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Propaganda election placard posted by Agudas Israel

File Number : 1409

Type of Material : Poster

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters

Announcement regarding the death of Rabbi Moshe Balevi, Of Saintly and Blessed Memory, from Jerusalem, posted by the Agudas Israel Center and Poalei Agudas Israel

File Number : 1374

Type of Material : Obituary

Language : Yiddish

Announcement regarding the 2nd National Conference of Histadrut Agudas Israel in Germany, posted at the Landsberg DP camp

File Number : 776

Type of Material : Poster

Language : Yiddish

Personal documentation and correspondence belonging to Yitzchak Felix Meyer and his parents, Michael and Amalia Meyer, who made aliya to Eretz Israel from Germany, survived the "Patria" tragedy and were detained in Atlit, 1881-1997 Volume I (pp. 1-262) This volume contains personal documentation belonging to Yitzchak Felix Meyer from his birth: Page 1: Copy of the opening page ("Index") with 12 chapters, nine of which (1-6, 10-12) mention their topics; the topics are (the numbers of the pages of the present file containing material matching the topic in the "Index" are given in parentheses): 1. "I As a...

File Number : 356

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Lecture, List of Deportees, Announcement, Personal Records, Booklet(s), Inventory List, Newspaper Clippings, Book, Letter, Memoirs, Diary, Postcard, Record of Persecuted Persons, Poems/songs, Newspaper

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

Documentation regarding Orthodox Jewry in Germany, especially the organizations associated with the separatist Orthodoxy, 1930-1941

Documentation regarding Orthodox Jewry in Germany, especially the organizations associated with the separatist Orthodoxy, 1930-1941 Volume I: Correspondence of Rabbi Yehiel Michel Schlesinger with the members of the Halachische Kommission (the Halacha [Religious Law] Commission attached to the Vereinigung traditionell gesetztreuer Rabbiner [Association of Halachic Law Observant Rabbis]); In the volume (the page numbers refer to the frame numbers in the Scan): Pp. 2-3: Letter dealing with administrational matters written on stationery from the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin, 29 Tammuz 5682 [??] (25...

File Number : 44

Type of Material : Survey Report, Letter

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Moshe Friedländer, born in Breslau, Germany, 1884, regarding a compulsory charge levied on wealthy Jews in Breslau in order to finance the emigration of poor Jews, and other personal experiences in Breslau prior to his emigration - Gestapo orders issued by Lieutenant Senne levying a 10% tax on the assets of wealthy Breslau Jews to be used as an emigration fund for poor Jews, summer 1938; - Activities of the Breslau Jüdischer Schulverein (Orthodox Jewish School Association); situation of Jewish pupils and students in Breslau; unsuccessful attempt of the Breslau liberal Jews to introduce...

File Number : 237

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Official documentation regarding the Jewish community of Halberstadt during the persecution in Nazi Germany, 1933-1942, and memoirs of Rabbi Zwi Hirsch Benjamin Auerbach, the rabbi of the Halberstadt Jewish community, 1934-1938 - Memo prepared by Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri regarding "The Jewish Community in Halberstadt Before the Persecution and During the Years 1933 to 1938", the memoirs of Rabbi Zwi Hirsch Benjamin Auerbach; "Notes on the History of the Jewish Community of Halberstadt in the 20th Century", the book by Rabbi Zwi Hirsch Benjamin Auerbach, including: - "... during the summer of 1938, the...

File Number : 146

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Testimony, List of Deportees, Memoirs

Language : German

Testimony of Rakhel (Trakhtman) Kanarik, born in Kharkov, Ukraine, the Soviet Union, 1934 – regarding evacuation to the eastern part of the Soviet Union

Testimony of Rakhel (Trakhtman) Kanarik, born in Kharkov, Ukraine, the Soviet Union, 1934 – regarding evacuation to the eastern part of the Soviet Union Childhood in an Orthodox family with three children; her father's occupation as a weaver and her mother's work in accounting; outbreak of the war; her father's escape from conscription into the army; the family's escape to the East; arriving in Samarkand; life there until the end of the war; obtaining Polish passports and escape to Poland; registration of the children with the Agudat Israel movement; the children’s move to an orphanage; the children taken...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hedva Freidi Yaari née Leibovich, born in 1928 in Chust, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in Chust, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Bremen area, etc.

Testimony

Testimony of Hedva Freidi Yaari née Leibovich, born in 1928 in Chust, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in Chust, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Bremen area, etc. Childhood in an affluent Vizhnitz Hasidic family, owners of a large shop in Chust; attending a public school and a Beth Jacob school; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1938; shop confiscated in 1942; brothers-in-law conscripted into labor brigades; studies halted; German occupation ensues in March 1944; four German officers enter the family home; life at home in the ghetto; severe overcrowding; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; reaching the camp on the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Nathan Behrend from Hamburg regarding his immigration to England as part of the Kindertransport; murder of his parents in Riga; aliya to Eretz Israel; memoirs of his wife Esther (Graudnetz) Behrend from Fulda - Notebooks containing the memoirs of Norbert Nathan Behrend, born in Hamburg, Germany, 11 April 1921, regarding the experiences of his family during the Holocaust; written by Nathan in Israel, 1999: Nathan Behrend's parents were Julius Yedidya and Minka (Hartog) Behrend; they were married in 1913; brothers and sisters: Hilda, born in 1914, Thea, born in 1917, Lula, born in 1918, Kurt, born...

File Number : 9946

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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