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Testimony of Tzipora Frieda (Markovitz) Nemesh, born in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia in 1919, regarding her experiences in Mukačevo Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau and Zittau camps

Testimony of Tzipora Frieda (Markovitz) Nemesh, born in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia in 1919, regarding her experiences in Mukačevo Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau and Zittau camps Life before the war; receiving a Hebrew education; activity in Hashomer Hatza’ir youth movement; publication of blood libel; German occupation in March 1944; expulsion to ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; murder of part of the family in camp; transfer to Zittau about six months later; life in camp; labor in factory; liberation by Red Army; life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1956; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

[Internal] correspondence of the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) in Upper Silesia, regarding various subjects, 02/01/1933-23/05/1936 - Obligation regarding the registration of wholesale and retail merchants (page 805); - Permission for the sale of Christmas decorations (page 805); - Bund Deutsch-Juedischer Jugend (German-Jewish Youth Association) (pp. 805, 820 and 841); - Blood libel, and its refutation (page 806); - List of members of the Centralverein - CV regional branch in Upper Silesia (page 899); - Boycott on Jewish...

File Number : JM/28889

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Correspondence regarding the blood libel against Nikolay Bomze, from Tskhaltubo, who was arrested and released in 1962

Correspondence regarding the blood libel against Nikolay Bomze, from Tskhaltubo, who was arrested and released in 1962 Correspondence including letters to Ilya Ehrenburg from Bomze's relatives and his housemaid, requesting help in the affair; Nikolay Bomze, from Tskhaltubo, was accused of taking blood for ritual purposes from a boy in Georgia [USSR] named Giya Shovinidze; following the intervention of Ilya Ehrenburg, his secretary Valentina Milman and the poet Boris Slutskiy, the accused man was released; Included in the file are letters of gratitude to Ilya Ehrenburg; letter by Ilya Ehrenburg to the...

File Number : 19

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Various documents and appeals by the Jews of Dagestan to the authorities complaining about the author of an article in the "Kommunist" newspaper published in Buynakst accusing the Jews of Dagestan of using the blood of Muslims for cult purposes In the file there are excerpts from the article by Makhmudov; appeals by mountain Jews to Ilya Ehrenburg, the local authorities and the government of the Soviet Union; reactions of the local authorities; Ilya Ehrenburg's appeal to Suslov requesting an investigation of the matter; excerpts from speeches by famous lawyers regarding the blood libel (the Sara Modebadze...

File Number : 13

Type of Material : Letter, Article

Language : Russian

Internal correspondence of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), regarding a lecture in Cologne about the motivations for blood libels, 23/07-22/08/1929

File Number : JM/28887

Type of Material : Poster, Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation on the phenomenon of antisemitism in Vratsa and Yambol, late 19th century

Documentation on the phenomenon of antisemitism in Vratsa and Yambol, late 19th century Memoirs of the son of Yohanan Avraam Benbassat who was convicted of blood libel in Vratsa; Comments of the trial against Bokhor Yeshaya Shishedji, 1898.

File Number : 118

Type of Material : Story(ies)

Language : Bulgarian

Testimony of Tonia (Meser) Shmerlowski, born in Sanok, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences in Sanok, Turka, Siberia and Kazakhstan

Testimony

Testimony of Tonia (Meser) Shmerlowski, born in Sanok, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences in Sanok, Turka, Siberia and Kazakhstan The witness' father is an intellectual; receives a Polish and a Jewish (Beit Yakov) education; relations between Poles and Jews; meeting with Jewish refugees from Germany; help to refugees before the war; hoarding food. Outbreak of the war; shelling; German occupation; restrictions on Jews; burning of synagogues; deportation to the Soviet Union; crossing the San; brutal treatment of the deportees by the Ukrainians; life in Turka for approximately nine months; attendance at...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Szwarc, born in Dzialoszyce, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Dzialoszyce Ghetto, Czestochowa, Pinczow Ghetto, Blechhammer, Klettendorf, Faulbrueck and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Szwarc, born in Dzialoszyce, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Dzialoszyce Ghetto, Czestochowa, Pinczow Ghetto, Blechhammer, Klettendorf, Faulbrueck and other places Life before the war. German occupation, September 1939; escape to cities in the vicinity; deportation to Czestochowa; camp life including physical abuse; sanitation labor; transfer to Berlin; life in Berlin including humiliation in the streets; transfer to Tesin; life in Tesin including help from the Czechoslovakian population; transfer to Goerlitz; transfer to Krakow; camp life including release with a group...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana (Rozengarten) Bodenstein, born in Wola Zarczycka, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in Lowisko, Sokolow , in hiding and using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana (Rozengarten) Bodenstein, born in Wola Zarczycka, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in Lowisko, Sokolow , in hiding and using a false identity Life before the war; her parents own farming land; move to Lowisko. Outbreak of the war, 1939; restrictions on the Jews including ban to attend school; attends a "heder" with boys; deportation to the Sokolow Ghetto, 1940; ghetto life; escape of the men to the Soviet Union and their escape to return to the ghetto; yellow badge; death of her grandparents; her sister is entrusted with Poles; her brother is entrusted to Poles in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pnina Iren (Frish) Rubinstein, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Hajdunanas Ghetto, Debrecen, Strasshof and Wien

Testimony

Testimony of Pnina Iren (Frish) Rubinstein, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Hajdunanas Ghetto, Debrecen, Strasshof and Wien Life before the war; attends the Jewish school and learns at home; numerus clausus. Outbreak of the war; draft of her father to forced labor logging trees, 1940; restrictions on Jews including selling merchandise; German occupation, Pesach 1944; deportation of the Jewish men including her father to a labor camp; yellow badge; deportation to the Hajdunanas Ghetto; ghetto life including first aid courses; concentration of the Jews in the railroad...

File Number : 12767

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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