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Memoirs of Luigi Fleischmann, born in Fiume, Italy, 1928, regarding the experiences of his family in Fiume and Navelli, and personal documentation of Luigi Fleischmann from after the war

Memoirs of Luigi Fleischmann, born in Fiume, Italy, 1928, regarding the experiences of his family in Fiume and Navelli, and personal documentation of Luigi Fleischmann from after the war The memoirs were written in Milan in 1947 in the form of a diary starting in September 1943 and ending in June 1944. In 2007 Yad Vashem published the memoirs under the name, "From Fiume to Navelli: A Sixteen-Year-Old's Narrative of the Fleischmann Family and Other Free Internees in fascist Italy, September 1943-June 1944". The personal documentation belonging to Luigi Fleischmann: - Identity card of Luigi Fleischmann...

File Number : 8646

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Italian

Testimony of Fuks Semion, born in Krasnoye, the Soviet Union in 1936, regarding his experiences in the ghetto in Transnistria

Testimony of Fuks Semion, born in Krasnoye, the Soviet Union in 1936, regarding his experiences in the ghetto in Transnistria Life before the war; German occupation, July 1941; Romanian occupation in August 1941; establishment of the Krasne Ghetto in Transnistria in autumn 1941; the obligation to wear a yellow badge, imposition of contributions; cold; typhus epidemic; death of his mother; agricultural labor; deportation of his father to Vinnitsa; liberation in March 1944; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel on 28 November 1991.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Postcards written by Sara Halberstadt in Siedlce to her sister Salka Sluszny in Paris, 1941-1942, postcards sent by Herszek Sluszny from Drancy to his family in Paris, 1942, and personal documents of Benyamin and Sara Halberstadt, from the war and postwar period - Postcards sent by Sara (Jontof) Halberstadt, from Siedlce, to her sister Salka Sluszny in Paris, 1941-1942; - Postcards sent by Herszek Sluszny from Drancy, to his wife Salka and his son Michel in Paris, 1942; - Essay, "A letter to my mother", written by Michel Sluszny (the son of Herszek and Salka Sluszny) during his studies in school in...

File Number : 2094

Type of Material : School Project, Postcard, Personal Documents, Official Documentation

Language : Polish, French, English, German

Testimony of Alexander Javor Kahn, born in Rajec, Czechoslovakia, 1902, regarding his experiences in Nove Mesto, Piestany, in hiding in Bratislava and with the partisans in Pastuchov

Testimony of Alexander Javor Kahn, born in Rajec, Czechoslovakia, 1902, regarding his experiences in Nove Mesto, Piestany, in hiding in Bratislava and with the partisans in Pastuchov Life before the war; attends an elementary school; life in Zilina including attending high school; attends the agricultural academy; drafted to the Czechoslovakian Army (discharged with the rank of First Lieutenant); life in Male Lednice including work on the family farm; move to Germany, 1926; life in Germany; work on an experimental farm raising domestic animals; visits to experimental farms in Sweden and Denmark; marriage to...

File Number : 8513

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Slovak, Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Walter Tel Lilienthal, born in Berlin, Germany in 1924, regarding his experiences in Berlin and his aliya to Israel in 1938

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Walter Tel Lilienthal, born in Berlin,Germany in 1924, regarding his experiences in Berlin and his aliya to Israel in 1938 Childhood in Berlin; life before and after the rise of the nazi party to power; aliya to Israel within the frame of the youth aliya organization in 1938; quick absorption in the youth institution "Ben Shemen"; studies; agricultural work and specializing as a dairy farmer;social life; war of Independance; life on the moshav for many years; life in Jerusalem

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Joseph Sternreich, born in Weissenfels, Germany, 1921, regarding his experiences in Weissenfels, Berlin, Hadleigh, Bromsgrove, Kempsey and other places, and letters and postcards sent to Joseph in England by his family members in Jessenmuehle camp, Krakow and Weissenfels, 1939-1940 Memoirs: His family's life in Weissenfels; he attends a public (non-Jewish) elementary school; work as a clerk in a shoe factory; dismissal from his work after the forced transfer of the factory to non-Jewish owners; agricultural studies in Berlin; deportation of Polish nationals, and his parents' arrival to Krakow;...

File Number : 1914

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Red Cross Letter, Letter, Memoirs, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Memoirs of Miriam (Mandel) Goldshmidt, born in Ober Apsa, Czechoslovakia, including memoirs of various family members

Memoirs of Miriam (Mandel) Goldshmidt, born in Ober Apsa, Czechoslovakia, including memoirs of various family members Memoirs of Miriam (Mandel) Goldshmidt, born in Ober Apsa, Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in Ober Apsa until 1944; Mateszalka Ghetto life until June 1944; Auschwitz-Birkenau camp life; Stutthof camp life and life on an agricultural farm near the camp, including forced labor, until March 1945; life on board a ship under the guard of SS men until liberation at Neustadt; Bindermichl DP camp life; Memoirs of her family members: 1) Montzi (Vizel) Mandel, born in Ober Apsa,...

File Number : 8284

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Aleksander Ranoschy regarding the experiences of Hans Brandwein and Julek Brand in the Warsaw Ghetto and Hrubieszow

Memoirs of Aleksander Ranoschy regarding the experiences of Hans Brandwein and Julek Brand in the Warsaw Ghetto and Hrubieszow Ranoschy's period of service as the principal of the largest Jewish school in Australia [?]. The periods of service of his friends, Hans Brandwein and Julek Brand, as Beitar leaders in Poland; direct involvement in his friends' activities; living conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto; carrying out the "Hrubieszow Project" by Brandwein and Brand including acquisition of a work permit and transfer of youth from the Warsaw Ghetto to farms in Hrubieszow; entry of Brandwein and Brand into...

File Number : 8200

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Two letters written by Shmuel Sherf in Kyzyl Yultuz to the Sherf family in Eretz Israel, 1943, and two letters written by his brother, Leib Sherf in Ivankivtsy to the Sherf family in Eretz Israel, 1940-1941 The letters were translated into Hebrew by Shmuel Sherf from the original Yiddish and German.

File Number : 1515

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew, German, Yiddish

Testimony of Shimon Shimi Gluzer, born in Sighet, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in Sighet, Auschwitz, Wolfsberg, Mauthausen, Ebensee and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Shimon Shimi Gluzer, born in Sighet, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in Sighet, Auschwitz, Wolfsberg, Mauthausen, Ebensee and other places His childhood in an Orthodox, religious family; attitude of the non-Jewish neighbors. Hungarian Army occupation of Sighet, 1938; life under Hungarian rule including antisemitism and anti-Jewish decrees; deportation to the Sighet Ghetto; Sighet Ghetto life, including help to needy people and finding informers; draft of his father to forced labor, 1943; return of his father; German Army occupation of Sighet, March 1944; deportation to Auschwitz;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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