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Booklet containing research on the family history (roots) of Adela (Esther Ita) (Gerstman) Frenkel and Chaim Frenkel written by their daughter, Chana (Frenkel) Shtauber, 1990

Booklet containing research on the family history (roots) of Adela (Esther Ita) (Gerstman) Frenkel and Chaim Frenkel written by their daughter, Chana (Frenkel) Shtauber, 1990 Included in the booklet:: - Description of the experiences of Adela and Chaim Frenkel and their family until their aliya to Israel; - Certified testimonial declaration by Adela Frenkel in Pardes Chana, 23 October 1989, regarding her rescue during the war by a Polish woman, Wiktoria Szymanska, later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem and invited by Adela Frenkel to visit Israel, (in Hebrew, with instructions...

File Number : 8537

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Photograph, Declaration, Booklet(s), Testimony, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Testimony of A.S., born in Lwow, Poland, regarding his experiences in Poland and Romania

Testimony of A.S., born in Lwow, Poland, regarding his experiences in Poland and Romania Crosses the Romanian border from Poland, 17 September 1939; life in Romania as a refugee; attitude of the local population and Romanian government to refugees; financial assistance to the refugees; attitude of the Polish refugees to the Jews; life in the refugee camps including displays of antisemitism; end of the war. Aliya to Eretz Israel, July 1944. The testimony was recorded in 1944.

File Number : 58

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Mina Mei, from Krakow, Poland, regarding her experiences in Stryj, Munkac and Budapest

Testimony of Mina Mei, from Krakow, Poland, regarding her experiences in Stryj, Munkac and Budapest Life in Stryj; arrests of Ukrainian national movement members by the Soviets; arrest of Jews by Soviets; murder of prisoners by the Soviets before the Red Army retreat; German occupation; riots against the Jews; establishment of the Judenrat with Dr. Huttener as the head; registration and deportation of Jews to forced labor by the Judenrat; persecution of Jews in Lwow; order by the authorities to evacuate Jews from the border areas; unsuccessful attempts to illegally cross the border into Hungary; crosses the...

File Number : 18

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Yocheved Schwartzman, born in Alexsandria, regarding her experiences in the Lublin Ghetto, Chelm, Sosnowica, Hungary and other places

Testimony of Yocheved Schwartzman, born in Alexsandria, regarding her experiences in the Lublin Ghetto, Chelm, Sosnowica, Hungary and other places Life before the war including work in kibbutz aliya training. Escape of the kibbutz members East; German occupation of Lublin, September 1939; welcome of the Germans by the Polish locals; capture of hostages; registration of the Jews from age 16 to 60; deportation of the Jews to camps on the eastern border; deportation of the Jews from Kalisz; Loda and Lublin; arrival of refugees from Germany and Austria to Lublin, 1940; release of Jewish POWs; deportation of...

File Number : 16

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Joseph Shprung, born in Ulanow, Poland, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Siberia and Tobolsk

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Shprung, born in Ulanow, Poland, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Siberia and Tobolsk Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; move of his father to the Soviet occupied area, 1940; detention of his father on suspicion of being a spy for the Germans; illegally crosses the border with his mother; activities to release his father; release of his father; exile of the family to Siberia; life in Siberia and labor of his father logging trees in the forests; transfer to Tobolsk; detention of his parents, 1942; life in an orphanage until 1944; release of his parents; move of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hela (Mismer) Kraus, born in Orahovica, 1919, regarding her experiences in Hreljin, Trieste, Aprica and a DP camp in Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Hela (Mismer) Kraus, born in Orahovica, 1919, regarding her experiences in Hreljin, Trieste, Aprica and a DP camp in Switzerland Her father was born in Poland; move to Osijek; witness attends a Jewish kindergarten and Jewish school; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; activities in the Jewish National Fund, JNF; work in Djurdjevac; marriage. Outbreak of the war, 1941; escape to Hreljin, under Italian occupation, with help from a priest; move to Trieste; life in Trieste with help from the Joint; deportation to Aprica, 1942; life with a group of Jewish refugees in Aprica; German occupation,...

File Number : 12463

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation from government institutions in Bulgaria, 1938-1944

Documentation from government institutions in Bulgaria, 1938-1944 - Certificates regarding the drafting of labor battalions, 1938-1944; - Forms regarding residence in Pirot; - Forms related to supervision of the borders, 1943-1944; - Certificates from the police and National Bank in Plovdiv, Pazardhzik and Sofia including travel passes and emigration and aliya visas, 1941-1944; - Coupon for distribution of bread to a foreign citizen, 1943.

File Number : 15

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Bulgarian, English

Personal documentation and correspondence belonging to Yitzchak Felix Meyer and his parents, Michael and Amalia Meyer, who made aliya to Eretz Israel from Germany, survived the "Patria" tragedy and were detained in Atlit, 1881-1997 Volume I (pp. 1-262) This volume contains personal documentation belonging to Yitzchak Felix Meyer from his birth: Page 1: Copy of the opening page ("Index") with 12 chapters, nine of which (1-6, 10-12) mention their topics; the topics are (the numbers of the pages of the present file containing material matching the topic in the "Index" are given in parentheses): 1. "I As a...

File Number : 356

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Lecture, List of Deportees, Announcement, Personal Records, Booklet(s), Inventory List, Newspaper Clippings, Book, Letter, Memoirs, Diary, Postcard, Record of Persecuted Persons, Poems/songs, Newspaper

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

Memoirs of David Kipnis, regarding his experiences in Paris, Lyon, Les Houches, in hiding on the border of France and Switzerland, and in other places

Memoirs of David Kipnis, regarding his experiences in Paris, Lyon, Les Houches, in hiding on the border of France and Switzerland, and in other places Life in Russia as a child and youth; life in Germany; life in Paris as a foreign citizen, before the war; escape to the Free Zone in France with his wife, 1940-1941; life in Lyon; detention, and detention camp life; release from the camp, and escape to various places; life in Les Houches; attitude of the French Police toward the refugees; attempts to detain him and his wife; unsuccessful attempt to illegally cross the border into Switzerland, after being...

File Number : 5034

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Testimony of Naomi Fuerst, born in Presov, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences in Presov, Liptovsky-Hradok and Ravensbrueck

Testimony

Testimony of Naomi Fuerst, born in Presov, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences in Presov, Liptovsky-Hradok and Ravensbrueck Life before the war; displays of antisemitism, 1941; hiding Polish Jews en route to Hungary. Rescue from deportation on "Black Saturday"; deportation of the Jews, 1942; escape to Hungary, March 1943; her parents' visit in Kosice; return to Presov, April 1944; escape to Liptovsky-Hradok; return to Presov; discovery of their hiding place by the Slovakian police, November 1944; interrogation by the Gestapo of the people who were in hiding ; deportation to Ravensbrueck,...

File Number : 10393

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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