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Order given by Liebehenschel, the head of the Economics office of the concentration camps administration, 1942

Order given by Liebehenschel, the head of the Economics office of the concentration camps administration, 1942 Conveyance of Himmler's order, regarding the manner of physical punishment of concentration camp inmates, and the ban against handing over jars of ashes of citizens of the Protectorate and of Jews who were murdered in concentration camps, for the purpose of burial; The document is part of the Evidence material at the Nuremberg Trial.

File Number : 253

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Diary of Bentzion Fuks, born in Lodz, Poland, 1922, regarding a Roots Trip to Poland, memories of members of his family, their experiences in Lodz, their deportation to Auschwitz and more

Diary of Bentzion Fuks, born in Lodz, Poland, 1922, regarding a Roots Trip to Poland, memories of members of his family, their experiences in Lodz, their deportation to Auschwitz and more Life in Eretz Israel after the war; decision to visit Poland with his daughter; memories from the Holocaust; arrival in Warsaw; visiting the Nożyk Synagogue and the former area of the ghetto; visit in Lodz and the house of relatives; the mass burial of the Jews of Lodz who died in the ghetto, 1941-1942; the neighborhood and the houses during his childhood; trip to Lublin and a visit to the Majdanek annihilation camp;...

File Number : 9694

Type of Material : Diary, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Roseman, born in Hungary, regarding her experiences in Hessisch Lichtenau, Auschwitz 1, Birkenau 3 and Leipzig camps during 1944-1945

Testimony of Miriam Roseman, born in Hungary, regarding her experiences in Hessisch Lichtenau, Auschwitz 1, Birkenau 3 and Leipzig camps during 1944-1945 Deportation of the witness and her family to Auschwitz camp in railroad cars; selection; all of the witness' family members are sent to death except for the witness, who was 18 years old, and her 14 year old sister Margalit; transfer of the witness and her sister to Birkenau 3 camp; Birkenau camp life; roll-calls; hunger; disease; transfer of the witness and her sister to Auschwitz 1 camp, August 1944; transfer of both of them to Hessisch Lichtenau camp;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Elias Levin, born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1909, regarding his experiences in Theresienstadt during 1943-1945; experiences of Dov Peled, born in Oszmiana, during the Holocaust period; and, memoirs of Yosef Kotlarski, regarding Pesach in Auschwitz in 1943 Elias Levin: His childhood in Copenhagen, in the family of Nachman Simcha Levin and Heni (Rachelson) Levin; death of his mother in 1935; occupation of Denmark, 09/04/1940; German attempt to set a synagogue on fire; rumors regarding "Aktions" against Jews, September 1943; preparations by the witness' family to escape; arrest of the witness and his...

File Number : 9578

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Article, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Miriam (Long) Roseman, born in Hungary, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz 1, Birkenau 3 and Hess.Lichtenau camps during 1944-1945

Memoirs of Miriam (Long) Roseman, born in Hungary, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz 1, Birkenau 3 and Hess.Lichtenau camps during 1944-1945 Memoirs of Miriam (Long) Roseman, born in Hungary, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz 1, Birkenau 3 and Hess.Lichtenau camps during 1944-1945 (from an article by Ariana Melamed, published in "Yediot Aharonot", 26/01/2005); Persecution of Jews in Hungary; deportation of the witness' father and older brothers to forced labor; deportation of her mother and the family's younger children to the ghetto; hiding of the witness and her sister on a local farm; labor...

File Number : 9585

Type of Material : Memoirs, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Hebrew

Postcard written by Sarah Heilbrun in Ansbach to Helene Zimmer in Fuerth; letter written in Munich by the Eisfeld family to Edith Eisfeld in London; memoirs of Edith (Eisfeld) Gold regarding the experiences of her family, 1942 - Postcard written by Sarah Heilbrun in Ansbach to Helene Zimmer in Fuerth (Sarah Heilbrun was the grandmother of Edith Eisfeld); - Letter written by Henrietta and Adolf Eisfeld in Munich to their daughter Edith Eisfeld in London with blessings from Henrietta to Edith and updates about the family, 31 March 1942; - Memoirs of Edith (Eisfeld) Gold, born in Ansbach, Germany,...

File Number : 2489

Type of Material : Memoirs, Postcard, Official Documentation, Letter

Language : Hebrew, German