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Certificate awarded to Jean Schoenholz, born in Belfort, France, 1922, by the management of the Chantiers de la Jeunesse youth camps in Camp Marechal Bugeaud, 10 October 1941

Certificate awarded to Jean Schoenholz, born in Belfort, France, 1922, by the management of the Chantiers de la Jeunesse youth camps in Camp Marechal Bugeaud, 10 October 1941 Schoenholz 's work in the Camp Marechal Bugeaud, 15 March-20 October 1941. Notes from Roger Grinberg who submitted the material: Jean Schoenholz worked in the Petain youth camp. He joined the underground and was murdered by the Germans in 1944.

File Number : 553

Type of Material : Administrative Documentation

Language : French

Testimony of Miriam Shtein Fuks, born in Gurghiu, Romania, in 1924 regarding deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau and other camps

Family background in Gurghiu; family with religious lifestyle; attending a local school; moving to a government gymnasium in Reghin; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws in 1942; deportation of the men to labor camps; moving to Cluj; attending the Jewish gymnasium; German occupation; yellow badge; concentration of the Jews in the ghetto; deportation by wagons to Auschwitz Birkenau; negative attitude of the blockalteste; life in the Czech barrack number 26 in the Lager B1; moving by train to Zschopau; working in a factory producing motorbikes; improvement of the living conditions; transfer to...

File Number : 13736

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 8666

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

Letters by Reichmann family members, and official documentation regarding the family members in various places in France and Switzerland, 1939-1945

Letters by Reichmann family members, and official documentation regarding the family members in various places in France and Switzerland, 1939-1945 - Certificate of an authorized business owner, issued for Saul Reichmann, a foreign national in Lens, 20/08/1939; - Order for arrest, issued by the field headquarters in Biarritz against Saul Reichmann, accused of attempting to illegally cross the border into the French Free Zone, 09/03/1941; - Letter sent by the family's mother Helene Reichmann, from Benejacq, to her brother Leon Mandelbaum, who succeeded in escaping to Switzerland and who was staying in...

File Number : 3877

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Postcard, Certification, Letter

Language : Italian, French

Documentation of Arthur Plotsk, born in Leipzig, Germany, of Rabbi Simon Dasberg and his daughter Dina, from Groningen, the Netherlands, and of Alfred Weiss, born in Banovce, Slovakia; documentation dated, 1920-1941 - Transit pass issued for Arthur Plotzk by the police in Zagreb, before his travel to Eretz Israel, 20 February 1941; postcard sent by Jetta Plotsk from the Lodz Ghetto to her niece in Denmark, 11 November 1941; - Affidavit from Jozef Weiss (whose last place of residence before his deportation was Hilversum, the Netherlands) and by lawyer I. S. de Vries (whose last place of residence before...

File Number : 145

Type of Material : Passport, Postcard, Letter, Diploma, Administrative Documentation, List of Detainees, Poem/song, Declaration

Language : Hebrew, French, English, Dutch, Hungarian, Serbian-Croatian

Letters written by Aenne Meininger in Luxembourg, in France and in a camp in France, and sent to her children and friends in Bulgaria and Eretz Israel during 1939-1942; letters sent by Hilde Garti from Bulgaria in 1937 Letters and postcards written by Aenne Meininger in Luxembourg, in Marseille, Annecy and La Ciotat, France and in a camp in France during 1939-1942: -- To Paula and Hanna; -- To her son Franz Meininger and his family members in Eretz Israel; -- To her daughter Hilde Garti and her granddaughters Renée Reutsche Garti and Eugénie Jenny Garti in Stara Zagora and Vetren near Kazanlik,...

File Number : 2178

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, Documentary

Language : Hebrew, French, German

Memoirs of Lottie Grussgott, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Frankfurt am Main, Brussels, France and the Malines camp

Memoirs of Lottie Grussgott, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Frankfurt am Main, Brussels, France and the Malines camp Life before the war. Life under the Nazi regime; anti-Jewish legislation; Kristallnacht; unsuccessful attempt of her father to escape to the Netherlands; capture of her father by a Dutch border guard and his return to Germany; deportation of her father to Buchenwald; being watched over along with her brother Leon by her older sister, Dora,13, because their mother was ill; release of her father from Buchenwald because he had a visa to go to England;...

File Number : 8629

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

Experiences of Avraham Acker Ekroni, born in Debreczin, Hungary, and of his family members, as written by his grandson in Haifa

Experiences of Avraham Acker Ekroni, born in Debreczin, Hungary, and of his family members, as written by his grandson in Haifa Deportation of the Acker family to the Debreczin Ghetto, including Avraham's father David, his mother Ita, their sons Binyamin, Avraham, Menachem and Tuvia, and their daughters Vera (Rivka) and Yehudit; arrival to Strasshof camp in Germany; transfer of his older brother Binyamin to Theresienstadt; liberation of the remainder of the family members by the Red Army. Return to Hungary; aliya to Eretz Israel with the help of the Bericha organization, via Italy; reunion with his...

File Number : 349

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Report-survey prepared by Rabbi Anda Shalom Zaoui, a military chaplain in the French Army, regarding what he saw during his visit in Dachau and the Vaihingen camp, including the condition of the few survivors whom he met and personal data of the survivors, 02 May 1945

File Number : 8627

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : French

Testimony [in a letter] regarding the experiences of Rene Carasso Bensoussan and his family members, from Thessaloniki, 1941-1945

Testimony [in a letter] regarding the experiences of Rene Carasso Bensoussan and his family members, from Thessaloniki, 1941-1945 German Army occupation of Thessaloniki, 09 April 1941; dismissals at his place of work; escape to Athens with his wife Aline and their daughter Flora; detention; deportation to Chaidari; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, 02 April 1944; liberation from camp by the US Army in the Magdeburg area, 13 April 1945. Move via DP camps in Charleroi, Courbevoie and Namur; move via Paris to Marseilles; move via Bari; arrival to Greece, 04 September 1945; Note: Included with the testimony is...

File Number : 8611

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : French

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