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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Katia (Lorberova) Carmi, born in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Michalovce, Kosice, in hiding, with the partisans and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Katia (Lorberova) Carmi, born in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Michalovce, Kosice, in hiding, with the partisans and other places Life in Michalovce before the war; from a well-to-do traditional family; attends a Slovak school. Termination of her father's employment; handing in property; travel restrictions and Aryanization, 1939-1940; attends a Jewish school, 1940-1942; yellow badge, 1941; deportations, spring 1942; her oldest sister evades deportation; capture of her sister after she is informed on; escape to Kosice with the family; life in Kosice including...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the persecution of Jews by the Nazis from the record group: Der Polizeipraesident in Berlin (The President of the Police in Berlin, in the postwar years), dated, 1933-1947

Documentation regarding the persecution of Jews by the Nazis from the record group: Der Polizeipraesident in Berlin (The President of the Police in Berlin, in the postwar years), dated, 1933-1947 The collection concerns materials from the division of the post-WWII Police force of Berlin (for materials regarding the Berlin Police under the Nazi regime, see collection 4423357 in "Sapir"). Following the order given by the Soviet City Commander of Berlin, the city's Police headquarters were re-established on 20 May 1945. Based on an order given by the Allied headquarters, special Police offices were set up in...

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

Language : German

Testimony of Chava Eva (Zigler) Itzkovitz, born in Chemnitz, Germany, 1922, regarding her experiences in hiding in Athens

Testimony

Testimony of Chava Eva (Zigler) Itzkovitz, born in Chemnitz, Germany, 1922, regarding her experiences in hiding in Athens Life before the war; life in Chemnitz including Kristallnacht. Witness obtains Greek citizenship with her father's help; family escape to Athens; life in Athens; German occupation; life in hiding; her father's escape to Thessaloniki; her father's death; life using a false identity and known as Glefria Kalroyanis; studies painting; liberation. Life in Athens including contact with a soldier from Eretz Israel serving in the British Army; receives a certificate; aliya to Eretz...

File Number : 12724

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of the Deutscher Gemeindetag (German Municipal Associations), 1933-1945

Documentation of the Deutscher Gemeindetag (German Municipal Associations), 1933-1945 Documentation of the Deutscher Gemeindetag (German Municipal Associations), an association imposed on the local German municipalities and authorities established by the Nazis in December 1933. The files contain documents that relate primarily to the implementation of Nazi policies towards Jews, among others, on the municipal level.

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation of the Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany, 1935-1945

Documentation of the Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany, 1935-1945 Documentation of the Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany: this was a historical institute, established in 1935, and its function was the rewriting of the new German history (from 1789 and on) in the spirit of Nazi ideology. The institute was placed under the supervision of the Science Ministry and Walter Frank, the Nazi historian, placed at its head. A central objective in the organization's activity was revealing the damage that was supposedly caused by Jews to Germany in the modern era. The Institute's...

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation of the Reich Women's Leadership (Reichsfrauenfuehrung), Germany, 1933-1942

Documentation of the Reich Women's Leadership (Reichsfrauenfuehrung), Germany, 1933-1942 The Reich Women's Leadership, established in February 1934, included the German Women's Organization (Deutsches Frauenwerk), the umbrella organization of women's organizations in Germany, established in 1933, and the National Socialist Women's Union (Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft), established in 1931. It was headed by Gertrud Scholz-Klink, who received the title of "Leader of Reich Women" (Reichsfrauenfuehrerin), November 1934. The two organizations and their female leaders did not have any real political...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Proceedings of People's Court Session No.18 in Sofia, 29 March 1945

Proceedings of People's Court Session No.18 in Sofia, 29 March 1945 Indictments and names of plaintiffs: 1. Boris Barov - historic importance of the trial, persecution of the Jews in Europe and specifically in Germany, criticism of anti-Semitism in the world and in Bulgaria, statistical data concerning the number of Jews in the country, 1934-1945 and their economic, legal and social condition, restrictions against the Jews during the war and a survey regarding the Holocaust throughout the European countries; - Data regarding the trial (330 witnesses); - The influence of anti-Semitic ideas in...

File Number : 10

Type of Material : Protocol

Language : Bulgarian

Documentation from the Berlin Police Headquarters (Polizeipraesidium Berlin)

Documentation from the Berlin Police Headquarters (Polizeipraesidium Berlin) The Prussian city ordinance (Städteordnung) of 19 November 1808 provided for the establishment of a state police administration in the larger cities. Accordingly, a Royal Police headquarters (Königliches Polizeipräsidium) was built in Berlin on 25 March 1809, to which the existing state police department was linked. At the time the greater Berlin area included several independent townships. Berlin was not one large city and the police forces were divided. A law implemented on 13 June 1900 created the Provincial Police District of...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Survey of the situation of the Jews in the Nazi occupied countries and the political situation in the Eretz Israel region and the Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, speeches by leaders and from letters, June 1943 - Germany: Incitement program against the Jews in the press; Hitler-Jugend activities; lists of confiscated Jewish property as recorded in the press; - Slovakia: Transfer of Jewish land to Slovakian farmers; deportation of most of the Jews "to the East"; the phenomenon of conversion to Christianity among the Jews; - Hungary: Statistics regarding the spread of the "Jewish...

File Number : 9

Type of Material : Report

Language : Hebrew

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