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Memoirs of Rivka Silberstein regarding her experiences in Wroclaw, the Bindermichl DP camp and the Wasseralfingen DP camp, 1946-1948

Memoirs of Rivka Silberstein regarding her experiences in Wroclaw, the Bindermichl DP camp and the Wasseralfingen DP camp, 1946-1948 Deaths of five members of her family in Siberia; return from Siberia, 1946; life in Ukraine until March 1946; life on a kibbutz in Wroclaw for six months; locating and returning Jewish orphans entrusted to Christian families or institutions; escape to Austria; life in a Poalei Zion kibbutz in the Bindermichl DP camp in Linz; life in the Wasseralfingen DP camp. Aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Galilah"; life in Eretz Israel.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8642

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Letter of testimony of Galia Steiner (Hadassah Harkabi) born in Novogrudek, Poland, 1941, with the story of a suitcase used by her adoptive parents during the war

Letter of testimony of Galia Steiner (Hadassah Harkabi) born in Novogrudek, Poland, 1941, with the story of a suitcase used by her adoptive parents during the war - Story, "The Wandering Suitcase", written by Galia Steiner; The adoptive mother of Galia retained the suitcase in her home until the day she died; her adoptive parents fled from Poland to the Soviet Union following the German occupation of Poland and managed to survive; the suitcase accompanied them from place to place until their aliya to Eretz Israel; Galia made aliya to Eretz Israel with her adoptive parents, 1947; The file includes: -...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8525

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter of Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, Yiddish

Testimony of Alfred Maze, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1938, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding outside the ghetto and in hiding in a village in the area

Testimony of Alfred Maze, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1938, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding outside the ghetto and in hiding in a village in the area Life in Warsaw, including the establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto; smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto by a Polish woman of German origin who had been his nanny when he was a baby; life in the home of a Pole while using a false identity; change of his name to Fredek Mrozowski; receives knowledge regarding the murder of his parents; move to another Polish family; abandoned on the street and rescue by a Pole; life in hiding while hidden by his...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8402

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Interview(s), Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Tamar Henya Mukhtar née Wisniewska, born in 1940/1942 in Poland, about being placed with a Polish foster family during the war and her experiences in orphanages in Lodz and Kraków

Year of birth not known (placed by mother with the Polish Czuprynski family in 1943, with a note on which only her name appears); adoptive mother dies from a German stray bullet as the Germans retreated in February 1945; the family moves to Grabica; witness is handed over to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; placed in an orphanage in Lodz in 1948; lives there for several months; placed in an orphanage in Kraków; life in the orphanage; attends Jewish schools; feels different from other pupils; immigrates to Israel as part of a Youth Aliyah group via Warsaw and Rome in March 1957; adjusts to life...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13526

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Memoirs of Richard Rishek Israel Levin (born: Berkovitz), regarding his fate during the Holocaust

results.listIds.fileNumber : 7445

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Letter from Raisa Bychenko in Odessa from February 1945 regarding the fate of the Kremer family

- letter written by Raisa Bychenko in Odessa in February 1945 with information regarding the fate of the Kremer family: Arrival of the Kremer family at the sanatorium in Odessa a month before the German occupation. The father Mikhail Kremer died from illness. His wife Sarra and their two children Andrik and Marlena were unable to leave Odessa and remained in the city. The daughter Marlena died a month after the death of her father. The mother and son went into hiding under false identities with the help of the Bychenko family until June 1942. Sarra and Andrik, aged four and a half, were informed on, arrested...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 5972

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter

results.listIds.lang : Russian

Announcement regarding a lecture by Dr. Ratner, posted by the HaHistadrut HaZionit Achida (United Zionist Federation) in the Bad Reichenhall DP camp

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1152

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Announcement

results.listIds.lang : Yiddish

Testimonies of Jewish victims and Nazi German defendants (1950-1968) in several trials conducted against former Gestapo officers, pre-trial hearings of witnesses in the trial against Otto Bovensiepen and other staff members at the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) in Berlin (1969-1971), including pleas and vignettes about Adolf Eichmann Pre-trial hearings regarding deportation of Jews to extermination camps; interrogation of criminals, Jewish victims and others; general information regarding deportations from Berlin; this file includes documents from other proceedings against Nazi criminals; the...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 35

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony, Letter

results.listIds.lang : German

Memoirs of Regina Mamioffe, born in Pskov, Russia in 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in Pskov and in Pechory camp

Memoirs of Regina Mamioffe, born in Pskov, Russia in 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in Pskov and in Pechory camp Life before the war; air-raids on Pskov; the German occupation on 9 July 1941; persecution of Communists and Jews; murder of her father on 10 July 1941 by the Germans, after being informed against by neighbors; registration of the Jews before their murder; help from an Austrian officer; hidden by her mother; murder of Jews; adoption and baptism of the Jewish girl Lyalya Khanukova by a Russian woman, thus saving the Jewish girl; transfer of local residents to Germany in January 1944;...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 4742

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs, Photograph, Record of Murdered Persons

results.listIds.lang : Russian

Testimony of Maria Ochlewska, born in Chelm, Poland, 1938 or 1939, regarding her escape with her mother from the Chelm Ghetto, hiding in the villages with a Polish farmer in the village of Plawanice and with a Polish couple in Warsaw Maria Ochlewska, named Estera by her parents, Binjamin Horn and Perla (Lindenbaum) Horn. In 1942, escape of her mother with the witness from the Chelm Ghetto; hiding for some time in the surrounding villages; in 1943, the witness is left by her mother with a farmer named Strus in the village of Plawanice; hiding of her mother with a group of Jews in the surrounding forests,...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 3524

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Polish

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