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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.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 46

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter

results.listIds.lang : 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,...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 269

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony, Official Documentation

results.listIds.lang : 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...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 232

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Official Documentation, Testimony

results.listIds.lang : 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...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 139

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony, Official Documentation

results.listIds.lang : 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...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 73

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : 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.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 5664

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter

results.listIds.lang : German

זיכרונותיו של ד''ר Ismar Freund על מעצרו ועל החזקתו במחנה Buchenwald בנובמבר 1938

results.listIds.fileNumber : 12488

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : German

מכתבים ששלחו ר' M. S. Herzog ובני משפחתו ב-Stupava אל Paul ו-Melitta Mittler בא''י ב-1939-1942 ותיעוד של בני משפחות Mittler ו-Herzog

results.listIds.fileNumber : 5530

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Marriage Certificate, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Personal Documents, תעודת בית הספר, Certification, כתובה, Death Certificate, Article, Diploma, Letter, Red Cross Letter, Birth Certificate

results.listIds.lang : Slovak, Latin, English, German, Aramaic

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...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 12363

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter, Personal Documents, Record of Murdered Persons, Testimony, Passport

results.listIds.lang : English, German

Letters written by Rabbi Menasche Frenkel in Eschwege after the war, and documentation of the experiences of the Jews of Zabludow and Bialystok

Included in the file: - letters sent by Menasche Frenkel, the Chief Rabbi of Eschwege, to Fischel Isman in Palestine; - letter sent by Rabbi Yehuda Yitzhak Frenkel in Tel Aviv to Fischel Isman in Netanya in 1948; - documentation of the experiences of members of the Vaniewski, Dentaleski and Feder families of Zabludow and Bialystok during and after the war, by Noah Isman.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 5383

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Article, Envelope, Letter

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, Yiddish

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