Personal documentation belonging to Zelmann Baum including a Release Certificate from the Sachsenhausen camp, November 1938 and an exit permit from Germany
- Copy of the Release Certificate issued to Zelmann Baum from the Sachsenhausen camp; Zelmann Baum was an inmate of Sachsenhausen, 10-23 November 1938;
- Copy of an exit permit from Germany issued to Zelmann Baum, 1938.
Zelmann Baum was born in Klimentow, Poland, 24 December 1899; he lived at No. 3-4 "Wall" Street in Berlin, Germany; he was married to Hulda (Rosner) Baum.
Testimony of Moshe Meltz, born in Vienna, Austria, 1932, regarding his experiences in Vienna, on the Kindertransport and with foster families in England
Life in Vienna in a secular family; Anschluss, 1938; displays of antisemitism; Kristallnacht; detention of his father; deportation of his father to Dachau; witness' transfer to England on the Kindertransport.
Outbreak of the war; deportation to his mother to camps in Riga; his life with non-Jewish foster families in England, 1939-1946; reunion with his family in England; aliya to Israel, 1949.
Testimony of Batia Irma (Bauer) Netzer, born in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, 1938, regarding her experiences in Austria and Eretz Israel
Anschluss, annexation of Austria to Germany; witness' aliya to Eretz Israel in the context of Youth Aliyah, October 1938.
P.22 - The Dr. Nathan Eck Collection, holocaust researcher, 1938-1976
In the collection there are files from the private archive of Dr. Nathan Eck.
Description of the collection:
The documentation mainly deals with research on various aspects of the Holocaust period in Poland and France. There are research papers, testimonies, newspaper clippings, correspondence and documentation concerning the emigration of Jews to Latin American countries.
About Dr. Nathan Eck:
- Dr. Nathan Eck was born in Janow, Poland, 19 March 1896. He was a Gordonia youth movement activist and a Zionist activist, as well...
Type of Material : Passport, Personal Documents, Letter, Administrative Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Excerpt(s), Memoirs, Record of Persecuted Persons, Research Article, Poems/songs, Note, Reports, Testimony, List of Refugees, Draft
Language : Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Polish, French, English, German, Yiddish
Documentation regarding the activities of the War Refugee Board (WRB), October-December 1944
Pages 3-5:
Correspondence between the Secretary of State, Washington, and delegations of the WRB in Jerusalem regarding emigration from Bulgaria to Eretz Israel via Turkey, 06 October 1944;
Page 6:
Telegram from Cordell Hull, Department of State, Washington, to the US Legation, Bern, regarding the report that Anna and Rosa Frumkin and Eugenia Gorlin are in Bergen-Belsen, 03 October 1944;
Pages 7-8:
Telegram from Cordell Hull, Department of State, Washington, to the US Embassy, Ankara, regarding the...
File Number : 135.1
Type of Material : Correspondence, Official Documentation, Letter(s), Memorandum, Note, Telegram
Testimony of Rabbi Dr. Max Nussbaum, born in Suczawa, Bucovina, 1908, regarding his experiences before and during his emigration from Germany
- Delays his emigration despite Gestapo pressure to leave earlier due to concern over his wife's daughter from her first marriage whom he did not want to leave behind; refusal of the United States to permit Rabbi Nussbaum to emigrate with the step-daughter;
- Proceeds with the emigration process without the child; entrusts his step-daughter to Julius Seligsohn, a friend, who finds her another country to which to emigrate and then rejoin her family; detailed...
File Number : 223
Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation
Testimony of Rabbi Dr. Max Nussbaum, born in Suczawa, Bucovina, Romania, 1908, regarding his experiences under Nazi rule in Berlin until his emigration in 1940
- Summons to the Berlin Gestapo, 1937; interrogation by Kuchmann, an officer responsible for Jewish Affairs; request that Rabbi Nussbaum resign from the Zionistische Vereinigung fuer Deutschland (ZVfD -Zionist Federation of Germany) and join the Revisionist Association (most likely the Zionist Association that split from the ZVfD in 1925); refusal of the witness to comply with the request; order to refrain from any activity in public outside of his...
File Number : 222
Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation
Testimony of Dr. Berthold Simonsohn, born in Bernburg, Germany, 1912, regarding his professional experience in the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (RVJ-Reich Association of the Jews in Germany) and his detention in Sachsenhausen, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Dachau
- Law studies, 1930-1934; first bar exam, 1934; no further studies permitted;
- Life in Stettin, July 1938-November 1938; work at the provincial Stettin RVJ administrative branch supervised by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Main Office) as the head of the social welfare department, managed at the time by Anne Hertz;...
File Number : 200
Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony
Testimony of Federico Fritz Rozenmeier, born in 1932 in Berlin, about persecution and emigration to Argentina in 1938
Offspring of a modern educated family; father and grandfather are doctors; grandfather heads the Gottingen Jewish community; antisemitism escalates; Jewish businesses confiscated; relatives escape to Australia; visa to Argentina obtained in 1938; German citizenship revoked; escape by ship to England; Kristallnacht in Gottingen; grandparents escape and are brought back to Germany; witness reaches Argentina via Italy; attitude toward refugees in Argentina; immigration to Israel in 2011.
Memoirs of Kitty (Dicker) Wiener, from Vienna, regarding her father's detention and release in 1938 and her family's wanderings in Europe and emigration to Bolivia in 1939
- Memoirs of Kitty (Dicker) Wiener, born in Vienna, Austria in 1929, regarding her family's experiences. The memoirs were written in Kibbutz Evron in Israel:
- Place of residence: Vienna; her father was a Zionist activist and active in the Haganah organization; detention of her father in 1938 following the Anschluss, and his release on condition that he leave Austria; travel by Kitty, her parents, her sister Nelly and her brother Fredi...