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Letters sent to Ryfka (Taub) Taffet in Eretz Israel by her family members and friends from Debica, Krakow and Stryj, 1930-1932, and memoirs of Michael Taffet regarding his experiences in Pustkow, Plaszow, Auschwitz, Dachau, Ostrowiec and Mauthausen Michael Taffet: Deportation to the Plaszow Ghetto, 1941; Plaszow Ghetto life; deportation to Pustkow, December 1941; camp life, including mass murder [of inmates]; liquidation of the ghetto, April 1942; deportation of his family to Plaszow; transfer to Ostrowiec; transfer to Auschwitz; arrival to camp including selection and an error in the number tattooed on...

File Number : 1880

Type of Material : Poem/song, Letter of Testimony, Red Cross Letter, Letter, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German, Yiddish

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

Testimony of Rita (Halbersberg) Zeltzer, born in Kiel, Germany in 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in Berlin, in Antwerp, in a village in the Diepenbeek area, in a monastery in Gellick and in other places Rise to power of the Nazi Party, 1933; deportation to Berlin with her family; anti-Jewish legislation; publication of Nazi propaganda; abuse of people on the street by Hitlerjugend members; Kristallnacht, November 1938; escape to Antwerp; death of her mother; German occupation, May 1940; detention of her father, and his release; capture and deportation with her father and sister on a train to...

File Number : 13645

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechai Theo Markus Werderber Vered, born in Cologne, Germany, 1928, regarding his experiences in Cologne, Zbaszyn, Warsaw, the Kindertransport, Welwyn and other places

Testimony of Mordechai Theo Markus Werderber Vered, born in Cologne, Germany, 1928, regarding his experiences in Cologne, Zbaszyn, Warsaw, the Kindertransport, Welwyn and other places Life with his family, including religious life and attending the "Moriah" school; activities in the Bachad youth movement; acts of abuse by Hitler-Jugend. Deportation to Zbaszyn; move to Warsaw; receives food and money from Warsaw Jews; move to London in the context of the Kindertransport; life in Welwyn; [arrival of] Jewish children from Austria; attitude of the director of the children's home, Rabbi Dr. Lewin; move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters written by Ilse Gerngross, a young woman from Leipzig, to her girlfriend Bessie (Faine) Goldstein, regarding her excitement about the Hitler regime, 06/1933-05/1936

File Number : 1464

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English

Testimony of Hans Schmal, born in Berlin, Germany, 1935, regarding his experiences in Berlin as a child whose mother was a German convert to Judaism and his father was Jewish

Testimony of Hans Schmal, born in Berlin, Germany, 1935, regarding his experiences in Berlin as a child whose mother was a German convert to Judaism and his father was Jewish Life before the war; his mother was a German convert to Judaism and his father was a Jewish Communist; life in a non-Jewish workers' neighborhood. Visits by the Gestapo in his family's home; his father's work building hangars for the German Army; his father leaves his work due to relations with the factory manager; escape to an apartment with non-Jewish families; life in a room in the apartment; birth of his brother, 1942; his family...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Letter sent to Anton Koenig by Der Jugendfueher des Deutschen Reichs (the Youth Leader of the German Reich) with a request to report to the Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth), 21/10/1941

File Number : 457

Language : German

Testimony of Uri London, born in Duesseldorf, Germany, 1922, regarding his experiences in Hamburg, in Berlin, his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938 and his service in the Jewish Brigade

Testimony of Uri London, born in Duesseldorf, Germany, 1922, regarding his experiences in Hamburg, in Berlin, his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938 and his service in the Jewish Brigade Life before the war; move to Hamburg with his family, 1927. Nazi rise to power, 1933; Nazi party members position themselves next to Jewish shops and stores, and attempt to prevent purchases from Jewish businesses; death of the witness' mother, 1933; witness attends the Jewish school; removal from a lesson by two Gestapo men, 1936; interrogation regarding his father's actions and opinions; detention of his father by the Gestapo;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit Pirkha (Klein) Blom, born in Kisvarda, Hungary, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Kaufering camp, Turkheim camp, Langenberg camp and other places

Testimony of Yehudit Pirkha (Klein) Blom, born in Kisvarda, Hungary, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Kaufering camp, Turkheim camp, Langenberg camp and other places Life before the war; attends a Hungarian school; vocational studies. Escape with the family to Budapest, 1942; German occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; draft of men to forced labor; livelihood difficulties; escape of Jews to protected houses; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; rescue of her younger brother in a protected house named after Raoul Wallenburg; deportation with Jews to a football stadium; transfer in a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

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