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Testimony of Ovadia Walter Lapid Gebrandsdoffer, born in 1927 in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, regarding his experiences in Frankfurt Am Main, in Strasbourg, in the Dordagne area, and in the ranks of the underground during the war, and more. Son of a traditional, non-Zionist family in Frankfurt Am Main; studies in a Jewish school; activity in the Habonim movement; deportation of his maternal grandparents to Krakow in 1934, because they were Polish citizens; confrontations with the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend -); escape to Strasbourg in 1937; studying in a non-Jewish school; antisemitism; government-initiated...

File Number : 13902

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Lists of ill prisoners (and police officials?) at the SS and police prison Berlin-Schoeneberg at Grunewaldstrasse 68, between 28/10/1942 and 26/04/1944 with information about the post-war fate of 15 of them, probably Gestapo employees

Lists of ill prisoners (and police officials?) at the SS and police prison Berlin-Schoeneberg at Grunewaldstrasse 68, 28/10/1942 - 26/04/1944 with information about the post-war fate of 15 of them, probably Gestapo employees List of 15 former prisoners of the SS- and police prison Berlin-Schoeneberg at Grunewaldstrasse 68, whose names appeared in lists of ill prisoners, containing information about their the length of their stay at the prison, their current locations and their deaths, if known, after 1960 (pp.2 - 5); List of ill prisoners at the SS and police prison Berlin-Schoeneberg at Grunewaldstrasse...

File Number : 139

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: Documentation concerning the concentration camp Theresienstadt and investigation of it's commandant Dr. Siegfried Seidl, 1962 - 1966 Collection by Dr. Max Plaut: "Jews in Germany 1939-1941" (pp. 2 - 18); Testimony before IMT III byf the Jewish physician Dr. Wilhelm Rosenau, director of the central Jewish psychiatric hospital in Bendorf-Sayn in 1940 - 1942 (pp. 19 - 22); Investigation of of Dr. Siegfried Seidl, camp commander of Theresienstadt, from 4 June 1946, concerning the conditions in Theresienstadt. He gives details...

File Number : 128

Type of Material : Legal Documentation

Testimony of Fryda Kleist, born in Grodek Jagiellonski, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences on the Aryan side while using a false identity in Nisko and Warsaw, as a Polish worker in Gera and Neustadt Orla, in detention and during hospitalization Travel from Grodek Jagiellonski to Nisko using forged Aryan documents, following the deportation of her sisters, 1942; news of the murder of her father; informed on by a Ukrainian neighbor from her hometown, and betrayed to an SS man who kept her in his apartment and raped her over the course of three days; travel to Warsaw, August 1942; several instances of...

File Number : 400

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Sydonia Langsam, born in Sanok, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in the home of an Italian engineer in Tarnow, in a hospital in Ratibor, a prison in Opole, in Breslau, a prison in Berlin and in a camp in Opole Eye witness to what happened during an "Aktion" in Tarnow, 10 November 1942; separation of parents from their children, and the tearing apart of their children by dogs; the witness makes the acquaintance of an engineer named Ferrantino, an Italian Communist, during her work in the "Montan" company; move to the home of the engineer and his family in Gleiwitz, following an "Aktion",...

File Number : 334

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Siegmund Hadda regarding his experiences as a physician at the Jewish Hospital in Breslau and Theresienstadt, and his emigration to Switzerland, February 1945

Memoirs of Siegmund Hadda regarding his experiences as a physician at the Jewish Hospital in Breslau and Theresienstadt, and his emigration to Switzerland, February 1945 Work at the Jewish Hospital in Breslau and in his own private practice before and after World War I; his work in two departments during World War I; increase of antisemitism after World War I; murder of a friend of his son by an SA man, 1933; Nazi rise to power and deterioration in the treatment of the Jews; dismissal of Jewish lawyers and officials from their positions; boycott of Jewish shops, 01 April 1933; work as a senior surgeon at the...

File Number : 2439

Type of Material : Article

Language : German

Official documentation regarding the hospitalization of Julie (Horwitz) Cahn in hospitals in Hamburg for psychiatric reasons in 1938-1939, and the emigration of her daughters to Sweden in 1939

Official documentation regarding the hospitalization of Julie (Horwitz) Cahn in hospitals in Hamburg for psychiatric reasons in 1938-1939, and the emigration of her daughters to Sweden in 1939 Including: - confirmation issued by the Jewish community (Jüdischer Religionsverband) in Hamburg, dated 05 August 1938, regarding the fate of Julie Cahn who was detained in Berlin due to mental disability (Geistesschwäche); - confirmation of Julie Cahn's stay at the welfare center in Hamburg from 11 August 1938; - document regarding the hospitalization of Julie Cahn in a psychiatric hospital in Hamburg from 20...

File Number : 879

Type of Material : Certification, Official Documentation

Language : German

Letters written by Alfred Rosenfeld in Berlin to family members in Eretz Israel in 1939

Letters written by Alfred Rosenfeld in Berlin to family members in Eretz Israel in 1939 Comments by the submitter of the material: (Kikin-Gil Ruth) Alfred Rosenfeld was murdered on 09 March 1942 in a hospital in Berlin which was also used as a detention center. He wrote to his brother, Shmariahu Rosenfeld, and his parents, Bernhard and Mina in Eretz Israel.

File Number : 5091

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Article investigating the fate of Edouard Dana, born in Tunis in 1917, who was deported from Tunis to Auschwitz camp as an underground activist, and was murdered in 1943

Article investigating the fate of Edouard Dana, born in Tunis in 1917, who was deported from Tunis to Auschwitz camp as an underground activist, and was murdered in 1943 His parents - Felix and Louise (Bismuth) Dana; Edouard Dana's childhood in the shadow of the family's poverty; bankruptcy of the family business and his father’s suicide; volunteering for the French army in 1939 and his discharge from military service in June 1940; marriage to Lucie Pia Sassia Amanou in March 1942; their deportation from Tunis and the murder of the father and two sons of the Scemla family, following their attempt to join the...

File Number : 648

Type of Material : Research Article

Language : Hebrew, French

Documentation of Gertrud Meyer born in Krotoschin, Poland in 1888, and Sonja Meyer, born in Berlin, Germany, in 1917, issued in Germany in 1942-1945, and genealogy related to the Meyer and Hepner families Document concerning Gertrud (Hepner) Meyer, born in Krotoschin, Poland, on 06 September 1888: -- letter of notification from the hospital in Berlin-Wittenau dated 17 December 1942 regarding the transfer of Gertrud to the Jewish hospital in Berlin; the letter was sent to her husband Henry Meyer in Schmöckwitz, in Berlin; she was hospitalized for medical treatment of schizophrenia; -- confirmation of her...

File Number : 1073

Type of Material : Letter, Certification, Personal Documents, Genealogy, Names, Identity Card

Language : German

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