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Manuscript prepared by Jizchak Schwersenz and Edith Wolff regarding Jewish youth and illegal work with youth under the Nazi regime, 1933-1945

Manuscript prepared by Jizchak Schwersenz and Edith Wolff regarding Jewish youth and illegal work with youth under the Nazi regime, 1933-1945 In the file: - Accompanying letter by Edith Wolff regarding the manuscript she and Jizchak Schwersenz prepared concerning Jewish youth and illegal work with youth under the Nazi regime, pointing out that the manuscript is provisory and not yet meant for public use, but may be used within the Yad Vashem Archives (pp. 2-3), 08 March 1960; - Additional covering report by Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri regarding the manuscript prepared by Jizchak Schwersenz and Edith Wolff...

File Number : 327

Type of Material : Manuscript, Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Edith Wolff, born in Berlin, Germany, 1904, regarding her activities in the underground, 1933-1943

Testimony of Edith Wolff, born in Berlin, Germany, 1904, regarding her activities in the underground, 1933-1943 Pages 2-5: Chapter 1 Prologue - Background until 1933: parental home (mixed marriage); school years; university; leaving the Protestant church; youth movement; conversion to Judaism, 1933. Pages 6-9: Chapter 2 The Dead People - Her Jewish father, Theodor Wolff, political writer, assimilated, member of the Centralverein deutscher Staaatsbuerger juedischen Glaubens (CV-Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), anti-Zionist, victim of Eichmann's "Aktion" against...

File Number : 247

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, 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

Memoirs of Anneliese Ora Borinski, born in Berlin, Germany, 1914, regarding life in a Maccabi Hatzair group, in aliya training camps in Ahrensdorf and Neuendorf, and deportation to Auschwitz, 1940-1943 In the file: Typewritten copies of various documents (in Scanned File-1): - Prologue to the memoirs of Anneliese Ora Borinski, written by Dr. Ball-Kaduri (pp. 2-5); - Reply submitted by Anneliese Borinski to a questionnaire of Ball-Kaduri containing a resume as well as information regarding the fate of her parents and siblings (p. 6), 02 April 1956; - "Memories of 1940-1943" written by...

File Number : 174

Type of Material : Memoirs, Official Documentation

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