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Testimony of Chana (Preschel) Meyer, born in Cincau, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, and in Mogilev

Testimony

Testimony of Chana (Preschel) Meyer, born in Cincau, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, and in Mogilev Middle class, religious family. Move to Cernauti; Romanian antisemitism, and German air-raids; move to the Cernauti ghetto; deportation to Mogilev; conditions there. Return to Cernauti on a military train after the liberation; move to the Romanian side, and meeting her parents; leave-taking from her parents, who remained in Dorono, on the Romanian side; Illegal immigration to Eretz Israel, 1946; absorption and rehabilitation.

File Number : 11832

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Report of Shmuel Elia on Rabbi Gabriel Raphael Almozlino

Report of Shmuel Elia on Rabbi Gabriel Raphael Almozlino Report on Rabbi Gabriel Raphael Almozlino, former member of the first Bulgarian parliament in Tirnovo in 1879 after the liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire.

File Number : 113

Type of Material : Article

Language : Bulgarian

Testimony of Bella (Lehmann) Strauss regarding her deportation from Germany to Estonia, detention in Stutthof, liberation while on a death march, wanderings until succeeding in reaching Belgium, 1942-1945 Included in the file:: Cover letter by Hilde M. Scheraga, Bella Strauss' daughter, regarding her mother's testimony sent in a letter after the war, 11 August 1945, letter from Hilde Scheraga, 25 February 1996, (p. 2); Postwar letter from the survivor Bella (Lehmann) Strauss, including testimony regarding her deportation from Frankfurt am Main to Estonia, September 1942; transfer to Stutthof, summer...

File Number : 4687

Type of Material : Letter(s), Testimony

Language : English, German

Directives by Himmler, regarding the imposition of punishment by death with intervention [?] by the legal system, 1942

Directives by Himmler, regarding the imposition of punishment by death with intervention [?] by the legal system, 1942 The document was written by Himmler following his meeting with Staatssekretaer Rothenberger and with Streckenbach and Bender, senior members of the SS; in the event that the legal process is insufficient, the criminal can be put on "Special Treatment" by the Police, this following the decision by Himmler, Borman and the Minister of Justice; other means for the amendment of the law: People's Court (without Nazi Party intervention) and destruction by means of labor (putting of anti-social...

File Number : 102

Language : German

Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the murder of Jews and Soviet POWs, and the suppression and murder of the local population in the Bryansk region during 1941-1944

Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the murder of Jews and Soviet POWs, and the suppression and murder of the local population in the Bryansk region during 1941-1944 Survey reports and investigation reports of witnesses, regarding the murder of Jews in a public park in Mglin on 02/05/1942; Establishment of a POW camp for Soviets in Trubchevsk in early 10/1941; murder of Soviet POWs in a camp in Trubchevsk in late 1942; Establishment of POW camps for Soviets near Bryansk in the area of the village of Uritskiy and near an airfield in Bryansk in 1941; Murder of Jews in...

File Number : JM/10648

Type of Material : List of Nazi War Criminals, Certification, List of Collaborators, Investigation Report, Survey Report, Official Documentation, List of Residents

Language : Russian

Report prepared by an Austrian, Erwin Drexler, who served as a soldier in Siedlce, 1943-1944, regarding the persecution of Poles and Russians by the head of the Sicherheitsdiens, Vel Behazz Beharz

File Number : 551

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Correspondence between Otto Thierack and Martin Bormann, regarding the transfer of Poles, Russians, Jews and Gypsies to the jurisdiction of the Reichsführer-SS

Correspondence between Otto Thierack and Martin Bormann, regarding the transfer of Poles, Russians, Jews and Gypsies to the jurisdiction of the Reichsführer-SS Correspondence by the general director of the German Ministry of Law regarding the systematic cancellation of protection under law for the Jews; letter from Otto Thierack, the Minister of Law of the Reich, to Martin Bormann, regarding the placement of Poles, Russians, Jews and Gypsies under the jurisdiction of the Reichsführer-SS.

File Number : 351

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English, German

Reports regarding the situation in occupied Belorussia

Reports regarding the situation in occupied Belorussia Reports regarding the situation in occupied Belorussia, Belorussian and Russian collaborators, anti-Jewish propaganda, activities of partisans groups, and the Germans' struggle against the partisans; liquidation of the Jewish communities in Zembin, Logosk, Smolevichi, Borisov, Bogushevichi and Pleshchanitsy on 06 November 1941; liquidation of the Jewish communities in Lepel, Senno and Orsha in May 1942; liquidation of the Jewish communities in Begomi and Lelchitsy; efforts by the Germans to capture Jews who escaped from a killing pit; establishment of...

File Number : 258

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Russian

Testimony of Gershon Biderman, born in Lukow, 1921, regarding his experiences in Poland and the Soviet Union

Testimony

Testimony of Gershon Biderman, born in Lukow, 1921, regarding his experiences in Poland and the Soviet Union His childhood; attends a Talmud Torah and studies in yeshivas; move to Lodz; work in his uncle's business. Outbreak of the war, 1939; watches over his relatives' property after they fled from Lodz; escape to Warsaw with a female cousin then by train to Lukow; escape with his older brother to the Russian occupied area; crosses the border with non-Jewish smugglers; capture and then escape from a transit camp to an uncle in Brest Litowsk; move with his brother to Lvov, 1940; their capture by the...

File Number : 9166

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Regina Lenka (Leifer) Mandel, born in Galantas, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Szaszregen Ghetto and Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Malchow camps

Testimony

Testimony of Regina Lenka (Leifer) Mandel, born in Galantas, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Szaszregen Ghetto and Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Malchow camps German occupation, 1940; deportation to a ghetto, April 1944; transfer to the Szaszregen Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including forced labor digging trenches; transfer to Ravensbrueck, November 1944; camp life; transfer to Malchow; camp life including labor in a weapons factory; evacuation of the camp, April 1945; leaves the camp for Prenslau; liberation by the Red Army; detention until October 1945. Return...

File Number : 8089

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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