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Explanation of the decree from July 11th 1942 to tranfer Jews from France, Belgium and the Netherlands and the technical procedure from July 9th 1942. Deportation of the Jews from the Netherlands to Theresienstadt Telegram by the head of the BdS in the Netherlands Wiljelm Harster to Adolf Eichmann informing him about the decision by the German Commissioner-General in the Netherlands Fritz Schmidt exempting from deportation Dutch Jews converted to Christianity before the 9/5/1940. The decision applied to 694 former Jewish Catholics and 1,061 Protestants, 20/7/1942 (p.6); Telegrams by the Duesseldorf...

File Number : 193

Language : German

Secret report regarding the development of the "Jewish Question" and, in particular, the "Entjudung" (de-Jewification) in the Netherlands until late 1942, including the registration of anti-Jewish legislation (transcript of an official document), apparently from 1943 The report includes information regarding the: - Positive attitude of the Dutch population toward the Jewish population before the German occupation, and the change in the attitude after the German invasion; - Elimination of Jews from the political, cultural and economic life; - Registration and marking of Jews; - Ban on marriage and...

File Number : 1501

Type of Material : Index, Report

Language : German

Testimony of Gerth Pfefferkorn, born in Krakow, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Paris, Theresienstadt and Auschwitz

Testimony of Gerth Pfefferkorn, born in Krakow, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Paris, Theresienstadt and Auschwitz Outbreak of the war; life in Paris, including studies in a regular (public) school as a Mischlinge, because his mother is a non-Jew; ban on studies in a public school; detention by the Gestapo, 27 June 1944; transfer to a prison; interrogation in the Gestapo station, regarding his origin; he signs a document confessing to his Jewish origin, without being given the possibility of reading the confession; transport by train to Theresienstadt, August 1944; life in a block with 100 Jewish...

File Number : 30

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Lore (Zimels) Sieskind, born in Berlin, Germany, 1920, regarding her experiences and the activities of Zionist and resistance movements in the Netherlands, 1939-1944

Testimony of Lore (Zimels) Sieskind, born in Berlin, Germany, 1920, regarding her experiences and the activities of Zionist and resistance movements in the Netherlands, 1939-1944 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, December 1955: - Member of Hashomer Hazair (Werkleute - Bund Juedischer Jugend), 1932; - Move to the Werkdorp (Work Village) Wieringen, Netherlands, (by Hechalutz), June 1939; - Stateless, from 1941; - Evacuation of the Werkdorp, March 1941; - Residence at Beith Chaluz in Amsterdam, July...

File Number : 5191

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Miriam Levin-de Vries, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 1907, regarding her and her husband’s experiences in the Netherlands, hiding, escape and activities of the Zionist underground movement, 1940-1944 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, April 1956: - Chavera (member) of Hatzair; - Married to Schimon Levin, from 1942; - Work at a refugee camp for German children in Driebergen, the Netherlands, November 1938-September 1940; entrusting the children to private homes and other children's homes...

File Number : 5157

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Letter from Edward Zatorski to the director at the Yad Vashem Archives, Dr. Shmul Krakowski, regarding his experience in the forced labor camp in Osterode

Letter from Edward Zatorski to the director of the Yad Vashem Archives, Dr. Shmul Krakowski, regarding his experiences in the forced labor camp in Osterode Edward Zatorski's mother was Jewish (family name Padowicz); at the age 18, as a first degree Mischling, he was interned in the forced labor camp in Osterode, supervised by the TODT organisation; this camp was located next to the Harz concentration camp, Dachs IV; camp life description: hunger, hard work in quarries; K.L. Dachs IV was liquidated in March 1945; liberation by the allied forces on April 11, 1945. The letter was written on August 30, 1993...

File Number : 3542

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Letter and document of Martin Bormann, regarding the expropriation of churches in Berlin and restrictions on a craftsman who is married to a Jewish woman in Vienna

Letter and document of Martin Bormann, regarding the expropriation of churches in Berlin and restrictions on a craftsman who is married to a Jewish woman in Vienna Letter from Martin Bormann to Alfred Rosenberg in Berlin, regarding the expropriation of churches and their properties in Berlin in favor of the state and the Nazi party, 06 December 1940; document of Martin Bormann, including notice that Paul Schuppich, a craftsman from Vienna who is married to a Jewish woman, is to be restricted in his work, 21 March 1944.

File Number : 368a

Type of Material : Administrative Documentation

Language : German

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File Number : 1213

Type of Material : Names, Official Documentation

Language : Russian, Ukrainian

Questionnaire regarding the Jews of Ansbach, Germany, 1946

Questionnaire regarding the Jews of Ansbach, Germany, 1946 Page 3: 1933 - there were 101 Jews living there; 1939 - there were three Jews living there; emigration of Jews; deportation of a Jewish family by the local commander of the National Socialist Party; 1946 - there were three Jews and a larger number of persons with one Jewish parent; support of Jews and those from mixed marriages.

File Number : 5

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Questionnaire, Statistical Data

Language : German

Questionnaires regarding camps in the Wilhelmshaven area and the Jews of Wilhelmshaven, Germany, 1947

Questionnaires regarding camps in the Wilhelmshaven area and the Jews of Wilhelmshaven, Germany, 1947 Page 3: Establishment of two camps in the Wilhelmshaven area; there were approximately 600 inmates living in the camps, including Jews; 1933 - there were approximately 126 Jews living in Wilhelmshaven; 1939 - there were approximately 86 Jews living there; emigration of some of the local Jews, until 1939; Jews receiving orders to leave, 1940; deportation of children of mixed marriages and those married to non-Jews to concentration camps, 1944; return of 13 Jews to Wilhelmshaven, 1947; receiving...

File Number : 469

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Statistical Data, Questionnaire

Language : German

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