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Birth certificate of Joseph Kurt Kerpen, born in Vienna, Austria, 1918, a Heimatscheine (Residence Certificate) from 1935; a British Army Soldier's Service and Pay Book and an additional document from 1947 - Joseph Kurt Kerpen, the father of Jichak Kerpen who submitted the material, made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1938; he enlisted in the British Army in 1939, and was discharged in 1946; he served as a driver of trucks and tankers in the Royal Engineer Corps during the war years. - Letter sent by Kurt Kerpen from Eretz Israel (73 Herzl Street, Petach Tikwah) to Siegfried Israel and Frieda Kerpen in Vienna,...

File Number : 246

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : English, German

Album containing photos and documentation (scrapbook) and personal documents of Rudolf Seidl, Vienna, who emigrated from Austria and served with the British Army, 1938-1951

File Number : 24.1

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Invitation, Travel Ticket, Booklet(s), Record of Survivors, Official Documentation, Letter, Passport, Telegram

Language : English, German

Letters written in Vienna, Austria, by Cecilia (Deutsch) Hartenstein, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1870, to her children in the United States, 27 August 1939-September 1941

Letters written in Vienna, Austria, by Cecilia (Deutsch) Hartenstein, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1870, to her children in the United States, 27 August 1939-September 1941 Marriage of Cecilia to Emil Hartenstein from Vienna; Emil owns a printing press; Cecilia and Emil are the parents of five children; death of one of the children at a young age; Anschluss, annexation of Austria to Germany, 1938. Escape of the family; one of the daughters obtains entrance visas to the United States for the entire family; lack of desire to leave Austria; emigration of son Hugo to the United States; Cecilia remains...

File Number : 1890

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Identity cards belonging to Bernhard and Irma Lustig, issued in Vienna, 1939

Identity cards belonging to Bernhard and Irma Lustig, issued in Vienna, 1939 Note: Bernhard Lustig's parents, Benjamin Chaim and Jetti Lustig, lived in Hollabrun and owned a weapons warehouse. Their two sons, Bernhard and Simon, made aliya to Eretz Israel after the Anschluss. Benjamin Chaim and Jetti Lustig remained in Hollabrun and afterwards were deported to Vienna. In April 1942, they were deported to an extermination camp.

File Number : 241

Type of Material : Record of Murdered Persons, Photograph, Identity Card, Record of Deportees

Language : German

Testimony of Yaffa Valeria (Shvartz) Fahn, born in Trnava, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding her experiences in Trnava and in hiding in Piestany and Gest

Testimony

Testimony of Yaffa Valeria (Shvartz) Fahn, born in Trnava, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding her experiences in Trnava and in hiding in Piestany and Gest Life before the war. Anti-Jewish restrictions including the confiscation of property; yellow badge; attempts to evade deportation with young people, March 1942; life in hiding in Piestany; evades deportation after obtaining forged documents; German occupation; deportations; search for a hiding place for her family; escape to Gest; finds a hiding place in the home of farmers Josef Peskde and his wife; life in hiding in a cellar; liberation by the Red Army,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Letter sent by Anne Baumgarten from New York to the New York Forverts editorial board requesting help in locating a friend named Sam Zimmermann from Bienitz

Letter sent by Anne Baumgarten from New York to the New York Forverts editorial board requesting help in locating a friend named Sam Zimmermann from Bienitz, 1942 The letter includes a comment by the editor regarding Anne Baumgarten's efforts in locating her friend Sam Zimmerman in the United States.

File Number : 4.24

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Yiddish

To be translated

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Article, Personal Records, Survey Report, Caricatures, Official Documentation, Questionnaire, Protocol, Letter

Language : Chinese, English, German

Documentation of the Foreigners Police of the St. Gallen canton in Switzerland containing a personal file for Alfred Coreta, a refugee from Austria, from 1945

Documentation of the Foreigners Police of the St. Gallen canton in Switzerland containing a personal file for Alfred Coreta, a refugee from Austria, from 1945 - Passports (Auslaenderausweis-foreigner's residence permit); - Letter to the Kantonale Fremdenpolizei St.Gallen ( Foreigners Police of the St. Gallen canton) by the Deutsche Interessenvertretung (German Advocacy) of the Eidgenossische Politisches Department (Federal Department of Political Affairs) regarding the willingness to issue an Austrian passport for Alfred Coreta.

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Personal Documents

Language : German

Documentation of the Foreigners Police of the St. Gallen canton in Switzerland containing a personal file for Alfred Breslauer, a Jewish refugee from Austria, from 1945

Documentation of the Foreigners Police of the St. Gallen canton in Switzerland containing a personal file for Alfred Breslauer, a Jewish refugee from Austria, from 1945 - Request and permit regarding the extension of his residence in Switzerland; - Permits confirming the deposit of securities in the St. Gallen Staatskassa (State Treasury); - Notification of the Fremdenpolizei (Foreigners Police) of the cancellation of the temporary residence permit in Switzerland.

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Personal Documents

Language : German

Documentation of the Foreigners Police of the St. Gallen canton in Switzerland containing a personal file for Willi Braun, a Jewish refugee from Austria, 1939-1945

Documentation of the Foreigners Police of the St. Gallen canton in Switzerland containing a personal file for Willi Braun, a Jewish refugee from Austria, 1939-1945 - Request and permit regarding the extension of his stay in Switzerland; - Request of the Arbeitsamt (Labor Bureau) in St. Gallen to extend the work permit of Willi Braun as an agent for a clothing company; - Letter from the Bundesamt fuer Gewerbe und Arbeit (Federal Office of Trade and Labor) warning Willi Braun of the reduction in the demand for commercial occupations.

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Personal Documents

Language : German

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