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Testimony of Sela Shtovitska Uri Urlich, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1930 regarding deportation to the Polish border and regarding his leaving nazi Germany in Kindertransport

Testimony

Childhood in Frankfurt an der Oder; life during nazi regime in 1933; arrest of the father accused of communist activity and his deportation to Poland as a Polish subject in 1933; attending the Jewish school Philanthropyn in 1936; moving to the Jewish Children's Home Stiftung in 1936; deportation with the mother from Frankfurt an der Oder to the Polish border in 1938; Kristallnacht riots; his joining a group of children who were sent by Kindertransport sponsored by James and Dorothy Rothschild in 1939; the journey via Hoek van Holland, Holland to London, Britain in 1939; moving to the estate of James Rotschild...

File Number : 13713

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Photographs of Rafael Jacob and Josef Jacob, natives of Germany, who perished in the Holocaust, including a short piece of information about them

Photographs of Rafael Jacob and Josef Jacob, natives of Germany, who perished in the Holocaust, including a short piece of information about them Rafael Jacob: Marriage; births of two sons (one of them named Siegfried) and a daughter; marriage of his daughter; birth of a grandchild; period of service as a teacher and cantor in the Heidelberg (Germany) Synagogue; they all [?] perished in Auschwitz; Josef Jacob, born in 1875: Marriage in Germany; births of four daughters; period of service as a teacher and cantor in Ludwigshafen, 1911-1938; deportation to Theresienstadt, August 1942; transfer to another...

File Number : 339

Type of Material : Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Letters sent by Leo Billet, a Jewish soldier in the US Army, from Germany and later on from Britain, to his sister in Tirat Zvi, Eretz Israel, 1944-1945

Letters sent by Leo Billet, a Jewish soldier in the US Army, from Germany and later on from Britain, to his sister in Tirat Zvi, Eretz Israel, 1944-1945 - Two letters sent by Leo Billet from Germany, 13 January 1944 and 28 January 1944; his aunt, Rachel, and his grandmother were found alive during a visit to Paris; murder of his uncle, Josef, deportation of his two daughters to Lublin; - Letter sent by Leo Billet from Germany, 01 April 1944; participation in the battles in Metz, the Netherlands, Aachen, the Ruhr area and more; - Letter sent by Leo Billet from an Army Hospital in Britain, leg injury;...

File Number : 2169

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English, 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

Correspondence of the Strauss family via the Red Cross, 1941-1942, and letters sent by Rosa Grünbaum from Noe camp, France, to Ludwig Marx via the Red Cross, 1942-1943

Correspondence of the Strauss family via the Red Cross, 1941-1942, and letters sent by Rosa Grünbaum from Noe camp, France, to Ludwig Marx via the Red Cross, 1942-1943 - Letter sent by Ludwig and Bella Marx and their daughters from Shavei Zion, Eretz Israel, to their father and grandfather, Jakob Strauss, in Nuremberg, Germany, via the Red Cross, 25 July 1941; the letter reached Jakob Strauss via the Red Cross, 18 August 1941; reply letter from Jakob Strauss in Nuremberg, Germany, 06 January 1942; - Letter sent by Ludwig Marx from Shavei Zion, Eretz Israel, to Jakob Strauss in Nuremberg, Germany,...

File Number : 2055

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Testimony of Menahem Lior, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences during ‎deportation to the Bedzin Ghetto and the work camp in Kamionka; hidden by a Pole; escape to ‎Eretz Israel His childhood in a socialist Zionist home; refugees from Germany; rise of antisemitism; outbreak of ‎war on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish laws and decrees; restriction of Jewish movement and ‎concentration in one area; youth movements; agricultural farm; Zionist and underground ‎activities; infiltrating into a nearby work camp; work collecting and sorting possessions of the Jews ‎in the ghetto; removing dead...

File Number : 13735

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters from Hans Kaufmann in Sweden to Eva Warburg in Israel regarding the fate of his family in Germany, Denmark and Sweden during the war, 2008-2009

Letters from Hans Kaufmann in Sweden to Eva Warburg in Israel regarding the fate of his family in Germany, Denmark and Sweden during the war, 2008-2009 The file includes two letters from Hans Kaufmann to Eva Warburg, 04 October 2008 and 29 November 2009. In October 1939, when he was 14 years old, Hans Kaufmann was transferred with a group of children from Münster to Denmark; after the German occupation of Denmark, he was transferred by boat to Sweden, thus escaping arrest and deportation; his father perished in the Riga Ghetto; his mother lived in the Riga Ghetto, the Stutthof camp and various labor camps...

File Number : 8539

Type of Material : Diary, Letter of Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Swedish, German

Letters sent to Lilo Goldstien in Eretz Israel by her parents Paul and Zelma Goldstien in Breslau, Germany, 1936-1940

Letters sent to Lilo Goldstien in Eretz Israel by her parents Paul and Zelma Goldstien in Breslau, Germany, 1936-1940 Comments by the submitter of the material (Gavriel Daon): Lilo Goldstien made aliya to Eretz Israel from Breslau in 1934. Her brother Heinz Goldstien emigrated to Sweden. He purchased a house and invited his parents Paul and Zelma Goldstien to stay there. They arrived to Sweden but were disappointed and returned to Breslau during the late 1930s. Heinz returned to Breslau after his parents returned there. His parents were deported to Theresienstadt; his mother perished due to typhus...

File Number : 1915

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Postcards sent from Theresienstadt by Max and Mina Fleischman to their son Heinrich Fleischman in Basel, 1942-1944

Postcards sent from Theresienstadt by Max and Mina Fleischman to their son Heinrich Fleischman in Basel, 1942-1944 Comments by the person submitting the material: Residence of Max and Mina Fleischman in Altenmuhr, Germany; birth of Dov (father of the person submitting the material, a Zionist who made aliya to Eretz Israel, 1928); deportation to Theresienstadt, 1942; death of Mina from typhus, 1943; transfer of Max to Auschwitz and his death there.

File Number : 1882

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : German

Letters to Ilse Frankenstein, born in Hannover, Germany, 1919, in Eretz Israel, sent by her brother and parents from Germany, 1937-1938, including personal documents of Ilse and her husband Alfred Albert Pollacek, born in Berlin, Germany, 1916, from before the war Ilse Frankenstein: Aliya of Ilse Frankenstein to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliyah, 1935; marriage to Albert Michael Pollacek, 1939; deportation of her parents Max and Henrietta Frankenstein to Riga; deportation of three siblings to Riga; death of her parents and three siblings in Riga; survival of her twin brother, Ludwig; receives last letter...

File Number : 1878

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter, Passport

Language : German

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