Postcard and letters sent by members of the Landesdorfer family in Krakow, Zdolbunow, New York and Istanbul to Salomon Landesdorfer in Eretz Israel, 1939-1941, and postcard greetings sent by Salomon Landesdorfer to family members in Krakow, 03 September 1939, which were returned to the sender by the [British] censor
- Postcard and letter sent by family members in Zdolbunow to Salomon Landesdorfer in Eretz Israel, 14-15 November 1940 (the postcard was sent from Henek Buchner's address);
- Letters sent by his parents, Ethel and Loebl, his brothers, Fredek and Smilek and his sister Regina Landesdorfer in...
File Number : 2236
Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Genealogy, Postcard, Letter
Letters written by Isak Holzer in Neukölln, Tarnow and Krakow to his daughter, Fanny (Holzer) Rosenbaum, in Eretz Israel, 1936-1941
- Letter written by Ruth Holzer in Neukölln to Tommy, 01 November 1936;
- Letters written by Isak Holzer in Neukölln (Germany) to his daughter, Fanny (and her husband Gershon after their marriage), in Eretz Israel, 01 November 1936-02 December 1937; Fanny's sister Ruth also wrote; receipt of a certificate for legal aliya to Eretz Israel for Ruth; journey by Ruth from Trieste, 05 January 1938, aliya to Eretz Israel, 10 January 1938;
- Letters sent by Isak Holzer from...
Letters and postcards from Else Heynemann in Berlin to her son Hans Joachim Heynemann in Sweden, 1940-1942
- Last letter from Else Heynemann in Berlin, on the eve of her deportation to Poland, with the information that her destination is unknown; with Hebrew translation, 15 January 1942;
- Letter from Else Heynemann in Berlin to the Swedish ambassador requesting to travel to Sweden en route to her sister in Chile, 01 December 1941;
- Letter from Else Heynemann, apparently censored (the letter was cut up and words crossed out);
- Postcards from Else Heynemann, 1940-1941;
- Letter from Else's...
File Number : 1926
Type of Material : Postcard, Personal Documents, Letter
Correspondence of Dr. Walter and Lili Stern in Amsterdam and Bergen-Belsen with their children in England and a warning from the British Postal Censorship, 1940-1945
- Letters written by Dr. Walter and Lili Stern in Amsterdam to their children, 1940-1943, and from Bergen-Belsen, 06 April 1944;
- Correspondence of Dr. Walter and Lili Stern in Amsterdam with their children, Richard and Lili (Stern) Weiner in England via the Red Cross, 1942-1944;
- Warning from the British Postal Censorship;
- English translation of the letters written by Dr. Walter and Lili Stern to their children.
Testimony of Karol Schulcz, born in Neded, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in a work battalion near Voiniceni, near the border with Germany, in Mauthausen and Gunskirchen
From a well-to-do traditional Zionist family; attends a Jewish school and a local high school; registration for aliya to Eretz Israel with Agudat Israel; failure of the aliya and return home.
Anti-Jewish laws; closing of the family coffee house; draft notice to report to a Hungarian Army labor battalion, 1942; his father's death, 1942; life in labor battalion 6/1; building a Hungarian Army training camp; transfer to the...
Documentation from the Leo Baeck Institute
- Permit from the Berlin Police confirming the confiscation of an issue of the journal, "Der Morgen", by order of the Gestapo, on account of the article's statement that Jews made cultural contributions to Germany; the permit was sent to Philo Verlag, the magazine's publisher, 15 July 1935;
- Typed manuscript titled, "Das Leben Zurueckgegeben" ("Receiving a New Lease on Life"), by Nahum Israel ? [family name is unclear] tells the story of a Jew called Alexander who was released from a concentration camp.
File Number : 442
Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony, Photograph
Postcards sent to Masha Glaser-Fleiszon in Ramat Rachel by her father Yosef Glaser and her sister Chaya Glaser-Dentovsky in Gorodok, and postcards sent to Reuven Fleiszon in Ramat Rachel by his sister in Sarna, 1939-1940
- Postcards sent to Masha Glaser-Fleiszon in Ramat Rachel by her father Yosef Glaser in Gorodok, by means of clues from Biblical texts and other hints;
- Red Army occupation of Gorodok; life during the Soviet occupation, including not being permitted to live a Jewish life, and the censorship of letters;
- Postcards sent to Masha Glaser-Fleiszon in Ramat Rachel by her sister Chaya...
Articles and notes by Marcel Chouraqui regarding World War II, 1944-1945
In the file:
- Notes regarding the war written in Italy, France, Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia, gathered under the title "La Montagne et l'Eclair" (The Mountain and the Flash), along with photographs taken by the Military Film Service;
- Articles and comments regarding the war written by Chouraqui when he was a war correspondent, 1944-1945;
- War correspondent card belonging to Marcel Chouraqui enabling access to the Allied Army Zones, 25 October 1944.
File Number : 359
Type of Material : Article, Personal Documents, Stories
Red Cross letters sent to Sonja Kramarski in the United States by her friends Guenther van der Hak in Amsterdam and Zvi Kutner in the ILAG VIII camp in Kreuzburg, 1942-1944
Detention of Kutner in the ILAG VIII camp in Kreuzburg as a British citizen.
Also in the file:
American Red Cross letter [containing] a list of censorship rules regarding correspondence sent from detention sites.