Documentation regarding meetings of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) executive committee regarding various subjects, including work with the youth, Jews of Eastern Europe, the economic boycott, letters of protest, international negotiations, programs, publicity activities, the "Der Morgen" newspaper, and political and organizational matters, 09/12/1930-30/03/1933
Documentation of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), regarding anti-Jewish legislation, 1933-1934
- Booklet of the Zentralausschuss der Deutschen Juden für Hilfe und Aufbau (Central Committee of German Jews for Help and Reconstruction) (pp. 363-378; more on the subject, pp. 697-698);
- Circulars published by the Centralverein - CV, regarding the Reichsbund jüdischer Frontsoldaten (Reich Federation of Jewish Front Soldiers) (pp. 379, 631-632);
- Correspondence regarding Jewish physicians (pp. 380-383, 412-415, 424, 574-579, 581-582);
- Internal...
File Number : JM/28883
Type of Material : Circular, Poem/song, Legal Documentation, Questionnaire, Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation, List of Jews
Reports sent to the US State Department by US diplomatic delegations in Germany, regarding the Boycott of 01 April 1933 against Jewish businesses, and regarding the Kristallnacht riots, 1933-1938
Reports regarding the Boycott of 01 April 1933:
- Report by the US Embassy in Berlin, 03/04/1933:
Description of the background and aims of the boycott; Nazi Party propaganda; establishment of the "Central Committee for the Struggle against the Propaganda of Terror and for the Jewish Boycott" in Munich, and the local committee for the implementation of the boycott; regulations published regarding the...
File Number : 277
Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation, Lists of Businesses and Skilled Workers, Record of Persecuted Persons
Joint testimony of Rosa Friedfertig and Koppel Friedfertig regarding their experiences during the deportation of the Polish Jews from Hamburg, October 1938
- Deportation of Jews with Polish citizenship from Hamburg; notification regarding the deportation; helplessness of the Jewish community; transfer of the deportees to the area of the Polish border by train; sending the deportees across the border; crowding, lack of space and living conditions among the deportees;
- Permission granted by the Polish government to settle in Sponczyn; conditions in Sponczyn (not an organized camp, but a reserve, and a...
Testimony of Dov Bar Bernhard Gerstensang, born in Minden, Germany, 1933, regarding his experiences as a small child during Kristallnacht in Minden, Denmark and Sweden
His family are originally from Poland.
Kristallnacht; escape towards Denmark with help from policemen; arrest of his father and attempts to return his father to Germany; life in Copenhagen including studies; German occupation; life under occupation; escape from his home; in hiding in a field; escape to Sweden on a fishing boat the day before Yom Kippur, 1943; life in a refugee camp including cultural activities; life in Stockholm; end of...
Testimony of Shlomo Heilbron, born in Muehlhausen, 1920, regarding his experiences in Muehlhausen, Leipzig, England and Australia
Family life in Muehlhausen; his parents’ livelihood; move to Leipzig; attends school; antisemitism; learns a trade; the Jewish community in Leipzig; farming; anti-Jewish laws; burning of Jewish homes and synagogues during Kristallnacht; detention of Jews, among them relatives; Gestapo men break in to their homes; deportation of his father to a concentration camp; release of his father; desperate attempts of his family to escape from Germany; leaving for England, August 1939; life...
Testimony of Eliahu Erich Heymann, born in Breslau, 1926, regarding his experiences in aliya training, Berlin, Buna-Monowitz camp and a death march
His immediate family; the Jewish community; school; displays of antisemitism; membership in a youth movement.
Community activities after Kristallnacht; restrictions on Jews; confiscation of property; leaves home, 1940; aliya training: daily life and various jobs; closure of the aliya training sites by the Gestapo; Zionist activities; move to Berlin, April 1943; deportation to Auschwitz; camp registration process; transfer to Buna-Monowitz camp; forced labor;...
Testimony of Zipporah (Wolff) Schiffmann, born in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1922, regarding her experiences while in hiding and life using a false identity
Her parents' livelihood; the holidays at home; learns in attends school; the Jewish community; youth group activity; German occupation, May 1940; the burning of Rotterdam; mutual help; her sister is hidden; works as a housemaid; is hidden by various families; life in hiding; deportation of her father to a concentration camp; life using a false identity; transfer of identity cards to the police; purchases food from farmers; two Jews join the hiding...
Type of Material : Book, Caricatures, Poster, Research Article, Photograph, Newspaper Clippings, Testimony, Booklet(s), Excerpt(s), Student Workbook, Laws and Decrees, Manifesto
Documentation regarding the German occupation of the Netherlands and the persecution, concentration and deportation of Jews to extermination camps in the East, and the persecution and murder of Jews in Transnistria and the surrounding areas, 1940-1944, and postwar legal proceedings concerning war crimes in the Netherlands, Germany and Romania, 1945-1961
Miscellaneous documentation concerning 1) The occupation of the Netherlands, in particular the persecution of Jews, their concentration and eventual deportation to extermination camps in the East; 2) The persecution and murder of Jews in Transnistria and...
File Number : 155
Type of Material : Reports, Administrative Documentation, Official Documentation, Statistical Reports, List of Jewish Women, Investigation Reports, Protocol, Lists, Laws and Decrees, Testimony, Circular, Instruction, List of Camp Inmates, Document(s)