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Documentation of the German Ministry of Justice, 07/04/1936

Documentation of the German Ministry of Justice, 07/04/1936 Brief reports, titled, "7 April 1936": - Conviction of an S.A. officer for bringing false charges against a senior government clerk; - Reply by Cardinal Faulhaber to a letter [sent] by the office, regarding the slander against him in the "Voelkische Weltbild" publication, including the Cardinal's agreement to settle the matter without a lawsuit; - Attitude of Goerdeler, the mayor of Leipzig, regarding the trial concerning the embezzlement of the municipal bank; - Letter written by Cardinal Pacelli, the Vatican State Secretary, conveyed...

File Number : 247

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Elhanan Ziv Vili Weisz, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child using a false identity in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Elhanan Ziv Vili Weisz, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child using a false identity in the Budapest Ghetto From a traditional family; attends a Hungarian school. Outbreak of the war, 1939; draft of his father to a labor battalion; German occupation, 1944; life in the Budapest Ghetto using a false identity including living in a children's center and labor as a messenger; liberation by the Red Army. Activities in the Zionist youth movement; aliya to Israel, 1949; enlists in the IDF; marriage and starts a family.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Telegrams from the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington regarding requests for help from the Vatican, 1944-1945

Telegrams from the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington regarding requests for help from the Vatican, 1944-1945 Page 1: Telegram from the WRB to McClelland in the US Embassy in Bern regarding involvement of the Vatican in the struggle against the deportation of the Jews from Hungary, 31 July 1944; Page 2: Telegram from the US Embassy in London to the State Department in Washington announcing that the Vatican is not involved with the problem of the refugees from northern Italy. It is the problem of the Fascist government and the Pope is taking a neutral stand on this matter, 18 September 1944; Pages...

File Number : 103

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Telegram

Language : English

Excerpt from an article titled, "The Jewish Problem in Hungary", published in the "Die Lage" newspaper (official newspaper of the Nazi Party), regarding the deportation of the Jews of Hungary in 1944

Excerpt from an article titled, "The Jewish Problem in Hungary", published in the "Die Lage" newspaper (official newspaper of the Nazi Party), regarding the deportation of the Jews of Hungary in 1944 Activities by the Germans, for the deportation of the Jews of Hungary; start of the deportation from North-East Hungary, in light of the advance of the Red Army; approximately 100,000 Jews remain in the Hungarian Army labor battalions; "cleansing" Hungary of its Jews by 19 July [1944]; agreement by the Hungarian population was a condition for the success of the operation; non-harming of Jews due to the...

File Number : 43

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : German

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Newspaper clippings mainly regarding Jews and the Holocaust, 1934-1965

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Newspaper clippings mainly regarding Jews and the Holocaust, 1934-1965 Among the clippings: - Article by Dr. Hans Buckheim regarding Rolf Hochhut's play, "The Deputy" ("Der Stellvertreter"), dealing with the role played by Pope Pius XII in the Holocaust (pp. 2-10); - Articles by Dr. Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich from Basel which appeared in the Swiss journal, "Christlich-Jeudischer Forum", October 1960 (pp.14-25); - Study by Josef Wolf regarding Raoul Wallenberg, which appeared in the supplement of the German weekly, "Das Parlament", 22 October 1958 (pp. 34-53); -...

File Number : 223

Type of Material : Journal, Booklet(s), Brochure, Article, Newspaper

Language : French, English, German

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Articles regarding the hostile approach of the Nazi authorities towards the Catholic Church, 1937-1965

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Articles regarding the hostile approach of the Nazi authorities towards the Catholic Church, 1937-1965 In the file: - Survey that appeared in the "Apologetische Blaetter", journal published by the "Apologetics Institute of the Popular Catholic Association" in Switzerland (pp. 2-9); -Survey presented in the "Centre De Documentation" bi-monthly bulletin, Paris (pp. 20-81); - Articles that appeared in "Frankfurter Rundschau" and "Zuercher Woche" regarding the play, "The Deputy", by Rolf Hochhuth (p.88); - Confidential letter sent to Guertner, the German Minister of...

File Number : 176

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Newspaper Clippings

Language : French, German

Testimony of Regina (Grosser) Speiser, born in Kozaczyzna, Poland, 1909, regarding her experiences in Montechiarugolo and Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Regina (Grosser) Speiser, born in Kozaczyzna, Poland, 1909, regarding her experiences in Montechiarugolo and Switzerland Life in a camp for foreign citizens; life in hiding in the camp; escape of her husband; illegally crosses the border to Switzerland with help from the Italian underground. Life in refugee camps.

File Number : 2760

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Letters to Kurt and Erna (Cohn) Proskauer in Breslau, Italy, and in the United States from 1938-1941, memories and documentation of the Proskauer family

Letters from: - Prof. Arrigo Piperno in Rome (a dentist who helped the Proskauer family with immigration to the United States); - Willy Cohn in Breslau (Erna's uncle); - Their son Hans Proskauer in Zürich and Milan; - Various organizations and offices regarding immigration and affidavits, and relatives in Germany, France, Italy, and the United States. - Memories of Paul Proskauer, born in Breslau, 1921, and the experiences of the Proskauer family: Residence and studies in Breslau; the attitude of non-Jewish students and teachers towards Jews; his brother Hans's move to study architecture in Zürich,...

File Number : 5464

Type of Material : Telegram, Certification, Newspaper Clippings, Biography, Article, Genealogy, Postcard, Letter, Envelope, Memoirs

Language : Italian, French, English, German

Documents on the position of the Christian churches towards the Jews during WW II in France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Rumania, and Germany

Collection of documents on the position of the Catholic Church towards the Jews during the war in various countries Two sermons by the Bishop of Munster, Clemens von Galen, on July 13 and August 3, 1941, against the murder of mentaly ill and generally "non-productive" people. A letter by the German Catholic bishops to the Pope, about the difficult situation and the persecution of the Catholic community in Germany. A letter by the bishop of Montauban against the persecution of the Jews and their deportation, to be read in all churches at the mass on August 30,1942. Three pastoral letters from 1941 by the...

File Number : 633

Type of Material : Letter(s), Photo(s), Chart(s), Drawing(s), Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : Italian, Hebrew, French, English, Portuguese, German

Memoirs of Esther (Bursztyn) Glatzman, born in Strassbourg, France, 1925, 1933-1935

Memoirs of Esther (Bursztyn) Glatzman, born in Strassbourg, France, 1925, 1933-1935 Visit of Hitler in Saarbrücken, Germany, where the family was residing, 1933; aliya to Eretz Israel, 08 May 1935; Included in the file: Newspaper clipping, published in 2008, containing an article by Yuri Yelon and Shlomo Tzadna, regarding the visit of Germany's Minister of Culture, Bernd Neumann, in Yad Vashem, and a request of the Vatican to remove an inscription in Yad Vashem relating to the silence of Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust.

File Number : 9271

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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