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Personal documentation of Hanoch Kolberg, 1933-2003

Personal documentation of Hanoch Kolberg, 1933-2003 - Forced expulsion order from the Reich issued to the Kolberg family, in effect until 15 February 1938; order was issued in Koeslin, 07 February 1938; translation of the order into Hebrew; - Antisemitic articled published in the "Der Stürmer", apparently in 1938; expulsion of Kolberg from the Reich; translation of the article into Hebrew; - School homework in math or shop, submitted by Solomon Kolberg, 06 November 1933; use of the swastika as a geometric figure; - Family tree of the Kolberg family including the descendants of Hanoch Kolberg,...

File Number : 2136

Type of Material : Article, Genealogy, Letter, School Projects

Language : English, German

Testimony of Rita Goldschmidt, born in Munich, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Koenigsberg, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Rita Goldschmidt, born in Munich, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Koenigsberg, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen Life before the war after the Nazi rise to power; life in Koenigsberg; her brother makes aliya to Eretz Israel; her brother's return to Germany for a visit and his murder on the street, 1938. Deportation to Theresienstadt with her family, 1941; life in Theresienstadt; receives help from German women who are neighbors and from women who work on behalf of the SS in Theresienstadt; deportation to Auschwitz with her family, 1942; camp life; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation including an affidavit regarding the change of the first names of Kathe, Ils and Inge Lichtenstein to Sara, and the first name of Meinhard Lichtenstein to Israel, 21 December 1938, and the text of a prayer for Hitler's well-being

File Number : 559

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Tzvi Shafir, born in Topolcany, 1929, regarding his experiences in Topolcany, the Novaky camp and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Tzvi Shafir, born in Topolcany, 1929, regarding his experiences in Topolcany, the Novaky camp and in hiding Childhood in Prague and Bohemia with foster parents until 1939; return to his biological parents, 1939 His father's disappearance, September 1939; move to basements; return to the house; deportation to Novaky, March 1941; life in Novaky; labor in factories; the Germans and their collaborators flee, August 1944; escape to the Stare Hory Mountains; in hiding until early 1945; torture by the Gestapo; rescue by a local farmer. Move to a hospital in Topolcany, April 1945; convalescence...

File Number : 12522

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Perel, born in Peine, Germany, 1925, regarding his experiences in Lodz, in an orphanage in Grodno, using a false identity in a German military unit and a Hitler-Jugend boarding school in Braunschweig Son of Polish immigrants; only Jew pupil in his school; good relations with the German population; move to Lodz, autumn 1938; attends a Jewish school; membership in Gordonia and the Bund. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to the East with his older brother, early 1940; life in an orphanage in Grodno; Communist sympathisers; German occupation, 1941; rescue from a selection; using a false...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter sent by Alfred Rosenberg to Konrad Henlein, the Reichskommissar (Reichs commissioner) of the Sudetenland area, regarding books confiscated in the Sudetenland area, 15/10/1938

Letter sent by Alfred Rosenberg to Konrad Henlein, the Reichskommissar (Reichs commissioner) of the Sudetenland area, regarding books confiscated in the Sudetenland area, 15/10/1938 Responsibility by Rosenberg for the Nazi Party's ideological education; Rosenberg requests that his Dienststelle (local office) take part in the examination of the Jewish, the religious and the Marxist books that were confiscated in the Sudetenland area, for the purpose of the establishment of the library being planned as part of the Nazi Party's school of higher education; The document is part of the Evidence material at the...

File Number : 64

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Directive by Hitler, regarding the establishment of a Nazi Hohe Schule (institution of higher education), 1940

Directive by Hitler, regarding the establishment of a Nazi Hohe Schule (institution of higher education), 1940 Agreement by Rosenberg to act on behalf of the establishment of a Nazi Hohe Schule; establishment that government institutions and Nazi Party organizations must assist Rosenberg in the preparation work, including the establishment of a library; The document is part of the Evidence material at the Nuremberg Trial; The document is in the books: Blue series, xxv, 229-230; Red series, iii, 184; sk, 121; The document in German is in JM 2112, and in English in ps 136.

File Number : 57

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Report prepared by British Army Intelligence, regarding the interrogation of an SS man who deserted, 1944

Report prepared by British Army Intelligence, regarding the interrogation of an SS man who deserted, 1944 The POW (his name was not submitted) deserted from an SS detachment and surrendered to the British Army near Trumelet; - Completion [of studies] in the SS-Junkerschule in Munich; character and aim of the school; swearing of allegiance to Hitler; combat training in the battalion's headquarters; political preparation; - SS [service]: moral outlook of the SS; advice to young draftees regarding morals; SS members may marry only after the SS Rasse und Siedlingshauptamt (SS Racial and Settlement Matters...

File Number : 232

Type of Material : Investigation Report

Language : English

To be translated

File Number : 2219

Language : Yiddish

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