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Testimony of Dov Heintz Sternlicht, born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in Theresienstadt and Berlin

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Testimony of Dov Heintz Sternlicht, born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in Theresienstadt and Berlin Life before the war; education. German occupation, 1939; learns carpentry; member of Hashomer Hatzair; escape of his father to the Soviet Union and his death; labor clearing snow; deportation to Theresienstadt Ghetto; ghetto life including labor in carpentry and building barracks; deportation to Germany; life in a forest including labor building barracks; transfer to Berlin; deportation back to Theresienstadt; ghetto life including meeting his mother and typhus; liberation by...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Documentation regarding deportations of Jews from Vienna and Prague, October 1939

Documentation regarding deportations of Jews from Vienna and Prague, October 1939 - Orders from Adolf Eichmann to place the senior Jewish leaders, Berthold Storfer, Boschen, Richard Friedmann, Benjamin Murmelstein, Jakob Edelstein and Mauricy Gruen as the organizers of the first transport, which was thought of as the "Exemplary Transport"; it was said that the deportees were being sent to Maehrish-Osttrau; Correspondence between Dr. Loewenherz and the Zentralstelle fuer Juedische Auswanderung (Central Office for Jewish Emigration) from Austria in Vienna regarding substituting Robert Prochnik for Benjamin...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 82

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter, Reports, Official Documentation

results.listIds.lang : German

Correspondence and personal documentation of Dr. Josef Loewenherz, 1934-1943

Correspondence and personal documentation of Dr. Josef Loewenherz, 1934-1943 - Correspondence regarding allocation of a plot of land in the Ahuza neighborhood (Haifa-1934?) in honor of Dr. Loewenherz's 50th birthday; - Dr. Loewenherz's trip to Paris on behalf of the community regarding receiving financial assistance for emigration with the approval of the Gestapo Zentralstelle ((Central Office for Jewish Emigration), 07 March 1939; request to take personal luggage for the trip approved by the Devisenstelle (Foreign Currency Office) in Vienna, with the exception of a gold watch, which was removed from the...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 51

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Letter

results.listIds.lang : German

Review of events and happenings regarding the situation of Austrian Jewry, 1938-1944, and personal notes and evaluations made by the reviewer

Review of events and happenings regarding the situation of Austrian Jewry, 1938-1944, and personal notes and evaluations made by the reviewer - Summary description of the events and happenings that determined the fate of the Jews of Austria from the Anschluss (Annexation to the Reich), 1938, to the liquidation of Austrian Jewry through emigration abroad of most of the Jews and deportation of Jews to concentration and extermination camps (with the exception of Jews who had intermarried and the children of intermarriages). The review includes: statistical data, anti-Jewish legislation, mass deportations to...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 18

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Official Documentation, Survey Report

results.listIds.lang : German

Letter of appointment of Dr. Josef Loewenherz as Chairman of the Altestenrat (Council of the Elders of the Jews) in Vienna

Letter of appointment of Dr. Josef Loewenherz as Chairman of the Altestenrat (Council of the Elders of the Jews) in Vienna - Advisory members: Wilhelm Bienenfeld; Dr. Heinerich Dessauer and Dr. Benjamin Murmelstein; - Copy of an official letter from Gestapo Stapo (Statepolice) Engelbert Huber in Vienna to Dr. Josef Loewenherz, 01 January 1943; - Photocopy of the Letter of Appointment.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 17

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Official Documentation

results.listIds.lang : German

Activities of the Viennese Jewish community during the first 12 months of the war

Activities of the Viennese Jewish community during the first 12 months of the war Description of the activities written in a bound, well-designed booklet including diagrams, statistical data and photographs regarding community life illustrating activities within the Jewish community of Vienna, September 1939-August 1940; at the end of the booklet there is an appeal to the American Joint Distribution Committee from Dr. Josef Loewenherz and Dr. Benjamin Murmelstein requesting funding.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 11

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Survey Report, Official Documentation

results.listIds.lang : English

Report of the Vienna Jewish Community (in English), 02 May 1938-31 December 1939

Report of the Vienna Jewish Community (in English), 02 May 1938-31 December 1939 The booklet (with an artistic-graphic design) is dedicated to Mrs. Sofie Loewenherz (according to the frontispiece of the booklet). Its contents are divided according to main topics, opening with an introduction quoting the main principles of the community constitution, gratitude for the financial help from outside sources and the sense of responsibility of the leadership. There are five sections in the booklet: emigration, vocational training, social welfare, budget and foreign currency (transfers and funding of emigration)....

results.listIds.fileNumber : 7

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Official Documentation

results.listIds.lang : English

Collection of biographies of prominent people who were inmates in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, written by the Juedischen Selbstverwaltung (Jewish self-government), 01 January 1944

results.listIds.fileNumber : 87

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Curriculum Vitae (cv)

results.listIds.lang : German

Documentation of the Jewish Historical Documentation Center, Linz, regarding accusations against Robert Prochnik, the assistant of the Jews' elder in Theresienstadt, who signed lists of people intended for deportation Testimonies and correspondence of the Jewish Historical Documentation Center, Linz, with the Council of Jewish Communities in Prague and the Jewish community in Vienna, regarding Robert Prochnik, who was the assistant of Rabbi Dr. Benjamin Murmelstein, the Jews' elder in Theresienstadt; Robert Prochnik was accused of signing the lists of people intended for deportation .

results.listIds.fileNumber : 110

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : German

Documentation regarding the Barbarossa Operation, including sitreps of SS units; activities of the Mährisch-Ostrau Gestapo; activities of the Centers for Jewish Emigration (Zentralstellen für jüdische Auswanderung) in Vienna and Prague; the "Nisko-Lublin plan", 1939-1945

Documentation regarding the Barbarossa Operation including sitreps (situation reports) of SS units concerning "cleansing" operations, the killing of Jews and partisans, behavior of the local population, special killing units, and the operational area of Einsatzgruppe I; activities of the Mährisch-Ostrau Gestapo including deportations and correspondence (Eichmann), and the Brünn Gestapo; activities of the Centers for Jewish Emigration (Zentralstellen für jüdische Auswanderung) in Vienna and Prague, and the "Nisko-Lublin plan", 1939-1945 Documentation regarding the Operation Barbarossa, inter alia sitreps of...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 93

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Names of Perpetrators, Official Documentation

results.listIds.lang : German

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