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Last postcard sent by Betka Guttmann from Kosice to her daughter Gabriela Ella Schwarcz, 1944, actual and false documents of Gabriela and Ernest Schwarcz, and memoirs of Lea (Guttmann) Schwarcz, born in Bardejov, Slovakia, 1914, regarding her experiences during the war Included in the file: - Postcard sent to Gabriela Ella Guttmann in Kosice, 04/02/1935; - Last postcard sent by Betka Guttmann to her daughter Ella Schwarcz, 22/05/1944; the postcard was sent from Kosice to Secovce and was received by Ella only at the end of the war (it was written in German and is translated to Hebrew); - Wedding...

File Number : 1893

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Postcard, Memoirs

Language : Slovak, Hebrew, German

Testimony of Yeshayahu Horovitz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and Czestochowa camp

Testimony

Testimony of Yeshayahu Horovitz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and Czestochowa camp Life in a hasidic family; his father owns a stationery, sewing accessories and cosmetic store; membership in the Hashomer Hadati Zionist movement, 1935; details about the Zionist youth organizations and the relationships between Brit Hashmonaim, Gordonia, Freiheit and Hamizrachi; move to the Mariszin farm in the ghetto for aliya training; disbanding of the aliya training by the Germans out of fear a spark of rebellion would grow among the young people in training, February 1941;...

File Number : 8690

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Alexander Finsterbush, born in Lwów, Poland in 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Lwów, in the Siberia area, in Alma Ata and in Teheran, and his aliya to Eretz Israel in 1943 His childhood in Lwów with his family; his father is a physician in a Jewish hospital and a partner in the Chashmonaim movement; draft of his father into the Polish Army, 1939; his father is taken captive by the Red Army; deportation to the east of the Soviet Union on a train with his mother, 1940; labor at a Kolkhoz; release and move to the Siberia area, 1941; release of his father, and his draft into the Anders...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew