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Testimony of Dr. Moritz Spitzer, born in Boskovice, Czechoslovakia, 1900, regarding the time he was employed by the Schocken Verlag publishing house in Berlin, 1934-1939

Testimony of Dr. Moritz Spitzer, born in Boskovice, Czechoslovakia, 1900, regarding the time he was employed by the Schocken Verlag publishing house in Berlin, 1934-1939 In the file: - Remarks prepared by Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri regarding the testimony of Dr. Moritz Spitzer (pp. 2-3), February 1958; - Testimony of Dr. Moritz Spitzer, former publishing director of the Schocken Verlag, a Jewish publishing house in Berlin, regarding the time he was employed at the Schocken Verlag, from1934 until the forced liquidation of the publishing house in 1939 (pp. 4-15), 26 November 1957; - Addendum by Dr....

File Number : 212

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Hildegard Henschel regarding the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich's Deputation of German Jews), 1939-1943

Testimony of Hildegard Henschel regarding the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich's Deputation of German Jews), 1939-1943 In the file: - Introduction prepared by Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri regarding the testimony of Hildergard Henschel, (pp. 2-3), March 1957; - Testimony (in the form of an interview) of Hildegard Henschel (wife of Moritz Henschel, Reichsvertretung board member) regarding the activities of the Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden in Berlin, 1939-1943, including the arrest of Jakob Edelstein, Paul Eppstein in Theresienstadt, and information regarding the deportation of other...

File Number : 156

Type of Material : Testimony, Names, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Else Hannach, born in Berlin, Germany, 1915, regarding her experiences and observances, 1941-1944

Testimony of Else Hannach, born in Berlin, Germany, 1915, regarding her experiences and observances, 1941-1944 German anti-Jewish legislation: - No Jewish schools, as of 01 July 1942; - No praying at the synagogues, as of early 1943; - Closing of Jewish newspapers, starting November 1938; closing of last Jewish newspaper, 01 June 1943; - Disbanding of the Kulturbund (Jewish Cultural Federation); - Introduction of the Judenstern (yellow badge), 19 December 1941; - Control over the Jews assigned to the police; - Deportation of all Jewish inmates in penitentiaries, from autumn 1943; -...

File Number : 58

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Dr. Heinrich Wolffheim regarding his experiences in Allenstein, East Prussia, Germany, 1933-1943

Testimony of Dr. Heinrich Wolffheim regarding his experiences in Allenstein, East Prussia, Germany, 1933-1943 - Work of Dr. Wolffheim as the fiduciary doctor [physician] of the main insurance office, until July 1933; - Service as the director of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (RVJ-Reich Association of the Jews in Germany) district office in Allenstein from November 1940; - First arrest on the charge of membership in a Bnai Brith lodge, April 1933; alleged discovery of Communist publications and cartridges [apparently ink cartridges] on the lodge premises; release due to the...

File Number : 55

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Dr. Ernst Salomon Herzfeld, born in Graetz, Poznan, 1875, regarding the founding and development of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich's Deputation of German Jews), the Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbuerger Juedischen Glaubens (CV-Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith) and other Jewish organizations, 1933-1938 - Activities of the different Jewish organizations after the takeover by the Nazis in order to protect their assets; - House search of the CV by the SA and temporary arrests, 01 March 1933; - Increasing excesses of the SA; outrages against Jewish...

File Number : 8

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German

Letters and postcards from Hannah Karminski in Berlin to family members in Switzerland, 1938–1942, and additional documentation associated with her

Letters and postcards from Hannah Karminski in Berlin to family members in Switzerland, 1938–1942, and additional documentation associated with her - letters and postcard sent by Johanna (Hannah) Sara Karminski, sometimes with additional text by Paula Fürst in Berlin, to her parents, Adolf and Selma Karminski, and her sister, Erna Berlowitz, in Switzerland, July 1938–October 1942; in one of the postcards, added text by Hildegard Böhme appears. Attached to the letters and apparently sent with them are the following: - a poem by Hannah Karminski for the birthday of Cora Berliner, January 23, 1940; -...

File Number : 5028

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Letter, עבודת מחקר, Correspondence, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, German