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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 : Postcard, Letter

Language : Hebrew, English, Hungarian

To be translated

File Number : 3577

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Russian

To be translated

File Number : 2817

Type of Material : Newspaper, Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

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

Letters and postcards of Serge Pasder in Stalag X-B, 1942-1945, and memoirs of Chava Eva (Gelb) Pasder

The letters were sent to the following recipients: - Pazdor family (his parents), sister and brother-in-law, Paris; - His sister in Paris; sent to Rose Arlys; - To his parents and sister in Lyon, at Suzanne Roux; - To his parents and sister in Paris; sent to Suzanne Nisenkern; - Memoirs of Chava Eva (Gelb) Pasder (wife of Serge Pasder) on her experiences during the Holocaust: Life in Budapest; deportation to the local ghetto in the city by the Germans, 1944; deportation of her mother to Auschwitz; Murder of her mother; deportation to Auschwitz; selection; disinfection and extraction of gold teeth;...

File Number : 5900

Type of Material : Memoirs, Postcard, Letter

Language : Hebrew, French, German

Letter from Linette Lévy in Montpellier to Robert Lehmann in Oflag XVIII A, February 7, 1941, and Robert's wartime diary and notebooks

Letter from Linette Lévy in Montpellier to Robert Lehmann in Oflag XVIII A, February 7, 1941, and Robert's wartime diary and notebooks - diary kept by Robert Lehmann in various places in France after he was inducted into the French army and in a prison camp for officers in Austria, 1939–1940; - notebooks in which Robert Lehmann wrote during the war: Hebrew and Jewish studies, miscellaneous remarks about correspondence with his family; sending of parcels, etc. Submitter's remark: Robert Lehmann was born in Strasbourg on May 15, 1911.

File Number : 5517

Type of Material : Notebook, Diary, Letter

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

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 : Personal Documents, Genealogy, Biography, Personal Records, Birth Certificate, Certification, Marriage 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

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