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Personal documents of Yaffa Ben Yashar, including a letter of testimony, 1941-1999

Personal documents of Yaffa Ben Yashar, including a letter of testimony, 1941-1999 - Identity document of Herbert Josef Odenheimer (Ehud Lev), born, 26 March 1934; - Photograph of the original yellow badge that belonged to an uncle of Ehud Lev, who was deported to Theresienstadt and died several years after the war; - Letter of testimony by Yaffa Ben Yashar, regarding the decree concerning the wearing of a yellow badge in France; - Photograph of Yaffa Ben Yashar and her brother in an orphanage, 1942-1943.

File Number : 8523

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, German

Criminal case by the Berlin Gestapo against Fred Wetzel and Walther Friedrich Schotte, accused of promising Berlin Jews assistance in avoiding deportation or persecution for paying a fee, 1942

Criminal case by the Berlin Gestapo against Fred Wetzel and Walther Friedrich Schotte, accused of promising Berlin Jews assistance in avoiding deportation or persecution for paying a fee, 1942 Report by Stapo IV D 1 regarding Fred Wetzel from Berlin, accused of helping Jews to emigrate to Switzerland, deleting them from the so called evacuation list for 1,400 RM, turning Jews into "hybrids" (Mischlinge) and excempting them from wearing the yellow badge. For this procedure he cooperated with Dr. Walther Friedrich Schotte. (pp. 2-3, ); Testimonies by Jews who paid Wetzel (pp.4-10, 27, 40-49, 68-72);...

File Number : 151

Type of Material : Testimony, Money, Document

Language : German

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: Documentation concerning the deportation of Jews from Dortmund area and Schleswig-Holstein by the local Gestapo offices

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: Documentation concerning the deportation of Jews from Dortmund area and Schleswig-Holstein by the local Gestapo offices Document (Summary): Preliminary investigation by Public Prosecution because of the assistance to murder by Gestapo officers: Deportation of more than 5,000 Jewish citizens from Bochum, Hagen, Hamm, Meschede, Siegen and Luedenscheid between 1942 and 1945 to Riga, Zamosc near Lublin, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Weissenfels near Halle and Kassel-Bettenhausen; Killing of the majority of the Jewish deportees. (p....

File Number : 142

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Names of Perpetrators

Language : German

Testimony of Chana Engel Levi, born in Germany, 1926, regarding the rise to power of the Nazis, 1933, the persecution of German Jews, deportation to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and the death march

Testimony

Testimony of Chana Engel Levi, born in Germany, 1926 *, regarding the rise to power of the Nazis, 1933, the persecution of German Jews, deportation to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and the death march Family background, the only daughter; relocation to Neuwied, 1927; studies at a state-run Jewish school; the activities of her father in the Social Democratic Party. The rise of the Nazis to power, 1933; dismissal of the father from his job and inability to get a job elsewhere due to being a Jew; difficult financial situation; confiscation of Jewish property; derogatory exclamations on the part of Christian...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter of testimony written by Rakhel Leykina, born in 1891, regarding her experiences in Dnepropetrovsk during 1941-1943

Letter of testimony written by Rakhel Leykina, born in 1891, regarding her experiences in Dnepropetrovsk during 1941-1943 German occupation of Dnepropetrovsk in August 1941; murders of Jews during the occupation of the city; looting and theft of Jewish property by Germans and collaborators; seven Jews are set on fire in a shop on Chicherinskaya Street on 03/09/1941; imposition of contributions on the Jews; establishment of a Judenrat; mass "Aktions" on 13/10/1941 and 14/10/1941; deportation of Rakhel Leykina and Lev Konstantinovski from their apartment; wanderings and life in hiding in various places; work...

File Number : 2801

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Reports regarding the tapping and listening on the telephone conversations of the Ghettoverwaltung (German administration) of the Lodz Ghetto, which were connected to the Forschungsstelle A intelligence department, 1939-1945 The item contains two volumes; Volume A: List of names of the officials in the Ghettoverwaltung (German administration) of the Lodz Ghetto and in the Judenrat (page 2); Reported are eavesdropping from the conversations of the following persons or regarding the following subjects: Chairman of the Judenrat, Rumkowski (pp. 3, 19, 29, 63), 13/04-30/06/1944; Deportation of Jews...

File Number : 13

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Diary of Paula Littauer regarding her experiences as a Jew in hiding during her time in Berlin and in Brussels from 1939 to 1944

Written testimony of Paula Littauer regarding her experiences as a Jew in hiding in Berlin and in Brussels, 1939-1944 Thwarting of preparations for emigration to Britain; successful emigration of her daughter Ruth to England; confiscation of her apartment; transfer of her aprtement to Heimkehrer (home-comers); explanation of the various types of home-comers; humiliation; yellow badge; powerlessness of her family in the United States to help; suicide in scores of Jewish families; witness to deportations; offered lodging in a Jewish home belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Weissenberg in Tempelhof, 30 October 1941;...

File Number : 120

Language : English

Testimony of Hildegard Henschel, wife of the Chairman of the Jewish community in Berlin, 1940-1943, regarding Jewish community activities, 1941-1943 and the fate of the community leaders, 1943-1945

Testimony of Hildegard Henschel, wife of the Chairman of the Jewish community in Berlin, 1940-1943, regarding Jewish community activities, 1941-1943 and the fate of the community leaders, 1943-1945 Publication of the order regarding the wearing of the yellow badge, 05 September 1941; Yom Kippur (01 October 1941); announcement from Franz Pruefer from the Gestapo to the community leaders, Philipp Kozower, Moritz Henschel and Marta Mosse regarding eviction of some of the Berlin Jews from their apartments in order to house German families in the apartments cleared of Jews; eviction of the Jews and their transfer...

File Number : 52

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : German

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

Type of Material : Statistical Data, Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : German

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