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Testimony of Nancy Vera Rachel Arbel, born in Baktaloranthaza, Hungary, in 1826 regarding deportation to the Auschwitz Birkenau , Plaszow and Reichenbach camps

Testimony

Childhood before the war; coexistence; outbreak of the war; restrictions on Jews; German occupation in March 1944; deportation to ghetto; mutual help; robbery of property; fictitious marriage for the purpose of rescue; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to a protected camp; improvement in food and living conditions; transfer back to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Germany for agricultural works and for working in a factory manufacturing planes; liberation by the Russians; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1949

File Number : 13703

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding Viktor and Anna (Pollenz) Bermann including letters and postcards they received from members of their family and friends, postcards sent from Theresienstadt by Anna Bermann's parents and more, 1908-1968

Documentation belonging to Viktor and Anna Anni (Pollenz) Bermann including letters and postcards they received from members of their family and friends, postcards sent from Theresienstadt by Anna Bermann's parents and more, 1908-1968 Letters, postcards and telegrams (in chronological order): - Three postcards sent to Viktor Bermann in Olmuetz by his mother Adele Bermann in Karlovy Vary, August 1925; - Postcard sent to Anni (Pollenz) Bermann in Olmuetz by her daughter Ewa in Thisted, Denmark, 30 April 1940; - Letters and telegrams sent to Anni Bermann by her parents Josef and Leopoldine Pollenz and...

File Number : 2189

Type of Material : Letter, Diploma, Telegram, Red Cross Letter, Newspaper Clippings, Declaration, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Postcard, Personal Documents, Journal, Official Documentation

Language : Spanish, Hebrew, Czech, French, English, German

Testimony of Abraham Ernst Ponger, born in Mikulas Litovsky Svaty, Czechoslovakia, in 1922, regarding his experiences in the Sered camp and in the battle of the partisans

Childhood before the war; Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria 1938; expulsion from school and carpentry studies; independence of Slovakia and anti-Jewish legislation 1939; deportation of Jews and escape to the mountains in March 1942; going back home and deportation to the Sered camp,in April 1945; work in carpentry; underground in the camp; Slovak uprising and escape ,in August 1944; joining partisans; actions against Germans; liberation by the red army,in April 1945; joining aliya training; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the Theodor Herzl ship,on 01 April 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya back to...

File Number : 13772

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) in East Prussia, regarding various subjects, 31/10/1932-16/05/1936

Documentation of the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) in East Prussia, regarding various subjects, 31/10/1932-16/05/1936 Testimonies from small cities in East Prussia, including Treuburg, Goldap, Lötzen, Johannisburg, Gildenburg, Riesenburg, Marienwerder, Elbing, Osterode, Bischofsburg and Neidenburg: Ban on Weinachtsgeschäft (Christmas) sales; ban on the employment of Jewish clerks who are under the age of 25, unless given special permission by the employment office; economic boycott; social isolation of Jewish physicians; social...

File Number : JM/28889

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings

Language : German

Testimony of Miriam (Rubin) David, born in Kapusany, Slovakia, 1943, regarding the experiences of her father, Moritz Moshe Rubin and the rest of her family during the Holocaust

Testimony of Miriam (Rubin) David, born in Kapusany, Slovakia, 1943, regarding the experiences of her father, Moritz Moshe Rubin and the rest of her family during the Holocaust - Moritz Moshe Rubin was born in Kapusany, Slovakia, 1912; the ninth out of 11 children of Hermina (daughter of Miriam and Yitzhak Hendler) and Emanuel (son of Mindel [Baum] and Joseph) Rubin; family ownership of a flour mill, a sawmill and land in Radvanovce, Slovakia; marriage of Moritz with Anna Chana Gross from Sečovce, Czechoslovakia, 1941. Aryanization of the family assets, 1942; deportation of the majority of the Rubin and...

File Number : 8556

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Aryanization of Jewish banks - Materials from the Wirtschaftsgruppe Privates Bankgewerbe (Business Groups Private Banking)

File Number : 381

Correspondence of the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) in Brandenburg, regarding various subjects, 03/01/1933-25/06/1936

Correspondence of the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) in Brandenburg, regarding various subjects, 03/01/1933-25/06/1936 - Internal correspondence by members of the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV in Brandenburg regarding conferences, elections, activities and events, publicity, and the number of members in the Centralverein - CV; distribution of the "CV - Zeitung" newspaper; distribution of the "Der Morgen" newspaper monthly publication; - Dismissal of Jews from the Workers Committees and the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (German...

File Number : JM/28889

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Two official letters received by Aranka Kövesdi from her place of work in Vienna, notifying her of her dismissal because she is Jewish, May-July 1938

Two official letters received by Aranka Kovesdi from her place of work in Vienna, notifying her of her dismissal for being Jewish, May-July 1938 Comments from the submitters of the material: Aranka Kovesdi, born in Hungary, 1911; residence at the age of 27 with her family in Vienna; her work in the Markus Weiss fashion house; intensification of the Nazi influence in Austria; written notice that due to her being Jewish, she must leave her employment (the dismissal letter, written 16 May 1938, says, "in order to Aryanize the business"); her escape to London before the Anschluss; adoption as a daughter by a...

File Number : 245

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : German

Correspondence and personal documentation belonging to the Suchostaver and Feuereisen families from Liptovsky Sv. Mikulas and Bratislava, 1940-1945

Correspondence and personal documentation belonging to the Suchostaver and Feuereisen families from Liptovsky Sv. Mikulas and Bratislava, 1940-1945 - Postcard from Moritz Feuereisen in Zilina to his sister Melania Suchostaver in Bratislava, apparently prior to his deportation to Sobibor, 1942; escape of his sister with the family from Liptovsky Sv. Mikulas to Bratislava; search for his sister and her family in order to deport them; - Letter written on a calendar page from Moritz Feuereisen to relatives, immediately prior to deportation, May 1942; - Postcard from Esti Einhorn Stieglitz in Novaky camp...

File Number : 1954

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Personal Records, Note, Money, Official Documentation

Language : Slovak, Czech, German

Testimony of Yechiel Hahn, born in 1932 in Budapest, about his experiences as a boy in protected houses of the Swedish and Spanish embassies in Budapest during the German occupation

Life before the war in parents' home; grandfather, Gerson Hahn, establishes a Sephardi Orthodox synagogue in Budapest; antisemitism in school; father inducted into the Hungarian labor service in 1940; German occupation ensues in March 1944; secretly listening to BBC radio broadcasts; wearing the yellow star; shop nationalized; studies halted; movement restrictions imposed; ban on employing a non-Jewish domestic; concealing valuables; moving to a marked house; moving to a house protected by the Swedish Embassy in July 1944; a rescue and relief organization helps with food; bombardments; moving into a cellar; a...

File Number : 13604

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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