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Letters and postcards written by Frederika Dicker-Brandeis to her girlfriend in the underground, 1939-1942

Letters and postcards written by Frederika Dicker-Brandeis to her girlfriend in the underground, 1939-1942 Comment: Frederika Dicker-Brandeis was transferred from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz with 600 of the children; she was one of the children's caretakers and taught them art in the Theresienstadt Ghetto.

File Number : 1217

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter

Language : German

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 35, 27/07/1941 Part 1 - Political Events: Finding forged Reichskleiderkarte (Reich clothing vouchers) dispersed by enemy aircraft in the Saarbruecken, Darmstadt and Kiel areas; high motivation to fight Germany among the Communists in Bruen, Frankfurt, [including] the establishment of groups of saboteurs and partisan groups, and plans to distribute anti-German placards among the local population;...

File Number : 163.35

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 23, 15 July 1941 Part 1 - Political events: Finding kindling material in the Generalgouvernement and the uncovering of underground groups in the Protectorate; acts of sabotage in the Netherlands and Yugoslavia including damage to communication lines and to railroad tracks); Part 2 - Reports from the Einsatzgruppen: Einsatzgruppe B: Interrogations regarding partisans in the Minsk area;...

File Number : 163.23

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Memoirs of Peter (Löw) Lom, born in Brno, regarding his experiences during 1927-1948

- Membership of Peter (Löw) Lom in the Blau-Weiss organization and in the athletic club in Brno in 1927; he joins the Maccabi Hatzair movement in 1939; the aim of the Maccabi Hatzair movement is preparation for aliya and joining the Czech underground; detention of Peter by the Gestapo on 10/07/1939; escape with help from the underground; deportation of Peter to the Theresienstadt Ghetto in 12/1942; deportation from the Theresienstadt Ghetto to Auschwitz camp in 12/1943; selection in 06/1944, and he is sent from Auschwitz camp to Schwarzheide camp on a transport; contacts with the Czech and Austrian underground;...

File Number : 3412

Language : Czech, German

Testimony of Alfred Riesenfeld, born in Vienna, Austria, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Czechoslovakian Army, illegal aliya to Eretz Israel, and in the Czech Brigade in Tobruk and Dunkirk

Testimony

Testimony of Alfred Riesenfeld, born in Vienna, Austria, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Czechoslovakian Army, illegal aliya to Eretz Israel, and in the Czech Brigade in Tobruk and Dunkirk Life in the Czechoslovakian Army. German occupation; illegal aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Patria" ship; enlists in the Czech Brigade; life in Tobruk in the Czech Brigade, including combat; life in Dunkirk, including combat. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.

File Number : 3290

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony

Testimony of Karla (Andelova Andelka) Weiss, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1908, regarding her experiences as a Christian woman married to a Jewish man in Theresienstadt, Munich, Waldheim and Ravensbrueck Life before the war; marriage to a Jewish man. German occupation; arrest; deportation to Theresienstadt; transfer to Munich; transfer to Waldheim; transfer to Ravensbrueck; liberation.

File Number : 1603

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Czech

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Heinz Shmueli Shmul, born in Teplice, Czechoslovakia, in 1935, regarding the persecution of his family and his experiences in Czechoslovakia

Testimony of Chaim Heinz Shmueli Shmul, born in Teplice, Czechoslovakia, in 1935, regarding the persecution of his family and his experiences in Czechoslovakia Son of a non-Jewish mother and a Jewish father; disconnection from his Jewish family following the intermarriage of his father; German occupation of the Sudetenland; escape to Prague in 1938; anti-Jewish laws; divorce of his parents and his mother abandoning him; activism of his father in the anti-Nazi underground; detention of his father in 1943; wandering alone in the streets; capture by the Gestapo; interrogation and beatings; being handed over to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Alfred Ron Weisbein, born in 1938 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, about his deportation to Romania

Testimony of Avraham Alfred Ron Weisbein, born in 1938 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, about his deportation to Romania Information about the family; father: a Romanian national who fought in the Czech resistance; family home serves as a resistance print shop and headquarters; father captured in the course of resistance activity in 1940; sent to Prague railroad station and spends several days there in summer 1943; deported to Romania by the Romanian consul due to his Romanian citizenship; reaches Focșani; liberation in 1944; back to Prague in 1948; immigration to Israel in 1948; rehabilitation and adjustment to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew