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Certification issued by the hospital in Kursk regarding the death of Red Army soldier Yakov Kore, 27/07/1941, and an entrance permit to the Third Army headquarters given to Kore, 25/04/1941

Certification issued by the hospital in Kursk regarding the death of Red Army soldier Yakov Kore, 27/07/1941, and an entrance permit to the Third Army headquarters given to Kore, 25/04/1941 - Entrance permit to the Third Army headquarters, given to politruk (political commissar) Yakov Kore, 25/04/1941 ; - Two notorized copies of a certificate issued by the hospital in Kursk confirming the hospitalization of Yakov Kore in the hospital, 09-14/07/1941; transfer of Kore to a nerve clinic, where he died, 27/07/1941; notorized copies issued, 04/1947; Notes by the submitter of the material: Yakov Kore was...

File Number : 1466

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Death Certificate

Language : Russian

Letters sent by Leo Billet, a Jewish soldier in the US Army, from Germany and later on from Britain, to his sister in Tirat Zvi, Eretz Israel, 1944-1945

Letters sent by Leo Billet, a Jewish soldier in the US Army, from Germany and later on from Britain, to his sister in Tirat Zvi, Eretz Israel, 1944-1945 - Two letters sent by Leo Billet from Germany, 13 January 1944 and 28 January 1944; his aunt, Rachel, and his grandmother were found alive during a visit to Paris; murder of his uncle, Josef, deportation of his two daughters to Lublin; - Letter sent by Leo Billet from Germany, 01 April 1944; participation in the battles in Metz, the Netherlands, Aachen, the Ruhr area and more; - Letter sent by Leo Billet from an Army Hospital in Britain, leg injury;...

File Number : 2169

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English, German

Postcard sent from the front by Red Army soldier Abram Srulevich to his family in Tashkent, before he was wounded, 1942, and a letter sent from the military hospital in Vurnary, 12 October 1942, after the death of Srulevich

File Number : 1701

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter

Language : Russian

Testimony of Zeev Yehuda Weichselbaum Dovdevany, born in Dej, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Baia Mare, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Warsaw, Kutno, Dachau and Muehldorf

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Yehuda Weichselbaum Dovdevany, born in Dej, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Baia Mare, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Warsaw, Kutno, Dachau and Muehldorf Life in Dej before the war. Annexation to Hungary, forced labor in Baia Mare, early 1944; deportation to the Baia Mare Ghetto for two weeks, March 1944; deportation by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau, June 1944; transfer to Warsaw; labor dismantling houses in the Warsaw Ghetto and sending the parts to Germany, July 1944; transfer in the direction of Germany as far as Kutno on foot, August 1944; transfer to Dachau by train; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Faina Binder, born in Kharkov, Ukraine, 1925, regarding her experiences as a young woman in the Red Army

Testimony of Faina Binder, born in Kharkov, Ukraine, 1925, regarding her experiences as a young woman in the Red Army Outbreak of the German-Soviet war, June 1941; draft of her father and her brother; enlistment in the Army; work in the medical field in the Tilsit area; blood donation for a soldier who refused to receive blood from a Jewess; end of the war. Transfer to the front at the Far East; return home, October 1945; receives medals.

File Number : 58

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

Testimony

גירוש לגטו Ungvar באביב 1944; עבודות כפייה בחפירת בורות שיועדו לבתי שימוש; גירוש ברכבות; תנאי הנסיעה; גזיזת הפאות בידי האב לפני הירידה מהרכבת; כניסה למחנה Auschwitz; תהליך הכניסה; ריח שריפה באוויר; עבודות כפייה בבית חרושת; עבודה בחיתוך ברזל; תנאי החיים; רעב כבד; התקרבות הצבא האדום; הוצאת האסירים לצעדת מוות; חלוקת לחם לדרך; אכילת הלחם במלואו לפני הצעדה מחשש שהלחם יאבד או ייגנב; צעידה מהירה; ירי באסירים חסרי כוח; מציאת תיק גב של חיילים; מציאת לחם, נקניק וחפצים נוספים בתיק כמו גרביים ונעליים; כניסה למחנה Buchenwald; שהות במחנה; הפצצות של הצבא האמריקני על המחנה; מסתור בבור סמוך לשירותים של המחנה; בריחת השומרים...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mikhaylo Kozhin, from Gomel, regarding the murder of Moisey Matvey and Perla Babushkin in March 1942

Testimony of Mikhaylo Kozhin, from Gomel, regarding the murder of Moisey Matvey and Perla Babushkin in March 1942 Work by the Babushkin couple in the German hospital in Gomel starting in August 1941; they conceal their Jewish identity; their stay in hiding in the hospital area, following the liquidation of the Gomel Ghetto; discovery of Perla's Jewish identity by a wounded German officer who was staying in the hospital; murder of Perla and Moisey by the same officer; burial of Perla and Moisey, by the submitter of the testimony, in the Jewish cemetery in Gomel; The witness Mikhaylo Kozhin was a non-Jewish...

File Number : 6100

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Record of Murdered Persons

Language : Russian

To be translated

Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Zeew Parecki, born in Rozanka, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier near Pslow and in labor battalions in Siberia

Testimony

Testimony of Zeew Parecki, born in Rozanka, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier near Pslow and in labor battalions in Siberia Life before the war; work as a baker. Drafted into the Red Army, May 1941; wounded in combat near Pskow, July 1941; hospitalization in different military hospitals; life in a labor battalion in Siberia, 1942- May 1946. Move to Vilna; life in Vilna; aliya to Israel, 1957.

File Number : 1855

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Dawid Chanes, born in Vilna, Poland, 1905, regarding his experiences in the Soviet Union and with a Lithuanian division at the front

Testimony

Testimony of Dawid Chanes, born in Vilna, Poland, 1905, regarding his experiences in the Soviet Union and with a Lithuanian division at the front Outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union; escape to the Soviet Union, summer 1941; life in refugee institutions; serves with Jewish soldiers in a Lithuanian division; combat at the front, January 1943; wounded and hospitalization in military hospitals; end of the war. Return to Vilna; aliya to Israel, 1957.

File Number : 1675

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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