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Testimony of Elhanan Elkhononas Shokhoras Shahar, born in 1929 in Kaunas, Lithuania, about his experiences in the Kaunas ghetto, the Stutthof camp, and Dachau during the war

Life before the war; offspring of a traditional family; Soviet occupation ensues in 1940; nationalization of family business; Soviets retreat and German occupation ensues in June 1941; ghetto established and extended family joins witness in one apartment; wearing the yellow star; attending a vocational school; Aktionen; surrender of valuables and books; unsuccessful attempt to smuggle sister to the "Aryan" side; deportation from the ghetto in July 1944; parting from mother and sister in the Stutthof camp; taken to Landsberg (Dachau); life in the camp; hunger; the front closes in and the camp is evacuated on...

File Number : 13603

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avrahm Shemesh, born in Ludwipol, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Ludwipol Ghetto, forests, with the partisans and in Babino

Testimony

Testimony of Avrahm Shemesh, born in Ludwipol, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Ludwipol Ghetto, forests, with the partisans and in Babino From a Zionist family; witness' father owns a grocery store; attends a Tarbut school. Soviet occupation, 1939; German occupation; raid on his home and confiscation of property, 1941; establishment of the Ludwipol Ghetto; abuse of Jews; looting of Jewish property by the Ukrainians; forced labor with his brother paving roads; in hiding in the cellar of his grandfather's oil factory; liquidation of the Ludwipol Ghetto, 26 August 1942; attempted murder by a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses, December 1943

Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses, December 1943 Poland: The Lodz Ghetto; deportations to the ghetto and sealing of the ghetto; Rumkowski's activities; labor camps in the vicinity of Lublin; Judenrat activities in the Warsaw Ghetto; ghettos for Poles in places where there had formerly been ghettos for Jews; legislation against the non-German population in the Generalgouvernement; annihilation of Jews in the camps; Germany: Testimony from a woman regarding air-raids in...

File Number : 28

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Directive from the Reichskommissar fuer das Ostland in Riga to the Generalkommissar (General Commander) of Belorussia in Minsk regarding confiscation of cultural property of value in Belorussia by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR - Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce), 1941 Directive regarding the start of ERR activities throughout the Reichskommissatiat Ostland (RKO), including Belorussia; operation of the unit under Reichshauptstellenleiter Gerhard Utikal; confiscation of cultural property of value; designation of 10 objectives, including synagogues, community buildings, rabbinical homes, Jewish...

File Number : 3117

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

M.1.DN - Munich Municipality: Documentation regarding the treatment of the Jews, 1933-1942

M.1.DN - Munich Municipality: Documentation regarding the treatment of the Jews, 1933-1942 This Subsection is part of the collections compiled by the Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the US Zone in Munich (Records Group M.1). The Subsection contains files concerning Jews, which the CHC received from the Munich Municipal Archives. These documents deal with the persecution of Jews during the Nazi period, mainly in Munich, but also in Frankfurt am Main, Ansbach and some of the other cities in Germany. The Subsection also contains the personal files of...

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Record of Murdered Persons, Record of Persecuted Persons, Personal Documents

Language : German

Order given by Hitler, regarding the authorities and functions of Rosenberg's office in the Occupied Territories, 1942

Order given by Hitler, regarding the authorities and functions of Rosenberg's office in the Occupied Territories, 1942 Rights for Rosenberg's personnel to conduct searches in archives, libraries and other cultural institutions, and to confiscate material for the Nazi university (Hohe Schule), including cultural properties owned by Jews; Included in the file: Order by Hitler, edited by Lammers; The document is part of the Evidence material at the Nuremberg Trial; The document is identical to the ng 3902 document and the ps 151 document (partially); The document in German is in JM 2115,...

File Number : 91

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Letter sent by Alfred Rosenberg to Konrad Henlein, the Reichskommissar (Reichs commissioner) of the Sudetenland area, regarding books confiscated in the Sudetenland area, 15/10/1938

Letter sent by Alfred Rosenberg to Konrad Henlein, the Reichskommissar (Reichs commissioner) of the Sudetenland area, regarding books confiscated in the Sudetenland area, 15/10/1938 Responsibility by Rosenberg for the Nazi Party's ideological education; Rosenberg requests that his Dienststelle (local office) take part in the examination of the Jewish, the religious and the Marxist books that were confiscated in the Sudetenland area, for the purpose of the establishment of the library being planned as part of the Nazi Party's school of higher education; The document is part of the Evidence material at the...

File Number : 64

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Letter sent to Alfred Rosenberg by Konard Henlein, the Reichskommissar (Reichs commissioner) in the Sudetenland area, regarding the confiscation of books in the Sudetenland area, 1938

Letter sent to Alfred Rosenberg by Konard Henlein, the Reichskommissar (Reichs commissioner) in the Sudetenland area, regarding the confiscation of books in the Sudetenland area, 1938 Instruction given by Henlein to Dr. Suchy to confiscate Jewish, Konfessionellen (religious) and Marxist libraries for the purpose of supporting Rosenberg's educational activities; The document is part of the Evidence material at the Nuremberg Trial; The document is in the book: Red series, iii, pp. 238-239; The document in English is in PS 285.

File Number : 63

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Report written by the Einsatzstab Rosenberg (Operational Staff Rosenberg), regarding the confiscation of libraries and archives in the Netherlands in 1940

Report written by the Einsatzstab Rosenberg (Operational Staff Rosenberg), regarding the confiscation of libraries and archives in the Netherlands in 1940 Description of the Arbeitsgruppe Niederlande (Netherlands work group) of the Einsatzstab Rosenberg (Operational Staff Rosenberg); details regarding the institutions and organizations whose books and archives were confiscated starting in 09/1940, including approximately 80 Freemasons lodges, [several] Rotary Club branches, the Internationale Institut fuer Soziale Geschichte in Amsterdam (an institution that dealt mainly with Jewish emigrants from Germany),...

File Number : 62

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Directive given by the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht - OKW (Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht), regarding the authorities and functions of the Einsatzstab Rosenberg (Operational Staff Rosenberg) in the occupied territories in the East, 1942 Description of the functions of the Einsatzstab Rosenberg (Operational Staff Rosenberg), as described by Hitler in a special order published on 01/03/1942; character of the contact of the headquarters units with the Wehrmacht factors in the area; authorization of the Sonderkommandos of the Einsatzstab Rosenberg to make searches and to confiscate archives, libraries, cultural...

File Number : 61

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

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