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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...

File Number : 3.2

Type of Material : Document, Letter, Postcard

Language : French, German

Correspondence of Benny Kaufmann from Basel, Switzeralnd, regarding aid to Jewish refugees from Austria and Western Europe. Personal letters of requests for support and lists for payment orders, 1939-1940

Correspondence of Benno Kaufmann from Basel, Switzerland, regarding aid to Jewish refugees from Austria and Western Europe: Personal letters of request for support and lists of payment orders, 1939-1940. Names of Jewish Victims: - Simon Israel Ceiger, Vienna, 27/06/1939 - 04/07/1939 -, pp. 245-250 - Family Deutsch, Vienna, 15/05/1939 - 01/08/1939 pp. 303-315 - Salomon Eisenberg & Chaja Lea Eisenberg, Vienna, 20/09/1939 - 5/07/1940, pp. 452-459, - Julius Hecht, M.Gladbach, 03/12/1939 - 13/09/1940, pp. 818-829 - Bruno Hechtenthal, Milano & Vienna, 07/02/1939 – 06/09/1939, pp. 833-858 -...

File Number : 1

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, List of Names

Language : German

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 -...

File Number : 3.1

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Document

Language : French, German

Personal documents of James Ellenbogen, 1938-1944

Personal documents of James Ellenbogen, 1938-1944 Personal letters: - Red Cross letter sent by Eva Ellenbogen in England to her father, James Ellenbogen, in Amsterdam, 17 June 1940; - Correspondence, by means of Red Cross letters, between Margarete Haym in Berlin and her sister Herta Ellenbogen in England, 1941-1942; last Red Cross letter sent by Margarete, 15 October 1942; - Red Cross letter sent by Eva Herzog in England to her aunt Margarete Haym in Berlin, 04 July 1942; reply received on the back of the letter, 10 October 1942; - Red Cross letter sent by Margarete Haym in Berlin to Elise...

File Number : 2140

Type of Material : Red Cross Letter, Personal Documents, Letter

Language : French, Dutch, German

Letters sent by Jochen Joachim Lesser in Berlin, Amsterdam and Shanghai to his parents and sister in Eretz Israel, letters sent to his family by his German wife in Berlin and more, 1936-1945

Letters sent by Jochen Joachim Lesser in Berlin, Amsterdam and Shanghai to his parents and sister in Eretz Israel, letters sent to his family by his German wife in Berlin and more, 1936-1945 - Letters from Jochen Joachim Lesser in Berlin to his mother Helene Brauer and his sister in Eretz Israel, August-September 1938; - Letters from Jochen Lesser in Amsterdam to his mother and sister in Eretz Israel, October 1938; - Letter from Jochen Lesser aboard the "Aramis" en route to Shanghai to his mother in Eretz Israel, 05 November 1938; - Letters from Jochen Lesser in Shanghai to his mother and sister in...

File Number : 2121

Type of Material : Letter, Red Cross Letter

Language : German

Letter sent by Rachel (Zeitlin) Danenberg from Pohost Zahorodny to her sister Rivka Rubinstein in Eretz Israel, with a request to receive an aliya certificate, early 1930s

Letter sent by Rachel (Zeitlin) Danenberg from Pohost Zahorodny to her sister Rivka Rubinstein in Eretz Israel, with a request to receive an aliya certificate, early 1930s Note (according to the testimony of Pnina and Chaya, the daughters of Rivka Rubinstein): Unsuccessful attempt by Rivka Rubinstein to obtain an aliya certificate for her sister; work as a seamstress; she would go to the Jewish Agency offices in Jerusalem on Fridays, for many years; she receives a reply from Mr. Dobkin, the person responsible for the distribution of aliya certificates, that her sister's fate will be the same fate as all...

File Number : 2108

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Yiddish

Postcard sent by Harry Sokol in Warsaw to his brother, Mojszo, in the United States, with information regarding his intention to emigrate to the United States and his request for help, 1940

Postcard sent by Harry Sokol in Warsaw to his brother, Mojszo, in the United States, with information regarding his intention to emigrate to the United States and his request for help, 1940 Note: Harry (Herschel) Sokol and his wife, Rivka, perished in the Warsaw Ghetto; their daughter, Pola, survived. The receipient of the letter, Mojszo Sokol, was the father of Beatrice Sokol, born in the United States, 1922, the mother of Chana (Shapira) Stillman, the submitter of the material; Mojszo Sokol and his wife emigrated to the United States before World War I.

File Number : 2104

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Polish

Postcards sent to Abraham Blum in Argentina by his brothers and sisters in Warsaw and Mlawa, 1941

Postcards sent to Abraham Blum in Argentina by his brothers and sisters in Warsaw and Mlawa, 1941 - Postcard sent to Abraham Blum in Argentina by his brother-in-law Jehuda Lewkowicz in Mlawa informing him that the family is managing, and asking that he send food parcels to his parents [in Warsaw], 28 April 1941; - Postcard sent to Abraham Blum by his brother Mojzek in Warsaw in which he suggests that Abraham ask their aunts in the United States for help, 30 April 1941; - Another postcard sent by Mojzek in which he repeats part of what was written on the previous postcard and asks that Abraham arrange...

File Number : 2074

Type of Material : Postcard, Documentary

Language : Polish

Letters written by members of the Jourgrau family, and personal documentation regarding members of the family, 1927-2009

Letters written by members of the Jourgrau family, and personal documentation regarding members of the family, 1927-2009 Letters and postcards: - Letter from Dov Jourgrau in Amsterdam to his brother Mendel Jourgrau in Eretz Israel, 23 December 1938; - Letters and a postcard written by Dov Jourgrau to his daughter, Ruth, while she was in hiding using the false identity of Lieske or Liesje; members of the underground showed these letters to Ruth and then took them back as a precaution; at the end of the war, the letters were returned to her; - Two letters from Lea Jourgrau (apparently from Westerbork)...

File Number : 2063

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents, Notebook, Postcard, Drawing, Poem/song, Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch, German, Yiddish

Memoirs of Edith Weiner regarding her experiences as a child in Berlin until 1939, on an agricultural training farm in Cologne and in Eretz Israel from 1940

Memoirs of Edith Weiner regarding her experiences as a child in Berlin until 1939, on an agricultural training farm in Cologne and in Eretz Israel from 1940 Life in her parents' home in Berlin including religious life and musical studies; attempts to leave Germany following her father's return from a concentration camp, 1938. Leaving their apartment; move to an attic in the home of relatives due to their lack of income; attendance at a Youth Aliyah school; going to agricultural training in Cologne, July 1939; discussion with a Gestapo man in the police station including attempts to persuade her to remain...

File Number : 8549

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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