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Diary of Regina Fleischer from Bochnia written in the Akiva Movement training detachment in Chrzanow and in Eretz Israel, 1933-1937, letters sent to Regina Fleischman by her family in Bosnia and Kamionka, 1940-1941, letter from her husband's mother Mirjam Wierzbolowski from Lukow, 04 March 1940 and personal documentation belonging to Regina and her husband Chono Wierzbolowski Diary: - Diary of Regina Fleischer written in the Akiva Movement training detachment in Chrzanow. The first entry in the diary is from 13 March 1933, the last is from 29 July 1937 (written in Eretz Israel). Letters and...

File Number : 8639

Type of Material : Diary, Personal Documents, Letter, Red Cross Letter, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German

Letters and postcards sent to Chaim and Hadasa (Storch) Bester in Eretz Israel from their family in Lacko and Oleszyce, 1936-1940

Letters and postcards sent to Chaim and Hadasa (Storch) Bester in Eretz Israel from their family in Lacko and Oleszyce, 1936-1940 - Letter from Shmuel Bester of Lacko to his brother Chaim and sister-in-law Hadasa Bester in Eretz Israel, on the occasion of the birth of their daughter Devora, 28 December 1936; stationary bears the family logo on it - Distillers of Slivovitz [plum brandy]; - Postcard from the Storch family of Oleszyce to Chaim and Hadasa Bester in Eretz Israel, on the occasion of the birth of their daughter Tehilla, 25 November 1938; - Letter from The Hague to Hadasa Bester in Eretz...

File Number : 1948

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Memoirs of Pinkhas Tzimerman, born in Trzebinia, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in the Trzebinia Ghetto, Chrzanow Ghetto, Dachau and Markstaedt camps, and in other places

Memoirs of Pinkhas Tzimerman, born in Trzebinia, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in the Trzebinia Ghetto, Chrzanow Ghetto, Dachau and Markstaedt camps, and in other places Life before the war; witness learns in a Talmud Torah; studies in a vocational-commercial school. German occupation, 1939; deportation to the Trzebinia Ghetto; deportation of young Jews including his brother Beniamin to forced labor in Germany; cooperation regarding the deportation of the young Jews, by the Judenrat and the Jewish police; labor in a carpentry workshop; finds a hiding place during an "Aktion", 01 June 1942;...

File Number : 8455

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

File Number : 13448

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of June Goldi (Mann) Salholz, born in Makow, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Makow, Wieliczka, in hiding and in Krakow, Budapest and other places

Testimony

Testimony of June Goldi (Mann) Salholz, born in Makow, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Makow, Wieliczka, in hiding and in Krakow, Budapest and other places Her childhood in a family of hasidim; her family owns a summer season "Glatt kosher" hotel; her father's work in the community; witness attends a public school; learns fashion studies in a vocational high school; Zionist activities in the Akiva movement. Outbreak of the war, 1939; her family's escape to Wieliczka; move back [to Makow] approximately three months later; life [in Makow] including sewing for German women; receives notification...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Meir Bendori, born in Niepolomice, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Niepolomice, the Krakow Ghetto, Mauthausen and Gusen

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Bendori, born in Niepolomice, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Niepolomice, the Krakow Ghetto, Mauthausen and Gusen His childhood in a Zionist, traditional family including attending Hebrew schools; activities in Zionist youth organizations; sports activities; coordination of self-defense against the Endeks; help to Jewish refugees from Germany; Kristallnacht. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; German Army occupation of Niepolomice; life under German occupation including the imposition of anti-Jewish restrictions, acts of physical abuse against Jews and forced labor;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Bernard Berl Zisovitz, born in Volove, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in Volove, Rimavska, Miskolc, Bucharest and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Bernard Berl Zisovitz, born in Volove, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in Volove, Rimavska, Miskolc, Bucharest and other places His childhood and youth in Volove. Hungarian Army occupation of Volove, 1939; life under Hungarian rule including antisemitism; anti-Jewish legislation and policies, 1940; confiscation of his father's textile store; deportation to forced labor for the Hungarian Army including in Rimavska Sobota, Eger and Bistrica; escape; liberation by the Red Army in Miskolc; transfer to a Soviet POW camp, 1944; escape; in hiding in the mountains in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Weinreb Jirmijahu born in Rymanow Poland 1928.

Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Lucia (Feinshtock) (Bzhozhovski) Schimmel, born in Minsk, Belorussia, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Vilna and Siauliai Ghettos, in Stutthof, Ponewesch and Kaiserwald camps and more Life before the war; move to Vilna; life there; Soviet occupation, 1940; imposition of restrictions; escape of the Soviet authorities and German occupation, 1941; kidnapping of Jews by Lithuanians; deportation to the large ghetto, 06 September; ghetto life; labor in peat mining in Biala-Waka; organization of an underground in the Vilna Ghetto; demand of the Gestapo from the head of the Judenrat, Yaakov...

File Number : 13332

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Rakoch, born in Sokolow, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Sokolow, Lwow, the Radom Ghetto, in hiding in Radosc and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Rakoch, born in Sokolow, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Sokolow, Lwow, the Radom Ghetto, in hiding in Radosc and other places Life before the war; Zionist family; plans to make aliya to Eretz Israel; meets deportees from Germany and help to the deportees; death of his father. Outbreak of the war; escape East; shelling; escape back to Poland; escape of his mother to Radom; escape to Vilna; escape to Lwow; life on a Bnei Akiva kibbutz; the kibbutz receives help from the JDC and the Jewish Agency; Soviet occupation; deportations to Siberia; arrest of Jews due to Zionist...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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