Documentation regarding the Dora-Mittelbau camp and other camps near Nordhausen, 1949-1999
The documentation was gathered by Holocaust survivor Moshe Leib Plachta, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926:
- Testimony [of] Concentration Camp Prisoner B-7092: History of the family:
Deportation of his sister Luba to the Czestochowa labor camp, 1943; deportation of Moshe Leib with his parents and younger brother to Auschwitz, August 1944; murder of his patents and brother in Auschwitz; transfer of Moshe Leib to the Fuerstengrube labor camp and from there to Dora-Nordhausen, March 1945; life of the inmates in Dora;...
File Number : 444
Type of Material : Maps, Correspondence, Letter, Brochure, Personal Documents, Survey Report, Drawing, Diagram, Photograph, Administrative Documentation, Postcard
Testimony of Rivka Reuveni, born in Checiny, Poland, about her life in the ghetto and in the Częstochowa, Skarzysko, and Bergen-Belsen camps, and her 'aliya after the liberation.
Rivka Reuveni lived in Checiny, Poland, with her parents and her four sisters. When the ghetto there was established, her aunt's family joined them. Rivka was sent to the Skarzysko Kamienna labor camp at the age of twelve. She fell ill with typhus and due to denunciation was sent to a death camp. With the help of a Jewish doctor, she recovered and returned to work. As the Red Army approached, she was sent to a labor camp in...
Two letters sent by Hermann Stern in Moissac to the Jewish Committee in London and to his uncle and brother in England, June 1945, including information regarding the deaths of his parents and sister who had been with him in the Stutthof camp after their expulsion from Germany
- Letter written by Hermann Stern, born 14 February 1927, during his stay in Moissac, France, to the Jewish Committee in London, 22 June 1945, with a request to search for his brother Heinz Stern, born 17 August 1924, who had emigrated to England before the outbreak of the war; Hermann writes that for four years he was in a...
Correspondence of the Aid Council for Jewish Refugees from Germany (Benno Kaufmann) in Basel regarding the support for persecuted Jews: Personal letters belonging to the persecuted detainees in the camps in France, such as the Gurs camp, 1940–1945
Names of Jewish Vitctims:
- Berthold Daube und Frieda Daube, Freiburg & Amsterdam and names of other victims, 04/07/1940 – 13/11/1943, pp. 147-248
- Dr. Egmond Woititz, Paris & Camp de la Viscox Tarn, France and Rosa Woititz (mother), Berlin, 01/02/1940 – 29/03/1943, pp. 259-316 & 469
- Willy Wolf, Arnhen and names of other Jewish victims, 10/12/1940...
Correspondence of the Aid Council for Jewish Refugees from Germany (Benno Kaufmann) in Basel regarding the support for persecuted Jews: Personal letters belonging to the persecuted detainees in the camps in France, such as the Gurs camp, 1939 –1945
Following people are mentioned:
- Lola Jablonsky and Alice Kaufmann in Gurs concentration camp, 24/08/1941, p.535, 10/01/1941, p. 2, 16/12/1940, p. 367
- Alfred Cahn and his wife in Gurs concentration camp or Grenade (Haute Garonne), 03/03/1941 – 17/07/1941 p. 4-9
- Emma Goldschmidt, Gurs concentration camp, 23/10/1942, p. 109; 19/10/1942, p. 111
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Testimony of Regina Tova Kaim Davidovitz, born in 1929 in Chust, Czechoslovakia, about her deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau
Daily life in Chust; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; witness and her two sisters survive; forced labor in a belt factory; death marches to Ravensbrück and thence to a labor camp in Neustadt Glewe; hospitalized in Prague; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel in 1947 aboard the Exodus; deportation; re-immigration to Israel in 1949.
Experiences of Yezhi Brauner (Yonatan Iurek), born in Krakow, Poland, 1926, while hidden by a Polish farmer, and in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow and Bruenlitz
Experiences of his grandfather David Brauner and his grandmother Rosalia Rosenfeld; he attends the Hebrew school in Krakow, until the outbreak of the war; [establishment of the Krakow Ghetto]; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; escape, along with his mother; in hiding with his mother on a farm while hidden by a Polish farmer; murder of many of his family members during the "Aktions" in Krakow, 1942; return to the Krakow Ghetto, 15 November 1942; labor on...
Memoirs of Shamai Kizelsztejn, born in Bialystok, Poland, 19 December 1924, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, the Bialystok prison, and in Majdanek, Blizyn, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna and other camps
Life in Bialystok under the Red Army occupation; German occupation of Bialystok; establishment of the Bialystok Ghetto; deportation to the Bialystok Ghetto; Bialystok Ghetto life including labor constructing the Krywlany airfield and forced labor constructing a road, spring 1942; detention in the Bialystok prison; transfer to Majdanek camp; transfer to Blizyn camp; camp life; transfer to...
Testimony of Ayalon (Windholtz) Yehuda, born in Berlin, Germany in 1930, regarding his experiences in Belgium in 1938 and in hiding from 1942 to 1944
Orthodox family; detention of his uncles in Sachsenhausen; Kristallnacht; move, with help from assistance organizations, to Antwerp; parents crossing the border to Belgium illegally in 1939; occupation of Belgium in May 1940 by the German army; assembly of Jews without Belgian citizenship who had lived in Antwerp and expulsion to forced labor in Limborg district; living with local farmers and labor in farming for half a year; return of witness, with his mother,...
Personal documentation of Walter Simoni, born in Vienna, Austria, 09 May 1919, including documents relating to Malines, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Golleschau, Mechelen, and Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg camps, where he was an inmate, 1938-1945
- Description of the camps in which Walter Simoni was an inmate, including the dates of his detention in each of the camps, 1938-1945;
- Document from the Auschwitz Museum, certifying the transfer of Walter Simoni from Malines camp to Auschwitz, 05 August 1942; labor by Simoni in Kl Au III-Goleszow camp;
- List of inmates, including the name of Walter Simoni; the list is...
