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Letters of petition regarding Jewish detainees from Vienna, 1938-1943

Letters of petition regarding Jewish detainees from Vienna, 1938-1943 Page 2: Letter from Richard Gross to Engel, Department Chief of the Vienna Jewish Community, with a petition that the Vienna Jewish Community intercede with the Vienna Gestapo to free his brother Attorney Dr. Leo Gross from detention, dated 08 June 1938; placement of the Vienna law-office of Leo Gross under Aryan administration; arrest and detention of Leo Gross, 15 March 1938; Pages 3-4: Letter from Luisa Reichmann in Ravensbrueck to Dr. Josef Loewenherz, director of the Vienna Jewish Community, with a petition for help in...

File Number : 296

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Letter(s)

Language : German

Personal documentation belonging to the Schaffner family including identity cards, passports, letters, documents related to emigration to Shanghai and Eretz Israel and more

Personal documentation belonging to the Schaffner family including identity cards, passports, letters, documents related to emigration to Shanghai and Eretz Israel and more Box 1: - Personal documents: Birth Certificates, Heimatscheine (Residence Certificates), Marriage Certificates, military documents, Mazal Schaffner (16 December 1917), Serafine Fischer [Schaffner] (14 November 1897) Nikolaus Schaffner (26 April 1896), Maximilian Schaffner (08 July 1923); - Emigration documents and documents regarding emigration to Eretz Israel (Austria, Shanghai, Eretz Israel); - Certificate issued by the Shanghai...

File Number : 230

Type of Material : Identity Card, Personal Documents, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Passport, Diary, Letter, Poems/songs

Language : German

Testimony of Yaakov Zhako Cohen, born in Elhovo, Bulgaria, 1930, regarding his experiences in Yambol

Testimony

Testimony of Yaakov Zhako Cohen, born in Elhovo, Bulgaria, 1930, regarding his experiences in Yambol Life before the war; relations with the non-Jewish population. German occupation; decrees including expulsion from school and yellow badge; deportation to Yambol; liberation by the Red Army. Life under Soviet occupation; Hashomer Hatzair activities; aliya to Israel with Youth Aliya on the ship, "Pan Crescent", 1948; absorption on Kibbutz Bet Alfa.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin; Documentation by the RSHA and Jewish communities in the German Reich regarding the reprisals taken by the Gestapo against Berlin Jews following the arson against the propaganda exhibition "The Soviet Paradise" ("Das Sowjet-Paradies") in Berlin in May 1942 Official announcements made by the RSHA to the Jewish communities of Germany (Reichsvereinigung), Prague and Vienna, demanding the to inform the Jews in the Reich about the reprisals taken by Nazi authorities against Jews and threatening them with harsher measures in the future. The...

File Number : 162

Type of Material : List of Murdered Jews, List of Deportees, Legal Documentation, Lists

Language : German

Documentation regarding the Barbarossa Operation, including sitreps of SS units; activities of the Mährisch-Ostrau Gestapo; activities of the Centers for Jewish Emigration (Zentralstellen für jüdische Auswanderung) in Vienna and Prague; the "Nisko-Lublin plan", 1939-1945

Documentation regarding the Barbarossa Operation including sitreps (situation reports) of SS units concerning "cleansing" operations, the killing of Jews and partisans, behavior of the local population, special killing units, and the operational area of Einsatzgruppe I; activities of the Mährisch-Ostrau Gestapo including deportations and correspondence (Eichmann), and the Brünn Gestapo; activities of the Centers for Jewish Emigration (Zentralstellen für jüdische Auswanderung) in Vienna and Prague, and the "Nisko-Lublin plan", 1939-1945 Documentation regarding the Operation Barbarossa, inter alia sitreps of...

File Number : 93

Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Margarete Stern, born in 1900, including information regarding the persecution of Jews in Nazi occupied Vienna, 1938-1940

Testimony of Margarete Stern, born in 1900, including information regarding the persecution of Jews in Nazi occupied Vienna, 1938-1940 In the file: - Prologue prepared by Dr. Ball-Kaduri regarding the testimony of Margarete Stern, (page 2), May 1957; - Testimony of Margarete Stern, who worked for the Vienna Jewish Community Emigration Department , regarding the persecution of Jews in Vienna and the emigration of Jews after the occupation of Austria by Nazi Germany, including the emigration of her three sons to England on a Kindertransport, the emigration of her daughter to Eretz Israel with Youth...

File Number : 178

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Julius Rosenfeld, born in Moedling, Austria, 1877, a former Vienna Jewish community official, 1938-1945

Testimony of Julius Rosenfeld, born in Moedling, Austria, 1877, a former Vienna Jewish community official, 1938-1945 In the file: - Introduction to the testimony of Julius Rosenfeld prepared by Dr. Ball-Kaduri (p. 2), April 1956; - Testimony of Julius Rosenfeld, a former Vienna Jewish community official in charge of registration, regarding the persecution of the Jews in Austria and Vienna, and in particular, the use and exploitation of Jewish community officials by the Vienna Gestapo and the RSHA (pp. 3-7), 1938-1945.

File Number : 177

Type of Material : Testimony, Memoirs, Official Documentation

Language : German

Letters, postcards and other documentation related to members of the Aszkenazy, Krausz, Weiss, Zuckerberg and Stutzer families, 1936-1949

Letters, postcards and other documentation related to members of the Aszkenazy, Krausz, Weiss, Zuckerberg and Stutzer families, 1936-1949 - Letters and a postcard related to members of the Aszkenazy, Krausz, Zuckerberg and Stutzer families, including: --- Postcard sent to Fred [Friedrich] Stutzer in New York by Henryk (Heinrich) Chrobak from Kraków on 25/04/1941; --- Letter sent by Otto Ashknenazi from Marseille to his family members in the United States on 21/06/1942 (his last letter); --- Letter sent to Rozia Zuckerberg by Ignacy Sabol and his wife Wanda in Wałbrzych, regarding the fate of members of...

File Number : 4077

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Identity Card, Genealogy, Order, החלטה, Postcard, Letter, Passport

Language : Polish, English, German, Hungarian

Documentation including letters and telegrams, related to Benzion Benno Fränkel and his wife Paula (Stux) Fränkel, and their experiences in Vienna before and during the war, in the Theresienstadt Ghetto and en route to the United States, 1938-1947 - Letters and telegrams related to the Fränkel family during 1940-1946, including: --- Copies of letters sent by Fred Frankel from Los Angeles to his relatives and friends (to his aunt Lilly on 15/09/1940 and to Clair and Lu on 18/07/1941; the addressees' last names are not indicated) in his efforts to bring his parents to the United States; --- Telegrams...

File Number : 4089

Type of Material : Diploma, Food Card, Letter, קבלות, Personal Documents, Certification, Marriage Certificate, Birth Certificate, Postcard, Memoirs, Work Permit, Telegram, Identity Card, הודעה

Language : Czech, French, English, Russian, German

Letters, postcards and personal documents related to the Lőwinger family from Eisenstadt, the Neufeld family from Hamburg and the Freudenfels family from Lovosice, from before, during and after the war Letters, postcards and personal documents related to members of the Lőwinger family: - Personal documentation of Emanuel Lőwinger, born in Tokaj, Hungary in 1886, and his wife Rosalia (Benedikt) Lőwinger, including birth certificates, a marriage certificate, residency document, documents related to professional studies and to the administration of their business, issued in Tokaj, Sátoraljaújhely and...

File Number : 4112

Type of Material : Marriage Certificate, Red Cross Letter, Letter, Certification, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Financial Records, Birth Certificate, Passport, Diploma, קבלות, Poem/song, Agreement, Postcard, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Czech, English, Swedish, German, Danish, Hungarian

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