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Testimony of Zvi Hershel Jankelevic, born in Kaliny, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Kaliny, the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Hershel Jankelevic, born in Kaliny, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Kaliny, the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow and other places Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; reannexation to Hungary; restrictions on the Jews; forced labor by children; deportation to the Mateszalka Ghetto; Mateszalka Ghetto life including life in an old school building; obtaining of food; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including the murder of his parents; receives food from an anonymous female inmate for three months; transfer to forced labor; transfer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs and notes on prominent Bulgarian Jews, 1950-1970

Memoirs and notes on prominent Bulgarian Jews, 1950-1970 Memoirs and biographical notes on Albert Koen, Nissim Mevorah, Haim Pizanti, Vili Shpeter, L. Grinberg, Josef Djerasi, E.A. Ansky, Noel Calef, Valeri Petrov and Haim Bohor Arie.

File Number : 254

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Bulgarian, French, German

Official documentation of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Upper Austria, Linz

Official documentation of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Upper Austria, Linz Organizational file.

File Number : 22

Type of Material : Original Document, Official Documentation

Documentation from the Latvian State Archives, Latvia, 1940-1993

Previous names for the Archives were: LSA (Latvian State Archives); LNA LVA (Latvijas Nacionālā arhīva Latvijas Valsts arhīvs); CVORA (Centrālais Valsts Oktobra revolūcijas un sociālistiskās celtniecības arhīvs).On 01 January 1961 a decision was made to establish the Central State Archive of the October Revolution and Socialist Construction of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic; following Latvia's independence, this archive was renamed the State Archive of Latvia (SAL) on 01 May 1991. Under the State Administration Law of the Republic of Latvia, this system of Archives was reorganized and the National...

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Names of Evacuees, List of Evacuated Persons, List of Physicians, Administrative Documentation, List of Jewish Teachers, List of Artists, List of Jewish Children, Names, List of Jewish Refugees, List of Inmates

Language : Hebrew, Russian, German, Yiddish, Latvian

To be translated

File Number : 10121

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Articles by Bettina Goldberg regarding the fate of her family and of additional Jews from the Schleswig-Holstein district, Germany, 1913-1945

Articles by Bettina Goldberg regarding the fate of her family and of additional Jews from the Schleswig-Holstein district, Germany, 1913-1945 - Article written by Bettina Goldberg, titled, "Kleiner Kuhberg 25 - Feuergang 2", based on a lecture she gave at a memorial ceremony for victims of the Holocaust in Kiel, 27 January 2002: Attitude of the Jews of Kiel towards immigrants from Poland; persecution and deportation of the Jews of Schleswig-Holstein; the small synagogue on 2 Teuergang [Feuergang?] St. in Kiel; the experiences of Alter Weber who arrived in Kiel from Galicia, 1913, and purchased the house on...

File Number : 8890

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : German

Illustrated certificate sent by Lea Cabelli from Janina, Greece, to her daughter Haya (Cabelli) Solomon in Valona, Albania, on the occasion of a circumcision, 1884

Illustrated certificate sent by Lea Cabelli from Janina, Greece, to her daughter Haya (Cabelli) Solomon in Valona, Albania, on the occasion of a circumcision, 1884 Illustrated certificate from the synagogue in Janina, sent by Lea Cabelli to her daughter Haya (Cabelli) Solomon in Valona, to where Haya moved following her marriage to Iliya Yaakov Solomon; the certificate includes quotations from the Book of Psalms, the Priestly Blessing, and other quotations from the prayers and blessings for a newborn baby.

File Number : 384

Type of Material : Religious Literature and Prayers

Document containing the memoirs of John Horn, born in Berlin, Germany, 1927, regarding his experiences in Berlin, his transfer to England with the Kindertransport in 1939, his service as a British Army soldier in Egypt and more Life before the war; the son of traditional Jewish immigrants from Poland; outbreak of the Kristallnacht events; deportation of his father to Poland; transfer to England as part of the Kindertransport, 1939. Life in a foster home that was nontraditional, including difficulties in adjustment; attendance at the government school in Bedford; enlistment in the British Army; military...

File Number : 352

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Calendar written by Shimon Pinksfeld in Lwow, 1942

Calendar written by Shimon Pinksfeld in Lwow, 1942 Shimon Pinksfeld wrote the calendar for his two sons, Avraham and Mordechai, who escaped to the Soviet Union, so they would know the dates of the holidays; the appropriate Torah portions of the week are also indicated on the calendar.

File Number : 1671

Type of Material : Calendar

Language : Hebrew