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Memoirs of Lottie Grussgott, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Frankfurt am Main, Brussels, France and the Malines camp

Memoirs of Lottie Grussgott, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Frankfurt am Main, Brussels, France and the Malines camp Life before the war. Life under the Nazi regime; anti-Jewish legislation; Kristallnacht; unsuccessful attempt of her father to escape to the Netherlands; capture of her father by a Dutch border guard and his return to Germany; deportation of her father to Buchenwald; being watched over along with her brother Leon by her older sister, Dora,13, because their mother was ill; release of her father from Buchenwald because he had a visa to go to England;...

File Number : 8629

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

School project written by Oren Pollak, an 11th grade high school pupil, regarding the SS and the Jewish partisans detachments

School project written by Oren Pollak, an 11th grade high school pupil, regarding the SS and the Jewish partisans detachments - School project written in English by Oren Pollak, a pupil in the 11th grade, group no. 5, in the context of his school's "English project".

File Number : 313.15

Type of Material : School Project

Language : English

Testimony of Ezra Bach, born in Berlin, Germany, 1930, regarding his experiences in Berlin, Hamburg, La Paz and Buenos Aires

Testimony

Testimony of Ezra Bach, born in Berlin, Germany, 1930, regarding his experiences in Berlin, Hamburg, La Paz and Buenos Aires His childhood in Germany; increase in antisemitism. Kristallnacht; dismissal of his father from his work as a representative of a German company; deportation of his father to Sachsenhausen, 1938; receipt [by his father] of an exit permit from Germany; release of his father from the camp, early 1939; move to Hamburg with help from his father's German Communist friend; obtaining of a forged visa to Bolivia for mother and child; smuggle of his father; move from Germany, 1939; sets sail...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation including investigation material of the charge against Nazi dentist Viering, accused of the coordination of the murder of a Jew in Germany, from the Nuremberg Trial held during 1945-1946 Viering, a dentist from Barmen, is accused of the coordination of the murder of his Jewish competitor, Dr. Alfred Meyer; Viering held senior membership in the local Nazi Party; Viering's belief that he received a "License to Kill" from the authorities following the Nazi Party's rise to power; he thought of Meyer as a rival; spreading of slander against Meyer by Viering; theft of valuables from Alfred Meyer's...

File Number : 263

Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, Record of Murdered Persons, Record of Persecuted Persons, Legal Documentation

Language : English

Testimony of Ezra Yeger, born in Veliky Bockov, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Veliky Bockov, the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz, Warsaw, Waldlager and Dachau

Testimony

Testimony of Ezra Yeger, born in Veliky Bockov, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Veliky Bockov, the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz, Warsaw, Waldlager and Dachau Life in an ultra-Orthodox family with 12 people; his father was a butcher and a synagogue cantor; witness attends school and learns in a "heder"; move to Budapest, 1943. Deportation of the family to the Mateszalka Ghetto during Pesach; Hungarian occupation; restrictions, confiscation of property, hunger and ban on ritual slaughter; deportation by train to Auschwitz; harsh conditions, hunger and fear; encounters Mengele during a...

File Number : 12217

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter sent by Theo, a Nazi soldier serving in the Austrian Army in Klagenfurt expressing his apprehension regarding his future after discovering that he is of Jewish origin, 04 April 1938

Letter sent by Theo, a Nazi soldier serving in the Austrian Army in Klagenfurt expressing his apprehension regarding his future after discovering that he is of Jewish origin, 04 April 1938 Shock at the Jewish origin of two of his grandparents; examination of the possibilities facing him; conclusion that he has no future in the army, in a governmental position or in his profession as a musician and theater person; sending of the letter apparently to his retired brother who does not have these concerns, [Note:] The letter was discovered by the submitter of the material, Andrew Certner, after he was...

File Number : 757

Type of Material : Letter, Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings

Language : German

Poem/Song: "In the Barracks", by Chana Chajtin, written in the Siauliai Ghetto, about the house that was destroyed and the family that was murdered

Poem/Song: "In the Barracks", by Chana Chajtin, written in the Siauliai Ghetto about the house that was destroyed and the family that was murdered Poem/song told by a woman about her father, mother, brothers and sisters who were murdered by the Nazis and about the aspiration for vengeance on the murderers.

File Number : 328

Type of Material : Poem/song

Language : Yiddish

Excerpts from books published in 1936 regarding torture and executions by the Nazis, 1933-1936

Excerpts from books published in 1936 regarding torture and executions by the Nazis, 1933-1936 Photographs from books regarding Nazi crimes published by opponents to the Nazi regime who were expelled from Germany. Pages 1-3: - Notes for pp. 21-240 of the book, "Das Deutsche Volk Klagt An", Carrefour-Verlag publishers, Paris, 1936; Pages 4-7: - Photocopies of notes for pp. 17-130 of "Der Strafvollzug im iii. Reich" including the Appendix "Die Nuernberger Rassengesetze", Union Fuer Recht Und Freiheit publishers, Prague, 1936; most of the notes include a detailed description of torture undergone by...

File Number : 8

Type of Material : Excerpt(s), Book, Research Article, List of Murdered Jews From Germany

Language : German

Testimony of Miriam (Leuwy) Stern, born in Berlin, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Leuwy) Stern, born in Berlin, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Germany Life before the Nazi rise to power in Germany. Nazi rise to power, 1933; separation from girlfriend; forced move to a Jewish vocational school; life in a children's home in Norderney; joins Habonim youth movement, 1939. Aliya to Eretz Israel; life on Kibbutz Givat Brenner.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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