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Memoirs of Josef Hersch Schwartz regarding his experiences and those of his family in Szamosújvár, Enyed, Balázsfalva, and Sepsiszentgyörgy before and during the Holocaust period

Memoirs of Josef Hersch Schwartz regarding his experiences and those of his family in Szamosújvár, Enyed, Balázsfalva, and Sepsiszentgyörgy before and during the Holocaust period Section 1- Original title: Epilógusok a hitközségnél [Epilogues of the Religious Community]: József Schwarcz was a cantor and a teacher at the Jewish school in Sfântu Gheorghe/Sepsiszentgyörgy in Transylvania. He wrote his memoirs for his children - about the members of the Jewish community and the time when the Jewish community administration asked him to retire after 18 years of work, 25 August 1922-25 August 1940. The...

File Number : 11028

Type of Material : Protocol, Letter, Memoirs, דרשה, הספד

Language : English, Romanian, German, Yiddish, Hungarian

Memoirs of Yaakov Herzfeld, born in Vac, Hungary, 1914, regarding his experiences in Vac and Transylvania

Memoirs of Yaakov Herzfeld, born in Vac, Hungary, 1914, regarding his experiences in Vac and Transylvania Efforts to acquire a certificate for legal aliya to Eretz Israel due to his desire to make aliya; drafted to forced labor in Transylvania for a few months; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940.

File Number : 4040

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

Issue V of "HaOlam" (The World), the HaHistadrut HaZionit HaMercazit (Central Zionist Federation) weekly newsletter, published in Berlin, February 1924; various newspaper clippings, containing articles in memory of Rafael Mahler, Ber Mark and Moshe Sneh "Ha\Olam" was published by the Vaad HaSofrim, with the permanent participation of Chaim Nachman Bialik and Nachum Sokolov. Also in the file: - Article by Yisrael Zamir marking the 15th anniversary of the death of Moshe Sneh; - Article marking the 10th anniversary of the death of Rafael Mahler, published in the "Al Hamishmar" newspaper, 01 November...

File Number : 24

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : Hebrew

Invitation to a reception in honor of Moshe Shertok, held in New York on March 17, 1943

Invitation to a reception in honor of Moshe Shertok, held in New York on March 17, 1943 Submitter's remarks: Josh Hamerman donated to Yad Vashem a copy of an invitation to a meeting with Moshe Shertok (subsequently Moshe Sharett), run by R. Stephen Wise and organized by the American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs

File Number : 34

Type of Material : Invitation

Language : English

To be translated

File Number : 3615

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Articles regarding the Jewish comedian Zoltán Hirsch, born in Hungary in 1885, who perished in Auschwitz camp, and regarding a memorial sign in memory of the victims of the Szentes Ghetto

Articles regarding the Jewish comedian Zoltán Hirsch, born in Hungary in 1885, who perished in Auschwitz camp, and regarding a memorial sign in memory of the victims of the Szentes Ghetto - Documentation regarding the activities of Imre Károly in Szentes in the 1990s on behalf of Holocaust commemoration and the perpetuation of the memory of the victims of totalitarian regimes (including the police officer József Lakos, who was murdered in 1946 due to political reasons); - Article by Dr. István Szende, regarding the life of Zoltán Hirsch and his fate during the Holocaust period (Zoltán Hirsch, a...

File Number : 159

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Article, Document

Language : Hungarian