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Letters from Leiser and Rosa Hochmann from Mannheim and the Gurs camp to their children in Eretz Israel and documentation regarding the fate of the Jews of Mannheim during the war, 1938-2003

Letters from Leiser and Rosa Hochmann from Mannheim and the Gurs camp to their children in Eretz Israel and documentation regarding the fate of the Jews of Mannheim during the war, 1938-2003 - Letters from Leiser and Rosa Hochmann from Mannheim to their children in Eretz Israel; the letters tell of their difficult situation and the arrangements for a kitchen for 100 Jews by a Jew; 31 July 1938, 21 July 1939 and 17 September 1939; - Letter sent from Gurs with notification that Perl Safrin (Eliyahu's aunt) has died and her children are now orphans, 12 November 1940; - Postcard from Leiser Hochmann in...

File Number : 2086

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Documentary, Speech, Postcard, Article, Letter, Red Cross Letter, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, German

Letters from Moritz Meyer from Gurs camp to his son Helmut Meyer in Eretz Israel, 1940-1942

Letters from Moritz Meyer from Gurs camp to his son Helmut Meyer in Eretz Israel, 1940-1942 Also in the file: - Notification regarding return of a telegram sent 30 August 1942, due to lack of forwarding address. Comments by the submitter of the material regarding the experiences of Moritz Meyer: Life with his wife Zelma Faber and their two sons Hillel (Helmut) born 1907, and Erich born 1912 in Mannheim, Germany; aliya of Hillel to Eretz Israel, 1934; marriage of Hillel to his cousin Malka Faber, 1935; deportation of Moritz to Gurs camp; transfer of Moritz to Auschwitz; death of Zelma from disease in...

File Number : 1942

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English, German

Letters and postcards sent by Max Mendelsohn from Saint Cyprien, Savigny and Gurs camps in France to his wife Betty and his daughter Anne in Brussels, Belgium, 1940-1942

Letters and postcards sent by Max Mendelsohn from Saint Cyprien, Savigny and Gurs camps in France to his wife Betty and his daughter Anne in Brussels, Belgium, 1940-1942 Comments (by the submitter of the material, Anne [Mendelsohn] Wigoda): Max Mendelsohn was born in Breslau, Germany, 11/11/1902; he resided in Berlin where he met his wife Betty Barnas, who was born on 03/02/1902; their daughter Anne was born in Berlin, 03/08/1923; move of the family to Brussels, 1938; capture of Max, and his deportation to Saint Cyprien camp, 1940; his transfer to Savigny and Gurs camps later; his transfer to Drancy camp,...

File Number : 1846

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, Red Cross Letter

Language : French, German

Postcards sent by Adolf Wolf, born in Vienna, Austria, 1916, in Malines camp and Birkenau that were sent to his family in Brussels in 1943 - 1944, including postcards Deszo Wolf wrote in 1940 in camps in Gurs and St. Cyprien that he sent to his brother Adolf in Brussels and other individuals Immigration of Adolf Wolf to Brussels after the Anschluss; deportation to Malines camp, 1942; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to Mauthausen; life in the camp until the end of the war; life in the DP camp after the liberation in Ebensee after the war; return to Brussels; reunion with her parents in Brussels;...

File Number : 1785

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter, Postcard, Passport

Language : French, German

Letters and postcards sent by Moshe Wolf and Frida Wolf from Wertheim, 1936-1940, and Gurs, 1941-1942, to their daughters Trudl in Eretz Israel and Ilse in the United States

Letters and postcards sent by Moshe Wolf and Frida Wolf from Wertheim, 1936-1940, and Gurs, 1941-1942, to their daughters Trudl in Eretz Israel and Ilse in the United States Life in Wertheim; deportation to Gurs camp, 1941; transfer to Auschwitz, 1942; murder of Moshe, the date of the murder appears in the book of Beate Klarsfeld "Endstation Auschwitz"; murder of Frida, the date of the murder appears in the book of Beate Klarsfeld "Endstation Auschwitz"; aliya of Trudl Wolf Peleg to Eretz Israel, 1936; life of Ilse Wolf Faler in Italy, 1933; emigration of Ilse to the United States, 1939. The file also...

File Number : 1735

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Personal Documents, Article, Letter, Postcard

Language : Slovak, Hebrew, English, German, Hungarian

Documentation regarding Shalom Shiloni Vishogrotzki including his correspondence with family members, 1938-1944, certificate of membership in an anti-fascist organization, a Polish passport and more

Documentation regarding Shalom Shiloni Vishogrotzki including his correspondence with family members, 1938-1944, certificate of membership in an anti-fascist organization, a Polish passport and more - Correspondence between Shalom Shiloni Vishogrotzki, while a fighter with the Jewish Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, 1938, in the Saint Cyprien camp and Gurs camp, 1939, and in a labor camp in Algeria, 1940, and between family members in Poland and Eretz Israel; - Excerpt from an interview with Shalom Shiloni Wishogrotzki; - Transit pass issued Shalom Shiloni Wishogrotzki upon his liberation from a camp...

File Number : 1521

Type of Material : Letter, Newspaper Clippings, Personal Records

Language : Spanish, Hebrew, English, Yiddish

Letters and testimonies of Erich Goldschmidt regarding his deportation from Brussels and his experiences in concentration camps in France including Les Milles and Saint Cyprien

Letters and testimonies of Erich Goldschmidt regarding his deportation from Brussels and his experiences in concentration camps in France including Les Milles and Saint Cyprien Pages 1-4: 1) Letter from Erich to his mother, [while staying] at Les Milles camp in Aix-en-Provence, written in German with words and expressions in Hebrew, 11 March 1941: - Repeated unsuccessful attempts to obtain military leave to Bellac [from] the Haute-Vienne Department; reports regarding food in the camps; living conditions [including] delousing; intent to borrow money from a Mr. Nussbaum; arrival of 60 inmates from Gurs...

File Number : 1858

Type of Material : Certification, Testimony, Poem/song, Musical Notes, Document, Letter

Language : French, English, Russian, German

Testimony of Dr. Eugen Yitzchak Neter, born in Gernsbach, Germany, 1876, former president of the Jewish community in Mannheim, regarding the deportation of the Jews from Baden and the Palatinate to the Gurs concentration camp and life in Gurs, 1940-1943 In the file: - Deportation of Jews from Mannheim (as well as the general Palatinate and Baden) to the Gurs camp in southern France, late October 1940 (of the approximately 7,000 Jews from the Palatinate and Baden, including 2,500 Jews came from Mannheim, only 100 sick people and another 100 Jews from Mannheim, who were married to Aryans, were spared from...

File Number : 279

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

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