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Collection of Erich August Paul Puttkammer, regarding Sperrstempels (exemptions) for Jews in the Netherlands, 1942-1953

Collection of Erich August Paul Puttkammer, regarding Sperrstempels (exemptions) for Jews in the Netherlands, 1942-1953 Erich August Paul Puttkammer was born in Poland in 1891; he received Dutch citizenship in 1939 and worked as a lawyer in a bank in Amsterdam during the war; using his contacts with the Devisenschutzkommando, along with the use of gold, diamonds, paintings and jewelry, he obtained deportation exemptions for Jews, of whom most were already in Westerbork camp as inmates; Puttkammer was arrested after the war, but was released due to lack of evidence; Included in the collection: Documents...

Type of Material : Appeal to the Authorities, Document, Note

Language : Dutch, German

Decrees of the Germany occupation authorities in Holland regarding Jewish owned property, 1940-1942

Decrees of the Germany occupation authorities in Holland regarding Jewish owned property, 1940-1942 Decrees of the German occupation authorities, 26 October 1940-23 May 1942; most of the decrees do not focus on the Jews, the decrees that focus on the Jews include the registration of Jewish owned companies, hand over of Jewish owned property, registration of Jewish owned land and claims on Jewish owned property; Decree that obliges the registration of Jewish owned property or under the management of a Jew (p. 1), 26 October 1940; Decree that obliges the deposit of property and money in the Lippman...

File Number : 6

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Dutch, German

Documentation regarding the Meyer family from Berlin, 1915-1947

Documentation relating to the Meyer family from Berlin, 1915-1947 Pages 1-3, an envelope containing: - Postcard from Lilo Bloch in Warsaw to Dr. Fritz Unger in Berlin informing him that her father-in-law died recently, she has no information whatsoever about her husband Otto, her mother-in-law or Trude Hilde Herbert, her consolation is her little toddler and her request that Dr. Unger visit her parents, 15 June 1942; - Aerogram from Herbert Bloch in New York to Dr. Fritz Unger telling of the death of his father in the Gurs camp, 1942, the deportation of his mother, his brother Otto and Otto's family to...

File Number : 322

Type of Material : Envelope, Inventory List, Letter, Postcard, Financial Accounts, Official Documentation, Personal Documents

Language : German

Summaries of meetings of the Central Committee of the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) in the Netherlands, 1942-1943

Summaries of meetings of the Central Committee of the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) in the Netherlands, 1942-1943 - Meeting regarding the deportation of the Jews from the Zeeland, Noord-Holland, and Zuid-Holland regions to Amsterdam (p. 1), 20 January 1942; - Meeting regarding the situation in the labor camps in the Drenthe region (p. 3), 27 January 1942; - Meeting regarding the depositing of Council assets in the Lippmann, Rosenthal & Co. Bank (p. 9), 11 February 1942; - Discussion between Prof. Cohen and Rombach in which it was made clear to Cohen that the German plan was to make a total separation...

File Number : 50

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Dutch

Testimony of the twin sisters Ruth (Freund) Friedlander, and Leah (Freund) Shacham, born in Lausanne, Switzerland, 1944 regarding their family's experiences during the German occupation

Testimony

Their father, Naftali Nandor Freund, was the chairman of the Hamizrachi movement in Budapest and a prominent Zionist activist; his acquaintance with people connected to Kastner; his assistance in compiling the passenger list for the Kastner rescue train. Their father was taken for forced labor shortly before the German occupation; he requested through a messenger that their pregnant mother board the Kastner train with the children; their mother initially refused to board the train without the father but later agreed; waiting for the train for three days; Kastner collected jewelry from passengers to complete...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Yehudit Judith Pascal, born in Cluj, Romania, regarding her experiences during the war

Memoirs of Yehudit Judith Pascal, born in Cluj, Romania, regarding her experiences during the war Her family's life in Cluj during 1940-1943; annexation of the area of her family's residence to Hungary; German Army occupation of Hungary in March 1944; persecution of Jews, including the obligation to wear a yellow badge and restriction on entrance to public places; deportation of the Jews to the ghetto; ghetto life, including overcrowding and a shortage of food; theft of jewelry and valuables, in exchange for a promise that they will be kept alive; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp with her family;...

File Number : 9225

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of the Consistoire Israélite de Luxembourg (Jewish Consistory of Luxembourg) regarding the transfer of sterling silverware [cutlery], as well as jewelry fashioned from precious metals owned by Jews to the German authorities, 1942 This file includes lists of items surrendered as well as certificates and correspondence regarding the transfer as carried out by the Council of Elders of the Jews (formerly the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde [Jewish community]) in Luxembourg, June 1942 [See also list-item 11004346]

File Number : JM/31282-2

Type of Material : Certification, Names, List of Jews, Correspondence, Circular, Personal Documents, Official Documentation

Language : German

Audio testimony of Rachel (Mannheim) Bader, regarding the experiences of her family in Niżankowice, escape to the forests, her time in a hiding place in Towarnia and liberation

Audio testimony of Rachel (Mannheim) Bader, regarding the experiences of her family in Niżankowice, escape to the forests, her time in a hiding place in Towarnia and liberation - Audio testimony of Rachel (Mannheim) Bader, born in Niżankowice, Poland, 1918, regarding the experiences of her family during the Holocaust: - Rachel Mannheim's parents were Todres and Hinda Mannheim; they owned a convenience store; information regarding Rachel's siblings; death of her father, Todres, in 1936; occupation of Niżankowice by the Germans, in 1939; murder of some of the Jews of Niżankowice, including relatives of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Margaret (Shtein) Laks, born in 1920 in Gheorgheni, Romania, about her experiences in the Reghin ghetto, Auschwitz, and labor camps in Wiesaw and Parschnitz

Testimony

Testimony of Margaret (Shtein) Laks, born in 1920 in Gheorgheni, Romania, about her experiences in the Reghin ghetto, Auschwitz, and labor camps in Wiesaw and Parschnitz Life in a traditional family; attends a Romanian school; active in Zionist youth movements from age seven; moves to Lacu Rosu; family rents rooms to tourists for a living; Hungarians enter; livelihood impaired; witness dismissed from job; Germans enter; the yellow star edict; family banished to a school in Gheorgheni and thence, several days later, to the Reghin ghetto; torture room in the ghetto and witness employed at taking tortured women...

File Number : 13934

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Booklet including the memoirs of Aleksander Plachta Peleg, born in Grudziadz, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Grudziadz, Brest Litowsk, Brody, Brzezany, Breslau, and other places, 1939-1946 His childhood in Grudziadz; his parents are Zvi Hirsh Henryk Plachta and Bronislawa (Rosenbaum) Plachta, who owned a large store; move of the family to Brest Litowsk at the outbreak of the war, 1939; move to Brody, summer 1940; move to Brzezany, December 1940; unsuccessful attempt to make aliya to Eretz Israel; detention of his father, and his deportation to the Archangelsk area, to forced labor; "Aktions" in...

File Number : 8702

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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