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Testimony of Zeev Wolf Schwammenthal, born in Berlin, Germany, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and as a forced laborer for the Romanian Army

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Wolf Schwammenthal, born in Berlin, Germany, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and as a forced laborer for the Romanian Army Life before the Nazi rise to power in Germany; Jewish community; burglary of his father's store; Nazi rise to power; threats against his father. Escape of the family to Czechoslovakia; move to Romania; planned aliya to Eretz Israel; theft of the family certificate; move to Cernauti; murder of Jews; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; his father's work as a furrier; deportation to Romanian Army labor camps; attitude of the Ukrainians towards the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Jewish underground press in France, 1941-1944

Jewish underground press in France, 1941-1944 - "Notre Parole" (Our Word), 1941, 1943 (incomplete); - "Notre Voix" (Our Voice), 1942-1944 (incomplete); - "La Voix de la Femme Juive" (The Jewish Woman's Voice) ,1943 (incomplete); - "Droit et Liberté" (Law and Liberty), 1944 (incomplete); - "En Avant" (In the Front), 1943 (incomplete); - "Jeune Combat" (Young Combat), 1943-1944 (incomplete); - "Quand Meme" (Even So), 1943-1944 (incomplete); - "J'Accuse" (I Accuse), 1942-1943 (incomplete).

File Number : 318

Type of Material : Newspaper

Language : French

Correspondence with organizations and persons regarding the war in Europe, the Jews in Europe, and Eretz Israel, Part One

Correspondence with organizations and persons regarding the war in Europe, the Jews in Europe, and Eretz Israel, Part One - Correspondence regarding the Jews in Russia: the government of Russia and the Jews (1906), Zionism among the Jews of Russia, [and] suppression of the Zionists in Russia (1918-1937), Bolshevist domestic and foreign policies (1919), Russian Jewish refugees, correspondence with the American Nansen Committee during 1923-1924, displays of antisemitism in Russia, and newspaper clippings (1927, 1929, 1931 and 1937), political prisoners (1928), relations between Britain and Russia, [including]...

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Reports, Newspaper Clippings

Language : English

Correspondence regarding the Bnai Brith organization in the United States, Part Two

Correspondence regarding the Bnai Brith organization in the United States, Part Two - Aleph Zadik Aleph (AZA), the Bnai Brith youth organization, 1937; Hillel Foundation, 1928-1934; travel by the organization's president Abraham Sachar to areas in Europe that have refugees, 1936; problem of emigration to Eretz Israel, 1938; Stephen Wise dedicates himself to work on behalf of the Jews in Germany, 1933; - Correspondence by Stephen Wise with Henry Monsky regarding the establishment of the Rescue Committee, 1943; - Correspondence by Stephen Wise with Joseph Kantrowitz regarding the participation of Bnai...

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Administrative Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Reports

Language : English

Letter from Prof. Albert Einstein, president of the World Union of OSE Societies (World OSE), Paris, to the President of the Republic of Turkey, 1933, about the passage of forty professors and doctors from Germany to Turkey

In the letter, addressed to the President of the Republic of Turkey on September 17, 1933, Einstein asks the President to allow forty professors and doctors from Germany to cross into Turkey in order to continue their work. Remark by the submitter, Peggy Brett: Albert Einstein’s letter is kept at the Jewish Museum in Istanbul.

File Number : 4786

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English

Albert Einstein on Antisemitism

Albert Einstein: Two articles and a letter on Antisemitism

File Number : 1195

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : English, German