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P.55 - Personal Papers of Dr. Heinz E.Samson

P.55 - Personal Archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson In the collection there are files from the private archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson. Description of the collection: The documentation deals with a part of the estate of the Samson family, originally from the city of Norden in Northern Germany. There is pre-war documentation on tax issues and the assets of the Samson family, pre- and postwar correspondence with German authorities, personal documents and certificates, documents on the restoration of the Norden Jewish cemetery supported by the Samson family after WW II, the dedication of a memorial on the...

Type of Material : Journals, List of Deportees, Financial Accounts, Postcard, Administrative Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Balance Sheet, Booklet(s), Speech, Brochure, Personal Documents, Legal Documentation, Envelope, Official Documentation, List of Murdered Jews From Germany, Poster, Death Certificate, Genealogy, Letter, Maps

Language : English, German

Testimony of Kalman Charles Ohrenstein Oren, born in Berlin, Germany, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Berlin, London and with a foster family outside London

Testimony

Testimony of Kalman Charles Ohrenstein Oren, born in Berlin, Germany, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Berlin, London and with a foster family outside London Life before the war; from a traditional family; attends a Jewish school; Nazi rise to power; ostracism by the German children; Kristallnacht events; boycott on buying furs in his father's fur store. Arrest due to the fact that his parents hold Polish citizenship; confiscation of property; receiving an ultimatum that they must leave their home within 24 hours; unsuccessful attempts to obtain entry visas to various countries; receiving...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation and correspondence belonging to Yitzchak Felix Meyer and his parents, Michael and Amalia Meyer, who made aliya to Eretz Israel from Germany, survived the "Patria" tragedy and were detained in Atlit, 1881-1997 Volume I (pp. 1-262) This volume contains personal documentation belonging to Yitzchak Felix Meyer from his birth: Page 1: Copy of the opening page ("Index") with 12 chapters, nine of which (1-6, 10-12) mention their topics; the topics are (the numbers of the pages of the present file containing material matching the topic in the "Index" are given in parentheses): 1. "I As a...

File Number : 356

Type of Material : Memoirs, Newspaper Clippings, List of Deportees, Official Documentation, Diary, Poems/songs, Newspaper, Personal Records, Inventory List, Booklet(s), Lecture, Postcard, Announcement, Record of Persecuted Persons, Letter, Book

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

Documentation regarding the Meyer family from Berlin, 1915-1947

Documentation relating to the Meyer family from Berlin, 1915-1947 Pages 1-3, an envelope containing: - Postcard from Lilo Bloch in Warsaw to Dr. Fritz Unger in Berlin informing him that her father-in-law died recently, she has no information whatsoever about her husband Otto, her mother-in-law or Trude Hilde Herbert, her consolation is her little toddler and her request that Dr. Unger visit her parents, 15 June 1942; - Aerogram from Herbert Bloch in New York to Dr. Fritz Unger telling of the death of his father in the Gurs camp, 1942, the deportation of his mother, his brother Otto and Otto's family to...

File Number : 322

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Financial Accounts, Postcard, Envelope, Letter, Inventory List, Personal Documents

Language : German

To be translated

File Number : 1995

Type of Material : Memoirs, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : Hebrew, German

Lists of Jews deported from Mainfranken, Wuerzburg, Bielefeld and Breslau, and documentation regarding the deportation and emigration of Jews from Breslau, 1935-1944

Lists of Jews deported from Mainfranken, Wuerzburg, Bielefeld and Breslau, and documentation regarding the deportation and emigration of Jews from Breslau, 1935-1944 File 37/I: Lists of deported Jews compiled by the Wuerzburg Aussenstelle (branch) of the Nuremberg Gestapo: - Pages 16-65: From Mainfranken to Izbica, Poland, 03/04/1942; - Pages 66-69: From Wuerzburg to Izbica, Poland, 23/04/1942. Cover page: List of transports compiled by the Gestapo based in the Munich area; - Pages 11-15: Distribution of the communities according to the villages. Lists of those deported to Theresienstadt...

File Number : 37

Type of Material : Certification, Map, Correspondence, Official Documentation, Letter(s), List of Deportees, List of Names

Language : German

Documentation from the Finanzamt Linz (Tax Office in Linz) with a demand that Mathilde Vietz pay 1, 400 Mark as part of the sum collected from the Jews of Germany and Austria as Suehnesteuer (punishment payment [for damages]) following the Kristallnacht riots, 1938

Documentation from the Finanzamt Linz (Tax Office in Linz) with a demand that Mathilde Vietz pay 1,400 Mark as part of the sum collected from the Jews of Germany and Austria as Suehnesteuer (punishment payment [for damages]) following the Kristallnacht riots, 1938

File Number : 385

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Testimony of Siegmund Weltlinger, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1886, regarding his activities on behalf of the Jewish Community of Berlin, 1939-1943

Testimony of Siegmund Weltlinger, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1886, regarding his activities on behalf of the Jewish Community of Berlin, 1939-1943 In the file: - Memo prepared by Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri regarding an interview with Siegmund Weltlinger, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1886, concerning his activities on behalf of the Jewish Community of Berlin as a referent in the community's emigration department, 1939-1943 (pp. 2-4), 28 May 1957; - Return of Dr. Ball-Kaduri's memo by Siegmund Weltlinger with handwritten remarks (pp. 5, 7-11), November 1957; copy of the memo with handwritten remarks by Sigmund...

File Number : 192

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Dr. Isidor Klaber, former member of the Vienna Kultusgemeinde (Jewish community) board regarding his experiences after the German occupation of Austria, 1938

Testimony of Dr. Isidor Klaber, former member of the Vienna Kultusgemeinde (Jewish community) board regarding his experiences after the German occupation of Austria, 1938 German occupation of Austria, March 1938; closure of the Vienna Jewish community administration building; arrest of board and community members; cessation of any community activities, except funerals; sending of a Jewish delegation to a meeting with the mayor of Vienna, a Nazi Party member, but a former Social Democrat, resulting in permission to reopen the Jewish schools and resume community activities; subsequent release of Dr. Josef...

File Number : 74

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Dr. Max Plaut, born in Sorau, Germany, 1901, regarding the Jewish community of Hamburg, 1933-1943

Testimony of Dr. Max Plaut, born in Sorau, Germany, 1901, regarding the Jewish community of Hamburg, 1933-1943 - Founding of the Gesellschaft fuer juedische Kunst und Wissenschaft (Society for Jewish Art and Science), 1933; absorption by the Juedischer Kulturbund (Jewish Cultural Federation), 1939; support of illegal emigration by the consulates and the Hamburg Gestapo; forgery of documents regarding religion and profession in order to receive visas from various countries; - First "Akctions" against Jewish lodges: detention of board members by the Gestapo for one day, confiscation of the lodges' assets,...

File Number : 54

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German

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