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Letters written in Vienna, Austria, by Cecilia (Deutsch) Hartenstein, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1870, to her children in the United States, 27 August 1939-September 1941

Letters written in Vienna, Austria, by Cecilia (Deutsch) Hartenstein, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1870, to her children in the United States, 27 August 1939-September 1941 Marriage of Cecilia to Emil Hartenstein from Vienna; Emil owns a printing press; Cecilia and Emil are the parents of five children; death of one of the children at a young age; Anschluss, annexation of Austria to Germany, 1938. Escape of the family; one of the daughters obtains entrance visas to the United States for the entire family; lack of desire to leave Austria; emigration of son Hugo to the United States; Cecilia remains...

File Number : 1890

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, Volume 2: Trial against Hermann Hoefle: Testimonies by Austrian and German perpetrators and Jewish survivors, 1961

Documentation from trials conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court), Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) and Landesgericht Linz (the Linz District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin: Trial against Hermann Hoefle; Testimonies by Austrian and German perpetrators and Jewish survivors, 1961 Documentation from a trial conducted against Austrian war criminals, most of whom participated in "Aktion Reinhardt": - Investigation against Hermann Hoefle started...

File Number : 59

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

Language : German

Testimony of Zvia (Taube) Greenbaum, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in Amsterdam, Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen, Biebrich and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Zvia (Taube) Greenbaum, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in Amsterdam, Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen, Biebrich and other places Life before the war; from an Orthodox family; displays of antisemitism. Deportation of her father and oldest brother to Westerbork; murder of her brother and father in Auschwitz, 1942; her mother's work in an old age home and living quarters there; obtaining passports from Honduras with help from her mother's sister; deportation to Westerbork; camp life as a Honduran citizen; deportation to Bergen-Belsen; camp life with a...

File Number : 13046

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sonia Suzanne (Leibel) Leroy Eshel, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences in Tarnow, Brussels and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Sonia Suzanne (Leibel) Leroy Eshel, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences in Tarnow, Brussels and in hiding Displays of antisemitism; non-Zionist family; emigration to Belgium, 1938; witness attends school in French. Attempt to escape to France; return to Belgium; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; ban on studies; yellow badge; curfew; deportation of her parents to Malines; "Aktion"; deportation of her parents, 1942; her two sisters are placed in an orphanage; move of her grandmother to an old age home, by the Queen Mother; deportation of her sisters and two aunts...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Chana (Vulf) Keren, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1924, regarding her experiences in Amsterdam, in hiding, and living with Dutch people in Voorthuizen while using a false identity and in a forest Life before the war; from a well-to-do religious family; her father owns a business; her mother's death; attends elementary and high school; her father's remarriage. "Aktion", 1941; works in a day care center for Jewish children; yellow badge; her father's decision to find a hiding place for the family; her family is transferred to hiding places; transfer to the home of farmers in Voorthuizen...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Reports sent to the US State Department by US diplomatic delegations in Germany, regarding the Boycott of 01 April 1933 against Jewish businesses, and regarding the Kristallnacht riots, 1933-1938

Reports sent to the US State Department by US diplomatic delegations in Germany, regarding the Boycott of 01 April 1933 against Jewish businesses, and regarding the Kristallnacht riots, 1933-1938 Reports regarding the Boycott of 01 April 1933: - Report by the US Embassy in Berlin, 03/04/1933: Description of the background and aims of the boycott; Nazi Party propaganda; establishment of the "Central Committee for the Struggle against the Propaganda of Terror and for the Jewish Boycott" in Munich, and the local committee for the implementation of the boycott; regulations published regarding the...

File Number : 277

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Survey Report, Lists of Businesses and Skilled Workers, Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Correspondence by Ellen (Philippi) Citroen in Amsterdam and in Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen camps, with her children Paul and Lientje Citroen and family, Franz and Ilse Ledermann and family and Hans Citroen and family in Switzerland, 1942-1945 - Letter by Franz Ledermann to his brother-in-law Paul Citroen including passing thoughts regarding the dangers of registering or non-registering of Paul's wife and their daughter Paulineke as Jewish women farmers, 03/07/1942 (pp. 2-3); - Letters by Ilse Ledermann to her brother Paul, dated, 04/07/1942, 09/07/1942, 10/07/1942 and 22/08/1942: non-deportation of...

File Number : 830

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard

Language : Dutch, German

Memoirs and letters of Eli Baruh, 1951-1960

Memoirs and letters of Eli Baruh, 1951-1960 Correspondence of Eli Baruh with Benjamin Arditti on his activities including the Jewish Scientific Institute and the Jewish Bank Geula; autobiographical comments on his Zionist activities in Sofia and his hometown Dupnitsa.

File Number : 250

Type of Material : Letter, Survey

Language : Bulgarian

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin, 1964-1965: Testimonies by perpetrators and Jewish survivors regarding the Lodz Ghetto and the deportation from Berlin to Lodz, 1945 - 1968 Note: This file includes not only material of the proceedings against former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle, but also memoirs of a Jewish survivor from Berlin and material of other proceedings against Nazi Criminals in the years since 1956. The recording of these material here was in order to substantiate the evidences against former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle. The file includes...

File Number : 41

Type of Material : Testimony, Diaries and Memoirs, Reports, Letter, List of Names

Language : German

Documentation on the establishment of a Bulgarian old age home in Israel, 1958-1976

Documentation on the establishment of a Bulgarian old age home in Israel, 1958-1976 Documents of the commission to establish an old age home near the Bulgarian Immigrant's Association with the participation of Benjamin Arditti including regulations, reports, decisions, protocols and budgets.

File Number : 233

Type of Material : Survey Report, Protocol, Charter

Language : Bulgarian, Hebrew

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