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Correspondence of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) administration in Krakow and Warsaw with Jewish institutions and organizations abroad, 12 February 1940-08 February 1942

Correspondence of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) administration in Krakow and Warsaw with Jewish institutions and organizations abroad, 12 February 1940-08 February 1942 - Requests sent by institutions and organizations abroad and personal applications to the JDC administration in Krakow to locate the addresses of Jews in Poland; - Applications from organizations abroad and personal applications to the JDC administration in Krakow requesting relief for individuals; - Requests to receive financial assistance from institutions and organizations abroad and confirmation of receipt of aid; -...

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results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter, Telegram

results.listIds.lang : Slovak, Polish, French, English, German

תיעוד מהארכיון הלאומי של צ'כיה (Národní archiv) בעיר פראג מהשנים 1939-1945

Collection includes selected records from various fonds from the National Archives in Prague. Records generated by German occupational institutions (Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren) and Czech auxiliary agencies dealing with matters of internal security and racial policy, especially anti-Jewish measures. Includes reports regarding aryanization of Jewish businesses, questionnaires of Jewish properties, lists of Jewish workers, documents regarding situation in Theresienstadt (death statistics), Lety camp, deportation of Jews to Theresienstadt and catalog cards of concentration camp inmates from...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Official Documentation, Lists, Correspondence

results.listIds.lang : Czech, English, German

Testimony of Esther Maria Katz (Chik), born in 1927 in Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in the Slatina Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Sudetenland

Testimony of Esther Maria Katz (Chik), born in 1927 in Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in the Slatina Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Sudetenland Daughter of a large Orthodox religious family in Czechoslovakia; her father's work as a tailor; antisemitism; the area’s re-annexation into Hungary; publication of anti-Jewish decrees and laws; life under curfew; the cessation of school studies; sawmill work; deportation to the Slatina Ghetto during Passover of 1944; life in the ghetto for seven weeks; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selection in the camp; the murder of her mother and little...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Botner Sternbach, born in 1924 in Holubinne, Czechoslovakia, about the Mukacevo ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz, etc.

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Testimony of Botner Sternbach, born in 1924 in Holubinne, Czechoslovakia, about the Mukacevo ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz, etc. Daughter of an affluent family in Holubinne; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; “Aryanization”; restrictions imposed on Jews; dispossession; expulsion from school; deportation to a brickyard in the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; going through a selection in the camp; abuse including beatings, roll calls; witness pilfers bread; helped by a privileged prisoner with food and clothing; assigned to forced labor in Prost; physical sanctions imposed; bombardments; liberation by...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Heidi Charles (Fridman), born in Pelsoc, Czechoslovakia in 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in Pelsoc, in a transit camp in Hungary, and in Budapest ghetto

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Testimony of Heidi Charles (Fridman), born in Pelsoc, Czechoslovakia in 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in Pelsoc, in a transit camp in Hungary, and in Budapest ghetto Her life before the war; plans to make aliya to Eretz Israel; theft of the money designated for the journey; deportation to a transit camp in Hungary in 1944; deportation of her father, by train, to Auschwitz concentration camp, and his death on the way; life in the transit camp; separation of men and women; release of children below the age of 13; life in Budapest ghetto; starvation; air raids; living in a shelter for three months;...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Bloch, born in Plzen, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and on a death march

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Testimony of Shmuel Bloch, born in Plzen, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and on a death march Childhood before the war; German occupation of the Sudetenland, 1938; drafting of his father and other family members to serve in the Czech Army; German occupation, March 1939; murder of the community leaders; abuse; confiscation of property; ant-Jewish legislation; deportation to Theresienstadt with help from community leaders and youth movement members; cultural life in the camp with the encouragement of the community leaders; orchestra, performances,...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13969

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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