Testimony of Holocaust survivor Rudolf Max Josef Hirsch, Berlin, 1998
Letter of testimony by Rudolf Max Josef Hirsch, Holocaust survivor, addressed to Yad Vashem, 11 May 1998:
- Born in Berlin, 1913, and raised there; death of parents at a young age, 1920s;
- At the age of 19, joins the Kampfbund gegen den Faschismus (Combat League against Fascism), a subsidiary organization of the German Communist Party, 1932;
- Marriage to Edith Frick, a half-Jewess, 1933;
- Birth of daughter Ruth, 1935; birth of son Guenter Gustav, 1937; wife and children are members of the Jewish community;.
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File Number : 5369
Type of Material : Passport, Correspondence, Questionnaire, Letter(s), Identity Card, Certification, Personal Documents, Declaration, Document, Official Documentation, Memoirs
Documentation of the Ehemaligen Heersarchiv (former German Army Archive) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1939-1945
The collection includes various materials from German Army units, mainly of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Supreme Command of the Armed Forces-OKW) on various matters, including operational reports, matters of leisure, finances, administration, military justice, personnel, supplies and equipment, weapons, uniforms, medals, logs and letters of fighters (many letters that have been preserved in a number of files) and more. Additionally, it contains editions of the journal, "Nachrichten des...
Type of Material : Envelope, Note, Statistical Data, Postcard, Photograph, Telegram, Circular, Administrative Documentation, Survey Report, List of Soldiers, Letter, Maps, Diary, Lists, Official Documentation, Newspaper, Diagram, Financial Accounts