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M.16 - Collection of the Joodsche Coordinatie Commissie (Jewish Coordination Committee-JCC) of Dutch Jewry in Geneva, 1943-1960

M.16 - Collection of the Joodsche Coordinatie Commissie (JCC-Jewish Coordination Committee) of Dutch Jewry in Geneva, 1943-1945 The Coordination Committee for the Jews of the Netherlands in Switzerland was established in 1943 at the initiative of several of the Dutch refugees in Switzerland, including Mr. M. Gans. The owner of a jewelry and antiquities business in Amsterdam, Gans had escaped from the Netherlands to Switzerland with his wife in the summer of 1942. The Committee mainly dealt with offering assistance (by sending parcels of food and medicine) to deportees from the Netherlands in the camps and...

Type of Material : Official Documentation, List of Names

Language : French, English, Dutch, German

Testimony of Felicja Schaefler regarding the experiences of the Jews of Brzesko

Testimony of Felicja Schaefler regarding the experiences of the Jews of Brzesko Housing of Jewish refugees in surrounding villages outside of Brzesko; "Aktion" of handing in furs and valuables on Christmas Day, 1941; typhus epidemic, autumn 1941-spring 1942; "Aktion" against alleged Communists, in which Jews with property and public standing are captured and shot, mid-April 1942; attempts by the Judenrat to transfer food and drink to Jews deported by rail from Krakow and passing through Brzesko; prevention of the food transfer to the deportees by the Germans; murder of 200 Jews by shooting in the second...

File Number : 142

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Seew (Werner) Hirschfeld regarding aliya training in Germany and the Netherlands, life in hiding in the Netherlands, betrayal and deportation to Westerbork, escape, escape to Spain via Belgium and France, 1936-1944 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, August 1955: - Aliya training in Germany, 1936-1939, - Aliya training in the Netherlands, 1939-1943; - Going underground in the Netherlands, life in hiding, early 1943-early 1944; - Unsuccessful escape attempt to France with a mixed group of...

File Number : 5143

Type of Material : Names, Testimony, Memoirs, Questionnaire

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Josef Heinrich regarding his emigration to the Netherlands, aliya training in Loosdrecht, life in hiding in the Netherlands and Belgium, capture and forced labor in Belgium and France, escape to Spain and aliya, 1938-1944 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, September 1955: - Emigration from Germany to the Netherlands, 15 November 1938; - Hechalutz Youth Aliyah training camp in Loosdrecht, the Netherlands, until 15 August 1942; - Going underground, August 1942, life in hiding in Arnheim and...

File Number : 5140

Type of Material : Names, Testimony, Questionnaire, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Ascher Heinrich, regarding his emigration to the Netherlands, stay in a Jewish orphanage in the Netherlands, aliya training in Loosdrecht, life in hiding in the Netherlands and Belgium, capture and forced labor in Belgium and France, escape to Spain and aliya, 1938-1944 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, September 1955: - Looting of the family home in Frankfurt am Main by the Nazis, on Kristallnacht; - Emigration from Germany to the Netherlands, 15 November 1938; - Stay in a Jewish orphanage...

File Number : 5139

Type of Material : Memoirs, Names, Questionnaire, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Simon Gutmann regarding his detention in Buchenwald following Kristallnacht, emigration to the Netherlands, aliya training, forced labor in Nunspeet, detention in Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen, 1938-1946 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, April 1957: - Detention in Buchenwald, November-December 1938; - Emigration from Germany to the Netherlands, January 1939; - Aliya training in Enschede, May 1940-June 1941; - Draft to forced labor camp in Nunspeet, on 27 August 1942; - Deportation to...

File Number : 5136

Type of Material : Names, Questionnaire, Memoirs, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Mordechai Max Bonn regarding his experiences during the war in the Netherlands, Belgium and France

Testimony of Mordechai Max Bonn regarding his experiences during the war in the Netherlands, Belgium and France Included in the file: Testimony of Mordechai Max Bonn, regarding aliya training in the Netherlands, June 1941-September 1942; going into hiding, late 1942; capture of his wife Ru after being informed on, June 1943; release of his wife; illegal border crossing into Belgium, 10 October 1943; later to Paris, France; capture in France and escape from deportation on a transport to Germany; life in hiding in Paris until the liberation, August 1944; Return to the Netherlands, 1946; aliya to Eretz...

File Number : 5103

Type of Material : Testimony, Names, Questionnaire, Memoirs

Language : German

Testimony of Fiet Andriesse-Hess (Zipora Bar-Ascher), regarding her life in hiding and unlawful marriage in the Netherlands, April 1943-March 1944; life in hiding in France and capture of her husband, March-June 1944; escape to Spain, June 1944; reunion with her husband after the war, aliya in 1946 This file contains: Testimony of Fiet Andriesse-Hess (Zipora Bar Ascher), regarding the deportation of her father, August 1942; going into hiding, April 1943; life in hiding in the Netherlands, until March 1944; unlawful marriage in the Netherlands; illegal crossing of the border into France, March 1944; life...

File Number : 5100

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Names, Testimony, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, German

Personal report by Max Mannheimer, born in 1918, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, The Hague, Westerbork, Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, written, July 1945

Personal report by Max Mannheimer, born in 1918, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, The Hague, Westerbork, Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, written July 1945 Born to a family of Jews from Germany who settled in the Netherlands before 1933; attends a Dutch school; work as a bank clerk; work for the Committee Voor Byzondere Joodsche Belangen (Committee for Special Jewish Interests) before the occupation; work for the Joodsche Raad (Jewish Council) in Amsterdam; goes underground, May 1943; move to The Hague; capture by the Gestapo; interrogation and torture; deportation to Westerbork; transfer to the...

File Number : 118

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report

Language : English

Personal report by Dr. Israel Taubes: Jewish Survivors Report-Documents of Nazi Guilt, No 2: "The Persecution of Jews in Holland 1940-1944 Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen"

Personal report by Dr. Israel Taubes: Jewish Survivors Report-Documents of Nazi Guilt, No 2: "The Persecution of Jews in Holland 1940-1944 Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen" 1940 - Initial reactions to the German occupation: flight or suicide; the measures of Seyss-Inquart; help and sympathy from the non-Jewish Dutch; Christian protests; economic measures against the Jews; Nazi corruption; Jewish institutions; 1941 - Legal emigration; illegal emigration; Jewish underground; Amsterdam Ghetto; resistance in the Amsterdam Ghetto; deportation to Mauthausen; Jewish collaboration; cultural life; work of the...

File Number : 117

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : English

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