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Memoirs of Mary (Wrzos) Seidenwurm, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Radom Ghetto, Majdanek, the Ostrowiec camp and other places

Memoirs of Mary (Wrzos) Seidenwurm, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Radom Ghetto, Majdanek, the Ostrowiec camp and other places Life in the Warsaw Ghetto; murder of her father Abraham Wrzos, her step-mother and her step-sister (Thea?) in Treblinka; loss of her brothers Max and Joachim, and her husband Michael Seidenwurm; life in the Radom Ghetto; life in Majdanek; life in the Ostrowiec camp; acquaintance with Nuchim Ancer, later her husband; life in Auschwitz; life in Bergen-Belsen. Transfer to Sweden; life in Sweden in rehabilitation institutions; reunion...

File Number : 1665

Type of Material : Memoirs, Testimony, Poems/songs, Reports

Language : German

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: List of serial numbers of Auschwitz inmates sorted according to the transports arrived, 1940 - 1944

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: List of serial numbers of Auschwitz inmates sorted according to the transports arrived, 1940 - 1944 The list contains the date and the provenance of each transport.

File Number : 119

Language : German

Memoirs of Rolf Loehr, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1923, regarding his experiences in Germany and various concentration camps, especially Auschwitz, 1933-1945

Memoirs of Rolf Loehr, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1923, regarding his experiences in Germany and various concentration camps, especially Auschwitz, 1933-1945 Pages 3 - 10: Letters from Karl Loehr, Berlin, to the leader of the department for prisoners of war and the authorities concerned in the Belsen process relating to the inquiry regarding the whereabouts of his son, Rolf Loehr, 15/11/1945 - 12/03/1946 (in German, English and Russian) Pages 11 - 20: Parental home and childhood in Hamburg an Berlin before 1933; Rolf Loehr's mother, Marie, maiden name Glueck, born as a Jew; his father, Karl, was a...

File Number : 4318

Type of Material : Death Certificate, Testimony, Correspondence, Letter(s)

Language : English, Russian, German

Memoirs of Hertha Ligeti-Fuchs, born in Vienna, Austria, 1920, regarding her experiences as a member of the Resistance in Brussels, Belgium, imprisonment and deportation to Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Neustadt-Glewe concentration camps, and regarding the fate of the Jewish population of Marosvasarhely, Transylvania, 1938-1945 Emigration of Hertha from Vienna, Austria, to Brussels, Belgium, 1938; Activities in the Belgian Resistance and arrest by the secret counter-intelligence following betrayal, June 1942; detention in Saint Gilles, Belgium; deportation to the Caserne Dossin (Dossin Barracks) in Malin...

File Number : 2069

Type of Material : Memoirs, Reports

Language : German

Testimony of Hans-Peter Messerschmidt, born in Berlin, Germany, 1918, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Monowitz, Buchenwald, the Ohrdruf camp and Theresienstadt, 12 March 1943-12 August 1945

Testimony of Hans-Peter Messerschmidt, born in Berlin, Germany, 1918, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Monowitz, Buchenwald, the Ohrdruf camp and Theresienstadt, 12 March 1943-12 August 1945 Beginning of the events, 09 March 1943; work of his father and his wife as employees of the Jewish community; the witness' work in the workshop of the Herrmann Company; arrest of his father and his wife by the Gestapo; meeting his wife, father, mother and father-in-law in the Grosse Hamburgerstrasse camp; deportation by truck to the Quitzowstrasse station, 12 March; deportation to Auschwitz in two sealed freight...

File Number : 1692

Type of Material : Photocopy, Testimony, Report

Language : German

Testimony of Yitzhak Wagner, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Red Army, captivity, in Boryslaw and camps

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Wagner, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Red Army, captivity, in Boryslaw and camps Outbreak of the war, 1939; arrival of the Red Army to Boryslaw; labor for the Soviets as an electrician; retreat of the Red Army, 1941; pogrom by the Ukrainians against the Jews in Boryslaw; draft into the Red Army; taken to German captivity near Estonia; hides his Jewish identity; escape from the train transporting the POWs, near Lublin; return to Boryslaw, autumn 1941; ghetto life, hunger and death; labor for the Germans in a camp, 1942; "Aktions" by the Germans and...

File Number : 7313

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Two testimonies of Max Mannheimer regarding his experiences in Neutitschein and Uherský Brod (Moravia Silesia), in the Birkenau, Auschwitz, Dachau, Karlsfeld and Mühlfeld concentration camps as well as the Warsaw ghetto, 1938-1945 In his first testimony, based on three interviews, Max Mannheimer reports on his experiences since the 1938 November pogrom: - Arrest of his father in Neutitschein (Nový Jičín) ; expulsion of the whole family from there and move to Ungarisch (Uherský) Brod (p. 3). - Deportation to Theresienstadt on 28 January 1943; from there onward transport to Auschwitz after a selection...

File Number : 376

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Memoirs of a Holocaust survivor from Slovakia regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and Birkenau in 1942-1945 and the fate of his family members in the Holocaust

Memoirs of a Holocaust survivor from Slovakia regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and Birkenau in 1942-1945 and the fate of his family members in the Holocaust Arrest of Jewish men in April 1942 and their incarceration in a prison; transfer to a camp in Zilina; confiscation of valuables and personal documents from the prisoners; beating of the prisoners by the guards; arrival of a transport of women and children the next day; reunion with his mother and sister; stay in the camp for about ten days; transfer in cattle cars to Auschwitz; separation of women and men; going into the showers; receiving a number...

File Number : 9244

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

"Birkenau - The Camp of Death", 30 chapters of a manuscript written by the physician, Dr. Marco Nahon from Demotika, Greece, regarding his experiences in Demotika, the Salonica Ghetto, Birkenau, Stutthof, Echterdingen, Ohrdruf and Dachau (translated from French ), 1941-1945

A manuscript written by the physician Dr. Marco Nahon from Demotika, Greece, regarding his experiences in Demotika, the Salonica Ghetto, Birkenau, Stutthof, Echterdingen, Ohrdruf and Dachau (translated from French ) A report of a Greek Jewish physician regarding his experiences in Birkenau, beginning with the German occupation of Greece, April 1941, and ending with his liberation, April 1945; manuscript not published.(translated into English by Jacqueline Havaux, 1959). - Chapter 1, "The Invasion", 06 April 1941: German declaration of war against Greece; escape of the officials and many inhabitants...

File Number : 9029

Type of Material : Reports

Language : English

Testimonies of Jakab Weiss and Izidor Liquornick regarding their experiences in Hungary, in various concentration camps in Poland and their final escape, 1944-1945

Testimonies of Jakab Weiss and Izidor Liquornick regarding their experiences in Hungary, in various concentration camps in Poland and their final escape, 1944-1945 The testimony of Jakab Weiss (pp. 2-3): - Escape attempt from Budapest, Hungary, to Romania, May 1944; capture; detention in the Oradea Ghetto (at that time Hungary); - Deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau (via Breslau / Wrocław ?); selections; registration; tattooing; - Transfer to various camps, ending in Auschwitz; - Transfer to the Lagisza camp to labor as a carpenter; camp life; food supply at Lagisza; work for the Hegerfeld company;...

File Number : 1559

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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