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Manuscript of Dr. Kurt J. Ball-Kaduri regarding illegal aliya from Germany to Eretz Israel before and during Wolrd War II, with emphasis on the years 1939 and 1940

Manuscript of Dr. Kurt J. Ball-Kaduri regarding illegal aliya from Germany to Eretz Israel before and during Wolrd War II, with emphasis on the years 1939 and 1940 In the file: 2-Scanned File: - Information for the user regarding the manuscript of Dr. Ball-Kaduri, "Illegal Aliyah from Hitler's Germany to Palestine, 1939-1940" (p. 2), 14 February 1968; - Cover sheet prepared by Yad Vashem regarding the Ball-Kaduri Collection (p. 3); - "Illegal Aliyah from Hitler's Germany to Palestine, 1939-1940", manuscript prepared by Dr. Kurt J. Ball-Kaduri, alternate title: "Illegal Aliyah from Germany (old...

File Number : 320

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Manuscript

Language : German

Testimony of Fritz Loewe, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, regarding missing details in an autobiographical book written by former National Socialist diplomat Werner Otto von Hentig

Testimony of Fritz Loewe, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, regarding missing details in an autobiographical book written by former National Socialist diplomat Werner Otto von Hentig - Reaction of Fritz Loewe to a passage in Ball-Kaduri's book "Vor der Katastrophe - Juden in Deutschland 1934-1939", in which Ball-Kaduri states that von Hentig does not mention his activities with the "Paltreu" (sister company of the Ha'avarah company, which transferred property from Germany to Eretz Israel, for the sole purpose of encouraging Jewish emigration from Germany); - Personal letter from Loewe to Ball-Kaduri...

File Number : 319

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : German

Correspondence by members of the Lewin family, from Allenstein, with their relatives and friends from before the war, and documentation related to the Lewin family's aliya to Eretz Israel in 1939

Correspondence by members of the Lewin family, from Allenstein, with their relatives and friends from before the war, and documentation related to the Lewin family's aliya to Eretz Israel in 1939 - Correspondence conducted by members of the Lewin, Michaelis, Greiffenberg and Raphaelsohn families and others (most of them residents of Allenstein and Magdeburg), 1896-1940; - Familienstammbuch (Family record book) issued for Siegfried Friedel Lewin, born in Allenstein in 1899, and Fanni Michaelis, born in Madgeburg in 1898, who married in Magdeburg in 1920; - Documentation related to the financial matters...

File Number : 4677

Type of Material : הודעה, Personal Documents, Postcard, Letter, Financial Records

Language : Hebrew, Russian, German

Testimony of Yehuda Levin, born in Allenstein, Germany in 1924, regarding his experiences in Allenstein and in Eretz Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Levin, born in Allenstein, Germany in 1924, regarding his experiences in Allenstein and in Eretz Israel Childhood in Allenstein; well-to-do family; rise to power of the Nazi Party, January 1933; anti-Jewish legislation; displays of antisemitism in the school; ban against entry into public places; Kristallnacht, November 1938; their home is broken into, including the destruction of property; burning of the synagogue; detention of his father; confiscation of property; aliya to Israel in the context of the Transfer Agreement, in early 1939; life in [Eretz] Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chava Eva (Mannsbacher) Gonen, born in 1933 in Berlin, about her experiences as a girl in Berlin and her immigration to Eretz Israel in 1933

Testimony

Testimony of Chava Eva (Mannsbacher) Gonen, born in 1933 in Berlin, about her experiences as a girl in Berlin and her immigration to Eretz Israel in 1933 Life in Berlin; mother traces lineage to expellees from Spain who reached Germany via Italy; father's family lived in Germany since eighteenth century; grandfather decorated for participating in the German-French war in 1870 as a military physician; parents work as pediatricians in a private clinic that they own; parents have Zionist consciousness; Nazi Party comes to power and persecution of Jews begins in 1933; witness immigrates to Eretz Israel in 1933;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew