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Testimony of Ludwig Woerl, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Munich, Germany, 1906, regarding his experiences in Dachau, Auschwitz, Buna-Monowitz, Ebensee and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Ludwig Woerl, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Munich, Germany, 1906, regarding his experiences in Dachau, Auschwitz, Buna-Monowitz, Ebensee and other places Life in Munich before the war; training as a volunteer Red Cross orderly; disseminates handbills about the Dachau concentration camp; organizes a group of opponents of the regime; deportation to Dachau, May 1934; camp life including torture and interrogation; life handcuffed in a bunker; murder of supporters of Ernst Roehm, the SA commander, July 1934; work as an orderly and arranging orderly service; list of names of sadists; meets...

File Number : 7657

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish, German

Official documentation regarding Gestapo surveillance of the heads of the Oxford Bewegung (Oxford movement)

Official documentation regarding Gestapo surveillance of the heads of the Oxford Bewegung (Oxford movement) Gestapo surveillance of the activities of the Oxford Bewegung (Oxford movement); surveillance orders for the heads of the movement, Dr. Frank Buchmann and Dr. Wiggers, under suspicion for anti-Nazi activities.

File Number : 27

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Liza Chapnik, born in Grodno, 1922, regarding her experiences in Grodno, Bialystok, in hiding and with the underground

Testimony

Testimony of Liza Chapnik, born in Grodno, 1922, regarding her experiences in Grodno, Bialystok, in hiding and with the underground Escape from Grodno, June 1941; caught by the Germans in Stolpce; transfer to Baranowicze and Dereczyn; in Bialystok using forged documents, November 1942; makes contact with the underground in the ghetto; return to the Grodno Ghetto, February 1943; takes her niece out from the ghetto; return to Bialystok; makes contact with a non-Jewish underground group; supplies essential goods to the Jewish partisan unit "Forojs" (Forward); "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, August 1943;...

File Number : 9924

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony

Testimony of Ludwig Woerl, Righteous Among the Nations, born in Munich, Germany, 1906, regarding his experiences in activities to rescue Jews before the war, in Auschwitz, Buna-Monowitz, Dachau and Guntergrube Life before the war; activities against Nazi propaganda. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; arrest; deportation to Dachau; transfer to Auschwitz; transfer to Buna-Monowitz; camp life including setting up sanitary services; transfer to Guntergrube; camp life including setting up sanitary services; liberation, 1945. Recognition as a Righteous Among the Nations.

File Number : 2876

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German

Testimony

Testimony of Scharlotte Holzer, born in Berlin, Germany, 1909, regarding her experiences as a nurse in the Jewish hospital in Berlin, Kristallnacht, the Communist underground, in detention in prison and camps, as a forced laborer and at the Soviet Front Work as a nurse in the Jewish hospital in Berlin from the start of the Nazi regime; treating suicides of Jews, 1938; looking after former Sachsenhausen inmates; treating victims of Kristallnacht; confiscation of hospital property by the regime; transfer of the hospital to the Gestapo and turning it into a hospital for Jewish inmates; marriage to Gustaw Paech,...

File Number : 3096

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Letters written by Liane Berkowitz, a member of the "Rote Kapelle" ("Red Orchestra") spy network, while in the women's prison in Berlin, and sent to her mother Katharina Berkowitz, 1942-1943, regarding Liane's appeal for a pardon, her women neighbors in the prison, and her son who was born in the prison

File Number : 109

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian, German

Memoirs of Shamay Kizelshtein, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1924, titled "The Course of Destiny" regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, in Buna camp, Auschwitz, Blizyn camp, Majdanek and more Life in Bialystok before the war; Air-raids, 21 June 1941; return of his father, Berl Kizelshtein, from being in prison for his activities in the workers movement; German occupation; burning alive of approximately 1,500 Jews of Bialystok in the central synagogue; murder of approximately 5,000 Jewish males (among the murdered were Moshe Kizelshtein, Shamay's brother, and Yekhiel Lin, father of his future...

File Number : 8678

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian