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Testimony of Kalman Checinski, born in Plawno, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto and a HASAG weapons factory

Testimony

Testimony of Kalman Checinski, born in Plawno, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto and a HASAG weapons factory Life in Czestochowa before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation with his family to the Czestochowa Ghetto, September 1939; ghetto life including labor on railroad tracks; liquidation of the ghetto, 1942; deportation to labor in a HASAG weapons factory; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Move to Hannover; search for relatives; move to Zeilsheim; life in a refugee camp; move to the Bergen-Belsen DP camp; move to Essen, 1948; contact with the Jewish...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation from the Bezirksamt Schoenberg in Berlin, 1926-1935

Documentation from the Bezirksamt Schoenberg in Berlin, 1926-1935 The city of Schoeneberg and the town of Friedenau were incorporated into the city of Berlin in 1920, as the Bezirk (municipal district of) Schoeneberg. In this Record Group are files related to the construction sector, regarding synagogues and buildings belonging to Jewish institutions in the district's area.

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation from the Bezirksamt Steglitz in Berlin, 1933-1943

Documentation from the Bezirksamt Steglitz in Berlin, 1933-1943 The towns of Steglitz, Gross-Lichterfelde and Lankwitz and the Suedende settlement were incorporated into the city of Berlin in 1920, as the Bezirk (municipal district of) Steglitz. In this Record Group are files related to the construction sector, regarding synagogues and buildings belonging to Jewish institutions and organizations in the district's area; included are files regarding the implementation of the "Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service" (Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums) in the construction...

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Official Documentation

Language : German

Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Sources for university classes regarding the Holocaust, and articles and documents regarding concentration camps.

Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Sources for university classes regarding the Holocaust, and articles and documents regarding concentration camps. The file is divided into five volumes: Volume I A. D. Kulka, trends in the "Solution of the Jewish Problem in the Third Reich". Volume II Orit Margaliot, "The Jewish Organizations in Central Europe and Their Relations with the Nazi Regime". Volume III Testimonies of Holocaust survivors, articles and documents regarding Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Stutthof Estland and others, and a list of camps. Volume IV Articles and notes regarding the yellow...

File Number : 22

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Testimony of Hedi (Shenberger) Grun Goren, born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in hiding in Sabac

Testimony

Testimony of Hedi (Shenberger) Grun Goren, born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in hiding in Sabac Life in Sabac before the war. Absorption of Jewish refugees in the community, 1939-1940; outbreak of the war, 1941; decrees; confiscation of property including the family's store; draft of her father; obtains forged Aryan documents; work at odd jobs; life in hiding in Sabac. Life in Yugoslavia after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Perla (Barend) Preminger, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Perla (Barend) Preminger, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto From a Zionist religious family; life before the war; her father's activities in Hapoel Hamizrachi. Outbreak of the war; German occupation; arrests and decrees; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto, 10 October 1941; ghetto life; release from the ghetto; obtains a protective document; return home; life in Cernauti; her father is drafted to forced labor; liberation by the Red Army. Move to Bucharest; her father's Zionist activities; education; aliya to Israel, 1950; starts a family.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Survey Report, Statistical Data, Official Documentation

Language : English

Personal documentation and correspondence belonging to Yitzchak Felix Meyer and his parents, Michael and Amalia Meyer, who made aliya to Eretz Israel from Germany, survived the "Patria" tragedy and were detained in Atlit, 1881-1997 Volume I (pp. 1-262) This volume contains personal documentation belonging to Yitzchak Felix Meyer from his birth: Page 1: Copy of the opening page ("Index") with 12 chapters, nine of which (1-6, 10-12) mention their topics; the topics are (the numbers of the pages of the present file containing material matching the topic in the "Index" are given in parentheses): 1. "I As a...

File Number : 356

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Lecture, List of Deportees, Announcement, Personal Records, Booklet(s), Inventory List, Newspaper Clippings, Book, Letter, Memoirs, Diary, Postcard, Record of Persecuted Persons, Poems/songs, Newspaper

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

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

Announcements and criticism regarding a play by the Juedischer Kulturbund organization (Cultural Federation of German Jews) in Berlin, and personal documentation of the Seldis family in Xanten, 1938-1939

File Number : 297

Type of Material : Placards, Personal Documents

Language : German

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