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Testimony of Israel Lolka Blumental born in Vilna [Wilno], Poland in 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto and while in hiding

Testimony of Israel Lolka Blumental born in Vilna [Wilno], Poland in 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto and while in hiding Life before the war; traditional, well-to-do, Revisionist family; Soviet occupation; nationalization of his father's factory; pogrom by the Lithuanian Police in summer 1940; German occupation, June 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; his parents receive work cards; Vilna Ghetto life; his father receives information from a German officer at his place of labor regarding approaching "Aktions"'; his family members escape to hiding places in the homes of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Haim Schneider, born in Vienna, Austria, 1921, regarding his experiences in Austria, aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939 and in the British Army

Testimony

Testimony of Haim Schneider, born in Vienna, Austria, 1921, regarding his experiences in Austria, aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939 and in the British Army Life before the war; activities in the Blau-Weiss movement; assassination of Engelbert Dollfuss, the Chancellor of Austria, by Nazis, 1934; establishment of soup kitchens; confiscation of his father's workshops by Sturmabteilung, SA members and the police. Annexation of Austria to Germany, March 1938; cleaning of walls and streets by Jews; deportation of the Jewish intellectuals to Dachau; Kristallnacht; burning of synagogues; detention of his father and a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the persecution of Jews, Kristallnacht riots and confiscation of Jewish property in Austria in 1938

Documentation regarding the persecution of Jews, Kristallnacht riots and confiscation of Jewish property in Austria in 1938 Page 5-6: Attacks on Jews in various areas in Austria and Vienna; Page 7: Letter sent by Martin Bormann to Josef Buerckel, the Reichskommissar fuer die Wiedervereinigung Oesterreichs mit dem deutschen Reich, the Reichs Commissioner for the Re-Unification of Austria with the German Reich), regarding the publication by the office of Hitler's substitute, of a ban on the setting on fire of synagogues and Jewish homes during Kristallnacht due to fear of causing damage to nearby...

File Number : 66

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation regarding preparations for the deportation of Jews from Germany, Austria and the Protectorate to the East, October-November 1941

Documentation regarding preparations for the deportation of Jews from Germany, Austria and the Protectorate to the East, October-November 1941 - Letter sent by the Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD –BdS (Commander of the Sipo and the SD) in Riga and the commander of Einsatzgruppe A to the Reichskommissar Ostland (Reichs commissioner in Ostland), regarding the plan by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt - RSHA (Reichs Security Head Office) to deport approximately 50,000 Jews from Germany and the Protectorate to Ostland; Details regarding the departure times and destinations of the transports:...

File Number : 158

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Dr. Max Geffner, born in western Ukraine in 1904, regarding his experiences in Vienna, Austria during 1914-1940

Memoirs of Dr. Max Geffner, born in western Ukraine in 1904, regarding his experiences in Vienna, Austria during 1914-1940 Memoirs written in 1940 when he is in London, in a booklet titled "My life in Vienna before and after the Anschluss"; arrival of Max Geffner to Vienna at the age of ten, after he became blind due to an eye injury from a rock thrown at him in the town where his father was an agriculturalist; transfer to the Jewish Institute for the Blind in the capital city; studies and training as a teacher at the Jewish Institute for the Blind; hardships due to being blind and due to being a Jew in...

File Number : 10700

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

עדותה של רון שטרסברג בתיה ברטה, ילידת 1922 Vienna אוסטריה, על רדיפות המשפחה באוסטריה בטרם Testimony of Batia Berta Ron Shtrasberg, born in Vienna, Austria, 1922 - regarding the persecution of the family in Austria and her aliya to Eretz Israel in 1938.לארץ ישראל ב- 1938

Testimony of Batia Berta Ron Shtrasberg, born in Vienna, Austria, 1922 - regarding the persecution of the family in Austria and her aliya to Eretz Israel in 1938. The daughter of a traditional family that had no Zionist affiliation; their move to Cologne for the opening of the family store there in 1928; their move to Austria in 1931; the Nazi rise to power; joining the Gordonia movement; the night of Nazi book burnings; enactment and publication of the Nuremberg laws; the Anschluss in 1938; the arrest of her brother by the Austrian police; termination of her studies after the Anschluss; employment with a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of material from Austrian government offices (mainly of the politician Karl von Karwinsky) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1935-1936

Documentation of material from Austrian government offices (mainly of the politician Karl von Karwinsky) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1935-1936 The files in the collection: - Report for the year 1934 submitted by the National Bank of Yugoslavia, sent to the Austro-Yugoslavian Office of Commerce (Microfilm JM/29558, Scans 1975-2060); - Report for the year 1934 submitted by the Wiener freiwillige Rettungs-Gesellschaft, containing mainly statistical charts and a financial report (Microfilm JM/29558, Scans 2063-2087); - Report for the year 1934 submitted by the Generaldirektion fuer die Post-und...

Type of Material : Booklet(s), Invitation, Letter, Charter, Protocol, Poster, Survey Report, Official Documentation, Brochure, Statistical Data

Language : German

Documents related to the addition of the name Israel to the name of Alexander Schey, born in Vienna, Austria on 06/01/1929, dated, 1939, and a copy of a page from a history book that relates to the history of the Schey family in the cities of Lackenbach and Eisenstadt and the vicinity, and related to the "Seven Communities" Document issued by the Wilden Police office in Vienna, 07/04/1939, with the signature of the child, Alexander Israel Schey; confirmation by the Vienna Police, that the Jew, Alexander Schey, added the name "Israel" to his name, 10/07/1939; copy of a page from a book researching the history...

File Number : 1088

Type of Material : Excerpt(s), Document

Language : German

Documentation regarding the request by Sandor and Iren Klein to be granted shelter in various places in Austria, and regarding their emigration to Australia, 1957

Documentation regarding the request by Sandor and Iren Klein to be granted shelter in various places in Austria, and regarding their emigration to Australia, 1957 - Document from the Police in Vienna, confirming the request by Iren Klein, born in Szatmarokorito, Hungary, 27/06/1921, to stay in Vienna along with her daughter Eva, 12/12/1956; - Document from the Police in Vienna, confirming the request by Sandor Klein, born in Mezokeresztes, Hungary, 23/03/1915, to stay in Vienna along with his daughter Eva, 12/12/1956; - Approval by the Perg municipality of the request by Iren (Gertner) Klein, to stay...

File Number : 824

Type of Material : Certification, Names

Language : German