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Legal documentation from East German Stasi files regarding the investigation and indictment of Henry Schmidt, Director of Department IIB, which was responsible for the Gestapo Judenreferat (Department for Jewish Affairs) in Dresden, 1986-1987 Volume I (File 1, Part 1, pp. 1-265): - Interrogations of Henry Schmidt, Director of Department IIB in the Dresden Gestapo, regarding the establishment of a concentration camp for Jews in the suburbs of Dresden; deportation of the Jews to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz; abuse of Jewish inmates from 1942; his service as commander of the Dukla Gestapo at the beginning of...

File Number : 3095

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Record of Murdered Persons, Death Certificate, Survey Report, List of Persecuted Persons, Statistical Data, List of Deportees, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Record of Deportees, Deportation List, Record of Persecuted Persons, Investigation Report, Record of Survivors, Sentence, Indictment, List of Murdered Jews, Names of Perpetrators, Official Documentation, List of Theresienstadt Camp Inmates, Testimony, Legal Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Inge Weil-Measures, born in Tuebingen, Germany, 1925, regarding her experiences at a German school in Tanganyika (now Tanzania), 1934-1939

Testimony of Inge Weil-Measures, born in Tuebingen, Germany, 1925, regarding her experiences at a German school in Tanganyika (now Tanzania), 1934-1939 This file contains: - Letter from Inge Weil-Measures, Essex, to Mrs. Wager-Schaeffer, reporting on the discrimination she suffered from due to her background (Jewish father), 05 August 1995; - Notes regarding the fate of Inge Weil-Measures (in Hebrew), 16 August 1995; - Excerpt from a book documenting Inge Weil-Measures' suffering at the German school in Tanganyika, for several years (until the age of 14).

File Number : 4305

Type of Material : Letter, Excerpt(s), Note

Language : Hebrew, German

Draft memoirs of George A. Floris, born in Subotica in 1917, about his experiences in the Hungarian Army labor battalions and forced labor in Austria and Germany, 1943–1945

Draft memoirs of George A. Floris, born in Subotica in 1917, about his experiences in the Hungarian Army labor battalions and forced labor in Austria and Germany, 1943–1945 Witness is the offspring of a Jewish father who out-converted and of a non-Jewish mother; childhood in Subotica and Budapest; Catholic upbringing; attends a Christian school in Budapest; anti-Jewish decrees from 1938 on; witness inducted into Hungarian Army labor battalions in 1943; Germany occupies Hungary in March 1944; witness sent to forced labor near Vienna in late 1944; escapes from forced labor and attempts to reach the Swiss...

File Number : 12544

Type of Material : Draft, Letter, Memoirs

Language : English

הצהרות של Charlotte Ries לבית Krause ושל ביתה Charlotte Giesen לבית Ries על קורותיהן בתקופת השואה ועל גורלו של Ernst Ries

File Number : 11828

Type of Material : Marriage Certificate, Declaration, Personal Documents

Language : German

Memoirs of Käthe Wolff (maiden name: Geschke) regarding her experiences during and after the Holocaust, and letters sent to Lothar Wolff by his parents in Germany, from 1939-1942

Memoirs of Käthe Wolff (maiden name: Geschke) regarding her experiences during and after the Holocaust, and letters sent to Lothar Wolff by his parents in Germany, from 1939-1942 - memoirs of Käthe Wolff (maiden name: Geschke), born in Kolberg in 1933, regarding her experiences in Germany in the 1950s and 1940s and in Israel, starting with her aliya in 1959 (dictated by the witness and written down by Margalit Rousseau as part of Yad Sara's life stories service, published in 2016): The experiences of her family; her father's enlistment in the German army in the late 1930s; her father's expulsion from the...

File Number : 11113

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Letter, Memoirs, Red Cross Letter, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, German

Letters, postcards, and additional documentation, 1932–1950, concerning the Lew family of Baranowicze and the Neumeier family from Germany

Letters, postcards, and additional documentation, 1932–1950, concerning the Lew family of Baranowicze and the Neumeier family from Germany -- letters and a postcard concerning the Lews of Baranowicze, including: -- postcard bearing a dedication by A. Lew of Baranowicze to a relative of his, November 1932, in Hebrew; -- letter from Szmuel Morduch Lew, son of Abram and Chana Lew (b. 1921 in Baranowicze, Jonawa) to relatives in Eretz Israel, May 10, 1940, in Hebrew; -- letter from Yishi Isser Lew to friends in Eretz Israel, July 11, 1940, in Yiddish; - postcard from Max Moses Neimaier, Theresienstadt, to...

File Number : 4187

Type of Material : Article, Death Certificate, Postcard, Draft, Letter, Certification, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Czech, Russian, German, Yiddish

Memoirs of E. Herbert Farr about his career in the British Army in 1939–1947, memoirs of Tauba Gomoplewicz née Cymrot about her experiences in the Chmielnik camp, the Skarżysko Kamienna camp, and Częstochowa in 1939–1945, and Lola Lemann's ID card from 1945; - Memoirs of E. Herbert Farr (b. 1919, Berlin) about his career in the British Army, 1939–1947: Life in Berlin in a mixed family (Jewish on the mother's side); expulsion of the witness from college due to his origin; doing odd jobs and being dismissed due to his origin; escape of his mother and brother, Karl-Eugen, to Britain in 1938 (after the brother...

File Number : 9799

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Identity Card, Memoirs

Language : Spanish, German

Documentation from the Kultusministerium (Ministry of Religions and Education) of the Saar region, 1920-1945

Documentation from the Kultusministerium (Ministry of Religions and Education) of the Saar region, 1920-1945 The collection includes files regarding the financial matters, taxes and the religious life of Jewish communities before and during the Nazi period; anti-Jewish orders and instructions during the Nazi period; Jewish teachers; statistical data on student numbers and their religious affiliation; Nazi and antisemitic content in school education. The documentation was photocopied for Yad Vashem in 2018.

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

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