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Correspondence of members of the Moses family, 1938-1942

Correspondence of members of the Moses family, 1938-1942 - Pages of Testimony of members of the Moses family and their relatives; - Letters from Rosa Moses to her relatives, 1938-1942; - Letter from Rosa and Sigmund Moses to Anny Moses sent through the Red Cross in Vienna , 26 March 1942; - Letter from Anny Moses to her parents, 27 February 1942; - Final letter received by Anny Moses from her parents, 15 May 1942, before their murder in the Sobidor camp, June 1942; - Letters and notices from Rosa and Sigmund Moses to their daughter Anny Moses and to their son Bruno Moses; some of the letters...

File Number : 2158

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Testimony of Abraham Ernst Ponger, born in Mikulas Litovsky Svaty, Czechoslovakia, in 1922, regarding his experiences in the Sered camp and in the battle of the partisans

Childhood before the war; Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria 1938; expulsion from school and carpentry studies; independence of Slovakia and anti-Jewish legislation 1939; deportation of Jews and escape to the mountains in March 1942; going back home and deportation to the Sered camp,in April 1945; work in carpentry; underground in the camp; Slovak uprising and escape ,in August 1944; joining partisans; actions against Germans; liberation by the red army,in April 1945; joining aliya training; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the Theodor Herzl ship,on 01 April 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya back to...

File Number : 13772

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters written in Vienna, Austria, by Cecilia (Deutsch) Hartenstein, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1870, to her children in the United States, 27 August 1939-September 1941

Letters written in Vienna, Austria, by Cecilia (Deutsch) Hartenstein, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1870, to her children in the United States, 27 August 1939-September 1941 Marriage of Cecilia to Emil Hartenstein from Vienna; Emil owns a printing press; Cecilia and Emil are the parents of five children; death of one of the children at a young age; Anschluss, annexation of Austria to Germany, 1938. Escape of the family; one of the daughters obtains entrance visas to the United States for the entire family; lack of desire to leave Austria; emigration of son Hugo to the United States; Cecilia remains...

File Number : 1890

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Identity cards belonging to Bernhard and Irma Lustig, issued in Vienna, 1939

Identity cards belonging to Bernhard and Irma Lustig, issued in Vienna, 1939 Note: Bernhard Lustig's parents, Benjamin Chaim and Jetti Lustig, lived in Hollabrun and owned a weapons warehouse. Their two sons, Bernhard and Simon, made aliya to Eretz Israel after the Anschluss. Benjamin Chaim and Jetti Lustig remained in Hollabrun and afterwards were deported to Vienna. In April 1942, they were deported to an extermination camp.

File Number : 241

Type of Material : Record of Deportees, Record of Murdered Persons, Identity Card, Photograph

Language : German

Testimony of Alexander Erlichman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, Staszow, in a forest and in Lodz

Testimony

Testimony of Alexander Erlichman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, the Warsaw Ghetto, Staszow, in a forest and in Lodz Childhood in a wealthy, secular family; arrival of Austrian and German refugees. Occupation of Warsaw by the German Army, 1939; life under the German occupation including restrictions, decrees and prohibitions; closure of the ghetto; escape to Staszow; in hiding during the "Aktion", late 1942; escape to a forest, March 1943; murder of his parents and his sister; receiving aid from the local villagers; liberation by the Red Army, summer 1944. Move to a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chana Chanka (Veksler) Sarid, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Chana Chanka (Veksler) Sarid, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto and in hiding Life before the war; religious-Zionist family; attends the "Safa Brura" Hebrew school; escape of refugees to Tarnow from Austria, 1938; draft of men to the Polish Army, summer 1939. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; air-raids on Tarnow; burning of synagogues; work in a factory for wooden soles; registration of the Jews; "Aktion" in the market square; deportation to the Tarnow Ghetto, June 1942; Tarnow Ghetto life including an "Aktion" and finding a hiding place; life in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the payment of compensation money to Walter Stefansky, son of Camille Monath, who perished in Minsk

File Number : 174

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Letter written to her relatives by Sophie Gross in Vienna, Austria before her deportation to an extermination camp, 03/09/1942

Letter written to her relatives by Sophie Gross in Vienna, Austria before her deportation to an extermination camp, 03/09/1942 Farewell letter and will, in which Sophie details her last wishes to her parents and siblings including where she left her property; the letter was conveyed to its address by a neighbor woman of Sophie in Vienna, in 1945.

File Number : 736

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

Language : German

Testimonies by the Jewish Auschwitz survivors Otto Wolken and Hans-Peter Messerschmidt; Petition to the court by Bovensiepen's lawyer for his release, 1945, 1968

Testimonies by the Jewish Auschwitz survivors Otto Wolken and Hans-Peter Messerschmidt; Petition to the court by Bovensiepen's lawyer for his release, 1945, 1968 The file includes i.A.: - Petition (dated on 04/03/1945) of Dr Otto Wolken, a Jewish physican and Auschwitz survivor, to the "international public" in order to accuse Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and all other Nazi criminals of systematical murdering of "millions of Jews", detailed information on Auschwitz: pp 1-6 - Testimony of -above mentionend- Dr Otto Wolken in front of a Polish commision: Wolken, an Austrian social-democrate, was arrested...

File Number : 36

Type of Material : Letter, Testimony

Language : German

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests and trials, 01 September 1942 - 10 September 1942

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests and trials, 01 September 1942 - 10 September 1942 Among the subjects in the report: Transport 40 with 1,000 Jews deported by train from the Aspang railroad station in Vienna to Theresienstadt, 10 September 1942. - Arrest of the following persons: A Jewish woman who hid her origins, acquired Aryan documents and was employed at an Air Force base; an Austrian woman who maintained contact with her former employer, a Jew who had emigrated to Switzerland; an Austrian woman and a Hungarian citizen for smuggling Jews; a Mischling who had intimate relations with a...

File Number : 3494

Type of Material : Survey Report, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : German

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