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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 Murdered Jews, List of Jews, Memoirs, List of Jewish Survivors

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 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 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

Letters from Brzesko Nowe, Poland, place and dates not noted, to Ch. Futterweit in New York, 1940, and letter from the Vienna Jewish community, 1939

Letters from Brzesko Nowe, Poland, place and dates not noted, to Ch. Futterweit in New York, 1940, and letter from the Vienna Jewish community, 1939 The senders: - acquaintances and relatives, dates and places not noted Eliasz Silberstein of Brzesko Nowe; the following names appear in the letter: Eliasz Silberstein, born in 1888; Sara Silberstein, born in 1887; Jakobs Silberstein, born in 1912 Gusta Silberstein, born in 1920 Pola Silberstein, born in 1931; All members of the Silberstein family were born in Krynica-Zdrój; Lola Krumholz, born in 1914 in Teschen; Jozef Krumholz, born in 1914 in...

File Number : 6057

Type of Material : Envelope, Letter

Language : German

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

Correspondence of the Weindling families in England, Germany and in Zbąszyń camp with the Heumann family in Linnich from 1939-1942, letters and documentation of the Weindling and Heumann families

- postcard sent by Salo and Carola Weindling in London to Leopold Heumann in Linnich, September 1939; - postcards and letters sent to Salo and Carola (Heumann) Weindling and to Hilde Heumann in England in 1939 and undated, from: -- members of the Weindling family in Zbąszyń camp; -- members of the Weindling family in Cologne; -- members of the Heumann family in Linnich, Germany; -- relatives in Mariaweiler, Germany; -- David and Rosa in Antwerp; Information from the letters: Albert Weindling, brother of Salo, was deported from Germany to Zbąszyń camp in November 1939; - letter sent by Berta Sara...

File Number : 6185

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Marriage Certificate, Label, Birth Certificate, Postcard, Telegram, Red Cross Letter, Letter, Certification, Envelope

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German, Yiddish

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

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 : Letter, Postcard

Language : Polish, German

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