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Language of Description: German
Language of Description: English
Country: Israel

  1. Marcel Geismar, born in Turkheim, France, 1917; details regarding his activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Marcel Geismar, born in Turkheim, France, 1917; details regarding his activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II Joins the Jewish underground during the war; life in the Creuse region including work for OSE (Children's Aid Society); work as assistant bookkeeper in Le Masgelier, an OSE children's home; visit to his family in the Alsace area, Pesach (07 April) 1944; taken captive with his two brothers by the Gestapo; deportation to Auschwitz, 29 April 1944.

  2. Marcelle Loeb, born in Strasbourg, France, 1923; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Marcelle Loeb, born in Strasbourg, France, 1923; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Membership in EIF (French Jewish Scouts); arrest by the Gestapo during a raid on the UGIF (Union Generale des Israelites de France) building in Lyon in the presence of Klaus Barbie, 09 February, 1943; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Sobibor; perishes in Sobibor. In the file: - Photograph of Marcelle Loeb; - Excerpt from a testimony.

  3. Maurice Loebenberg, born in Zurich, Switzerland, 1916, known as Cachoud; details regarding his activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Maurice Loebenberg, born in Zurich, Switzerland, 1916, known as Cachoud; details regarding his activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II Commander of the underground AJ (Jewish Army); responsible for forging documents for the MLN (National Liberation Movement); taken captive by the Gestapo at Auteuil, 17 July 1944; 26 hours of torture and death. Also in the file: - Article by Michel Anski; - Photographs from the Yad Vashem Photo Archive: Archival signature 7946/30 and 7646/31.

  4. Memoirs of and an interview with Franz Kejmar

    1. P.25- Archive of Erich Kulka, Historian of Czech Jewry and Author

    Memoirs of and an interview with Franz Kejmar 1. Interview conducted by Erich Kulka with Franz Kejmar at Kejmar's home in Spain, 06 July 1986. Kejmar was an opponent of the Nazis in Austria. He was arrested by the Gestapo in July 1941, and a month later, on 19 August 1941, he was deported to Auschwitz as a political prisoner. There he worked in the Deutsche Ausrustungswerke (DAW) factories and served as a Kapo, a position in which he showed compassion and humaneness towards the inmates (in German); 2. Unpublished memoirs of Franz Kejmar (in German); 3. Article regarding Franz Kejmar, who wa...

  5. Memoirs of Ella Hammerschmidt, titled: "Our Exodus, 15.12.1940-15.12.1941", regarding her emigration and escape from Nazi Germany with a group of children, with help from Recha Freier and other individuals and organizations

    1. P.1 - Archive of Recha Freier, the founder of Youth Aliyah in Germany, 1935-1951
    • Unser Exodus vom 15.12.1940 - 15.12.1941

    Memoirs of Ella Hammerschmidt, titled: "Our Exodus, 15.12.1940-15.12.1941", regarding her emigration and escape from Nazi Germany with a group of children, with help from Recha Freier and other individuals and organizations Memoirs of Ella Hammerschmidt, titled: "Our Exodus, 15.12.1940-15.12.1941", regarding her emigration and escape from Nazi Germany with a group of children via Belgrade, Istanbul and Aleppo, until their arrival to Eretz Israel, including mention of Recha Freier and other individuals and organizations that helped with the escape.

  6. Memoirs of Karola Keila (Koifman) Ginzburg, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1902, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and on the Aryan side in Warsaw, using a false identity in the Pawiak prison, in Pruszkow and Dresden

    1. O.39 - Collection of memoirs written by survivors as part of a competition held by Yad Vashem, 1957

    Memoirs of Karola Keila (Koifman) Ginzburg, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1902, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and on the Aryan side in Warsaw, using a false identity in the Pawiak prison, in Pruszkow and Dresden Life before the war; residence and studies in the Pedagogic Institute; studies Law; marriage to Leon Ginzburg; move to Lodz; life in Lodz; birth of two children. Outbreak of the war; escape to Warsaw together with her family; life in the Warsaw Ghetto; work in the Tebbens Schultz shop (workshop); liquidation of the workshop, 1943; escape to the Aryan side with the help of...

  7. Memoirs of Sima regarding her experiences in Grodek

    1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

    Memoirs of Sima regarding her experiences in Grodek Occupation of Grodek by the German Army, 27 June 1941; life under the German occupation including robbery of Jewish property, anti-Jewish legislation, yellow badge; ban forbidding the local population to sell food products to the Jews; appointment of a Judenrat; abuse of Judenrat members by the Gestapo; murder of Jews; Polish and Belorussian collaborators; arrest of Communists and their murder; concentration of the Jews in the market square in Grodek, 01 November 1942; deportation of the witness' family to a[n unnamed] camp by wagon; popul...

  8. Monique Hayem, born in Saint Mande, France, 1920: details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Monique Hayem, born in Saint Mande, France, 1920: details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Joins the La Sixieme (the Sixth) underground; recruited into the resistance movement in the Brive area by Henri Wahl along with her brother, Jean, June 1943; smuggling activities and distribution of forged documents and other printed materials; transfer to the Maritime Alps area after she is informed on and wanted by the Gestapo; arrested after being informed on in Saint Jean la Riviere, 11 February 1944; deportation to Bergen-Belsen; her death in Bergen-Be...

  9. Nazi documentation regarding Judenumsiedlung (Resettlement of Jews) and seizing real estate belonging to the Jewish community of Vienna for the needs of the Waffen-SS

    1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period

    Nazi documentation regarding Judenumsiedlung (Resettlement of Jews) and seizing real estate belonging to the Jewish community of Vienna for the needs of the Waffen-SS In the file: - Written notices from the Gauleitung (Area Administration) of Vienna regarding an operation to evict the Viennese Jews from their apartments which would then be handed over for the use of [Nazi] party members; Gestapo opposition to the initiative taken by the party in this matter; continuation of the "Aktion" could be carried out only through the Wohnungsant (Office for Residential Matters); - Correspondence betw...

  10. Nazi rule in Poland

    1. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The booklet describes the Nazi occupation of Poland from a catholic point of view. It examines the imprisonment and abuse of priests by the Gestapo. Many reports are referenced from newspapers published in the West. The booklet claims that religious freedom has been destroyed and schools are indoctrinated with anti-Christian ideology.

  11. Newspaper clippings regarding trials against Nazi war criminals and the escape of Nazi war criminals, 1963-1977

    1. P.26 - Heiner Lichtenstein Collection - Documentation collected by a Journalist who wrote about the Holocaust and about Trials of Nazi War Criminals, 1952-1987

    Newspaper clippings regarding trials against Nazi war criminals and the escape of Nazi war criminals, 1963-1977 - Newspaper clippings regarding Karl Florian, who was a Gauleiter in Duesseldorf, 1971-1973; - Newspaper clippings regarding the Dora-Mittelbau Trial held against Bischoff, Sanders and Busta, 1967-1968; - Newspaper clippings regarding the trial held against Lugwig Hahn, the Gestapo commander in Warsaw, 1975; - Newspaper clippings (most of them in Dutch) regarding the trial held against Harster, Zoepf and Slottke, 1966-1967; - Two publications regarding the connection between Hitle...

  12. Nicole (Weil) Salon, born in Lisieux, France, 1915: details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

    1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

    Nicole (Weil) Salon, born in Lisieux, France, 1915: details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in Marseilles; activities as an OSE (Children's Aid Society) social worker; smuggling children into Switzerland; taken captive by the Gestapo in Nice, 24 October 1943; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz, 20 November 1943; camp life; refusal to be separated from the children; transfer to the gas chambers with the children, 23 November 1943. Also in the file: - Letters from Nicole (Weil) Salon.

  13. NSDAP (Nazi party) and Gestapo documentation regarding travel permits, arrests, confiscation of property of the Jewish community and its library and looting the contents of synagogues during the Novemberaktion (November "Aktion"), 1938

    1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period

    NSDAP (Nazi party) and Gestapo documentation regarding travel permits, arrests, confiscation of property of the Jewish community and its library and looting the contents of synagogues during the Novemberaktion (November "Aktion"), 1938 Nazi documentation regarding the Novemberaktion, 1938: - Arrests of Jews following the Kristallnacht riots among the Jews of St. Poelten; the Eichgraben vocational training camp and the Talheim vocational camp; confiscation of the archives of the Jewish community of Vienna; issuing of passports; detention of Jews with a previous conviction in the Dachau conce...

  14. O.1 - Ball-Kaduri Collection: Contemporary testimonies and reports regarding the Holocaust of the Jews of Germany and Central Europe, 1943-1960

    O.1 - Ball-Kaduri Collection: Contemporary testimonies and reports regarding the Holocaust of the Jews of Germany and Central Europe, 1943-1960 Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri was born in Berlin in 1891. A lawyer and legal adviser to the Prussian government, he was also active in Jewish affairs. He made aliya to Eretz Israel in December 1938. Dr. Ball-Kaduri, who was active in collecting material and writing about German Jewry, became aware that much material that reached the archives regarding Jewish life in Germany from 1933 to 1945 was incomplete, and that there were large information gaps. From hi...

  15. O.92 - Kulka-Jaeckel Collection: Nazi reports regarding public opinion in Germany

    O.92 - Kulka-Jaeckel Collection: Nazi reports regarding public opinion in Germany The Collection includes reports regarding the Stimmungsberichte (atmosphere; mood) among the members of SD units, the Gestapo, the Nazi Party and local authorities throughout Germany. The reports in which there is information regarding the Jews served as the basis for the book, "Die Juden in den geheimen NS-Stimmungsberichten 1933-1945" (The Jews in the Secret Nazi Atmosphere Reports, 1933-1945), Kulka, Otto Dov and Jäckel, Eberhard, eds., Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf, 2004. Professor Dov Otto Kulka submitted cop...

  16. Official documentation of the Linz community regarding emigration, prayer times, registration of Jews who have converted and more, 1938-1945

    1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period

    Official documentation of the Linz community regarding emigration, prayer times, registration of Jews who have converted and more, 1938-1945 - Information pages regarding emigration matters, September 1938; - Appeal from the local Zionist movement chapter to contribute to the JNF (Jewish National Fund); - Prayer times for the High Holydays, religious holidays, Shabbatot and weekdays, September-October; 1938 - Obligation of Nichtglaubensjuden (Jews who have converted) to register according to orders from the Gestapo; - Reminder with a request from the Chairman of the Community (with no name ...

  17. Österreichs Freiheitskampf

    1. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The booklet published by the information service of the Austrian government provides an overview of the Austrian resistance movement during the Nazi era. It describes chronologically the situation in Austria from 1933 to 1938, the reprisals against any opposition during the Anschluss and the reorganization of resistance by imprisoned decision makers in various concentration camps. This newly formed cooperation enabled the creation of resistance cells which were under constant threat by Gestapo and SD. Their difficult work is explained in detail. The organization of the resistance in the las...

  18. P.22 - The Dr. Nathan Eck Collection, holocaust researcher, 1938-1976

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 4019707
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Draft Excerpt(s) Letter List of refugees Memoirs Newspaper clippings Note Passport Personal documents Poems/Songs Record of persecuted persons Reports Research article Testimony

    P.22 - The Dr. Nathan Eck Collection, holocaust researcher, 1938-1976 In the collection there are files from the private archive of Dr. Nathan Eck. Description of the collection: The documentation mainly deals with research on various aspects of the Holocaust period in Poland and France. There are research papers, testimonies, newspaper clippings, correspondence and documentation concerning the emigration of Jews to Latin American countries. About Dr. Nathan Eck: - Dr. Nathan Eck was born in Janow, Poland, 19 March 1896. He was a Gordonia youth movement activist and a Zionist activist, as w...

  19. P.25- Archive of Erich Kulka, Historian of Czech Jewry and Author

    P.25- Archive of Erich Kulka, Historian of Czech Jewry and Author Erich Schon, who was born in the village of Vsetin, Moravia (today in the Czech Republic), 18 February 1911, and died in Jerusalem, 12 July 1995, was the son of Malvina and Siegbert Schon. After World War II Schon changed his last name to Kulka, the last name of his first wife, Elly Kulka, who did not survive the Holocaust. The history of the arrests of Erich Kulka began in July 1939, first with arrest by the Gestapo in Brno and afterwards with imprisonment in the Dachau, Sachsenhausen and Neuengamme camps until November 1942...

  20. P.55 - Personal Papers of Dr. Heinz E.Samson

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 7894262
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Balance sheet Booklet(s) Brochure Death certificate Envelope Financial accounts Genealogy Journals Legal documentation Letter List of deportees List of murdered Jews from Germany Maps Newspaper clippings Official documentation Personal documents Postcard Poster Speech

    P.55 - Personal Archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson In the collection there are files from the private archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson. Description of the collection: The documentation deals with a part of the estate of the Samson family, originally from the city of Norden in Northern Germany. There is pre-war documentation on tax issues and the assets of the Samson family, pre- and postwar correspondence with German authorities, personal documents and certificates, documents on the restoration of the Norden Jewish cemetery supported by the Samson family after WW II, the dedication of a memorial ...