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Letters by Prisoner of Zion Volf Rishal, replies by Ehrenburg's secretary, and an appeal by Ehrenburg to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for a pardon, and their refusal to grant a pardon Letters by Prisoner of Zion Volf Rishal, who was convicted twice, for: 1) Supporting the establishment of the State of Israel; 2) Distributing Israeli newspapers; Rishal's letters include information about official state antisemitism in the Soviet Union, conditions of imprisonment of inmates in Soviet camps, and a request for help; Replies by Ehrenburg's secretary; Appeal by Ehrenburg to the...

File Number : 93

Type of Material : Letter, Complaint

Language : Russian

Correspondence between Prisoner of Zion Gedaliy Pecherskiy who was found guilty of anti-Soviet activities and members of his family and Ilya Ehrenburg, 1960-1966

Correspondence between Prisoner of Zion Gedaliy Pecherskiy who was found guilty of anti-Soviet activities and members of his family and Ilya Ehrenburg, 1960-1966 - In his first letters, Gedaliy Pecherskiy turns to Ilya Ehrenburg on the matter of the unwillingness of the Kiev authorities to establish a monument in memory of the Jews who were murdered in Babiy Yar, suggesting that money be collected for the establishment of a monument there; Pecherskiy expresses his willingness to contribute an amount from his own money; in his reply Ilya Ehrenberg agrees with Mr. Pecherskiy regarding the need for the...

File Number : 65

Type of Material : Letter, Certification

Language : Russian

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Confirmations regarding the death of Solomon Graber and his son Yosef Graber, born in Riga, in the prison in Omsk, 1943, and a letter by David Graber regarding the fate of his father and brother

Confirmations regarding the death of Solomon Graber and his son Yosef Graber, born in Riga, in the prison in Omsk, 1943, and a letter by David Graber regarding the fate of his father and brother The file includes: - Confirmation regarding the cancellation of charges against Solomon Graber and Yosef Graber, 1965; - Letter written by David Graber, 02 January 2010, including the testimony of a man who was in prison with Solomon Graber and Yosef Graber, regarding the reason for their detention; they had been speaking among themselves in Yiddish regarding the situation in Eretz Israel, and were informed on...

File Number : 366

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Certification

Language : Hebrew, Russian

Testimony of Golda (Rudashevsky) Messeg, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1930, regarding her experiences in Dzhizak, Vilna and Siberia

Testimony of Golda (Rudashevsky) Messeg, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1930, regarding her experiences in Dzhizak, Vilna and Siberia Childhood. Occupation of Lithuania by the Red Army, 1940, German Army air-raids; hints to her father about his expected detention; escape in a wagon in the direction of Latvia; crossing the border to the Soviet Union; travel on a freight train via Samarkand and Tashkent; arrival at Dzhizak, Uzbekistan; hunger; her mother's labor in a kolkhoz; demand from the authorities for the return of her father for work, January 1945. Return to Vilna; activities of her father in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tova (Ruvman) Perlstein, born in Kupel, Ukraine, 1912, regarding her experiences in Kupel and Tashkent

Testimony of Tova (Ruvman) Perlstein, born in Kupel, Ukraine, 1912, regarding her experiences in Kupel and Tashkent Life before the war; Jewish institutions and organizations; Zionist activities in the 1930s; life in Proskurov. German occupation; escape to Tashkent; camp life; liberation. Move to Pinsk, 1947; starts a family; life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1959; activities in a Prisoner of Zion organization.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Uri Engel, born in Radauc, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto

Testimony of Uri Engel, born in Radauc, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto Life before the war. Soviet occupaiton; deterioration of the economic situation; German occupation; life in the Cernauti Ghetto; transfer to the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto; ghetto life and typhus; liberation, 1944. Drafted into the Red Army; service in intelligence corps in Romania, Hungary, Austria and Czechoslovakia until 1946. Stood on trial for treason in the Soviet Union; sentenced to ten years in prison and hard labor in Vorkuta; camp life including and hard...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Ladislau Sonnenwirth, born in Nagy Varad, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Nagy Varad Ghetto, Auschwitz, clearing rubble in the Warsaw Ghetto, escape from the killing pit, wanderings and forced labor in Fertorakas camp

Testimony of Arie Ladislau Sonnenwirth, born in Nagy Varad, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Nagy Varad Ghetto, Auschwitz, clearing rubble from the former Warsaw Ghetto, and as a forced laborer Family life under Hungarian rule. Drafted with his father to forced labor in the area; German occupation, 19 March 1944; deportation to Nagy Varad Ghetto; daily life; deportation in cattle cars to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944; entry with his father to the Gypsy camp; transport 10 days later to clear rubble in the former Warsaw Ghetto; transport for execution; separation from his father by the killing pit;...

File Number : 11809

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Helena (Bogner) Blam, born in Stryj, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences as a non-Jewish woman in Boryslaw and a camp near Lwow

Testimony of Helena (Bogner) Blam, born in Stryj, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences as a non-Jewish woman in Boryslaw and a camp near Lwow Life under Soviet occupation, 1939-1941; German occupation, summer 1941; hiding of two Russian workers in a kerosene factory; supplying food to Jewish friends during the early days of the occupation; hiding Jews during "Aktions", 1942 -1943; building a permanent hiding place in the family's apartment; murder of her step-father by Ukrainian workers for helping Jews; contacts with inmates in Boryslaw camp; behaviour of the Jewish Kapo Walek Eisenstein; arrest with her...

File Number : 1815

Type of Material : Testimony, Survey, Photograph

Language : Polish

Testimony of Mosze Blam, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1899, regarding his experiences as an expert worker in the Boryslaw mines, Auschwitz, Swietochlowice and Gusen

Testimony of Mosze Blam, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1899, regarding his experiences as an expert worker in the Boryslaw mines, Auschwitz, Swietochlowice and Gusen Soviet occupation, September 1939; labor as an expert worker in the Boryslaw mines; participation in an NKVD brigade acting against sabotage in the mines; German occupation; deportation of the Jews to the ghetto; deportation of Jewish miners to a camp outside the ghetto; contacts with an underground unit; liquidation of the ghetto and murder of his children, 1944; German Army retreat; transfer with the Jewish workers to Auschwitz; transfer to...

File Number : 1814

Type of Material : Testimony, Photograph, Survey

Language : Polish

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