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Letter sent by Martha (Echtermeir) Margulis from Leipzig to her friend Lucie Herrmann in Berlin Hermsdorf, 01 April 1936, and a document from the Todt Organization giving permission to the forced laborer, Joseph Margulis, to remain on leave in Leipzig, until 31 July 1945 - Letter sent by Martha (Echtermeir) Margulis from Leipzig to her friend Lucie Herrmann in Berlin Hermsdorf, describing the situation in Germany following the Nuremberg Laws legislation, 01 April 1936; - Document from the Todt Organization granting permission to Joseph Margulis, the forced laborer, to remain on leave in Leipzig due to...

File Number : 2190

Type of Material : Envelope, Letter, Personal Records

Language : German

Recollections of the last months of the war written by Albert Speer

Recollections of the last months of the war written by Albert Speer Evidentiary hearing conducted with Albert Speer regarding his politics and actions towards the end of the war; notes prepared by Speer for his defense.

File Number : 30

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Documentation from the trial conducted in Landesgericht (regional court) in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna against members of the HSSPF Lublin: Volume 52; Testimonies by the German perpetrators Fritz Ernst Tauscher, Waltraut Emma Hanelt, Emil Pistor Talbot, Sturmbannführer Josef Opperbeck and Georg Michalsen regarding the SSPF Lublin, forced labor camps in the General Government, the extermination camp Belzec, the liquidations of ghettos in the General Government, the Warsaw Ghetto, the “Sommeraktion” in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the deportation of Jews to the extermination camp...

File Number : 110

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

Language : German

Testimony of Josef Eisenstein, born in Radauti, Romania, 1939, regarding his family's experiences in Dzhurin

Testimony

Testimony of Josef Eisenstein, born in Radauti, Romania, 1939, regarding his family's experiences in Dzhurin Deportation of his family to Transnistria, 1941; death of his grandmother in the railroad car and throwing of her body out of the car; transfer to Dzhurin; life in Dzhurin including crowded living quarters with ten people to a room; typhus; his mother's hospitalization in isolation; deportation of his father to work for Todt near Odessa; hunger; flogging of a four year old boy by a German soldier. Return to Cernauti with his mother, 1945; illegally crossing of the border to Romania and reunion with...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Biniamyn Ginzberg, born in Vilna, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, Antwerp, in hiding in Amsterdam and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Biniamyn Ginzberg, born in Vilna, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, Antwerp, in hiding in Amsterdam and other places From a traditional family; his sister’s aliya to Eretz Israel, 1935; move to Switzerland to continue his studies, 1938; joins an aliya training facility in Italy, February 1939; disbanding of the facility as a result of the alliance between Italy and Germany; move to the Netherlands to an aliya facility near Amsterdam. German occupation, May 1940; help from the Dutch underground in finding hiding places; obtains an identity card from a Dutch citizen; plan to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Agnes Holtz, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences with an assumed identity, in hiding in Mukacevo, Gelsenkirchen, Soemmerda, Ravensbrueck and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Agnes Holtz, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences with an assumed identity, in hiding in Mukacevo, Gelsenkirchen, Soemmerda, Ravensbrueck and other places Life before the war; attends a Tarbut school. Annexation to Hungary; receives forged documents from a friend of her father; hidden by farmers; deportation to a factory; robbery of the suitcase by a Hungarian soldier; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; transfer to Gelsenkirchen; life in Gelsenkirchen; labor for the TODT organization; typhus and hospitalization; transfer to Soemmerda; transfer in a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Shlomo Solomon Brownstein, born in Vaslui, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in Vaslui, Bacau and Tecuci

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Solomon Brownstein, born in Vaslui, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in Vaslui, Bacau and Tecuci From a well-to-do family; good relations with the neighbors; displays of antisemitism, 1939. Drafting of youth to forced labor, 1940; labor at snow removal from the roads in Bacau; deportation to Grinei Beton Doaga; building fortifications in Tecuci; supervision by the Todt Organization; behavior of the camp commandant; bribe in exchange for improved living conditions; liberation by the Red Army, August 1944. Return to Vaslui; joins Hanoar Hatzioni; education; aliya attempt to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechai Hershkovitz, born in Cluj, Romania, 1913, regarding his experiences in Cluj, Budapest, Sopron, Schattendorf, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Hershkovitz, born in Cluj, Romania, 1913, regarding his experiences in Cluj, Budapest, Sopron, Schattendorf, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen Antisemitism before the war; termination of studies. Annexation to Hungary; drafted to forced labor repairing railroad tracks and building bunkers; life in the Budapest Ghetto; fate of his family; transfer to the Sopron Ghetto; deportation to Schattendorf; camp life including labor as a physician's assistant; death march to Mauthausen; camp life including labor removing corpses; transfer to Gunskirchen; liberation by the US Army, 08 May...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Abraham Cwieli, born in Uzhorod, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Uzhorod Ghetto, Mauthausen and march to Gunskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of Abraham Cwieli, born in Uzhorod, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Uzhorod Ghetto, Mauthausen and march to Gunskirchen Immediate family; his father's livelihood; good relations with neighbors; the Jewish community; "heder" and school; membership in Bnei Akiva. Deportation of the Jews from the villages; Jews under Hungarian rule; confrontation with Christians; rumors of what is happening in Poland; entry of the Germans; establishment of the Judenrat; confiscation of radios; hiding in a vineyard; concentration of Jews in a brick factory; deportation of his parents to Auschwitz; forced...

File Number : 11813

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Branstein, born in Braila, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Branstein, born in Braila, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer From a family with limited means; learns in "heder" and a Jewish school. German occupation; drafted to labor paving roads, 1941; transfer to construction labor for the Todt organization, 1943; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Return to Braila; help from the Joint, 1945; studies in Bucharest; aliya to Israel, 1970.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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