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Documentation including circulars regarding Martin Bormann and photographs from the Warsaw Ghetto, from 1935-1941

Documentation including circulars regarding Martin Bormann and photographs from the Warsaw Ghetto, from 1935-1941 - circular signed by Heinrich Himmler from Berlin that was distributed to all police stations in the Reich on 26 June 1935, with an instruction to approve the collection of funds from the Jews by the National Zionist Committee for the purpose of the emigration of the Jews to Eretz Israel; - circular from Cologne dated 5 November 1935 to the national police station in Cologne, the heads of the region, the mayor of Bonn and the Cologne police chief regarding the lifting of the ban on Dr. Martin...

File Number : 653

Type of Material : Photograph, Administrative Documentation, Circular

Language : German

Diary written by an American Jewish student, Irving Bluestone, during a bicycle trip in Austria, Switzerland and France, spring 1938

Diary written by an American Jewish student, Irving Bluestone, during a bicycle trip in Austria, Switzerland and France, spring 1938 Life as a student in Bern, Switzerland, including the Anschluss events, 1938; description of the atmosphere in the places he visited, including Vienna, Linz and Innsbrueck; description of Hitler's visit in Vienna, 15 March 1938; [description of the visit of the] new German Minister of the Interior in Linz, 05 March 1938.

File Number : 8615

Type of Material : Diary

Language : English

[Internal] correspondence of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), following the increase in antisemitism in Lower Silesia, 05/11/1929-03/03/1931

[Internal] correspondence of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), following the increase in antisemitism in Lower Silesia, 05/11/1929-03/03/1931 - Correspondence following the development of the Nazi movement, 1929-1931; - Correspondence following the Schweidnitz Trial against Nazis, with the participation of Hitler and his assistant OSAF Pfeffer von Salomon, 1929 (page 1750); - Boycott of Jewish businesses in Lower Silesia (page 1751); - Ban on ritual slaughter in the city of Hirschberg, by the Society for the Protection of Animals in Lower Silesia...

File Number : JM/28890

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Zeev Ram (formerly Tibor Herman), born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia in 1930, ‎regarding his experiences in the Auschwitz, Fuerstenstein and Bergen Belsen camps, and the ‎death march

Testimony of Zeev Ram (formerly Tibor Herman), born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia in 1930, ‎regarding his experiences in the Auschwitz, Fuerstenstein and Bergen Belsen camps, and the ‎death march Childhood and early adolescence, up to the German entry into Hungary in March 1944; ‎deportation to Auschwitz in April 1944; transfer to Fuerstenstein ‎‏ ‏‎ in May 1944; death march in ‎February 1945; arrival in Bergen-Belsen in March-April 1945; Muselmann; death of his father and ‎brother; meeting with his mother and her disappearance in April 1945; liberation in April 1945; ‎recuperation in Sweden and preparation...

File Number : 13679

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara (Libovitz) Bialik, born in Plunge, Lithuania in 1922, regarding her experiences in Klaipeda, in Latvia and Samarkand

Testimony of Sara (Libovitz) Bialik, born in Plunge, Lithuania in 1922, regarding her experiences in Klaipeda, in Latvia and Samarkand Her parents are dentists; studies in Klaipeda; her father visits Eretz Israel in 1938; outbreak of the war; visit by Hitler to Klaipeda, and the annexation of Klaipeda to Germany; escape to Lithuania; German occupation, 1941; escape to Latvia on the day of the invasion; murder of Jewish students at the university; air-raids on convoys of escapees; she gets onto the last train traveling toward the east; escape to Samarkand; her father's suicide attempt; detention of her...

File Number : 13619

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Autobiographical essay by SS General Oswald Pohl, and notes regarding Hans Frank and Adolf Hitler

Autobiographical essay by SS General Oswald Pohl, and notes regarding Hans Frank and Adolf Hitler Autobiographical essay by SS General Oswald Pohl, chief administrator of the concentration camps, regarding his career, including remarks about Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and Hans Frank.

File Number : 39

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Closing statement presented by Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel at the Nuremberg Trials, and an essay on the chain of command under Hitler

Closing statement presented by Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel at the Nuremberg Trials, and an essay on the chain of command under Hitler Two versions of Keitel's closing statement before the International Military Tribunal: - He did not want the war and he did not give orders, he just passed them on; - He considers himself not guilty. Essay on the chain of command under Hitler.

File Number : 33

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Statement by Baldur von Schirach regarding his actions as Reich Youth Leader

Statement by Baldur von Schirach regarding his actions as Reich Youth Leader Statement by Baldur von Schirach, the leader of the Hitler-Jugend, including his claim that the German youth are not guilty of the crimes committed; only Hitler and Himmler are responsible.

File Number : 32

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Personal will written by Hitler, 29/04/1945

Personal will written by Hitler, 29/04/1945 Personal will written by Hitler, including a marriage contract; announcement [warning] that Eva Braun is prepared to commit suicide along with Hitler, as his spouse; Hitler wills his property to the Nazi Party or to the State; Hitler and Eva Braun's signatures appear on the will; included are [the signatures of] two witnesses and the Standesbeamter (Registrar); Note: The second page of the three pages in the document is missing.

File Number : 255

Type of Material : Will

Language : German

Testimony

Testimony of Berta (Kaner) Kerpner, born in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Saarbruecken, Lens, using a false identity and in hiding in Beziers, and in Rivesaltes and other places Life before the war; move to Saarbruecken, 1929; life in Saarbruecken including displays of antisemitism; leaves school; attends a Jewish school; aliya training in Berlin; aliya training in Frankfurt; life in Saarbruecken; interrogation of her father by the Gestapo; escape of her father to Italy; escape of her father to France, 1936; move to France by her father, with her mother and siblings, December...

File Number : 12993

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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