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Testimony of Dora Deborah Eilat Plawes, born in Wien, Austria, 1924, regarding the persecution of Austrian Jews and aliya to Eretz Israel in 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Dora Deborah Eilat Plawes, born in Wien, Austria, 1924, regarding the persecution of Austrian Jews and aliya to Eretz Israel in 1939 Family background, only daughter; her parents are immigrants from Poland; Hebrew studies; studies in an Austrian school. The Anschluss; the beginning of hostile treatment on the part of the local population; the witness winning the competition at school and not receiving the prize due to her being a Jewish; joining the Maccabi Hatzair youth movement; Zionism; the arrival of Eichmann in the youth movement; Kristallnacht riots; the arrest of her father on...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Shulamit Metta (Lande) Roethler, born in Vienna, Austria, 1924, regarding her experiences during Kristallnacht, using a fasle identity in Zutphen, a farmer's home in Loosdrecht, a priest's home in Hilversum and the underground Zionist family. Anschluss, March 1938; decrees; deportation of her father to Dachau, June 1938; Kristallnacht; move to a children's home in S. Gravenhage, December 1938; move to aliya training in Loosdrecht, January 1940; German occupation, May 1940; obtains forged documents; smuggled by the Westerweel underground to Zutphen, August 1942; life with a local family;...

File Number : 12788

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter informing Oskar and Johanna Laufer of their parents' deportation from Vienna to Theresienstadt in July 1942 and documentation of Hans Gellner from 1930s-1940s

- A letter to Oskar Laufer and his sister Johanna (Laufer) Gellner with information regarding their parents' deportation to Theresienstadt. The letter was sent from Vienna on 17 July 1942; - Hans Gellner's personal documents issued in Vienna in 1930-1938 and 1947-1948; Comments from the submitter of the material: (Yasmin Sage) Hans Gellner was born in Vienna in 1925. His parents were Leopold and Johana (Lauferb) Gellner. Hans had a brother Kurt, born in 1918, who died in childhood. Leopold was a lawyer. Johanna owned a shop. Leopold was detained during the events of "Kristallnacht". After his release he...

File Number : 5163

Type of Material : Letter, תעודת בית הספר, Certification, תעודת אזרחות, Personal Documents

Language : German

Correspondence of members of the Eltes family from the 1930s-1950s and personal documentation of members of the Eltes and Jagid families

- postcards sent by Elka Schlesinger in Kladovo (on 16 September 1940) and in Sabac (on 23 October 1940) to her brother Jakob and Pesia Eltes in Canada; - postcard sent by Moshe Schlesinger in Tel Aviv to Jakob Eltes in Canada on 04 November 1940; - letters sent by Moses Eltes in Văscăuți to his son Josef Eltes in Vienna in 1932-1934; - letters sent by Israel Eltes in Montreal to his daughter Berta Blumenfeld in Israel in 1953; - personal records of Israel Eltes, Chasia (Ettinger) Eltes (formerly Jagid), Jakob Eltes and Pesia (Pepy) (Jagid/Jaget) Eltes. The documentation includes documents issued in...

File Number : 5162

Type of Material : Certification, Letter, Birth Certificate, Identity Card, Personal Documents, Postcard, Passport, Medical Documentation, תעודת אזרחות, תעודת יושר, Marriage Certificate, כתובה

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, English, Romanian, German, Yiddish, Aramaic

Memoirs of Leo Pfeffer regarding his experiences during and after the Holocaust, and letters, postcards and additional documentation related to the Pfeffer family from Vienna and the Bach family from Cologne - memoirs of Leo Pfeffer, born in Vienna in 1921, regarding his experiences in Vienna, in Eretz Israel, in the British Army, in prisoner of war camps in Germany, serving in the Irgun and in the IDF in Eretz Israel, and his emigration to the United States in 1950 (written in 1984 -1989): His family’s experiences; childhood in Vienna; arrest of his brother Arthur in March 1938; Arthur's release, his...

File Number : 11176

Type of Material : Postcard, Birth Certificate, Personal Documents, Letter, Memoirs, List of Murdered Jews, Invitation, List of Jews

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

Memoirs of Robert Böhmer, born in Vienna in 1912, regarding his experiences before the Holocaust, and documentation regarding his experiences in Dachau and Buchenwald in 1938-1939

Memoirs of Robert Böhmer, born in Vienna in 1912, regarding his experiences before the Holocaust, and documentation regarding his experiences in Dachau and Buchenwald in 1938-1939 Included in the file: - documents (prisoner cards, financial documents, etc.) related to Robert Böhmer's stay in Dachau and Buchenwald in 1938-1939; - excerpt from the book "O Buchenwald!" by Julius Freund, published in 1945; - excerpt from the book "Konzentrationslager Buchenwald, 1937-1945: Begleitband zur ständigen historischen Ausstellung" published in 1999; - the film "Dem Buchenwald-Häftling Robert Böhmer auf der Spur"...

File Number : 11001

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Official Documentation, Film, Memoirs

Language : German