Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

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File Number : 9147

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Speech

Language : Yiddish

Interview with Shmuel Kalish regarding the experiences of his family in Michalovce, deportation to Auschwitz and death marches to Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald

Interview with Shmuel Kalish regarding the experiences of his family in Michalovce, deportation to Auschwitz and death marches to Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald - Interview with Shmuel Kalish, born in Michalovce, 1930, regarding the experiences of his family during the Holocaust; edited by Radio Eshel HaNasi at the Eshel HaNasi Agricultural School marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, 16 April 1996 (only the first part of the interview was handed over); - Shmuel Kalish's father owned a brick factory in Michalovce; anti-Jewish legislation in Michalovce; transfer of ownership of the family business to a non-Jew;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Obituary of Henry Hopfinger including Henry's memoirs regarding the experiences of his family in Vienna, the deportation of his parents and his transfer to England as part of the Kindertransport

Obituary of Henry Hopfinger including Henry's memoirs regarding the experiences of his family in Vienna, the deportation of his parents and his transfer to England as part of the Kindertransport - Obituary of Henry Hopfinger, born in Drohobicz, 1924, containing eulogies delivered by his nephew Peter Hopfinger and by Geoffrey Jackson, the former President of the Rotary Club in Coventry, regarding Henry's experiences during the Holocaust, 14 February 2014; - About the Hopfinger family: Henry's parents were Bernard and Bertha Hopfinger; he had a brother Kurt; move of the family to Vienna in 1927; arrest of...

File Number : 8950

Type of Material : Memoirs, Announcement

Language : English

Memoirs of Shoshana (Mizan) Meiri and her sister [Edna Esperansa (Mizan) Dajin / Dayan], regarding their experiences in Athens, including orphanhood and life in hiding in Athens, aliya to Eretz Israel, and documents related to Shoshana Meiri Memoirs related to the Mizan family: - Memoirs of Edna Esperansa (Mizan) Dajin / Dayan, born in Athens in 1927, and her sister Shoshana Rosa (Mizan) Meiri, born in Athens on 06/10/1933, regarding their family's experiences during the Holocaust; (from the book written by Rosa's husband David Meiri, in Rishon le Zion); - Edna and Shoshana's childhood in Athens;...

File Number : 9373

Type of Material : Identity Card, Letter, Medical Documentation, Genealogy, Documentary, Memorial List of Murdered Persons, Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, English

Article with a transcript of an interview with Aviva Lichtenstern from Kosice, regarding her liberation from Geislingen camp and her aliya to Eretz Israel, and an article about the Jews of Ostrava

Article with a transcript of an interview with Aviva Lichtenstern from Kosice, regarding her liberation from Geislingen camp and her aliya to Eretz Israel, and an article about the Jews of Ostrava - the article "Zidě a Ostrava" published on 31 May 1991 in the Czech newspaper "Moravskoslezský večerník" regarding the Jews of Ostrava; - the article "I thought: 'I'm free', but I wasn't happy" by Shir Ganor, published on 4 May 2005 in Maariv newspaper. The article includes a transcript of an interview with Aviva Lichtenstern from Kosice regarding her release from the camp and her aliya to Eretz Israel in 1946...

File Number : 9119

Type of Material : Internet Material, Interview(s), Article

Language : Hebrew, Czech

The memoirs of Ita Iehuda from Krzywcza regarding the murder of Brauna and Yosef from the village of Babice during the Holocaust, and a poem by Ita

The memoirs of Ita Iehuda from Krzywcza regarding the murder of Brauna and Yosef from the village of Babice during the Holocaust, and a poem by Ita - memoirs of Ita Iehuda from Krzywcza regarding the murder of Brauna and Yosef from the village of Babice during the Holocaust, written on 22 March 2006: The arrival of Brauna and Yosef from the village of Babice to Krzywcza every holiday in order to pray in the town's synagogue; the murder of Brauna and Yosef in Babice; Ita's father's journey to Babice in order to give Brauna and Yosef a Jewish burial; a fateful chess game that Ita's father played against the...

File Number : 8901

Type of Material : Memoirs, Poem/song

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Avraham Abram Romek Rozensztajn, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Hirschberg camp, Buchenwald camp and in DP camps, and the memoirs of Bluma Mutzia (Goldstein) Rozensztajn, born in Libiaz Wielki, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Neusalz camp, Flosenburg and in DP camps Memoirs of Avraham Romek Rozensztajn, written in Ness Ziona, 15/05/2004: Life in Sosnowiec, including attending a Jewish school; German Army occupation of Poland; detention of his father by the Germans, 1939; release of his father; anti-Jewish legislation; establishment of the Sosnowiec...

File Number : 8789

Type of Material : Personal Records, Memoirs, Speech, Poem/song

Language : Hebrew, English, German