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M.59- documentation from the US National Archives

M.59- Alexandria Collection: Nazi documentation from the US National Archives The Record Group contains Nazi documentation confiscated by the US Army and transferred to the US National Archives in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. The documentation includes documents from German government offices, Nazi organizations (including the Nazi party), SS Headquarters and the German Police, as well as German Army units on various levels, from Army Groups to Divisions. Additionally, copies of documentation regarding the persecution of the Jews of Germany, some of them from Nuremberg Trial files, have been transferred to...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

German passport of Feige (Rosenzweig) Beila, born in Kowno, Lithuania, 1902; passport issued in Lithuania, 20 May 1937

German passport of Feige (Rosenzweig) Beila, born in Kowno, Lithuania, 1902; passport issued in Lithuania, 20 May 1937 Included in the file are a plastic envelope, the passport, and photocopies of the passport; The passport's owner Feige (Rosenzweig) Beila was born, 04 January 1902; place of birth and place of residence: Kowno; she is a housewife (Ehefrau); her children are a daughter Rita, born, 09 December 1926 and a son Simon, born, 19 August 1934; The passport was issued by the German Legation in Lithuania (Litauen), 20 May 1937, and is valid until 18 May 1942; The passport has the dates:...

File Number : 327

Type of Material : Passport

Language : Lithuanian, Spanish, Russian, German, Japanese

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Correspondence between the local SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland) Executive Committee in Zurich with Swiss authorities, 1933-1938

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Correspondence between the local SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland) Executive Committee in Zurich with Swiss authorities, 1933-1938 In the file: - Correspondence between the local SIG Executive Committee in Zurich with various Swiss authorities, especially the Zurich police, regarding violent acts perpetrated against the Jews in Zurich, and correspondence with the Zurich Canton Alien Police regarding German consulate activities against Jewish refugees in Switzerland; - Correspondence with various canton authorities regarding the dissemination of Nazi propaganda.

File Number : 65

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Dr. Leo David, an attorney-at-law from Frankfurt am Main, regarding the origin and basic idea of the Haavara Agreement, 1933-1939; correspondence between Dr. Leo David and Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri, 1960 Dr. Leo David, a Zionist activist in Germany, in the 1930s, responded to a written questionnaire sent to him by Dr. Ball-Kaduri regarding the Haavara Agreement, preparations for its realization and its actual implementation. - Development of the idea of the Haavara (transfer) Agreement by the Zionistische Vereinigung fuer Deutschland (ZVfD -Zionist Federation of Germany) in Berlin, especially...

File Number : 277

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Memoirs, Letter

Language : German

Memoirs of Uri Sraga (Philipp Felix) Katzenstein, Malka Bamberger née Katzenstein, and Shlomo Katzenstein during the Holocaust; and the life story of Jacob Katzenstein, from study and translation of Lore Richheimer’s memoirs, etc. Note: the record follows the order of the scan. The file includes various kinds of documents other than the foregoing. See nos. 113, 114, 149, 165, 167, 168, 169, 14, and 166. School notebooks, newspaper clipping, article, lecture, Ph.D. dissertation, school report cards, history of the Rothschild and Braun families (in translation as well): 1. Geography notebook of Ruth...

File Number : 10503

Type of Material : תווי מוזיקה, יומן מסע שורשים, Sketch, מסמך מרבנות, Memoirs, מחקר תולדות המשפחה, עבודת מחקר, Birth Certificate, סיפור חיים, Interview(s), תעודת אזרחות, תמליל שיר, Receipt, רשימת בני המשפחה, Identity Card, עבודת דוקטורנט, Marriage Certificate, Lecture, Certification, תעודת בית הספר, פוליסה, Article, Genealogy, Death Certificate, Invitation, Newspaper, Inscription on Gravestone, Diary, מכתב המלצה, מכתב רשמי, Workbook, Print Out of Book, דרשה, הספד, List of Deportees, Telegram, כרטיס ברכה, Document, Poem/song, Letter, Will, Record From the Population Census

Language : Italian, Hebrew, French, English, German, Danish

To be translated

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Stern, born in 1922 in Köln, about his experiences from Hitler's rise to power until 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Stern, born in 1922 in Köln, about his experiences from Hitler's rise to power until 1939 Childhood; Hitler rises to power in 1933; book-burning; witness active in the Hashomer Hatzair movement; anti-Jewish legislation; exfiltrating Jewish refugees to Belgium; preparations for deportation made and cancelled; Kristallnacht violence in 1938; witness moves to a hakhshara (training venue) near Berlin; immigration to Eretz Israel in March 1939; adjustment to life in Eretz Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew