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Placard signed by Salo Kramer, Chairman of the Jewish community in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, including a list of the equipment that each deportee to Austria is permitted to take with him/her to Ostrau, 12 October 1939

File Number : 438

Type of Material : Poster

Language : German

Lists of the members of the Jewish communities in the Lippstadt district in Westfalen, Germany prepared in anticipation of their deportation to Theresienstadt, 1942

Lists of the members of the Jewish communities in the Lippstadt district in Westfalen, Germany prepared in anticipation of their deportation to Theresienstadt, 1942 Lists of the members of the Lippstadt, Horn, Geseke, Erwitte, Effeln, Anroechte and Reuthen communities including those to be deported to Theresienstadt (by transport date), Jews who paid Mitnahmebetrage (travel fees for the transport) and the sick people who were exempted from the transport. Note: The lists were compiled by local Vertrauensmaenner (Trustees) of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich Association of Jews in...

File Number : 313

Type of Material : List of Persecuted Persons, List of Deportees

Language : German

Survey of the situation in various countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, radio broadcasts and letters, with emphasis on the condition of the Jews, April-June 1943

Survey of the situation in various countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, radio broadcasts and letters, with emphasis on the condition of the Jews, April-June 1943 Warsaw Ghetto: Information regarding raids on the ghetto and Jewish resistance; help from Polish divisions; heavy casualties to the Germans; Sweden: Information from the Swedish press regarding general hunger and typhus; lessening in the numbers of Jews; a call from a Swedish priest to rescue Jews from annihilation; Vienna: Mass deportations of Jews; rescue of Jews married to Aryans from deportation; deportation to...

File Number : 8

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the deportation of Jews from Germany including correspondence between Adolf Stern, Head of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich Association of the Jews in Germany), Westphalia area, with Aron Schreiber, the Association's Vertrauensmann (steward) in Antroechte, and deportation of Jews from the Lippstadt area, 1942-1943 Directives from Adolf Stern to Aron Schreiber, some directly to him and some through circulars from the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland, Westphalia area, which were sent to local stewards concerning: - Sending details regarding Jews working...

File Number : 313

Type of Material : Official Documentation, List of Deportees, Record of Persecuted Persons, List of Persecuted Persons, Record of Deportees

Language : German

Testimony of Johann Konecny, from Vienna, Austria, regarding the experiences of Jews in Vienna

Testimony of Johann Konecny, from Vienna, Austria, regarding the experiences of Jews in Vienna Attack in France on the Secretary of the German Embassy in Paris, Ernst vom Rath, by a Jew, Herszel Grynszpan, 07 November 1938, as the excuse for the riots against the Jews in Vienna which started, 10 November 1938; deportation of the Jews from their homes, and confiscation of their property; concentration of Jews at assembly points while humiliating them, giving beatings, and preventing them from food for several days; deportation of Jews without Austrian citizenship to Zbaszyn, Poland; total isolation of streets...

File Number : 392

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Gerth Pfefferkorn, born in Krakow, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Paris, Theresienstadt and Auschwitz

Testimony of Gerth Pfefferkorn, born in Krakow, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Paris, Theresienstadt and Auschwitz Outbreak of the war; life in Paris, including studies in a regular (public) school as a Mischlinge, because his mother is a non-Jew; ban on studies in a public school; detention by the Gestapo, 27 June 1944; transfer to a prison; interrogation in the Gestapo station, regarding his origin; he signs a document confessing to his Jewish origin, without being given the possibility of reading the confession; transport by train to Theresienstadt, August 1944; life in a block with 100 Jewish...

File Number : 30

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Manfred Katz, born in Halle, Germany, 1928, regarding his experiences in Halle, Ahlem and Theresienstadt

Memoirs of Manfred Katz, born in Halle, Germany, 1928, regarding his experiences in Halle, Ahlem and Theresienstadt Nazi rise to power; childhood including attending a Jewish school in Ahlem, 1939-1941; attitude of the authorities towards the family due to the Aryan origins of his mother; yellow badge; move to a "Jews' House"; deportation to Theresienstadt with his sister, February 1945.

File Number : 4816

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Memoirs of Hela Kleiman-Markfeld, regarding her experiences during the Holocaust period in Tomaszow-Mazowiecki and in camps

Memoirs of Hela Kleiman-Markfeld, regarding her experiences during the Holocaust period in Tomaszow-Mazowiecki and in camps German occupation of the city [Tomaszow-Mazowiecki]; decrees and nationalization of property; deportation to the ghetto; deportation of her family members to Treblinka camp in November 1942; meetings with her brother, who is living on the Aryan side as a Christian; deportation to a camp [Bilizino] [?]; camp life, living conditions and labor; transfer to Auschwitz camp; Auschwitz camp life and living conditions; transfer to a labor camp in Scharfstein near the city of Chemnitz;...

File Number : 2505

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Dita Krauss, regarding her experiences during the Holocaust period in Prague, Theresienstadt, in the families camp in Auschwitz and in camps in Germany

Memoirs of Dita Krauss, regarding her experiences during the Holocaust period in Prague, Theresienstadt, in the families camp in Auschwitz and in camps in Germany Deportation to Theresienstadt in 1942 and then to Auschwitz camp; transfer to Freihafen [Frauenhofen]; living conditions; labor, and relations between the female inmates; hunger; transfer to Neugraben camp in 1944; Neugraben camp life including starvation and the living conditions; transfer to Bergen-Belsen camp in 1945; Bergen-Belsen camp life and living conditions; liberation.

File Number : 2411

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Memoirs written by Ludwig Stern, regarding the deportation of the Jews from Giessen, Germany to Theresienstadt camp in September 1942, and life in the camp until the liberation by the Russians

File Number : 2284

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

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