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P.30 - Personal Archive of Matilde Finzi-Bassani, Italy

P.30 - Personal Archive of Matilde Finzi-Bassani, Italy Born in Ferrara, Italy, Matilde Finzi-Bassani was active in the anti-Fascist underground in northern Italy and Rome. The Collection contains Matilde Finzi-Bassani's personal documentation as well as much documentation regarding the anti-Fascist underground in Italy.

Type of Material : Manifesto, Identity Card, Letter, Brochure, Personal Documents

Language : Italian

Memoirs of Dr. Heinz Dietrich Feldheim, born in Dortmund, Germany, 1908, regarding his experiences in Germany, 1933-1939

Memoirs of Dr. Heinz Dietrich Feldheim, born in Dortmund, Germany, 1908, regarding his experiences in Germany, 1933-1939 Family background, education and profession, until 1933; Impossibility of finding employment on account of being Jewish, 1935; contacts with opponents of the regime and arrest on suspicion of high treason, imprisonment in Werl and Dortmund, Germany, 1936; protective custody, imprisonment in Dachau and Munich-Neudeck, interrogation by the Gestapo, Munich, confinement in darkness and isolation, 1936-1937; trial and acquittal for lack of evidence, 02-06 August 1938; return to the bunker...

File Number : 2809

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Testimony of Dr. Fritz Ball, Berlin, regarding his detention in a Gestapo cellar, March 1933

Testimony of Dr. Fritz Ball, Berlin, regarding his detention in a Gestapo cellar, March 1933 - Nazi rise to power; first arrests of opponents and Jews, January 1933; abduction and shooting of six Jews, initiated by Heines, the Gauleiter of Silesia; first emigrations with the possibility of shipping property on payment of a large Reichsfluchtsteuer (tax for leaving the country); - Arrest of Dr. Ball by SA men; transfer to barracks close to the Tempelhof station; interrogation by SA men, including mockery, death threats, abuse, 30 March 1933; imprisonment in a dark room in the cellar of the barracks...

File Number : 41

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Memoirs

Language : German

Testimony of Dr. Ernst Marcus, manager of Paltreu (Palestine trust agency to advise German Jews), Berlin, regarding the Auswaertiges Amt (German Foreign Office) and emigration to Palestine, 1933-1939

Testimony of Dr. Ernst Marcus, manager of Paltreu (Palestine trust agency to advise German Jews), Berlin, regarding the Auswaertiges Amt (German Foreign Office) and emigration to Palestine, 1933-1939 - Ha'avara (Transfer) agreement between the Zionistische Vereinigung für Deutschland (Zionist Federation of Germany), the Anglo-Palestine Bank and the economic authorities of Germany in order to facilitate the aliya of affluent German Jews to Eretz Israel while promoting German exports; - Founding of the Jewish transfer organizations Paltreu and Ha'avara, August 1933; among the transfer projects, the...

File Number : 11

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German