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Testimony of Hans-Peter Messerschmidt, born in Berlin, Germany, 1918, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Monowitz, Buchenwald, the Ohrdruf camp and Theresienstadt, 12 March 1943-12 August 1945

Testimony of Hans-Peter Messerschmidt, born in Berlin, Germany, 1918, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Monowitz, Buchenwald, the Ohrdruf camp and Theresienstadt, 12 March 1943-12 August 1945 Beginning of the events, 09 March 1943; work of his father and his wife as employees of the Jewish community; the witness' work in the workshop of the Herrmann Company; arrest of his father and his wife by the Gestapo; meeting his wife, father, mother and father-in-law in the Grosse Hamburgerstrasse camp; deportation by truck to the Quitzowstrasse station, 12 March; deportation to Auschwitz in two sealed freight...

File Number : 1692

Type of Material : Report, Testimony, Photocopy

Language : German

Testimony of Elazar Shimoni, born in Feldebro, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Nyiregyhaza Ghetto, Auschwitz, Holtzen and Buchenwald

Testimony

Testimony of Elazar Shimoni, born in Feldebro, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Nyiregyhaza Ghetto, Auschwitz, Holtzen and Buchenwald Move to Nyirbator; displays of antisemitism; difficulties for the family as non-Hungarian citizens; anti-Jewish legislation. German occupation; deportation to the Nyiregyhaza Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; attitude to religion; transfer to Buna-Monowitz labor camp; labor in an IG Farben factory; camp life; relations between the inmates; escape attempts; death march to Gleiwitz camp, 17 January 1945; transfer via Czechoslovakia to...

File Number : 5397

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leo Eitinger, born in Lomnice, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding the rescue operation of Jewish children (Kindertransport) from Czechoslovakia to Norway, the fate of the Jews in Norway under the Nazi occupation and his own experiences in Norway, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and back in Norway after the liberation - Biographical details, 1912-1939; - Description of the Nansenhjelpen (Nansen Relief-Nansenhilfe), a Norwegian humanitarian organization founded by Odd Nansen in 1936 to provide safe haven and assistance in Norway for Jewish refugees from areas in Europe under Nazi control; -...

File Number : 255

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Documentation of Nuchym Ajzenberg (b. Brody), produced in France, 1945–1946, and his prisoner documents and a list of child survivors from the Buchenwald camp

Documentation of Nuchym Ajzenberg (b. Brody), produced in France, 1945–1946, and his prisoner documents and a list of child survivors from the Buchenwald camp Documentation of Nuchym Ajzenberg from his stay in France after the war: - membership card in the Fédération nationale des Déportés et Internés politiques (National federation of deportees and political prisoners) of Nuchym Ajzenberg (b. April 24, 1927, in Poland) for 1945; - membership card in the Fédération nationale des Déportés et Internés patriotes of Natek Ajzenberg (b. April 24, 1925, in Brody), issued in Fontenay-aux-Roses, for 1946; arrest...

File Number : 1523

Type of Material : Personal Records, List of Jewish Children, List of Orphan Children, Membership Cards, List of Jewish Survivors

Language : Polish, French, German

A. S. Travis: Farbenindustrie (Colour Industry)

A. S. Travis: Farbenindustrie (Colour Industry). A short history of the German colour industrie from Fritz Haber to the I.G. Farben and Auschwitz.

File Number : 278

Type of Material : Research Article

Language : English

Memoirs of Meyer Widawski, born in Poddębice, Poland in 1925, regarding his experiences in Poddębice, in the Poddębice Ghetto and in Braetz, Auschwitz, Buna Monowitz and other camps during 1939-1945, as written down by his daughter, Eden Sima Ansell Outbreak of the war on 01 September 1939; draft of Meyer's six brothers into the Polish Army; German occupation of Poddębice in autumn 1939; persecution of the Jews; Meyer's brothers return home; deportation and entry of the city's Jews into the Poddębice Ghetto; "Aktions" in the ghetto; abuse of the Jews; deportation of Jewish men to a camp in Łódź in autumn...

File Number : 10325

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Documentation of the I. G. Farbenindustrie Company from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1928-1943

Documentation of the I. G. Farbenindustrie Company from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1928-1943 The I. G. Farbenindustrie Company was established in 1925 from the amalgamation of several chemical industry companies, and it was, in its time, the largest company in this field in the west. During World War II it was notorious due to its involvement in the Nazi oppression and murder process, and mainly due to the production and supply of the gas Zyklon B which was used for mass murders in Auschwitz, and for the establishment of the Buna factory for synthetic fuel as part of the Auschwitz camps complex where camp...

Type of Material : Balance Sheet, Survey Report, Names of Perpetrators, Statistical Data, Official Documentation

Language : Russian, German