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[Internal] correspondence of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), following the increase in antisemitism in Lower Silesia, 05/11/1929-03/03/1931

[Internal] correspondence of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), following the increase in antisemitism in Lower Silesia, 05/11/1929-03/03/1931 - Correspondence following the development of the Nazi movement, 1929-1931; - Correspondence following the Schweidnitz Trial against Nazis, with the participation of Hitler and his assistant OSAF Pfeffer von Salomon, 1929 (page 1750); - Boycott of Jewish businesses in Lower Silesia (page 1751); - Ban on ritual slaughter in the city of Hirschberg, by the Society for the Protection of Animals in Lower Silesia...

File Number : JM/28890

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Booklet titled, "Analysis of Nazi Criminal Organizations”, published by the Office of Military Government, United States (OMGUS) in Germany, 1947

Booklet titled, "Analysis of Nazi Criminal Organizations”, published by the Office of Military Government, United States (OMGUS) in Germany, 1947 - Organizational structure of the Sicherheitsdienst - SD Security Service, the Gestapo, the SS, and Das Korps der Politischen Leiter der NSDAP (NSDAP Political Leaders Corps); - Information regarding the Einsatzgruppen, the Reichssicherheitshauptamt - RSHA (Reich Security Head Office), the SS Hauptamt (SS Head Office), the SS Rasse und Siedlingshauptamt (SS Racial and Settlement Affairs Head Office), the SS Lebensborn organization, and the SS...

File Number : 290

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Documentation including investigation material of the charge against Nazi dentist Viering, accused of the coordination of the murder of a Jew in Germany, from the Nuremberg Trial held during 1945-1946 Viering, a dentist from Barmen, is accused of the coordination of the murder of his Jewish competitor, Dr. Alfred Meyer; Viering held senior membership in the local Nazi Party; Viering's belief that he received a "License to Kill" from the authorities following the Nazi Party's rise to power; he thought of Meyer as a rival; spreading of slander against Meyer by Viering; theft of valuables from Alfred Meyer's...

File Number : 263

Type of Material : Record of Murdered Persons, Legal Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : English

Testimony of Zeev Wolf Schwammenthal, born in Berlin, Germany, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and as a forced laborer for the Romanian Army

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Wolf Schwammenthal, born in Berlin, Germany, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and as a forced laborer for the Romanian Army Life before the Nazi rise to power in Germany; Jewish community; burglary of his father's store; Nazi rise to power; threats against his father. Escape of the family to Czechoslovakia; move to Romania; planned aliya to Eretz Israel; theft of the family certificate; move to Cernauti; murder of Jews; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; his father's work as a furrier; deportation to Romanian Army labor camps; attitude of the Ukrainians towards the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of the SA headquarters, 1923-1945

Documentation of the SA headquarters, 1923-1945 Documentation of the SA headquarters: Establishment of the Assault Unit by the Nazi Party, 1921; establishment of the Supreme SA Leadership (Oberste SA-Fuehrung-OSAF) by Adolf Hitler, headed by Franz Pfeffer von Salomon, based in Munich, 1926; replaced by Hitler himself, in 1929; placement of Ernst Roehm at the head of the organization, 1931; elimination of the organization's leadership on "the night of the long knives", 30 June 1934, and removal of all its political functions; placement of Viktor Lutze as head of the organization following Roehm's murder,...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Eugen Valdhorn, born in Wattenscheid, Germany, 1925, regarding his experiences in Zbaszyn, Uzbekistan and as a Red Army soldier

Testimony

Testimony of Eugen Valdhorn, born in Wattenscheid, Germany, 1925, regarding his experiences in Zbaszyn, Uzbekistan and as a Red Army soldier Life before the war; Habonim membership; his father's death; competes in championship boxing for youth. Deportation to Zbaszyn; celebration of his Bar-Mitzvah in Zbaszyn; joins aliya training; his mother’s return to Germany; murder of relatives; outbreak of the war and escape to the Soviet Union; hardships en route to Uzbekistan; enlists in the Red Army using forged documents; displays of antisemitism within the military; combat against the German Army; air-raid on a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yedidia Ernest Bloch, born in Zvolen, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Slovak National Uprising, the underground, prison, Novaki and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Yedidia Ernest Bloch, born in Zvolen, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Slovak National Uprising, the underground, prison, Novaki and other places Life before the war; attends school; Jewish community; activities in a youth movement; displays of antisemitism. Participation in the Slovak National Uprising, August 1944; combat in the mountains; builds bunkers; meets Soviet partisans; food shortage; work selling an underground newspaper; capture by the Germans; detention in prison; murder of his father and brother; deportation to Novaki; camp life including forced labor;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yechiel Doron, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences in a marked house and a brick factory in Budapest and a camp in Austria

Testimony

Testimony of Yechiel Doron, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences in a marked house and a brick factory in Budapest and a camp in Austria Life before the war; attends school; displays of antisemitism; the Jewish community. German occupation; deportation of relatives to Auschwitz; draft of his father and uncle to labor battalions; yellow badge; his Bar-Mitzvah celebration; contact with his father; move with his mother to a marked house; air-raids; death of his father in Buchenwald; rise of Szalasi to power; transfer to a brick factory; life in the factory; buys protective passports;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Margalith (Katz) Galun, born in Vienna, 1927, regarding her experiences in Austria and Switzerland until her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Margalith (Katz) Galun, born in Vienna, 1927, regarding her experiences in Austria and Switzerland until her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939 Immediate family, life at home, Zionist activities at home; education; displays of antisemitism. Annexation of Austria; displays of joy by the Austrians; street cleaning by Jews; her father leaves Vienna; their passports are stamped with a J; injuries to Jews after Kristallnacht; attempt to cross the border to Switzerland; walks in the forest at night accompanied by a guide; capture by the Swiss border guards; detention in a German prison; interrogation at the...

File Number : 12029

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ellen (Rubinstein) Wahl, born in Chemnitz, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Germany and Zbasyn

Testimony

Testimony of Ellen (Rubinstein) Wahl, born in Chemnitz, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Germany and Zbasyn Nazi rise to power in Germany; death of her mother. Deportation to Zbaszyn, Poland, 28 October 1938; camp life; move to relatives in Lodz; aliya to Eretz Israel via Germany, April 1939; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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