Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

327 Results

Postcards from Gertrude Mayer in Theresienstadt to Juliane Waack in Flensburg, 1943-1944

Postcards from Gertrude Mayer in Theresienstadt to Juliane Waack in Flensburg, 1943-1944 Also in the file: - Postcard from Paul Frank in Theresienstadt to Juliane Waack in Flensburg, 18 October 1943; - Letter from Hermine Mayer (mother of Gertrude Mayer) in Frankfurt am Main to her son Curt Mayer in Jerusalem, through the Red Cross, 24 August 1942. Comments by the submitter of the material regarding the experiences of the Mayer family: Life of the family in Frankfurt am Main; aliya of Curt to Eretz Israel, 1937; deportation of the mother Hermine and sister Gertrude to Theresienstadt; transfer of...

File Number : 1945

Type of Material : Postcard, Red Cross Letter

Language : German

Correspondence between Karol Fuchs in Mauthausen and Gusen camps and his sister Josepha Fuchs in Krakow, 1944, and documentation regarding contact between them during the war

Correspondence between Karol Fuchs in Mauthausen and Gusen camps and his sister Josepha Fuchs in Krakow, 1944, and documentation regarding contact between them during the war Comments by the submitter of the material (Michael Feilgut): Karol Fuchs and Josepha Fuchs were born in Lwow, Poland. Karol was transferred from Mauthausen camp to Gusen camp, 08/1944; the letter sent from Gusen camp was written, 10/1944. The siblings reunited in Krakow after the war. Karol Fuchs died in Vienna in 1982, and Josepha Fuchs died in Israel in 1985.

File Number : 1856

Type of Material : Certification, Letter

Language : Polish, German

Letters sent by Herman Gayst from Australia to his father, Szymon Gayst, in Kutno and the Konstancja camp through the Red Cross, 02 February 1940 and 12 December 1942

Letters sent by Herman Gayst from Australia to his father, Szymon Gayst, in Kutno and the Konstancja camp through the Red Cross, 02 February 1940 and 12 December 1942 The first letter received a reply from the Konstancja camp in1941; the second letter was answered by the German Red Cross informing the sender that the addressee no long resides at that address.

File Number : 1826

Type of Material : Red Cross Letter

Language : English, German

Testimony of Natan Zhepkovich, born in 1920 in Włocławek, Poland, about his experiences in the Warsaw ghetto; the Pustków Strzyzew, and Gleiwitz camps; etc.

German occupation ensues in 1939; parents and brother escape; remaining at home after receiving an induction notice for the Polish army; Germans enter grandmother's house and grandmother dies; two synagogues torched in September 1939; witness arrested by the Germans and sent away for forced labor; attempts unsuccessfully to escape to the Soviet Union; escapes to Warsaw in 1939; assigned to forced labor at an airfield in 1939; life in the Warsaw ghetto in 1940; arrested by the Jewish police and escapes; finds a forged labor permit and joins a work group exiting the ghetto; sent to Strzyzew in 1941; life in the...

File Number : 13496

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Red Cross letters written by Adolf Lampel from Prossnitz sent to his brother-in-law Max Platschek and his daughter Trude Lampel in Eretz Israel, June-July 1942

Red Cross letters written by Adolf Lampel from Prossnitz sent to his brother-in-law Max Platschek and his daughter Trude Lampel in Eretz Israel, June-July 1942 Murder of Adolf Lampel and his wife in Auschwitz. The file also includes: Adolf Lampel's power of attorney given to Max Platschek to help Lampel make aliya to Eretz Israel; Red Cross letter written by Fritz Loew from Prossnitz to Max Platschek, 27 June 1942.

File Number : 1724

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Red Cross Letter

Language : English, German

Memoirs of Jacob Jacobson, born in Schrimm, Poland, 1888, regarding his experiences in Berlin and Theresienstadt

Memoirs of Jacob Jacobson, born in Schrimm, Poland, 1888, regarding his experiences in Berlin and Theresienstadt Deportation from Berlin to Theresienstadt, 15 September 1942. His period of service as Director of the General Archives of the Jews of Germany. Also in the file: Red Cross letter received by the family in London, May 1944; letters he sent to the Reichssippenamt in Berlin regarding the translation into German of books and manuscripts in Hebrew, including a registry book of marriages, mohels (ritual circumcisers) and Chevra Kadisha (burial society); poem/song written by Walter Lindenbaum...

File Number : 8205

Type of Material : List, Newspaper Clippings, Documentary, Letter, Official Documentation, Poem/song, Memoirs

Language : German

Red Cross letter sent by Eva Gerson from Tel Aviv to her mother Martha Gerson from Rabka, 1941

Red Cross letter sent by Eva Gerson from Tel Aviv to her mother Martha Gerson from Rabka, 1941 The response is written on the other side of the letter dated 13 May 1942. The file also includes the testimony of Isidor Zelinger on the murder of Martha Gerson and Mrs. Warszawczyk with 95 additional Jews from Rabka during July 1942, 19 May 1947; murder of the father of Martha Gerson by the Germans, 12 September 1939; murder of her uncle by Germans, 12 September 1939; burial of those murdered with six additional Jews in a mass grave in Mszana Dolna.

File Number : 1721

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Red Cross Letter

Language : Hebrew, German

Letter written by Hirsch Alfred Buchfuehrer from Dukla sent via the Red Cross to his son Heinz Buchfuehrer in Tel Aviv, 15 June 1942

File Number : 1718

Type of Material : Red Cross Letter

Language : German

The last letter of Izrael Gelbgras in the Warsaw Ghetto sent via the Red Cross to Jakow Lew in Eretz Israel, 27 May 1942

File Number : 1711

Type of Material : Red Cross Letter

Language : Polish

Two postcards sent by Karmela Steckelmacher from Theresienstadt to Alfred Stern in Prostejov, with a request to send food parcels to her family

Two postcards sent by Karmela Steckelmacher from Theresienstadt to Alfred Stern in Prostejov, with a request to send food parcels to her family Note: The postcards were written by the mother of Michal Bar.

File Number : 1706

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : German

Items per page:

1 – 10 of 327