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Letter of appointment of Rabbi Mendel Schaechter as the rabbi of the Ósándorfalva community, and certifications regarding his work as the rabbi of Ósándorfalva, 1941-1944

Letter of appointment of Rabbi Mendel Schaechter as the rabbi of the Ósándorfalva community, and certifications regarding his work as the rabbi of Ósándorfalva, 1941-1944 - Letter of appointment of Rabbi Menachem Schaechter as the rabbi of the Ósándorfalva community, signed by the heads of the households of the Ósándorfalva community, April 1941; - Certification issued by the Orthodox community of Ósándorfalva that Rabbi Mendel Schaechter (born in Bustyaháza, 24 February 1920) is serving as the rabbi of the community, 05 May 1943; the certification was issued and signed by the heads of the community and...

File Number : 488

Type of Material : Certification, Personal Records, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Testimony of Shmaryahu Weiss, born in Papa, Hungary, 1939, regarding his aliya to Israel through a certificate, 1943

Testimony

Testimony of Shmaryahu Weiss, born in Papa, Hungary, 1939, regarding his aliya to Israel through a certificate, 1943 Family background. Enlistment of his father to the labor battalions and his work in a forced labor camp, 1942; deportation of his aunt, uncle and their two children from Bratislava, and their arrival in the hometown of witness ,Papa, 1943; attaching the witness and his brother to the certificate with the uncles; approval of aliya to Eretz Israel with consultation and recommendation of Rabbi Meltz in Budapest; crossing to Budapest and departing by train, evening of Yom Kippur 1943; travel to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of Jews from Kaposvar and Pestszenterzsebet who perished during the Holocaust, prepared by Iosi Katz, including his family members

File Number : 1288

Type of Material : List of Murdered Jews

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

Testimony

עדותו של יונגרייס יעקב, יליד Derecske הונגריה 1934, על רדיפות יהודי הונגריה ועל הצלה ברכבת קסטנר ילדות ב-Derecske; מעבר המשפחה ל-Szeged; תיאור החיים במשפחת רבנים אורטודוקסית; תיאור החיים בקהילה האורטודוקסית ב-Szeged; הגעת פליטים מפולין ב-1943; הכיבוש הגרמני במרץ 1944; חקיקה אנטי יהודית; ענידת טלאי צהוב; גירוש לגטו Szeged; תיאור החיים בגטו; ידידות קרובה של הסבא עם קסטנר; גירוש מהגטו לכיוון תחנת הרכבת; עלייה על הרכבת; צפיפות; חוסר אוויר לנשימה; הורדת המשפחה מהרכבת בידי קצין גרמני מכיוון ששמותיהם היו רשומים ברשימת קסטנר; העברה לבנין הקהילה היהודית; עלייה על רכבת קסטנר יחד עם כאלפיים יהודים נוספים; העברה ברכבת...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Research study about the Jews of Csorna, Hungary, in 1938–1944 by Károly Kovács, 2006

Research study about the Jews of Csorna, Hungary, in 1938–1944 by Károly Kovács, 2006 - census of Hungarian Jewry, carried out by the Central Council of the Jews of Hungary at the behest of the German authorities; - German occupation of Hungary commences on March 19, 1944; - life from the onset of the occupation to the beginning of the deportations on May 15, 1944; - deportation of the Jews of Csorna to the Sopron and Sárvár ghettos on June 20–21, 1944; - racial laws in Hungary from 1938 onward (the first in 1938, the second in 1939, and the third in 1941); - from 1939 to 1944, some 6,000 Jews emigrated...

File Number : 490

Type of Material : Research Paper

Language : Hebrew, German, Hungarian

Personal documentation of Feibis Steinmetz from before the war in Budapest and France, entry permit visas into the Dominican Republic, from 1945, and a book recording the ritual circumcision ceremonies he performed during the years he served as a Rabbi and a ritual circumciser in Budapest, 1927-1936

Personal documentation of Feibis Steinmetz from before the war in Budapest and France, entry visas into the Dominican Republic, from 1945, and a book recording the ritual circumcision ceremonies he performed during the years he served as Rabbi and ritual circumciser in Budapest, 1927-1936 Personal documentation of Feibis Steinmetz and his family: - Permit confirming F. Steinmetz's membership in the Mizrahi Brit organization in Hungary, 1929-1932, issued in Budapest, 11/01/1938; - Identity card for Feibis Steinmetz, born in Velky Bockov, 01/07/1908, issued in Oise, France, 27/08/1938; - Entry visas to...

File Number : 580

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Official Documentation, List of Jewish Children, Newspaper

Language : Spanish, French, German, Hungarian

Letter from Rabbi Izsak Rosenbaum in Felsoviso to Ignatz Berger in Budapest, 10/02/1944

Letter from Rabbi Izsak Rosenbaum in Felsoviso to Ignatz Berger in Budapest, 10/02/1944 - Letter (with an envelope attached) written by Rabbi Izsak Rosenbaum in Felsoviso to Ignatz Berger in Budapest, 10/02/1944, requesting financial help for his family consisting of 13 people; Included in the file: - Translation of the letter into English by Michael Banhidi; Comments by the submitter of the material: After the war, Ignatz Berger, Michael Banhidi's father, tried to obtain exact information regarding the fate of Izsak Rosenbaum and the members of his family, but did not succeed. Apparently this was...

File Number : 4045

Type of Material : Envelope, Letter

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters

To be translated

File Number : 91

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

To be translated

File Number : 18

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Letter written by Rabbi Bezalel Fisher, the Chief Rabbi of the Budapest community, 5701 (1941)

Letter written by Rabbi Bezalel Fisher, the Chief Rabbi of the Budapest community, 5701 (1941) Also in the file: - Wikipedia entry regarding the Rombach Synagogue containing a reference to the last of the rabbis of the Rombach Synagogue, Rabbi Benjamin (Bezalel, the son of Zvi) Fisher (1878-1965), who served by himself starting from 1926.

File Number : 3667

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew

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