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Testimony of Mikhael Peter Hendrich Ben Dror Kelman, born in 1941 in Hilversum, Netherlands, about his experiences as an infant in the Amsterdam ghetto, in the Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen camps, and immigration to Eretz Israel as part of a prisoner swap

Parents born in Germany; grandson of the writer Georg Hermann Borchardt; family escapes from Germany to the Netherlands in 1933; grandfather's books burned in Germany; father, Herbert Kelman, escapes; deportation to the Amsterdam ghetto along with mother and grandfather; deportation to Westerbork in 1943; hospitalized in the camp and spared from the transports; grandfather sent to Auschwitz and transferred to Bergen-Belsen; swapping of Templer prisoners from Mandate Palestine; transported to Eretz Israel by train via Turkey in June 1944; received by Kibbutz Sede Nehemia.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13546

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Brauner, born in Iasi, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in Jalomita, Todireni and Predeal

Testimony of Yisrael Brauner, born in Iasi, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in Jalomita, Todireni and Predeal Traditional family; his father is a carpenter and his mother a seamstress; attends a "heder" and a Romanian school. Outbreak of the war; increase in antisemitism and burning of the carpentry workshop, 1940; anti-Jewish legislation including the yellow badge; deportation to Jalomita, 1941; transfer back to Iasi; hospitalization; deportation to Todireni; camp life including labor digging ditches; transfer to Predeal; camp life including labor digging; liberation by the Red Army. Return...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimonies gathered by Mikhail Rayak and Girsh Rayak, regarding the experiences of Kobylniki Jews, 1941-1942

Testimonies gathered by Mikhail Rayak and Girsh Rayak, regarding the experiences of Kobylniki Jews, 1941-1942 German Army occupation of Kobylniki, 02 July 1941; murder of residents of Kobylniki and villages in the Kobylniki vicinity, in a field near Kobylniki, 02 July 1941; forced labor; burning of Torah scrolls in Kobylniki, 05 July 1941; acts of abuse on the Jews; murder of approximately 57 Jews from Kobylniki in a pit near a Polish cemetery, September 1941; murder of approximately 130 Jews from Kobylniki on Yom Kippur, 21 September 1942; deportation of Jewish experts from Kobylniki to Myadel, 21 September...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 4076.85

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Names of Perpetrators, List of Residents, List of Jewish Residents, List of Murdered Persons, Testimony, List of Jewish Partisans, List of Collaborators, Names

results.listIds.lang : Russian, Yiddish

Testimonies gathered by Mikhail Rayak and Girsh Rayak, regarding the experiences of Palanga and Ilya Jews, 1941-1942

Testimonies gathered by Mikhail Rayak and Girsh Rayak, regarding the experiences of Palanga and Ilya Jews, 1941-1942 German Army occupation of Palanga, 22 June 1941; establishment of the police, 22 June 1941; burning of Torah scrolls in Palanga, 26 June 1941; murder of 300 Jewish men from Palanga in a pit on the beach located approximately two kilometers from Palanga, 27 June 1941; deportation of Jewish women and children from Palanga to Valterishki, 27 June 1941; murder of Jewish women from Valterishki along with 20 Jews from Palanga, in Kanotishki, late September 1941; German Army occupation of Ilya,...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 4076.86

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Names, Testimony, Names of Perpetrators

results.listIds.lang : Russian

Correspondence of Benjamin Arditti on private, historical and social issues, 1948-1970

Correspondence of Benjamin Arditti on private, historical and social issues, 1948-1970 Appeals to newspapers in Bulgaria requesting social help; Memoirs and information on the history of the Zionist movement in Bulgaria. Note: The letters are without dates and the time the letters were written is presumed.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 35

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter

results.listIds.lang : Bulgarian, Hebrew, French, German, Ladino

Letter of testimony, written by Shia Tzimet to his friend Naphtali Bromfeld after the war, regarding the experiences of the Jews in Zmigrod and regarding the murder of the Jews on 07/07/1942

Letter of testimony, written by Shia Tzimet to his friend Naphtali Bromfeld after the war, regarding the experiences of the Jews in Zmigrod and regarding the murder of the Jews on 07/07/1942 German occupation of Zmigrod in 09/1939; abuse of the Jews; "Kol Nidrei" prayer on Yom Kippur (September) 1939; kidnapping of persons to forced labor; setting of the synagogue on fire; burning of Jewish books; charity activities on behalf of Jewish refugees who were deported to Zmigrod; activities by the Judenrat; murder of the Jews of Zmigrod on 07/07/1942 (Kaf-Bet Tamuz 5702).

results.listIds.fileNumber : 5347

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Yiddish

Information written by Uri Finkel from Rakow, Poland, on the pages of a Rakow Community Chevra Kadisha (Burial Society) notebook in 1945 regarding the burning of the books owned by Jews in Rakow on Yom Kippur, 1941 Return of Uri Finkel, the son of the local rabbi to Rakow, September 1945; finding a Rakow Community Chevra Kadisha (Burial Society) notebook in the attic of his father's house; writing on the pages in the notebook information regarding the great wealth of books in the local Jewish library and other libraries, and how the Jews were compelled to burn the books by order of the Germans on Yom Kippur,...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 4808

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : Yiddish

Letter of testimony by Moysey Rubinfeld Rapp, born in Rybotycze Poland, regarding the experiences of the Jews of Rybotycze and regarding his experiences in Dobromil and during the evacuation to Russia The German occupation of Rybotycze in 1941; the wearing of a yellow badge by Jews; transfer of Jews to forced labor; looting of Jewish property; burning of Torah scrolls and abuse in Jews in the spring of 1942; burning of two synagogues; murder of Jews in the spring of 1942; Life in Dobromil including work until 1941; evacuation to Russia in 1941; murder of the local Jews, including the grandfathers, the...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 3068

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Book, Letter of Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Russian

זיכרונותיו של Yakov Krafchik על קורותיו ב- Konin, בגטו Ostrowiec, במחנות עבודה שונים, ב- Auschwitz ומחנות ריכוז באוסטריה בשנים 1939- 1945

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1610

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : English

Collection of photographs, newspaper clippings and posters, regarding Nazi antisemitism and the persecution of Jews in Germany, 1930-1936

Collection of photographs, newspaper clippings and posters, regarding Nazi antisemitism and the persecution of Jews in Germany, 1930-1936 Collection of photographs, newspaper clippings and posters, mainly from the Nazi period, documenting the persecution of Jews in Germany; list of photographs [in the file]; photographs 18, 24, 43-51, 53 and 56-58 are missing; - Excerpt from a book of SA poems/songs: - List of medicines produced by Jews, prepared by the Nazi Association of Physicians; - Caricatures from the "Stuermer"; - Signs calling for the economic boycott of Jewish businesses; - Call to...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 244

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Caricatures, Photograph, Newspaper Clippings, Poster

results.listIds.lang : German

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