Testimony of Yeshayahu Shaike Goldhersh, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland in 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in the Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto, and in Bergen-Belsen and Ravensbrueck camps
Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto life; deportation to Ravensbrueck camp; transfer to Bergen-Belsen camp; Bergen-Belsen camp life, without work [labor]; suffering from diseases and hunger; apathy; cruelties by the Ukrainian guards; piles of corpses; liberation by the British Army on 15 April 1945; transfer to Sweden with his mother for the purpose of his mother's convalescence; he studies for the first time in a...
List of children who survived by living in hiding with assistance from non-Jews in Poland, 1945-1947, from the book, "Survivors of the Holocaust in Poland, by Lucjan Dobroszycki
File Number : 1226
Type of Material : List of Children, List of Survivors
Two letters sent by Margit Traubl in Cacov, Slovakia, to her daughter Magda (Traubl) Roth in Eretz Israel, Red Cross letter sent on 17 June 1941 to Margit Traubl announcing the wedding of her daughter Magda to Mordechaj Roth, and a postcard sent by Jenő Roth in Nagyszőllős to Margit Traubl, 01 December 1940
- Letter in German written in Tel Aviv, 15 February 1940 (it is not clear who wrote the letter and to whom);
- Postcard in Hungarian sent by Jenő Roth in Nagyszőllős to Margit Traubl in Cacov, 01 December 1940;
- Red Cross letter from Eretz Israel sent on 17 June 1941 to Margit Traubl announcing the...
File Number : 2253
Type of Material : Postcard, Red Cross Letter, Letter
Red Cross letters sent by Eduard and Schmuel Ullmann from Eretz Israel to their parents and siblings in the Nováky camp, November-December 1944
- Red Cross letter sent by Eduard Ullmann from Eretz Israel to his parents (his father Heinrich Ullmann) in the Nováky labor camp, 20 November 1944;
- Red Cross letter sent by Schmuel (Lazi) Ullmann from Eretz Israel to his brother Kolloman Ullmann in Nováky, 13 December 1944.
Also in the file:
Certificate issued by the General Bank in Bratislava to the Ullmann family regarding family jewelry deposited in the bank during the war, 15 January 1947.
Notes from...
File Number : 2250
Type of Material : Red Cross Letter, Official Documentation
Letter sent by Dawid Brzoza from Ostrow Mazowiecka to his relatives in Eretz Israel, 1938
Note:
On the back of the letter there is a notice regarding the public sale of his property which was published 08 February 1938.
Notes from Nechama Golobinski who submitted the material:
Dawid Brzoza perished with his wife and children during the Holocaust.
His parents Yitzchak Dov and Chaya Sarah (Kasher) Brzoza made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1934.
His brother Meir made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1932.
His sister Mina (the mother of Nechama Golobinski who submitted the material) made aliya in 1936.
His sister...
Postcard sent by Solomon Posner from Oswiecim to Lena Kofman, a relative in Eretz Israel, 06 November 1938, and a discharge certificate from military service issued to Moses Israel Schnapp in Vienna, 15 April 1940
Moses Schnapp was born in Przemyslany, Poland, 21 January 1904 (according to what was entered on the certificate).
Notes from Rachel (Posner) Yakimovski who submitted the material:
Shlomo and Matilda (Bruner) Posner lived in Oswiecim. They had eight children of whom only one daughter survived - Rachel [the submitter of the material]. Shlomo and Matilda perished in the Holocaust.
Moshe Israel...
Ketubah (Jewish marriage contract) of Mayer Aryeh Czikorie and Ester (Hertz) Czikorie signed in Cluj, 03 November 1946
Also in the file:
Exit permit from Romania given by the Romanian Ministry of the Interior to Ludovic Czikorie, his wife Elza Czikorie and their son Josif (born in 1948) just before their aliya to Eretz Israel, 14 December 1950;
- Request sent to Elza Czikorie by the Organization of Former Nazi Prisoners, 24 June 1954;
- Declaration made by Elza (Hertz) Czikorie presented in order to apply for reparations, 1957;
- Excerpt from a list of survivors including the names of Ludwig and...
Documentation regarding Hans Paul Weiner, born in Trautenau, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel and service in PAL-Company 608
- Excerpts from the British Army historical documentation collection, regarding PAL-Company 608, dated, 31 March 1941-17 January 1944;
- Photographs and newspaper clippings from "The Palestine Post", 20 May-09 June 1941;
- Memoirs of Hans Paul Weiner;
Childhood in Trautenau;
Escape by his family from a pail [?] to a pogrom; [move?] to Prague, September 1938; attempts to receive an emigration visa in preparation for aliya; illegal aliya from...
File Number : 389
Type of Material : Telegram, Survey Report, Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Diary
Letters and postcards sent by members of the Kurzer and Herschman families in Zborow and Drohobycz to Jetka Kurzer, her brother Wolku Kurzer and Wolku's wife Sulamit (Herschman) Kurzer in Eretz Israel, 1937-1941
- Letter sent by Yaakov (last name is missing) to his nephew Jakob Haber in Vienna, 10 August 1934;
- Letter sent by family members in the United States to Wolku Kurzer, 08 September 1937;
- Two letters sent to Wolku Kurzer in Eretz Israel by his brother, Juda Kurzer, from Zborow, 09 March 1937 and 03 February 1938;
- Letters and postcards sent to Jetka (Jetti) Kurzer in Eretz Israel by her...
Letter sent by the members of the Kann family in Prague to Rene Rechnitz in Eretz Israel, 1941, and a short letter from his mother, Greta (Kann) Schueckova, 24 December 1939
- Letter sent by his mother, grandfather and grandmother in Prague to Rene Rechnitz in Eretz Israel, 1941 (the letter was written after 31 October 1941, the date of Rene's wedding to Lizzi, and it contains congratulations on their marriage);
- Chocolate wrapper and a short letter sent by Greta (Kann) Schueckova in Prague to her son Rene Rechnitz in Eretz Israel, 24 December 1939.
Both letters have been translated into...