Documentation related to the Grau and Brunell families from Berlin, 1895-2000, including birth certificates, a marriage contract, permits and more
- Birth certificate of Erwin Grau, born 14 April 1895, issued in Berlin, 17 April 1895;
- Birth certificate of Lotte Brunell (daughter of Alice [Cahn] Brunell), issued in Cologne, 18 December 1906;
- Marriage contract of Erwin Grau and Lotte (Brunell) Grau written in the form of a poem and signed by approximately 60 witnesses in Cologne, 05 May 1929;
- Birth certificate of Denny Gad Grau (son of Erwin Grau and Lotte [Brunell] Grau), born 17 October 1938,...
results.listIds.fileNumber : 649
results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Official Documentation, Telegram, Personal Documents, List of Murdered Jews
Documentation regarding the Heymann family, including diaries and a memoir book belonging to Suse Angela Heymann, documents regarding the military service of Meyer Manfred Heymann during World War I, food ration cards, forged documents, and other documents, 1868-1983
Diaries:
- Diary of Suse Angela Heymann, written in the Netherlands, 22 January-15 August 1942, and after the war, 1945-1949 (written mainly in German and at the end in Dutch);
- Diary written by Suse Angela Heymann toward the end of the war and immediately after the end of the war, including poems written (or copied) by her, a collection...
results.listIds.fileNumber : 644
results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Newspaper Clippings, Postcard, Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Poems/songs, Memoir Book, Diary, Passport
Personal documentation of Anni (Winzelberg) Schor, her husband Jakob Max Schor, and his family in Hamburg, Germany, 1905-1946
- Letters and postcards sent to Anni Winzelberg and her sister Rosi in Eretz Israel by their parents and other family members in Kiel, 1937-1939;
- Postcard sent by relatives in the United States to the Winzelberg family in Kiel, 19 August 1938;
- Postcards sent to Rosi and Anni (Winzelberg) in Eretz Israel by their brother Berni in Munich, Germany, 1937-1938;
- Two letters sent to Rosi and Anni (Winzelberg) in Eretz Israel by their brother Berni in Hamburg, Germany, March...
results.listIds.fileNumber : 2184
results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Official Documentation, Postcard, Personal Documents, Letter, Red Cross Letter
results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, Polish, German - Hebrew Characters, German
Military service booklet of Otto Simon, born in Mannheim, Germany, 1881, issued, 02 December 1917
Military service booklet of Otto Simon, from the period of his service in the German Army, 1917-1918;
Note by the submitter of the material:
Otto Simon resided in Mannheim, where his children were born.
results.listIds.fileNumber : 640
results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Personal Documents
Reports prepared by the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) in Hesse-Nassau, regarding the persecution of local Jews, 17/11/1934-28/10/1938
Reports regarding various incidents of persecution of Jews in the Hesse-Nassau area, including:
- Ban on making purchases in Jewish businesses; registration and photographing of people who violate the ban; imposition of economic sanctions on violators of the ban;
- Ban on the sale, supply or giving of all other services to Jews and Jewish businesses; registration and photographing of people who...
results.listIds.fileNumber : JM/28890
results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Official Documentation, Brochure, Newspaper Clippings
Documentation regarding a Jewish lawyer, Curt Waldmann, and his German spouse Else Waldmann, 1933-2010
- Curriculum Vitae (CV) of Curt Waldmann, written by Waldmann in Breslau, 22 July 1933;
- Confirmation regarding the granting of the "Cross of Honor" medal to Lawyer Curt Waldmann for his participation in World War I; confirmation, issued in Breslau, 01 October 1934;
- Marriage certificate of Curt Waldmann and Else Marie Pauline Bruckner, issued, 1933;
- Birth certificate of Curt Waldmann, who was born in Glatz, 05 April 1883; certificate issued in Glatz, 29 December 1938;
- Two letters sent to...
results.listIds.fileNumber : 627
results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Official Documentation, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Newspaper Clippings, Personal Documents, Letter of Testimony, Research Article, Postcard
Internal correspondence of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), regarding memorial ceremonies for Jewish soldiers who died in battle during World War I, 28/03/1930-09/11/1933
results.listIds.fileNumber : JM/28887
results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings
Letters of the Red Cross sent from Berlin by Max Israel Marcus to family members in Eretz Israel, 20 September 1942 - 15 March 1943, and correspondence of Chaim Buchaster in Italy with his family in Eretz Israel via the Apostolic Delegation, 1942 - 1943
The file also includes:
Translation to Hebrew of a letter written in Poland by Shlomo Zigfried Marcus, German military medical officer, 15 August 1916.
results.listIds.fileNumber : 1810
results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Red Cross Letter, Letter
German passport belonging to Fanny Dwinatzki, born in Neutomischel, Poland, 1872, issued in Jerusalem, 17 May 1938; army pay book belonging to her husband, Hermann Dwinatzki, who served in the German Army during World War I
- Esther (Aschheim) Geles, who submitted the material, made aliya with her parents one month before Kristallnacht, 1938;
- Her mother was Lotta (Dwinatzki) Aschheim;
- Her father was Erwin Aschheim.
Her father owned a millenary business. His mother, Marta, was taken from her apartment in Berlin and sent to an extermination camp where she perished, 1942. Lotta's parents, Herman...
results.listIds.fileNumber : 621
results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Passport, Personal Documents
Memoirs of Vera (nee Machol) Erhardt, a Mischling, regarding her experiences in Berlin and Angermuende and the experiences of her father Jakob Wily Machol including forced labor and rescue by his wife and owner of the factory
Vera Erhardt is the daughter of a mixed marriage; rescue of her father from deportation due to her wife's appeal to Himler; his deportation to forced labor; rescue of the Jews who labored in a factory and among them is the father with the help of Michalski, the factory owner.
Aliya to Israel with her husband in a Hanoar Hatzioni group, 1948.