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Language of Description: German
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Country: Israel

  1. Esther Richter, known as Ika; details regarding her activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II

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

    Esther Richter, known as Ika; details regarding her activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II Life in Paris including the German occupation; joins Comite Rue Amelot (Amelot Street Committee); member of the Bund party; help to needy Jews; arrest by the Gestapo; deportation to Romainville; life in Romainville; death, 12 December 1942. In the file: - Summary of her personal information.

  2. Situation reports prepared by the Gestapo, from materials of the Preußische Staatsministerium in the Geh. Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz

    Situation reports prepared by the Gestapo, from materials of the Preußische Staatsministerium in the Geh. Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz The Preußische Staatsministerium was an organization of the Prussian State governmental authority. It served in the past in particular as the State government, and during the period of the Weimar Republic and afterwards it served as a uniting body (Kollegium) of the government's Ministers, and as the personal office (Kanzlei - Bureau) of the Prime Minister of the State. The material that was copied for Yad Vashem includes situation reports (Lageber...

  3. David Oks, born in Kovel, Poland, 1895; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

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

    David Oks, born in Kovel, Poland, 1895; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II From a family with hardships; life before the war; move to Warsaw including joining Poalei Zion; drafted into the Polish Army in the 1920s; desertion from the Polish Army and escape to France; life in Paris using a false identity and forged documents; joins Poalei Zion; distribution of a Polish Poalei Zion journal; raising money for various causes; maintaining contact with his friends in Poland. German occupation; activities on behalf of the Colonie Scolaire (The Sum...

  4. Raissa (Bloch) Gorlin, born in Petersburg (Russia), 1899, known as Michelle Miraille; details regarding her activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II

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

    Raissa (Bloch) Gorlin, born in Petersburg (Russia)1899, known as Michelle Miraille; details regarding her activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II Studies in the Faculty of the Arts in a university in Switzerland; move to France. Life in Vic Sur Cere including managing an Amities Chretiennes (Christian Friendship) orphanage; life using the false identity of Michelle Miraille; care for children under the protection of OSE (Children's Aid Society) at the orphanage; illegally crosses the border into Switzerland; capture; deportation across the border by the Swiss; arr...

  5. Dr. Isser Seilinger, born in Bersorka, (Russia) the Soviet Union, 1881; 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

    Dr. Isser Seilinger, born in Bersorka, (Russia) the Soviet Union, 1881; details regarding his activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II Life in Grenoble including managing the CAR (Refugees Aid Committee) office from 1943; detention by the Gestapo, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz on Transport 76, 30 June 1944. In the file: - Photograph of Dr. Isser Seilinger; - Testimony.

  6. Eve Cahen, born in Orleans, France, 1880; 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

    Eve Cahen, born in Orleans, France, 1880; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in Toulouse from 1942; work as assistant to Dr. Jules Hofstein, the physician, in the CAR (Refugees Aid Committee) and OSE (Children's Aid Society) offices; raises money and prepares parcels for Gurs inmates; occupation of southern France by the Germans; search for solutions for children at risk; distribution of food on the deportation trains with help from the Quakers; arrest by the Gestapo; deportation to Auschwitz on Transport 76, 30 June 1944. In the file:...

  7. 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.

  8. Joseph Cogan, born in Chisinau, Romania, 1903; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

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

    Joseph Cogan, born in Chisinau, Romania, 1903; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Joins OSE (Children's Aid Society) as a economist, 1941; works in the OSE Brout Vernet children's home; arrest with his two children by the Gestapo, 08 November 1943; deportation to Drancy with his children; transfer to Auschwitz, 07 December 1943. In the file: - Photograph of Joseph Cogan; - Testimony.

  9. Emeric Fiser, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1914; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

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

    Emeric Fiser, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1914; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in Montintin during the war; work as an educator in an OSE (Children's Aid Society) children's home; escorts a group of children to the Swiss border; visit at the OSE office in Chambery, 1944; detention by the Gestapo along with the office staff, February 1944; deportation to Auschwitz, 07 March 1944. In the file: - Photographs of Emeric Fiser; - Testimonies; - Articles.

  10. Germaine Meyer, born in Dunkerque, France, 1899, known as Marie Garithe; 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

    Germaine Meyer, born in Dunkerque, France, 1899, known as Marie Garithe; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in Nice; works as the secretary of the manager of the French-Italian bank, Donati Angelo; provides forged documents to Jews; detention by the Gestapo with two colleagues from work who are members of the Jewish underground; deportation to Drancy with her colleagues. In the file: - Photograph of Germaine Meyer; - German report regarding her detention.

  11. Leon Eugene Wolpert, born in Russia, 1910; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

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

    Leon Eugene Wolpert, born in Russia, 1910; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Works for OSE (Children's Aid Society) along with his wife, Elisabeth, from 1941; life working for OSE including providing food to Jews in hiding in the Lyons area; escape to Switzerland due to health problems of his wife; couple is denied entrance into Switzerland; detention by the Gestapo; deportation to Auschwitz with his wife on Transport 60, 07 October 1943. In the file: - Summary of his activities.

  12. Rabbi Elie Cyper, born in Erneltech, 1908; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

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

    Rabbi Elie Cyper, born in Erneltech, 1908; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Activities as Rabbi of the Versailles Jewish community, 1935; activities as Rabbi of the Dijon Jewish community, 1939; life in Dole including finding living quarters for refugees, from 1940. Escape to Perigueux; activities in Perigueux including aid to refugees; receives permission to visit camps and groups of foreign workers; supplies food to deportees on transports en route to Drancy and Pithiviers; finding hiding places for children; activities as contact perso...

  13. Juliette Weil, born in Strasbourg, France, 1921; 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

    Juliette Weil, born in Strasbourg, France, 1921; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in southern France including underground activities in La Sixieme (the Sixth) of the EIF (French Jewish Scouts); rescue of children; detention by the Gestapo with other Jews in the UGIF (Union Generale des Israelites de France) offices in Lyons, 09 February 1943; deportation, 25 March 1943. In the file: - Photograph of Juliette Weil; - Testimonies.

  14. Armand Gelmann, 1921; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

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

    Armand Gelmann, 1921; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in the Gers region including EIF (French Jewish Scouts) membership; life in the Lot et Garonne region including EIF membership; life in the Tarn et Garonne district including EIF membership; La Sixieme (the Sixth) membership; activities as contact person for Dr. Sigismond Hirsch; activities initiating contacts and finding hiding places for Jews; arrest by the Gestapo after he is informed on; deportation to Auschwitz on Transport 58, 31 July 1943; nominated for the Medaille de la ...

  15. Fanny Wolf, born in Ingwiller, France, 1909; 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

    Fanny Wolf, born in Ingwiller, France, 1909; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in Strasbourg including work as a teacher; life in the Perigueux area including work as a teacher; dismissal from her job following antisemitic legislation; joins the Aide Sociale aux Refugies (Social Aid for Refugees) organization in the Dordogne region; detention by the Gestapo at the Aide Sociale aux Refugies office in Perigueux, 1944; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz, 13 April 1944; her death at Auschwitz. In the file: - Testimony.

  16. Florette Feissel, born in Mulhouse, France, 1922; 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

    Florette Feissel, born in Mulhouse, France, 1922; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Escape with the Jews to Lyons, July 1940; life with her family in the Chaudanne camp, late 1940; receives help from Aide Sociale aux Refugies (Social Help for Refugees) at Perigueux; obtains work as a secretary for the organization due to a recommendation form Rabbi Rene Hirschler, who had served as the Rabbi in Mulhouse; arrest in the Aide Sociale aux Refugies office in Perigueux by the Gestapo, 1944; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz, 14 April ...

  17. Documentation of the Reich Ministry of Justice: Wehrmacht and Foreign Affairs, 1933-1945

    Documentation of the Reich Ministry of Justice: Wehrmacht and Foreign Affairs, 1933-1945 The Reich Ministry of Justice became the central authority for the administration of justice in Germany, 1933-1935, thus taking control over this domain. With the Nazi rise to power, Franz Guertner, who had already served as State Minister of Justice under Papen and Schleicher, abandoned the principles of state justice, and supplied the SA, SS, and Gestapo with legal cover for their activities by introducing the deprivation of rights of Jews and special wartime penal codes. Following Guertner's death, o...

  18. An anonymous testimony of a woman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1922, age 21, regarding her experiences in Lodz, Warsaw, Russia and her aliya to Eretz Israel in 1943

    1. O.12 - Perlman Collection: Testimonies of refugees from Poland who arrived in Eretz Israel, 1942-1943
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    An anonymous testimony of a woman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1922, age 21, regarding her experiences in Lodz, Warsaw, Russia and her aliya to Eretz Israel in 1943 Life in Lodz; work as a clerk in the Jewish community. Attitude of the head of the Gestapo towards the leadership and clerks of the Jewish community; abuse of the editor Unger by the Germans; murder of Unger; escape to Warsaw; escape including move to the Bug River; escape to the Soviet Union; aliya to Eretz Israel, February 1943. The testimony was recorded during the war.

  19. Testimony of Palo Sheiner, born in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, 1904, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, a camp near Marculesti and Hungary

    1. O.12 - Perlman Collection: Testimonies of refugees from Poland who arrived in Eretz Israel, 1942-1943

    Testimony of Palo Sheiner, born in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, 1904, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, a camp near Marculesti and Hungary Deportation from Cernauti to a camp near Marculesti; escape and crosses the Dniester river; escape along the Polish border; encounter with the Ukrainian Police and Gestapo; escape; capture and transfer to a cemetery; escape and rescue from shooting; escape to Hungary. The testimony was recorded during the war.

  20. 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...