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Testimony of Yechiel Chiel Szedler, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences during the war

Testimony of Yechiel Chiel Szedler, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences during the war Included in the file: - Document with registration summary regarding his birth, produced by the population registration office in Bialystok, 05 October 1956, for Chiel Szedler, born 22 June 1922; his father's name was Abram Szedler and his mother's name was Szejna (Fiszer) Szedler; - Document with registration summary regarding her birth, produced by the population registration office in Lodz, 19 October 1956, for Sonia Gleicher, born in Polanczyk, 25 December 1921; her father's name was Abram...

File Number : 8602

Type of Material : Document, Testimony, Document, Student Project

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Russian, Yiddish, Ukrainian

O.20 - Max Lowenthal Collection: Department for Jewish Restitution in Germany, Headquarters of the US Forces, US Occupation Zone in Germany, January-April 1947

O.20 - Max Lowenthal Collection: Department for Jewish Restitution in Germany, Headquarters of the US Forces, US Occupation Zone in Germany, January-April 1947 Postwar documentation regarding the restitution of Jewish cultural property looted during World War II; in the US Occupation Zone in Germany. Documentation regarding the incorporation of the Jewish Restitution Commission.

File Number : 23

Type of Material : Document(s), Telegram, Correspondence, Official Documentation, Draft, Letter(s)

Personal documentation of Oscar Samuel Mendel, born in Elmshorn, Germany, 3 November 1864, and of his daughter Rosa Mina Mendel from the period of their lives in Germany and after their immigration in July 1939 to Great Britain, 1974-1903 In the file: - Birth certificates; - Passports from the Third Reich period; - Offficial documents regarding emigration from Germany; - Immigration certificates; - Official letters from Rosa Mina Mendel regarding restitution of stolen property. All the documents were received from the Jewish National Fund (JNF).

File Number : 431

Type of Material : Identity Card, Personal Documents, Passport, Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Testimony of Violet (Reuven) Dowek, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1931, regarding her experiences in Sofia, Chirpan and Yambol

Testimony

Testimony of Violet (Reuven) Dowek, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1931, regarding her experiences in Sofia, Chirpan and Yambol Childhood as an only child living with her family in a Christian neighborhood; relations with her Bulgarian neighbors. German occupation, 1941; expulsion from her elementary school; yellow badge; deportation to Chirpan, summer 1943; residence in a small shoemaker's shop; labor in picking produce, stringing beads and similar work; supporting the family by selling shirts sewn by her mother; transfer to live with her relatives in Yambol; living with her uncle; return to Sofia at the end...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of George Grosz, born in Timisoara, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in Timisoara, Ada and Budy

Testimony

Testimony of George Grosz, born in Timisoara, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in Timisoara, Ada and Budy His childhood. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; move to his grandfather and grandmother in Ada, Yugoslavia, summer 1942; deportation to a labor camp in Budy; camp life, for approximately six months; escape; release by the partisans, winter 1942; illegally crosses the border to Romania; liberation, late 1944. Life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1965.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of inheritors of Jews from Wiesbaden who are suing for their property confiscated during the Holocaust

File Number : 1090

Type of Material : List of Jews

Language : German

Testimony of Mordechai Winkler, born in Hochwolkersdorf, Austria, 1926, regarding his experiences in Neustadt, Vienna and Bratislava

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Winkler, born in Hochwolkersdorf, Austria, 1926, regarding his experiences in Neustadt, Vienna and Bratislava Childhood in Hochwolkersdorf; religious holidays in Vr Neustadt; village life. Anschluss; looting of property; taking control of the family store by the SS; transfer to Neustadt; residence at his uncle's home; concentration of the Jews in the synagogue; abuse by the SS and transfer of the Jews to Vienna; Bar Mitzva celebration; Blau-Weiss membership; transfer to Bratislava on a visa. Transit camp in Bratislava; assistance from the Jewish community; illegal aliya attempt...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Katerina (Gruenberger) Futerweit, born in Podhradie Spisske, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in Poprad, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrueck and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Katerina (Gruenberger) Futerweit, born in Podhradie Spisske, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in Poprad, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrueck and a death march Life before the war; death of her father; remarriage of her mother. Restrictions on Jews including confiscation of property and ban on work; deportation to Poprad, 1942; camp life; transfer to Auschwitz; camp life including labor in the destroyed villages surrounding the camp; death of her brother; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including labor in the Canada Kommando; death of her mother from typhus; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Survey regarding the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries as reported in the Nazi and local press, September 1943

Survey regarding the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries as reported in the Nazi and local press, September 1943 Poland: History of the Majdanek camp; murder methods in the camp; torture of female inmates; a female SS guard who habitually abused the women; the camp on Janowska Street in Lwow; abuse of inmates by Steiner, commander of the Vilna camp; female partisans in the "Avengers" unit; partisan life in the Bialystok and Nowogrodek forests; Bielski's partisan unit; Ehrenburg report regarding activities of the partisans in Vilna and Kaunas; Children's "Aktion"; murder of 40,000 Jews including...

File Number : 39

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Joint testimony of Sarlotta (Salomon) Malter and Rozalia (Salomon) Mermelshtein, twins, born in Onok, 1935, regarding their experiences in Ilonokujfalu, Orsava, the Mukacevo Ghetto and Mengele's twins barracks in Auschwitz Prosperous, traditional farmer family with six children; life in Ilonokujfalu where Ukrainians, Hungarians and Czechs lived with 70 Jewish families. Entry of the Hungarians, 1939; termination of their first grade education; round-up and deportation of the Jews for a few weeks to homes of Jews who were deported from Orsava, and help from remaining local Jews; deportation to Mukacevo Ghetto;...

File Number : 11818

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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