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Photographs and drawings of synagogues, religious articles and Jewish cemeteries in various cities in Bavaria

Photographs and drawings of synagogues, religious articles and Jewish cemeteries in various cities in Bavaria The material was collected for the book "Der 10 November 1938" (The 10th of November, 1938) by Shimon Brueckheimer.

File Number : 8

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ovadia Pitzton, born in 1926 in Thessaoloniki, Greece, about his experiences in the Thessaloniki ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Landsberg, and Dachau camps, and more

Testimony

Testimony of Ovadia Pitzton, born in 1926 in Thessaoloniki, Greece, about his experiences in the Thessaloniki ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Landsberg, and Dachau camps, and more Life before the war; antisemitism among the youth; German occupation begins in April 1941; trade relations with the Germans; issue of order to report to Freedom Square in 1942; the yellow star edict; food rationing; sealing off the Baron Hirsch residential area as a ghetto; receiving notice about impending deportation to Poland and a demand to convert propert into Polish złoty; life in Transport 109, the first transport to Auschwitz;...

File Number : 13529

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of Jews who perished during the Holocaust, from names on gravestones in the Radauti cemetery

List of Jews who perished during the Holocaust, from names on gravestones in the Radauti cemetery List based on texts on gravestones, prepared by relatives, in memory of family members who perished during the Holocaust.

File Number : 1267

Type of Material : List of Murdered Jews

Language : Hebrew, English

Family album of Naum Ginzburg, born in Bykhov, Belorussia, 1909, with poems and memorial stories written by Daniil Frenkel, photographs of Bykhov and Nikonovichi, the local cemetery and of local Jewish residents, including Holocaust victims The file includes: - Article published in the "Nasha Zhizn" newspaper regarding the experiences of Naum Ginzburg while he was in combat as a Red Army soldier during the war.

File Number : 367

Type of Material : Album, Article

Language : Russian

Diagram of the gravestone of Dora Isser, who perished in the Mogilev Ghetto, 22/03/1942

File Number : 1199

Type of Material : Diagram

Language : Romanian, Yiddish

Permit to enter the Grodno Ghetto, given to a worker by the mayor of Grodno for the purpose of repairs

File Number : 3123

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Yakov Fride Shalev, born in Berlin, Germany, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in Berlin

Testimony

Testimony of Yakov Fride Shalev, born in Berlin, Germany, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in Berlin Life before the war; son of a Jewish father and a converted mother; his father's leanings towards Zionism; connections of his father with the aliya training (Hachshara) camp; Nazi marches on the streets; dismissal of his father from his job, 1939; Eviction from his home and escape to a different neighborhood; severing ties with the non-Jewish family members; obtaining exemptions on account of his parents' mixed marriage; activity of the Jewish school, until 1942; wearing the yellow...

File Number : 13276

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nathan Kinsbrunner, born in Mogilev-Podolski, Ukraine, 1942, regarding his experiences in the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto and Skazintsy

Testimony

Testimony of Nathan Kinsbrunner, born in Mogilev-Podolski, Ukraine, 1942, regarding his experiences in the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto and Skazintsy Deportation of the family to the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto; birth of the witness, January 1942; transfer to Skazintsy; transfer of the family back to Mogilev-Podolski; his father's death from typhus; death of his grandmother; liberation by the Red Army, April 1944. Return to Romania; life in a children's home in Sinaia; return to Bucharest; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on an illegal immigrant ship, 1947; detention in Cyprus; life in Winter Camp Number...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Megidesh, born in Cirene, Libya, 1925, regarding his experiences near Benghazi and in Giado

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Megidesh, born in Cirene, Libya, 1925, regarding his experiences near Benghazi and in Giado Life in Benghazi and Appolonia; move of his family near to Benghazi, 1938. Shelling; deportation by Italian soldiers to Giado, 1942; life in Giado; guarded by Arab policemen; hunger; escape at night to obtain food in the Arab villages in the area; high mortality rate; receives help from the Jewish community in Tripoli; typhus epidemic; religious life; problems with keeping kosher; black market in Giado; liberation by the British Army, 1943. Displays of antisemitism in Libya after the war;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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