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Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: Pre-trial hearings of Alfred Kretschmer, Josef Kania and other former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle Berlin; Testimonies by Berlin Jewish survivors, 1966 The file includes i. A.: - Pre-trial hearings of the former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Alfred Kretschmer and Josef Kania. Both were accused of having participated in the act of confiscation and seizure of Jewish property. A. Kretschmer, who also participated in the act of arresting Jews from Berlin, was ordered by the Central Office to documente...

File Number : 23

Type of Material : Letter, List of Names, Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Georg Glückstein, born in Sorau, Poland, 1886, and married to a Christian woman, regarding his experiences during World War II in Berlin

Testimony of Georg Glückstein, born in Sorau, Poland, 1886, and married to a Christian woman, regarding his experiences during World War II in Berlin - Georg Glückstein was an attorney at law and a judge, married to a Christian, and a member of the Jewish community in Berlin who served as its legal advisor; - He was also an acting manager of the Geshellschaft zur foerderung wirtschaftlicher interessen (FWI - Society for the Promotion of Economic Interests), an organization that assisted Jewish emigrants in managing and liquidating their assets, also known as the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Interessen...

File Number : 197

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Letters of testimony written from the Jawiszowice (Jawischowitz) (Poland) labor camp by Jimmy Neumann, originally from Berlin, to Ernst Gross, March 1943-autumn 1944

Letters of testimony written from the Jawiszowice (Jawischowitz) (Poland) labor camp by Jimmy Neumann, originally from Berlin, to Ernst Gross, March 1943-autumn 1944 Sweeping raid in Berlin, arrest of Jews and internment at the Grosse Hamburger Strasse detention camp, then transfer of all Jews in mixed marriages to the Rosenstrasse detention camp, among them Jimmy Neumann and Ernst Gross; release of most of the prisoners, including Ernst Gross, after protest demonstrations by the detainees' Christian wives; deportation of Jimmy Neumann, whose wife did not support his cause, to the Jawiszowice labor camp;...

File Number : 131

Type of Material : Letter, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Ernst Gross, born in Halle, Germany, October 1905, regarding his life in Berlin as a Jewish man married to an Aryan woman, 1933-1945

Testimony of Ernst Gross, born in Halle, Germany, October 1905, regarding his life in Berlin as a Jewish man married to an Aryan woman, 1933-1945 Transcript of the interview of Ernst Gross conducted by Dr. Kurt J. Ball-Kaduri in Jerusalem. - Ernst Gross' father is a cantor and businessman from Neumark; move of his parents from Halle to France, 03 February 1938; help from a rabbi in finding a place in Poitier; after that, loss of contact with Ernst Gross; - One brother, born in 1898, was a physician in Leipzig, who died of appendicitis in 1925; - Two sisters, Elly and Frida, both born before 1900...

File Number : 123

Language : German

Collection of stories about Righteous among the Nations, assembled by Kay Sharpe

Collection of stories about Righteous among the Nations, assembled by Kay Sharpe - the British Consul Robert Smallbones and the Deputy Consul Arthur Dowden in Frankfurt—after Kristallnacht, he issued provisional visas to the UK in 1938–1939, thus rescuing approx. 48,000 Jews; - the Chinese Consul Feng Shan Ho in Vienna, who saved Jews after Austria was annexed in 1938 by issuing visas to Shanghai; information is available at the Yad Vashem site and on Wikipedia; - George Ferdinand Duckwitz (a German diplomat in Denmark): after he discovered plans to deport the Jews of Denmark to concentration camps in...

File Number : 414

Type of Material : Article

Language : English

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Fred Heyman, born in Berlin in 1932, regarding his experiences in Berlin during the 1930-1940s, in the United States following his immigration in 1947, and his activities on behalf of Holocaust commemoration His childhood in Berlin; rise to power of the Nazis; Nuremberg Laws; Kristallnacht riots; halting of his studies because of his Jewish origin; air-raids on Berlin; participation in the "Rosenstrasse" protest in 1943 (along with his mother); life in hiding with his family members; liberation of Berlin by the Red Army; his stay in Berlin until 1946; his family immigrates to the United States;...

File Number : 10778

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English