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Letters written by members of the Salzberger and Sud families, and a certificate of appreciation received by Joseph Salzberger from the Jewish National Fund (JNF), 1939-1945

Letters written by members of the Salzberger and Sud families, and a certificate of appreciation received by Joseph Salzberger from the Hebrew School in Tripoli, 1939-1945 - Letter from Pnina Salzberger in Munkács to her brother Joseph Salzberger in Jerusalem, 27 December 1939; - Letters from Bertold Sud in a POW camp in Germany to his sisters Lea (Sud) Salzberger and Chanah Sud in Eretz Israel, 1942-1943; - Official letter sent to Joseph Salzberger in Jerusalem regarding continuation of his studies at Hebrew University, March 1945; - JNF certificate of appreciation awarded to Joseph Salzberger by...

File Number : 2183

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, English, Hungarian

Testimony of German Army Lieutenant General Kurt Oesterreich, regarding Nazi crimes against Soviet POWs in Gdansk (Danzig) and Ukraine; testimony recorded, 28 December 1945 (Document No. USSR - 151)

Testimony of German Army Lieutenant General Kurt Oesterreich, regarding Nazi crimes against Soviet POWs in Gdansk (Danzig) and Ukraine; testimony recorded, 28 December 1945 (Document No. USSR - 151) German Army Lieutenant General Kurt Oesterreich was responsible for Soviet POWs in the Wehrkreis XX/Danzig military district, and later also in Ukraine. According to Oesterreich's testimony, which was recorded, 28 December 1945, the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) released an order on 24 June 1941 to kill Soviet POWs who were political leaders, Communists or Jews and to bury them in mass graves to conceal...

File Number : 40

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Russian, German

Testimony of Hirsh Hecht, born in Cieszyn, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army, as a POW in Germany, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Braunschweig and Wattenstedt camps

Testimony

Testimony of Hirsh Hecht, born in Cieszyn, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army, as a POW in Germany, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Braunschweig and Wattenstedt camps Serves in the Polish Army at the outbreak of the Polish-German war; wounded during air-raids on the Warsaw front; hospitalization in Warsaw; falls captive to Germans and transfer to a POW camp in Pruszkow and then to a POW camp in Krotoszym; transfer of Polish POWs to Stalag 6-C POW camp; transfer to POW camp in Lublin; release from captivity and return to Lodz; labor on behalf of the Judenrat as a supervisor over several ghetto...

File Number : 6746

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yerachmiel Szypiacki, regarding his experiences as a soldier in German captivity and in labor camps

Testimony of Yerachmiel Szypiacki, regarding his experiences as a soldier in German captivity and in labor camps The witness was a Polish Army soldier who was taken captive by the Germans in Lomza on 15 September 1939; deportation to eastern Prussia along with Polish soldiers; selection between the Jews and Poles and the Ukrainians; sent to Stalag I A; abuse by Volksdeutsche; forced labor cleaning excrement; harsh conditions, in particular for the Jews; sent to labor for private German companies; sent to labor paving roads in the freezing cold during the winter of 1939/1940; sent to the Judenlager (camp for...

File Number : 1581

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

History of Ernest Gustave Weil, born in 1881 in Strasbourg and murdered in Bron, France, by the Germans in 1944

History of Ernest Gustave Weil, born in 1881 in Strasbourg and murdered in Bron, France, by the Germans in 1944 - history of Ernest Gustave Weil, born on May 27, 1881, in Strasbourg, written by Pascale Scheider-Weil and Shaonah Weil and published on September 1, 2019. Attached to the history are various documents pertaining to Ernest and his family: Ernest Gustave Weil (born to a non-Jewish mother) and Catherine Weil née Wallenfang, born in 1882 in Niederlützingen, Germany; Ernest's occupation: textile merchant and co-owner of shop with Albert Bloch; birth of their son Charles in Strasbourg in 1912; Ernest,...

File Number : 614

Type of Material : Genealogy, Personal Documents, Personal Records, Marriage Certificate, Certification, Biography, Birth Certificate

Language : French, German

Memoirs of Jack Mallan, a Jewish soldier in the US Army, regarding his transfer from Stalag IIB to Oflag XIIIB in 1945 and his release

Memoirs of Jack Mallan, a Jewish soldier in the US Army, regarding his transfer from Stalag IIB to Oflag XIIIB in 1945 and his release - the book "The Long March Home", with the memoirs of Jack Mallan, born in the United States, regarding his experiences in World War II: - evacuation of prisoners from Stalag IIB near Hammerstein in the Pomerania region on 29 January 1945, including Sergeant Jack Mallan, following the approach of the Red Army; marched towards Neustettin; Jack's escape with the two captives, Efros and Ravine, and their stay at a farm belonging to a German; capture and march to Neustettin;...

File Number : 11233

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

POW certificate of Jakub Ebel Derbfleisch, born in Biłka Królewska in 1914, from Stalag Altengrabow, and documentation regarding the Ebel family

POW certificate of Jakub Ebel Derbfleisch, born in Biłka Królewska in 1914, from Stalag Altengrabow, and documentation regarding the Ebel family Documentation from the archives of the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny [Jewish Historical Institute] or ŻIH, in Warsaw: - POW certificate of the Jewish Polish soldier Jakub Ebel Derbfleisch, born in Biłka Królewska on 14 April 1914, from the Stalag Altengrabow POW camp. Captured by the Germans in Kutno on 07 September 1939. His parents' names: Juda and Rivka (Derbfleisch) Ebel. Transfer to Stendal camp and Lublin in 1940; - biography of Jakub Ebel who perished in...

File Number : 1078

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Biography, Personal Records

Language : Hebrew, German

Letter from Marcel Bloch in Foix, France, to Max Gugenheim, in France, in 1942, about being transferred from Stalag IB in Hohenstein in 1941; sermons by Rabbi Ernest Gugenheim; and list of Jewish prisoners

Letter: - letter from Marcel Bloch in Foix, France, to the father of his friend Ernest Gugenheim in France, April 12, 1942, about being transferred along with his friend, Ernest, from Stalag IB in Hohenstein to the Hamburg-Neugraben railroad station and to a Stalag in that area on February 16, 1941, and Marcel’s repatriation to France on January 16, 1942. (Attached to the letter are the submitter’s remarks: the father, Ernest Gugenheim, a soldier in the French Army, was taken prisoner by the Germans, sent to Stalag IB in Hohenstein and thence to Stalag XA in Quickborn in December 1942, and liberated in May...

File Number : 4766

Type of Material : List of Pows, Speech, List of Jews, Letter

Language : French

Memoirs of Yann Daniel, born in Fouesnant in 1916, regarding his experiences in POW camps in Germany and Poland, and regarding the persecution of Jews by the Nazis

Memoirs of Yann Daniel, born in Fouesnant in 1916, regarding his experiences in POW camps in Germany and Poland, and regarding the persecution of Jews by the Nazis - memoirs of Yann Daniel, born in Fouesnant in the Finistère region on 8 July 1916, regarding his experiences in the war: Work in Paris; participation in the Spanish Civil War; capture by the Germans in Dunkirk in 1940; life in POW camps at Bad Orb and Rava-Ruska; befriending the Jew Henri Chemouilli and learned the Hatikva anthem from him; transfer to camps in Stryj, Luckenwalde and Blechhammer, where he labored in the Leuna-Werke factory;...

File Number : 10960

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

Memoirs of Menakhem Veis, born in 1913 in Bač, Yugoslavia, describing his experiences in Novi Sad and in German captivity, and memoirs of Chana Veis née Frankel, born in 1914 in Ada, Yugoslavia, about her family’s experiences in Novi Sad, Budapest, Auschwitz, and the Kaufering camp Memoirs of Menakhem Veis (born Władysław Laci), born on October 27, 1913, in Bač, Yugoslavia, about his family’s experiences in the Holocaust: - parents—Jula Jakob and Ruza Veis, born in Bajmok; sister: Irena, born in 1899; father’s occupation: grain merchant; living in Bač and attending a public school; switching to a high...

File Number : 10936

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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