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Personal documentation of Pest family members, 1930-1934

Personal documentation of Pest family members, 1930-1934 - School report card of Else Pest, issued in Cologne for 1930-1931; - Certificate issued to Samuel Pest by the Zionist Organization in Germany; - Membership card issued to Nathan Pest by the Maccabi movement, 1934.

File Number : 567

Type of Material : Photograph, Personal Documents, Documents

Language : German

Testimony of Rudolf Zinreich, born in Berlin, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences before the war, in Budapest, Denmark and Sweden

Testimony

Testimony of Rudolf Zinreich, born in Berlin, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences before the war, in Budapest, Denmark and Sweden Life before the war; attends a German school; expulsion from school, 1933; joins the Blau-Weiss movement; work for a wholesale company; Kristallnacht, 1938; move to Budapest; emigration of his father to South Africa; return to Berlin, March 1939; aliya training on a farm in Denmark; marriage. German occupation, 1940; moves between various farms; life in hiding; escape to Sweden on a fishing boat. Aliya to Israel, 1950.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Memoirs of Arje Rubens, "So Hat Es Angefangen" ("It All Began This Way") regarding the story of a Jewish family from Berlin, 1933-1945

Memoirs of Arje Rubens, "So Hat Es Angefangen" ("It All Began This Way") regarding the story of a Jewish family from Berlin, 1933-1945 Included in the file: [1-Scanned File; 119 pages in German] [2- Memoirs of Arje (Walter) Rubens, titled "So Hat Es Angefangen" ("It All Began This Way"); written in narrative form, primarily from a collection of letters by his mother in Berlin, his uncle in Vienna and his brother in Prague as well as excerpts from his own diary; memoirs published in 1992; - Summary of family background, parents' family history; - Childhood in Berlin including encounters with...

File Number : 4740

Type of Material : Memoirs, Testimony, Letter(s), Photograph, Diary

Language : Hebrew, German

Protocol of a conference held by the Arbeitskreises von Zionisten aus Deutschland (Work Group of Zionists from Germany) in Tel Aviv regarding "adventurous Jewish characters in Germany after 1933", including Karl Kindermann, Leo Plaut and the Gestapo informer Schwarzer (Bartenstein) In the file: - Covering report prepared by Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri regarding the conference held by the Work Group of Zionists from Germany in Tel Aviv, 08 January 1959, concerning "adventurous Jewish characters in Germany after 1933" (p. 2), January 1959; - Protocol of the conference of the Work Group of Zionists from...

File Number : 242

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Documents collected by Dr. Hans Friedenthal, former Chairman of the Zionistische Vereinigung fuer Deutschland (ZVfD -Zionist Federation of Germany), 1933-1943

Documents collected by Dr. Hans Friedenthal, former Chairman of the Zionistische Vereinigung fuer Deutschland (ZVfD -Zionist Federation of Germany), 1933-1943 In the file: - Remarks prepared by Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri regarding the material from the years 1933-1943 provided by Dr. Hans Friedenthal (pp. 2-3), August 1958; - Confirmation from the Reichsausschuss Juedischer Jugendverbaende (Reich Committee for Jewish Youth Organizations) permitting Dr. Hans Friedenthal to assume his position as leader of the sports department (p. 4), 06 December 1933; - Confirmation by the Auswaertiges Amt (German...

File Number : 225

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Correspondence, Testimony, Letter(s)

Language : English, German

Testimony of Dr. Berthold Simonsohn, born in Bernburg, Germany, 1912, regarding his professional experience in the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (RVJ-Reich Association of the Jews in Germany) and his detention in Sachsenhausen, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Dachau - Law studies, 1930-1934; first bar exam, 1934; no further studies permitted; - Life in Stettin, July 1938-November 1938; work at the provincial Stettin RVJ administrative branch supervised by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Main Office) as the head of the social welfare department, managed at the time by Anne Hertz;...

File Number : 200

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Reichsbund Juedischer Frontsoldaten (RJF-Reich Federation of Jewish Front Soldiers) documentation regarding its former vice chairman, Walter Callmann, born in Briesen, Germany, 1885

Reichsbund Juedischer Frontsoldaten (RJF-Reich Federation of Jewish Front Soldiers) documentation regarding its former vice chairman, Walter Callmann, born in Briesen, Germany, 1885 In the file: [File-4] - Postwar report by Walter Callmann regarding RJF activities, mainly concerning efforts to improve the legal status and living conditions of Jews in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939, (pp. 2-4); - Letter from Walter Callmann to Dr. Ball-Kaduri, containing a detailed autobiography, including among other items mentioned the fact that Callman fought in World War I, was awarded the Iron Cross First Class in 1916,...

File Number : 142

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report, Correspondence, Diploma, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Certification, Personal Records, Genealogy, Photograph, Newspaper

Language : Hebrew, German

Correspondence and other papers related to the Jewish communities in Bavaria, 1934 - 1936

File Number : 1464

Type of Material : Photo(s), Chart(s), Drawing(s), Correspondence, Letter(s)

Language : German

Memoirs of Bernhard Hardi Swarsensky, born in Berlin, Germany, 1908, regarding the deportation of Polish Jewish citizens from Germany to Poland, October 1938

Memoirs of Bernhard Hardi Swarsensky, born in Berlin, Germany, 1908, regarding the deportation of Polish Jewish citizens from Germany to Poland, October 1938 - "Transport nach polen (1938)" (Transport to Poland - 1938), an article from a leaflet published by the Leo Baeck Instituts in 1988, containing the memoirs of Bernhard Hardi Swarsensky, born in Berlin, Germany, 1908, regarding the deportation of Polish Jewish citizens from Germany to Poland, October 1938 (the article is in German with a translation into English): Arrest of Polish citizens in Germany, October 1938; deportation of those holding Polish...

File Number : 9608

Type of Material : Brochure, Article, Memoirs

Language : English, German

Collection of drafts, notes and other papers related to the Jewish community of Regensburg, part six, 1220-1970

Collection of drafts, notes and other papers related to the Jewish community of Regensburg, part six, 1220-1970 Handwitten drafts of articles and notes containing bibliographical and archival references related to the Jewish community of Regensburg, Regensburg county, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany, part six, 1220-1970 Copy of an undated document related to the establishment of a distict rabbinate that comprises the following Jewish communities: - Regensburg - Neumarkt - Straubing - Weiden - Cham - Amberg - Sulzbuerg - Floss - Sulzbach The document contains information regarding the number...

File Number : 167

Type of Material : Draft, List of Persecuted Persons, Note, Statistics, List of Deportees, Names of Evacuees, Letter(s), Excerpt(s)

Language : Hebrew, German

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