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Memoirs of Maria Veronika Grueters, a music teacher in Freiburg who was rescued with help from Christians, and who converted to Christianity after the war and became a Catholic nun, regarding her experiences during the Holocaust and following Included in the file: - Newspaper clippings and various materials, regarding the experiences of Maria Veronika Grueters; - Documentation regarding the production of the opera "Brundibar" in which she was a partner, 1995; - Correspondence with the Erben family, 1988-2004.

File Number : 6

Type of Material : Postcard, Newspaper Clippings, Documentary, Memoirs, Letter

Language : German

Testimony of Elsa (Heilbronn) Epstein, born in Schmalnau, Germany, 1925, regarding her experiences in Schmalnau, Frankfurt and with foster families in the United States

Testimony

Testimony of Elsa (Heilbronn) Epstein, born in Schmalnau, Germany, 1925, regarding her experiences in Schmalnau, Frankfurt and with foster families in the United States Her childhood in Schmalnau; life during the Nazi rule. Move of her sister to Pennsylvania, 1934; increase in displays of antisemitism; imposition of anti-Jewish decrees; her father is forced to leave his place of work, 1935; move of her family to Frankfurt; life in the children's home [in Frankfurt], 1936; move to the United States with another 11 children; separation from her family in Germany, 1937; life with a Jewish foster family in...

File Number : 13142

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

"Chronik der Dr.-Blumenberg-Initiative 1985-1989 (Chronicle of the Initiative in the Name of Dr. Blumenberg, 1985-1989)", booklet by Stefan Beck and Karljo Kreter, regarding the request of a group of Germans that a section of a street in Bad Nenndorf be given the name "Dr. Blumenberg" - "Chronik der Dr.-Blumenberg-Initiative 1985-1989", booklet including notes recorded chronologically regarding the activities of a small group of German idealists who, in reaction to the appearance of Neo-Nazi graffiti in Bad Nenndorf, sought to arouse a critical discussion concerning the evils of the Nazi regime by preserving...

File Number : 246.2

Type of Material : Booklet(s)

Language : German

Series of articles by Joachim Stolpmann that appeared in the "Nachtdepesche" newspaper regarding the lives of Jews in hiding in Berlin and help provided to Jews by German Christians, 1956

Series of articles by Joachim Stolpmann that appeared in the "Nachtdepesche" newspaper regarding the lives of Jews in hiding in Berlin and help provided to Jews by German Christians, 1956 In the file: - Newspaper clippings, including 10 articles regarding the experiences of Jews living illegally in Berlin, 1943-1945 (some using pseudonyms), how they survived (life in hiding, wanderings) and regarding the help they received from Germans (with emphasis on the Christian faith of the resecuers); - Brief introduction prepared by Dr. Kurt J. Ball-Kaduri including a short biography of six of the subjects of...

File Number : 126

Type of Material : Survey Report, Newspaper Clippings, Article, Record of Survivors, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : German

Booklet in memory of those who perished: Alexander Preis, born in Kaiserlautern, Germany in 1882, his wife Betty (Dreifus) Preis, born in Speyer, Germany in 1882, and their daughters Kathe Katharina and Ruth, born in Saarbruecken, Germany in 1913, dated, 1882-2013 Booklet titled, "Aktion Stolpersteine", including: - Research regarding the fate of members of the Preis family, including statistical data regarding dates and places of birth, places of residence, places and dates of death, with mention of the mother regarding whether her death was natural or by murder, and various biographical data; sections...

File Number : 107

Type of Material : Booklet(s)

Language : German

Research paper written by Annegret Braun, Stuttgart, regarding the experiences of Else (Jeselsohn) Kahn, born in Neckarbischofsheim, Germany, 1910

Research paper written by Annegret Braun, Stuttgart, regarding the experiences of Else (Jeselsohn) Kahn, born in Neckarbischofsheim, Germany, 1910 Research paper in German, translated into Hebrew, 2013, inspired by an exhibition titled, "Symphony of Names", which the author visited, December 2011, in memory of the 959 Jews, including Else Kahn and her husband, who were deported from Stuttgart to Riga, December 1941; Childhood of Else Jeselsohn with her parents, Theodor and Lisette Jeselsohn; attitude of the Christian residents towards them before and after the rise of the Nazi Party to power; Jewish...

File Number : 11

Type of Material : Project

Language : German

Memoirs of Moshe Miron, born in Hannover, Germany in 1922, the son of Avraham Yitzchak Wildfogel and Rosa (Zenger) Wildfogel, both of them born in Warsaw, Poland, regarding his experiences during 1927-1960 Description of his family's background; travel to Warsaw with his mother to visit his family members in 1927, when he was five years old; attitude of the Christian society towards him, during his childhood; unable to be accepted to an elementary school in 1936, due to the Nazis' anti-Jewish legislation; joins the Habonim Zionist youth movement in 1936; participates in agricultural aliya training in...

File Number : 9360

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew