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Letters of petition regarding Jewish detainees from Vienna, 1938-1943

Letters of petition regarding Jewish detainees from Vienna, 1938-1943 Page 2: Letter from Richard Gross to Engel, Department Chief of the Vienna Jewish Community, with a petition that the Vienna Jewish Community intercede with the Vienna Gestapo to free his brother Attorney Dr. Leo Gross from detention, dated 08 June 1938; placement of the Vienna law-office of Leo Gross under Aryan administration; arrest and detention of Leo Gross, 15 March 1938; Pages 3-4: Letter from Luisa Reichmann in Ravensbrueck to Dr. Josef Loewenherz, director of the Vienna Jewish Community, with a petition for help in...

File Number : 296

Type of Material : Letter(s), Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Meir Tzoreff, born in Jonava, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto; Stutthof; Allach; Dachau and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Tzoreff, born in Jonava, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof, Allach, Dachau and other places Family life before the war; studies drama. Murder of his father and relatives; marriage, 1940; German occupation; transfer to the Kaunas Ghetto; ghetto life including his son's birth and his sister-in-law's help in getting food; underground activities; "Aktion" against children; agricultural labor; his wife's murder; entrustment of his son to a monastery; transfer to Stutthof; meets his brother and other relatives; transfer to Allach via Dachau; transfer to...

File Number : 12288

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Heilbron, born in Muehlhausen, 1920, regarding his experiences in Muehlhausen, Leipzig, England and Australia

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Heilbron, born in Muehlhausen, 1920, regarding his experiences in Muehlhausen, Leipzig, England and Australia Family life in Muehlhausen; his parents’ livelihood; move to Leipzig; attends school; antisemitism; learns a trade; the Jewish community in Leipzig; farming; anti-Jewish laws; burning of Jewish homes and synagogues during Kristallnacht; detention of Jews, among them relatives; Gestapo men break in to their homes; deportation of his father to a concentration camp; release of his father; desperate attempts of his family to escape from Germany; leaving for England, August 1939; life...

File Number : 12189

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests and trials, 12 December 1942 - 16 July 1943

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests and trials, 12 December 1942 - 16 July 1943 Among other items in the report: Information about Transport Number J 14 with 17 Jews deported by train to Theresienstadt, 15 July. Arrest of a Jew who hid from deportation and hid his origins; release of a Mischling after being reprimanded and forbidden to remain in the Melk area on the charge of "race defilement" (his arrest is also reported on in YVA file no. M.69 3579 = item no. 4013195) (p. 4). The file also contains a report of the sentencing of a Communist to death; report regarding Communist activity; the...

File Number : 3580

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Survey Report

Language : German

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests, 23 September 1942 - 10 October 1942

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests, 23 September 1942 - 10 October 1942 Transport Number 45 with 1,322 Jews deported by train from the Aspang station in Vienna to Theresienstadt, 09 October 1942. - Release of a Mischling on bail for criticizing the economic policy of the regime; - Arrest and deportation of a Jew who hid from deportation to Theresienstadt; - Arrest and detention of an Austrian woman, the widow of a Jew, for giving false information regarding the business which had belonged to her husband and was confiscated by the authorities; the Austrian woman's complaint against the...

File Number : 3503

Type of Material : Survey Report, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : German

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests, 11 September 1942 - 05 October 1942

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests, 11 September 1942 - 05 October 1942 Transport Number 44 with 549 Jews deported by train to Minsk, the Soviet Union, from the Aspang station in Vienna, 05 October 1942. Arrests of the following persons: - A Jewish woman and two Austrians, the parents of her husband, who hid her in their home, confiscation of the Jewish woman's property and the Jewish woman's deportation to an assembly camp for those to be deported; - Deportation of two Jews who had hidden from deportation to the East; - Arrest of a converted Jewish woman for expressing hope for a...

File Number : 3501

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Survey Report

Language : German

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests and trials, 10 September 1942 - 01 October 1942

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests and trials, 10 September 1942 - 01 October 1942 Transport Number 43 with 1,299 Jews deported by train from the Aspang station in Vienna to Theresienstadt, 01 October 1942. - Arrest of three Jews for illegal commerce; - Deportation of the three Jews to an assembly camp for those to be deported (p. 10); - Execution of a Catholic priest; - Sentencing of 31 Communists to death for dissemination of Communist and anti-Nazi propaganda; - Arrest and trial of the following persons: - Communists; - A Polish woman for participation in a Polish...

File Number : 3500

Type of Material : Survey Report, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : German

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests, 08 September 1942 - 25 September 1942

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests, 08 September 1942 - 25 September 1942 Among the subjects in the report: Transport 42 with 1,300 Jews deported by train from the Aspang railroad station in Vienna to Theresienstadt, 24 September 1942 (p. 6). - Report regarding the arrest of a Jewish woman for Communist activities (p. 3); - Arrest of five Jews in Eisenstadt and Bruck an der Leitha who attempted to escape to Hungary, and their transfer to an assembly camp for those awaiting deportation; - Arrest of a Jewish woman and a Catholic Geltungsjude with German citizenship (Geltungsjude: the child...

File Number : 3498

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Survey Report

Language : German

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests, 01 August 1942 - 16 September 1942

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests, 01 August 1942 - 16 September 1942 Among the subjects in the report: Transport 41 with 1,000 Jews deported by train from the Aspang railroad station in Vienna to Minsk in the Soviet Union, 14 September 1942 (p. 12). Arrest of the following persons: A Mischling, a Jewish woman who had converted and her Austrian husband for Communist activities (pp. 6-7); a Jew who attempted to escape to Hungary; a Jew, his Austrian wife and their son who, for payment, served as brokers between Jews and border crossing smugglers, and the arrest of a Jewish woman who had paid...

File Number : 3496

Type of Material : Survey Report, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : German

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests and trials, 01 September 1942 - 10 September 1942

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests and trials, 01 September 1942 - 10 September 1942 Among the subjects in the report: Transport 40 with 1,000 Jews deported by train from the Aspang railroad station in Vienna to Theresienstadt, 10 September 1942. - Arrest of the following persons: A Jewish woman who hid her origins, acquired Aryan documents and was employed at an Air Force base; an Austrian woman who maintained contact with her former employer, a Jew who had emigrated to Switzerland; an Austrian woman and a Hungarian citizen for smuggling Jews; a Mischling who had intimate relations with a...

File Number : 3494

Type of Material : Survey Report, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : German

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