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Testimony of Hannah (Loewy) Peleg, born in Vienna, Austria, 1924, regarding her experience in Vienna and Great Britain

Testimony of Hannah (Loewy) Peleg, born in Vienna, Austria, 1924, regarding her experience in Vienna and Great Britain Life in Vienna; attends a non-Jewish elementary school; coping with displays of antisemitism; attends a Jewish high school, until 1938; Anschluss; Kristallnacht; move of Hannah, her brother Issaschar Dov (Bernhard) and her sister Lisa (Ilse) to Great Britain, in the context of the Kindertransport; Life in Great Britain as a young Jewish refugee girl in non-Jewish surroundings; joins aliya training in Brosgrove, following activities in the Bachad youth movement; marriage to Yaakov Felsen;...

File Number : 253

Language : Hebrew

Documents and certificates belonging to Erich Weiss, born in Vienna, Austria, 24 April 1919; he lived in Vienna until 1938, in Zurich, Switzerland and Nice, France, as an Austrian refugee; in England he served in the British military in the "Royal Pioneers Corps" from 1943

File Number : 231

Type of Material : Identity Card, Personal Records, Notepad

Language : French, English, German

Testimony of David Keisch, born in Stanestii De Sus Pe Ceremus, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski, the Kopaygorod Ghetto and in a camp in the Kosrineti forest

Testimony

Testimony of David Keisch, born in Stanestii De Sus Pe Ceremus, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski, the Kopaygorod Ghetto and in a camp in the Kosrineti forest Well-to-do, traditional family; life before the war; displays of antisemitism. Concentration of the Jews in the court house, and the execution of 70 men including his father; deportation to Transnistria; transfer to Atachi via the Nistru River; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; deportation on foot in convoys under the escort of gendarmes; arrival of his family to the Kopaygorod Ghetto; Kopaygorod Ghetto life; transfer...

File Number : 13166

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters, certificate and deportation order of child Hedwig Schorstein and her mother Wilma (Lichtenstein) Schorstein, who arrived to the Netherlands from Vienna, Austria; documents dated, 1937-1942

Letters, certificate and deportation order of child Hedwig Schorstein and her mother Wilma (Lichtenstein) Schorstein, who arrived to the Netherlands from Vienna, Austria; documents dated, 1937-1942 - Graduation certificate from the 1st grade to the 2nd grade in the public elementary school in Vienna, given to "Jewish pupil Hedwig Schorstein" at the completion of the 1937/1938 school year (page 1); - Dedication in German, written to her daughter Hedwig apparently by her mother Wilma Schorstein, including mention of the difficult and sad events that happened to her child, and her mother's hope for a better...

File Number : 880

Type of Material : Letter, Official Documentation

Language : Dutch, German

Letters sent to Zelma Fischler in Eretz Israel by her parents and siblings in Graz, Milan and Sweden, 1938-1940

Letters sent to Zelma Fischler in Eretz Israel by her parents and siblings in Graz, Milan and Sweden, 1938-1940 - Letters written in Graz: Daily life of the parents; emigration of relatives, friends and neighbors to other countries; plans and summaries to emigrate or obtain certificates for legal aliya to Eretz Israel in order to be united with their daughter; emigration of their younger son to Sweden; concern over relatives in Poland with whom they have been in touch by mail; - Letters written in Milan: Concern of the parents over their fate due to the impossibility of leaving after the outbreak of the...

File Number : 698

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Survey report and translation of newspaper clippings from the Finnish press of the 1960s, regarding the deportation from Finland of eight Jewish refugees from Austria in 1942, written by Karmela and Sami Belinki

File Number : 2244

Type of Material : Newspaper, Survey Report

Language : English

Testimony of Leo Wolloch, regarding his experiences as a refugee in Luxembourg and France

Testimony of Leo Wolloch, regarding his experiences as a refugee in Luxembourg and France Included in the file: Article in German, regarding the refugees in Europe before World War II.

File Number : 1880

Type of Material : Testimony, Research Article

Language : English

Contacts with Jews in Nazi occupied countries and reports on events there, by country: Austria

Contacts with Jews in Nazi occupied countries and reports on events there, by country: Austria Report from Alfred Weishut regarding Austrian Jewry after the war, including data on the number of Jews in various locations. The report is missing pages 4, 6, 7 and 9-11; Letter from Chaim Pazner to Alfred Weishut confirming the receipt of the report, January 1946. The page numbers do not necessarily correspond with the frame numbers in the scan.

File Number : 48

Type of Material : Statistical Data, Survey Report

Language : German

Testimony of Boiana Iakoblevich, born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding her experiences in Durazzo camp, Ferramonti Di Tarsa camp and with Tito's partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Boiana Iakoblevich, born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding her experiences in Durazzo camp, Ferramonti Di Tarsa camp and with Tito's partisans Jewish life in Belgrade before the war; status of the Jews; Jewish community activities; the way of life of the Sephardi and Ashkenazi communities; Jewish contribution to the city; co-existence; good relations with the Serbs; absorption of Jewish refugees from Austria and Czechoslovakia under the protection of the Yugoslavian authorities. German occupation, 06 April 1941; demonstrations in the streets; air-raids on the city of Hapuch; escape...

File Number : 7266

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Four postcards written by Eduard, Fanni and Lazar Goldring in Sabac and Vienna to their father Aba Lipman in Tel Aviv, including news about the closure of the refugee camp in Sabac, 1941-1945

File Number : 98

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

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