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Documentation regarding Dr. Kurt Singer, a physician and a choral conductor in Berlin, 1933-2008

Documentation regarding Dr. Kurt Singer, a physician and a choral conductor in Berlin, 1933-2008 Included is an original portrait of Dr. Kurt Singer, made in Theresienstadt.

File Number : 500

Type of Material : Drawing, Article, Newspaper

Language : German

Testimony of Lili (Lazar Cohen) Striemer, born in Koenigsberg, Germany, 1906, regarding her experiences in Germany, 1933-1938 and at the beginning of the organization of the Kulturbund

Testimony

Testimony of Lili (Lazar Cohen) Striemer, born in Koenigsberg, Germany, 1906, regarding her experiences in Germany, 1933-1938 and at the beginning of the organization of the Kulturbund Life in Berlin, 1933-1938; information regarding the character of the Kulturbund organization and the names of its active people; start of the Kulturbund headed by Kurt Singer; its aims, departments and first performance.

File Number : 7773

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Adolphe Metz, deputy director of the Health Bureau in the Theresienstadt Ghetto regarding his experiences in the ghetto

Testimony of Adolphe Metz, deputy director of the Health Bureau in the Theresienstadt Ghetto regarding his experiences in the ghetto Life in the Theresienstadt Ghetto; labor as deputy director of theghetto health bureau; layout of the ghetto; administering the cultural life of the ghetto; limited freedom granted the Jews in administering their daily and cultural lives; transfer of Jews to forced labor; hunger; deportation of the Jews to the gas chambers.

File Number : 3257

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Lilli Striemer, born in Koenigsberg, Germany, 1906, regarding the membership organization of the Cultural Federation of Jews in Berlin, 1933-1938

Testimony of Lilli Striemer, born in Koenigsberg, Germany, 1906, regarding the membership organization of the Cultural Federation of Jews in Berlin, 1933-1938 In the file: - Covering report by Dr. Ball-Kaduri regarding the testimony of Lilli Striemer, (page 2), January 1959; - Testimony of Lilli Striemer regarding the membership organization of the Cultural Federation of Jews in Berlin, 1933-1938, including her experiences as a secretary and typist at the Cultural Federation of Jews in Berlin until her emigration in 1938, (pp. 3-24), 12 December 1958; - Yad Vashem file card regarding the testimony...

File Number : 240

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Arthur Rau regarding the beginning of the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden (Cultural Federation of German Jews), 1933

Testimony of Arthur Rau regarding the beginning of the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden (Cultural Federation of German Jews), 1933 - Foundation of the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden, later known as the Juedischer Kulturbund (Kubu-Jewish Cultural Federation) initiated by Dr. Kurt Singer, physician and former conductor of the physician's orchestra; - Kulturbund committee members included Julius Bab, Arthur Lilienthal, Eva Reichmann-Jungmann and Arthur Rau; - Discussion regarding the development of the Kulturbund, defeat of those in favor of a Zionist orientation; bankruptcy of the Federation; renewal of the...

File Number : 39

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Benno Cohn of the Juedischer Kulturbund (Kubu-Jewish Cultural Federation), Berlin, regarding Kristallnacht (the November pogrom) in 1938 and its ramifications

Testimony of Benno Cohn of the Juedischer Kulturbund (Kubu-Jewish Cultural Federation), Berlin, regarding Kristallnacht (the November pogrom) in 1938 and its ramifications - Decree circulated by police radio regarding Kristallnacht and the planned measures, 09 November 1938; destruction of Jewish institutions, arrests of hundreds of Jews; - Summons of the witness and others to the manager of the Reich Culture Chamber; announcement regarding the prohibition on Jews attending theater performances and concerts; order to the Juedischer Kulturbund to resume its activities; rescue of 20 arrested actors from...

File Number : 5

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German