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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Edith (Veis) Rothschild, born in Balassagyarmat, Hungary, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Balassagyarmat Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Oberhohenelbe

Testimony

Testimony of Edith (Veis) Rothschild, born in Balassagyarmat, Hungary, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Balassagyarmat Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Oberhohenelbe Life before the war; the Jewish community. Discriminatory laws, 1938; effect of the laws on the Jews; drafting of her father and brother to forced labor at service jobs; arrival of refugees in the town; German occupation, March 1944; her mother's hospitalization in a hospital in Budapest; deportation to the Balassagyarmat Ghetto, 1944; ghetto life; guarding of the ghetto by Hungarian gendarmes; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau by train;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation containing a voting slip for Reichstag elections, a registration form for marking down place of origin and permit for an Army leave

File Number : 440

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Viorika (Goldstein) Grinberg, born in Marosvasarhej, Hungary, 1933, regarding her experiences in the Targu Mures Ghetto, Auschwitz, Hochweiler and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Viorika (Goldstein) Grinberg, born in Marosvasarhej, Hungary, 1933, regarding her experiences in the Targu Mures Ghetto, Auschwitz, Hochweiler and Bergen-Belsen From a financially secure family. Outbreak of the war, 1939; school; witness’s father's work with sawmills; anti-Jewish legislation and yellow badge, January 1944; deportation to the Targu Mares Ghetto, March 1944; deportation to Auschwitz, April 1944; separation from her father; illness of her eldest sister and her murder; transfer to Hochweiler; life in a brick factory and labor digging trenches; meningitis; rescue by the camp...

Type of Material : Postcard, Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Klein, born in Mukacevo, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Fuenfteichen, Gross-Rosen and Dora camps

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Klein, born in Mukacevo, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Fuenfteichen, Gross-Rosen and Dora camps Life before the war; attends a Hebrew school; membership in Hashomer Hatzair movement. Annexation to Hungary, 1938; displays of antisemitsim; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Mukacevo Ghetto; transfer to a brick factory; transfer to Auschwitz; transfer to Fuenfteichen; camp life including forced labor in an aircraft factory; visit by the Red Cross to the camp; death march to Gross-Rosen, 1945; transfer to Dora; camp life including forced...

File Number : 12436

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter from Edward Zatorski to the director at the Yad Vashem Archives, Dr. Shmul Krakowski, regarding his experience in the forced labor camp in Osterode

Letter from Edward Zatorski to the director of the Yad Vashem Archives, Dr. Shmul Krakowski, regarding his experiences in the forced labor camp in Osterode Edward Zatorski's mother was Jewish (family name Padowicz); at the age 18, as a first degree Mischling, he was interned in the forced labor camp in Osterode, supervised by the TODT organisation; this camp was located next to the Harz concentration camp, Dachs IV; camp life description: hunger, hard work in quarries; K.L. Dachs IV was liquidated in March 1945; liberation by the allied forces on April 11, 1945. The letter was written on August 30, 1993...

File Number : 3542

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Documentation regarding the anti-Mischlinge legislation, and the conduct of medical experiments on concentration camp inmates, 1942-1944

Documentation regarding the anti-Mischlinge legislation, and the conduct of medical experiments on concentration camp inmates, 1942-1944 - Letter sent to Lammers by Minister of the Justice Schlegelberger, including a request for a repeat discussion regarding the treatment of Jews and Mischlinge, before a final decision will be made regarding the matter; - Letter written by Schlegelberger regarding the Final Solution, including an argument that the "means for the solution of the problem" are not to include second degree Mischlinge or first degree Mischlinge whose children became valued members of society;...

File Number : 81

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation of Himmler, of the Nazi Party's Aussenpolitisches Amt (Foreign Policies office) and other organizations, regarding the Gypsies, 1938-1944

Documentation of Himmler, of the Nazi Party's Aussenpolitisches Amt (Foreign Policies office) and other organizations, regarding the Gypsies, 1938-1944 - Ban imposed by the Munich Police against fortune telling by Gypsies, 27 November 1939; - Proposals by the SS Rasse und Siedlingshauptamt (Racial and Settlement Affairs head office), regarding the solution of the Gypsy Problem including the forbidding of sexual contacts between Gypsies and German women, the detention and sterilization of Mischlinge, and registration of the Gypsies in Ostmark, 19 December 1939; - Order by Heydrich, regarding the...

File Number : 274

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF-General Union of Jews in France), Zone Nord (German occupied area) correspondence regarding the release from Drancy of spouses from mixed marriages, a letter from the head of the Dijon region regarding deportation of the Jews of the Dijon region and more, 1944 The material was created by: UGIF, Zone Nord; Groupe 1 Service 14 Liason A Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (Commander of the Security Police and the SD, Group 1, Service 14, Liaison A In the file: UGIF correspondence regarding the release from Drancy of spouses from mixed marriages...

File Number : 71

Type of Material : Official Documentation, List of Persecuted Persons, Identity Card, Certification, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : French, German

Gau Wien of the National Socialist Party (NSDAP, Vienna): Material from the Sippenamt (Ministry of Geneology) in Vienna

Gau Wien of the National Socialist Party (NSDAP, Vienna): Material from the Sippenamt (Ministry of Geneology) in Vienna - Memoranda regarding the treatment of Gypsies (local, and in general); - Memoranda, instructions and orders regarding procedures for the research of people's origin, including foreign residents, and also the existing work procedures in the office file; - Memoranda signed by Himmler (regarding marriage permits for SS men) and Bormann (instructions regarding the preservation of the archival material of the NSDAP).

File Number : 30

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

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