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A letter from Werner Teitz to his family, dated May 2, 1943, shortly before his deportation to the Sobibor killing center. Arthur “Werner” Teitz was a German Jewish boy with cerebral palsy. He lived in a Munich medical facility between 1931 and 1938. After Kristallnacht, his parents sent him to a medical facility in the Netherlands. Though his family was able to escape Europe in 1940, Werner was not. After Nazi Germany occupied the Netherlands, German authorities eventually sent him to the Westerbork…
This document is one page of a letter from artist Esther Lurie, written after the war, asking for help in following down leads and locating the artwork she had created and hidden while imprisoned in the Kovno ghetto, Lithuania. She wrote, "The matter concerns a collection of 200 pen-and-ink drawings representing scenes of ghetto life which I made during my internment in the Kaunas Ghetto (Lithuania) in 1941-1944. I left the drawings buried in the earth as I felt that I had no hope of survival."
This post-war letter from the Dutch Red Cross is a response to the Teitz family’s request for information about their son Werner. June 19, 1946.Arthur “Werner” Teitz was a German Jewish boy with cerebral palsy. He lived in a Munich medical facility between 1931 and 1938. After Kristallnacht, his parents sent him to a medical facility in the Netherlands. Though his family was able to escape Europe in 1940, Werner was not. After Nazi Germany occupied the Netherlands, German authorities eventually sent…
Rudolph Daniel Sichel (b. 1915) left Germany in 1934 for England and then immigrated to the United States in 1936. His father, who had remained in Germany, was arrested during Kristallnacht, sent to Buchenwald for a couple of months, forced to sell his store at a loss, and immigrated to the United States with Rudolph's mother shortly after.Sichel joined the US Army in 1943, attending courses at the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie, MD. He landed on Utah Beach in July 1944 and was…
The SS compiled lists of Jews who were to be deported to ghettos, concentration camps, and killing centers. This document provides the names, birthdates, marital status, and addresses of Jews who were “evacuated” on November 20, 1941 from Germany to the Riga ghetto in German-occupied Latvia.
A Lithuanian safe conduct pass bearing a stamp for transit through Japan (from Chiune Sugihara), two Soviet transit visas, a Lithuanian stamp, a U.S. non-immigrant visa, and a U.S. entry stamp from Seattle, Washington. [From the USHMM special exhibition Flight and Rescue.]
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