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Memoirs of Friedrich Frits Adler, born in Germany, 1910, regarding his experiences in Germany and in the Netherlands, 1933-1943

Memoirs of Friedrich Frits Adler, born in Germany, 1910, regarding his experiences in Germany and in the Netherlands, 1933-1943 His ancestors and early family life; life during his childhood and as a teenager; his education and start of professional life as a businessman at a clothing factory in Frankfurt. Antisemitism and anti-Jewish riots following the Nazi rise to power; start of emigration; attempt by Frits to emigrate to Mandatory Palestine, summer 1933; ban against his brother, Julius Adler, regarding studies in Germany, move of Julius to Paris; move of Frits to Moenchengladbach in order to work in...

File Number : 5798

Type of Material : Poem(s), Memoirs

Language : German

Secret report regarding the development of the "Jewish Question" and, in particular, the "Entjudung" (de-Jewification) in the Netherlands until late 1942, including the registration of anti-Jewish legislation (transcript of an official document), apparently from 1943 The report includes information regarding the: - Positive attitude of the Dutch population toward the Jewish population before the German occupation, and the change in the attitude after the German invasion; - Elimination of Jews from the political, cultural and economic life; - Registration and marking of Jews; - Ban on marriage and...

File Number : 1501

Type of Material : Report, Index

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

Memoirs of Eva (Mosse) Noack, born in Berlin, Germany, regarding her experiences in Augsburg, Bauchowitz and Theresienstadt

Memoirs of Eva (Mosse) Noack, born in Berlin, Germany, regarding her experiences in Augsburg, Bauchowitz and Theresienstadt Orders received from the Gestapo to report for non-specified labor in Augsburg; deportation to Augsburg; life in Augsberg; round-up at the Bernhard Müller factory; deportation to Bauchowitz; transfer to Theresienstadt; camp life; searches of her possessions and confiscation of valuables; medical examination; yellow badge; family registration; bodily examination; shower; disinfection and haircut; assignment of living quarters; supplying water; assignment of preferred living quarters;...

File Number : 986

Type of Material : Letter, Diary

Language : German

Testimony of Alisa Perez, née Alice Tischauer, born in Germany, 1920, regarding her experiences and the activities of Zionist and resistance movements in the Netherlands, 1939-1945

Testimony of Alisa Perez, née Alice Tischauer, born in Germany, 1920, regarding her experiences and the activities of Zionist and resistance movements in the Netherlands, 1939-1945 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, April 1956; - Member of Habonim, 1933; - Aliya training in Urfeld (Cologne), Germany, 1937-38; - Move from Breslau to the Werkdorp Wieringen (Wieringen Work Village), the Netherlands, for aliya training (by Hechalutz), July 1939; - Stateless in 1941; - Visit of the Gestapo to the Werkdorp...

File Number : 5199

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Elieser Ludi Goldwein, born in Meimbressen, Germany, 1922, regarding his experiences and the activities of the Zionist and underground movements in the Netherlands and France, 1938-1944

Testimony of Elieser Ludi Goldwein, born in Meimbressen, Germany, 1922, regarding his experiences and the activities of the Zionist and underground movements in the Netherlands and France, 1938-1944 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, 1958 and 1961: - Chaver (member) of Maccabi Hatzair, 1937-38, Hechalutz, 1939, Deventer Vereeniging (Association); - Move from Gemany to Belgium with a Kindertransport, 1938; move to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1939; - Aliya training in Amsterdam, living at Beth Chalutz; work...

File Number : 5131

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Zwi Durlacher, born in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 1913, regarding his experiences in the Netherlands including Hachshara (aliya training), detention and escape from a transport, in hiding, activities of the Zionist and Dutch underground and the hiding, escape and emigration of his son, Uri Durlacher, 1939-1944 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, April 1956: - German citizenship in 1933, stateless in 1941; - Chaver (member) of Habonim, Mannheim, 1933; aliya training in Gut Winkel and Beth Chalutz in...

File Number : 5115

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Various documents, including testimony of Margitta Salzmann-Donig regarding her years of hiding in Berlin

Various documents, including testimony of Margitta Salzmann-Donig regarding her years of hiding in Berlin Included in the file: May 1984-20 April 1998: Written testimonies of Adela and Abraham Harp, and Reuven Yomnick, (in Hebrew and Yiddish), (pp. 2-28); Block 2 (quarantine), Auschwitz, August-October 1943; selection, 20 October 1943; deportation of Abraham and Reuven to Jaworzna camp; forced labor of Abraham in a coal mine; Reuven's forced labor in construction and loading train cars, with approximately 6,000 forced laborers [in the camp]; air-raids by the Red Army causing the death of many Kapos...

File Number : 4962

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Identity Card, Reports, Testimony, Document(s), Poems/songs, Correspondence

Language : Hebrew, German, Yiddish

Memoirs of Rolf Loehr, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1923, regarding his experiences in Germany and various concentration camps, especially Auschwitz, 1933-1945

Memoirs of Rolf Loehr, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1923, regarding his experiences in Germany and various concentration camps, especially Auschwitz, 1933-1945 Pages 3 - 10: Letters from Karl Loehr, Berlin, to the leader of the department for prisoners of war and the authorities concerned in the Belsen process relating to the inquiry regarding the whereabouts of his son, Rolf Loehr, 15/11/1945 - 12/03/1946 (in German, English and Russian) Pages 11 - 20: Parental home and childhood in Hamburg an Berlin before 1933; Rolf Loehr's mother, Marie, maiden name Glueck, born as a Jew; his father, Karl, was a...

File Number : 4318

Type of Material : Letter(s), Death Certificate, Testimony, Correspondence

Language : English, Russian, German

Memoirs of Edith (Koenigsberger) Dietz, born in Giessen, Germany, 1921, regarding her experiences in Germany, 1933-1943

Memoirs of Edith (Koenigsberger) Dietz, born in Giessen, Germany, 1921, regarding her experiences in Germany, 1933-1943 Pp. 2-16, 20-181: Nazi rise to power, 1933; death of her father approximately three months later; displays of antisemitism against her family, including placing of SA sentries outside her family's shop and hate speeches against Jews at school, 1934; leaving school due to antisemitism; attending a school for housekeeping in Hamburg; life with a Jewish family in Cologne; joining Werkleute, the Zionist youth movement, 1935; return to Bad Ems; order to close the family shop; forced...

File Number : 3282

Type of Material : Reports, Correspondence, Letter(s), Memoirs

Language : German

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