Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

452 Results

Documentation regarding Hans Paul Weiner, born in Trautenau, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel and service in PAL-Company 608

Documentation regarding Hans Paul Weiner, born in Trautenau, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel and service in PAL-Company 608 - Excerpts from the British Army historical documentation collection, regarding PAL-Company 608, dated, 31 March 1941-17 January 1944; - Photographs and newspaper clippings from "The Palestine Post", 20 May-09 June 1941; - Memoirs of Hans Paul Weiner; Childhood in Trautenau; Escape by his family from a pail [?] to a pogrom; [move?] to Prague, September 1938; attempts to receive an emigration visa in preparation for aliya; illegal aliya from...

File Number : 389

Type of Material : Survey Report, Newspaper Clippings, Telegram, Official Documentation, Diary

Language : English, German

Documentation regarding Abraham Cymbalista, born in Chruszczybrod, Poland, 1896; documents dated, 1940-1942

Documentation regarding Abraham Cymbalista, born in Chruszczybrod, Poland, 1896; documents dated, 1940-1942 Original documents: - Two letters written to Abraham Cymbalista in Lens by a person in the prefecture in Quimper who is interested in helping regarding the confiscation of Cymbalista's business, 09 September 1940 and 05 December 1940; - Official letter sent by a military supervisor to Abraham Cymbalista in Lens, regarding the liquidation of expropriations and markets [?] in Paris, 21 March 1941; - Card attesting to Abraham Cymbalista's participation in a compensation fund for self-employed...

File Number : 540

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Personal Documents, Transport List

Language : French

Postcard sent by Isaiah Morris from Marseille to Rena Plawner in Tel Aviv, 12 December 1947; speech given by A. Atzmon (Blumovitz) on the occasion of the anniversary of the death of Isaiah Morris, including his memories of Isaiah Morris Isaiah Morris was born in Scotland, 1917; medical studies at the University of London. Outbreak of World War II; draft into the British Army; wounded in combat in Europe; receives the M.C. medal for excellence for his service in the British Army. Specialization in pediatric medicine in a government hospital in London, after the war; move to France, early 1947; work in...

File Number : 324

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Hebrew, French

Permit issued in the Lamsdorf POW camp for British soldier Albert Fano, 13 May 1942, and military service booklet received by him upon mobilization, 9 December 1940

Permit issued in the Lamsdorf POW camp for British soldier Albert Fano, 13 May 1942, and military service booklet received by him upon mobilization, 9 December 1940 - Permit issued in the Lamsdorf POW camp for the transfer of British Jewish soldier Albert Fano to the camp hospital, 13 May 1942; - Notification sent on behalf of the British Army regarding Albert Fano being taken captive, 16 August 1941; - Military service booklet belonging to Albert Bohor Fano, born in Burgas, Bulgaria, 23 March 1908, mobilized in Sarafand, 9 December 1940; booklet contains soldier’s personal information, including...

File Number : 634

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Notepad, Personal Records

Language : English, German

Testimony of Eliezer Leo Matzger, born in Kiel, Germany, in 1920, regarding his experiences in ‎Kiel and Hamburg and his aliya to Eretz Israel

Testimony of Eliezer Leo Matzger, born in Kiel, Germany, in 1920, regarding his experiences in ‎Kiel and Hamburg and his aliya to Eretz Israel Born into a religious family from Galicia; life in Kiel in a non-Jewish area until 1933; life after the ‎Nazi Party came into power; membership in the Zionist Habonim Movement; aliya of his older ‎sisters to Eretz Israel in 1934; closing of the family store; escape to the Hechalutz Movement’s ‎aliya training center in Hamburg in 1936; decision of the movement’s leadership in spring 1939 to ‎send him to Eretz Israel; travel through the Czech region, Austria and Italy;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Birth certificate of Joseph Kurt Kerpen, born in Vienna, Austria, 1918, a Heimatscheine (Residence Certificate) from 1935; a British Army Soldier's Service and Pay Book and an additional document from 1947 - Joseph Kurt Kerpen, the father of Jichak Kerpen who submitted the material, made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1938; he enlisted in the British Army in 1939, and was discharged in 1946; he served as a driver of trucks and tankers in the Royal Engineer Corps during the war years. - Letter sent by Kurt Kerpen from Eretz Israel (73 Herzl Street, Petach Tikwah) to Siegfried Israel and Frieda Kerpen in Vienna,...

File Number : 246

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : English, German

Letters and postcards sent to Max Bergman in [Eretz] Israel by his father in Ludwigshafen and by his brothers and friends in England, Argentina and the United States, 1938-1951

Letters and postcards sent to Max Bergman in [Eretz] Israel by his father in Ludwigshafen and by his brothers and friends in England, Argentina and the United States, 1938-1951 Included in the documents: - Postcard in Yiddish sent by the Bergman family in Ulanow to Max Bergman in Eretz Israel, 05 April 1938; - Postcard sent by Emanuel Fass from Ludwigshafen to Max Bergman in Eretz Israel, 23 September 1938; - Letters and postcards sent to Max Bergman in Eretz Israel from his father in Ludwigshafen, 1938-1939; - Letter sent to Max Bergman in Eretz Israel from his father in Mannheim, 22 November...

File Number : 1992

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

Album containing photos and documentation (scrapbook) and personal documents of Rudolf Seidl, Vienna, who emigrated from Austria and served with the British Army, 1938-1951

File Number : 24.1

Type of Material : Booklet(s), Letter, Travel Ticket, Official Documentation, Personal Documents, Record of Survivors, Invitation, Telegram, Passport

Language : English, German

Release certificate from German captivity issued to Albert Hano, a British soldier, as part of a prisoner exchange between England and Germany, 05 November 1942

Release certificate from German captivity issued to Albert Hano, a British soldier, as part of a prisoner exchange between England and Germany, 05 November 1942 "Brit. Jude" (British Jew) appears under "Nationality" [on the certificate]. Comments by the submitter of the material regarding the experiences of Albert Hano, born in Bulgaria, 1908: - Aliya to Eretz Israel with his wife Lenka, 1935; - Fought in the British Army; - Capture by the German Army; - Life in Lamsdorf camp including working in the coal mines; - Release from captivity as part of an exchange of sick prisoners, due to his...

File Number : 628

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : German

Testimony of Prof. David Jakoby Jakobowitz, born in Antwerpen, Belgium, 1928, regarding his experiences in Antwerp, Lyon, Geneva, Adliswil and Celerina

Testimony

Testimony of Prof. David Jakoby Jakobowitz, born in Antwerpen, Belgium, 1928, regarding his experiences in Antwerp, Lyon, Geneva, Adliswil and Celerina Childhood in Antwerp; his father is a partner of a diamond company; studies at a Jewish elementary school for boys “Jashobeam”. German occupation, 10.05.1940; escape with his family on a train to France; German occupation; back home to the hometown; studies in a French public high school; yellow badges; restrictions; cancellation of food tickets for Jews; beginning of the deportation of the city's Jews to Poland, autumn of 1942; escape with his family by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Items per page:

1 – 10 of 452