Package Contents

An overview of which categories this Archival Package covers within the four groups of sources

Archives: 9


  • Archival Document: 6
  • Historical Photographs: 2
  • Historical Newspapers: 0
  • Letters and Postcards (text): 0
  • Postcards (pictures), Posters, Flyers, etc.: 0
  • Historical Films: 0
  • Artifacts: 1

Testimonies: 0


  • Survivor - Video testimony: 0
  • Survivor - Written testimony: 0
  • Survivor - Your Interview: 0
  • Witness - Video testimony: 0
  • Witness - Written testimony: 0
  • Witness - Our Interview: 0

Libraries (recommendation): 5


  • Literature (non-fiction) - Scientific literature recommendation: 2
  • Literature (non-fiction) - Biography recommendation: 0
  • Literature (non-fiction) - Textbooks and literature recommended for education: 3
  • Literature and Art - Poetry recommendation: 0
  • Literature and Art - Novels, Stories: 0
  • Literature and Art - Visual art, Music: 0

Field research recommendation: 0


  • Museum, Monument, Memorial, and other marked authentic sites - recommendation: 0
  • Authentic sites (not marked) - Sites where relevant historical events took place: 0
  • Authentic sites (not marked) - Sites where the events of your story took place - recommendation: 0
  • Visit/get in touch with the community/ association/ organization/ representatives of the victim group - recommendation: 0

Records

Archival Document

Search file Lotte Sondheimer

Central Tracing Bureau from 1946-1947. Search for the fate of Lotte Sondheimer with documents from Anneliese Gies (friend of Lotte Sondheimer), mayor of Gelnhausen, Soviet Control Council and Ministér des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre

Archival Document

Documentation of the Central Location Index (CLI) of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York

Search enquiry for Lotte Sondheimer from around 1947, Documentation of the Central Location Index (CLI) of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York

Archival Document

Deportation list Nr. 17: Transport from 10.8.1942 from Drancy to Auschwitz

Collection of deportation lists from the Drancy transit camp to the Auschwitz extermination and concentration camp from 5-12 August 1942 (Deportation list no. 15: Transport of 5 August 42 from Beaune-la Rolande to Auschwitz). Deportation list no. 16: Transport from 07/08/42 to Auschwitz (Pithivias group) Deportation list no. 17: Transport from 10/08/42 from Drancy to Auschwitz. Deportation list no. 18: Transport of 12.08.42 from Drancy to Auschwitz. Auschwitz). Lotte Sondheimers name is on Deportation list Nr. 17: Transport.

Archival Document

Extract from the deportation list with Lotte Sondheimer's name

Extract from the deportation list (deportation list no. 17: transport of 10.08.42 from Drancy to Auschwitz) with Lotte Sondheimer's name

Archival Document

Information on transport 17 from camp Gurs to Auschwitz Birkenau

Information on transport 17, train 901-12 from Gurs, camp, France to Auschwitz Birkenau, extermination camp, Poland on 05/08/1942

Literature (non-fiction) - Scientific literature recommendation

Hanke, Daniel: Die Geschichte der Juden in Gelnhausen 1933-1938.

Hanke, Daniel: Die Geschichte der Juden in Gelnhausen 1933-1938. In Verein für Hessische Geschichte und Landeskunde 2004, p. 267-322.

Literature (non-fiction) - Scientific literature recommendation

Mayer, Michael: Die französische Regierung packt die Judenfrage ohne Umschweife an.

Mayer, Michael: Die französische Regierung packt die Judenfrage ohne Umschweife an. Vichy-Frankreich, deutsche Besatzungsmacht und der Beginn der Judenpolitik im Sommer/Herbst 1940. In Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, vol. 58, no. 3, 2010, pp. 329-362.

Textbooks and literature recommended for education

Digital handbook „SPURENSUCHE GURS“

Digitales Handbuch „SPURENSUCHE GURS“. Ein Forschungsprojekt des Blauen Haus Breisach im Rahmen der Bundesförderung Jugend Erinnert.

Textbooks and literature recommended for education

Materials ‘It was a place where everything was grey ...’ The deportation of Jews from Baden to Gurs in October 1940’. Baden-Württemberg State Centre for Political Education

Materialien „Es war ein Ort, an dem alles grau war …“ Die Deportation der badischen Jüdinnen und Juden nach Gurs im Oktober 1940“. Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Baden-Württemberg.

Archival Document

Search enquiry for Lotte Sondhimer from 1944

Documentation of the Central Location Index (CLI) of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York

Historical Photographs

Probably photo of Lotte Sondheimer

Photo: Collection Karin and Christian Frick

Historical Photographs

Probably photo of Lotte Sondheimer

Photo: Collection Karin and Christian Frick

Artifacts

Poetry album from 1919

Poem of Lotte Sondheimer in her friend's poetry album from 1919 Source: Private archive Brigitte Nix