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Testimony of Hubert Karden, regarding the women's camp in Essen that belonged to the Krupp company, submitted, 1945

Testimony of Hubert Karden, regarding the women's camp in Essen that belonged to the Krupp company, submitted, 1945 The population in the camp was in most part Jewish women from Hungary and Romania who were transferred to the camp in early 1944; camp life, including the daily schedule in the factory and the food; attitude of the camp's staff to the women inmates, including acts of abuse on the women inmates by the camp commander, SS-Oberscharfuehrer Rick; The document is part of the Evidence material at the Nuremberg Trial; The document is in the books: Blue series, xxxv, 55-56; Red series, supplement...

File Number : 39

Type of Material : Investigation Report

Language : German

Survey of the situation in the Nazi-occupied countries as reported in the Nazi press, the local press and witnesses, with emphasis on the situation of the Jews, January 1943

Survey of the situation in the Nazi-occupied countries as reported in the Nazi press, the local press and witnesses, with emphasis on the situation of the Jews, January 1943 Survey regarding the attitude of the churches towards the Jews in the Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland; no information arriving from the ghettos in Poland; waiving of customs charges between the Generalgouvernement and the Reich; kerosene factories in Galicia under German ownership; improvements in the conditions of outstanding Polish workers; Polish railroad workers; establishment of a German Archive in Poznan; medical treatment for...

File Number : 5

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Letters sent by Leo Emanuel from Buchenwald camp to his wife Johanna Emanuel in Frankfurt am Main, 1938 and letters sent from Auschwitz, 07-08/1943

Letters sent by Leo Emanuel from Buchenwald camp to his wife Johanna Emanuel in Frankfurt am Main, 1938 and letters sent from Auschwitz, 07-08/1943 Included in the letters: mention of [various] people; food situation; parcels sent to Leo; Included in the file: - Letter sent by Leo's father David Emanuel from Theresienstadt to his son and to Johanna, 1943; - Personal documentation of Emanuel family members from Frankfurt am Main: Certificate and medal of honor given to Leo Emanuel by the Third Reich; Certificates from the Jewish community of Frankfurt am Main, 1949; Death certificate of Leo...

File Number : 728

Type of Material : Record of Murdered Persons, Personal Records, Postcard, Record of Deportees, Letter

Language : German

Personal documentation belonging to Jadzia Klajner, 1942-1944

Personal documentation belonging to Jadzia Klajner, 1942-1944 - Letters sent to Janet Jadzia Klajner Seidman in the Wolta camp in Gabersdorf by her mother, her sisters Sara and Hela and [female] friends from Bedzin regarding daily life and their missing [her], 1942-1943; Birthday cards sent to Jadzia Klajner for her 18th and 19th birthdays by her [female] friends in the Wolta camp, 15 August 1942 and 15 August 1943.

File Number : 695

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish, German

Letters and testimonies of Erich Goldschmidt regarding his deportation from Brussels and his experiences in concentration camps in France including Les Milles and Saint Cyprien

Letters and testimonies of Erich Goldschmidt regarding his deportation from Brussels and his experiences in concentration camps in France including Les Milles and Saint Cyprien Pages 1-4: 1) Letter from Erich to his mother, [while staying] at Les Milles camp in Aix-en-Provence, written in German with words and expressions in Hebrew, 11 March 1941: - Repeated unsuccessful attempts to obtain military leave to Bellac [from] the Haute-Vienne Department; reports regarding food in the camps; living conditions [including] delousing; intent to borrow money from a Mr. Nussbaum; arrival of 60 inmates from Gurs...

File Number : 1858

Type of Material : Certification, Testimony, Poem/song, Musical Notes, Document, Letter

Language : French, English, Russian, German