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Documentation including circulars regarding Martin Bormann and photographs from the Warsaw Ghetto, from 1935-1941

Documentation including circulars regarding Martin Bormann and photographs from the Warsaw Ghetto, from 1935-1941 - circular signed by Heinrich Himmler from Berlin that was distributed to all police stations in the Reich on 26 June 1935, with an instruction to approve the collection of funds from the Jews by the National Zionist Committee for the purpose of the emigration of the Jews to Eretz Israel; - circular from Cologne dated 5 November 1935 to the national police station in Cologne, the heads of the region, the mayor of Bonn and the Cologne police chief regarding the lifting of the ban on Dr. Martin...

File Number : 653

Type of Material : Photograph, Administrative Documentation, Circular

Language : German

Correspondence between the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) in Wuerttemberg and the association's administration, regarding the current activities of the branch and various reports, 11/05/1933-16/08/1938 - Financial reports; - Reports regarding travel by the supervisor of the Centralverein - CV in the Wuerttemberg and Baden areas; mention of the restrictions on Jews, including the marking of Jewish businesses and "Aryan" physicians and lawyers on special signs; ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages to Jews; removal [taking back] of...

File Number : JM/28890

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Reports, Official Documentation, List of Jews

Language : German

Documentation of the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) in East Prussia, regarding various subjects, 31/10/1932-16/05/1936

Documentation of the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) in East Prussia, regarding various subjects, 31/10/1932-16/05/1936 Testimonies from small cities in East Prussia, including Treuburg, Goldap, Lötzen, Johannisburg, Gildenburg, Riesenburg, Marienwerder, Elbing, Osterode, Bischofsburg and Neidenburg: Ban on Weinachtsgeschäft (Christmas) sales; ban on the employment of Jewish clerks who are under the age of 25, unless given special permission by the employment office; economic boycott; social isolation of Jewish physicians; social...

File Number : JM/28889

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings

Language : German

Diary written by Ahuva Luba Solodovnik's sister in Antwerp, Slonim, and Warsaw, 1926-1931, and Ahuva's Polish passport using the false identity of Luba Jakimowska with which she made aliya to Eretz Israel, in 1933 - The first name of the diary's author is not known; the author is apparently an educated woman; the diary is written in Yiddish, French and Hebrew; Included in the diary: - Poems and translations into Hebrew of classic Russian poetry - Pushkin, "Wise Oleg's Song" and Nekrasov, "Listening to the Horrors of War", written in Slonim and Kaunas, 1920-1921; - Reflections regarding the Jews of...

File Number : 8501

Type of Material : Diary, Poems/songs, Passport

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, Russian, Yiddish

List of Zionists from Grodno

File Number : 2868

Type of Material : List of Zionists

Language : Russian

Correspondence between Menachem and Mirjam (Waterman) Pinkhof and family members and friends in the Netherlands, Eretz Israel and Switzerland, 1939-1944

Correspondence between Menachem and Mirjam (Waterman) Pinkhof and family members and friends in the Netherlands, Eretz Israel and Switzerland, 1939-1944 - Letter sent by Menachem Pinkhof to his friend, Maurits van der Ven in Haifa asking for help from the Technion administration in Haifa in obtaining a certificate (for legal aliya to Eretz Israel) as a student (pp. 7-9); - Letter written by Ab Pimentel from the Torah Va'Avodah movement in the Netherlands (pp. 1-4), 30 June 1940; - Circular sent to members of Hechalutz in the Netherlands regarding the personal safety of the members, 18 November...

File Number : 18.11

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew, Dutch, German

Testimony of Ilse Elisheva (de Leeuw) Rozenberg, born in Leer Ostfriesland, Germany, 1925, regarding her experiences in Groningen, Zandvoort, in hiding in Friesland, Amsterdam and in hiding in Zeist

Testimony

Testimony of Ilse Elisheva (de Leeuw) Rozenberg, born in Leer Ostfriesland, Germany, 1925, regarding her experiences in Groningen, Zandvoort, in hiding in Friesland, Amsterdam and in hiding in Zeist Life before the war; relations with the non-Jewish population; Nazi rise to power, 1933; anti-Jewish legislation, 1935; increase in antisemitism. Outbreak of the war; escape to Groningen; escape to Zandvoort; life in Zandvoort including work sewing uniforms; informed on; deportation of her parents to Westerbork and from there to Auschwitz; in hiding with a Dutch family; escape to Friesland; hidden by a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Naomi (Marosi) Rotenberg, born in Nove-Zamky, Czechoslovakia, 1934, regarding her experiences in hiding in Nitra, Sarluzky-Kajsa, Sered and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Naomi (Marosi) Rotenberg, born in Nove-Zamky, Czechoslovakia, 1934, regarding her experiences in hiding in Nitra, Sarluzky-Kajsa, Sered and Bergen-Belsen Life before the war; her parents' visits in Eretz Israel. Annexation to Hungary, 1938; German occupation, March 1944; decrees including yellow badge; deportation of her father to a forced labor camp; her family home is included in the Nove-Zamky Ghetto perimeters; termination of studies; illegally crosses the border to Slovakia, May 1944; life in hiding in Nitra; escape to Sarluzky-Kajsa; her father's return and his joining the family in...

File Number : 12686

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Hugo Iung, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Ebensee, Gusen and Gunskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Hugo Iung, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Ebensee, Gusen and Gunskirchen Re-annexation to Hungary, 1939; restrictions on Jews including the numerus clausus; deportation to a brick factory, 1944; life in the factory; deportation to Auschwitz; conditions in the deportation train including his brother's escape to Budapest; his brother joins the partisans as part of Hashomer Hatzair; life in Auschwitz including labor of his sisters in the the Canada Kommando; transfer to Mauthausen; camp life; transfer to Ebensee; camp life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Introduction prepared by Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri to the testimony of Alfred Cassierer regarding the Palaestinaamt in Berlin, life in hiding in Berlin and his escape via the Swiss border

Introduction prepared by Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri to the testimony of Alfred Cassierer regarding the Palaestinaamt in Berlin, life in hiding in Berlin and his escape via the Swiss border In the introduction Dr. Ball-Kaduri points out that from what he knows, Alfred Cassierer was the last Director of the Palaestinaamt in Berlin; he also expresses reservations regarding the contents of the testimony while remarking on the weakness of the witness' memory. The testimony itself is not in the file.

File Number : 342

Type of Material : Survey Report, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : German

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