in Cluj and external education; arrest of her mother due to help to a Communist in Budapest; release of her mother in exchange for lots of money; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Baia Mare Ghetto; ghetto life; receives offers to hide the family in a forest; deportation on a train to...
Testimony of Zeev Vladislav Honig, born in Sombor, Yugoslavia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Sombor, Baya, Auschwitz, Wuestegirsdorf camp, Gross Rosen and other places
Life in Sombor.
Annexation to Hungary, April 1941; hanging of Jews in the square; deportation of mature men to labor battalions in Ukraine; deportation of youth to labor cleaning streets; odd jobs and difficulties earning a livelihood; hears rumors about the events in Poland; German occupation, March 1944; arrest of his grandfather; concentration of the Jews in the Backa Topola area; separation between men and women; deportation on a...
Testimony of Regina Landau, born in Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Lancut and in hiding in Pelkinie
Publication of an order for the deportation of all the Jews of Lancut to the other side of the San River, September 1939; decision by the family to remain in Lancut; order by the Gestapo to immediately depart, under the threat of punishment by death, the next day; move to Husow; stay with a farmer in exchange of a payment, for one week; arrival of the Gestapo, by invitation of the local farmers; deportation of the Jews who were in hiding; return to Lancut, and permission from the Germans to remain...
Testimony of Zachariasz Slowinski, born in Dworzysk, Poland, 1899, regarding his experiences in Suprasl
Interrogation by members of the local and German gendarmerie in Suprasl regarding Slowinski's help to partisans, January 1944.
Testimony of Anatol Rabinowicz regarding his experiences in Bialystok
Witness is handed over to the Gestapo in Bialystok by Anton Wojtowicz, the Pole, 11 March 1944; life in detention including interrogation, abuse and beatings; work burning corpses.
Note: The testimony was taken down 16 October 1944.
Documentation regarding the experiences of the Grotte family, from Breslau, and the emigration of Horst Albrecht Grotte to Bolivia in 1939
- Personal documents (birth certificates, marriage certificates, announcement, diploma, and so forth) of Alfred Grotte and his wife Clara (Fraenkel) Grotte, including copies of documents issued in Vienna, Prague, Danzig and Breslau during 1885-1921, in German (and a document of Alfred Grotte translated also to Spanish), including an excerpt from a book dedicated to the activities of the Lessing [?] Masonic Lodge (of the Order of Freemasons), whose members in the 1920s...
File Number : 1018
Type of Material : Diploma, Red Cross Letter, Letter, Passport, Travel Ticket, Postcard, Diagram
Documentation from a legal deliberation held in a civil court in Rome, Italy regarding a claim submitted by Dr. Israel Zoller on the matter of the restoration of his Italian citizenship, 1941
- Pamphlet documenting the decision proceedings on the subject of the legal claim submitted by Dr. Israel Zoller on the matter of the nullification of his Italian citizenship, dated 1941; the deliberation was held in a civil court in Rome, Italy.