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Poem written by Frieda Oppenheimer in Theresienstadt in honor of Hanukkah, 1944

Poem written by Frieda Oppenheimer in Theresienstadt in honor of Hanukkah, 1944 Comments by the submitter of the material: The poem was copied (from where is unknown) by the mother of Rachel Schwab (the submitter of the material); she herself was not in Theresienstadt.

File Number : 283

Type of Material : Poem/song

Language : German

To be translated

File Number : 8661

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

Testimony of Chaim Stern, born in Dornesti, Romania in 1934, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Bershad Ghetto, and the children’s home in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands.

Testimony of Chaim Stern, born in Dornesti, Romania in 1934, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Bershad Ghetto, and the children’s home in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands. His nuclear family; revolt of members of Iron Guard in January 1941; transfer to Radauti; antisemitic acts; religious life; expulsion by train to Transnistria; transit point in Atachi; confiscation of valuables by Romanian gendarmes; river crossing by raft; drownings; march to Bershad; typhus; types of labor performed by his mother; deaths of many people from cold, hunger, and disease; activity of the partisans; entry of the Russians in...

File Number : 13672

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Works of David Kaelter

Works of David Kaelter In the file (page numbers correspond to those in the scanned material): Pages 2-3: - Hanukkah song; Pages 4-6: - "Putzi": (undated) description of his daughter's life when she was approximately 1 year old; Pages 7-8: - Hand drawn birthday card to Hanna and her parents on the occasion of her birthday; Pages 9-15: - Pencilled notes for use in drafting David Kaelter's resume; Pages 16-17: - Handwritten rhyming poem entitled "Der Wundervogel";

File Number : 11

Type of Material : Postcard, Personal Documents, Drawing, Memoirs, Poems/songs

Testimony of Yechezkel Herstik, born in Aninoasa, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in Lupeni, Nalacz, Sacel and Ilioara

Testimony

Testimony of Yechezkel Herstik, born in Aninoasa, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in Lupeni, Nalacz, Sacel and Ilioara His immediate family; move to Lupeni; way of life at home; education; the Jewish community and the synagogue. Iron Guard terrorist acts including confiscation of property and torture; draft of relatives to forced labor; deportation of his brother and uncle to Transnistria; his brother's Zionist movement activities after his escape from forced labor; deportation to the NaIacz camp; guarding of the camp by Romanian gendarmes; camp life including hunger; transfer to the Sacel camp...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Edith (Veis) Rothschild, born in Balassagyarmat, Hungary, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Balassagyarmat Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Oberhohenelbe

Testimony

Testimony of Edith (Veis) Rothschild, born in Balassagyarmat, Hungary, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Balassagyarmat Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Oberhohenelbe Life before the war; the Jewish community. Discriminatory laws, 1938; effect of the laws on the Jews; drafting of her father and brother to forced labor at service jobs; arrival of refugees in the town; German occupation, March 1944; her mother's hospitalization in a hospital in Budapest; deportation to the Balassagyarmat Ghetto, 1944; ghetto life; guarding of the ghetto by Hungarian gendarmes; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau by train;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Diary of Chaja Waterman, sister of Mirjam (Waterman) Pinkhof in the Netherlands, 1940-1947

Diary of Chaja Waterman, sister of Mirjam (Waterman) Pinkhof in the Netherlands, 1940-1947 - Volume I: Chaja Waterman's work in the De Werkplaats School directed by Kees Boeke in Bilthoven; Zionist pioneer activities and waiting for authorization to make aliya to Eretz Israel (pp. 1-95), 02 June-12 October 1940; - Volume II: More descriptions of Zionist activities; reactions to various anti-Jewish decrees (pp. 96-287), 13 October 1940-31 January 1941; - Volume III: The Magen youth movement; reactions to the 1941 February Strike and the "Aktion" in Amsterdam (p. 316); Seder night with the religious...

File Number : 27

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Dutch

Testimony of Hans Hanania Teutsch, born in Karlsruhe, Germany, 1926, regarding his experiences during Kristallnacht, in Gurs camp, in a children's home in Rivesaltes, and in Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Hans Hanania Teutsch, born in Karlsruhe, Germany, 1926, regarding his experiences during Kristallnacht, in Gurs camp, in a children's home in Rivesaltes, and in Switzerland Traditional family in Germany; attends a German elementary school until 1935; Jewish community; Kristallnacht; his father's appointment as the treasurer of the community; antisemitism and decrees; attempts to obtain a visa to the United States; his younger brother is included on a Kindertransport to Britain, 1939; Outbreak of the war, 1939; increase in antisemitism; concentration of the Jews at the railroad station;...

File Number : 12823

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Baruch Shurek, born in Puchov, Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Lazec, Budapest, Debrecen and labor camps in Austria

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Baruch Shurek, born in Puchov, Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Lazec, Budapest, Debrecen and labor camps in Austria Life before the war; attends a Slovakian kindergarten. German occupation, 1938; life under fascist rule; anti-Jewish legislation; confiscation of valuables; restrictions on the Jews; establishment of a Jewish school; draft of males aged 18-28 to forced labor; deportation of females 18-28 to camps; meets refugees from Poland; move to Lazec to his brother who has been classified as an essential worker, 1942; deportation of the Jews to Zilina on...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Fisher, born in Baba, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Bungard Ghetto; Auschwitz, Bunzlau, Nordhausen and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Fisher, born in Baba, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Bungard Ghetto; Auschwitz, Bunzlau, Nordhausen and other camps Life before the war; his father is a merchant. Hungarian rule, 1940; German occupation; deportation to the ghetto in the Bungard forest, near Des; help and food from the rural population; deportation to Auschwitz and loss of his family; transfer to Bunzlau, near Breslau; camp life including labor constructing and loading dummy planes; liquidation of the camp; death march to Goerlitz via Nordhausen, June 1944-February 1945; transfer to Hamburg; transfer to...

File Number : 12296

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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