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File Number : 1223

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : English

Ketuba (Jewish marriage contract) of Moshe Nute Szerszewski (Langrok) and Sima Ruchl Szarszewski née Gottswirth, drawn up in Katowice on August 21, 1945

Ketuba (Jewish marriage contract) of Moshe Nute Szerszewski (Langrok) and Sima Ruchl Szarszewski née Gottswirth, drawn up in Katowice on August 21, 1945 Also in the file: - history of Nute and Sima (Janina) Szerszewski in the Holocaust, by Haggai Hammer, December 8,2019 -- history of Nute Szerszewski (Langrok), born in Kraków: Internment in Auschwitz, working in the camp carpentry, camp liberated by Red Army forces, meeting Sima in Kraków, marrying in 1945, birth of son in 1946; immigration to Israel in 1948; adjustment to life in Israel; -- history of Sima (Janina) Szerszewski née Gottswirth, born in...

File Number : 1551

Type of Material : Documentary, כתובה

Language : Hebrew

Documents related to Yedzhiya (Zeltzer) Ostrovitzky, born in Bendzin, Poland in 1922, her husband Yaakov Ostrovitzky, born in Pinczow, Poland in 1913, and his sister Ana Nudelman, dated, 1946-1987 - Declaration given by Yedzhiya Zeltzer to a Notary in Bayreuth on 14/10/1946. In the declaration, she requests the arrangement of her civilian status in preparation for her marriage to Yaakov Ostrovitzky. This was because Yedzhiya's parents were married in a Jewish religious ceremony and not in a civil marriage ceremony, such that Yedzhiya was registered as a bastard child and was given her mother's last name...

File Number : 1692

Type of Material : Administrative Documentation, Letter, Official Documentation, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Pre-war personal documentation of the Kohn and Skala families of Maków

Pre-war personal documentation of the Kohn and Skala families of Maków Included in the file: - Polish passport of Abram Boas Kohn of Maków (b. 1877 in Rypin), issued in Maków on May 5, 1927, imprinted with a visa from the American Consulate in Warsaw on August 1, 1927; - re-immigration card (Karta rejestracyjna reemigracyjna) of Estera Kohn; - invitation to the wedding of Malka Najman and Itzchak Skala in Warsaw, February 16, 1936; - Jewish New Year (1936/37) greeting card from Abram Skala and family in Maków. Submitter’s remarks: Moris Kohn (the submitter’s father) reached the United...

File Number : 1734

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Invitation

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Memoirs written by Ruth Weiss entitled "I was there", regarding her experiences in Prague, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Neugaul, Bergen Belsen and more

Memoirs written by Ruth Weiss entitled "I was there", regarding her experiences in Prague, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Neugaul, Bergen Belsen and more Transfer to Prague; imposition of restrictions on the Jews; dismissal of her father from his job because he was Jewish; wearing a yellow badge; distribution of special food vouchers for Jews; work in different places thanks to her Slavic appearance and knowledge of the German language; transfer to Theresienstadt; life in Theresienstadt; hunger; work in the lice disinfection and treatment station; transfer of the children from Bialystok (who were...

File Number : 10037

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Work booklet of Alicia David, issued in Stuttgart in 1944; postcards with the stamp mark of Lawyer Dr. Julijan Dawid; Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate) of Yitzhak and Lea Cohen, issued in the Wasseralfingen DP camp, 1948 - Work booklet of Alicia David, born in Stryj, Poland on 30/04/1927, issued in Stuttgart on 07/02/1944; - Blank postcards with the stamp mark of Lawyer Dr. Julijan Dawid, from the village of Stryj; - Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate) of Yitzhak and Lea Cohen, issued in the Wasseralfingen DP camp on 27/05/1948; Comments by the submitter of the material (Shoshana Ofir): The...

File Number : 803

Type of Material : Postcard, כתובה, Work Permit

Language : English, German, Aramaic

Letters sent between the Adelaar and Schneider families in Amsterdam, Deventer and Enschede, 1944-1945, and documentation regarding the families

Letters sent between the Adelaar and Schneider families in Amsterdam, Deventer and Enschede, 1944-1945, and documentation regarding the families Letters related to the Adelaar family (scan): - Letters written to her sister Emilie (Adelaar) Schneider and her husband Karl Schneider during their stay in a hiding place in Deventer, sent by Louise Adelaar during her stay in Enschede while using a false identity, 07/03/1944-07/03/1945; - Letter written by Emilie Schneider during her stay with her husband Karl Schneider in a hiding place in Deventer, and sent to her sister Louise Adelaar during her stay in...

File Number : 3330

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Personal Documents, Letter, Certification, Passport, Membership Cards, Memoirs, Identity Card

Language : Dutch

Two letters sent by Yekutiel Stricker and his wife Gitel in Lwow, to their daughter Gena, born in Lwow, Poland in 1912 (she made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1935); letters sent in 1939

Two letters sent by Yekutiel Stricker and his wife Gitel in Lwow, to their daughter Gena, born in Lwow, Poland in 1912 (she made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1935); letters sent in 1939 - Letter sent by Yekutiel Stricker and his wife Gitel in Lwow to their daughter Gena in Eretz Israel on 13/07/1939, including insistent pleadings regarding their daughter's marriage (apparently, a religious wedding); - Letter sent by Yekutiel Stricker and his wife Gitel in Lwow to their daughter Gena in Eretz Israel on 08/08/1939, including mainly expression of interest in their granddaughter Rina.

File Number : 2696

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Yiddish