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Two postcards sent by Arthur Cahn from Sachsenhausen camp, Germany, to his wife Gertrud Cahn in Halle, Germany, November-December 1938

Two postcards sent by Arthur Cahn from Sachsenhausen camp, Germany, to his wife Gertrud Cahn in Halle, Germany, November-December 1938 Comments by the submitter of the material: - Gertrud Cahn was living in Halle, Germany. She was German and converted to Judaism on account of her marriage to Arthur Cahn. Arthur was sent to Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg camp and Gertrud remained in Halle, 1938. She tried various ways to have him released until finally one of her relatives, a pilot in the Wehrmacht (German Army), helped take her husband out of the camp, arranged documents for him and flew both of them to...

File Number : 2154

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : German

Documentation regarding the Gutman family including letters sent to Anna Priebe in Schneidemuehl by her half-Jewish niece Ursula Gutman in the Bialystok Ghetto, via Friedl Wieser, a German soldier who came to her rescue, transit visas and travel tickets in Anna's name and more, 1939-1943 - Letters sent to Anna Priebe in Schneidemuehl by her half-Jewish niece, Ursula Gutman in the Bialystok Ghetto, via Friedl Wieser, a German soldier who came to her rescue, 1941-1943; - Documents regarding the delivery of belongings to Poland following the deportation of the Gutman family from Schneidemuehl, 1939; -...

File Number : 1669

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Letter, Postcard

Language : Polish, German

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters of testimony from Eva Laubhardt, born in Germany, 1904, regarding her experiences as a Catholic nun and a Michling of the first degree (an individual with two Jewish grandparents) in Germany, 1940-1945

Letters of testimony from Eva Laubhardt, born in Germany, 1904, regarding her experiences as a Catholic nun and a Mischling of the first degree (an individual with two Jewish grandparents) in Germany, 1940-1945 Pages 2-3: Introduction by Dr. Ball-Kaduri: Eva Laubhardt's family background: one grandfather was a religious Jew, her father and brother were Protestants, two sisters, Ilse and Hilde, converted to Judaism (1925 and 1926) and made aliya to Eretz Israel, Hilde returned to Germany, 1937, Eva Laubhardt herself converted to Catholicism, 1920, and became a nun, 1926. Pages 4-6: Letter from...

File Number : 60

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Letter, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Statement of Josef Reiter, born in Bačka Palanka in 1895, regarding his experiences in 1941-1945, and documentation regarding the experiences of members of the Levi family from Belgrade during the Holocaust

- Josef Reiter's statement, given in Israel in 1965: the re-annexation of the Bačka Palanka region to Hungary in 1941; the German occupation in 1944; deportation of the witness to the Baja Ghetto on 27 April 1944; deportation to Nagykanizsa in October 1944, and from there to Kirchberg in December 1944; death march from March 1945; liberation by the Red Army on 10 April 1945; - Chaim Levi's statement regarding the hiding of his wife Mirjam (maiden name: Radovanovic) and their daughter Victoria in the Beograd area in 1941-1944. The statement was given in Israel in 1958; - statements by Lez Koen (maiden name:...

File Number : 11781

Type of Material : Certification, List of Jews, Personal Documents, Declaration

Language : Serbian, German

A story by Amalia Shachal regarding the experiences of her grandmother Amalia Stutzmann in Frankfurt during the Holocaust

A story by Amalia Shachal regarding the experiences of her grandmother Amalia Stutzmann in Frankfurt during the Holocaust The work of Amalia Stutzmann (a German non-Jew) as a nurse at the Rothschild Jewish Hospital in Frankfurt; birth of her son Markus in Darmstadt in 1928; Amalia and Markus’s conversion to Judaism in 1933; Markus' aliya to Eretz Israel in 1939; deportation of Amalia to the east in 1941 (she perished); laying a Stolperstein in Frankfurt in 2010 to commemorate Amalia Stutzmann. Comments from the submitter of the material: (Amalia Shachal) A children's book that previously belonged to...

File Number : 672

Type of Material : סיפור

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence of the Kauder family, 1938–1946; memoirs of Hans Schmal about his experiences in Germany and Israel, and personal documentation of members of the Schmal and Kauder families

Correspondence of the Kauder family, 1938–1946; memoirs of Hans Schmal about his experiences in Germany and Israel, and personal documentation of members of the Schmal and Kauder families The Kauder family: - letters and postcards to Meta Kauder in Gedera from members of her family: -- from her mother, Bertha Angress, in Berlin, January 20, 1939, August 23, 1939, and March 13, 1940; -- from her uncle Martin Brauer, care of Dr. Ernst Brauer in the UK, June 3, 1939; -- from her sister, Irma (Angress) Hammerstein, undated (recorded on the letter: "February 40"): -- from her cousin Lury Angress (a Holocaust...

File Number : 5052

Type of Material : Memoirs, Document, Postcard, Certification, תעודת בית הספר, Letter, Invitation, מכתב המלצה, Poems/songs, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, German

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File Number : 5187

Type of Material : Letter, Telegram, Red Cross Letter, Postcard

Language : German

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File Number : 1733

Type of Material : Identity Card, Personal Documents, Birth Certificate, Certification, כתובה, Document, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Czech, English, German, Aramaic

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