Part of South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation Collection
Bernhard and Rosette Schragenheim, with their son Julian, arrived in South Africa in 1934, to escape the Nazi regime in Germany. The bulk of the material is from Germany and has been divided up into numerous sections. The correspondence lists the ...
Part of South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation Collection
The collection comprises of travel documents for Leslie's paternal grandparents, Juluis and Fanny Stern, a ticket for the Italia in the name of Ilse Maier(his mother) as well as a letter from the South African Jewish Board of Deputies informi...
Part of South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation Collection
This Erich Brand Collection contains a conscription notice and five letters written on 8 November 1944 by Erich Brand, who was a soldier in the Wehrmacht. One of the letters Mr. Brand wrote is addressed to a friend, and the rest to various governm...
Part of South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation Collection
The Moshe Y Herzl Collection includes one yellow armband worn by Dr. Herczl while he was a prisoner at a labour camp in Hungary as well as four Star of David badges which Jews were compelled to wear under Nazi occupation. The collection also conta...
Part of South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation Collection
The collection contains three copies of a pamphlet for the first concert of the 10th season of the Cape Town Chamber Music Society. Helga Bassel, Tessa’s mother, is listed as a pianist, and her father, Hannes Uys, is listed as the Honorary Secreta...
Part of South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation Collection
Part of South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation Collection
The collection contains five photographs of an elderly, wheelchair-bound man at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel. The man, with a tattoo revealing the numbers ‘66568’, is evidently a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp, the only Nazi death c...
Part of South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation Collection
The collection comprises of one laminated newspaper clipping and seventeen black and white photographs taken at Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp after liberation by the British on 15 April 1945. When the British army entered the camp they found 60...
Part of South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation Collection
The collection consists of a speech given by the Polish ambassador in 1994 to commemorate the South African Air Force pilots’ efforts to help the Polish resistance in Warsaw during the war. This copy of the speech was sent to Ms Davies' husba...
Part of South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation Collection
The Solly Disner Collection contains documentation, publications and photographs pertaining to the life of Solly Disner, who immigrated to South Africa from Lithuania where he became a prominent sculptor. The picture postcards mostly reveal corres...