Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

256 Results

Testimony of Rivka Reuveni, born in Checiny, Poland, about her life in the ghetto and in the Częstochowa, Skarzysko, and Bergen-Belsen camps, and her 'aliya after the liberation

Testimony of Rivka Reuveni, born in Checiny, Poland, about her life in the ghetto and in the Częstochowa, Skarzysko, and Bergen-Belsen camps, and her 'aliya after the liberation. Rivka Reuveni lived in Checiny, Poland, with her parents and her four sisters. When the ghetto there was established, her aunt's family joined them. Rivka was sent to the Skarzysko Kamienna labor camp at the age of twelve. She fell ill with typhus and due to denunciation was sent to a death camp. With the help of a Jewish doctor, she recovered and returned to work. As the Red Army approached, she was sent to a labor camp in...

File Number : 1238

Type of Material : Manuscript, Testimony

Memoirs of Yisrael Klein, born in Radomysl, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Radomysl, in hiding in the forest and being hidden by farmers, in Paleniec, in a commune of Jews hiding in the forests, as Red Army soldier and more Life before the war including the ultra-Orthodox way of life of his family. German occupation, 08 September 1939; hiding with his father in the attic during the concentration of the Jewish men in the municipal market; confinement of the Jews in the church without food or water for several days; murder of many Jews by shooting; transfer of the wounded to German military...

File Number : 8636

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence of Benny Kaufmann from Basel, Switzeralnd, regarding aid to Jewish refugees from Austria and Western Europe. Personal letters of requests for support and lists for payment orders, 1939-1940

Correspondence of Benno Kaufmann from Basel, Switzerland, regarding aid to Jewish refugees from Austria and Western Europe: Personal letters of request for support and lists of payment orders, 1939-1940. Names of Jewish Victims: - Simon Israel Ceiger, Vienna, 27/06/1939 - 04/07/1939 -, pp. 245-250 - Family Deutsch, Vienna, 15/05/1939 - 01/08/1939 pp. 303-315 - Salomon Eisenberg & Chaja Lea Eisenberg, Vienna, 20/09/1939 - 5/07/1940, pp. 452-459, - Julius Hecht, M.Gladbach, 03/12/1939 - 13/09/1940, pp. 818-829 - Bruno Hechtenthal, Milano & Vienna, 07/02/1939 – 06/09/1939, pp. 833-858 -...

File Number : 1

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, List of Names

Language : German

Memoirs of Miriam Eva (Reiter) Zinger, born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Lenzing camp

Memoirs of Miriam Eva (Reiter) Zinger, born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Lenzing camp Life before the war; attends the Hebrew high school. German occupation; yellow badge; deportation to the Munkacs Ghetto; transfer of her father and other Jews to the Great Synagogue; abuse of the Jews by Hungarian soldiers; liquidation of the ghetto, April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz by death march; camp life; murder of her father, grandfather and grandmother; life in Birkenau in the Gypsy camp; transfer of the Gypsies to the gas...

File Number : 8517

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs written by Zigmund Henig, born in Hungary, 1906, titled, ("Életrajzom és a sok megszenvedésből, zsidó voltamért") "The Story of my Life and Endless Suffering for Being a Jew") regarding his experiences in the Hungarian Army, Auschwitz, Kaufering camp and Allach camp Life in Hungary, until 1942; Drafted into forced labor within the framework of the Hungarian Army, June 1942; service on the eastern front in the Korosten, Stary Oskol and Kovel areas, until Spring 1944; return to Székelyudvarhely, May 1944; deportation together with his family to the Marosvásárhely Ghetto; deportation to...

File Number : 8484

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Affidavits provided by the residents of the Kopaygorod Ghetto regarding the activity of Fabius Orenstein, Head of the Jewish Committee in Kopaygorod, 1941-1944, who rescued Jews including the writers of the affidavits Writing the affidavits in Bucharest, May-April 1957; Persons submitting the affidavits: - Etka Schmidt; - Willy Postelnik; - Ana Goldenblum; - Ana Safir; - Benjamin Schneider; - Simon Chon; - Rita Moisescu; - Marta Feig; - Leo Gewurz; - Simha Feldmann; - Pavel Pavlovici; - Leon Silberstein; - Samuel Spiegelblatt; - Zoltan Meier; - Aron Pisam; -...

File Number : 8473

Type of Material : Declaration, Memoirs, Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation

Language : Romanian, Russian, German, Yiddish

Letter written by Meshulam and Etel Herstik, together with their two daughters, Alice and Rachel, from Máramarossziget, 17 April 1944, just before they went into the Máramarossziget Ghetto, to their son and brother, Otto Herstik, serving in a Hungarian Army labor battalion Notes from Otto Herstik, the submitter: The Herstik family hid the letter with their housemaid who returned it to them at the end of the war; Alice Aliza (Herstik) Zusman was born in Máramarossziget in 1925; Otto Herstik was born in Máramarossziget in 1921; Rachel Herstik was born in 1923; they were born in Transylvania under Romanian...

File Number : 1807

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hungarian

Postcards sent to Dascha Kleinman in the United States by her relative Genendla Guenbaum in Plonsk, 21 January 1941 and 19 April 1941, and letters of family members

Postcards sent to Dascha Kleinman in the United States by her relative Genendla Guenbaum in Plonsk, 21 January 1941 and 19 April 1941, and letters of family members Experiences of the Szainmen family; Dora (Szainman) Spilman, born in Plonsk, Poland, 1924; the parents Chana Ana Kleinman and David Szainman are relatives of Ben Gurion who helped numerous family members make aliya to Eretz Israel; aliya of the father’s siblings to Eretz Israel before the war; death of her mother during the birth of a baby girl and death of the baby girl during the birth; remarriage of her father; birth of a son; death of her...

File Number : 1793

Type of Material : Certification, Postcard, Telegram, Letter

Language : Polish, English

Memoirs of Salomea Kape, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto

Memoirs of Salomea Kape, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto Life in the Lodz Ghetto, summer 1944; help given by her mother, a midwife, to a Jewish couple in hiding to whom a son was born, October-November 1944.

File Number : 8318

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Memoirs of Sonia (Katzman) Vinogradov, born in Brody, Poland, 1922, and her husband Zalman Vinogradov, born in Lida, Poland, regarding her experiences in the Brody Ghetto, while in hiding in a forest and in Jaroslaw, and his experiences in Lida, Vilna and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1941 Experiences of Sonia (Katzman) Vinogradov: Brody Ghetto life; escape with the help of forged documents; life in hiding in a forest; life in hiding in Jaroslaw; liberation. Experiences of Zalman Vinogradov: escape from the NKVD to an aliya training farm in Vilna; his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1941; life in Eretz Israel.

File Number : 8308

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Items per page:

1 – 10 of 256