Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

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Testimony of Judith Winkler, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in Buda

Testimony

Testimony of Judith Winkler, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in Buda Life before the war; increase in antisemitism including deportation of the witness's father, 1941. German occupation; life in hiding in a cellar; her mother places her in a monastery in Buda, 1944; escape to the Budapest Ghetto; liberation. Move to Yugoslavia; life in an orphanage in Belgrade; aliya to Israel with her mother, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit Shiftan, born in Mainz, Germany, 1922, regarding her experiences in Germany until 1937

Testimony

Testimony of Yehudit Shiftan, born in Mainz, Germany, 1922, regarding her experiences in Germany until 1937 Life before the Nazi rise to power; member of Tehelet Lavan movement; Nazi rise to power, 1933; decrees; aliya with her mother to Eretz Israel, 1937. Receives letters from her father; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Reports and letters regarding relations between Germany and Israel, and the position of West Germany regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1978-1990

File Number : 89

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : German

Publications regarding Israel-German relations, and correspondence by Heiner Lichtenstein with organizations in Israel including Yad Vashem, 1980-1987

File Number : 88

Type of Material : Letter, Newspaper Clippings

Language : German

Testimony of Martin Hauser, born in Berlin, 1913, regarding his experiences in Berlin at the beginning of the Nazi regime, in the British Royal Air Force and working with Jews in North Africa

Testimony

Testimony of Martin Hauser, born in Berlin, 1913, regarding his experiences in Berlin at the beginning of the Nazi regime, in the British Royal Air Force and working with Jews in North Africa Childhood and family before the Nazi regime. Economic boycott of Jewish businesses; anti-Jewish legislation and decrees; escape to Zurich; meets with Jewish refugees from Germany. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1933; absorption; volunteers for the British Royal Air Force; supplies food to North African Jews; establishes schools and kindergartens in North Africa; transfer to Salzburg at the end of the war; move to Germany...

File Number : 10324

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Paul Avraham Elsberg, born in Wuppertal, 1919, regarding his experiences in Wuppertal, Breslau, Buchenwald and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Paul Avraham Elsberg, born in Wuppertal, 1919, regarding his experiences in Wuppertal, Breslau, Buchenwald and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939 His childhood and family background; membership in a youth group; strengthening of Jewish identity after 1933; move to Breslau, 1935; studies in a rabbinical seminary; burning of the synagogue on Kristallnacht; detention of Jews who are Polish citizens; arrest and deportation to Buchenwald; forced labor in quarries; diphtheria; help from members of the Communist underground; release thanks to obtaining a certificate. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939;...

File Number : 10125

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Articles and letters about the reaction in Germany to the Second Gulf War

Articles and letters about the reaction in Germany to the Second Gulf War Especially regarding a controversy within the association of former inmates of Auschwitz.

File Number : 1285

Type of Material : Letter(s), Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : German

Documents on relations with Germany, compensation

Documents on relations with Germany, compensation Letters to Knesseth members and to the Jews in Israel and abroad. Open letter by the Israeli-German Students' Association. Announcement of the Wiener Library regarding a publication on restitution. Press releases by the Claims Conference on indemnification claims. Article by the Israeli Union of former Nazi Compulsory Labourers on problems of restitution. Notifications by the Archive for Restitution, Berlin. Article on the War Claims Act of 1962, USA. Newspaper article on "Distotrted Facts and Figures" in restitution.

File Number : 1204

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Legal Documentation, Letter(s)

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German