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Testimony

File Number : 13448

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation and letters of the Lesegeld family from Dunajska Streda and the Moses family from Mattersburg before the war

Personal documentation and letters of the Lesegeld family from Dunajska Streda and the Moses family from Mattersburg before the war The file also includes: A letter written by the Mizrachi movement from Mattersburg to the Zionist Council in Vienna, 08 July 1934; Comments of Jehudit Moses on the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day.

File Number : 1720

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter

Language : Slovak, German, Hungarian

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למתרגמות - נעשתה פניה בעניין חסידי אומות.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jochanan Twersky, born in Vienna, Austria, 1925, regarding his experiences in Vienna on Kristallnacht, in Belgium and England

Testimony

Testimony of Jochanan Twersky, born in Vienna, Austria, 1925, regarding his experiences in Vienna on Kristallnacht, in Belgium and England Raised in a modern Orthodox family; his father served as President of Hamizrachi in Vienna and head of the synagogue [prayer house] "Beit Yaakov Yosef"; death of his father, 1931; Kristallnacht; leaving Vienna with the help of a female smuggler, June, 1939; move to Belgium for two weeks. Escape to England; receiving an Affidavit from Rabbi Twersky and arrival in London; the "Blitz"; evacuation to a village within the framework of Rabbi Dr. Sheinfeld's Jewish schools;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Stefania (Lerner) Lewinzon, born in Krasnobrod, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Krasnobrod Ghetto, a forest and in hiding using a false identity while hidden by Poles Life before the war; receives knowledge regarding the situation of Jews in Germany; activities in Zionist youth organizations. Outbreak of the war; burning of Krasnobrod; escape to a forest; escape back to Krasnobrod; Krasnobrod Ghetto life including being informed on regarding hidden property; robbery of the property; selection of Judenrat people; selection of her father to the Judenrat; deportation of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam (Lilienfeld) Weiss, born in Wien, Austria, 1928, regarding the Anschluss and her transport to England via Kindertransport, March 1939

Family background; her father was active in the Zionist community; comfortable life; studies at a public school; studies at a Jewish school; good relations with neighbors; Anschluss, 1938; an apartment that became vacant in the building was converted into a Nazi headquarters; her parents’ efforts to leave Austria; living under Nazi rule for about a year; sent with her younger sister on a Kindertransport by train to the Netherlands, March 1939; sailing to England; arrival at the home of a religious Jewish family in London; discomfort; attends school. Outbreak of the war, 1939; the Blitz; escape with her...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zalman Ribak, born in Wegrow, Poland, 1920, regarding his escape to the east and deportation to the gulag

Testimony

Testimony of Zalman Ribak, born in Wegrow, Poland, 1920, regarding his escape to the east and deportation to the gulag Life in a wealthy home; move to the town of Czyżew, 1921; loss of wealth and move to Sokołów, 1927; leaving the parental home and move to Warsaw, 1935. Outbreak of the war and return to the family home in Wegrow, September 1939; German occupation of Wegrow, and abuse of the Jews, September 1939; move to Sokołów; entry of the Soviets for one week and return of the Germans, October 1939; escape to the east; illegal crossing of the border, and arrival at Białystok, October 1939; move to...

File Number : 14044

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation belonging to Erich Feier, 1906-1945

Documentation belonging to Erich Feier, 1906-1945 Letters and postcards: - Letter sent to Erich Feier by Youth Aliyah in Vienna, 11 August 1939; - Letters sent to Erich Feier in Eretz Israel by his father in Shanghai, 1940-1941; - Postcard sent by Erich Feier [?] from the Mikveh Israel Agricultural School [to?] Lotte Schneider in Benyamina, 19 January 1942; - Postcard sent by Ephraim Feier from the Mikveh Israel Agricultural School to Lotte Schneider in Benyamina, 27 January 1942; - Red Cross letter sent by Rosa Sara Feier in Vienna to her son Erich Feier in Eretz Israel, 28 January 1942,...

File Number : 2685

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, Personal Documents, Red Cross Letter, Envelope

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Hungarian

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