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Buchenwald Inmate's Card issued to Isidor Itzkhak Ignatz Pollak, a resident of Kvasy, who perished in 1944

Buchenwald Inmate's Card issued to Isidor Itzkhak Ignatz Pollak, a resident of Kvasy, who perished in 1944 Notes from Sara Dan and Malka Shlomovitz who submitted the material: The card was found in Buchenwald after the liberation by Mr. Nachum Bendel, a Holocaust survivor who was also an inmate there. Both men were residents of the village of Kvasy. After the liberation of the camp, Nachum Bendel was searching for documents related to his family in the camp offices which had been broken into, but he did not find anything. In the course of his search he found the above-mentioned card, which belonged to...

File Number : 469

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : German

Letters by Rosa Reizel Miriam Gruenbaum, Dora Lieder and Ira Gruenbaum, 1940-1945

Letters by Rosa Reizel Miriam Gruenbaum, Dora Lieder and Ira Gruenbaum, 1940-1945 Red Cross letters sent from England by Rosa Reizel Miriam Gruenbaum to her mother, Rifka Gruenbaum in Berlin, 1940-1942; letters sent by Dora Lieder from the United States to her brother Arthur Lieder in Buchenwald, 23 October 1942; return letter by her brother, 06 January 1943; The file includes: - Telegram received by Moses Gruenbaum (brother of Reizel) in England, from Ira Gruenbaum in the United States, with an announcement that Arthur Lieder has been located and is alive, May 1945; - Letter sent to Reizel...

File Number : 1817

Type of Material : Telegram, Letter, Red Cross Letter

Language : English, German

Documentation regarding Frieda and Karl Stiefel, and their daughter Lieselotte and her husband Robert Bach

Documentation regarding Frieda and Karl Stiefel, and their daughter Lieselotte and her husband Robert Bach Letters sent by Frieda Stiefel from Hildburghausen and Frankfurt, to her daughter Lieselotte Bach in Mandatory Palestine, 1939-1942; The file includes: Farewell letter written by Frieda Stiefel to her daughter, before her deportation to Poland, 24 March 1942; letter with a description of Frieda Stiefel’s fate, from the German husband of Frieda's woman friend who was also murdered, written in 1946; correspondence between Lieselotte and Frieda, by means of the Red Cross organization, 1940-1942;...

File Number : 1768

Type of Material : Postcard, Newspaper Clippings, Memoirs, Personal Records, Genealogy, Death Certificate, Official Documentation, Letter, Red Cross Letter

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Letter written to the family of Dr. Erich Mosbach in Berlin on his experiences in Stettin, the Lublin Ghetto and Buchenwald, January 1946

Letter written to the family of Dr. Erich Mosbach in Berlin on his experiences in Stettin, the Lublin Ghetto and Buchenwald, January 1946 Life in Stettin; deportation to the Lublin Ghetto, 12 February 1940; life with his wife Vera nee Krueger and daughter Eva in the Lublin Ghetto; separation from his family and the deportation of Erich Mosbach to Buchenwald; deportation of his wife and daughter to Auschwitz; escape of Erich from a death march during the last days of the war; return to Stettin; reunion with his wife and daughter; move with his family to Berlin; move to New York, 20 May 1946. The file also...

File Number : 1743

Type of Material : Letter, Documentary

Language : English, German

Documents and various certifications regarding the fate of Chajem Maskovits and his brothers Leiber, Tobias and Marton from Borsa, deported to Auschwitz, May 1944

Documents and various certifications regarding the fate of Chajem Maskovits and his brothers Leiber, Tobias and Marton from Borsa, deported to Auschwitz, May 1944 The file includes: - inmates cards, questionnaires and information sheets from Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Theresienstadt; - section from a list of inmates who arrived to Buchenwald, June 1944; - names of the three brothers who perished: Leiber, Tobias and Marton.

File Number : 1295

Type of Material : List of Inmates, Personal Documents

Language : Czech, English, German

Testimony of Eric Wasserman, born in Wuerzburg, Germany, 22 July 1921, regarding his experiences in the Jungfernhof camp and concerning mass murders which took place there

Testimony of Eric Wasserman, born in Wuerzburg, Germany, 22 July 1921, regarding his experiences in the Jungfernhof camp and concerning mass murders which took place there In the file: - Legal report regarding Rudolf Seck, the commandant of the camp; - Personal documentation of Eric Wasserman from the period after his liberation from Buchenwald; - Two letters from June-July 1946 telling of the fate of Wasserman's sister, Ilsa Wasserman, who perished in the Holocaust; - Death certificate for Wasserman's father, Karl Wasserman, who was in the Riga camp and perished. Personal documentation...

File Number : 8080

Type of Material : Reports, Letter, Investigation Report, Death Certificate, Personal Documents

Language : English, German

Fragment of an Inmate's Card issued for Yitzchak Polak in Buchenwald, 1944

Fragment of an Inmate's Card issued for Yitzchak Polak in Buchenwald, 1944 - Fragment of an Inmate's Card, along with a photograph, issued for Yitzchak Polak in Buchenwald, 1944; he was imprisoned in Buchenwald in June 1944. Notes from Malka Shlomovitz who submitted the material: Yitzchak Polak was born in the Carpathian region in 1895. His wife's name was Sarah. Their daughter Shoshana (Rosie), the mother of Malka Shlomovitz who submitted the material, was born in 1923. In addition to Rosie, there were three other daughters: Malka, Rivka and Chaya. The family had a shop that sold clothing and...

File Number : 1813

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : German

Documentation belonging to Holocaust survivor Leon Wajsband, born in Zwolen, Poland, 1919, certifying that he is a former inmate of Buchenwald

Documentation belonging to Holocaust survivor Leon Wajsband, born in Zwolen, Poland, 1919, certifying that he is a former inmate of Buchenwald The documentation includes: - Certificate (with an attached picture) in Polish and German given to Leon Wajsband in Mikulášovice, Czechoslovakia, certifying that he was a political inmate in Buchenwald, dated 17 August 1945; - Former inmate's certificate given to Leon Waisband in Bamberg, 29 August 1945; his birthplace as listed on the certificate is Palestine; - Certificate in English given to the stateless Leon Wajsband, born in Zwolen, Poland, 08 December...

File Number : 1151

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Personal Records

Language : Polish, English, German

Memoirs by Julious Rosenbaum, born in Germany, regarding his experiences from the Christalnight in Frankfurt and Buchenwald camp, 1938

Memoirs by Julious Rosenbaum, born in Germany, regarding his experiences from the Christalnight in Frankfurt and from the Buchenwald camp, 1938, written the same year, translated from German by his nephew Martin Harth in October 2001 - Life in Frankfurt with hia wife and children Hans and Helga; Christalnight, 10 November 1938; arrested by the SS soon after, held in the Festhalle with other Jews, harassment by officers. - Transfer of the Jews to the railroad, transporation to the Buchenwald concentration camp; first fearful night; life in the camp; problems with diabetes; receiving some money to buy water...

File Number : 9075

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Inmate card of László Lázár, born in Nagyvárad in 1928, issued in Buchenwald camp in 1944

Inmate card of László Lázár, born in Nagyvárad in 1928, issued in Buchenwald camp in 1944 Inmate card (Häftlings Personal Karte) of László Lázár, born in Nagyvárad in 1928, issued in Buchenwald camp, with a notation that before his deportation from Hungary he resided in Nagyvárad, and was transferred from Auschwitz camp to Buchenwald camp on 18/06/1944; Included in the file: - Letter written to Yad Vashem by Israel László Lázár, with details regarding his experiences during the Holocaust: he was in Rehmsdorf camp for most of the time until January 1945, and was returned to Buchenwald camp later because...

File Number : 610

Type of Material : Personal Records, Letter

Language : Hebrew, German

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