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Letters sent by Jesiah Wrasilek during his military service in the Jewish Brigade in Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands to his friends Sari and Menachem Leitner on kibbutz in Eretz Israel, 1945-1946

Letters sent by Jesiah Wrasilek during his military service in the Jewish Brigade in Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands to his friends Sari and Menachem Leitner on kibbutz in Eretz Israel, 1945-1946 Also in the file: - Document issued in Haifa certifying the release of Gittel Steren [sic] from the Atlit camp with the authorization of the British Mandatory government, 20 September 1947. Notes from Gila (Wrasilek) Kaplan, the submitter of the material: Samuel Joseph (Jesiah) Wrasilek was born in Vienna in 1921. He made aliya with the youth movement to the Rodges training farm in Eretz Israel in the...

File Number : 2232

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Envelope, Letter

Language : Hebrew, English

Memoirs of Moshe Kaplan, born in Woronow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army, the Tannenberg POW camp, the Woronow Ghetto, in hiding in the forest, as a partisan in the Naliboki forests and more Life in Woronow after World War I; death of his father Avraham Kaplan in 1922; attendance at the Tarbut elementary school; displays of antisemitism; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; underground activities and imprisonment of his brother as a member of the Communist Party; death of his mother, 1932; life in an aliya training kibbutz in Bialystok; meeting his future wife, Chaya; release of his...

File Number : 8643

Type of Material : Genealogy, Memoirs, Poems/songs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Rozie (Vagner) Neumann, born in Stryj, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Vienna, on the Kindertransport and in Britain; a postcard sent from Belgium to her future husband Shlomo (Sali) Neumann in Scotland, 1939 regarding his relatives in Krakow, and a Red Cross letter sent by Shlomo's father from Krakow Memoirs of Rozie (Shoshana) (Vagner) Neumann: Childhood in a hasidic family in Stryj, 1926; immigration to Vienna, 1926; annexation of Austria to Germany, 1938; pressure from the authorities on her family because they do not have Austrian citizenship. Forced labor cleaning streets in...

File Number : 8640

Type of Material : Postcard, List of Murdered Jews, Red Cross Letter, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Letters and postcards sent to Erich and Sali (Dermer) Neugeboren in Eretz Israel by their family in Ostrava, Prague, Vilaucea and Tarnopol, 1922-1963

Letters and postcards sent to Erich and Sali (Dermer) Neugeboren in Eretz Israel by their family in Ostrava, Prague, Vilaucea and Tarnopol, 1922-1963 - Postcard sent from Franzensbad to Anna Neugeboren in Witkowitz, 18 June 1922; - Postcard sent to Anna Neugeboren in Ostrava by her brother Poldi in Karlsbad, 18 July 1937; - Letters sent to Erich (Eli) and Sali (Dermer) Neugeboren by their family in Ostrau and Prague, 1939; - Postcard (in Yiddish) sent from Rechovot to Sara Neugeboren in Kibbutz Kfar Giladi, 16 August 1939; - Letters and postcards sent to Sali Neugeboren by her father, Abraham...

File Number : 2069

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, Red Cross Letter

Language : Czech, German, Yiddish

Memoirs of Esther (Ganzereska) Pashchudnik, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925 regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and in a camp in Germany, and poems she wrote during her stay in an orphanage in Lodz, 1945-1946 Life before the war; visit by her father to Eretz Israel to work in a lumber warehouse that he owned. Outbreak of the war; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; labor by her father for the Germans, in a lumber warehouse; labor by the witness in a factory producing saddles for the Germans' horses; death of her mother due to hunger; deportation to Auschwitz, August 1944; camp life; separation...

File Number : 277

Type of Material : Memoirs, Poems/songs

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Memoirs of Edith Weiner regarding her experiences as a child in Berlin until 1939, on an agricultural training farm in Cologne and in Eretz Israel from 1940

Memoirs of Edith Weiner regarding her experiences as a child in Berlin until 1939, on an agricultural training farm in Cologne and in Eretz Israel from 1940 Life in her parents' home in Berlin including religious life and musical studies; attempts to leave Germany following her father's return from a concentration camp, 1938. Leaving their apartment; move to an attic in the home of relatives due to their lack of income; attendance at a Youth Aliyah school; going to agricultural training in Cologne, July 1939; discussion with a Gestapo man in the police station including attempts to persuade her to remain...

File Number : 8549

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Letters sent to Tova Tonka Milrad in Eretz Israel, 1937-1939

Letters sent to Tova Tonka Milrad in Eretz Israel, 1937-1939 - Letters sent by friends from the Hanoar Hatzioni movement in Krakow to Tova Tonka Milrad in Eretz Israel, 1937-1939; - Letters sent by friends from the "Ovadia" aliya training farm in Slawkow to Tova Tonka Milrad in Eretz Israel, 1938-1939; - Letter sent by Hela from Lodz, 10 June 1938; - Letter sent by Bronia Chmelnicka from Tel Aviv, 22 August 1938; - Letter sent by Oskar from Rabka, 03 April 1938; - Letter sent by Dwora Kalter from Przedborz, 19 January 1939; All of the attached letters have been translated to Hebrew.

File Number : 2022

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish

Personal documents, including correspondence between Joel Rybak and his family, and a Red Cross letter sent by Mirjam and Rachel Grosfeld in Eretz Israel to their mother Nuta Grosfeld in Bedzin; documents dated, 1932-1941 Included in the file: - Letters sent by Joel Rybak from Rowne to his sister Mirjam in Eretz Israel, 1932-1935; - Letters sent by Joel Rybak from the "Owadja" (Ovadia) aliya training "kibbutz" in Slawkow to his sister Mirjam and her husband Avraham Kreizer, 1936-1937; - Postcard sent by Joel Rybak from Slawkow to his father Aron in Rowne; - Letters and postcards sent by Aron and...

File Number : 2019

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

Language : Polish, English, Yiddish

Memoirs of Moshe Lederman, born in Jedrzejow, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Jedrzejow, Czechia, Fiume, his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938 and more

Memoirs of Moshe Lederman, born in Jedrzejow, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Jedrzejow, Czechia, Fiume, his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938 and more Life before the war; attends a government elementary school; attends a Hamizrachi school conducted in Hebrew; displays of anti-Semitism; imposition of a commercial boycott on Jews; life in an aliya training facility; move to Czechia; move to Austria; move to Fiume; life at the Fiume port; aliya to Eretz Israel, 20 September 1938.

File Number : 8508

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Diary written by Paul Pinchas Rosner, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1923, regarding his experiences in Berlin, 25 April-30 August 1937

Diary written by Paul Pinchas Rosner, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1923, regarding his experiences in Berlin, 25 April-30 August 1937 Comments by the person submitting the material: Paul Pinchas Rosner, born in Frankfurt, 1923; his life in Berlin with a Jewish youth group in training for aliya to Eretz Israel, 1937; his aliya to Eretz Israel, move to Kibbutz Geva; his sister (Ruth) and his parents remain in Germany and their deaths during the war.

File Number : 8507

Type of Material : Diary

Language : German

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