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Documentation related to the Grau and Brunell families from Berlin, 1895-2000, including birth certificates, a marriage contract, permits and more

Documentation related to the Grau and Brunell families from Berlin, 1895-2000, including birth certificates, a marriage contract, permits and more - Birth certificate of Erwin Grau, born 14 April 1895, issued in Berlin, 17 April 1895; - Birth certificate of Lotte Brunell (daughter of Alice [Cahn] Brunell), issued in Cologne, 18 December 1906; - Marriage contract of Erwin Grau and Lotte (Brunell) Grau written in the form of a poem and signed by approximately 60 witnesses in Cologne, 05 May 1929; - Birth certificate of Denny Gad Grau (son of Erwin Grau and Lotte [Brunell] Grau), born 17 October 1938,...

File Number : 649

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Official Documentation, List of Murdered Jews, Telegram

Language : Dutch, German

Documentation regarding Erich and Rosa Rachela (Weitzner) Schwartz, including Rosa's inoculation certificate, Erich's report card, telegrams received by Rosa, and other documents, 1920-1952

Documentation regarding Erich and Rosa Rachela (Weitzner) Schwartz, including Rosa's inoculation certificate, Erich's report card, telegrams received by Rosa, and other documents, 1920-1952 Documentation related to Rosa Rachela Weitzner: - Inoculation certificate of Rosa Weitzner, issued in Essen, 06 July 1925; - Registration certificate for foreign resident, belonging to Rachela Weitzner, born in Kalusz, 04 January 1913; certificate issued in Manchester, 11 July 1939 (her date of arrival to England: 04 April 1939); - Record card for health insurance and pension contributions of Rachel Weitzner, a...

File Number : 648

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Telegram

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German

Personal documentation of Pinkus Windholz, born in Krakow, Poland, 1902, and roots research regarding the experiences of the family, including his son Yehuda Elon, written by the great-granddaughter of Pinkus Windholz Original documents: - Birth certificate of Pinkus Windholz, who was born in Krakow, 22 June 1902, issued in Krakow, 22 October 1919; - Birth certificate of Pinkus Windholz, issued in Berlin Neukoelln, 27 August 1929; - Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate) of Pinkus and Rachel Windholz, signed, 30 June 1929; - Identity card (Fremdenpass) of foreign resident, Pinkus Windholz, issued...

File Number : 647

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Documentary

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, German

Certification that Ilse Stern won Third Place in a shorthand competition in Langensalza, 21 April 1932

Certification that Ilse Stern won Third Place in a shorthand competition in Langensalza, 21 April 1932 She succeeded in writing 120 shorthand symbols in one minute; Comments by the submitter of the material: Aliza (Stern) Yaakov was born in Langensalza, 1914; she made aliya to Eretz Israel without her parents, 1936 (they made aliya later); her brother Luther also made aliya to Eretz Israel; Aliza made aliya from the Netherlands, to where she had escaped after she had been detained in Germany and released (she had pretended that she was insane); she worked as a caregiver in a children's home, before she...

File Number : 646

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Certification

Language : German

Letters sent by Robert Lucas Boissevain from Vught and Oranienburg camps to his wife Sonja Tienhoven-Boissevain, 1944, and to his sister Tolly Boissevain-Mesritz, 1945; Russian-Dutch dictionary and exercises written by Lowske Goldberg while hidden by the Boissevain family; Dutch underground placard against anti-Jewish discrimination; documents related to the Goldberg and Boissevain families Letters sent by Robert Lucas Boissevain from the Vught camp and the Oranienburg camp to his wife Sonja Tienhoven-Boissevain in Haarlem, 1944, and to his sister Tolly Boissevain-Mesritz in Geneva, January 1945; a...

File Number : 2233

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Dictionary, Genealogy, Documentary, Letter, Research Article, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Poster, Poems/songs

Language : English, Russian, Dutch, German

German passport of Rosa Danziger, born in Teplitz, Czechoslovakia, 1868, issued by the German Consulate in Jaffa, 27 December 1938

German passport of Rosa Danziger, born in Teplitz, Czechoslovakia, 1868, issued by the German Consulate in Jaffa, 27 December 1938 Comments by the submitter of the material (Tamar Raftuv, Rosa's granddaughter on her father's side): Rosa Danziger was born in Teplitz, 04 June 1868, and died in Eretz Israel, 1942; Tamar (Ellen Danziger) Raftuv was born in Cologne, 1928; her parents were Wili (Wilhelm) Danziger, born in Hannover, 11 January 1903, and Edith (Sara) Zomer, born in Frankfurt am Main, 25 October 1905; Tamar was an only child; the family resided in Frankfurt am Main; they made aliya to Eretz...

File Number : 645

Type of Material : Passport

Language : German

Documentation regarding the Heymann family, including diaries and a memoir book belonging to Suse Angela Heymann, documents regarding the military service of Meyer Manfred Heymann during World War I, food ration cards, forged documents, and other documents, 1868-1983 Diaries: - Diary of Suse Angela Heymann, written in the Netherlands, 22 January-15 August 1942, and after the war, 1945-1949 (written mainly in German and at the end in Dutch); - Diary written by Suse Angela Heymann toward the end of the war and immediately after the end of the war, including poems written (or copied) by her, a collection...

File Number : 644

Type of Material : Passport, Diary, Memoir Book, Personal Documents, Postcard, Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Poems/songs

Language : Dutch, German

Two letters sent by Hermann Stern in Moissac to the Jewish Committee in London and to his uncle and brother in England, June 1945, including information regarding the deaths of his parents and sister who had been with him in the Stutthof camp after their expulsion from Germany - Letter written by Hermann Stern, born 14 February 1927, during his stay in Moissac, France, to the Jewish Committee in London, 22 June 1945, with a request to search for his brother Heinz Stern, born 17 August 1924, who had emigrated to England before the outbreak of the war; Hermann writes that for four years he was in a...

File Number : 2219

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English

Passports belonging to Alfred Olitzki, born in Berlin, and Margarete (Paul) Olitzki, born in Berlin, issued in Berlin, April-June 1936

Passports belonging to Alfred Olitzki, born in Berlin, and Margarete (Paul) Olitzki, born in Berlin, issued in Berlin, April-June 1936 - German passport belonging to Margarete (Paul) Olitzki, born in Berlin, Germany, 08 October 1903, issued in Berlin, 30 April 1936; - German passport belonging to Alfred Olitzki, born in Berlin, Germany, 26 June 1901, issued in Berlin, 10 June 1936. Their son, Kurt Olitzki, was born 23 February 1924. Notes from Frances (Miller) Olitzki, who submitted the material: Alfred and Margarete (Paul) Olitzki escaped to South Africa due to the situation in Germany in 1936;...

File Number : 643

Type of Material : Passport

Language : German

Documentation including circulars regarding Martin Bormann and photographs from the Warsaw Ghetto, from 1935-1941

Documentation including circulars regarding Martin Bormann and photographs from the Warsaw Ghetto, from 1935-1941 - circular signed by Heinrich Himmler from Berlin that was distributed to all police stations in the Reich on 26 June 1935, with an instruction to approve the collection of funds from the Jews by the National Zionist Committee for the purpose of the emigration of the Jews to Eretz Israel; - circular from Cologne dated 5 November 1935 to the national police station in Cologne, the heads of the region, the mayor of Bonn and the Cologne police chief regarding the lifting of the ban on Dr. Martin...

File Number : 653

Type of Material : Circular, Administrative Documentation, Photograph

Language : German

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