Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

Documents pertaining to the life of Janusz Korczak and his activities - Newsletter No. 9 of the Janusz Korczak Association in Israel, dated July 1983. Among other items in the issue: Report prepared by Binyamin Anolik regarding his visit in Poland; an excerpt from "A Journey in the Footsteps of Janusz Korczak" by Aza Ronen; report written by Klara Maayan regarding the world conference of pupils and educators who worked in the company of Janusz Korczak at the orphanage; excerpt from "My Trip to Poland", the diary of Zashke Arnon; announcements concerning the Association; - "A New Light on Janus Korczak",...

File Number : 175

Type of Material : Article, Newspaper Clippings, Poems/songs

Language : Chinese, Hebrew, Polish, French, English, German, Yiddish

Memoirs of Arie Frost, born in 1931 in Jarocin, Poland, about his experiences as a boy in hiding in Majdan, Jarocin, with the partisans in the Rozwadów area, etc.

Memoirs of Arie Frost, born in 1931 in Jarocin, Poland, about his experiences as a boy in hiding in Majdan, Jarocin, with the partisans in the Rozwadów area, etc. Father is a poultry merchant in Jarocin; mother dies in 1938; attending a public school and a cheder; German occupation ensues in 1939; restrictions imposed on Jews; induction for forced labor; Germans murder father in 1942; sisters, aged 5 and 13, escape to Pisznica and are taken to a camp (they disappear); life in hiding with a peasant named Cudzio in Majdan; working in a field with the peasant's children; searches for hiding Jews in villages...

File Number : 643

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Albert David Hamburger, a survivor of the Unknown Children transport from Westerbork, regarding his childhood and his efforts to obtain information regarding his early childhood

Memoirs of Albert David Hamburger, a survivor of the Unknown Children transport from Westerbork, regarding his childhood and his efforts to obtain information regarding his early childhood - "A. D. Hamburger - Early life story": the memoirs of Albert David Hamburger, born in Gorinchem in 1940, regarding his life after the Holocaust, his efforts to obtain information regarding his early childhood, and the discovery of his experiences in 1944-1945: Stay in hiding with his younger sister, hidden by Betty Bouten (maiden name: Bergen) in Amsterdam; arrest of Betty Bouten and the children on 28 June 1944 due to...

File Number : 11582

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Article, Certification, Appeal to the Authorities, Letter, Official Documentation, Personal Documents, Memoirs, List of Persecuted Persons

Language : Czech, French, English, Dutch, German

Letter from Marga Wachsmann, 1940; documentation regarding the experiences of her son Herbert Wachsmann in various educational institutions in the Netherlands in the 1940s and 1950s

Letter from Marga Wachsmann, 1940; documentation regarding the experiences of her son Herbert Wachsmann in various educational institutions in the Netherlands in the 1940s and 1950s - Letter sent by Marga Wachsmann in Rotterdam to Sister Tates, 03 June 1940, about her intention to hand over her soon to be born child to a children's home in Hillegersberg; - Documentation regarding the fate of Sara Marga Wachsmann during the Holocaust; - Documentation regarding the experiences of Herbert Wachsman during the Holocaust and afterwards, including the following: -- Letters to Gertrud Wachsmann in Shanghai...

File Number : 4879

Type of Material : Passport, Certification, Personal Documents, Letter, Official Documentation, Medical Documentation

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch, German

Interview with Holocaust survivor Hanna Cato Rodriguez de Miranda, born in Amsterdam in 1920, regarding her experiences during and after the Holocaust

Interview with Holocaust survivor Hanna Cato Rodriguez de Miranda, born in Amsterdam in 1920, regarding her experiences during and after the Holocaust - interview conducted by Yonatan Hoffman with his relative Hanna (Hanzi) Cato Rodríguez de Miranda in 2006: Childhood in Amsterdam; persecution of her family because of her father's activity in the socialist party in the late 1930s; antisemitism in 1938-1939; work as a trainee nurse at the hospital in Amsterdam in 1940-1943; escape from Amsterdam in January 1943 with the help of the Dutch underground; work as a housekeeper for various families in the south...

File Number : 11033

Type of Material : Curriculum Vitae (cv), Interview(s)

Language : Hebrew, English

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