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Correspondence of Hugo and Rudolf Meisl in England with their parents Paul and Erna Meisl in Brno, 1939-1941; correspondence of Paul Meisl regarding the immigration of his sons to England with the Kindertransport; death declaration issued by the court in Brno in 1947 confirming that Paul and Erna Meisl were deported to Theresienstadt and from there to Piaski in 1942 Postcards and letters: - Letter sent to England, 16 May 1939, by Pavel Meisl in Brno requesting that a home be found for his sons, Hugo Meisl, born 09 October 1928, and Rudolf Meisl, born 09 February 1930; - Letters sent to Paul Meisl in...

File Number : 2209

Type of Material : Letter, Death Certificate, Official Documentation, Postcard, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Czech, English, German

Documentation regarding Viktor and Anna (Pollenz) Bermann including letters and postcards they received from members of their family and friends, postcards sent from Theresienstadt by Anna Bermann's parents and more, 1908-1968

Documentation belonging to Viktor and Anna Anni (Pollenz) Bermann including letters and postcards they received from members of their family and friends, postcards sent from Theresienstadt by Anna Bermann's parents and more, 1908-1968 Letters, postcards and telegrams (in chronological order): - Three postcards sent to Viktor Bermann in Olmuetz by his mother Adele Bermann in Karlovy Vary, August 1925; - Postcard sent to Anni (Pollenz) Bermann in Olmuetz by her daughter Ewa in Thisted, Denmark, 30 April 1940; - Letters and telegrams sent to Anni Bermann by her parents Josef and Leopoldine Pollenz and...

File Number : 2189

Type of Material : Postcard, Personal Documents, Letter, Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Diploma, Telegram, Red Cross Letter, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Journal, Declaration

Language : Spanish, Hebrew, Czech, French, English, German

Testimony of Zeev Villi Unger, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Brno and Prague until 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Villi Unger, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Brno and Prague until 1939 Life before the war; the Jewish community; activities of the witness' father in the Mizrachi movement and the Jewish community; his brother's activities in the Blau-Weiss movement; membership in Maccabi Hatzair; burning of the Great Synagogue on Kristallnacht; his brother's aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938. German occupation; displays of antisemitism; restrictions and decrees; confiscation of family property; witness' Bar-Mitzvah celebration; receipt of a telegram from the Gestapo in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Affidavit given by Karl Frank, the SS and Police commander in the Protectorate, before the Nuremburg Trial, regarding the student riots in Prague during autumn 1939

Affidavit given by Karl Frank, the SS and Police commander in the Protectorate, before the Nuremburg Trial, regarding the student riots in Prague during autumn 1939 Karl Frank served as Der SS und Polizeifuehrer (the SS and Police commander) in the Protectorate during 1939-1941; discussion held with Hitler by Frank on 28/11/1939, the day of the demonstration by students, in which Hitler gave the instruction to disperse the demonstration, using all means possible; embarrassment by Hacha, the President of the Protectorate; scope [?] of the riots; the death of the student Opletal, due to injuries incurred at...

File Number : 273

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Czech

Protocol of the interrogation of Karl Frank at the Nuremberg Trial, regarding the student riots in Prague during autumn 1939

Protocol of the interrogation of Karl Frank at the Nuremberg Trial, regarding the student riots in Prague during autumn 1939 The part taken by Neurath, the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia, in the suppression of the student riots in Prague during autumn 1939; request that Karl Frank, Der SS und Polizeifuehrer (the SS and Police commander) in the Protectorate, to verify Neurath's replies during the interrogation; confirmation by Frank, that the order that was given to the Sicherheitspolizei-SIPO (Security Police) regarding the suppression of the student riots in Prague in November 1939, arrived from...

File Number : 272

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Letter sent to Staatssekretaer (State Secretary) Hermann Frank by Hermann Neuburg, the supervisor over organizations affiliated with the Reichsprotektor (Reichs Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia, regarding the use of higher education funds that were closed, 1943 Computation of the means that remained following the closure of the higher education funds in Czechoslovakia; request by Neuburg (who serves as the Gauleiter in the Sudetengau) to transfer one million Marks to the Organization of Veteran Nazi Party members) for the establishment of Kameradschaftshaeusern fuer Studenten (student housing), and to give...

File Number : 271

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation of the German State Ministry for Bohemian and Moravian Affairs (Deutsches Staatsministerium fuer Boehmen und Maehren), Germany, 1938-1945

Documentation of the German State Ministry for Bohemian and Moravian Affairs (Deutsches Staatsministerium fuer Boehmen und Maehren), Germany, 1938-1945 The Ministry for Bohemian and Moravian Affairs was established following the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis and the establishment of the Protectorate on the majority of its territory. Konstantin von Neurath, appointed as Governor of the Protectorate by the German authorities, was, in effect, ousted from his position by Hitler, on September 1941, for introducing policies that were not harsh enough in the eyes of the Fuehrer. Wilhelm Frick was...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Margit Silberfeld, born in Jihlava, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences in Prague and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Margit Silberfeld, born in Jihlava, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences in Prague and Theresienstadt The family owns a carpet shop; death of her father; life before the war. German occupation; move to Prague; attends a Jewish school; deportation to the Theresienstadt Ghetto; life in the ghetto and help from a SS officer Karl Rahn, who saved relatives; visit of the Red Cross.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Libiena Epstein, born in Nova Paka, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Ravensbrueck and Wittenberg

Testimony

Testimony of Libiena Epstein, born in Nova Paka, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Ravensbrueck and Wittenberg From an assimilated family; life in Prage including work in an office. German occupation; deportation with her parents to the Lodz Ghetto, late 1941; deaths of her parents in the ghetto; typhus; labor on a farm, in a laundry and a textile factory; learns Polish; repairing electrical appliances and telephones from World War I; marriage; deportation to Ravensbrueck, November 1944; transfer to Wittenberg; camp life including labor in an aircraft factory; liberation...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hana (Frankl) Miko, born in Eger, 1924, regarding her experiences in Podebrady, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau and forced labor in Oederan camp

Testimony

Testimony of Hana (Frankl) Miko, born in Eger, 1924, regarding her experiences in Podebrady, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau and forced labor in Oederan camp Her family; attends a German elementary school; attends a Czech high school; Heinlein movement; her father's death; annexation of the Sudentland to Germany; life in her uncle's house in Podebrady; Czechoslovakia's change of status to a German protectorate; entry of the Germans; anti-Jewish legislation; termination of her studies; confiscation of property; her mother's detention in the Straftransporte prison; deportation with her mother to...

File Number : 11550

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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