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estimony of Beverli Mizrahi Shreier, born in 1941 in Radziwillow, Poland, regarding her experiences in hiding with a Catholic family

Testimony of Beverli Mizrahi Shreier, born in 1941 in Radziwillow, Poland, regarding her experiences in hiding with a Catholic family. The family; giving the girl baby to a Polish servant; murder of the servant and her husband by the Gestapo; moving the baby to another hiding place; the baby's return to the family hiding her; fleeing towards Berlin; in the Russian sector; escape to the American sector; joining a street gang; emigration to the United States; adjusting to a new life.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzvi Mul Hennes, born in Arnhem, Netherlands, about his experiences as a boy with members of the resistance and in hiding with the Rip family in Deventer until the end of the war

Family escapes to Devener in 1940; witness placed with members of the Dutch resistance; placed with the Rip family (members of the resistance) in Goor in early 1943; living with the Rips (subsequently recognized as Righteous among the Nations); mother and father visit; witness presented as an orphan taken in by the family after shelling of Rotterdam; liberation; returns to parents in May 1945; maintaining close relations with the Rips; family life in Duiendrecht; back to Deventer; family life in the Netherlands; the Habonim movement; immigration to Israel in 1966; adjustment to life in Israel.

File Number : 13541

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Soviet Identity Card of Frida Aleksandra Tager, born in Daugavpils, Latvia, 1913, issued on 26 May 1941, and documents of Mordchai Varushkin Tager, born in Rēzekne, Latvia, 1939, proving his baptism as a child and adoption by Ulita Varushkina, 1941-1952 The file includes: - Baptism Certificate (Latvian original with notarized translations into Russian and English) attesting to the fact that the priest of the Rēčenas Old Believers Parish, Rēzekne District, baptized in his church a Jewish boy, two years of age and named Foka, who was brought to him by Ulita Varushkina, a resident of Bekši, who presented the...

File Number : 111

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Identity Card

Language : English, Russian, Latvian

Letter sent by Stefica (Stein) Goldberger from Djakovo camp to her mother-in-law Gizela Goldberger in Zagreb, 27 February 1942, and a postcard written by Aleksandar Goldberger in Fericanci camp to his family members in Zagreb, 30 July 1942 - Letter sent by Stefica (Stein) Goldberger from Djakovo camp to her mother-in-law Gizela Goldberger in Zagreb, 27 February 1942; description of the camp life; request to send her the "Miriam" prayer book; included is a translation to Hebrew; - Postcard sent by Aleksandar Goldberger from Fericanci camp to his family members in Zagreb, in which he acknowledges the...

File Number : 2102

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, Article, Memoirs

Language : Serbian, Hebrew, Croatian

Testimony of Paul Pinchas Ben-Shaul Reichmann, born in 1934 in Lille, France, about his wartime experiences as a boy in hiding in France, the Champery refugee camp, the home of a Jewish family in Lausanne, etc.

German occupation ensues in 1940; family tries unsuccessfully to escape to the south of France (to Rue); escaping back to Lens in 1940; escaping to Paris; escaping to Piot in 1941; attempting to run the border with the family to the Free Zone of France; arrested by the Germans; trial and detention in a lockup in Biarritz in 1941; father detained separately; released and returns to Paris for several months; another attempt to escape to the south of France; escaping to Benejacoq in 1941; life in hiding there; transferred with help from the French resistance and the Jewish MJC organization to a convent in...

File Number : 13616

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation including a copy of authorization from the Romanian Court for Feiga Bercu (who adopted Tania Kijner, a survivor of Transnistria) to receive adoption money, issued in Husi, 1962

Documentation including a copy of authorization from the Romanian Court for Feiga Bercu (who adopted Tania Kijner, a survivor of Transnistria) to receive adoption money, issued in Husi, 1962 Note: The original authorization was issued in Bucharest, 27 July 1950. Note: Tania (Kijner) Barak was born in Rjavinti, Romania; her parents were Idel and Malka Kijner; the Jewish residents of the village, including Tania and her mother, were deported to Transnistria in1942; her father was deported to forced labor; after her mother's death from an illness, Tania was sent to an orphanage and from there on a forced...

File Number : 713

Type of Material : Personal Records, Legal Documentation

Language : Romanian

Documentation regarding Sonja (Leiner) (Jonas) Shtark, May 1937-December 1947

Documentation regarding Sonja (Leiner) (Jonas) Shtark, May 1937-December 1947 The documentation includes: - Diary written by Sonja (Leiner) Jonas when she was 8 years old, Hamburg, July-August 1937; - Memoir book prepared for Sonja (Leiner) Jonas by her friends in Hamburg, before her transfer to England with the Kindertransport, 1938-1939; - Birth certificate for Sonja Hella Leiner, issued in Plauen (birth date: 20 May 1929), 23 May 1929; - Polish passport belonging to Sonja Hella Leiner, issued 14 February 1933; - Letter from the German Children's Aid Committee sent to Mr. and Mrs. Bowden, 23...

File Number : 8514

Type of Material : Passport, Diary, Official Documentation, Personal Documents, Notebook, Letter, Memoir Book

Language : Polish, English, German

Postcards from Michel and Dina Reens and their daughter Anna from Westerbork to their family in Amsterdam, 1943; letters from Jacob Reens to his wife and son, 1942-1943, and personal documentation from the war period Postcards: - Postcards from Michel and Dina Reens and their daughter Anna from Westerbork to their family in Amsterdam, 1943, - Postcard from Michel and Dina Reens and their daughter Anna to Amsterdam prior to their deportation to Auschwitz in which it is written: "Regards from the border. Feeling okay. Hoping for a peaceful journey. Persevere. Kisses to Edo. Father, Mother and...

File Number : 1936

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, Diary, Drawing, Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Personal Documents

Language : Dutch

Testimony of Miri Misha [Bornstein] Boren, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1941, regarding her experiences as a child in the Warsaw Ghetto and while using a false identity in the home of a Polish family

Testimony of Miri Misha [Bornstein] Boren, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1941, regarding her experiences as a child in the Warsaw Ghetto and while using a false identity in the home of a Polish family Life as a child in the Warsaw Ghetto in the home of her extended family, according to stories she was told; escape from the Warsaw Ghetto to the home of a Polish family; her first memory is about her fear of air-raids; life in the home of an educated and devoutly religious Catholic family; killing of the family's father and son, who were members of the underground; she is informed at the age of 12 or 13 that she is...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation of Hanita Izabella (Waldbaum) Leshem, born in Lwow, Poland, 1940, for the years 1945-1946, and of her parents Leo and Ella Amalie Waldbaum who perished in the Holocaust

Personal documentation of Hanita Izabella (Waldbaum) Leshem, born in Lwow, Poland, 1940, for the years 1945-1946, and of her parents Leo and Ella Amalie Waldbaum who perished in the Holocaust - Recommendation for Ella Klaften (later Waldbaum) to a medical committee written as part of an application for candidacy for the Pharmacy Faculty at Lwow University, 1931; including a Hebrew translation; - Certificate issued by the Jewish community in Lwow during the German occupation containing information regarding the employment of Amalie and Leo Waldbaum in the fur products field; - Birth certificate for...

File Number : 1172

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Polish, German

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