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Testimony of Martha Heler, born in Kisvarda, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Kisvarda Ghetto, Auschwitz, Weisswasser, Horneburg and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Martha Heler, born in Kisvarda, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Kisvarda Ghetto, Auschwitz, Weisswasser, Horneburg and other places Life before the war. Deportation to the Kisvarda Ghetto, April 1944; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz, June 1944; her parents' and sister's deaths; camp life until October 1944; deportation to the Weisswasser camp, October 1944; labor in a Philips factory; death march to Horneburg, February 1945; escape attempt; punishment; deportation to Bergen-Belsen; liberation, April 1945. Move to Celle DP camp; return to Kisvarda via Bratislava, summer...

File Number : 12624

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Comment by Bishop Jan Szeruda, regarding persecution of the Evangelisch-Augsburgische Kirche (Polish Evangelical Church) during the Nazi occupation

Comment by Bishop Jan Szeruda, regarding persecution of the Evangelisch-Augsburgische Kirche (Polish Evangelical Church) during the Nazi occupation Activities by the German authorities in the destruction of the spiritual and material foundations of the Polish Evangelical Church; arrest of the church's heads and outstanding members, most of whom perished in camps and prisons; dismissals in the Evangelical communities in the Generalgouvernement and the gaining of control over their property by the German authorities; [Included in the file:] Three lists including the names of church activists who were...

File Number : 243

Type of Material : List of Murdered Persons, List of Persecuted Persons, Official Documentation

Language : English

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: The position of the Protestant and the Catholic Churches in Switzerland regarding antisemitism, 1940-1962

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: The position of the Protestant and the Catholic Churches in Switzerland regarding antisemitism, 1940-1962 In the file are articles and quotes from newspapers and various journals, among them: - "Sueddeutche Zeitung", 20 November 1960 (p. 4); - "Das Aufgebot", 26 June 1947 (p. 13) and 13 June 1946 (p. 15); - "Vaterland", 16 December 1944 (pp. 20-22); - Article by C.D.: "Can One be Swiss, Christian and an Antisemite?", published in "Journal et Feuille d'Avis du Valais et de Sion" (p. 30); - "Luzerner Neueste Nachrichten",16 January 1946 (p. 42) and 17 January 1946...

File Number : 213

Type of Material : Booklet(s), Journal, Article, Newspaper Clippings

Language : French, German

Documents on the position of the Christian churches towards the Jews during WW II in France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Rumania, and Germany

Collection of documents on the position of the Catholic Church towards the Jews during the war in various countries Two sermons by the Bishop of Munster, Clemens von Galen, on July 13 and August 3, 1941, against the murder of mentaly ill and generally "non-productive" people. A letter by the German Catholic bishops to the Pope, about the difficult situation and the persecution of the Catholic community in Germany. A letter by the bishop of Montauban against the persecution of the Jews and their deportation, to be read in all churches at the mass on August 30,1942. Three pastoral letters from 1941 by the...

File Number : 633

Type of Material : Letter(s), Photo(s), Chart(s), Drawing(s), Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : Italian, Hebrew, French, English, Portuguese, German

Memoirs of Renata Heller née Carpi, born in 1922 in Milan, about slipping across the Italian border into Switzerland in December 1943, and documentation relating to her marriage to Hugo Heller, a minister in the Evangelical Reformed Church, in 1944 - memoirs of Renata Heller née Carpi about her experiences and those of her parents while slipping across the Italian border into Switzerland in December 1943; - documentation concerning Hugo Heller, including: -- certification that Renata Carpi joined the Evangelical Reformed Church, issued on October 18, 1944; -- letter to the Council of the Evangelical...

File Number : 10777

Type of Material : Postcard, Memoirs, Letter

Language : Italian, Hebrew, German