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Testimony of Erna (Keizer) Mandelbaum, born in Rybnik, 1924, regarding her experiences in a ghetto, Hannsdorf and Parschnitz camps

Testimony

Testimony of Erna (Keizer) Mandelbaum, born in Rybnik, 1924, regarding her experiences in a ghetto, Hannsdorf and Parschnitz camps Her father owns a large store, serves as the head of the Chevra Kadisha (burial society) and head of the community committee; language spoken at home was German; religious family; attends a German school; because of the boycott, transfer to a Polish school at the age of 10; closure of schools to Jews, dismissal from jobs, studies, and other areas of life, 1939. Entry of the Germans; confiscation of property and money; eviction of her father from his store; detention in the...

File Number : 12012

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudith Elga (Mundstock) Camit, born in Leipzig. 1929, regarding her experiences in Germany after the Nazi rise to power and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Yehudith Elga (Mundstock) Camit, born in Leipzig. 1929, regarding her experiences in Germany after the Nazi rise to power and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939 Life in Halle, in the Sachsen district, before the war. Nazi rise to power; escape; confiscations; harassment; expulsion from school; her brother emigrates abroad; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939.

File Number : 12011

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Fritz Reutlinger, born in Pforzheim, Germany, 1925, regarding his experiences in Pforzheim until 1939 and in Belgium until 1940

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Fritz Reutlinger, born in Pforzheim, Germany, 1925, regarding his experiences in Pforzheim until 1939 and in Belgium until 1940 Wealthy, Orthodox family; witness' father was wounded as a German Army soldier in World War I; witness attends a public school and learns Jewish studies at home; membership in the Bnei Akiva movement. Kristallnacht, November 1938; beating of his grandfather; burning of the synagogue; deportation of men age 30 years and older to Dachau; hidden by German neighbors; emigration to Belgium, March 1939; aliya to Eretz Israel via Marseille with Youth Aliyah, March...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Memoirs of Mea Hochster, born in Lauterbach, Germany, regarding her experiences in Lauterbach and Theresienstadt

Memoirs of Mea Hochster, born in Lauterbach, Germany, regarding her experiences in Lauterbach and Theresienstadt Life in Lauterbach; rise to power of the National Socialist Party; imposition of a boycott against the Jews; Kristallnacht; mental breakdown of her husband; death of her husband in a hospital; escape of the children from Germany, 1939. Deportation to Theresienstadt. The file also contains: - Poems regarding the deportation, camp life, hunger, fear of being sent to one's death and liberation, 1943-1945; - Letter sent by Mea Hochster from Canada to her son's family in Israel.

File Number : 4075

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs, Poems/songs

Language : German

Letters of testimony written by Claere Clara (Peiser) Silbermann from Stettin, Germany and the Lublin district, 1940 and 1942; covering letter from Margarete (Boehm) Peiser, born in Gleiwitz (Germany), Poland, regarding the letters of testimony, 1964 Information regarding Claere Clara (Peiser) Silbermann, the sister-in-law of Margarete (Boehm) Peiser: - Marriage to Erich Silbermann; Erich Silbermann's business in Anklam and his bankruptcy due to the anti-Jewish boycott; move to Stettin; Claere Silbermann's work as a piano teacher; deportation of the couple to Belsice, in the Lublin district, February...

File Number : 313

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Rosa Rachel Schwarz, former Director of the Youth and Social Welfare Department of the Vienna (Austria) Kultusgemeinde (Jewish community), regarding her experiences under the Nazi regime, 1938-1940 - Work with Murmelstein, also an employee of the Kultusgemeinde, who was responsible for issuing passes; Murmelstein's ungenerous behavior (p. 2); - German occupation of Vienna, 12 March 1938; information received at midday regarding the seizure of the children's outpatient clinic; visit to the Jewish community by the German authorities: inspection of the accounting procedures, confiscation of the...

File Number : 73

Type of Material : Testimony, List, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimonies of Dr. Erwin Lichtenstein, former counsel of the Synagogengemeinde (Jewish community) of Danzig, regarding the final year of community life in Danzig and the emigration of almost the entire community, 1933-1939 - Danzig's status as a free town according to international law; the makeup of the Jews of Danzig; - Bare majority for the Nazis in the elections in Danzig , May 1933; coalition of the Nazi Party, the German National People's Party and the Center party; on a governmental level, no measures against Jews, but increasing pressure against the Jews by the National Socialists; gradually...

File Number : 72

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Federico Fritz Rozenmeier, born in 1932 in Berlin, about persecution and emigration to Argentina in 1938

Testimony of Federico Fritz Rozenmeier, born in 1932 in Berlin, about persecution and emigration to Argentina in 1938 Offspring of a modern educated family; father and grandfather are doctors; grandfather heads the Gottingen Jewish community; antisemitism escalates; Jewish businesses confiscated; relatives escape to Australia; visa to Argentina obtained in 1938; German citizenship revoked; escape by ship to England; Kristallnacht in Gottingen; grandparents escape and are brought back to Germany; witness reaches Argentina via Italy; attitude toward refugees in Argentina; immigration to Israel in 2011.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Collection of periodicals promoting Anti-Nazi economic boycott

Collection of periodicals promoting Anti-Nazi economic boycott, USA, 1935 - 1939: The Economic Bulletin. Official organ of the non-sectarian anti-Nazi league to champion human rights.The Anti-Nazi Economic Bulletin. Official organ of the non-sectarian anti-Nazi league to champion human rights. Boycott Nazi Goods and Services. Boycott Bulletin.

File Number : 74

Type of Material : Journal

Language : English

Reports to the World Jewish Congress regarding German foreign trade and the impact of an international boycott

Reports to the World Jewish Congress and the American Jewish Congress regarding German foreign trade and the impact of an international boycott. 1. J. Goldberg: The supply of pharmaceuticals and the share of Germany (German / French). 2. J. Goldberg: German foreign trade and the efficacy of the boycott of German commodities (German). 3. J. Tenenbaum: The economic crisis of the Third Reich (Spanish).

File Number : 72

Type of Material : Reports

Language : Spanish, French, English, German

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