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Testimony of Shoshana (Ehrlich) Gelkopf, born in Wieruszow, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in Ukraine, Siberia, kolkhozes in Kirghizstan and in Frunze

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana (Ehrlich) Gelkopf, born in Wieruszow, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in Ukraine, Siberia, kolkhozes in Kirghizstan and in Frunze Childhood. Escape from Poland to Ukraine, 1939; refusal of her parents to accept Soviet citizenship; exile to Siberia, 1940; life in a camp of shacks on the plains of Siberia; permission to leave Siberia; trip to Kirghizstan, 1942; work in kolkhozes; escape of the family to Frunze; selling of matches in the local market to help the family; hunger and crowding. Return to Lodz, Poland; move to Wroclaw (Breslau); crossing the border into...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of Jews, including many refugees from Germany, deported from the Netherlands to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1943

File Number : JM/12177

Type of Material : List of Deportees, List of Jewish Refugees

Language : German

The K. F. Mannheimer archives, 1900-1994

Documentation of K. F. Mannheimer, a lawyer for claims for compensation by Holocaust survivors in Germany and in Amsterdam; documentation dated, 1897-1978 K. F. Mannheimer, a Jewish lawyer, was born in Germany in 1897; he was married to B. A. E. Weisel in a mixed marriage; following the Nazi rise to power, Mannheimer was forced to cease his work as a lawyer in Berlin; he emigrated to the Netherlands with his wife, who was also a lawyer, in 1936; in the Netherlands, Mannheimer served as a lawyer, prosecutor, translator and advisor to students, until the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands which put an end to...

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Document, Notepad, Sentence, Committee Request, Indictment, Reports, Legal Documentation, Passport, Laws and Decrees, Medical Documentation, Inventory List, Correspondence, Letter, Questionnaire, Financial Accounts, Protocol, Newspaper, Personal Documents

Language : Dutch, German

Testimony of Chava (Bruck) Michaeli, born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1928, regarding her experiences in Belgrade, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Braunschwieg camp, Bergen-Belsen and other

Testimony

Testimony of Chava (Bruck) Michaeli, born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1928, regarding her experiences in Belgrade, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Braunschwieg camp, Bergen-Belsen and other Life before the war; daughter in a Zionist family; activities in the Jewish national Fund, JNF and Hashomer Hatziar. Outbreak of the war; escape to Sombor; air-raids; Hungarian occupation; German occupation, 1944; evades deportation due to foreign citizenship; deportation to Baja; transfer via train towards Austria; stop at the station in Gaenserndorf; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; transfer to the sick platform due to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation belonging to the Wilens family from Bielefeld

Documentation belonging to the Wilens family from Bielefeld - Birth certificate of [the daughter] Else Wilens; - Revocation of the German citizenship of Else Wilens, the mother, 19 February 1933; - Change of the last name from Wilensky to Wilens; - Naturalization of the Wilensky family in Germany, 1919.

File Number : 554

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : German

Memoirs of Charles Leigh, formerly Karlheinz Liebenau, born in Berlin in 1926, regarding his experiences in Berlin until his departure to England in the context of the Kindertransport in 1939, and regarding the fate of his parents Max and Dora Liebenau His childhood in Berlin; persecution of Jews, from 1933; anti-Jewish legislation; revocation of the German citizenship of Germany's Jews in 1935; confiscation of the family's business; eviction of Jewish pupils from schools, including the witness and his sister Helga Carola, who was born in 1923; Kristallnacht riots in 1938; issuing of new identity cards to...

File Number : 10304

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Documentation from government offices of the Saar region, 1924-1948

Documentation from government offices of the Saar region, 1924-1948 Documentation from the following bodies: - Ministerium der Finanzen: one file, with names and details of taxpayers who underwent inspection, including Jews (1934-1946); - Ministerium für Arbeit, Sozialordnung und Gesundheitswesen: seven files regarding pharmacists, most of them related to proving the Aryan origin of pharmacists, and one file concerning orders regarding granting permission to Jews to practice pharmacy; - Justizministerium: four cases regarding revocation of citizenship, including cases of Jews among others; the insurance...

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

Language : German

Letters written by Rosa and Leopold Joseph Meyer in Berlin to their son Benno Friedel Meyer in Eretz Israel, 1935-1939, and a postcard and documentation regarding the Meyers

Letters written by Rosa and Leopold Joseph Meyer in Berlin to their son Benno Friedel Meyer in Eretz Israel, 1935-1939, and a postcard and documentation regarding the Meyers Letters and a postcard related to Rosa Meyer and her husband Leopold Joseph Meyer (scan): - Letters written by Rosa Meyer and Leopold Joseph Meyer in Berlin to their son Benno Friedel Meyer in Eretz Israel during 08/05/1935-07/09/1939; relatives and friends wrote in some of the letters; - Letters written by Rosa Meyer and Leopold Joseph Meyer in Berlin to their son Benno Friedel Meyer in Eretz Israel, undated; relatives and...

File Number : 3195

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter, Postcard, Passport, Certification, Genealogy, Personal Records, Document, כתובה

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German, Aramaic

Testimony of Menachem Rozenberg, born in Eisenstadt, Austria, 1929, regarding his experiences being deported to the Austrian border, and in a Swiss protected house in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Ernst Rozenberg, born in Eisenstadt, Austria, 1929, regarding his experiences being deported to the Austrian border, and in a Swiss protected house in Budapest Childhood in Eisenstadt, Austria; Anschluss, 1938; move to Budapest, Hungary, 1938; His grandparents' move to Czechoslovakia, and their committing suicide, 1941; his father's move to Italy to work arranging visas to South America [South American countries] for refugees, 1941; his father's return to Budapest; drafting of his father to Hungarian Army labor battalions, and his disappearance, 1943; German occupation, 1944; move...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation from the years 1934-1993 belonging to the family of Moshe Manfred Hildesheim, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1927

Documentation from the years 1934-1993 belonging to the family of Moshe Manfred Hildesheim, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1927 - Correspondence between members of the Hildesheim family who had emigrated from Hamburg to Copenhagen, Denmark in 1935, some of whom escaped to Sweden in 1943 and were detained in a refugee camp in Helsjon until June 1945, and some of whom were deported to Theresienstadt; - Searches for relatives through the Red Cross in Geneva; - Two postcards sent from Amsterdam to Leon Ruben in Copenhagen, 1943; - Confirmation of a parcel sent by Betti Ruben from Copenhagen to Klara Jacobsen...

File Number : 2411

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Postcard, Letter, Administrative Documentation, Article

Language : English, Swedish, German, Danish

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