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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

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Berlin Gestapo for deportation of Jews to extermination camps: Examination of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) in Berlin and in other German cities, especially rearding the extent of knowledge of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle regarding the fate of the deported Berlin Jews; testimonies by Berlin Jewish survivors, 1967

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin for murder (deportation of Jews to extermination camps): Examination of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) in Berlin and in other German cities, especially rearding the extent of knowledge of Gestapoleitstelle former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle regarding the fate of the deported Berlin Jews; testim Note: This file includes also documents of the proceedings against "former employees of the RSHA for murder", 1965. The recording of these documents here was in order to substantiate...

File Number : 34

Type of Material : Document(s), Testimony

Language : German

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin for murder (deportation of Jews to extermination camps): Examination of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle; Testimonies by Jewish survivors from Berlin, 1967 Note: This file includes also documents of the proceedings against "former employees of the RSHA for murder", 1965 and documents rg. the "office for compensation" (Entschaedigungsamt) from the years 1949 ff. The recording of these documents here was in order to substantiate the suspicious circumstances against the accused former employees of the...

File Number : 33

Type of Material : Testimony, Letter, Curriculum

Language : German

Testimony of Erich Kurt Weinberg, born in Frankfurt am Main, 1925, regarding his experiences in Frankfurt am Main and England

Testimony

Testimony of Erich Kurt Weinberg, born in Frankfurt am Main, 1925, regarding his experiences in Frankfurt am Main and England Life as Orthodox Jews. Rise of the Nazis to power, 1933; his 20 year old brother made aliya to Eretz Israel, April 1933, confiscation of Jewish businesses; Kristallnacht, November 1938; leaving Germany in a Kindertransport, 1939. Arrival in England; death of his mother; deportation of his father to Theresienstadt. Life after the war; marriage and move to Toronto.

File Number : 11344

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documents and excerpts from books regarding the David Frankfurter Trial, mainly regarding German-Swiss relations throughout the Nazi period in Germany, 1933-1991

Documents and excerpts from books regarding the David Frankfurter Trial, mainly regarding German-Swiss relations throughout the Nazi period in Germany, 1933-1991 Most of the documents are regarding German-Swiss relations during the Nazi period, and mainly regarding the German undermining of the Swiss rule; documentation of the Jewish resistance (pp. 1-33, 258-275); the origins of the Frankfurter family and their fate (pp. 211-216, 219-229); the fate of David Frankfurter after his conviction (pp. 255, 257). Pages 1-2: Title page and short summary regarding the "Stand Und Problematik Der Erforschung Des...

File Number : 5

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Letter, Book, Article, Research Literature, Film, Research Article

Language : Italian, French, English, German

Testimony of Pnina Modlin, regarding her experiences in the forest, an orphanage in Gleiwitz, in France and searching for her identity

Testimony

Testimony of Pnina Modlin, regarding her experiences in the forest, an orphanage in Gleiwitz, in France and searching for her identity Memories from an orphanage; collecting food in the forest; knowing the name Paula Mishoris; memories of a train journey; fictitious names and different birthdates for her parents; in an orphanage in Gleiwitz and move to France; meeting emissaries from Eretz Israel who told her about Eretz Israel; Shabbat in the children's home in France; aliya to Eretz Israel. Adding children to families on the boat; meeting a friend named Luda Lea Nirkin; a children's institution in...

File Number : 11534

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Newspaper clippings regarding the trial of Wolfgang Diewerge, advisor on Jewish affairs in Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry, held in Essen, 1965-1966

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Newspaper clippings regarding the trial of Wolfgang Diewerge, advisor on Jewish affairs in Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry, held in Essen, 1965-1966 In the file: Newspaper clippings and articles regarding events following the murder of the German diplomat, Ernst von Rath, by Herschel Grynszpan, a young Jew, and the part that Diewerge played in the Kristallnacht events, which followed in the wake of the murder, and the incitement of antisemitism among the German population; - Survey by Lucien Steinberg, "German Documents Regarding the Grynszpan Affair", which appeared in "Le...

File Number : 188

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Research Article

Language : French, German

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Various documents and newspaper clippings

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Various documents and newspaper clippings: In the file: Three notebooks with the number of Jews and non-Jews residing at various locations in Poland, according to the 1925 and 1931 censuses; Pp. 1-10: Excerpt from a charge sheet against an unidentified Nazi criminal, including remarks relating to the list of prosecution exhibits and legal comments regarding paragraphs of the charge sheet (without the actual list or paragraphs). The undated material concerns the German occupation of Poland and Operation Barbarossa; Pp. 11-14: Undated advertisements, probably from during...

File Number : 162

Type of Material : Investigation Report, Indictment, Legal Documentation, Poem/song, Survey Report, Official Documentation, Newspaper, Protocol

Language : German

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Documentation regarding the trial of Wolfgang Diewerge, 1965-1966

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Documentation regarding the trial of Wolfgang Diewerge, 1965-1966 In the file: - Photocopies and photographs of documents from the Nuremberg trial (NG179) regarding preparations for the trial against Herschel Grynszpan, used by the Nazi government as antisemitic propaganda material. The documents relate to Wolfgang Diewerge, a senior official in the Propaganda Ministry and former spokesman of the Reich, who was charged with perjury; - Articles by B. Sagalowitz regarding Grynszpan in the framework of the trial against W. Diewerge in Essen. The articles appeared in the...

File Number : 48

Type of Material : Lists, Official Documentation, Letter, Newspaper Clippings, Research Article

Language : French, German

Documentation: Research articles about anti-Nazi uprisings, 1933-1945; Jewish struggle during the Holocaust period; The shooting carried out by Herschel Grynszpan; War of the partisans; The Jewish physician in uprisings and the underground The file includes: - "Fate of the Netherlands Jewry", article in Yiddish; - article about displays of sympathy for the Jews and resistance to the Germans in the Netherlands: "The Netherlands, her workers and the Jews during the Holocaust".

File Number : 54

Type of Material : Research Article, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Yiddish

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