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Closing statement presented by Joachim von Ribbentrop at the Nuremberg Trials; notes regarding Hitler's testament

Closing statement presented by Joachim von Ribbentrop at the Nuremberg Trials; notes regarding Hitler's testament - Closing statement presented by Joachim von Ribbentrop at the Nuremberg Trials: The International Military Tribunal is part of a conspiracy against Germany; - Notes on Hitler's testament: disagreement with Hitler's opinion that there will always be hatred between Jews and Germans.

File Number : 36

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Testimony of Yosef Eintov, born in Przemysl, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in hiding in the Przemysl Ghetto and Lwow

Testimony

Testimony of Yosef Eintov, born in Przemysl, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in hiding in the Przemysl Ghetto and Lwow Survival in the Przemysl Ghetto, July 1942-September 1943; deportation of his parents and their murder in Auschwitz, September 1943; deportation and murder of his brother, Yehuda, in Janowska; in hiding in the Przemysl Ghetto, September-October 1943; escape and in hiding in Lwow; liberation, June 1944. Aliya to Eretz Israel, December 1945.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliahu Erich Heymann, born in Breslau, 1926, regarding his experiences in aliya training, Berlin, Buna-Monowitz camp and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Eliahu Erich Heymann, born in Breslau, 1926, regarding his experiences in aliya training, Berlin, Buna-Monowitz camp and a death march His immediate family; the Jewish community; school; displays of antisemitism; membership in a youth movement. Community activities after Kristallnacht; restrictions on Jews; confiscation of property; leaves home, 1940; aliya training: daily life and various jobs; closure of the aliya training sites by the Gestapo; Zionist activities; move to Berlin, April 1943; deportation to Auschwitz; camp registration process; transfer to Buna-Monowitz camp; forced labor;...

File Number : 12062

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Lewin Kowaliszki, born in 1924 in Lithuania, about his internment in the Lida ghetto, escape to Wilno, doing odd jobs, and detention at Gestapo headquarters

Individuals: Ribbentrop, Molotov, Lichtman Kalman, Tuvoa Bielski, Jacob Gens, Wittenberg Topics: the Jerusalem of Lithuania, the Death Head

File Number : 11871

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 21 October 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 21 October 1949 Examination of Field Marshal von Manstein in the witness box by Dr. Laternser (for the Defense): Biographical data: Full name: Fritz Erich von Lewinski, called von Manstein; Born in Berlin, 24/11/1887 (p. 4); Family background: Old military family (Lewinski and von Manstein); Adoption by his family of [the name of] von Manstein; both families had served for many generations in the Prussian Army and the German Army. (pp. 4-5) Short Resume [Curriculum...

File Number : 31

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Indictment

Language : English

Testimony of Jacob (Volovelsky) Yovel, born in Pruzany, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Pruzany Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk camps and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Jacob (Volovelsky) Yovel, born in Pruzany, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Pruzany Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk camps and a death march Close family; his father's livelihood; religious holidays at home; community life. Entry of the Soviets; attitude of the residents during the Soviet rule; list of candidates for transport to Siberia; entry of the Germans into Pruzany; Judenrat activities; demand to hand over partisans; the ghetto; going out of the ghetto to bring medications; humiliation of rabbi; transports to Auschwitz; relatives who perished; the route to Auschwitz;...

File Number : 11361

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Itzhak Fligelman, born in Świerże, Poland, 1933, regarding his escape from Poland and deportation to the eastern part of the Soviet Union

Testimony of Itzhak Fligelman, born in Świerże, Poland, 1933, regarding his escape from Poland and deportation to the eastern part of the Soviet Union Childhood in a middle-class family; life in Świerże as part of the Jewish minority; the family’s move to Dorohusk in 1934; the establishment of a soda pop factory by his father; the outbreak of war in 1939; air-raids and German occupation; the escape of his parents to the Soviet-controlled area of Ukraine; life with his sister in Świerże under German occupation; his uncle smuggled him along with his sister to the Soviet-controlled zone; escape to Luboml in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hanah Margit (Fridman) Fishlowitz, born in 1940 in Kiskunmajsa, Hungary, about her experiences in Kiskunmajsa, Hajdúnánás, Debrecen, Vienna, and Mauthausen

Testimony of Hanah Margit (Fridman) Fishlowitz, born in 1940 in Kiskunmajsa, Hungary, about her experiences in Kiskunmajsa, Hajdúnánás, Debrecen, Vienna, and Mauthausen Childhood in a liberal religious family in Kisskunmajsa; Jews a minority in the village; family sent to Hajdúnánás in 1935; war breaks out; the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact; German occupation ensues; anti-Jewish laws; wearing the yellow star; "Aryanization"; deportation to the Hajdúnánás ghetto; father assigned to forced labor; Jews rounded up in a synagogue; marched to a train station in Debrecen; selection; family members separated; Allied...

File Number : 14370

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Ada Gittel Tencer née Frydman about her family's history in Sokołów Podlaski, Belarus; escape to the Kazan region in 1941; after the war in Poland, France, and Israel; and documentation of her studies in Yoshkar-Ola, Russia Memoirs of Ada Gittel Tencer née Frydman: - Memoirs of Ada Gittel Tencer née Frydman (b. January 4, 1932, in Sokołów Podalski, Poland, with the history of her family in the Holocaust: Ada's father moves to France before the war and enlists in the Foreign Legion; he served in northern Africa during the entire war and thus survived; the Germans bombard Sokołów Podalski and...

File Number : 9995

Type of Material : Notebook, Memoirs, Diploma

Language : Hebrew, Russian

Identity cards of Mojzesz Epelstejn and his wife Brandla Epelstejn, issued in Warsaw in 1949 for the purpose of aliya to Israel, and comments by their son Pinchas Even (formerly: Epelstejn), born in Chelm in 1938, regarding his family's experiences in 1939 - Identity cards of Mojzesz Epelstejn and his wife Brandla Epelstejn, born in 1909, residents of Bielawa in Warsaw, issued on 25/11/1949 for the purpose of their aliya to Israel (scan); - Comments by Pinchas Even (formerly: Epelstejn), born in Chelm in 1938, regarding his family's experiences at the start of World War II, based on a few family stories...

File Number : 1070

Type of Material : List of Murdered Jews, Personal Documents, Identity Card

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, English

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