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Letter written by Natan Krulevetskiy regarding his fate as a political prisoner, antisemitism and assimilation, and his article refuting an antisemitic article by Starikov, sent to the "Literaturnaya gazeta" and to Ilya Ehrenburg via the editorial board; reply by Ehrenburg, that the struggle against antisemitism is a very important goal for him Letter written by Natan Krulevetskiy regarding his tragic fate as a political prisoner, antisemitism and assimilation, and his article, which was written to refute an antisemitic article published by Starikov, that was sent to the "Literaturnaya gazeta" and passed...

File Number : 64

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Letter from World War II veteran G. Ya. Kolker regarding antisemitism and assimilation in the Soviet Union

File Number : 58

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Letter by Aleksandr Bursanovskiy, regarding the works of Ilya Ehrenburg, assimilation by Jews, and the tendency to mark Russian nationality instead of Jewish nationality on the documents of Soviet Jews, and Ehrenburg's reply to the letter Letter written by Aleksandr Bursanovskiy, regarding the publication of excerpts from Ilya Ehrenburg's book in the "Sovyetishe Geymland" newspaper, assimilation by Jews, and the tendency to register Russian nationality instead of Jewish nationality on documents, whereby Bursanovskiy indicates his grandson's passport as an example; Ehrenburg's reply to the letter, in which...

File Number : 15

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Article regarding the reception held on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Ilya Ehrenburg, and the Medal of Lenin awarded to him

Article regarding the reception held on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Ilya Ehrenburg, and the Medal of Lenin awarded to him The article includes excerpts from the speech given by Ilya Ehrenburg on the following subjects: - The identity and place of the Jewish writer in Soviet culture and the problem of assimilation; - The extermination of Jewish culture in the Soviet Union: the murder of Solomon Mikhoels and the "Doctors' Plot"; Ilya Ehrenburg argues that the Jewish culture was not destroyed, but that it exists and is recognized in the Soviet Union. He presents examples of Soviet Jews who...

File Number : 126

Type of Material : Excerpt(s)

Language : French

Testimony of Zahava Eugenia (Mas) Tzelner, born in Lwow, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in Lwow, Janowska, Warsaw and Krakow

Testimony

Testimony of Zahava Eugenia (Mas) Tzelner, born in Lwow, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in Lwow, Janowska, Warsaw and Krakow Her childhood in an assimilated family; attends a Polish elementary school and a vocational school; displays of antisemitism before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; Red Army occupation of Lwow; life under Soviet occupation including work, food and culture; work as a teacher in a vocational school; German Army occupation of Lwow, 1941; life under German occupation including acts of physical and verbal abuse; robbery of Jewish property, forced labor and the imposition of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Kora (Smolanitzki) Martinovich, born in Konstantinovka, Ukraine, 1936, regarding her experiences in Konstantinovka, in hiding and in an orphanage in Ivanopol

Testimony

Testimony of Kora (Smolanitzki) Martinovich, born in Konstantinovka, Ukraine, 1936, regarding her experiences in Konstantinovka, in hiding and in an orphanage in Ivanopol Childhood in an established, assimilated home. Occupation of Konstantinovka by the German Army, October 1941; being hidden together with her family by neighbors, October-December 1941; death of her mother; death of her siblings; life in a German hospital, January 1942-17 August 1942; transfer to an orphanage in Ivanopol; life in the orphanage, August 1942-September 1943, including cold and starvation; treatment by the farmers. Life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rita (Dvorman) Gotman, born in Lwow, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Lwow, the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding outside the ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Rita (Dvorman) Gotman, born in Lwow, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Lwow, the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding outside the ghetto Life before the war; assimilated well-to-do family; identifies with Eretz Israel. Outbreak of the war; rejection of help from the Romanian consul; Soviet occupation; restrictions on Jewish businesses; sending of parcels to Siberia; arrest and murder of her father; temporary living quarters at their maid's who is originally from Germany; escape to Warsaw; difficulties in entering the sealed ghetto; ghetto life; attends a school for converted...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Matilda Mimi (Alhalel) Naghel, born in Silistra, Romania, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in Constanta, Alunis and in Cobadin camp

Testimony

Testimony of Matilda Mimi (Alhalel) Naghel, born in Silistra, Romania, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in Constanta, Alunis and in Cobadin camp Life before the war; her family was a well-to-do Sephardi, traditional family originally from Turkey. Escape to Constanta after receiving information regarding persecution by the Romanians; escape to Alunis with her family, spring 1941; life in Alunis; receives shelter from a non-Jewish family in exchange for payment; informed on and deportation to Cobadin under the guard of Germans; smuggled out of the camp by a friend of her father, with 10 other...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Maria-Ana (Hegedus) Benedek, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Maria-Ana (Hegedus) Benedek, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in Budapest Assimilated family; her father is a manager in a yeast and liquor factory. Outbreak of the war, 1939; restrictions on the Jews; dismissal of her father from work; eviction from their home, June 1944; transfer to a marked house; life in the marked house; draft of her father to forced labor; receives a Swedish protection certificate, October 1944; escape with the help of her father to a shelter under the protection of Sweden; life during the air-raids; transfer on foot to the Danube River;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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