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Testimony of Wilhelm Deman, born in Vienna in 1895, regarding his experiences in Vienna, during the Anschluss, Kristallnacht, detention in Dachau camp, escape to Shanghai, and life in the city of Shanghai and in the Shanghai Ghetto during 1939-1949; Testimony from 1988: Vol. 3 - 1945-1948 Regarding the last days of the war in the Far East; Japan's surrender - including newspaper clippings from the time; excitement by the Jewish refugees; work by the witness and his wife in the teaching of business administration to young Chinese, and continuation of their teaching to refugees - included are documents and...

File Number : 56c

Language : Chinese, English, German

Testimony of Wilhelm Deman, born in Vienna in 1895, regarding his experiences in Vienna, during the Anschluss, Kristallnacht, detention in Dachau camp, escape to Shanghai, and life in the city of Shanghai and in the Shanghai Ghetto during 1939-1949; Testimony from 1988: Vol. 2 - 1939-1945 Work by the witness and his wife for Horace Kadoorie in the administration of a club for Jewish youth – included are documents, newspaper clippings and photographs of the club's activities; club's activities, courses for children, and holidays - mention is made of many names of teachers and pupils; worrisome news from...

File Number : 56b

Language : Chinese, English, German, Japanese

Personal documentation of Jakub Helmreich, born in Przemysl, Poland, 1910, among them confirmation of study at Warsaw University and certificates from his studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 1932-1938 - Confirmation of his studies at the Law Faculty at Warsaw University for three trimesters 1932-1934 given to Jakub Helmreich; - Confirmations including itemization of courses taken during his studies by Jakub Helmreich at the Humanities Faculty of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 1935-1938.

File Number : 552

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English

Testimony of Guido Cohen regarding the arrangement of studies for the Jewish students of high school age in Rome during the period of the Race persecution

Testimony of Guido Cohen regarding the arrangement of studies for the Jewish students of high school age in Rome during the period of the Race persecution - Arrangements made by families of junior high school students to set up Jewish schools after publication of the antisemitic legislation in 1938; - Junior high school studies arranged by the Jews which continued until July 1943, and recognition of the achievements of the students by the Italian Ministry of Education; - Arrangement of special university courses for Jewish students with help from Prof. Guido Castelnuovo, 1941-1943; honoring of the...

File Number : 102

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Italian