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Documentation related to the Grau and Brunell families from Berlin, 1895-2000, including birth certificates, a marriage contract, permits and more

Documentation related to the Grau and Brunell families from Berlin, 1895-2000, including birth certificates, a marriage contract, permits and more - Birth certificate of Erwin Grau, born 14 April 1895, issued in Berlin, 17 April 1895; - Birth certificate of Lotte Brunell (daughter of Alice [Cahn] Brunell), issued in Cologne, 18 December 1906; - Marriage contract of Erwin Grau and Lotte (Brunell) Grau written in the form of a poem and signed by approximately 60 witnesses in Cologne, 05 May 1929; - Birth certificate of Denny Gad Grau (son of Erwin Grau and Lotte [Brunell] Grau), born 17 October 1938,...

File Number : 649

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Official Documentation, List of Murdered Jews, Telegram

Language : Dutch, German

Two postcards sent by Arthur Cahn from Sachsenhausen camp, Germany, to his wife Gertrud Cahn in Halle, Germany, November-December 1938

Two postcards sent by Arthur Cahn from Sachsenhausen camp, Germany, to his wife Gertrud Cahn in Halle, Germany, November-December 1938 Comments by the submitter of the material: - Gertrud Cahn was living in Halle, Germany. She was German and converted to Judaism on account of her marriage to Arthur Cahn. Arthur was sent to Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg camp and Gertrud remained in Halle, 1938. She tried various ways to have him released until finally one of her relatives, a pilot in the Wehrmacht (German Army), helped take her husband out of the camp, arranged documents for him and flew both of them to...

File Number : 2154

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : German

Letters sent by Hermann Maas from Heidelberg to Ilse Jakob in Israel and to her daughter, Gila Jakob, in London, 1964-1966

Letters sent by Hermann Maas from Heidelberg to Ilse Jakob in Israel and to her daughter, Gila Jakob, in London, 1964-1966 The postcards sent to Gila Jakob in London were written in Hebrew. Note: Ilse (Aliza) (Stern) Jakob was born in Germany in 1914; her parents were Max and Frieda Stern; Ilsa's brother, Lothar, was born in 1912; Ilse made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1934; she lived in Haifa where she was married; her parents also made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1934; her brother, Lothar, remained in Germany and studied Law in Heidelberg; his studies were terminated at the start of the persecution of the...

File Number : 2017

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Hebrew, German

Personal documentation of the Philippsborn family, including postcards sent from Monowitz camp and Birkenau to Ruth Neumann in Berlin by her brother Paul Philippsborn and his wife, Annemarie, and more, 1934-1944 Postcards: - Postcard sent to Ruth Neumann in Berlin by Annemarie Philippsborn in Birkenau, 15 June 1943; - Two postcards sent to Ruth Neumann in Berlin by her brother, Paul Philippsborn in Monowitz camp, 15 June 1943 and 30 January 1944; Personal documentation of members of the Philippsborn family: - Medical prescription made out to Rosalie Philippsborn in Berlin, 22 November 1941; -...

File Number : 2012

Type of Material : Postcard, Personal Documents, Official Documentation

Language : German

Letter from Martin and Lina Neumeyer of Munich to their daughter Luise in Eretz Israel, 14 April 1940, letter of testimony from a German friend of Luise describing the fate of Luise's parents, 09 February 1947 - Letter from Martin and Lina Neumeyer of Munich to their daughters Luise and Lisa in Eretz Israel, containing information that the parents must leave their home and move to another place in Munich within a few days, 14 April 1940; - Writing of a copy of the letter to Annemerie , a German school friend of Luise; - Sending of the letter to Switzerland where Annemerie is living; - Itemization...

File Number : 1956

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter, Letter of Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Israel Lolka Blumental born in Vilna [Wilno], Poland in 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto and while in hiding

Testimony of Israel Lolka Blumental born in Vilna [Wilno], Poland in 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto and while in hiding Life before the war; traditional, well-to-do, Revisionist family; Soviet occupation; nationalization of his father's factory; pogrom by the Lithuanian Police in summer 1940; German occupation, June 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; his parents receive work cards; Vilna Ghetto life; his father receives information from a German officer at his place of labor regarding approaching "Aktions"'; his family members escape to hiding places in the homes of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding Helmut Kuepper and Edith Marcuse and her family, including letters Helmut Kuepper wrote and received, letters of Edith Marcuse, death certificate for Paulina Marcuse and more, 1892-2004 - Letters written by Helmut Kuepper; - Letter sent to Helmut Kuepper in Greifswald, 30 June 1942; - Letters written by Helmut Kuepper's wife to Johanna Lewinneck, 1956-1957; - Letter written by Edith Marcuse in Berlin to Switzerland, 21 August 1937; - German passports for Leo and Johanna Lewinneck, issued 1933; - Death certificate for Pauline Sara Marcuse, issued 01 October 1942; -...

File Number : 1661

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Passport, Death Certificate, Study, Letter

Language : German

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File Number : 473

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Correspondence between Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwab and family members who survived the Holocaust, 1946-1952

Correspondence between Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwab and family members who survived the Holocaust, 1946-1952 Page 18: - Letter from Rudolf Schwab with the information that his relatives, including his mother, grandmother, brother Hans and aunt Alice with her family, were deported to Poland in 1941, 23 February 1946; Page 57: - Letter from Edgar Tuteur (a cousin) in New York, with the information that his parents, his younger sister and most of his close relatives were murdered by the Germans, but that his brother Harald survived and emigrated to Buenos Aires, 15 June 1946; Page 60: - Letter from...

File Number : 1589.4

Type of Material : Letter

Language : French, English, German

Testimony of Elizabeth (Fishelovich) Greenfeld, born in Bekescsaba, Hungary, 1923, regarding her experiences in Bekescsaba, the Kevermes Ghetto, Auschwitz, in Germany and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Elizabeth (Fishelovich) Greenfeld, born in Bekescsaba, Hungary, 1923, regarding her experiences in Bekescsaba, the Kevermes Ghetto, Auschwitz, in Germany and other places Her childhood among her family, including attending a Jewish school. Imposition of anti-Jewish restrictions; outbreak of the war, 1939; receives knowledge concerning the fate of the Jews in Poland; refusal by her father to hide his two daughters; hiding of property in a bunker; deportation to the Kevermes Ghetto; Kevermes Ghetto life including fear and overcrowding; transfer to a tobacco factory, Pesach (April), 1944;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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