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Postcards and a letter sent by Ignacy Zaks, from the Warsaw Ghetto to his family members in Lorba, the Soviet Union, 1941

Postcards and a letter sent by Ignacy Zaks, from the Warsaw Ghetto to his family members in Lorba, the Soviet Union, 1941 Note: Ignacy Zaks was born in Warsaw, Poland, 1905 and Maria (Tyrmond) Zaks was born in Warsaw, 1910; they were married in Warsaw (circa), 1934; they were deported to the Warsaw Ghetto during the war, along with their parents and their daughter Elizabet who was born, 1938; Ignacy Zaks sent letters and a postcard from the Warsaw Ghetto to his siblings who had escaped to the Soviet Union; five postcards and one letter remain, from this correspondence; Elizabet was smuggled to a Christian...

File Number : 2067

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard

Language : Polish

List of Jews from Blonie, Poland who were deported to the Warsaw Ghetto, prepared in 1949

File Number : 1454

Type of Material : List of Deportees

Language : Polish

Collection of letters from M. Berman to Ilya Ehrenburg, to the editor of the "Kommunist" newspaper, and to the secretary of the Veterans Committee in the Soviet Union, regarding national policy and the attitude toward the problem of the Jews in the Soviet Union, in comparison with Poland Collection of letters from M. Berman to Ilya Ehrenburg, to Fyodor Konstantinov - the chief editor of the "Kommunist" newspaper, and to Aleksey Maresyev - the secretary of the Veterans Committee in the Soviet Union, regarding national policy and the attitude toward the problem of the Jews in the Soviet Union, in comparison...

File Number : 13

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Documentation of B. Buterman, including the experiences of the physician Miryam B. in Warsaw, Lwow and in the Rowne district

Documentation of B. Buterman, including the experiences of the physician Miryam B. in Warsaw, Lwow and in the Rowne district Escape by Miryam B. from the "Aktion" in the Warsaw Ghetto, summer 1942; in hiding while using a false identity, and work in a hospital in Warsaw outside the ghetto; move to Lwow, summer 1943 and work in a German hospital in Lwow for a short while until her escape to a forest, to a Soviet partisans detachment active in the Rowne district; her service in the partisans detachment as a physician and a fighter.

File Number : 34

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Letter sent from the Warsaw Ghetto by Klara Sarah Shlezinger and her husband, Jakob Deutsch, to Klara's sister in Shanghai, China, 19 August 1941

Letter sent from the Warsaw Ghetto by Klara Sarah Shlezinger and her husband, Jakob Deutsch, to Klara's sister in Shanghai, China, 19 August 1941 Klara and her husband, Jakob, perished in the Holocaust (the date and place are unknown). Names mentioned in the letter: Frau Ehrmann, Frieda Lowenthal and Hedwig Meyer from Lautenberg.

File Number : 1765

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Letters and postcards received by Luba Czarny from Ravensburg from her sister Bella Silbermintz and other family members in Warsaw, 1941-1942, and letters sent by Blanka Gutowska to Czarny in Germany and Canada, 1945-1948, regarding Gutowska's experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto on the Aryan side until 24 July 1942 Included in the file: - Translation of the letters and postcards to English; - Announcements published in the "Nowy Kurjer Warszawsk" newspaper, 03 August 1940.

File Number : 1693

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Letter

Language : Polish

Letter sent by the Kovalski family in the Warsaw Ghetto to their cousin [?] in New York with the help of a woman in Berlin, 22 March 1941

Letter sent by the Kovalski family in the Warsaw Ghetto to their cousin [?] in New York with the help of a woman in Berlin, 22 March 1941 Comments by Zeev Kovalski, the submitter of the material: The letter was sent from the Warsaw Ghetto to a woman in Germany for fear that the letter would not be sent directly to New York from the ghetto, and this woman sent the letter to the address listed; Excerpt from the letter, as translated by Zeev Kovalski, "Our dear cousin, I write you requesting and pleading to help our brother whom we haven't seen in two years already. We are extremely anxious as to his fate...

File Number : 1645

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish

Last letter from Chana Zalcberg in Warsaw to her sister Malvine Zalcberg in New York regarding emigration to the United States, 05 June 1941

Last letter from Chana Zalcberg in Warsaw to her sister Malvine Zalcberg in New York regarding emigration to the United States, 05 June 1941 In the letter, Chana Zalcberg requests of her sister and her husband to prepare all the necessary documents that would enable her and her family to emigrate to the United States; the letter contains personal details regarding her family including those of her husband, Jakob M. and two sons, Jerzy and Waclow; Waclow is the sole survivor of the family.

File Number : 1509

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English, German

Testimony of Ester (Vaserman) Socher, born in Glowaczow, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, being hidden by a Christian woman and during wanderings

Testimony

Testimony of Ester (Vaserman) Socher, born in Glowaczow, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, being hidden by a Christian woman and during wanderings Childhood in a village, most of whose residents are Jewish; from a religious family with hardships; move to be with her brother in Warsaw, 1939. Outbreak of the war; life in Warsaw and afterwards in the small ghetto; work sewing buttonholes in a sewing workshop that produced uniforms; arrival of her parents; ghetto life; taking of family members during an "Aktion", and being left with her brother; her brother arranges their leaving...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rita (Dvorman) Gotman, born in Lwow, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Lwow, the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding outside the ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Rita (Dvorman) Gotman, born in Lwow, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Lwow, the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding outside the ghetto Life before the war; assimilated well-to-do family; identifies with Eretz Israel. Outbreak of the war; rejection of help from the Romanian consul; Soviet occupation; restrictions on Jewish businesses; sending of parcels to Siberia; arrest and murder of her father; temporary living quarters at their maid's who is originally from Germany; escape to Warsaw; difficulties in entering the sealed ghetto; ghetto life; attends a school for converted...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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