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Correspondence between Chlawna Kagan in Pithiviers and his wife Dora Tchor in Paris, including personal documents of the Tchor family and Chlawna Kagan, 1941-1942

Correspondence between Chlawna Kagan in Pithiviers and his wife Dora Tchor in Paris, including personal documents of the Tchor family and Chlawna Kagan, 1941-1942 - Letter sent by Chlawna Kagan to his wife Dora Tchor, 05 September 1932; - Letters sent by Chlawna Kagan to his wife during his service in the French Army, 1940 (most of the letters are translated to Hebrew); - Letters sent to Dora Tchor and Chlawna Kagan by family members and friends, including from Warsaw, 1930s-early 1940s; - Greeting cards for Rosh Hashana [with inscriptions], sent by Tchor family members; Personal documents of the...

File Number : 1883

Type of Material : Postcard, Vouchers, Official Documentation, Letter, Personal Documents, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Polish, French, Russian, Yiddish

Documentation from the Magistrates Court in Backnang, Wurttemberg, 1927-1944

Documentation from the Magistrates Court in Backnang, Wurttemberg, 1927-1944 Included in the Collection is a list of business owners in the region; administrative correspondence and contracts of the Court of Law; legal files against Jews and foreign workers during the Nazi period; legal files against Nazis from 1932, mainly regarding the distribution of antisemitic propaganda.

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Official Documentation, Legal Documentation

Language : German

Documentation from the Amtsgericht Aalen

Documentation from the Amtsgericht Aalen Included in the Collection are files regarding trials, the grand majority of them against non-Jewish forced laborers.

Type of Material : Indictment, Sentence, Official Documentation, Record of Persecuted Persons, Legal Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Malvina (Gelberman) Rosenwasser, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Chust Ghetto and in Auschwitz and Markkleeberg camps

Testimony

Testimony of Malvina (Gelberman) Rosenwasser, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Chust Ghetto and in Auschwitz and Markkleeberg camps Life in Chust. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1939; deportation to the Chust Ghetto, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz camp, 1944; transfer to Markkleeberg, 1944; camp life; labor in an aircraft parts factory; death march in the direction of Hartha, May 1945; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945. Move to Prague; return to Chust; more to Prague; move to Nagyecsed, 1946; aliya to Israel, 1949; emigration to the United States, 1959; return aliya...

File Number : 12973

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Letters sent by Erich Weiss to his wife Serina Zigman, letters by Leisel Lisbeth (Weiss), who was deported to Sabac camp, and letters by Egon Weiss, who was deported to Theresienstadt

Letters sent by Erich Weiss to his wife Serina Zigman, letters by Leisel Lisbeth (Weiss), who was deported to Sabac camp, and letters by Egon Weiss, who was deported to Theresienstadt Included in the file: - Red Cross letters written by British Army soldier Erich Weiss, regarding a search for relatives; - Red Cross letter sent by Hans Zigman to Serina in London, regarding locating his brother in Sainte Antoine camp, France, who was in a group of 317 laborers; Serina arrived to England on a Kindertransport; Comments: The photographs were transferred to the Yad Vashem Photos Archive; Yad Vashem...

File Number : 1311

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Photograph

Language : German

Testimony of Sara (Rotshtein) Drori, born in Podhajce, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Podhajce Ghetto, in hiding, Kettwig an der Ruhr and Heiligenhaus

Testimony

Testimony of Sara (Rotshtein) Drori, born in Podhajce, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Podhajce Ghetto, in hiding, Kettwig an der Ruhr and Heiligenhaus Life before the war; displays of antisemitism; confiscation of Jewish owned shops. Soviet occupation, September 1939; life under occupation including work as a nurse in a hospital, from January 1940; German occupation, summer 1941; decrees including the yellow badge, confiscation of property and forced labor; deportation of her father to Borki Wielki, 1942; life in hiding in an abandoned apartment from October 1942; escape using a false...

File Number : 12832

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Nechama Nadzhia (Kutner) Iakhimovitz, born in Kozminek, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Lodz Ghetto, the Koluszki Ghetto; using a false identity in Czestochowa and other places Life before the war; death of her mother and move to Konstantinow. Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation by foot to the Lodz Ghetto; ghetto life including refusal of the father to shave his beard; escape with her father to Glowno; life in Glowno; transfer to the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life; escape to the Aryan side; life outside the ghetto including labor in the vegetable garden...

File Number : 13024

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Richard Reuven Kremnitzer Netzer, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Richard Reuven Kremnitzer Netzer, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Bucharest Secular well-to-do family; attends a Romanian school. Outbreak of the war; anti-Jewish legislation and expulsion from school, 1940; riots and looting of property, 1941; decrees including ban on radios; detention of his father and his release after paying a bribe; forced labor, 1942; liberation by the Red Army, August 1944. Aliya to Eretz Israel via Cyprus, 1947.

File Number : 12809

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of foreign Jews arrested at their work places in France, 25 February 1943

List of foreign Jews arrested at their work places in France, 25 February 1943 The list includes the last name, first name, date of birth, citizenship and place of work.

File Number : 152

Type of Material : List of Detainees

Language : French

Documentation of the Reich Food Producers Organization (Reichsnaehrstand) and of the leader of the Reich Farmers, Germany, 1933-1945

Documentation of the Reich Food Producers Organization (Reichsnaehrstand) and of the leader of the Reich Farmers, Germany, 1933-1945 Reich Food Producers Organization was the umbrella organization of the farmers and vendors of agricultural produce in Germany, established after the rise of the Nazis to power, 1933, and united within it a number of umbrella organizations that preceded it. The organization had a hierarchical structure and was headed by Richard Walther Darre, who received the title of Reich Farmers' Leader (Reichsbauernfuehrer). Under Darre's leadership, the organization was the tool for...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

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