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Correspondence of the Aid Council for Jewish Refugees from Germany (Benno Kaufmann) in Basel, Switzerland, regarding support to Jewish refugees from Germany: Personal letters of request for support, 1942-1948 The file contains mainly personal letters of request for support from victims during the war and from survivors after the war. Letters from survivors include names of missing family members. Letters from survivors in: - Israel: p. 5, - Southern Rhodesia, pp.6-10, - Germany: pp. 11-12, pp. 15-18, pp. 23-38, pp. 60-69, pp. 71-76, pp. 163-190, p. 261, pp. 266-273, pp.405-428, p. 446,...

File Number : 5

Type of Material : Postcard, List, Letter

Language : French, German

Correspondence of the Aid Council for Jewish Refugees from Germany (Benno Kaufmann) in Basel regarding the support for persecuted Jews: Personal letters belonging to the persecuted detainees in the camps in France, such as the Gurs camp, 1940–1945 Names of Jewish Vitctims: - Berthold Daube und Frieda Daube, Freiburg & Amsterdam and names of other victims, 04/07/1940 – 13/11/1943, pp. 147-248 - Dr. Egmond Woititz, Paris & Camp de la Viscox Tarn, France and Rosa Woititz (mother), Berlin, 01/02/1940 – 29/03/1943, pp. 259-316 & 469 - Willy Wolf, Arnhen and names of other Jewish victims, 10/12/1940...

File Number : 3.2

Type of Material : Postcard, Document, Letter

Language : French, German

Correspondence of the Aid Council for Jewish Refugees from Germany (Benno Kaufmann) in Basel, Switzerland, regarding support to Jewish refugees from Germany: Personal letters of request for support, 1938-1940 The file contains personal letters of request for support from victims (the names are scanned in alphabetical order). Jewish victims from: - Vienna, pp. 2-54, 68-71, 79-88, 90-92,94-95, 97-98, 102-105, 109-142, 145-152, 156-168, 181-214, 220–224, 228-242, 254-282, 292-293, 312-313, 326-332, 335-349, 378-380, 387-388, 391-393, 407-414, 431-452, 458-461, 462-483, 511-531, 542-561, 562-572,...

File Number : 2

Type of Material : List, Letter, Postcard, Newspaper

Language : German

Correspondence of the Aid Council for Jewish Refugees from Germany (Benno Kaufmann) in Basel, Switzerland, regarding support to Jewish refugees from Germany: Personal letters of request for support, 1935-1948 The file contains mainly personal letters of request for support from victims before and during the war and from survivors after the war. Letters from survivors include names of missing family members. Letters from survivors in: - Germany, pp. 4-10 - Vienna, p. 47 - Liechtenstein, pp. 605-608 - Survivors from all over the world: pp. 223 – 228, 230-233, 249 – 258, 330, 396-409, 411, 494-510,...

File Number : 4

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, List, Document, Telegram, Newspaper

Language : Hebrew, French, German, Hungarian

Correspondence of Benny Kaufmann from Basel, Switzeralnd, regarding aid to Jewish refugees from Austria and Western Europe. Personal letters of requests for support and lists for payment orders, 1939-1940

Correspondence of Benno Kaufmann from Basel, Switzerland, regarding aid to Jewish refugees from Austria and Western Europe: Personal letters of request for support and lists of payment orders, 1939-1940. Names of Jewish Victims: - Simon Israel Ceiger, Vienna, 27/06/1939 - 04/07/1939 -, pp. 245-250 - Family Deutsch, Vienna, 15/05/1939 - 01/08/1939 pp. 303-315 - Salomon Eisenberg & Chaja Lea Eisenberg, Vienna, 20/09/1939 - 5/07/1940, pp. 452-459, - Julius Hecht, M.Gladbach, 03/12/1939 - 13/09/1940, pp. 818-829 - Bruno Hechtenthal, Milano & Vienna, 07/02/1939 – 06/09/1939, pp. 833-858 -...

File Number : 1

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, List of Names

Language : German

Correspondence of the Aid Council for Jewish Refugees from Germany (Benno Kaufmann) in Basel regarding the support for persecuted Jews: Personal letters belonging to the persecuted detainees in the camps in France, such as the Gurs camp, 1939 –1945 Following people are mentioned: - Lola Jablonsky and Alice Kaufmann in Gurs concentration camp, 24/08/1941, p.535, 10/01/1941, p. 2, 16/12/1940, p. 367 - Alfred Cahn and his wife in Gurs concentration camp or Grenade (Haute Garonne), 03/03/1941 – 17/07/1941 p. 4-9 - Emma Goldschmidt, Gurs concentration camp, 23/10/1942, p. 109; 19/10/1942, p. 111 -...

File Number : 3.1

Type of Material : Document, Postcard, Letter

Language : French, German

Testimony of Paul Pinchas Ben-Shaul Reichmann, born in 1934 in Lille, France, about his wartime experiences as a boy in hiding in France, the Champery refugee camp, the home of a Jewish family in Lausanne, etc.

German occupation ensues in 1940; family tries unsuccessfully to escape to the south of France (to Rue); escaping back to Lens in 1940; escaping to Paris; escaping to Piot in 1941; attempting to run the border with the family to the Free Zone of France; arrested by the Germans; trial and detention in a lockup in Biarritz in 1941; father detained separately; released and returns to Paris for several months; another attempt to escape to the south of France; escaping to Benejacoq in 1941; life in hiding there; transferred with help from the French resistance and the Jewish MJC organization to a convent in...

File Number : 13616

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Desider Steinmetz, born in 1925 in Satu Mare, Romania, about his experiences in Heide, Oostende, Marseille, the Les Milles camp, and other locations

Testimony

Testimony of David Desider Steinmetz, born in 1925 in Satu Mare, Romania, about his experiences in Heide, Oostende, Marseille, the Les Milles camp, and other locations Life before the war; offspring of a Satmar and Sighet Hasidic family; emigration to Belgium in 1937; life in Antwerp; attending a yeshiva in Heide; German occupation ensues in 1940; escaping to Oostende; bombardment of Dunkirk; escaping to Gravelines in 1940; fleeing back to Antwerp; life under German occupation; escaping to Paris in 1941 after receiving a deportation order in Limbourg; escaping to Marseille (in the Free Zone) in 1941; life...

File Number : 13437

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pinchas Filip Flaks, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1928, regarding his experiences in Rivesaltes and a dormitory in Versoix

Testimony

Testimony of Pinchas Filip Flaks, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1928, regarding his experiences in Rivesaltes and a dormitory in Versoix Life before the war. German occupation, May 1940; escape to Paris; escape to southern France; help from a Jewish assistance organization; move to the ORT dormitory in La Roche, late 1941; warning from French policemen regarding deportation of children; escape to the mountains of those designated for deportation; joins the Maquis; deportation of a group of youths from the dormitory; transfer to Rivesaltes; meets with his parents; deportation of his parents to Drancy, Rosh...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence of Saly Mayer, Executive Secretary of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland (SIG) with organizations and Jewish public figures regarding David Frankfurter, 1936-1941

Correspondence of Saly Mayer, Executive Secretary of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland (SIG) with organizations and Jewish public figures regarding David Frankfurter, 1936-1941 - Sending of most of the letters from public figures, Jewish legal experts and Jewish organizations including the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Paris and the Agudas-Achim Congregation in Zurich to Saly Mayer in St. Gallen in his capacity as SIG Executive Secretary; - Letters sent by David Frankfurter's brother (pp. 37, 62-63); - Letters sent by Josef Messinger, the preacher and cantor of the Berne Congregation, a...

File Number : 15

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

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