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Testimony of Yosef Ehrlich, born in Lesko, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Lesko and Kazakhstan

Testimony

Testimony of Yosef Ehrlich, born in Lesko, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Lesko and Kazakhstan Life before the war; displays of antisemitism; getting organized for self-protection. Outbreak of the war; escape to the area occupied by the Soviet Union; life in a synagogue in the Soviet occupied area; detention of his father; deportation to Kazakhstan with his family; life in Kazakhstan including labor logging trees; knowledge of the murder of Jews in Lesko; life in Kazakhstan in a kolkhoz including agricultural labor; draft attempt to a Polish division within the Red Army, 1943; refusal to be...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Roland Kimelman, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Bacau

Testimony

Testimony of Roland Kimelman, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Bacau From a well-to-do family; attends a local Romanian school; activities in "Motherland Guard", a patriotic youth organization. Outbreak of the war, June 1940; Soviet occupation; nationalization of all businesses; deportation of the rich to Siberia; meets the retreating Polish Army; escape from Cernauti; handing over the family's apartment, and all it contains, to an NKVD officer; life in Bacau under the fascist rule of the Iron Guard; violent displays of antisemitism; attends a Jewish high school; Hashomer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Reports sent to the US State Department by US diplomatic delegations in Germany, regarding the Boycott of 01 April 1933 against Jewish businesses, and regarding the Kristallnacht riots, 1933-1938

Reports sent to the US State Department by US diplomatic delegations in Germany, regarding the Boycott of 01 April 1933 against Jewish businesses, and regarding the Kristallnacht riots, 1933-1938 Reports regarding the Boycott of 01 April 1933: - Report by the US Embassy in Berlin, 03/04/1933: Description of the background and aims of the boycott; Nazi Party propaganda; establishment of the "Central Committee for the Struggle against the Propaganda of Terror and for the Jewish Boycott" in Munich, and the local committee for the implementation of the boycott; regulations published regarding the...

File Number : 277

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Survey Report, Lists of Businesses and Skilled Workers, Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Testimony of Lili (Gobitz) Stein, born in Rimaszombat, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Salgotarjan Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Duderstadt and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Lili (Gobitz) Stein, born in Rimaszombat, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Salgotarjan Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Duderstadt and other places Jewish secular family; her father owns a hat and work clothes shop; her mother is a professional weaver; the Jewish community. Detention of her father; decrees; draft of her father to forced labor, 1942; death of her father from typhus, June 1943; her mother's work weaving; help to the family's livelihood by weaving and sewing; deportation to the Salgotarjan Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz, June 1944; murder of her...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, October 1943

Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, October 1943 General: Announcement regarding punishing Nazi war criminals and their associates in Moscow with no mention of the Jewish victims; Poland: Mass arrests of Poles in Warsaw; four years of the Generalgouvernement, description of its accomplishments in every area; the Slobodka Ghetto in Lithuania; Germany and the Reich: The political situation in the Reich; newspaper article written Goebbels; exchange of British-German POWs and the soldiers' opinions regarding...

File Number : 32

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Survey of the situation in various countries as reported in the Nazi and local press with emphasis on the situation of the Jews in Poland, the Protectorate, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, France, Eretz Israel, Turkey and Egypt, January 1943 Poland: Regarding Czerniakow's suicide and the situation in the Warsaw Ghetto; Nazi occupation activities in the Generalgouvernement; the Nazi propaganda movie, “Order Brings Forth Bread"; improvement of the scene in Wartheland; inducements to laborers working in the Reich; transports of food and workers from Ukraine to the Reich; Reaction of the Jewish population...

File Number : 4

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs and notes on prominent Bulgarian Jews, 1950-1970

Memoirs and notes on prominent Bulgarian Jews, 1950-1970 Memoirs and biographical notes on Albert Koen, Nissim Mevorah, Haim Pizanti, Vili Shpeter, L. Grinberg, Josef Djerasi, E.A. Ansky, Noel Calef, Valeri Petrov and Haim Bohor Arie.

File Number : 254

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Bulgarian, French, German

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the RSHA (mainly IV B 4) and Jewish survivors, 1966

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the RSHA (mainly IV B 4) and Jewish survivors, 1966 The file includes: Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the RSHA, particularly department IV B 4: - Georg Heuser, member of Einsatzgruppe A (pp.1-21) - Otto Karl Wilhelm Kolrep, employee of RSHA, department IV (pp.31-37) - Karl Kube, dep. IV B 4 (pp.38-51) - Rudolf Hanke, dep. IV B 4 (pp.52-57) - Adolf Franken, dep. IV (pp.58-63) - Walter Rendel, dep. IV B 4 (pp.64-88) - Irmgard Martin, different departments incl IV B 4,...

File Number : 24

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Record of Deportees, Official Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Investigation Report, Record of Survivors, Protocol, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : German

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle Berlin and Jewish victims concerning arrests and deportations of Jews to the camps, 1966. The file contains interrogations of former employees and Jewish victims, and general information concerning transports from Berlin and internment camps in Berlin. The file includes i. A.: - Pre-trial hearings of the following former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office): Gerhard Schmidt, Walther Gohlke, Walter Rueger and Alfred Wilhelm, who were accused of being...

File Number : 19

Type of Material : Record of Survivors, Record of Deportees, Names of Perpetrators, Official Documentation, Legal Documentation, Record of Persecuted Persons, Investigation Report

Language : German

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: Inquiry against Otto Bovenspiepen regarding his complicity in murder of Andreas Thüringer and Karl Karrassowitsch in Eisenstadt in March 1938 Thueringer case/file and others: (pp. 2-30) Letter (20/08/1963) from the General State Prosecutor Duesseldorf to the Senior Prosecutor Duisburg: (pp. 2-4) Question of Bovenspiepen’s activities as the Head of Gestapo Eisenstadt; Question of Bovenspiepen’s activities in Denmark. (p. 3) Examination document: (pp. 5-7) Personal information’s about Bovenspiepen (p. 5); Criminal record:...

File Number : 140

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

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