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Certificates of honor awarded to Josef Bodnar for his service an Austro-Hungarian Army officer during World War I, and forged certificate of baptism and certificate of marriage used during Bodnar's escape from Nadworna along with his family, during World War II - Two certificates attesting to the raise in rank of Austro-Hungarian Army soldier Josef Bodnar, issued in Vienna, November-December 1915; - Certificate attesting to the awarding of a medal of honor to Austro-Hungarian Army soldier Josef Bodnar, issued in Vienna, 24 January 1917; - Diploma of Law awarded to Joseph Bodnar in Lwow, 04 August...

File Number : 1203

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Diploma

Language : Latin, German

Letters and postcards sent to Dina Bibring, born in Stanislawow, Poland, 1910, in Eretz Israel by her family members in Stanislawow, 1934-1941, and letters sent by Dina from Mikuliczyn to her future husband Adolf Jankolovits in Eretz Israel, 1938, and including Dina's personal documents and her memoirs regarding her experiences and the experiences of her family members Letters and postcards: - Letters and postcards sent to Dina Bibring in Eretz Israel by her father Mordekhai Markus Bibring and her mother Mina, her sister Gincia, and her brother Salo in Stanislawow regarding their life in Stanislawow,...

File Number : 1917

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Postcard, Notebook, Letter, Documentary, Travel Ticket, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German, Yiddish, Hungarian

Documentation by the Jurmann family from Sniatyn, 1894-1921

Documentation regarding the Jurmann family from Sniatyn, 1894-1921 The documentation includes: - Postcards sent to Feivel Jurmann in Sniatyn by his son, Leib Jurmann (born in Sniatyn, Poland, 1896), a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army, while he was in Liezen, Leoben and Szeghalom, 1915; - Postcard sent by Leib Jurmann to his sister Lea Jurmann in Sniatyn; - Letters sent to the Jurmann family by Leib Stern in Winograd and by other people, 1915-1916; - Two Austro-Hungarian passports belonging to Feivel Jurmann, born in Sniatyn, Poland, 1871; first passport issued in Sniatyn, 12 December 1917,...

File Number : 1909

Type of Material : Passport, Postcard, Personal Documents, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German, Yiddish

Testimony

Testimony of Martin Goldenzweig Gidron, born in Zavidovici, Yugoslavia, 1915, regarding his experiences in Suceava, the Cernauti Ghetto, the Dzhurin Ghetto, as a forced laborer in Trikhaty and other places Family background; move to Suceava, Romania; family life; Beitar activities. Confiscation of property by the Red Army; German and Romanian occupation, 1941; Iron Guard activities; murder of Jews by Germans; transfer to Cernauti; deportation of his father to Shargorod; entry into the ghetto; deportation to Transnistria via Atachi; crossing the river on rafts; drowning of people in the river; arrival in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of the Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes: Report regarding crimes committed by the Austrians against Yugoslavia including documents and photographs of the criminal acts committed by Austrian soldiers

File Number : 188

Type of Material : Research Article, Article

Language : Serbian-Croatian

Testimony of Albert Mosafia, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1929, regarding his experiences in hiding in Sarajevo

Testimony

Testimony of Albert Mosafia, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1929, regarding his experiences in hiding in Sarajevo Life before the war; attends a high school; expulsion from the high school, 1941; confiscation of property. Life in hiding in a hospital with help from a Moslem physician, summer 1943; return home with help from friends of various religions, 1943. Life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1992.

File Number : 7584

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Serbian-Croatian

Testimony of Shalom Reichman, born in Worms, Germany, 1935, regarding his experiences in Malines and Auschwitz-Birkenau

Testimony

Testimony of Shalom Reichman, born in Worms, Germany, 1935, regarding his experiences in Malines and Auschwitz-Birkenau Arrest of his parents in Brussels after being informed on, spring 1944; in hiding of his brother; deportation to Malines; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, April 1944; deportation of his father to Dachau, October 1944; death of his father; camp life including hospitalization in the "Revier", the camp hospital due to an illness; transfer with his mother to another block, late1944; liberation by the Red Army, 17 January 1945. Joins a former POW group in Katowice; move to Odessa; sails to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Postcard, letters and additional documentation regarding the experiences of Leib Leon Margulies in the Kainsk POW camp, 1917 – 1920, and in Germany in 1920s and 1930s

Postcard, letters and additional documentation regarding the experiences of Leib Leon Margulies in the Kainsk POW camp, 1917 – 1920, and in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s - Postcard (in the file there is only a photograph of the front side) sent to Michael Margulies in Frankfurt by his son Leo Margulis in the Kainsk POW camp, 05 October 1917; - Notice about Leo Margulis's stay in the Kainsk POW camp, sent from Berlin, 19 August 1919; - Correspondence that Leib Margulies carried on with representatives of the "General Anzeiger" newspaper, 1922, regarding the letter from an inmate of the Kainsk POW camp...

File Number : 5111

Type of Material : Postcard, Certificate of Nationality, Telegram, Birth Certificate, Correspondence, Marriage Certificate, Certification, תעודת בית הספר, כתובה, Letter, הודעה, Personal Documents, Identity Card

Language : Belarusian, Polish, French, English, Russian, German, Aramaic

Testimony of Salomon Birnbaum, born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1929, regarding his family members' experiences in Belgium before their escape to Cuba in 1941

Testimony of Salomon Birnbaum, born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1929, regarding his family members' experiences in Belgium before their escape to Cuba in 1941 Family background in Antwerp, Belgium; his father's service in the Austrian Army during World War I; move to Antwerp; life during the 1930s; the Jewish community in Antwerp in the 1930s; German invasion of Belgium; escape from Belgium to Cuba while using false documents, 1941; life in Havana, Cuba; the Jewish community [in Havana]; knowledge of events in Europe; end of the war; aliya to Israel, 2016.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Chaim Ya'akov Eugen Perl (b. 1934 in Petroșeni, Romania) about his history in Petroșeni

Testimony of Chaim Ya'akov Eugen Perl (b. 1934 in Petroșeni, Romania) about his history in Petroșeni The family; father's affiliation with the Vizhnitz Hasidic court; induction of father into the Austro-Hungarian Army; barred from kindergarten in 1937; religious life and establishment of cheder in 1939; Romanian fascists reach Petroșeni—provisioning the Romanian Army with clothing; "Aryanization" of Jewish shops; reports on transfer of Jews to Transnistria in 1940; transfer of father to labor camp in town; the mayor of Petroșeni provides assistance; liberation by the Red Army; attempted rape of mother by a...

File Number : 14323

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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