Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

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Documentation containing the memoirs of Jerzy Georges Tran, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1922, who emigrated to Belgium together with his family, 1927, and a survey report and articles written by Tran regarding the Holocaust and antisemitism, 1941-1998 - Memoirs of Jerzy Georges Tran: Sharp criticism of the Association des Juifs de Belgique (AJB - Jewish Belgian Association); the demeaning treatment Tran received from Fanny Albert, the secretary, and later the wife of Freddy Blum, one of the heads of the AJB; the Tran family being hidden by Jeanne Ruppol (later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations) in...

File Number : 153

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

Language : French

Memoirs of Barukh Rozenberg, regarding his experiences in Antwerp, his escape via France to Cuba with his family and his emigration to New York

Memoirs of Barukh Rozenberg, regarding his experiences in Antwerp, his escape via France to Cuba with his family and his emigration to New York Life in Belgium including an attempt to escape from Belgium to France, May 1940; life in Antwerp until 1941; escape via France to Cuba with his family; emigration to New York with his family; burial of Barukh Rozenberg and his wife Ester in the Netanya area; Note: translation of the memoirs from Yiddish to English, by his son Shmuel Shoshan.

File Number : 8286

Type of Material : Photograph, Memoirs

Language : English

Documentation regarding the Cohen family from Rhodes

Documentation regarding the Cohen family from Rhodes Medical certificates for emigration to the Congo and to Belgium; a photograph and a page of testimony for Hanula Cohen were handed in to the Hall of Names.

File Number : 92

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Italian, French

Testimony of Ralf Joseph Strausberg, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gleiwitz camp, Blechhammer and in hiding in a forest

Testimony

Testimony of Ralf Joseph Strausberg, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gleiwitz camp, Blechhammer and in hiding in a forest Life before the war; religious family with hardships; attends Yavneh school; Beitar and Hashomer Hatzair activities. German occupation, 1939; restrictions on the Jews; confiscation of property; yellow badge; restrictions on movement; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, 1940; ghetto life including forced labor in construction; "Aktions" and in hiding in an attic in a large container; Judenrat activities under the leadership of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Sonia Suzanne (Leibel) Leroy Eshel, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences in Tarnow, Brussels and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Sonia Suzanne (Leibel) Leroy Eshel, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences in Tarnow, Brussels and in hiding Displays of antisemitism; non-Zionist family; emigration to Belgium, 1938; witness attends school in French. Attempt to escape to France; return to Belgium; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; ban on studies; yellow badge; curfew; deportation of her parents to Malines; "Aktion"; deportation of her parents, 1942; her two sisters are placed in an orphanage; move of her grandmother to an old age home, by the Queen Mother; deportation of her sisters and two aunts...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

UNRRA Offices announcement regarding the possibility of registration for work in the coal mines in Belgium at the Emigration Office

File Number : 494

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : Yiddish

Official and personal documentation of Josef Wallisch, born in Vienna, 1922-1941

Official and personal documentation of Josef Wallisch, born in Vienna, 1922-1941 - Document from the Vienna municipality confirming the legal residency of Josef Wallisch in the city of Vienna, 07 January 1929 (p. 1); - Student card from the Law Faculty at the University of Vienna in the name of Josef Wallisch (p. 2-30); - Permit from the finance department at the Vienna municipality confirming that Josef Wallisch does not owe it any taxes, 24 November 1938 (p. 31); - Permit confirming that Joseph Wallisch was counted [in the census] in Saint-Gilles (Brussels), 06 October 1939 (p. 32); - Food...

File Number : 58

Type of Material : Letter, Identity Card, Personal Documents, Official Documentation

Language : Spanish, French, German

Testimony of Emanuel Bergglas, born in Olszyn, Poland, 1900, regarding his experiences in the Shanghai Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Emanuel Bergglas, born in Olszyn, Poland, 1900, regarding his experiences in the Shanghai Ghetto Life before the war; move to Belgium; move to Shanghai with help from the JDC, 1933. Outbreak of the war, 1939; persecution by the Japanese authorities; deportation to the Shanghai Ghetto; US Army air-raids; liberation, 1945.

File Number : 2880

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Documentation regarding the rescue of Leah Shapira, born in 1941 and her brother Albert Shapira, born in 1942 in Belgium, during the Holocaust and their aliya with the Tachmoni orphanage to Eretz Israel - Paper entitled "Leah Nakash, a rescue story of two babies in Belgium", by Dafna Maor, written in 2008: Leah's parents, Shlomo Leib and Shoshana Shapira, emigrated with their parents from Poland to Belgium, and married in Belgium; Shlomo Leib Shapira's family emigrated from Poland to Belgium in 1921, due to the difficult economic situation in Poland; The birth of their eldest daughter Lillian (Leah) in...

File Number : 639

Type of Material : Project

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : French

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