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Memoirs of Zvi Arad regarding his experiences in Dortmund, 1931-1938, in Zbaszyn, 1938-1939 and on a Zionist training facility, 1939

Memoirs of Zvi Arad regarding his experiences in Dortmund, 1931-1938, Zbaszyn, 1938-1939 and on a Zionist training facility, 1939 Attendance at a Jewish school in Dortmund, 1931-1938. Deportation to Poland, 28 October 1938; arrival at Zbaszyn with his mother, sister and younger brother; [life in] a Zionist training facility for Polish deportees, 1939. Aliya to Eretz Israel with youth and pioneers via the Soviet Union including an approximately three month delay in Turkey. [His parents:] Escape of his father to the United States; morbidity of his father (pneumonia); death of his father, 24 December...

File Number : 8613

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Erich Jacobs, born in Nuttlar, Germany, 1906, regarding his experiences during Kristallnacht in Recklinghausen and his emigration to Cuba, 1941

Memoirs of Erich Jacobs, born in Nuttlar, Germany, 1906, regarding his experiences during Kristallnacht in Recklinghausen and his emigration to Cuba, 1941 - The memoirs were originally written in English, and translated into Hebrew by Jethro Jacobs. - The title of the book in Hebrew is: "Indeed, Miracles Still Happen" - English: "And This is My Life Story" - German: "Wunder geschehen noch (Miracles Still Happen)" Childhood in Nuttlar, teacher training in Berlin; educational work in an orphanage in Frankfurt, in Unna and Recklinghausen; Kristallnacht in Recklinghausen, 1938; move to Cuba via...

File Number : 8325

Type of Material : List of Jewish Survivors, List of Jews, List of Murdered Jews, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechai Theo Markus Werderber Vered, born in Cologne, Germany, 1928, regarding his experiences in Cologne, Zbaszyn, Warsaw, the Kindertransport, Welwyn and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Theo Markus Werderber Vered, born in Cologne, Germany, 1928, regarding his experiences in Cologne, Zbaszyn, Warsaw, the Kindertransport, Welwyn and other places Life with his family, including religious life and attending the "Moriah" school; activities in the Bachad youth movement; acts of abuse by Hitler-Jugend. Deportation to Zbaszyn; move to Warsaw; receives food and money from Warsaw Jews; move to London in the context of the Kindertransport; life in Welwyn; [arrival of] Jewish children from Austria; attitude of the director of the children's home, Rabbi Dr. Lewin; move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Wilma (Kertzner) Ernst, born in Altona, Germany, 1927, regarding her experiences in Altona, Hamburg, Zbaszyn and move to London in the context of the Kindertransport

Testimony

Testimony of Wilma (Kertzner) Ernst, born in Altona, Germany, 1927, regarding her experiences in Altona, Hamburg, Zbaszyn and move to London in the context of the Kindertransport Life before the war; religious life; ban on ritual slaughter; membership in the Brit Hanoar Hayehudi [Bund Jüdischer Jugend] movement, 1933; imposition of an economic boycott on the Jews. Escape to Hamburg, 1938; life in Hamburg; detention of her father in the police station, by Gestapo men; deportation to Zbaszyn with Jews of Polish citizenship; life in Zbaszyn; singing of Kol Nidrei on Yom Kippur; receives food packages from...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Joint testimony of Rosa Friedfertig and Koppel Friedfertig regarding their experiences during the deportation of the Polish Jews from Hamburg to Zbąszyń, October 1938

Joint testimony of Rosa Friedfertig and Koppel Friedfertig regarding their experiences during the deportation of the Polish Jews from Hamburg, October 1938 - Deportation of Jews with Polish citizenship from Hamburg; notification regarding the deportation; helplessness of the Jewish community; transfer of the deportees to the area of the Polish border by train; sending the deportees across the border; crowding, lack of space and living conditions among the deportees; - Permission granted by the Polish government to settle in Sponczyn; conditions in Sponczyn (not an organized camp, but a reserve, and a...

File Number : 347

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Lists of Jews deported from Halberstadt

Lists of Jews deported from Halberstadt In the file: - List of Jews deported from Halberstadt to the Warsaw Ghetto (name, address and birth date), 12 April 1942; - List of Jews deported from Halberstadt to an unknown destination; the names of individual Jews deported to Halberstadt from other places (name, address and date of birth) are attached, 07 September 1942; - List of Jews deported from Halberstadt to Theresienstadt (name, address and date of birth), 23 November 1942; List of Jews, citizens of Poland, deported from Halberstadt to Poland, 1938. The list is located in Yad Vashem File...

File Number : 146

Type of Material : List of Deportees

Language : German

Testimony of Ellen (Rubinstein) Wahl, born in Chemnitz, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Germany and Zbasyn

Testimony

Testimony of Ellen (Rubinstein) Wahl, born in Chemnitz, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Germany and Zbasyn Nazi rise to power in Germany; death of her mother. Deportation to Zbaszyn, Poland, 28 October 1938; camp life; move to relatives in Lodz; aliya to Eretz Israel via Germany, April 1939; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of Jews from Berlin sent from Tarnow, Poland following the Jews' deportation from Germany to Poland, including requests for assistance from relatives in Switzerland and other places, late October 1938 - Letter sent by Salomon Grün from Vienna to his uncle and aunt, 23 November 1926; - Letter sent by Rose [?] from Stamford, the United States, to her brother and sister-in-law, 08 September 1937; - Letter sent by the teacher H. Treichler-Pitna from Zurich, Switzerland to Mrs. Stammberger, 25 May 1938; - Letter sent by Rosa Fuhrman from Tarnow to her sister and sister-in-law, 30 June...

File Number : 602

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter

Language : Polish, German

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle Berlin; Lists of names of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle, whose fate after World War II was not defintivly cleared, 1966 The file includes i. A.: - Pre-trial hearings of accused former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office): Herbert Titze, Karl Staatz (pp. 5-21), Gerhard Schmidt, Max Schmidt (pp. 24-42), Hans-Günther Werner, Walter Blume, Max Kühnel, Emil Plaßen (pp. 46-93), Josef Baumann (pp. 127-144). - Pre-trial hearings of former employees of...

File Number : 22

Type of Material : Testimony, List of Names, Letter

Language : German

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin for murder (deportation of Jews to extermination camps): Examination of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin and Berlin Jewish survivors, 1966 The file includes, among other items: - Pre-trial hearings of the following accused former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office-Gestapo headquarters): Herbert Oestereich, Felix Lachmuth, Friedrich Stalmann, Max Grautstück, Ernst Sasse (pp. 1-53), Alexander Globisch (pp.66-69), Kurt Venter, Maximilian Kölz, Gustav Heinrich (pp. 89-128); -...

File Number : 21

Type of Material : Letter, Protocol, Testimony

Language : German

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