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Testimony of Nancy Vera Rachel Arbel, born in Baktaloranthaza, Hungary, in 1826 regarding deportation to the Auschwitz Birkenau , Plaszow and Reichenbach camps

Testimony

Childhood before the war; coexistence; outbreak of the war; restrictions on Jews; German occupation in March 1944; deportation to ghetto; mutual help; robbery of property; fictitious marriage for the purpose of rescue; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to a protected camp; improvement in food and living conditions; transfer back to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Germany for agricultural works and for working in a factory manufacturing planes; liberation by the Russians; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1949

File Number : 13703

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rae Rose (Rothman) Rubinstein, born in Brisbane, Australia, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Australian Army, Bergen-Belsen DP camp, Linz DP camp, Wels DP camp and in other places

Testimony

Testimony of Rae Rose (Rothman) Rubinstein, born in Brisbane, Australia, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Australian Army, Bergen-Belsen DP camp, Linz DP camp, Wels DP camp and in other places Service in the Australian Air Force during World War II, 1945-1949 [should be: 1939-1945]. Travel to London, 1945; volunteers to work in Bergen-Belsen DP camp in the context of the Jewish Relief office, 1946; work in the camp as the person responsible for children ages 0-6 years old and women who are pregnant; help to the aliya institute [Jewish Agency] to coordinate the issue of forged documents and illegal...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Emilia (Gueta) Nahamias, born in Tobruk, Libya, 1934, regarding her experiences in Tobruk, Benghazi, Giado, Tripoli and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Emilia (Gueta) Nahamias, born in Tobruk, Libya, 1934, regarding her experiences in Tobruk, Benghazi, Giado, Tripoli and other places Allied and German air-raids on Tobruk; her family's escape to Benghazi; deportation to Giado camp; camp life, including hunger, morbidity and mortality, 1941-1943; forcing of men to dig graves; activities by the Italian authorities for the benefit of the men; her mother gives birth in the camp; liberation by the British Army. Move to Benghazi; riots against the Jews by the Arab population; murder of a teacher, against the background of [his] Zionist activities;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Leaflets in Polish published in the Far East during World War II

File Number : 36

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Kira (Shvartzman) Tseytlin, about her experiences in Leningrad, Kostroma, and Archangelsk before, during, and after the war

Memoirs of Kira (Shvartzman) Tseytlin, about her experiences in Leningrad, Kostroma, and Archangelsk before, during, and after the war Childhood in Leningrad; father: a Red Army officer; war erupts in June 1941; mother develops tuberculosis; evacuation; witness and mother stay in Kostroma during the war; father fights on the front; father sent to Archangelsk after the war; family reunited in Archangelsk; mother dies in Archangelsk due to harsh climatic conditions; relatives' fate; memories of immigration to Israel.

File Number : 12632

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Research paper on the history of the Jews of Kołbiel , by Yaakov Shenkman

- research paper on the Jewish community in Kołbiel by Yaakov Shenkman, based on interviews with Kołbiel expatriates; - list of interviews with Kołbiel and Luzki expatriates, conducted by Yaakov Shenkman in the 1980s.

File Number : 12446

Type of Material : עבודת מחקר

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Gaston Lévy, born in 1902 in Mutzig, about his work for the OSE in France and his exfiltration to Switzerland in 1944, and the experiences of Renée Lévy née Klein

Memoirs of Gaston Lévy, born in 1902 in Mutzig, about his work for the OSE in France and his exfiltration to Switzerland in 1944, and the experiences of Renée Lévy née Klein About the town of Mutzig; history of the family; World War I; moves from Mutzig to Strasbourg in 1923 in order to go to medical school; military service; marries Renée Klein in 1930; moves to Paris; Annette born in 1934; Jewish social circles, including that of Paul Recht; induction into the French Army in 1939 (discharged in July 1940); the Exode: moves with the family to Paul, Luz-Saint-Sauveur, and Bézieres; visits the Agde camp to...

File Number : 680

Type of Material : Biography, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Memoirs

Language : French

Postcards printed in Europe from World War I to the end of World War II

- Dan Bubis’s postcard collection including postcards (both used and blank) printed from the end of the 19th century to the 1960s. Most of the postcards include references to World War I, World War II, and to the interwar period. Jewish names appear in many of the postcards. The collection includes anti-Semitic postcards, Nazi propaganda postcards and anti-Nazi propaganda postcards.

File Number : 5179

Type of Material : Envelope, Postcard, Document

Language : Multiple Languages

Diary written by Martin Hirsch, born in Grudziądz in 1894, in Berlin in January 1943, and personal documentation of his nephew Ludwig Hirsch

Diary written by Martin Hirsch, born in Grudziądz in 1894, in Berlin in January 1943, and personal documentation of his nephew Ludwig Hirsch - Diary entries of Martin Hirsch (regarding his situation and the situation of his family members) written in Berlin in January 1943 and intended for delivery to his sister Marianne in England or to his nephew Lutz in Palestine: The stay of the witness’s children (Marianne and Herbert) in an orphanage in Berlin after the death of their mother in 1937; the work of the witness as an accountant at the Jüdische Kultusvereinigung in Berlin from 01 February 1938; Marianne's...

File Number : 11605

Type of Material : קבלות, Birth Certificate, Marriage Certificate, Certification, Death Certificate, Diary, Genealogy, Identity Card, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Postcards sent by members of the Manheimer and Silberminz families in Poland to Reuven and Zippora Manheimer in Eretz Israel in the 1930s and the history of the Jews of Kołbiel before and during the Holocaust - Postcards sent to Reuven Manheimer and his wife Zippora (Silberminz) in Eretz Israel by Yaakov Josef Manheimer and members of the Silberminz family in Poland in the 1930s; - Research paper by Yaakov Shenkman dedicated to the history of the Jewish community in Kołbiel and documenting the experiences of the Jews of Kołbiel before and during the Holocaust. The paper is based on interviews and...

File Number : 5075

Type of Material : Postcard, עבודת מחקר

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

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