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
Personal documentation of Ivan Lang, born in Caransebes, Romania, 14 July 1935, 1941-1947
The documents include:
- Birth certificates of Ivan Lang and of his parents, Stefan Lang and Emma (Grosz) Lang, issued in Caransebes, 15 July 1941;
- Document issued by the Recruitment Office in Lugoj, 22 February 1942, certifying that Stefan Lang worked in forced labor in Caransebes, 09-13 February 1942;
- Document issued in Lugoj, certifying that Stefan Lang is of Jewish origin, 29 May 1942;
- Travel permit to Timisoara granted to Emma Lang in Caransebes, 01 December 1942;
- Certificate issued to Ivan...
Testimony of Mózes Farkas, born in Makó, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in Makó, the Makó Ghetto, the Szeged Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kaufering camp and more
Anti-Jewish decrees, 1944; obligation to wear a yellow band and badge; restrictions on movement; prohibition against the opening of businesses [?]; deportation to the Makó Ghetto; ghetto life including the prohibition against leaving the ghetto; transfer to the Szeged Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz on the last transport from Hungary, June 1944; travel in train cars for a period of approximately six days; arrival in Auschwitz; selection by Mengele;...
Memorial booklet written by Miriam Friedman Morris regarding the experiences of her parents, Hildegard (Taussig) Friedman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1921, and David Friedman, born in Märisch Ostrau, Czechoslovakia, 1893, in Prague, Theresienstadt, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and other places
- Experiences of Hildegard (Taussig) Friedman, who was born in Berlin, Germany, 06 April 1921, as described in the booklet: Her family's life before the war; German occupation, 1939; life under German occupation; deportation from Prague to Theresienstadt, 17 December 1941; labor planting trees in Krivoklat forest...
File Number : 8592
Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, Red Cross Letter, Documentary, Memoirs, Newspaper Clippings, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Personal Documents
Survivors' certificates issued to two sisters, Gabrielle Davidovits, born in Maramaressziget, Hungary, and Judit (Davidovits) Deutsch, born in Maramaressziget, Hungary, by the mayor of Waldenburg, 21 May 1945
The certificates certify that during the war the sisters were deported to Auschwitz, from there they were transferred by the SS to Waldenburg, 13 April 1945, and they were liberated in Waldenburg by the US Army.
Birth dates:
Judit (Davidovits) Deutsch, 17 June 1906;
Gabrielle Davidovits, 26 August 1909.
Note:
Bela Deutsch, husband of Judit (Davidovits) Deutsch, and their son, Laszlo, perished...
Medical Clearance Certificate of Nathan Prins, from Amsterdam, issued by the American authorities in Germany, 09 June 1945, for his move to the Netherlands, and a postcard sent from Eindhoven to his family in Amsterdam, by means of his former neighbors
- Medical Clearance Certificate in the name of Nathan Prins, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 22 September 1913, issued by the US Occupation authorities in Germany, 09 June 1945, for his move to the Netherlands; his move to Bergen-Belsen DP camp via Hallen and then to Amsterdam;
- Postcard sent by Nathan Prins from Eindhoven, to his former neighbors in...
Certificate confirming that Dawid Stawkowki [Stawkowski], born in Plonsk, Poland, 1919, stayed in a DP camp in Italy, issued by the municipality of Castrignano del Capo, Italy, 23 January 1947
Deportation of Stawkowski to Auschwitz; transfer to Mauthausen; liberation by the US Army.
Move to Italy en route to Eretz Israel; meets his future wife; aliya to Israel with his wife Tula, 1949.
Memoirs of Yshai Tartakovski, born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier in Dnepropetrovsk, the Mogilev area, in hiding in Igren, in captivity in Traidersdorf and more
Life in Dnepropetrovsk including being drafted into the Red Army, 1940; transfer to Moscow, October 1940; transfer to a military village in the Kalinin area; transfer to Vyshny Volochyok; transfer to Pukhovichi; outbreak of the war between the Soviet Union and Germany and transfer with the headquarters staff to a forest; transfer in the direction of the front on foot; execution of a captured German...
Memoirs of Ire Ora (Minc) Orenbach, born in Lodz, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences during the war and after her liberation from Bergen-Belsen, and poems she wrote in Germany and Eretz Israel
The memoirs were written down in a notebook given to her by her liberators, US Army soldiers; they include poems written by Ire Minc (in Polish and in Yiddish) both in Frankfurt en route to Eretz Israel and after her aliya to Eretz Israel, 14 October-03 November 1947. Poems such as "Litzmanstad ghetto" (Lodz Ghetto) or "Polska bez Zydow" (Poland Without Jews) were written about the events of the Holocaust.
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File Number : 8564
Type of Material : Memoirs, Certification, Poems/songs
Personal documents of Avigdor Gyozo Berger, born in Vác, Hungary, 16 November 1928, from the period of his stay in the Ecksberg hospital in the Muehldorf area, and in Prague, after his liberation from Muehldorf camp by the US Army
- Certificate from the Muehldorf municipality confirming that Gyozo Berger is an Hungarian citizen, dated, 11 June 1945;
- Certification regarding the hospitalization of Gyoezoe Berger, issued by the Ecksberg hospital near Muehldorf, 20 June 1945;
- Document from the US Army regarding the liberation of Gyozo Berger; Berger was an inmate in Dachau, Birkenau and Muehldorf...