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Memoirs of Charlotte Lederer, born in Lundenburg, Czechoslovakia, 1897, regarding her experiences in Bruenn, Nikolsburg and Theresienstadt, 1939-1945

Memoirs of Charlotte Lederer, born in Lundenburg, Czechoslovakia, 1897, regarding her experiences in Bruenn, Nikolsburg and Theresienstadt, 1939-1945 - Her parents, Victor and Marie Wohlmuth were merchants; her first husband, whom she married in 1918, was Abram Hellmann, born in Lenczica, Poland,1892, who served the Lundenburg Jewish community as a cantor; move to Nikolsburg where Abram Hellmann serves as a chief cantor and school teacher; history of the Jewish community in Nikolsburg, Lundenburg and Kostel; information regarding the Jewish museum in Nikolsburg, built by Richard Teltscher and her husband...

File Number : 162

Type of Material : Memoirs, Official Documentation

Language : German

"The Jews in Scandinavia during the Time of the War (Rescue Operations initiated in Sweden)", a lecture delivered by Norbert Masur at the Aliyah Chadasha Club in Tel Aviv, 24 March 1947

"The Jews in Scandinavia during the Time of the War (Rescue Operations initiated in Sweden)", a lecture delivered by Norbert Masur at the Aliyah Chadasha Club in Tel Aviv, 24 March 1947 Abridged and typewritten shorthand notes of a lecture given in German by Norbert Masur at the Aliyah Chadasha Club in Tel Aviv, 24 March 1947. Although the document mentions the name “Robert”, it is evident from the context that the shorthand notes refer to Norbert Masur (1901-1971), born in Friedrichstadt, German and naturalized in Stockholm, who served as the Swedish representative to the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and...

File Number : 99

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German

זיכרונותיו של Arnold Kaszub יליד Gniezno 1912 על קורותיו בגרמניה, בלגיה, הולנד, דנמרק ושבדיה בתקופת השואה ותיעוד נוסף הקשור למשפחתו

File Number : 13003

Type of Material : Postcard, Birth Certificate, Personal Documents, Certification, Memoirs, Identity Card

Language : Polish, Swedish, German, Danish

Memoirs of Sara Sala (Frenkiel) Preiss, about her experiences in and after the Holocaust, her books of dedications from 1945–1946, and letters and dcuments associated with her and family members

Memoirs of Sara Sala (Frenkiel) Preiss, about her experiences in and after the Holocaust, her books of dedications from 1945–1946, and letters and dcuments associated with her and family members - memoirs of Sara Frenkiel about her experiences during and after the Holocaust, written after her immigration to Eretz Israel in 1946 (Hebrew translation attached): Bombardment of Piotrków as the war begins; Germans enter; deportations begin in 1940; four of witness's sisters deported in October 1942; witness hides with rest of family during Aktionen; witness's parents, brother, and sister murdered in November...

File Number : 12661

Type of Material : Diploma, Memoirs, תעודת בית הספר, Diary, Telegram, Letter, Memoir Book, Article, Passport, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, Swedish, German, Yiddish, Hungarian

Speech by Arne Rabuchin, born in Sweden in 1944, with information regarding the fate of the Jews of Denmark and his family's experiences during the war

Speech by Arne Rabuchin, born in Sweden in 1944, with information regarding the fate of the Jews of Denmark and his family's experiences during the war Life in Denmark under German occupation; the King's declaration that he would wear a yellow badge, and the German authorities' subsequent withdrawal of the yellow badge order; absence of anti-Semitism on the part of the Danish population; deportation of Danish policemen and communists to concentration camps in Germany; receiving reports of an Aktion against Jews in early October 1943; call of Chief Rabbi Markus Melchior for the Jews of Denmark to leave their...

File Number : 636

Type of Material : Speech

Language : English

Postcards from Jakob Warenbron, in Theresienstadt, to his daughter Olga (Golda) Schapiro, in Sweden, 1944, and prewar personal documentation of hers and of her family from Poland and Denmark

Postcards from Jakob Warenbron, in Theresienstadt, to his daughter Olga (Golda) Schapiro, in Sweden, 1944, and prewar personal documentation of hers and of her family from Poland and Denmark Postcards and letter: - postcard from Jacob Warenbron, Theresienstadt, to his daughter Olga Schapiro, in Boras (Sweden), April 25, 1944; - postcard confirming receipt of parcel sent by Jakob Warenbron, in Theresienstadt, to Olga Schapiro, in Boras, in July 1944; - letter to Olga and Theodor Schapiro from their Danish friends, May 15 (apparently 1943); Documentation associated with Olga (Golda) née Warenbron and her...

File Number : 4937

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, כתובה, Genealogy, Personal Documents

Language : Polish, English, Russian, German, Aramaic, Danish

Diary of Bernhardt Schermeister, in Denmark, 1941; poems devoted to the love between his daughter, Lis, and Abbe Kichinovski, 1945; and soldier’s booklet of Abraham Kichinovski from his term of service in the Swedish Army during the war - diary kept by Bernhardt Schermeister in Humlebaek, July 1941, devoted to his wife, Edith; - poems devoted to the love and the half-year wedding anniversary (December 24, 1944–June 24, 1945) of Lis Schermeister and Abbe Kichinovski; - soldier’s booklet of Abraham Kichinovski, born in 1916 in Sweden and inducted into the Swedis Army in 1939, with his service records from...

File Number : 109

Type of Material : Poem/song, Diary, Personal Documents

Language : Swedish, Danish

Diary kept by Pejsa Majew, born in Mogilev in 1907, while in prison, his memoirs of his experiences in prisons and camps in Germany in 1943-1945, and letters he sent to his wife in May 1945

Diary kept by Pejsa Majew, born in Mogilev in 1907, while in prison, his memoirs of his experiences in prisons and camps in Germany in 1943-1945, and letters he sent to his wife in May 1945 - copy of a diary that Pejsa Majew kept in the Vestre Fængsel prison in Copenhagen in October-November 1943 and in the Siegburg camp in March-May 1945; - overview report regarding the conditions in prisons and camps for political prisoners in Germany, written by Pejsa Peter Majew in Copenhagen on 1 September 1946, with his memoirs of his experiences in 1943-1945: Arrest in Copenhagen on 17 September 1943; transfer to...

File Number : 11115

Type of Material : Diary, Letter, Questionnaire, Memoirs, Survey Report

Language : Danish

Letters to Ruth (Parmatow) Feldmann in Denmark and Sweden from 1939-1956, memoirs, documentation of the Feldmann family

Letters to Ruth (Parmatow) Feldmann in Denmark and Sweden from 1939-1956, memoirs, documentation of the Feldmann family Letters and postcards to Ruth Parmatow in Denmark from 1939-1943 sent by: -- her mother, Selma Sara Parmatow, in Berlin; -- her father, Heinrich Parmatow, in Shanghai; -- senders in Canada; - letters from Vienna and Malmö to Ruth (Parmatow) Feldmann in Sweden from 1946 and 1956; - memoirs of Ruth (Parmatow) Feldmann, born in Neustettin, 1924, regarding the experiences of her family in the Holocaust: The family owns a shoe store; deportation of her father to Sachsenhausen camp;...

File Number : 5171

Type of Material : Letter, Calendar, Postcard, Memoirs, Notepad, Envelope, Certification, Identity Card

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Testimony of Chana (Pundik) Kleiman, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1931, regarding her flight to Sweden

Testimony of Chana (Pundik) Kleiman, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1931, regarding her flight to Sweden Family background; traditional family; her father was a textile merchant; Entry of the Germans into Denmark; Jews' lives unchanged in 1941; her family's flight to Sweden in a fishing boat; arrival at Klippan; move to Malmo, 1943; studies at Lund; end of the war, 1945; Return to Copenhagen; Zionist activities; aliya to Israel, 1953; absorption and rehabilitation.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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