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Documentation including reports by former inmates, regarding the fate of inmates in Auschwitz, Birkenau and other camps, dated, 1944-1962

Documentation including reports by former inmates, regarding the fate of inmates in Auschwitz, Birkenau and other camps, dated, 1944-1962 Interviews, testimonies, research reports, articles, and excerpts from books: Research report regarding activities by the underground in Monowitz camp, by British POW Charles Coward and his friends; Research report by Wladislaw Tejkiel, 28/07/1961; Protocol of an interview with Gerta Gerzonowa, a former inmate in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Flossenburg camps, 19/11/1945; Interviews with Elisabeth Guttenberger and Regine Lebensfeld-Hofstaedter, regarding...

File Number : JM/14175

Type of Material : Interview(s), Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Statistics, Correspondence, Testimony, Protocol, Survey Report

Language : Czech, French, English, German

Testimony of David Berti Stern Sharon, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in Prague and in Eretz Israel

Testimony

Testimony of David Berti Stern Sharon, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in Prague and in Eretz Israel His childhood in Prague; witness attends a Jewish school; influence of the Munich Pact. German occupation of Prague; his father's dismissal from work; smuggle of Polish children to Eretz Israel; obtains a certificate with help from Yaakov Edelstein; aliya to Eretz Israel via Vienna. Life in Eretz Israel including reunion with his family.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Helene Schick who worked as a secretary for the Prague Jewish community, 1941-1943

Testimony of Helene Schick who worked as a secretary for the Prague Jewish community, 1941-1943 In the file: The summary of oral testimony given to Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri by Helene Schick, 1956: - Life in Prague, 1939-1943; the attitude of the Czech population towards the Jews; the witness's deportation to Theresienstadt; - The witness' opinion that the establishment of Theresienstadt was a successful achievement by Jakob Edelstein because deportation to Theresienstadt made it possible for the Jews of Czechoslovakia to avoid deportation to Auschwitz.

File Number : 344

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Dov Heintz Sternlicht, born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in Theresienstadt and Berlin

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Heintz Sternlicht, born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in Theresienstadt and Berlin Life before the war; education. German occupation, 1939; learns carpentry; member of Hashomer Hatzair; escape of his father to the Soviet Union and his death; labor clearing snow; deportation to Theresienstadt Ghetto; ghetto life including labor in carpentry and building barracks; deportation to Germany; life in a forest including labor building barracks; transfer to Berlin; deportation back to Theresienstadt; ghetto life including meeting his mother and typhus; liberation by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimonies and memoirs regarding the Theresienstadt Ghetto

Testimonies and memoirs regarding the Theresienstadt Ghetto - Testimony of Dr. Karl Loesten (formerly Dr. Karl Löwenstein) regarding the Bialystok children who were deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto (in German), undated; - Testimony of F. R. Kraus regarding the Bialystok children who were deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto (In Czech), undated; - Memoirs of Kaete Breslauer regarding her stay in the Theresienstadt Ghetto (in German), undated; - Testimony regarding the arrest of Jacob Edelstein in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 11 November 1943 (in German), undated; - Survey regarding the...

File Number : 105

Type of Material : Reports, Memoirs, Diary, Testimony

Language : Czech, English, German

Documentation collected by Zeev Scheck regarding the fate of Jacob Edelstein, the first Chairman of the Aeltestenrat (Council of Elders) in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, and Paul Eppstein, the second Aeltestenrat Chairman, 1946-1963

File Number : 449

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Article

Language : Hebrew, Czech, German

Documentation, including a list of Jewish women from Gross-Rosen camp, 1945, reports regarding the situation of the Jews in Czechoslovakia, 1939, and excerpts from book by Matatias Carp, "Cartea Neagra" (Schwarzbuch: Tatsachen und Urkunden. Die Leiden der Juden in Rumaenien), 1940-1944 Included in the file: - List of female inmates, apparently from Gross-Rosen camp, mainly Jewish women from Poland and Hungary, March-April 1945. Next to the names of the victims on p. 2, there is the following entry: 16/03/1945 Bergen-Belsen. Some of the names are illegible. Next to the names on pp. 3-8 it says: 06/03/1945...

File Number : 157

Type of Material : Record of Murdered Persons, List of Jews, Official Documentation, Reports, List of Camp Inmates, List of Murdered Persons, Excerpt(s), List of Inmates, Statistics, Record of Persecuted Persons, Article(s), List(s), Excerpt(s), List of Jewish Women, Book, Administrative Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Telegram, Research Literature, List of Murdered Jews From Hungary, List of Detainees

Language : German

Article titled, "Theresienstadt - The Illusion", written by Edita Ornstein, regarding life in Theresienstadt during 1941-15/04/1945

Article titled, "Theresienstadt - The Illusion", written by Edita Ornstein, regarding life in Theresienstadt during 1941-15/04/1945 Life in Theresienstadt, including the living conditions and forced labor; activities in the Theresienstadt Ghetto by the Jewish Elder Jakob Edelstein, including the Germans' attitude toward Edelstein; transports to Auschwitz; improvement of the look of the Theresienstadt Ghetto, spring 1944; liberation of the ghetto, 15/04/1945; The article was written in the context of a documentation [testimonies] project, apparently in 1946/1947.

File Number : 291

Type of Material : Article, Research Article

Language : Czech

Photograph and a notarized confirmation of the appointment of Jakob Edelstein as the deputy head of the Jewish community in Prague, 19/03/1940

Photograph and a notarized confirmation of the appointment of Jakob Edelstein as the deputy head of the Jewish community in Prague, 19/03/1940 Photograph and a notarized confirmation of the appointment of Jakob Edelstein as the deputy head of the Jewish community in Prague by SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer Hans Guenther, the head of the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung (Central Office for Jewish Emigration) in Prague.

File Number : 103

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Interrogation of David Cohen at the trial against him, 1947-1948

Interrogation of David Cohen at the trial against him, 1947-1948 Testimony of David Cohen, one of the leaders of the Jewish Council (Joodsche Raad) in the Netherlands at the trial against him. - Report regarding the activities of the council; David Cohen's activities and Abraham Asscher's activities; - Accusations levelled by Kisch against David Cohen regarding the policy concerning exemptions from decrees, various announcements published by the Jewish Council and personal criticism of Cohen and Asscher (pp. 1-8); - Cohen's testimony regarding the work of the Council officials in the theater, the...

File Number : 63

Type of Material : Investigation Report

Language : Dutch

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