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Testimony of Yehudit Brok née Stern, born in 1925 in Galanta, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in the ghettos of Galanta and Nove Zamky and in the Auschwitz and Hohenelbe camps until 1945

Hungary re-annexes the Galanta area and anti-Jewish violence in 1938; antisemitism escalates and authorities impose restrictions; German occupation ensues in 1944; father arrested and deported to a detention camp in Hungary in 1944; witness deported with mother and siblings to the Galanta ghetto for several days; deportation to a ghetto in a brickyard in Nove Zamky; deporation to Auschwitz in 1944; life in Auschwitz and receiving help from father; transferred to Hohenelbe; life in the camp; working at a factory that turns out aircraft parts; typhus; rescue by a non-Jewish Dutch nurse in 1945; liberation by Red...

File Number : 13525

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence between the community committee and the Social Self-Help Committee in Kazimierz Dolny and the administration of the Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna - ZSS (Jewish Social Self-Help) organization in Krakow, 11 December 1940-12 July 1941 Correspondence between the community committee and the Social Self-Help Committee in Kazimierz Dolny and the administration of the Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna - ZSS (Jewish Social Self-Help) organization in Krakow, regarding the following subjects: The transfer of monies from the administration of the ZSS in Krakow to the Social Self-Help committee in Kazimierz...

File Number : 40

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish, German

Two documents issued by the Jewish community in Linz to Rudolf Gans-Schiller, including certification of his appointment as Director of the Emigration Bureau in Linz, 1938

Two documents issued by the Jewish community in Linz to Rudolf Gans-Schiller, including certification of his appointment as Director of the Emigration Bureau in Linz, 1938 - Thank-you letter to Rudolf Gans-Schiller from the Jewish community in Linz for the donation of 4,000 Reichsmark in support of needy Jews and assistance to the emigration of needy Jews; - Certificate from the Jewish community in Linz that Rudolf Gans-Schiller was appointed by Max Hirschfeld, Chairman of the Jewish community, as Director of the Emigration Bureau in Linz, and responsible for the entire Oberdonau area, and an additional...

File Number : 225

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

An anonymous testimony of a man, born in Pruska, Poland, age 20, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto

An anonymous testimony of a man, born in Pruska, Poland, age 20, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto Life in Warsaw, 1940-1942: cultural life, Jewish self-help; smuggling; attempts to find work and food; ghetto life; underground activities; life in the Hashomer Hatzair kibbutz. The testimony was recorded during the war.

File Number : 43

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence between the Jewish Social Self-Help ("Juedische Soziale Selbsthilfe", JSS) and the office of the Generalgouvernement, the "Bevoelkerungswesen und Fuersorge" (population and welfare) department and other authorities, regarding matters concerning welfare work, social help, and JSS activity reports, 1940-1942 Letters by the JSS organization, written in most cases by Dr. Michael Weichert, to the office of the Generalgouvernement, the "Bevoelkerungswesen und Fuersorge" (population and welfare) department, regarding: - Request for permission to buy goods for the manufacture of clothing,...

File Number : 14

Type of Material : Correspondence, Newspaper Clippings, Letter(s), Copy, Official Documentation

Language : Polish, German

David Rappoport, born in Proskurov, Ukraine, 1883: details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

David Rappoport, born in Proskurov, Ukraine, 1883: details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Work as a journalist; underground activities; leader of the Comite Rue Amelot (Amelot Street Committee) in Paris; arrest by Danneker, a Gestapo commander, 01 June 1943; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz; death in Auschwitz, 02 July 1944. Also in the file: - Booklet entitled "L'un des Trente Six" (One of the Thirty-six), published by Kyoum, Paris, 1946.

File Number : 37

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Photograph, Personal Documents, Letter of Testimony, Reports, Brochure

Language : French

Correspondence by representatives of the Jewish welfare organizations and committees in Radomysl Wielki, Poland with the administration of the Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (Jewish Social Self-Help organization - ZSS) in Krakow, 25/08/1940-30/04/1942 - Correspondence with the Radomysl Wielki Judenrat, regarding welfare associations that were active before the outbreak of war: the Talmud Torah Association, a Jewish charity organization named for Rywka and Dwojra Weinberger, the National Jewish Library, and the Gemiluth Hasidim organization; - List of Jewish entrepreneurs in the Radomysl Wielki community; -...

File Number : 1006

Type of Material : Administrative Documentation, List of Jews, Correspondence, Letter(s), List of Jewish Community Members, Documentation, Telegram, Postcard

Language : Polish, German

Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses, December 1943

Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses, December 1943 Poland: The Lodz Ghetto; deportations to the ghetto and sealing of the ghetto; Rumkowski's activities; labor camps in the vicinity of Lublin; Judenrat activities in the Warsaw Ghetto; ghettos for Poles in places where there had formerly been ghettos for Jews; legislation against the non-German population in the Generalgouvernement; annihilation of Jews in the camps; Germany: Testimony from a woman regarding air-raids in...

File Number : 28

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Survey of conditions in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and the Middle East countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press and by witnesses with an emphasis on the situation of the Jews, August 1943 Poland: The fate of the Warsaw Jews and regarding the annihilation of 90% of the Jews of Poland as reported in the Swedish press; Ziegelboim and the Bund; Frank's speeches; annihilation of the Jews of the Baltic States; murder of Jews in Gomel; Germany: Goebbels' speeches regarding war fatigue; Slovakia: Legislation prohibiting Jews from traveling by public transportation; confiscation of land from...

File Number : 17

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Survey of the situation of the Jews in the Nazi occupied countries and the political situation in the Eretz Israel region and the Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, speeches by leaders and from letters, June 1943 - Germany: Incitement program against the Jews in the press; Hitler-Jugend activities; lists of confiscated Jewish property as recorded in the press; - Slovakia: Transfer of Jewish land to Slovakian farmers; deportation of most of the Jews "to the East"; the phenomenon of conversion to Christianity among the Jews; - Hungary: Statistics regarding the spread of the "Jewish...

File Number : 9

Type of Material : Report

Language : Hebrew

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