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Correspondence between the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) and the Chief Lodge of the Bnai Brith organization in Germany, regarding the inspection of the association's accounting and administration, 07/03/1910-05/07/1932 - Some of the correspondence belongs to Rabbi Leo Baeck, who was the chairman of the Chief Lodge of the Bnai Brith organization in Germany during 1925-1937.

File Number : JM/28884

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Anny (Ballek) Lohr, born in Prostejov, Czechoslovakia, 1917, regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Hamburg and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Anny (Ballek) Lohr, born in Prostejov, Czechoslovakia, 1917, regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Hamburg and Bergen-Belsen From a traditional, Zionist family; preparations for aliya to Eretz Israel; unsuccessful attempt to make aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Patria"; return home due to illness. German occupation, 1939; deportation to Theresienstadt, autumn 1940; handing over of valuables; separation between men and women; camp life including labor in the laundry, performances and cultural life; transfer to Auschwitz; camp life; tattoo with number 73255; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Riwka (Klain) Tankel, born in Nilvange, France, 1925, regarding her experiences in Nilvange, St. Etienne, in the Maquis and in hiding on a farm

Testimony of Esther Riwka (Klain) Tankel, born in Nilvange, France, 1925, regarding her experiences in Nilvange, St. Etienne, in the Maquis and in hiding on a farm Life before the war; move of her family to St. Etienne. Outbreak of the war; joins the Jewish Scouts movement, E.I.F.; activities on behalf of Jewish soldiers; German occupation; joins the Maquis underground; activities in the St. Galmier area to move Jewish children with the help of priests; life in hiding on a farm; religious life and keeping kosher; detention of her parents in St. Symphorien; liberation of the area. Marriage; activities...

Language : French

Testimony of Tova Veis, born in Tarna Mare, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Hust Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof and Danzig

Testimony

Testimony of Tova Veis, born in Tarna Mare, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Hust Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof and Danzig Religious family; life before the war; move to Hust; attends school; the Jewish community; death of her mother and grandfather. Decrees; remarriage of her father; confiscation of valuables; deportation to the Hust Ghetto; shearing of her father's beard; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her step-mother who was sent for extermination; camp life; transfer to Stutthof; transfer to Danzig; camp life and forced labor building an airfield; death march;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Heskia Davidov's activities, 1912-1950

File Number : 257

Type of Material : Survey

Language : Bulgarian

Memoirs of Salomon Aladgem on Jews in Vidin, 1878-mid 20th century

Memoirs of Salomon Aladgem on Jews in Vidin, 1878-mid 20th century Memoirs on the experiences of Vidon Jewry including names of prominent Jews, cultural activities and Zionists in Vidin.

File Number : 239

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Bulgarian

Memoirs of Eli Basan and Mois Basan

Memoirs of Eli Basan and Mois Basan The file also includes: Letter sent by the wife of Mois Basan to Benjamin Arditti with memoirs of her husband, 1964.

File Number : 237

Language : Bulgarian

Testimony of Emanuel Krantz, born in Oswiecim, Poland, 1937, regarding his experiences as a small child in the Ural Mountains and near Tashkent

Testimony

Testimony of Emanuel Krantz, born in Oswiecim, Poland, 1937, regarding his experiences as a small child in the Ural Mountains and near Tashkent From a traditional Zionist family; witness's father's Gordonia activities; escape to the Ural Mountains; death of his brother; move to Uzbekistan; life near Tashkent; his parents' work in the kolkhoz; search for food; coordination of social and religious activities for the workers in a sugar factory by his father; establishment of a cooperative by his father with permission from the authorities, late 1944. Return to Poland, 1946; fate of his relatives; joins a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Schwarz, born in Nuernberg, 1926, regarding his experiences in Nuernberg on Kristallnacht, his aliya to Eretz Israel in 1939, and his activities in Europe within the context of Aliya Bet, 1946 Life in a well-to-do, religious Jewish home; his father, a merchant of wine-making equipment, is also involved in community life; displays of antisemitism following the rise of the Nazis; his father is murdered, 1937 (at the time, they received a report that he had died from a stroke; it was clarified later that he had been murdered by the Nazis); Nazis breaking into their home on Kristallnacht and...

File Number : 11731

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence of Benjamin Arditti with the Bnai Brith offices, 1933-1959

Correspondence of Benjamin Arditti with the Bnai Brith offices, 1933-1959 Letters sent by Bnai Brith offices in Jerusalem, Haifa, Ramla and Tel Aviv to Benjamin Arditti, 1952-1959; information sheet on the material in preparation for a summit with Bnai Brith offices in Bulgaria and the establishment of the main office in Bulgaria in 1933 including a list of Bnai Brith offices in the ten largest cities in Bulgaria, 1987-1933.

File Number : 15

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Bulgarian, Hebrew, German

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