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Testimony of Hans Hanania Teutsch, born in Karlsruhe, Germany, 1926, regarding his experiences during Kristallnacht, in Gurs camp, in a children's home in Rivesaltes, and in Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Hans Hanania Teutsch, born in Karlsruhe, Germany, 1926, regarding his experiences during Kristallnacht, in Gurs camp, in a children's home in Rivesaltes, and in Switzerland Traditional family in Germany; attends a German elementary school until 1935; Jewish community; Kristallnacht; his father's appointment as the treasurer of the community; antisemitism and decrees; attempts to obtain a visa to the United States; his younger brother is included on a Kindertransport to Britain, 1939; Outbreak of the war, 1939; increase in antisemitism; concentration of the Jews at the railroad station;...

File Number : 12823

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Baruch Shurek, born in Puchov, Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Lazec, Budapest, Debrecen and labor camps in Austria

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Baruch Shurek, born in Puchov, Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Lazec, Budapest, Debrecen and labor camps in Austria Life before the war; attends a Slovakian kindergarten. German occupation, 1938; life under fascist rule; anti-Jewish legislation; confiscation of valuables; restrictions on the Jews; establishment of a Jewish school; draft of males aged 18-28 to forced labor; deportation of females 18-28 to camps; meets refugees from Poland; move to Lazec to his brother who has been classified as an essential worker, 1942; deportation of the Jews to Zilina on...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Fisher, born in Baba, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Bungard Ghetto; Auschwitz, Bunzlau, Nordhausen and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Fisher, born in Baba, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Bungard Ghetto; Auschwitz, Bunzlau, Nordhausen and other camps Life before the war; his father is a merchant. Hungarian rule, 1940; German occupation; deportation to the ghetto in the Bungard forest, near Des; help and food from the rural population; deportation to Auschwitz and loss of his family; transfer to Bunzlau, near Breslau; camp life including labor constructing and loading dummy planes; liquidation of the camp; death march to Goerlitz via Nordhausen, June 1944-February 1945; transfer to Hamburg; transfer to...

File Number : 12296

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence of the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) regarding religious and halachic issues in the Jewish communities in north and east of the Netherlands, 1942-1943

Correspondence of the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) regarding religious and halachic issues in the Jewish communities in north and east of the Netherlands, 1942-1943 Correspondence of the chief rabbis of the Drenthe, Friesland and Gelderland districts with the various departments of the Joodse Raad and individuals regarding halachic issues such as marriage, divorce, especially issuing a Get (Jewish divorce) during war, births, deaths, burial, cemeteries, Pesach kashrut and other; The file also includes: Ketubahs of marriages that were performed in Westerbork (pp. 1, 174-186); Circumcision certificates...

File Number : 29

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, Dutch, German