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Letter sent from Gurs by German volunteers in the International Brigades who were imprisoned in the camp after their escape from Spain to France, 02 August 1939

Letter sent from Gurs by German volunteers in the International Brigades who were imprisoned in the camp after their escape from Spain to France, 02 August 1939 Letter was written apparently by a group of German volunteers who fought on the side of the Spanish Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939; escape of the volunteers to France, later on; they were imprisoned in various camps in the area of the Pyrenees Mountains; in the letter, they express thanks for the receipt of money and for its distribution among eight soldiers [prisoners]; they complain about the severe conditions in camp, in...

File Number : 1836

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Testimony of Zeev Wolf Galperin, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Auschwitz, Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Birkenau and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Wolf Galperin, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Auschwitz, Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Birkenau and other places Life before the war; well-to-do traditional family; attends a Jewish school. Soviet occupation, 1940; nationalization of property; German-Soviet war, 1941; unsuccessful escape attempt; a Lithuanian neighbor takes over their home; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto, August 1940; ghetto life in the sport hall in school; "Aktion"; receives food; labor with his father in a factory; the ghetto becomes a camp; life in Sanciai camp; evacuation...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yaakov Zilberstein, born in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Buchenwald, Auschwitz and Altenburg

Testimony

Testimony of Yaakov Zilberstein, born in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Buchenwald, Auschwitz and Altenburg Only child from a family of Gur hasidim; learns in a "heder" and yeshivas in Lodz and Lublin. Outbreak of the war; capture on the street; detention in the Rawicz prison; prison life including labor distributing water to the army; deportation to Buchenwald, late 1939; camp life including labor in a quarry, gardening and agriculture; help from a friend in Buchenwald who was like a brother; transfer to Auschwitz, late 1942; camp life including labor preparing an...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters sent by Ursula Anna Maria De Boor from prison, to her family members and to Harold Berman in London, 1944-1946

Letters sent by Ursula Anna Maria De Boor from prison, to her family members and to Harold Berman in London, 1944-1946 Ursula Anna Maria De Boor was a German woman, a Christian who was persecuted by the Germans due to her views.

File Number : 662

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

M.1.D - Documentation of the Dachau concentration camp

M.1.D - Documentation of the Dachau concentration camp In the collection there are files from the Dachau concentration camp which were transferred to Yad Vashem by the Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied zone. In the collection there is administrational documentation including a few files kept by the camp administration. In many of the files there are forms for payment and insurance of the inmates. In other files there is personal documentation such as passports and photographs of inmates as well as the central card index file of the camp...

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Record of Deportees, Record of Persecuted Persons, Official Documentation, Card File, Photograph

Language : German

Lists of ill prisoners (and police officials?) at the SS and police prison Berlin-Schoeneberg at Grunewaldstrasse 68, between 28/10/1942 and 26/04/1944 with information about the post-war fate of 15 of them, probably Gestapo employees

Lists of ill prisoners (and police officials?) at the SS and police prison Berlin-Schoeneberg at Grunewaldstrasse 68, 28/10/1942 - 26/04/1944 with information about the post-war fate of 15 of them, probably Gestapo employees List of 15 former prisoners of the SS- and police prison Berlin-Schoeneberg at Grunewaldstrasse 68, whose names appeared in lists of ill prisoners, containing information about their the length of their stay at the prison, their current locations and their deaths, if known, after 1960 (pp.2 - 5); List of ill prisoners at the SS and police prison Berlin-Schoeneberg at Grunewaldstrasse...

File Number : 139

Testimony of Hirsch Lewin, born in Vilna, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Stutthof, Stolp and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Hirsch Lewin, born in Vilna, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Stutthof, Stolp and other places Life before the war; move to Riga. German occupation, June 1941; labor in Sloka camp until October 1941; transfer to the Riga Ghetto; ghetto life including work sorting clothes; deportation to Spilwe, October 1942; transfer to Kaiserwald, June 1944; camp life including murder of a Jewish informer by a German inmate; transfer to Stutthof, August 1944; transfer to Burggraben, October 1944; transfer to Stolp, January 1945; death march; liberation, March 1945. Enlists...

File Number : 2596

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Izak Weiser, born in Lubaczow, Poland, 1907, regarding his experiences in a camp in Krakow, in Auschwitz, on a death march to Gross-Rosen camp, and in Dachau camp

Testimony of Izak Weiser, born in Lubaczow, Poland, 1907, regarding his experiences in a camp in Krakow, in Auschwitz, on a death march to Gross-Rosen camp, and in Dachau camp Deportation in a group of craftsmen to Krakow, July 1944; transfer a month later to Auschwitz via Myslowice; labor in the Strassenbau (road construction) Kommando under the supervision of German inmates; beatings and cruel treatment; transfer to an SS shoe repair shop, three months later; sells food to obtain leather for repairs to avoid floggings; death march, 18 January 1945: three day march in the snow; mortality of over 50% of the...

File Number : 505

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Ludwik Fleck, born in Lwow, Poland, 1896, regarding his experiences in Lwow and his labor in the field of serology and bacteriology in the Laokoon factory laboratory in Lwow and in the medical experiments block for women in Auschwitz and in Buchenwald Deportation from his home in Lwow, September 1941; labor in the Jewish hospital on Koziewicza Street; stay in hiding, and the death of his two sisters and brothers-in-law during an "Aktion", 1942; transfer to the Jewish quarter; detention in the hospital with his wife and son, who worked as laboratory technicians, November 1942; labor in a...

File Number : 460

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Izaak Glettner, born in Przemysl, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in the Rzeszow, Plaszow, Wieliczka, Flossenburg, Kolmar and Watenstedt camps

Testimony of Izaak Glettner, born in Przemysl, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in the Rzeszow, Plaszow, Wieliczka, Flossenburg, Kolmar and Watenstedt camps Deportation of his whole family from the Przemysl Ghetto to Belzec, July 1942; transfer to a labor camp for manufacturing aviation parts in Rzeszow; sadistic treatment from the guards and SS men: executions under torture, setting dogs on, and random shootings at, inmates; transfer to the Plaszow camp, summer 1944; transfer to the Wieliczka camp a week later, then to the Flossenburg camp another week later; the clothing of the inmates taken away...

File Number : 401

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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