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Documentation regarding rescue efforts of Jewish organizations during the war, testimonies of Holocaust survivors, emigration attempts and the postwar handling of Holocaust survivors and the Holocaust in general, 1943-1973 Pages 101-122: Notes of a member of the Joodse Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council in Amsterdam) regarding the situation in the Netherlands, most probably 1943: - Initial anti-Jewish decrees, 1940, including the ban on ritual slaughter, 31 July 1940; - Dismissal of Jewish officials, November 1940; - Anti-Jewish propaganda, early 1941; - Brawls between the Nationaal-Socialistische...

File Number : 132

Type of Material : Correspondence, Reports, Official Documentation, Letter(s), Lists, Testimony, Telegram

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

Memoirs of A. Shimshelevich regarding the experiences of Jews in Vileyka and in the Vilna district

Memoirs of A. Shimshelevich regarding the experiences of Jews in Vileyka and in the Vilna district Escape of Jews from Vileyka on 24 June 1941; German occupation of Vileyka; mass murder of Jewish men on 12 July 1941; "Aktion" on 30 July 1941; transfer of Jews from other places to Vileyka, and their murder in Vileyka; escapes of Jews to the partisans in September 1942; murders of Jews in Myadl and Kobylnik; attack on Myadl by the partisans on 2 November 1942; escape of Jews with the partisans; the opposition of a Polish doctor to the anti-Jewish legislation, and his arrest; murders of Jews in the grounds...

File Number : 4736

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Letters of testimony of three deportees, Johanna Rosenthal, Hermann Voosen and Heinz Samuel, regarding their deportation from Germany to the Riga Ghetto and concentration camps in Latvia, 1941-1945

Letters of testimony of three deportees, Johanna Rosenthal, Hermann Voosen and Heinz Samuel, regarding their deportation from Germany to the Riga Ghetto and concentration camps in Latvia, 1941-1945 Deportation by train in overcrowded railroad cars from Potsdam, Berlin, Gelsenkirchen, Krefeld and other German towns to the Riga Ghetto, December 1941-February 1942; murder of 35,000-40,000 Latvian Jews just before the arrival of the German Jews, December 1941; selections, executions and deportations to Auschwitz and Stutthof, February 1942-August 1944; forced labor at the Wehrmacht Armeebekleidungsamt (ABA-Army...

File Number : 3080

Type of Material : Propaganda, Pamphlet, Booklet(s), Letter of Testimony, Form, Announcement

Language : English, German

Testimony of Josef Wilhelm Roehr, Dortmund, Germany, and others, regarding their memories of Reichskristallnacht in Dortmund-Hoerden, 09 November 1938

Testimony of Josef Wilhelm Roehr, Dortmund, Germany, and others, regarding their memories of Reichskristallnacht in Dortmund-Hoerden, 09 November 1938 Memoirs of J. W. Roehr: Destruction and looting of shops belonging to Jews and detention of the owners, such as the married couple Rosenthal, the owner of a bed shop; suicide of Mr. L. Elsbach, owner of a drugstore; destruction and burning of the synagogue; SS order to the fire brigade not to extinguish the fire but only to protect the neighborhood, pp. 3-11; Memoirs of Mrs. L. H. (full name not given), Dortmund-Aplerbeck: Destruction and burning of the...

File Number : 2794

Type of Material : Reports, Newspaper Clippings, Police File, List of Nazi War Criminals

Language : German

Documentation regarding individual dissenters and resistance groups in Germany during the Nazi period, 1935-1945

Documentation regarding individual dissenters and resistance groups in Germany during the Nazi period, 1935-1945 Page 2: - Letter from Sallmann [?] to Guthmann regarding a book concerning the origin of Christianity and the New Testament, 25 January 1941; Page 3: - Letter from G. Berner in Mainz-Kastel, Germany to Hermann Sichel in Mainz regarding Berner's negative impressions during his travels in Russia, 20 December 1935; Pages 4-23: - "Und ein Licht leuchtet in der Finsternis (When One Light Pierced the Darkness)", a collection of memoirs in honor of the 75's birthday of Elisabeth Abegg (later...

File Number : 91

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Brochure, Lists, Article, Lecture, Letter(s), Survey Report, Testimony, Memoirs, Declaration, Index

Language : English, German

Report by Prof. Dr. Herbert Lewin on the gypsy camp at the Lodz ghetto (Litzmannstadt), 1941-1944

Report by Prof. Dr. Herbert Lewin on the gypsy camp at the Lodz ghetto (Litzmannstadt), 1941-1944 This is a supplementary report to Prof. Lewin's testimony regarding his experiences in Berlin, Cologne, the Lodz ghetto (Litzmannstadt) and different concentration and labor camps (Sapir No. 3547981). The gypsy-camp was affiliated to the Lodz ghetto. Amongst the approximately 3,000 Romani people occurred the first outbreak of a spotted fever epidemic. They were treated by German-speaking Jewish doctors and nurses only, inmates of the Lodz ghetto, many of whom became infected with and some died from the...

File Number : 243

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Memoirs of Irena Majffastalska, born in Lublin in 1909, regarding her activities as a teacher in occupied Lubartów, and the murder of the city's Jews

Memoirs of Irena Majffastalska, born in Lublin in 1909, regarding her activities as a teacher in occupied Lubartów, and the murder of the city's Jews - Memoirs of Irena Majffastalska regarding the organization of educational facilities for the children of Lubartów during the German occupation, and the murder of a Jewish girl named Renia in a cemetery in Lubartów by a German officer; - Biographical summary of the Polish teacher (Irena Majffastalska (1909 - 1998) who worked for about fifty years in Lubartów; the summary also includes information about how she organized studies in secret during the German...

File Number : 11485

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Memoirs, Article

Language : Polish