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Testimony of Sela Shtovitska Uri Urlich, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1930 regarding deportation to the Polish border and regarding his leaving nazi Germany in Kindertransport

Testimony

Childhood in Frankfurt an der Oder; life during nazi regime in 1933; arrest of the father accused of communist activity and his deportation to Poland as a Polish subject in 1933; attending the Jewish school Philanthropyn in 1936; moving to the Jewish Children's Home Stiftung in 1936; deportation with the mother from Frankfurt an der Oder to the Polish border in 1938; Kristallnacht riots; his joining a group of children who were sent by Kindertransport sponsored by James and Dorothy Rothschild in 1939; the journey via Hoek van Holland, Holland to London, Britain in 1939; moving to the estate of James Rotschild...

File Number : 13713

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Dvora Doris Shner née Klatz, born in 1932 in Dortmund, Germany, about her experiences as a girl in Rożniatów, Bursztin, the Rohatyn ghetto, and in hiding with villagers during the war

Offspring of immigrant parents from Galicia, receiving a "certificate" (Mandate Palestine immigration visa); father deported to Zbąszyń in 1938; reunited with father in Rożniatów in 1939; Poland partititioned and life under Soviet occupation; escaping to Bursztin; German occupation ensues in June 1941; a German soldier warns the family about murder of Jews; establishment of Judenrat; father refuses to translate from German into Polish; receiving word about murder of people in pits in Rohatyn; receiving a postcard from a family member with information about sending of trains to Bełżec; deportation to the Rohatyn...

File Number : 13614

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bela (Goldwater) Shonfeld, born in Leipzig, Germany in 1929, regarding her experiences in Leipzig, Amsterdam, and England

Testimony of Bela (Goldwater) Shonfeld, born in Leipzig, Germany in 1929, regarding her experiences in Leipzig, Amsterdam, and England Life with family in Leipzig; attending the Carlebach School; the festivals; the Nazi party’s rise to power; Jewish students from German schools joining the school; Kristallnacht; expulsion of grandfather and grandmother to the Polish border; the family’s transfer by rail, together with other Jews of Polish origin, to the Polish embassy in Leipzig; escape from the train; return to the family apartment two days later; finding the apartment destroyed; suffering abuse; move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Liana Shoshana Fura Shvartz, born in Vienna, Austria, regarding her experiences in Austria and Czechoslovakia and her aliya to pre-state Israel

Testimony of Liana Shoshana Fura Shvartz, born in Vienna, Austria, regarding her experiences in Austria and Czechoslovakia and her aliya to pre-state Israel Childhood before the war; Anschluss in 1938; Kristallnacht in 1938; attacks; Aryanization of family factory; restrictions; certificate for father for a month; attempt to bring relatives from Hungary; family’s escape to the grandfather’s estate in Sala; receiving certificates as colonial subjects; aliya to pre-state Israel in 1940; absorption.

File Number : 13470

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ayalon (Windholtz) Yehuda, born in Berlin, Germany in 1930, regarding his experiences in Belgium in 1938 and in hiding from 1942 to 1944

Testimony

Testimony of Ayalon (Windholtz) Yehuda, born in Berlin, Germany in 1930, regarding his experiences in Belgium in 1938 and in hiding from 1942 to 1944 Orthodox family; detention of his uncles in Sachsenhausen; Kristallnacht; move, with help from assistance organizations, to Antwerp; parents crossing the border to Belgium illegally in 1939; occupation of Belgium in May 1940 by the German army; assembly of Jews without Belgian citizenship who had lived in Antwerp and expulsion to forced labor in Limborg district; living with local farmers and labor in farming for half a year; return of witness, with his mother,...

File Number : 13466

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters from Leiser and Rosa Hochmann from Mannheim and the Gurs camp to their children in Eretz Israel and documentation regarding the fate of the Jews of Mannheim during the war, 1938-2003

Letters from Leiser and Rosa Hochmann from Mannheim and the Gurs camp to their children in Eretz Israel and documentation regarding the fate of the Jews of Mannheim during the war, 1938-2003 - Letters from Leiser and Rosa Hochmann from Mannheim to their children in Eretz Israel; the letters tell of their difficult situation and the arrangements for a kitchen for 100 Jews by a Jew; 31 July 1938, 21 July 1939 and 17 September 1939; - Letter sent from Gurs with notification that Perl Safrin (Eliyahu's aunt) has died and her children are now orphans, 12 November 1940; - Postcard from Leiser Hochmann in...

File Number : 2086

Type of Material : Speech, Postcard, Newspaper Clippings, Letter, Article, Documentary, Red Cross Letter, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, German

Booklet of testimonies regarding Kristallnacht, published by the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, 1998

Booklet of testimonies regarding Kristallnacht, published by the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, 1998 Included in the booklet is the: Testimony of: - Louis Posener - Dorothy Gordon - John F. Glass - Hilda Hershel Fogelson - Max Katz - Irene Joseph - Gunther B. Katz - Ingrid Blumenstein - Harry Bachenheimer - Pincus Jaspert - Ruth Meyer-Elcott: section of her diary, from 17 May 1939 (translated from German to English) - Rolf Gompertz: speech given by him in English in Krefeld, Germany, 1998 - Ursula Godfrey - Israel Hirsch - Diane Jacobs - Helga Ross - Horst Senger - Ingrid...

File Number : 8524

Type of Material : Booklet(s), Testimony

Language : English

Letters to Albert Weinstein, born in Germany, while in Morocco, from his mother Ida Weinstein in Leipzig, 1940-1941, his sister Susi in London, 14 September 1943, and his cousins in the United States, 1945 Letters and postcards: - Letters from his cousins Richard and Helen in the United States to Albert Weinstein in Morocco, January-April 1945; - Postcard from his mother Ida Weinstein in Germany to Albert Weinstein (known as Alli) in France, 17 April 1940; - Two letters to Albert Weinstein in Morocco from his mother Ida Weinstein in Leipzig through the Red Cross, April 1941 and September 1941;...

File Number : 1959

Type of Material : Postcard, Personal Documents, Documentary, Death Certificate, Red Cross Letter, Letter

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

Testimony of Flora Henle Rothschild, born in Lehrensteinsfeld, Germany, 1920, regarding her experiences in Lehrensteinsfeld, Stuttgart, Urfeld, her aliya to Eretz Israel in 1940, and in other places

Testimony

Testimony of Flora Henle Rothschild, born in Lehrensteinsfeld, Germany, 1920, regarding her experiences in Lehrensteinsfeld, Stuttgart, Urfeld, her aliya to Eretz Israel in 1940, and in other places Life before the war; traditional family, who are landowners; life along with individual Jewish families; Nazi rise to power, 1933; her father receives beatings from Gestapo men; termination of studies; her brother makes aliya to Eretz Israel, 1936; her father visits in Eretz Israel, 1938; her father returns to Germany during the Kristallnacht events; her escape to Stuttgart along with her family; arrest, and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the Glueckstein and Kopel family members from Kitzingen, and their fate during the Holocaust

Documentation regarding the Glueckstein and Kopel family members from Kitzingen, and their fate during the Holocaust Documentation regarding the deportation of the Glueckstein family from Kitzingen to Poland; death certificate of Julius Glueckstein, who perished in Sachsenhausen camp, 28 May 1942; list of inmates who were executed the same day; list of Jews deported to Izbica, 23 March 1942; personal documents of Adolf Avraham Glueckstein, who made aliya to Eretz Israel, 1934; letter of testimony written by Gedalia Kopel in Sweden, 25 August 1945; Documentation regarding the Glueckstein family: -...

File Number : 1411

Type of Material : Personal Records, List of Murdered Jews, Letter of Testimony, List of Deportees, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German, Yiddish

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