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Testimony of Bracha (Klifer) Yaakov, born in Vienna, Austria, 1922, regarding her experiences in Vienna during Kristallnacht, in Belgrade, Kladovo and Sabac, and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1941

Testimony

Testimony of Bracha (Klifer) Yaakov, born in Vienna, Austria, 1922, regarding her experiences in Vienna during Kristallnacht, in Belgrade, Kladovo and Sabac, and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1941 Traditional, Zionist family; activities in the Tehelet Lavan (Blau-Weiss) movement; life in an aliya training group; move of some of the family's children to England in the Kindertransport; Kristallnacht; move to Bratislava with the Hechalutz movement, 25 November 1939; move to Yugoslavia with a group of people en route to aliya to Eretz Israel; help from the Belgrade community; move to Kladovo; move to Sabac; life in...

File Number : 9337

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters of Hannchen Cohen from Aurich and Vegesack from 1939-1941, stories and documentation of the Cohen and Vos families

Letters of Hannchen Cohen from Aurich and Vegesack from 1939-1941, stories and documentation of the Cohen and Vos families - The history of Minka (Cohen) Vos, born in Aurich, 1923: life in Aurich; moving to work at a recovery home in Bad Soden, August 1938; Kristallnacht Riots and return to Aurich; moving to work in a Jewish nursing home in Emden, May 1939; training in Berlin; crossing to Wien and Bratislava and sailing on the ship "Uranus", December 1939; sailing on the Car - Dusan and stop in Kladovo; transfer to Šabac; receiving a certificate and making an aliya to Eretz Israel, March 1941; transfer to...

File Number : 5385

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Biography, Letter, Genealogy, Identity Card

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German, Serbian-Croatian

Letters and postcards from members of the Pollák family from Vágsellye to their children and to their siblings Miklós Mordechaj Pollak and Zoltán Slomo Pollak in Tel Aviv from 1939-1948

- correspondence between members of the Pollák family in Vágsellye and Mordechaj and Slomo Pollák in Tel Aviv through the Hungarian and British Red Cross from March 1941 to January 1944; - letters from Ernő Pollák from Sala (Vágsellye) to his brothers Miklós and Zoltán Pollák in Tel Aviv from 1945-1948; report on the fate of family members: their mother died at home in 1943; their father, sister Irén, her husband and their son Pali, his sister-in-law (his brother Sanyi's wife) and their son were deported to Auschwitz and perished; his brothers Sanyi and Laci were recruited for forced labor in the labor...

File Number : 5167

Type of Material : Letter, Red Cross Letter, Genealogy, Envelope, Postcard, Diary

Language : Slovak, German, Hungarian