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Mrs Ehrenberg lived with her first husband, an engineer holding a French diploma, Schlama Goldstein, and their little daughter (born 1938) in comfortable circumstances at Lodz, Poland (p.1, 10, 11, 13). Together with innumerable others, they fled from the approaching Germans in September 1933. The situation on the main road proved to be chaotic; she went back to Lodz through burning villages, under the fire of German planes shooting recklessly down at the fleeing people (p.1). Terror at Rawa-Mazowiezka; hostages (p.2); a pastor (Volksdeutscher) ordered the murdering to be stopped. After the occupation of Warsaw, the author's husband and brother returned to Lodz, too, but as the oppression was getting worse, fled to Bialystok (p.3-9), a Polish town, belonging to Russia at the time. When, in February 1940, the author's family had to move into the Ghetto Lodz she pretended to be a Polish Aryan and tried to join her husband with her little child (who soon died there) at Bialystok, occupied by the German troops since June 1941. Although she enjoyed the help of several people, the dangers of her illegal life finally proved too much for her nerves, and she went to live in the Ghetto, in August 1943. Dreams coming true (p.5-6, 9-10, 12). In view of the pending liquidation, her husband insisted that she left the Ghetto, and she used her Aryan document to get released; as she was leaving, the SS-officer who was guilty of the murder and [illegible]JÄ misery of innumerable human beings, gave her a kitten to save its life (p.6).
She then made several - interesting - attempts to rescue her husband (p.7), but could not save him from the worst. At last she was denounced by an informer, Czeslaw Bielilo (p.7, 13) and imprisoned at Bialystok, as, since November 1943, Jews who had escaped from the Ghetto were no longer shot dead on the spot, where they were discovered, but had to be taken to an annihilation camp.
Horrible transport to KZ Stutthof near Danzig. Selected and sent to Auschwitz (p.9-11). There she was an eye-witness of all kind of horrors and atrocities. With the aid of a Polish detainee, she would succeed to hide and rescue Jewish girls from the selections (p.11).
In October 1944, transfer to Bergen-Belsen (p.12-13). Typhoid. She would see Irma Gresse repeatedly but never saw her ill-treating a detainee (p.12). Liberation, on 15 April 1945. Visit to Lodz; of her large family only one aunt had survived.
At Konstanz, Bodensee (p.13), she made the acquaintance of Mr Hajim Ehrenberg, a survivor of Treblinka, whose wife and children had perished. She got married to him, in December 1946, and with the help of the Joint, they emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, in 1949, where they are both working successfully, after a son was born to them, in 1950. (p.13,14).
Some vague recollections of Theresienstadt by Gerda Siegel (born 1940), most probably the child of a half-Jewess married to a Jew, who was taken to Theresienstadt when she was three years old. She describes her life there, where she found a “K.Z. Omi” [Camp 'Granny'] who took care of her and hid the child for about a year in a cellar in order to protect her from one of the “transports” to Auschwitz.
The author, herself an expert in social welfare, was the wife of Geheimrat Sigmund Dormitzer, a leading lawyer in Nuernberg.
Restrictions especially rigorous (p.1) November Pogrom 1938 (p.1-2). Compulsory sale of houses (p.2). Special taxation (p.2). Emigration to Holland (March 1939); life there in various places until departure to Theresienstadt (April 1943); shock; husband, then 74 years old, died in the same year. Hospital: piteous equipment, no room; good nurses, nearly all transported to Auschwitz, in 1944 (p.3). Compulsive removals (p.4). 275 lectures (p.4).
In 1945, newcomers from KZ camps stormed the dispensary eating up the stock of vaseline, etc. (p.4). Post office: organisation, parcel post, corruptibility (p.5). Schooling prohibited (p.5).
This report includes details on the unfriendly attitude of Dutch Jews and functionaries towards those Jewish refugees who wanted to get back to Holland. Long and unpleasant journey; detention camp at Lynbroek (p.6-7).
The Jewess Margit Altar who together with her Jewish parents lived in Czechoslovakia, married in 1935 the Christian manufacturer Perschke in Vienna and, with him, set up home in Prague. Mrs Perschke’s sister was married to a Jew named Schlesinger. After this couple too had moved to Prague, Mr Perschke gave Mr Schlesinger a job in his manufacture of card boxes and artistic book covers.
In February 1942, Mrs Perschke’s mother, sister and brother-in-law were deported to Theresienstadt. Mr Perschke called by the Camp Commandant there and, from Inspector Wüstehoff, obtained the permission to set up in Theresienstadt a handicraft manufacture. He took the necessary machines, materials and furniture into the Camp, established the workrooms and succeeded in appointing his three relations, Mr and Mrs Schlesinger and his mother-in-law, there without making his relationship to them known. Perschke smuggled every week with the materials needed for the workshop food, letters and drugs for the prisoners into the Camp.
Mr Perschke was also instrumental in setting up several other trades in Theresienstadt, for example, jewellery, artificial flowers, weaving, etc. He succeeded in having the people working in these workshops exempted from transports to the East until, in December 1943, his mother-in-law was deported to Auschwitz where she died.
The new Camp Commandant Burger was informed that Perschke had given jobs to his relatives whereupon he ordered the workshops to be dissolved and forbid Mr Perschke to enter the Camp any more. Mr Perschke had to report to the Todt-Organisation for compulsory work. He was, however, not given any work, but was taken to a prison in Pankraz. There he was offered plenty of food and tobacco if he agreed to divorce his wife. Perschke refused.
He was taken first to the Theresienstadt fortress and then to the concentration camp Flossenbürg. When this was disbanded, he had to join the eight days’ death march which only 6,000 out of 15,000 prisoners survived. The survivors were liberated by an American tank army.
Mrs Perschke was arrested in Prague and, after a short stay at Pankraz prison, taken to Theresienstadt. There she was liberated by the Swiss Red Cross. Mr Perschke was seriously ill with dysentery in the Bavarian town Cham until his wife traced him there and took him to Prague.
Two letters from Hannover written by a former nurse of the Jewish Hospital in Breslau, concerning the horrible experiences of a number of deportees from Breslau.
The first letter is addressed to some former collegues of the Jewish Hospital; the other letter went to the Association Of Jewish Refugees in Great-Britain.
About 10,000 Jews were deported from Breslau. The writer of the letters was deported in a transport of 1,600 to Auschwitz (p. 1-4); 198 women reached the camp itself; eight weeks later, five of them were still alive, and two of them survived the War (p.4).
The first part of this report surveys briefly the status of the Jewish community in the Free State of Danzig, and the gradual Nazification of the Free State up to its incorporation in the Reich in 1939. Concerning the fate of the Danzig Jews during the war, the following main events are mentioned:
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