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Testimony of Renata (Hendler) Weintraub, born in Vienna, Austria, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Vienna, in Oostende, in England and Argentina

Testimony of Renata (Hendler) Weintraub, born in Vienna, Austria, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Vienna, in Oostende, in England and Argentina Life before the war; German occupation; expulsion from school; escape to a children's home; escape to Oostende; escape to England; emigration to Argentina; return to Vienna; conversion [to Christianity?].

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Mikhail Tifbenkel, born in Zhmerinka, Ukraine 1934, regarding his experiences in the Zhmerinka Ghetto until 1944

Memoirs of Mikhail Tifbenkel, born in Zhmerinka, Ukraine 1934, regarding his experiences in the Zhmerinka Ghetto until 1944 Family life in Zhmerinka before the war. Outbreak of the war; the family's decision not to leave [the house]; robbery of Jewish houses by local residents; pogroms in Brailov, 1942; murder of family members, including his grandmother in Brailov, 1942; life under Romanian rule in Zhmerinka; establishment of the Zhmerinka Ghetto, September 1941; ghetto life including yellow badge; visit of the Red Cross and its help to Jews in the ghetto; establishment of the Jewish police in the...

File Number : 8267

Type of Material : Drawing, Record of Survivors, Diagram, Map, Orders, Letter, Record of Murdered Persons, Memoirs

Language : Russian, Yiddish

Testimony of Genia (Opichinski) Czastokowsky, born Czestochowa, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in Kutno, in the Warsaw Ghetto in Kielce, using a false identity in Radomsko and more

Testimony

Testimony of Genia (Opichinski) Czastokowsky, born Czestochowa, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in Kutno, in the Warsaw Ghetto in Kielce, using a false identity in Radomsko and more Life before the war in Kutno; learns in the Tarbut school; Outbreak of the war; detention of her father together with the other Jews and their transfer to the central church; release of her father; escape together with her father to Warsaw; life in Warsaw; the rest of the family joining them; ghetto life; observing the piles of corpses; wearing the yellow badge; labor in sewing; deportation together with her mother...

File Number : 13217

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Wilhelm Deman, born in Vienna in 1895, regarding his experiences in Vienna, during the Anschluss, Kristallnacht, detention in Dachau camp, escape to Shanghai, and life in the city of Shanghai and in the Shanghai Ghetto during 1939-1949; Testimony from 1988: Vol. 2 - 1939-1945 Work by the witness and his wife for Horace Kadoorie in the administration of a club for Jewish youth – included are documents, newspaper clippings and photographs of the club's activities; club's activities, courses for children, and holidays - mention is made of many names of teachers and pupils; worrisome news from...

File Number : 56b

Language : Chinese, English, German, Japanese

Documents and various confirmations, drawings and stories by Jewish artists [artisans] from the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1942-1965

Documents and various confirmations, drawings and stories by Jewish artists [artisans] from the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1942-1965 - Letters and confirmations by the legal branch in Theresienstadt Ghetto in 1942, given to Olga Grünwald in the ghetto, regarding the death of her husband Karl Grünwald, who perished in the ghetto on 19/02/1942; - Report prepared by Eppstein, the head of the Council of Elders, regarding instructions and orders given by SS Obersturmführer Bergel on 19/02/1944; - Death certificate of Heindl Israel Moritz Wolfgang, who perished in the Theresienstadt Ghetto on 12/06/1943; - Stories...

File Number : 443

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Drawing, Survey

Language : Czech, German

Memoirs of Stanislaw Gombinski [pseudonym: Jan Mawult] regarding the Warsaw Ghetto and the structure and activities of the Judenrat and the Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst (Jewish Police), early 1944

Memoirs of Stanislaw Gombinski [pseudonym: Jan Mawult] regarding the Warsaw Ghetto and the structure and activities of the Judenrat and the Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst (Jewish Police), early 1944 - Part 1 (pp. 2-115): events in the Warsaw Ghetto since its establishment; characteristics of various personalities; life of the ghetto residents in its various aspects; "Aktions"; deportations; - Part 2 (pp. 116-237): memoirs from the period of Gombinski's tenure as the Deputy Commander of the Jewish Police in the Warsaw Ghetto, 30 October 1940-20 January 1943; descriptions of Józef Andrzej Szeryński, Commander of...

File Number : 547

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Memoirs of a young Jewish woman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1922, regarding her experiences in Berlin, Bohusovice, Theresienstadt and Switzerland

Memoirs of a young Jewish woman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1922, regarding her experiences in Berlin, Bohusovice, Theresienstadt and Switzerland Life in Berlin, 1939; confiscation of golden articles, radios (on Yom Kippur, 23 September 1939), telephones and bicycles; Aryanization of Jewish property; imposition of night curfew, 20:00-06:00; prohibition on visiting German cultural institutions; incorporation of the names Sara or Israel; violators of these laws are subject to deportation to a concentration camp; list of permissible names for Jewish babies such as: Hindele, Bella, Leib, Shmuel and more; ban on...

File Number : 987

Language : German

Testimony of opera singer Heda Grábová, born in Czechoslovakia, 1899, submitted in the context of the "Dokumentační Akce" ("Documentation Project") in Prague, 29/09/1945

Testimony of opera singer Heda Grábová, born in Czechoslovakia, 1899, submitted in the context of the "Dokumentační Akce" ("Documentation Project") in Prague, 29/09/1945 Deportation to Theresienstadt, 17 December 1941; Freddy Hirsch and Rabbi Weiner take the initiative in enlisting artists and intellectuals in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, to hold performances and cultural events to the largest extent possible; help given by Heda Grábová in the coordination of the first cultural evening, held in March 1942; her participation in the preparation of excerpts of songs and operas that were performed later on;...

File Number : 228

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Czech

Correspondence of Diana and Jonas Turkow in the Warsaw Ghetto and their daughter Marysia on the Aryan side of Warsaw

Correspondence of Diana and Jonas Turkow in the Warsaw Ghetto and their daughter Marysia on the Aryan side of Warsaw Marysia Turkow writes to her parents regarding her distress and loneliness in hiding on the Aryan side. Barczynska, the Polish woman who hid Marysia, is demanding additional money beyond the payment she received for hiding the girl. In the letter from Diana Turkow to her husband, she lists the difficulties their daughter has faced in her daily life in hiding. In the letters there are descriptions of events and various people, mainly Jewish artists and writers using false identities, in the...

File Number : 134

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Personal report by Dr. Israel Taubes: Jewish Survivors Report-Documents of Nazi Guilt, No 2: "The Persecution of Jews in Holland 1940-1944 Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen"

Personal report by Dr. Israel Taubes: Jewish Survivors Report-Documents of Nazi Guilt, No 2: "The Persecution of Jews in Holland 1940-1944 Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen" 1940 - Initial reactions to the German occupation: flight or suicide; the measures of Seyss-Inquart; help and sympathy from the non-Jewish Dutch; Christian protests; economic measures against the Jews; Nazi corruption; Jewish institutions; 1941 - Legal emigration; illegal emigration; Jewish underground; Amsterdam Ghetto; resistance in the Amsterdam Ghetto; deportation to Mauthausen; Jewish collaboration; cultural life; work of the...

File Number : 117

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report

Language : English

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