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Experiences of Avraham Acker Ekroni, born in Debreczin, Hungary, and of his family members, as written by his grandson in Haifa

Experiences of Avraham Acker Ekroni, born in Debreczin, Hungary, and of his family members, as written by his grandson in Haifa Deportation of the Acker family to the Debreczin Ghetto, including Avraham's father David, his mother Ita, their sons Binyamin, Avraham, Menachem and Tuvia, and their daughters Vera (Rivka) and Yehudit; arrival to Strasshof camp in Germany; transfer of his older brother Binyamin to Theresienstadt; liberation of the remainder of the family members by the Red Army. Return to Hungary; aliya to Eretz Israel with the help of the Bericha organization, via Italy; reunion with his...

File Number : 349

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Story by Chaim Kamelmacher (Harry Kamel), born in Maniewicze, Poland, regarding the fate of the Maniewicze Jews during the war; story written, 1979

Story by Chaim Kamelmacher (Harry Kamel), born in Maniewicze, Poland, regarding the fate of the Maniewicze Jews during the war; story written, 1979 Story describing the Jewish community of Maniewicze, which served the railroad that was built and instituted during the period of the Russian Czar; the train that passed through the town fills a central role in the story, in which it turns out that the train takes a part in the murder of the Jewish community during the war.

File Number : 8607

Type of Material : Memoirs Literature

Language : Yiddish

Testimony

Testimony of Shifra (Barula) Strausberg Chosid, born in Romny, Ukraine, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Romny Ghetto, in hiding with an assumed identity in Konotop and life as a non-Jewish forced laborer in the Cologne area Life before the war. Ban on religious observance; German occupation, 1941; restrictions on the Jews; arm-band; yellow badge; deportation of men to forced labor; hanging of Jews; deportation to a ghetto; ghetto life; Ukrainian police activities; Jews are informed on; cooperation with the Ukrainians; murder of Jews including her mother and brother; mass burial of Jews including...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Diaries written by an anonymous person, regarding Jews in Poland and in Eretz Israel after the war, including poems, stories, a letter, and other writings

Diaries written by an anonymous person, regarding Jews in Poland and in Eretz Israel after the war, including poems, stories, a letter, and other writings - Story, titled, "Za nasza wolnosc", regarding the experiences of Holocaust survivor Marek in Eretz Israel, during the first years after the war; - Poems related to the war, written by an anonymous author, in Polish; - Diary written by an anonymous Holocaust survivor, who made aliya to Israel in April 1949; - Love story, between Holocaust survivor Heniek and Tunia, which took place in Krakow after the war; - Letter written by Rozia Landsberg and her...

File Number : 5653

Type of Material : Stories, Letter, Poems/songs

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Russian

"Testament of Yossel Rakover", from the Warsaw Ghetto

"Testament of Yossel Rakover", from the Warsaw Ghetto The document, which was supposedly found in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto after the war, is a conversation by a Jew named Yosef Rakover with the Almighty, written as a Testament before his death. Yossel, whose wife and six children have died, describes the situation in the Warsaw Ghetto during his last hours, and gives expression to his grief and his feelings before his death; "Testament of Yossel Rakover" is a literary work written by Zvi Kolitz, a Revisionist movement emissary in Argentina. The story appeared in the "Di Yiddish Zeitung" newspaper on...

File Number : 1337

Type of Material : Will, סיפור

Language : Hebrew, English

Testimony from reparation files and memoirs of Holocaust survivors from Hungary regarding their experiences during the Holocaust, diary of Lili Halász from 1941-1942, documents of Ferenc Halász and his second wife Margit (Reichmann) and more Note: Numbers relate to the section: 1/a; 1/b; 1/j; 1/k; 1/l; 1/m; 2/b; 3/a; 3/d; 3/e; 4; 5; 6/c; 6/h; 12; 16; 1.) Reparations file of Holocaust survivor Halász Margaretha (Halász Ferencné) (nee Reichmann Margit): Born January 15, 1919 in Belényes, Hungary; a.) Statement by Kepes Istvánné (Nobel Erzsébet) and Erdei Gyuláné (Kallos Erzsébet) regarding Halász Ferencné...

File Number : 10504

Type of Material : תעודת בית הספר, Record of Survivors, Red Cross Letter, Passport, רשימת בני המשפחה, Letter of Testimony, Questionnaire, תעודת שחרור ממחנה, Application, סיפור חיים, Death Certificate, Committee Request, Diary, Marriage Certificate, מכתב רשמי, Certification, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Orders, Record of Murdered Persons, Birth Certificate, תעודת אזרחות, Poem/song, מסמך מרבנות, Memoirs, Postcard, Its Card File, Declaration, Form, List of Jewish Survivors, Document, School Project, החלטת ועדה

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Hungarian

Memoirs of Uri Sraga (Philipp Felix) Katzenstein, Malka Bamberger née Katzenstein, and Shlomo Katzenstein during the Holocaust; and the life story of Jacob Katzenstein, from study and translation of Lore Richheimer’s memoirs, etc. Note: the record follows the order of the scan. The file includes various kinds of documents other than the foregoing. See nos. 113, 114, 149, 165, 167, 168, 169, 14, and 166. School notebooks, newspaper clipping, article, lecture, Ph.D. dissertation, school report cards, history of the Rothschild and Braun families (in translation as well): 1. Geography notebook of Ruth...

File Number : 10503

Type of Material : תווי מוזיקה, יומן מסע שורשים, Sketch, מסמך מרבנות, Memoirs, מחקר תולדות המשפחה, עבודת מחקר, Birth Certificate, סיפור חיים, Interview(s), תעודת אזרחות, תמליל שיר, Receipt, רשימת בני המשפחה, Identity Card, עבודת דוקטורנט, Marriage Certificate, Lecture, Certification, תעודת בית הספר, פוליסה, Article, Genealogy, Death Certificate, Invitation, Newspaper, Inscription on Gravestone, Diary, מכתב המלצה, מכתב רשמי, Workbook, Print Out of Book, דרשה, הספד, List of Deportees, Telegram, כרטיס ברכה, Document, Poem/song, Letter, Will, Record From the Population Census

Language : Italian, Hebrew, French, English, German, Danish

Writings of Mirjana Belic-Korockin and Radivoje Davidovic, Belgrade, 1988, telling the story of the Baruh brothers, born in Belgrade and Pozarevac, Yugoslavia, and Vidin, Bulgaria, in 1910–1941

Writings of Mirjana Belic-Korockin and Radivoje Davidovic, Belgrade, 1988, telling the story of the Baruh brothers, born in Belgrade and Pozarevac, Yugoslavia, and Vidin, Bulgaria, in 1910–1941 Writings about the Jewish community in the Dorcol neighborhood of Belgrade, sixteenth century, and the history of the Baruh family brothers: The brothers were born to Eliahu and Bolina: the eldest, Isidor-Issa (b. 1910), followed by Bora (b. 1911), and Josef-Yuzhi (b. 1913); the family moves in 1914 to Vidin, Bulgaria; daughter Rachel is born in 1917; the family returns to Belgrade; the family moves to Pozarev; the...

File Number : 358

Type of Material : Research Article

Language : Hebrew