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Collection of poems, drawings and other documentation dedicated to Kurt Frey, Commander of the Ghettowache (Ghetto Guards), on the first anniversary of the establishment of the Ghettowache in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 19 May 1943

File Number : 423

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Official Documentation, Drawing

Language : German

Memoirs of a young Jewish woman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1922, regarding her experiences in Berlin, Bohusovice, Theresienstadt and Switzerland

Memoirs of a young Jewish woman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1922, regarding her experiences in Berlin, Bohusovice, Theresienstadt and Switzerland Life in Berlin, 1939; confiscation of golden articles, radios (on Yom Kippur, 23 September 1939), telephones and bicycles; Aryanization of Jewish property; imposition of night curfew, 20:00-06:00; prohibition on visiting German cultural institutions; incorporation of the names Sara or Israel; violators of these laws are subject to deportation to a concentration camp; list of permissible names for Jewish babies such as: Hindele, Bella, Leib, Shmuel and more; ban on...

File Number : 987

Language : German

Testimony of Rose Marcus regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt, including a fake wedding, filmed for propaganda purposes

Testimony of Rose Marcus regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt, including a fake wedding, filmed for propaganda purposes In the file: - Covering report prepared by Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri regarding postwar letters sent by Rose Marcus to her sister describing her experiences in Theresienstadt (p. 2), March 1960; - Copy of a letter from Rose Marcus regarding, among other topics: a fake wedding, which was filmed for propaganda purposes; information concerning secret meetings at night between inmates and relatives in a canal that led out of the camp; a gendarme, who once gave her husband food despite...

File Number : 268

Type of Material : Letter(s), Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Martha Mosse, Berlin, regarding her experiences at the Theresienstadt ghetto, 1943-1945

Testimony of Martha Mosse, Berlin, regarding her experiences at the Theresienstadt ghetto, 1943-1945 The report is a copy of personal notes taken down during the author's stay at Theresienstadt; as they were intended for a friend, atrocities were not mentioned. The remarks in brackets were added in 1959. The author was a member of the Jewish “Kriminalpolizei” and other departments of the administration of Justice at the Camp (pp .7, 9). In her testimony, she reports on her experiences, inter alia: - Her deportation from Berlin to Theresienstadt on 16 June 1943 (p. 5) - The beautification of the...

File Number : 993

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German