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Testimony of Kedar Fakdrager Yehuda, born in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1937, regarding the deportation to Westerbork and Bergen Belsen camps

Testimony

Family background ; appointment of the uncles to the Jewish Committee in Amsterdam during German occupation; death of the brother in the shelling of the city in 1943; deportation to Westerbork in September 1943; deportation of the family to The "star camp"(Sternenlager)in Bergen Belsen in January 1944; joining of the grandfathers to an inmate exchange deal with the Templars in 1944; death of the parents and grandmother in Bergen Belsen; joining the group of children sponsored by the Birenboim family; the labor train; liberation by the Russians in Troebitz in April 1944; living in the children's home of Rabbi...

File Number : 13800

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Official stationery belonging to the National Socialist (Nazi) Party in Jerusalem with the name of Ludwig Buchhalter, head of the Nazi Templars in Eretz Israel printed on the letterhead, with water marks to prevent forgeries

File Number : 470

Type of Material : Form

Language : German

Letters written by British Army soldier Herbert Lewis Katz to his sister Rita Katz, who made aliya to Eretz Israel in the context of the Exchange Agreement with the German Templers

Letters written by British Army soldier Herbert Lewis Katz to his sister Rita Katz, who made aliya to Eretz Israel in the context of the Exchange Agreement with the German Templers Comment: - Herbert Lewis Katz was killed in a motor vehicle accident in Medjez el Bab, Tunis, 16/04/1943; - Letter from the commander of Herbert Lewis Katz, regarding his bravery as a soldier; Included in the file: - List of British Army soldiers who were killed in Medjez El Bab.

File Number : 1429

Type of Material : Photograph, List of Soldiers, Letter, List of Murdered Persons

Language : English, German

Testimony of Margit (Lichtenstern) Wolf, born in Vienna, Austria in 1911, regarding her aliya to Eretz Israel by means of a special permit to marry a resident of Eretz Israel using a Power of Attorney

Testimony

Emigration to the Netherlands, 1938; marriage to a resident of Eretz Israel in absentia - his presence [at the marriage] was by means of a Power of Attorney, done with special permission from the Queen of the Netherlands, in January 1940; she joins a group, as a citizen of Mandatory Palestine, that returned to Eretz Israel as part of an exchange agreement for the return of POWs, in October 1942; travel by train to Syria via Turkey; arrival in Afula; brief stay in Atlit; release in November 1942.

File Number : 8242

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Diary of Luise Beck, member of the German Templer community in Palestine, 1941-1942, regarding her daily life and experiences as a Nazi sympathizer

Diary of Luise Beck, member of the German Templer community in Palestine, 1941 - 1942 August 4, 1941-November 2, 1941 "Montag Abend bei Mondschein geschrieben" (written Monday evening by moonlight); the author expresses feelings of loneliness after the partial expulsion of her fellow Templers; fear of expulsion; worries about destiny and the future of her people; hope to avoid disintegration of Sarona; life in the colonies Sarona and Waldheim; news about a fallen soldier; lamentation about the lack of news from the family; belief to win the war 1941; belief in Hitler's predictions; news of a possible...

File Number : 1663

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Diary

Language : German

Correspondence of the German Consulates in Mandatory Palestine regarding the situation of the German residents (Templers) and other matters

Correspondence of the German Consulates in Mandatory Palestine regarding the situation of the German residents (the Templers) and other matters Estimation regarding the future security of the German residents; relations with the Arab, British and Jewish neighbors; recommendation to the "Distribution Committee" regarding the inclusion of the German settlements in the area of British Mandatory Palestine or in the Arab area, but not in the Jewish area; report about Jewish newspapers; violent acts and the smuggle of weapons; searches made by the British; sale of land to Jews; attitude of the Germans toward the...

File Number : 30

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Certificates, visas and correspondence regarding passports, money, legal problems, property, marital laws and other matters

Certificates, visas and correspondence regarding passports, money, legal problems, property, marital laws and other matters The file includes a certificate of an Austrian citizen (Heimatschein) and a foreign resident (Fremdenpas), from 1932, a visa issued by the British, and a birth certificate (Geburtsurkunde); letter of guarantee for treatment of a (Templer) patient in Austria.

File Number : 24

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Official Documentation

Language : German

Forms, passports and certificates of various German organizations

Forms, passports and certificates of various German organizations The file includes German travel permits given to various people, a passport and a children's passport (blank), certificates of the "Deutscher Orientverein" and the "Deutsche Angestelltenschaft" and other documents.

File Number : 23

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Dr. Leo David, an attorney-at-law from Frankfurt am Main, regarding the origin and basic idea of the Haavara Agreement, 1933-1939; correspondence between Dr. Leo David and Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri, 1960 Dr. Leo David, a Zionist activist in Germany, in the 1930s, responded to a written questionnaire sent to him by Dr. Ball-Kaduri regarding the Haavara Agreement, preparations for its realization and its actual implementation. - Development of the idea of the Haavara (transfer) Agreement by the Zionistische Vereinigung fuer Deutschland (ZVfD -Zionist Federation of Germany) in Berlin, especially...

File Number : 277

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Memoirs, Letter

Language : German

To be translated

File Number : 5477

Type of Material : כתובה, תעודת בית הספר, Identity Card, Birth Certificate, Red Cross Letter, Diploma, Certification, קבלות, Telegram, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch, German, Aramaic

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