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Letter from Rabbi Isaak Karni, the Rabbi of Ulm, who was arrested by the Soviets in Budapest and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on the charge of anti-Soviet activities, requesting the support of Ilya Ehrenberg and the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (EAK) in his exoneration and release In his letter Rabbi Karni writes that he and Ilya Ehrenburg are cousins, that his mother perished in Auschwitz and he has a daughter left in Budapest.

File Number : 46

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian, German

Testimony of Rudolf Demant, born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 1901, regarding his experiences as a teacher in Moenchengladbach and Bielefeld during World War II, and life in hiding in southern Germany, 1939-1945 In the file: April 1960 Covering report prepared by Dr. Ball-Kaduri regarding the testimony of Rudolf Demant (p. 2); 12 January 1960 Testimony of the Jewish teacher Rudolf Demant regarding the Jewish school system in Moenchengladbach and Bielefeld during World War II, 1939-1942; his decision to go into hiding with his wife, 1942; their life in various places in Baden, southern Germany,...

File Number : 269

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Rabbi Max Nussbaum, born in Suczawa, Bukovina, 1908, regarding Jewish life in Germany during the first year of World War II

Testimony of Rabbi Max Nussbaum, born in Suczawa, Bukovina, 1908, regarding Jewish life in Germany during the first year of World War II Rabbi Max Nussbaum served as a rabbi in Berlin from 1933 until his emigration to the United States in July 1940. In the file: - Copy of a letter from Max Nussbaum to Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri, 18 August 1958; a summary of all the documents to follow (pp. 6-12); - Copy of "The Political Situation in Germany and the Neighboring States with Special Emphasis upon the Jewish Question", a memorandum prepared for Henry Morgenthau or Stephan Wise, written shortly after...

File Number : 232

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Rabbi Max Nussbaum, born in Suczawa, Bukovina, 1908, regarding the Gestapo order given to him on his wedding day, 15 July 1939, to leave the Zionistische Vereinigung fuer Deutschland (ZVfD -Zionist Federation of Germany) and join the Revisionist movement, 24 May 1956 - Receipt of a summons to appear at the Gestapo office the following day, which was his wedding day, 14 July 1938 [1939 - authenticated elsewhere in the documentation]; discussion with Otto Kuchmann, Director of the Gestapo Department of Jewish Affairs; demand that the witness officially leave the ZVfD (termed by Kuchmann as the...

File Number : 139

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Wilhelm Freihahn, chairman of the Jewish community in Breslau, regarding his detention in Buchenwald camp in summer 1938; testimony of the wife of the rabbi of the Jewish community in Koenigsberg, Rabbi Josef Dunner, regarding Kristallnacht in Koenigsberg, her husband's detention and release, and the family's emigration from Germany Testimony of Freihahn, written in Basel in August 1938, second-hand, from the words of Max Bollag, apparently due to Freihahn's fear for his life: Detention of the witness and his deportation to Buchenwald camp; separation of the Jewish inmates, and they are...

File Number : 73

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Letter from Rabbi Abraham Judah Cahn in Cardiff to the Jewish community in Fulda district, 1938

Letter from Rabbi Abraham Judah Cahn in Cardiff to the Jewish community in Fulda district, 1938 Letter from Rabbi Abraham Judah Cahn in Cardiff to the Jewish community in Fulda district, addressed to the district rabbi, Dr. L. Cahn, in 1938, expressing pain associated with parting with his community in Fulda and promising to act for aid to Jews emigrating from Germany.

File Number : 5664

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Testimony of Martha (Braun) Wild, born in Hamburg, Germany in 1926, regarding her experiences in Germany, and in England after her transfer to England with Kindertransport, personal documentation from Germany from 1939, and documentation regarding the fate of her parents who perished

Transcript of testimony collected on Zoom in 2021: Family life in Germany before the war; studies at the Talmud Torah school in Altona; attending a girls' school in Hamburg; expulsion of the witness from the school; Nazi parades and harassment of family members in 1937; deportation to Poland of her cousin, Marion Biermann, with her parents; transfer of the witness and her sister, Margot, to England with Kindertransport, with the help of Rabbi Tzvi Carlebach; life in England; losing contact with her parents after receiving the last letter from her mother informing her of their expected transfer to the...

File Number : 12363

Type of Material : Passport, Personal Documents, Record of Murdered Persons, Letter, Testimony

Language : English, German

To be translated

File Number : 5383

Type of Material : Envelope, Letter, Article

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Letter sent by Leo Trepp in Amsterdam to his relatives in the United States in 1945, with documentation of his experiences during the Holocaust

Letter sent by Leo Trepp in Amsterdam to his relatives in the United States in 1945, with documentation of his experiences during the Holocaust - letter written by Leo Trepp in Amsterdam to his uncle in the United States in spring 1945, translated into Hebrew by Harel Oren. The letter includes memoirs regarding his experiences in the Netherlands during the Holocaust: Worsening of the persecution of Amsterdam Jews in February 1941; living in hiding due to the persecution of Jewish refugees from Germany; his father's life in a labor camp for about three months at the beginning of 1942; the activity of the...

File Number : 5107

Type of Material : תעודת נישואין שהונפקה על ידי הקהילה היהודית, Personal Documents, Certification, Newspaper Clippings, עבודת מחקר, Genealogy, List of Jews, Letter, כתובה

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch, German, Aramaic

Testimony of Hannah Alexander Goldwyn regarding a move from Berlin to England in Kindertransport, a lecture by Israel Alexander

Testimony of Hannah Alexander Goldwyn regarding a move from Berlin to England in Kindertransport, a lecture by Israel Alexander Testimony of Hannah Alexander Goldwyn regarding her experiences during the Holocaust: - The transfer of her brother Israel from Germany to England after his liberation from the Buchenwald camp; Hannah crossing from Berlin to England by Kindertransport, June 1939; aliya of her sister Toba Tina from Berlin to Eretz Israel, August 1939; Hannah's stay in London and various places in England; joining the "Habonim" and religious pioneering alliances (בח"ד); moving to Belgium after the...

File Number : 11418

Type of Material : Testimony, Lecture

Language : Hebrew

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