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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

Personal documentation regarding Joseph Kott

Personal documentation regarding Joseph Kott Personal documentation regarding Joseph Kott, head of the Roanne Jewish community and a member of the underground; arranging a hiding place for Jews from Savoie and Saint Gervais (Italian Occupation Zone) by Kott and the Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF-General Union of Jews in France); renting of villas for needy Jews with his own personal funds; his purpose - to transfer Jews to Switzerland, Italy and Spain; activities with Toni Gryn and Mila Racine; signing of the agreement between Italy and the Allies, September 1943; leaving of the area by the...

File Number : 500

Type of Material : Photograph, Article

Language : French, English

Memoirs of Sonia Flora Ellern, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 1933, regarding her family being hidden with 23 families and in a monastery

File Number : 7271

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Announcement regarding the distribution of baby food, posted by the Welfare Department of the Leipheim DP camp administration[חלוקת מזון תינוקות , הנהלת מחנה Leipheim]

Announcement regarding the distribution of baby food, posted by the Welfare Department of the Leipheim DP camp administration

File Number : 984

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters, Yiddish

Announcement regarding the distribution of articles of clothing for children and babies; on the reverse side there is a placard encouraging enlistment, posted by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, the Central Committee of She'erith Hapletah in Germany and the Zionist Federation

File Number : 838

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters

Announcement from the Welfare Office in the Landsberg DP camp requesting that the public contribute money for the welfare of those in need in the camp, 16 March 1947

File Number : 548

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters

Documentation from the Father G. P. Baudouin Children's Home in Warsaw regarding the fate and identity of a Jewish child named Ryszard Nowinski who was in the children's home from 13 February 1943 until August 1945, and then adopted

File Number : 867

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Polish

Testimony of Pola (Postelnik) Herman, born in Chotin, 1932, regarding her experiences in Chotin, Dzhurin and an orphanage

Testimony

Testimony of Pola (Postelnik) Herman, born in Chotin, 1932, regarding her experiences in Chotin, Dzhurin and an orphanage Childhood in a large and unified well-to-do family; her father is a tailor. Air-raids; acts of arson; death of relatives during the first weeks of the war; execution of young Jewish men; deportation to Dzhurin; conditions en route; abuse and robbery by Romanian soldiers and young Ukrainians; death of her grandmother and her mother's husband; help from Jews in towns; life in the Dzhurin Ghetto; help from the population in obtaining food; hunger; cold; filth; high mortality rate of...

File Number : 11240

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Joseph Kogan, born in Gomel, Belorussia, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Gomel and in a village

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Kogan, born in Gomel, Belorussia, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Gomel and in a village Life before the war. Move with his family in the direction of the Soviet Union, 1941; air-raid on the train by the German Army; injuries and deaths of passengers; escape to a village in the area; German occupation; hidden by a Belorussian family; liberation by the Red Army, 1944.

File Number : 4404

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Samuel Eisen, born in Tluste, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences and those of his brother Jakub Eisen, born in Tluste, 1935, in Tluste after the German occupation, working on a farm, in hiding and with the Soviet partisans in the forests Arrival of Jewish refugees from the surroundings and from Hungary; mass murder of the Hungarian Jews while crossing the Dniester River on the way back to Hungary; deportation of his mother and baby brother to Belzec; mass murder at killing pits in a second "Aktion", with the children buried alive inside the pits; labor with his father and brother Jakub on a...

File Number : 73

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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