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Testimony of Mina-Mira Rechter-Lavi, born in 1928 regarding her experiences in Chutin, Bessarabia and Romania, 1940-1947

Testimony of Mina-Mira Rechter-Lavi, born in 1928 regarding her experiences in Chutin, Bessarabia and Romania, 1940-1947 Occupation of Chutin by the Red Army,1940; closing of parents' store from fear of abuse by the Soviets; air-raids on Chutin by the Germans and Romanians, 1941; family moves to the home of Uncle Shlomo after their house is destroyed in the air-raids; deportation of the Jews of Chutin to Mogilev via Sikuren and other towns; deportation to the Mogilev Ghetto;draft of Leibel, her father, to forced labor; death of the father. Unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel via Bucharest and from...

File Number : 351

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Walter Harling Hadar, born in Vienna, Austria, 1924, regarding his experiences in Vienna and making aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Yisrael Walter Harling Hadar, born in Vienna, Austria, 1924, regarding his experiences in Vienna and making aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939 Life before the war; attends a Jewish kindergarten; learns Hebrew; activities in Maccabi Youth and Hanoar Hatzioni. Kristallnacht including burning of synagogues, 1938; life in Vienna including closure of Jewish businesses; establishment of a soup kitchen by the Jewish community; activities of his father in a World War I veteran organization; agricultural training; preparations for aliya with Youth Aliya; aliya onboard the ship "Galilah", 1939....

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Various lists of Dutch Jews given to the Nazi authorities in the Netherlands by the Joodse Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council in Amsterdam), 1942-1943

Various lists of Dutch Jews given to the Nazi authorities in the Netherlands by the Joodse Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council in Amsterdam), 1942-1943 - List of 37 Jews living in van Eeghstraat in Amsterdam, including last name, first name, date of birth, place of birth and profession (p. 27), 15 January 1942; - List given by the Jewish Council to the Zentralstelle fuer juedische Auswanderung (Central Office for Jewish Emigration) in Amsterdam, including the names of 10 Jewish Council members and their families considered to be essential in order to maintain proper working of the Council (pp. 115-117),...

File Number : 52

Type of Material : List of Names

Language : German

Correspondence between the leaders of the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) and the Nazi authorities in the Netherlands, 1941-1943

Correspondence between the leaders of the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) and the Nazi authorities in the Netherlands, 1941-1943 - Requests regarding the granting of exemptions from deportation and relief from various anti-Jewish decrees; - Complaints regarding the behavior of the Gestapo during arrests of Jews; - Requests to increase the Jewish Council budget; - Statistical data regarding Jewish Council expenses. Also in the file: - List of 37 Jews living in van Eeghenstraat, 15 January 1942; - List of 51 Jews that, as of 28 May 1943, were no longer in Asterdorp, 03 June 1943; - List of 10...

File Number : 52

Type of Material : Official Documentation, List of Names

Language : Dutch, German

Documentation regarding the Jewish community in Nuremberg, 1938-1943

Documentation regarding the Jewish community in Nuremberg, 1938-1943 - Information leaflets regarding forced labor, emigration, religious and educational matters, the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden (Cultural Federation of German Jews), the Jewish hospital, confiscation of property, deportations and more; - List of Jewish commercial enterprises in the Mittelfranken area, June 1936; - Letter written by Andreas Schieder, advisor on taxation matters and comptroller in Nuremberg, to Frida Hichenberg from Nuremberg, regarding the prohibition on working with Jews, 21 January 1939; - Nuremberg police...

File Number : 23

Type of Material : Testimony, Newspaper Clippings

Play written by Kurt Smythe in Vienna, about the Nazi rule and the Holocaust

Play written by Kurt Smythe in Vienna, about the Nazi rule and the Holocaust Internal monologue of a female worker in a Jewish department store, about her help to Jews and about her thoughts concerning the difference between the destruction of the Jews by Hitler and the destruction of the world that was seemingly initiated by the Jews.

File Number : 1133

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Documentation from the Archiwum Akt Nowych w Warszawie (Archive for New Documentation in Warsaw - AAN), Poland, 1920-1950

Official documentation from the Archiwum Akt Nowych w Warszawie (Archive for New Documentation in Warsaw - AAN), including documentation from government offices, Foreign Ministry diplomatic representatives, central organizations and state institutions. List of record groups: 02-103 Files of Florian Efraim Sokolow 1900-1939 02-111 Government of the General Government in Krakow, 1939-1945 02-125 Central Welfare Council. Headquarters Office in Krakow, 1940-1945 02-128 Collection of underground and anti-Nazi prints, 1939-1944 02-130 Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR 02-138 Polish Committee for Aid to...

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Russian, German, Yiddish

Documentation from the State Archive in Warsaw, Grodzisku Mazowieckim branch, Poland (Archiwum Panstwowe w Warszawie, Oddzial w Grodzisku Mazowieckim - APWGM), 1917-1950

Official documentation from the State Archive in Warsaw, the Grodzisk Mazowiecki branch, including documentation from various places in the Warsaw district Official documentation of the following local authorities: Boguszyce, Gortatowice, Marianow, Regnow, Stara Wies, and Walowice; documentation from the district authorities in Rawa Mazowiecka; official documentation from cities and local authorities: Zyrardow, Guzow, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Blonie, Mszczonow, Lazy, szymanow, zaborow, Helenow, Pass, Radzikow, Pruszkow, Sochaczew, Skorosze, Skierniewice, Korabiewice, and Biala Rawska; Documentation from...

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Official Documentation

Language : Polish, German

Description of the history of the "Hirschland" department store in Mannheim, from the year of its founding in 1885 until the time of the research paper written by Sonja Steiner-Welz

Description of the history of the "Hirschland" department store in Mannheim, from the year of its founding in 1885 until the time of the research paper written by Sonja Steiner-Welz The research paper written by Sonja Steiner-Welz includes information regarding the residential and commercial buildings in Mannheim during 1890-1910; information regarding the history of the "Hirschland" department store in Mannheim, which began as a modest store and became one of the most important businesses in the city of Mannheim; construction of the department store's large building was at first under the guidance of the...

File Number : 479

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Memoirs, declarations, letters and other documentation related to Walter Huppert, born in Poruba in 1908, and his wife Hilde (Biegeleisen) Huppert, born in Bielsko, Poland in 1910, and their experiences during the war - Memoirs of Hilde Huppert, titled, "Engpass zur Freiheit", regarding her experiences during 1939-1945, written in Haifa in 1946 (with a forward, editing and conclusion by Arnold Zweig); included is a page with editorial marks by Arnold Zweig and Hilde Huppert); - Memoirs of Hilde Huppert, titled, "And the slaughterer slaughtered", regarding her experiences with her son Tomas in Český Těšín,...

File Number : 10904

Type of Material : Application, Postcard, Letter, Diploma, Red Cross Letter, Memoirs, Diary, Certification, Personal Documents, Telegram, Birth Certificate, Declaration

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Czech, French, English, German, Yiddish