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Personal documentation belonging to Judith (Betty) and Joseph (Hugo) Jashuvi (Rosenthal), including correspondence, newspaper clippings, pocket diaries from various years and more

Personal documentation belonging to Judith (Betty) and Josef (Hugo) Jashuvi (Rosenthal), including correspondence, newspaper clippings, pocket diaries from various years and more File 550.1 Pages 2 - 34, 37 - 112, 116 - 188, 202 - 256, 266 - 485, 488 - 664 Correspondence between Rachel Rosenthal / Jashuvi / Galay, Ben Shemen, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, her parents, Judith (Betty) and Josef (Hugo) Jashuvi (Rosenthal), Kiryat Chaim, and different other participants, 15/04/1939 - 16/02/1977 Pages 35 - 36 Letter from Elise Lebka (?), Haifa, to Judith (Betty) and Joseph (Hugo) Jashuvi regarding the fate...

File Number : 550

Type of Material : Notepad, Letter, Personal Documents, Diary, Newspaper Clippings, Newspaper, Photograph

Language : Hebrew, German

Memoirs of a young Jewish woman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1922, regarding her experiences in Berlin, Bohusovice, Theresienstadt and Switzerland

Memoirs of a young Jewish woman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1922, regarding her experiences in Berlin, Bohusovice, Theresienstadt and Switzerland Life in Berlin, 1939; confiscation of golden articles, radios (on Yom Kippur, 23 September 1939), telephones and bicycles; Aryanization of Jewish property; imposition of night curfew, 20:00-06:00; prohibition on visiting German cultural institutions; incorporation of the names Sara or Israel; violators of these laws are subject to deportation to a concentration camp; list of permissible names for Jewish babies such as: Hindele, Bella, Leib, Shmuel and more; ban on...

File Number : 987

Language : German

Memoirs of Rolf Loehr, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1923, regarding his experiences in Germany and various concentration camps, especially Auschwitz, 1933-1945

Memoirs of Rolf Loehr, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1923, regarding his experiences in Germany and various concentration camps, especially Auschwitz, 1933-1945 Pages 3 - 10: Letters from Karl Loehr, Berlin, to the leader of the department for prisoners of war and the authorities concerned in the Belsen process relating to the inquiry regarding the whereabouts of his son, Rolf Loehr, 15/11/1945 - 12/03/1946 (in German, English and Russian) Pages 11 - 20: Parental home and childhood in Hamburg an Berlin before 1933; Rolf Loehr's mother, Marie, maiden name Glueck, born as a Jew; his father, Karl, was a...

File Number : 4318

Type of Material : Death Certificate, Testimony, Correspondence, Letter(s)

Language : English, Russian, German

Memoirs of Dr. Heinz Dietrich Feldheim, born in Dortmund, Germany, 1908, regarding his experiences in Germany, 1933-1939

Memoirs of Dr. Heinz Dietrich Feldheim, born in Dortmund, Germany, 1908, regarding his experiences in Germany, 1933-1939 Family background, education and profession, until 1933; Impossibility of finding employment on account of being Jewish, 1935; contacts with opponents of the regime and arrest on suspicion of high treason, imprisonment in Werl and Dortmund, Germany, 1936; protective custody, imprisonment in Dachau and Munich-Neudeck, interrogation by the Gestapo, Munich, confinement in darkness and isolation, 1936-1937; trial and acquittal for lack of evidence, 02-06 August 1938; return to the bunker...

File Number : 2809

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Memoir written by Heinz Gembitz, born in Gnesen, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Leipzig, his attempted escape to Cuba on the Hapag line ship, "St. Louis", and his escape to Columbia on the ship, "San Antonio", and more; personal documentation, 1933 – 1940 Life in Leipzig; increase of antisemitism in his school, 1934 – 1935; the principal's ban on discrimination against the Jews; lack of extra privileges despite his father being a World War I hero; transfer to a commercial school, April 1936; studies for one year at that school; taking various practical professional courses later; work for a...

File Number : 1995

Type of Material : Memoirs, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : Hebrew, German

Memoirs of Hedwig Ems, born in 1869, sent as letters to her niece, Charlotte Levy, regarding her experiences in Berlin, Germany, and the Theresienstadt Ghetto, Czechoslovakia, 1938-1945

Memoirs of Hedwig Ems, born in 1869, sent as letters to her niece, Charlotte Levy, regarding her experiences in Berlin, Germany, and the Theresienstadt Ghetto, Czechoslovakia, 1938-1945 Introductory comments by Charlotte Levy, submitter of the memoirs letters, containing the names of family members and their relationship, p. 2; Eviction of Hedwig Ems from her apartment in Berlin and difficulties in finding new accommodations, sharing a room with Franz Rosenzweig's mother-in-law, 1939; interrogation by the Gestapo on account of her letters to her son in Gurs camp, France, and for alleged spying, late 1941;...

File Number : 1876

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Testimony of Dr. Max Plaut, born in Sorau, Germany, 1901, regarding the Jewish community of Hamburg, 1933-1943

Testimony of Dr. Max Plaut, born in Sorau, Germany, 1901, regarding the Jewish community of Hamburg, 1933-1943 - Founding of the Gesellschaft fuer juedische Kunst und Wissenschaft (Society for Jewish Art and Science), 1933; absorption by the Juedischer Kulturbund (Jewish Cultural Federation), 1939; support of illegal emigration by the consulates and the Hamburg Gestapo; forgery of documents regarding religion and profession in order to receive visas from various countries; - First "Akctions" against Jewish lodges: detention of board members by the Gestapo for one day, confiscation of the lodges' assets,...

File Number : 54

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Rabbi Dr. Siegbert Neufeld, born in Berlin, Germany, 1891, regarding his experiences during the November pogrom (Kristallnacht) in Elbing, 1938

Testimony of Rabbi Dr. Siegbert Neufeld, born in Berlin, Germany, 1891, regarding his experiences during the November pogrom (Kristallnacht) in Elbing, 1938 - Meticulous planning of the November pogrom (09-10 November 1938) by the Nazis, including staging the murder of the German diplomat in Paris [this statement is solely the opinion of the witness] in order to have an excuse for retaliatory actions. - Evidence for the conspiracy allegations: Hitler's definition of the Jews as "foreign substances which have to be made to disappear" at the Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, 1938; - Attempt to evict...

File Number : 30

Type of Material : Copy, Testimony, Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings

Language : German

Memoirs of Albert Dann, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1868, regarding the Jewish community in Augsburg, Germany, 1913-1938

Memoirs of Albert Dann, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1868, regarding the Jewish community in Augsburg, Germany, 1913-1938 - Community life before the Nazi rise to power; monthly deterioration of conditions for the Jews after the Nazi rise to power; - Construction of a Jewish retirement home; establishment of a Jewish school; house search of the synagogue several days in a row by the Gestapo, "discovery" of Communist publications, July 1935; - Arrest of Polish Jews and attempted deportation, 29 September 1938; return of the Polish Jews due to the refusal of Poland to grant them entry, 02...

File Number : 26

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Memoirs, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Konrad Kaiser, Regierungsdirektor a.D. (retired regional director), born in 1886, regarding his experiences in Berlin, Germany, 1933-1939

Testimony of Konrad Kaiser, Regierungsdirektor a.D. (retired regional director), born in 1886, regarding his experiences in Berlin, Germany, 1933-1939 - Membership in different Jewish and Zionist organizations; - Supervision of the Jewish communities by the Stapo, as of early 1938; subordination of the Stapo to the Gestapo; - Preparation of four lists for subsequent arrests in November: by the finance authority (wealthy persons), by the criminal investigation department (previously convicted people), by the Stapo (people in higher positions and members of organizations) and by the police stations...

File Number : 25

Type of Material : Testimony, Personal Documents

Language : German

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