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Musical score and words to the composition, "Buchenwalder Marsch" ("Buchenwald March"), composed by Hermann Leopoldi, 07 March 1939

Musical score and words to the composition, "Buchenwalder Marsch" ("Buchenwald March"), composed by Hermann Leopoldi, 07 March 1939 Note: Hermann Leopoldi composed the work, "Buchenwald March", after returning from detention, 1939. The file contains the musical score and the words to the music written under the appropriate notes. The work ends with the words, "the day will come and we shall be free". On the sheet music is a dedication to Dr. Gerhardt Wollner, noting the place, Vienna, and the date, 07 March 1939.

File Number : 271

Type of Material : Poem/song, Musical Notes

Language : German

Testimony

Testimony of Gabriel Shinar, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. 1932, regarding his experiences in Djakovo; with a Jewish family in Vinkovice; in hiding in Zagreb; with a false identity in Split and other places Childhood. Life after the German occupation, 1941; detention in the railroad station; deportation of the witness' father to Stara Gordwa and Jasenovac with the men; deportation of the children and women to the Loborgrad camp, and their return to detention in the railroad station in Sarajevo; deportation to the Djakovo camp, 1941; rescue of the children by the Jewish community in Osijek; separation from...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Yehoshua Halevi, born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, 1917, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the ship "Pentcho" and the sinking of the ship, Ferramonto camp, aliya to Eretz Israel in 1944 and other Life before the war; Beitar movement activities from age 13; writes pro-Zionist and anti-Nazi plays; move to Bratislava. Move with 300 immigrants to Eretz Israel on the Danube river; 200 additional immigrants join them; sails on the ship "Pentcho" via Yugoslavia, Romania and Turkey; sinking of the ship; transfer by the Italian Army to Rhodes; life in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther (Tarnarider) Shtiglitz, born in Briceva, Romania, 1923, regarding her expeiences in Briceva, Cosauti, Bershad, Pyatkovka and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Esther (Tarnarider) Shtiglitz, born in Briceva, Romania, 1923, regarding her expeiences in Briceva, Cosauti, Bershad, Pyatkovka and other places Life before the war; daughter in a religious Zionist family. Soviet occupation, 1940; German occupation, summer 1941; deportation to Transnistria before Rosh Hashana, 1941; life in Cosauti in a forest; crosses the Dniester forest; transfer to Bershad; life in Bershad including receives help from local Jews; transfer to a kolkhoz in Pyatkovka; unsuccessful escape attempt to Bershad; typhus; marriage and escape to Rublenita; life in Rublenitz including...

File Number : 13101

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bela (Weinberg) Tanchelewicz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Lenzingen

Testimony

Testimony of Bela (Weinberg) Tanchelewicz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Lenzingen Traditional family; family of music enthusiasts. German occupation, 1939; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; attends high school; arrival of her uncle's family to the Lodz Ghetto from Germany; suicide of her aunt; labor in a horse harness factory; deportation to Auschwitz, autumn 1944; selection by Mengele; camp life including playing the accordion for the camp command; transfer to Lenzingen, winter 1945; camp life including labor in a weapons factory; receives extra...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Zofia (Flachs) Trembska, born in Lwow, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Lwow Ghetto, wanderings using a false identity in Ciechania, Bartne, hidden by Father Jan Lewiarz in Ciechania and other places German occupation; life in the Lwow Ghetto until April 1942; murder of her mother and relatives in an "Aktion", August 1942; escape from the ghetto with Aryan papers; escape to Ciechania and Bartne; hidden by the Ukrainian priest Jan Lewiarz in Ciechania; life with the priest using a false identity from November 1942; detention by the Gestapo; wanderings between the villages Polany...

File Number : 1823

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Letter sent to the Juedischer Kulturbund in Vienna by the Juedischer Kulturbund in Berlin, with a request to extend the residence permit in Berlin for five musicians from Vienna, 14/04/1939

Letter sent to the Juedischer Kulturbund in Vienna by the Juedischer Kulturbund in Berlin, with a request to extend the residence permit in Berlin for five musicians from Vienna, 14/04/1939 Included in the file: Application for the extension of an American passport, from the Swiss Embassy in Germany.

File Number : 282

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Lodz Ghetto Diary kept by Oskar Rosenfeld, December 1943-March 1944

File Number : 234

Language : German

Articles by Xu-Bu-Zeng regarding the Jewish refugees in Shanghai, 1990

Articles by Xu-Bu-Zeng regarding the Jewish refugees in Shanghai, 1990 1. "A Jewish Pianist in Shanghai", article by Xu-Bu-Zeng; 2. "Jewish Musicians in Shanghai", article by Xu-Bu-Zeng; 3. "From Vienna to Shanghai", article by Xu-Bu-Zeng.

File Number : 101

Type of Material : Article

Language : Chinese

Memoires regarding the women's orchestra in Auschwitz, and mainly concerning Alma Rose, the conductor, and her fate

File Number : 273

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

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