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תיקי SD-Hauptaußenstelle Würzburg, בואריה

SD Hauptaussenstelle (main branch office) Wuerzburg (until summer 1939 SD subsection Mainfranken, then until autumn 1942 at the latest, SD section Wuerzburg) The typewritten inventory "SD main branch office Wuerzburg" (5051 sheets) from the years 1939 - 1944 was first acquired in February 1966 in poor condition (leaves severely damaged by fire) by the City Archives Wuerzburg. How it got there is unclear, possibly the police had handed it over. The sheets were restored by lamination and reopened except for a small percentage. The inventory consists mainly of field reports from the branch office to the...

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

Language : German

Testimony of Peter Tawer, born in 1925 in Dresden, Germany, about his experiences in Dresden, his escape to the Netherlands in the Kindertransport operation, his escape to Spain with assistance from the Westerweel resistance; internment in a camp for German prisoners in Jamaica, etc.

Life before the war in Dresden; Nazis rise to power in January 1933; antisemitism in school; anti-Jewish legislation; publication of Nazi propaganda; expelled from school in 1937; transferred to a Jewish school; grandmother, holder of Polish nationality, brutally deported; father sent to Buchenwald; activity with Hashomer Hatzair for those deported to Poland; captured and arrested; liberated; confiscation of property; Kristallnacht in November 1938; escaped to the Netherlands in the Kindertransport in early 1939; life in Eindhoven; escaped to a hakhshara (Zionist training facility) in Loodsrecht; Germans occupy...

File Number : 13593

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of the Special Court (Sondergericht) in Munich

Documentation of the Special Court (Sondergericht) in Munich The Special Court (Sondergericht) in Munich was one of the regional courts of law established in Germany to try charges of crimes against the Nazi regime and Nazi ideology. The collection includes files of trials and investigation proceedings against Jewish and non-Jewish Germans who were charged with crimes, such as expressing criticism of the Reich and its leaders and the Reich's attitude toward the Jews, and "race defilement" crimes. The Special Courts (Sondergerichte) were established in the spring of 1933. At first, 25 courts of this...

Type of Material : Legal Documentation

Language : German

Documentation from the appellate court (Oberlandesgericht) of Muenchen, 1943-1945

Type of Material : Legal Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Esther Veronika (Katz) Kraus, born in Kecskemet, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Kecskemet Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Allendorf and Melsungen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Veronika (Katz) Kraus, born in Kecskemet, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Kecskemet Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Allendorf and Melsungen camps Life before the war. Deportation to a brick factory with the Jews; transfer to the Kecskemet Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz- Birkenau, 01 July 1944; camp life; transfer to Allendorf with a group of women, including her sister; camp life; forced labor; transfer to a room in the Revier, the camp hospital; receives lighter labor; transfer on a death march; the Germans flee; escape to a house belonging to the Hitler-Jugend...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hela Herta (Rotholtz) Mandelman, born in Oborniki, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, Skarzysko Kamienna and Leipzig

Testimony

Testimony of Hela Herta (Rotholtz) Mandelman, born in Oborniki, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, Skarzysko Kamienna and Leipzig Her childhood in Oborniki in a traditional family that was originally from Germany. Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation to Poznan and Inowroclaw; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; Warsaw Ghetto life; work in a carton workshop; exposure of the hiding place in an attic during an "Aktion", 1942; murder of her mother; life in the small Warsaw Ghetto until the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, April 1943; life in a bunker; burning of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tova Tola (Miler) Edelshtein, born in Chmielnik, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Chmielnik Ghetto, Skarzysko, Czestochowa, Ravensbrueck and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Tova Tola (Miler) Edelshtein, born in Chmielnik, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Chmielnik Ghetto, Skarzysko, Czestochowa, Ravensbrueck and Bergen-Belsen Her childhood in Chmielnik in a traditional family. Outbreak of the war, 1939; Chmielnik Ghetto life with her extended family; assembly with a group of young people, autumn 1942; deportation to Skarzysko; labor in camp B; transfer to Czestochowa, summer 1944; transfer to Ravensbrueck, late 1944; death march and transfer to Bergen-Belsen; typhus disease; liberation, 15 April 1945. Move to Sweden for convalescence; joins a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana (Rozner) Dirnfeld, born in Sarateni, Romania, 1933, regarding her experiences in the Gherla Ghetto, Cluj Ghetto, Auschwitz and Hohenelbe Vrchlabi

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana (Rozner) Dirnfeld, born in Sarateni, Romania, 1933, regarding her experiences in the Gherla Ghetto, Cluj Ghetto, Auschwitz and Hohenelbe Vrchlabi Ultra-Orthodox family; increase in the displays of antisemitism, 1938; move to Gherla. Life under Hungarian rule occupation and the confiscation of her family's business, 1941; German occupation, 1944; burial of property in a pit in the yard; deportation to the Gherla Ghetto in a brick factory in Gherla; help with food from non-Jewish acquaintances; demand by the gendarmes to hand over money and gold; abuse of her father and the wealthy...

File Number : 12989

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Joint testimony of Rachel (Ashkenazi) Preisler, born in Craciunesti, Romania, 1930, and her sister Brana (Ashkenazi) Fogel, born in Craciunesti, Romania, 1931, regarding their experiences in the Slatinske Doly Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ludwigslust From a well-established religious family. Cancellation of their father's work permit, 1940; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the synagogue after Pesach (16 April 1944); transfer to the Slatinske Doly Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life in Block 8; transfer as part of a group to labor in Boizenburg; camp life including Brana's labor...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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