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Survey report of Itzhak Ribak regarding the fate of members of the Ribak family from Wierzbnik and from Opoczno, Poland

Survey report of Itzhak Ribak regarding the fate of members of the Ribak family from Wierzbnik and from Opoczno, Poland Death of his mother; survival of his brothers, Menachem Mendel and Shmuel Meir among the Polish partisans; murder of his brothers by Poles after the war; experiences of his nephew, Shmuel Meir's infant son; arrival of his brother Yehuda to Eretz Israel via Iran while in the service of the Anders Army; fate of his younger brother Avraham, who escaped to the Soviet Union and disappeared without a trace; Included in the file: - Aliya application forms from the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem...

File Number : 1239

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Survey Report, Form, Letter, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, English

Letters written by Benjamin and Rachel Goldberg in Kowel, Poland to their brother Herzl in Eretz Israel, and documentation regarding the Reichman family and Leon Mandelbaum, 1935-1945

Letters written by Benjamin and Rachel Goldberg in Kowel, Poland to their brother Herzl in Eretz Israel, and documentation regarding the Reichman family and Leon Mandelbaum, 1935-1945 Note: The letters were written by Benjamin and Rachel Goldberg in Hebrew, except for the last letter which was written by Benjamin in Yiddish, 25 December 1940; Rachel tells about her life in the "agricultural training" in Lithuania in her letter dated, 01 April 1940.

File Number : 2286

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Excerpt from the book, "They Were Our Comrades, A Memorial Book for the Members of the Pioneer Training Facilities in the Netherlands Who Were Murdered during the Holocaust", which includes the name of Ernst Mannes, born in Lakkenbach, Austria, 1920, who perished in Sobibor, 09 July 1943 The file includes an excerpt from a monograph written by Yigal Binyamin. Note: Ernst Mannes was the brother-in law of Sylvi Mannes (her husband's brother), the submitter of the material; Sylvi Mannes was born in Germany, emigrated to Belgium as part of the Kindertransport and made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1946.

File Number : 341

Type of Material : Excerpt(s)

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rub Israel, born in Sasovo, Carpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia, in 1923 regarding his arrest in Prague and Dresden and regarding Theresienstadt , Dachau and other camps

-Childhood in Sasovo and Trebusany in Carpathian Ruthenia; his family is from a hasidic background( Hasidut Dolina); attendance at the "heder" in Berehovo in 1934; Hungarian control in 1938; his family moves to Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, in 1938; attendance at a yeshiva in Solotvina, Carpathian Ruthenia(Hungary) in 1937; he goes back to his family in Moravska Ostrava in 1938; he joins the Bnei Akiva movement and moves to Prague, Czechoslovakia; agricultural training on a farm in Louny and in Stribrna Skalice; he goes back to Prague and moves to a farm in Hostoun Kladno; he is arrested by the gestapo in...

File Number : 13688

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Joint testimony of Jakob Haas, born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1941, and Jon (Josef) Haas, ‎born in Esbanderup, Denmark in 1943, regarding their escape from Denmark to Sweden

Joint testimony of Jakob Haas, born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1941, and Jon (Josef) Haas, ‎born in Esbanderup, Denmark in 1943, regarding their escape from Denmark to Sweden Children of a German father, who came to Denmark in 1939, and a Danish mother; the parents ‎worked on a farm with Hechalutz Movement aliya training, and in Saunte, near Copenhagen, ‎following the German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940; birth of the children; the family’s ‎escape to Sweden on fishing boats, with the help of Danish fishermen, in October 1943, and their ‎rescue from the Nazis; life in Landskrona, Sweden; placed in an...

File Number : 13714

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

estimony of Natan Kolker, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1930, regarding the ‎Kindertransport to England in 1939‎

Testimony of Natan Kolker, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1930, regarding the ‎Kindertransport to England in 1939‎ Member of an orthodox, Zionist family; lack of citizenship and deportation to Hungary in 1938; ‎arrest of his uncle in Dachau; return to Slovakia; Kindertransport with his brother to England in ‎‎1939; living in an orthodox hostel in Cambridgeshire 1939–1945; keeping in touch with his parents ‎by letter until 1942; aliya to Israel in 1950; absorption.‎

File Number : 13739

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of members of the Hashomer Hatzair movement in aliya training in kibbutz "Maanit" in Grodno, kibbutz "Bamivchan" in Slonim and in other places in Poland before the war, who perished during the Holocaust

File Number : 1324

Type of Material : Biography, List of Murdered Jews

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hanan Hans Grunberg, born in Sieburg, Germany, 1923, regarding his experiences in Sieburg

Testimony

Testimony of Hanan Hans Grunberg, born in Sieburg, Germany, 1923, regarding his experiences in Sieburg Jewish community life [in Sieburg]; his sister's aliya to Eretz Israel, 1933; witness attends a Jewish school until 1937; his wealthy uncle is accused of economic [embezzlement]; detention of his uncle; departure of family members from Germany; burning of the synagogue during Kristallnacht, 1938. Detention of his father in Dachau for two months; witness joins Youth Aliyah; aliya training; aliya to Eretz Israel via Denmark, the Netherlands and France, January 1940; his parents' escape to Belgium;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter written in Italy by Avraham Iber, a fighter in the Jewish Brigade, to a Holocaust survivor, Erna Hamer Porat, 05 February 1946

Letter written in Italy by Avraham Iber, a fighter in the Jewish Brigade, to a Holocaust survivor, Erna Hamer Porat, 05 February 1946 The letter contains information regarding his youth in a Hassidic home, the stifling atmosphere in the home, his dreams of becoming a farmer, building Eretz Israel and defending the homeland, and his joining a Zionist youth movement; Note: Erna Hamer Porat, born in Krakow, Poland, 1925, was transferred during the war to Plaszow camp, Auschwitz and Theresienstadt.

File Number : 1517

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Richter Yehieli, born in 1919 in Rowne, Poland, about her experiences in a Soviet forced labor camp and wandering around Russia

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Richter Yehieli, born in 1919 in Rowne, Poland, about her experiences in a Soviet forced labor camp and wandering around Russia Activity in the Hashomer Hatzair movement; Zionist pioneering training in Radom; escaping to Rowne whetn the German occupation began in September 1939; attempt to slip into Romania; arrested by the Soviets; life in a Soviet forced labor camp from November 1939 to September 1941; wandering across Russia in 1941–1945; gathering members of Hashomer Hatzair in Samarkand; returning to Poland under false documents in 1945; establishing the Hashomer Hatzair kibbutz in...

File Number : 13459

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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