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Personal documentation belonging to Moshe Mordo Almaleh, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1924

Personal documentation belonging to Moshe Mordo Almaleh, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1924 - Identity card issued by the Plovdiv municipality and approved by the police, 1941 - Release certificate from a labor battalion in Ikhtiman, September 1944; - Vacation permits for a funeral and a wedding; - Medical certificates; - Certificate from the high school in Plovdiv, 1943.

File Number : 69

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Bulgarian

Testimony of Matilda Mati (Bachar) Alkalai, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1934, regarding her experiences in Sofia, Kyustendil and Razgrad

Testimony

Testimony of Matilda Mati (Bachar) Alkalai, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1934, regarding her experiences in Sofia, Kyustendil and Razgrad Childhood, displays of antisemitism before the war; anti-Jewish decrees including yellow badge; confiscation of property; restrictions in movement and more. Drafting of her father to a camp and forced labor paving roads and laying train tracks; visiting her father in the camp together with her mother; deportation from her home to a Jewish area in Sofia; concentration of Jews in Sofia and release the next day three times before being deported to Auschwitz; assistance from...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bilha Bella (Mosheva) Rivnik, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in the ghettos and the hiding of a Jewish partisan

Testimony

Testimony of Bilha Bella (Mosheva) Rivnik, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in the ghettos and the hiding of a Jewish partisan

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Garti, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Plovdiv and in Somovit camp

Testimony

Testimony of Yisrael Garti, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Plovdiv and in Somovit camp Life before the war. Murder of Jews, 1940; imposition of restrictions on the Jews including wearing a yellow badge; curfew hours; restrictions on movement; attacks by fascist youth on Jews on the streets; appropriation of the Jewish community’s building and the Jewish school by German soldiers; studies are held in improvised classrooms; arrival of Bulgarian policemen to his family’s home, March 1943; transfer to detention in a local school along with a group of Jews; robbery of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jack Toren Mossatcho, born in Varna, Bulgaria, 1926, regarding his experiences in Varna, Popovo and Pomoshtitsa

Testimony

Testimony of Jack Toren Mossatcho, born in Varna, Bulgaria, 1926, regarding his experiences in Varna, Popovo and Pomoshtitsa Life before the war; from a well-to-do Zionist family; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel by the family, 1935; death of his mother; Anti-Jewish legislation; deportation of Jews lacking Bulgarian citizenship; marking of Jewish businesses; wearing the yellow badge, from 1941; confiscation of property; imposition of curfew in the evenings; deportation of Jews to Jewish labor battalions, from 1943; publication of antisemitic propaganda; deportation to Popovo by the Bulgarian...

File Number : 13258

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Louisa (Varsano) Levy, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Sofia, Karnobat and Dupnitsa

Testimony

Testimony of Louisa (Varsano) Levy, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Sofia, Karnobat and Dupnitsa Life before the war; displays of antisemitism. Persecution of Jews, from 1940; anti-Jewish legislation; deportation of men to labor battalions; curfew in the evenings; yellow badge, from 1942; concentration with the Jews in a Jewish neighborhood; deportation by Bulgarian policemen to Karnobat, summer 1943; her family entrusts their property to a neighbor for safekeeping; life in Karnobat in the home of family members; escape to Dupnitsa; life in Dupnitsa including fear of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation belonging to Yosif Jack Assa, born in Burgas, Bulgaria, 1923, relating to the World War II period

Documentation belonging to Yosif Jack Assa, born in Burgas, Bulgaria, 1923, relating to the World War II period Photocopies of documents belonging to Yosif Jack Assa relating to the time of the persecution of the Jews in Bulgaria, including an identity card, declaration, autobiography from 2001, birth certificate and medical opinion regarding his physical condition.

File Number : 61

Type of Material : Document, Identity Card, Personal Documents, List of Names, Official Documentation, List of Deportees

Language : Bulgarian

Memoirs of Jews from Bulgaria regarding the events of March 1943

Memoirs of Jews from Bulgaria regarding the events of March 1943 - Report submitted by the police in Burgas regarding the danger of deportation and the atmosphere among the Jews of Burgas, including Communist activities, March 1943; - Circular sent by the Ministry of the Interior to the regions regarding additional deportations of the Jews of Sofia; - Memoirs of Yako Baruh, Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel representative, regarding the events of 09 March 1943.

File Number : 50

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Memoirs

Language : Bulgarian

Documentation regarding the Jews of Pirot, 1942-1943

Documentation regarding the Jews of Pirot, 1942-1943 - Reports and eviction orders issued by the Bulgarian police regarding Jews in Pirot; - Certification of the drafting of Jack Tuvi Yusef in Belove, 1942; - Ceremony written in memory of the Pirot deportees, 13 March 1988; - Two photographs of a deportation ship in the Lom harbor.

File Number : 27

Type of Material : Official Documentation, List of Deportees

Language : Bulgarian, Serbian

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

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