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Documents related to Alfred Fredi Cohen, born in Trikala, Greece in 1909, and his family members, and to Greek Jewry during the Holocaust period and the struggle against antisemitism, 1941-1991 Included among the documents: - Story of the rescue of members of the Cohen family; three of the sons escaped to Egypt, where they made connections with the Greek Government in Exile; their mother Rachel, her daughter Thilda and one son did not succeed in arriving to Egypt, but they found shelter in the palace of Princess Alice (who was later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations); - Copies of interviews...

File Number : 473

Type of Material : Manifesto, Survey Report, Letter, Research Article

Language : Hebrew, French, English, Greek

Documents related to the witness Ethel (Zilberman) Ratz, later Reed, born in Humniska, Poland in 1920, and her husband Emil Ratz, later Reed, born in Lesko, Poland in 1907, from 1936-2012 - Press articles published in the United States and Israel regarding Eda Ratz-Reid's search for her sister Zosia Zissel, born in Sanok. She lost contact with her sister in 1942 and located her in Montreal, Canada in 1964; - Letter from the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel dated 07 June 1963. The letter alleges that Zissel Zilberman, one of the passengers on the illegal immigrant ship Hannah Szenes that ran aground, almost...

File Number : 1666

Type of Material : List, Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Letter, Marriage Certificate, Article, Article, Administrative Documentation

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German, Yiddish

Letters and other documents pertaining to the brothers Avrum Moses-Moss, born in Arad, Romania, 1926, and Phillip Pinchas Pinky Moses, born in Arad, Romania, 1927, the sons of Rabbi Heinrich Yosef Moses, born in Deutschkreutz, Austria, who arrived in England on the Kindertransport and were absorbed by the Cohen and Robinson families in Sunderland, 1938-2008 - Letter from Avrum Moss from Stafford, England, dated 06 June 1999, to Hannah, the daughter of the Cohen family, with a description of his experiences and those of his father, brother and younger sister, Sara; included are the German invasion of Austria...

File Number : 195

Type of Material : Correspondence, Letter, Telegram

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Memoirs of Chaya (Kaplan), born in Wiazyn, Poland, regarding the experiences of the members of her family in Wiazyn and with the partisans in the forests

Memoirs of Chaya (Kaplan), born in Wiazyn, Poland, regarding the experiences of the members of her family in Wiazyn and with the partisans in the forests - Eulogy written by Chaya (Kaplan), born in Wiazyn, in memory of her sister Miriam (Kaplan), born in Wiazyn, including the experiences of the members of the family during the Holocaust: - Chaya's parents were Chaim Moshe and Rashe Kaplan, who were the parents of 10 children, two of whom died during their childhood; they lived in Wiazyn; aliya of Chaya's sister Batya to Eretz Israel, 1925; aliya of Chaya's sister Miriam to Eretz Israel, 1932; aliya of...

File Number : 9674

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Postcards sent by Ármin Lazarovits from captivity in the Soviet Union to family relatives in Hungary through the Soviet Red Cross in 1946; correspondence between Ignáczné Kreismann in Matolcs and her daughter Aranka Kreismann in Palestine, 1938-1943 The Lazarovits family: - Undated postcard sent by Ármin Lazarovits from captivity in the Soviet Union to the local authority in Hőgyész through the Soviet Red Cross with the request that his family be notified that he has been taken captive; - Undated postcard sent by Ármin Lazarovits from captivity in the Soviet Union to his brother-in-law Andor Schwarcz in...

File Number : 3771

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Musical Notes, Postcard, Letter, Envelope, Invitation, Red Cross Letter, Poem/song

Language : Russian, German, Hungarian

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File Number : 346

Type of Material : Speech

Language : Hebrew