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Two letters sent by Margit Traubl in Cacov, Slovakia, to her daughter Magda (Traubl) Roth in Eretz Israel, Red Cross letter sent on 17 June 1941 to Margit Traubl announcing the wedding of her daughter Magda to Mordechaj Roth, and a postcard sent by Jenő Roth in Nagyszőllős to Margit Traubl, 01 December 1940 - Letter in German written in Tel Aviv, 15 February 1940 (it is not clear who wrote the letter and to whom); - Postcard in Hungarian sent by Jenő Roth in Nagyszőllős to Margit Traubl in Cacov, 01 December 1940; - Red Cross letter from Eretz Israel sent on 17 June 1941 to Margit Traubl announcing the...

File Number : 2253

Type of Material : Postcard, Red Cross Letter, Letter

Language : German, Hungarian

Testimony of Sylvia Rachel Davidovicz, nee Weiss, born in Sacalaseni, Romania, in 1929, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare ghetto and in the Auschwitz Birkenau, Boizenburg and Ludwigslust camps

Testimony of Sylvia Rachel Davidowicz, nee Weiss, born in Sacalaseni, Romania, in 1929, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare ghetto and in the Boizenburg, Auschwitz Birkenau and Ludwigslust camps Childhood in Baia Mare; re- annexation of the place to Hungary in 1940; transfer of ownership of the father's flour mill to Hungarians in 1941; the rise of antisemitism; interruption of studies; the German occupation in 1944; deportation to the ghetto in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; transfer to Boizenburg; life in the camp; transfer to work in a factory manufacturing tanks and planes; transfer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Veisvaser, born in 1922 in Krasnystaw, Poland, about the German occupation in September 1939 and his escape to the Soviet Union

Testimony

Testimony of Yisrael Veisvaser, born in 1922 in Krasnystaw, Poland, about the German occupation in September 1939 and his escape to the Soviet Union Childhood in a traditional home; attends a cheder and a Polish elementary school; active in the Betar movement; German occupation ensues; Soviet invasion ensues in 1939; witness escapes to Brest and thence to Minsk; back to Brest; on to Ludman; arrested due to Zionist activity; deported to a labor camp in Rom, Soviet Union; transferred to a camp for craftspersons; released in June 1943; reaches Zhitomir and Chełm; discharged from the Polish Army in 1946; moves...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Zeev Semel On, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, in 1924, regarding labour camps, his deportation to Buchenwald and other camps

Testimony

-Parents'house; anti-semitism; air-raids; occupation by the German army on 04 September,1939; humiliations; forced labour; deportation to the Piotrkow Trybunalski ghetto; the father is a member of the Judenradt; contribution demand; confiscation of furs; walking on the pavement is forbidden; starvation; passing of valuables to local neighbours; reduction of the ghetto; issuance of working papers on 21 October 1942; his work as a porter in "Shneider shop" (tailor shop) for the needs of the German army and cargo transfer from place to place; assembling the children in the big synagogue and their murder;...

File Number : 13463

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters, postcards and personal documentation belonging to the Eilenberg family from Ciechocinek, 1920s-1930s

Letters, postcards and personal documentation belonging to the Eilenberg family from Ciechocinek, 1920s-1930s Letters, postcards, telegrams and envelopes: - Love letters from Dzidek to Lea (Ludka) Eilenberg, 1920-1921; - Condolences from Moniek to Ludka on her mother's death, 12 December 1922; - A poem by Moniek in Warszawa for Ludka, 01 December 1922; - Request for 10 zloty for the holidays sent to Ludka; - Letter sent to Ludka, 23 October 1919; - Postcards from the Weisblat family in the United States to Majer Eilenberg and his daughter Ludka in Ciechocinek, 1921-1922; - Postcard to...

File Number : 1970

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Postcard, Letter, Envelope, Invitation, Official Documentation, Telegram

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Memoirs of Moshe Lederman, born in Jedrzejow, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Jedrzejow, Czechia, Fiume, his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938 and more

Memoirs of Moshe Lederman, born in Jedrzejow, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Jedrzejow, Czechia, Fiume, his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938 and more Life before the war; attends a government elementary school; attends a Hamizrachi school conducted in Hebrew; displays of anti-Semitism; imposition of a commercial boycott on Jews; life in an aliya training facility; move to Czechia; move to Austria; move to Fiume; life at the Fiume port; aliya to Eretz Israel, 20 September 1938.

File Number : 8508

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yekhezkel Tzukert, born in 1929 in Warsaw, about his experiences in the Warsaw ghetto and in camps in Poland, Germany, and Czechoslovakia during the war

Life before the war; offspring of an affluent traditional Zionist family; antisemitic manifestations before the war; attends a cheder and a Jewish government school; encounters Jewish refugees from Germany in 1938; war breaks out; ghettoization; studies in the underground until 1942; mutual assistance; epidemic typhus; placed in a Jewish hospital; sister and younger brother die; parents and remaining brother sent to Treblinka; adopted by Szmul Wajsman; smuggling food into the ghetto; arrested by Jewish police and sent to Majdanek; life in the camp; assigned to forced labor; physical abuse; cases of suicide;...

File Number : 13551

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters and postcards sent to Yisrael and Rivka (Ciechanowiecki) Katz in Eretz Israel by their family members from Krasne and Bransk, Poland, 1936-1939, a diary written by Yisrael Katz, 1931, and personal documentation of Yisrael Katz Letters, postcards and greeting cards: - Postcards sent to Rivka Katz in Eretz Israel by her mother Chana Kozydowicz in Bransk, 1938-1941; - Letters and postcards sent to Yisrael Katz in Eretz Israel by his brothers Mendel and Yosef Katz in Krasne, 1936-1940; - Letters sent to Rivka Katz in Eretz Israel by her family members in Bransk, 1936-1940; - Letters and...

File Number : 1831

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Postcard, Letter, Obituary, Notebook, Diary

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, Yiddish

Testimony of Boris Ebenspenger, born in Cakovec, Yugoslavia in 1926, regarding his experiences in Cakovec, in Sopron and Baja camps, with the partisans lead by Tito, and in other places

Testimony of Boris Ebenspenger, born in Cakovec, Yugoslavia in 1926, regarding his experiences in Cakovec, in Sopron and Baja camps, with the partisans lead by Tito, and in other places Life in Cakovec as a child; antisemitism; activities in the Beitar movement; Escape of Jewish refugees; Hungarian occupation, April 1941; deportation to forced labor in Budapest, July 1943; forced labor in Szolnok starting in March 1944; transfer to Sopron camp and to other camps in Hungary; transfer to Baja camp, October 1944; unsuccessful attempt to escape to the liberated city of Belgrade; meeting with inmates from...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Serbian

Testimony of Eliezer Perl, born in Iacobeni, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences in Iacobeni and Murafa

Testimony

Testimony of Eliezer Perl, born in Iacobeni, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences in Iacobeni and Murafa His family's life Iacobeni before the outbreak of the war. Deportation to Murafa, in Transnistria; life in Murafa; liberation. Life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1964; life in Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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