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Collection of the Amersfoort transit camp in the Netherlands, dated, 1942-1964

Collection of the Amersfoort transit camp in the Netherlands, dated, 1942-1964 Amersfoort camp was built by the Dutch Army in 1939; following the German occupation in 1940, the Germans started to use the camp as a rest place for the German soldiers; the German authorities decided to expand the camp in 1941 and to turn it into a transit camp, called Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort; approximately 35,000 inmates passed through Amersfoort camp during the war, most of them political prisoners, but also Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, marginal people, people who refused to do labor, hostages, and criminals;...

Type of Material : Announcement, Testimony, List of Murdered Persons, List of Camp Inmates, Letter, Certification, Questionnaire, Diary, Document, Legal Documentation, Reports, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests, 01 August 1942 - 16 September 1942

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests, 01 August 1942 - 16 September 1942 Among the subjects in the report: Transport 41 with 1,000 Jews deported by train from the Aspang railroad station in Vienna to Minsk in the Soviet Union, 14 September 1942 (p. 12). Arrest of the following persons: A Mischling, a Jewish woman who had converted and her Austrian husband for Communist activities (pp. 6-7); a Jew who attempted to escape to Hungary; a Jew, his Austrian wife and their son who, for payment, served as brokers between Jews and border crossing smugglers, and the arrest of a Jewish woman who had paid...

File Number : 3496

Type of Material : Survey Report, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : German

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests and trials, 19 February 1942 - 19 July 1942

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests and trials, 19 February 1942 - 19 July 1942 Among other subjects in the report: Transport Number 31 with 1,000 Jews deported by train from the Aspang railroad station in Vienna to Theresienstadt, 14 July 1942. - Arrest of an elderly Jew who attempted to escape to Hungary; - List of electrical appliances confiscated from the Jews of Vienna (pp. 2-3); - Arrest of an Austrian woman who was not meticulous in observing the anti-Jewish laws; - Arrest of an Austrian man for smuggling Jews (p. 5); - Arrest and trial of the following persons:...

File Number : 3478

Type of Material : Survey Report, Statistical Data, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : German

Documents sent to the Sicherheitsdienst - SD (Security Service) branch in Erfurt, regarding people voting against the regime in the referendum, 10/04/1938

Documents sent to the Sicherheitsdienst - SD (Security Service) branch in Erfurt, regarding people voting against the regime in the referendum, 10/04/1938 Personal details about people suspected of voting "No" or who voted "No" in the referendum intended for the authorization of the Anschluss, including Communists, "Freemasons", Jews or non-Jewish women married to Jews, and Bibelforscher (Jehovah's Witnesses); marking of the forms of the voters suspected of disloyalty, by means of hidden signs stuck on after the voting (in some of the cases by means of informing on or by rumors); receipt of the reports from...

File Number : 42

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : German

Orders by Arthur Liebehenschel and Oswald Pohl to camp commanders, regarding taking steps against hostile propaganda by Jehovah's Witnesses in camps and labor places, and the prevention of listening to enemy broadcasts

File Number : 440

Type of Material : Original Document, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Avraham Gottlieb Ahuvia, born in Kozlow, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Prokocim, Biezanow, Skarzysko-Kamienna, Buchenwald and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Gottlieb Ahuvia, born in Kozlow, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Prokocim, Biezanow, Skarzysko-Kamienna, Buchenwald and other camps Religious well-to-do family; attends a Polish school; move to Krakow, 1938; work in a factory; activities in Bnei Akvia and Dror movements; his family joins him in Krakow, September 1939. German occupation; life in Krakow; work in construction together with his brother; return to Kozlow, 1940; livelihood as a peddler; confiscation of his grandfather's flour mill by the Germans, 1941; escape from deportation, August 1942; deportation to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 375

Type of Material : Legal Documentation

Language : German