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Testimonies and memoirs regarding the Theresienstadt Ghetto

Testimonies and memoirs regarding the Theresienstadt Ghetto - Testimony of Dr. Karl Loesten (formerly Dr. Karl Löwenstein) regarding the Bialystok children who were deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto (in German), undated; - Testimony of F. R. Kraus regarding the Bialystok children who were deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto (In Czech), undated; - Memoirs of Kaete Breslauer regarding her stay in the Theresienstadt Ghetto (in German), undated; - Testimony regarding the arrest of Jacob Edelstein in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 11 November 1943 (in German), undated; - Survey regarding the...

File Number : 105

Type of Material : Diary, Memoirs, Testimony, Reports

Language : Czech, English, German

Documentation of the Jewish Central Information Office in London, regarding the Nazi regime, including restrictions imposed on the Jewish population and Mischlinge (persons of mixed Jewish ancestory), Kristallnacht riots, the establishment of the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung (Central Office for Jewish Emigration) and more, 1933-1946 Page 1: - Directive from the Darmstadt District Office to all the municipalities in the district regarding the refusal to issue, or the limitation of use to within the country only, of passports belonging to German residents who are "Nicht Einwandsfreie...

File Number : 118

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Record of Murdered Persons, Record of Persecuted Persons, Personal Documents

Language : English, German

Two eye witness reports regarding the annihilation of the Jewish community of Kovno and the liberation of Dachau

Two eye witness reports regarding the annihilation of the Jewish community of Kovno and the liberation of Dachau In the file: - Newspaper clipping from the "New York Times": In a Letter to the Editor, United States Army Colonel Walter Fellenz, the first US camp commander of Dachau, writes about his deep impressions during and after the liberation of Dachau; his letter is a reminder not to forget and to be sure to teach about "the most shameful crimes since Man walked this earth", 22 December 1977; - Speech (translated from German) delivered by Dr. Z. Grinberg, M.D., editor of the Yiddish paper, "Unzer...

File Number : 122

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Photograph

Language : English

Testimony of Dr. Jacob Jacobson, born in Srem, Poland, 1888, regarding his experiences in Theresienstadt, 1943-1945

Testimony of Dr. Jacob Jacobson, born in Srem, Poland, 1888, regarding his experiences in Theresienstadt, 1943-1945 Testimony regarding Theresienstadt camp life including details concerning the people, food, daily life, culture and art, religious life and the liberation; the testimony is included in the "Jewish Survivors Report", No. 6, published by the Jewish Central Information Office. Detention and deportation of the author and others from the collection center at Grosse Hamburger Strasse in Berlin; sorting of the victims; description of those sent to Theresienstadt; living conditions in the Grosse...

File Number : 121

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report

Language : English

Diary of Paula Littauer regarding her experiences as a Jew in hiding during her time in Berlin and in Brussels from 1939 to 1944

Written testimony of Paula Littauer regarding her experiences as a Jew in hiding in Berlin and in Brussels, 1939-1944 Thwarting of preparations for emigration to Britain; successful emigration of her daughter Ruth to England; confiscation of her apartment; transfer of her aprtement to Heimkehrer (home-comers); explanation of the various types of home-comers; humiliation; yellow badge; powerlessness of her family in the United States to help; suicide in scores of Jewish families; witness to deportations; offered lodging in a Jewish home belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Weissenberg in Tempelhof, 30 October 1941;...

File Number : 120

Language : English

Three letters from Hanna Rosenthal, Hermann Voosen and Heinz Samuel to the Jewish Central Information Office in London regarding their experiences in the Riga Ghetto, the Kaiserwald camp and the Salaspils camp until the liberation - Letter sent by Hanna Rosenthal from Haessleholm, Sweden, to the Jewish Central Information Office in London, 26 June 1945; order sent to Hanna, her husband and their children to report to the Gestapo in Potsdam; information that they are to be relocated to the East; detention for two days; deportation to Berlin, 13 January (no year given); deportation on the first transport from...

File Number : 119

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report

Language : English

Personal report by Max Mannheimer, born in 1918, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, The Hague, Westerbork, Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, written, July 1945

Personal report by Max Mannheimer, born in 1918, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, The Hague, Westerbork, Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, written July 1945 Born to a family of Jews from Germany who settled in the Netherlands before 1933; attends a Dutch school; work as a bank clerk; work for the Committee Voor Byzondere Joodsche Belangen (Committee for Special Jewish Interests) before the occupation; work for the Joodsche Raad (Jewish Council) in Amsterdam; goes underground, May 1943; move to The Hague; capture by the Gestapo; interrogation and torture; deportation to Westerbork; transfer to the...

File Number : 118

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report

Language : English

Personal report by Dr. Israel Taubes: Jewish Survivors Report-Documents of Nazi Guilt, No 2: "The Persecution of Jews in Holland 1940-1944 Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen"

Personal report by Dr. Israel Taubes: Jewish Survivors Report-Documents of Nazi Guilt, No 2: "The Persecution of Jews in Holland 1940-1944 Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen" 1940 - Initial reactions to the German occupation: flight or suicide; the measures of Seyss-Inquart; help and sympathy from the non-Jewish Dutch; Christian protests; economic measures against the Jews; Nazi corruption; Jewish institutions; 1941 - Legal emigration; illegal emigration; Jewish underground; Amsterdam Ghetto; resistance in the Amsterdam Ghetto; deportation to Mauthausen; Jewish collaboration; cultural life; work of the...

File Number : 117

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report

Language : English

Testimony of Mordechai Lichtenstein, born in Bendzin, Poland, 1912, regarding the occupation of Bedzin, the establishment of the Bendzin Ghetto, the annihilation of the Jews of Bendzin and his deportation to Auschwitz - Bendzin (German: Bendsburg), a city in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie in the Silesian Highlands, part of Silesian Voivodeship, Lesser Poland; Katowice Voivodeship, before 1999); - Witness is a wood merchant, and partner in the Gold, Lichtenstein & Ehrlich Company in Bendzin; life in Bendzin until August 1943; - 30,000 Jews in Bendzin before the occupation; annihilation of Bendzin Jewry by the...

File Number : 116

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report

Language : English