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Survey report of Itzhak Ribak regarding the fate of members of the Ribak family from Wierzbnik and from Opoczno, Poland

Survey report of Itzhak Ribak regarding the fate of members of the Ribak family from Wierzbnik and from Opoczno, Poland Death of his mother; survival of his brothers, Menachem Mendel and Shmuel Meir among the Polish partisans; murder of his brothers by Poles after the war; experiences of his nephew, Shmuel Meir's infant son; arrival of his brother Yehuda to Eretz Israel via Iran while in the service of the Anders Army; fate of his younger brother Avraham, who escaped to the Soviet Union and disappeared without a trace; Included in the file: - Aliya application forms from the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem...

File Number : 1239

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Memoirs, Letter, Survey Report, Form

Language : Hebrew, English

Testimony of Shmaryahu Weiss, born in Papa, Hungary, 1939, regarding his aliya to Israel through a certificate, 1943

Testimony

Testimony of Shmaryahu Weiss, born in Papa, Hungary, 1939, regarding his aliya to Israel through a certificate, 1943 Family background. Enlistment of his father to the labor battalions and his work in a forced labor camp, 1942; deportation of his aunt, uncle and their two children from Bratislava, and their arrival in the hometown of witness ,Papa, 1943; attaching the witness and his brother to the certificate with the uncles; approval of aliya to Eretz Israel with consultation and recommendation of Rabbi Meltz in Budapest; crossing to Budapest and departing by train, evening of Yom Kippur 1943; travel to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pinkhas (Peter Shmulevitz) Shmueli born in Breslau, Germany, 1924regarding life in Breslau until the summer of 1933 and in Mandatory Palestine from September 1933

Testimony

Childhood in a Zionist family with a father who was born in Poland; life without antisemitism; studies in a Jewish school; his father is active in a Jewish-Polish-Yiddish social framework; Nazi rise to power, January 1933; deportation order issued for his father, summer 1933; his father’s insistence on leaving for Eretz Israel; obtaining certificates for professionals through a false declaration; train journey through Poland and Italy and sailing to Eretz Israel; arrival September 1933; Acclimatizing difficulties in the country.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana Zhuzhana Deizi Hendel (Unger) Klein, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928 regarding the experiences of her family in Budapest during the period of German occupation

Testimony

Childhood in a well-to-do Orthodox family; her father is a Zionist and holds a central role in the Hamizrachi movement in Budapest; her parents' visit to Mandatory Palestine; additional visit to Mandatory Palestine in order to arrange aliya, 1939; return to Hungary; Outbreak of the war; German occupation, 10 March 1944; air-raids on Budapest; work as a clerk in the Judenrat; the family's move to the Glass House; distribution of protective passports from the Swiss Embassy to Jews outside the Glass House by her father; end of the war; Aliya to Israel with the last group of the Hamizrachi movement,1949;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding Abraham and Esther (Gottlieb-Potaschnik) Adlerstein and members of their families, including letters, postcards, telegrams and more, 1931-1946

Documentation regarding Abraham and Esther (Gottlieb-Potaschnik) Adlerstein and members of their families, including letters, postcards, telegrams and more, 1931-1946 Letters, postcards and telegrams: - Scrap of an envelope (with the stamp "Der Fuhrer in Vienna") sent to Abraham Adlerstein in Eretz Israel by Ester Gottlieb-Potaschnik in Vienna, 17 March 1938; - Letter sent to Ester Gottlieb-Potaschnik by Menachem Bader, a member of the Jewish underground, 14 July 1938; the letter concerns the transfer of possessions belonging to the Jews of Vienna into the right hands so that the Jews could take them...

File Number : 2212

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Red Cross Letter, Letter, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Postcard

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German, Yiddish

Documentation regarding the fate of Jacqui Israel Offen, born in Antwerp, 1939, and members of his family during the Holocaust and following it, 1941-1981

Documentation regarding the fate of Jacqui Israel Offen, born in Antwerp, 1939, and members of his family during the Holocaust and following it, 1941-1981 Memoirs of Jacqui: Deportation of the family from Antwerp to Limburg, 1941; detention of his father, Moshe, born in Tarnow, 1893, and of his elder sister, Maly Malka, born in Berlin, 1924; deportation of his father and sister to Dossin camp in Malines and from there to Auschwitz, where they perished; escape of his mother Mina and the four remaining children to Namur; in hiding of the family in the St. Jean de Dieu monastery with the help of Abbe Andre; in...

File Number : 152

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Dutch, German

Testimony of Dvora Doris Shner née Klatz, born in 1932 in Dortmund, Germany, about her experiences as a girl in Rożniatów, Bursztin, the Rohatyn ghetto, and in hiding with villagers during the war

Offspring of immigrant parents from Galicia, receiving a "certificate" (Mandate Palestine immigration visa); father deported to Zbąszyń in 1938; reunited with father in Rożniatów in 1939; Poland partititioned and life under Soviet occupation; escaping to Bursztin; German occupation ensues in June 1941; a German soldier warns the family about murder of Jews; establishment of Judenrat; father refuses to translate from German into Polish; receiving word about murder of people in pits in Rohatyn; receiving a postcard from a family member with information about sending of trains to Bełżec; deportation to the Rohatyn...

File Number : 13614

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Liana Shoshana Fura Shvartz, born in Vienna, Austria, regarding her experiences in Austria and Czechoslovakia and her aliya to pre-state Israel

Testimony of Liana Shoshana Fura Shvartz, born in Vienna, Austria, regarding her experiences in Austria and Czechoslovakia and her aliya to pre-state Israel Childhood before the war; Anschluss in 1938; Kristallnacht in 1938; attacks; Aryanization of family factory; restrictions; certificate for father for a month; attempt to bring relatives from Hungary; family’s escape to the grandfather’s estate in Sala; receiving certificates as colonial subjects; aliya to pre-state Israel in 1940; absorption.

File Number : 13470

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters and postcards sent to Bernhard Dov and Jaffa (Franken) Finkelstein in Eretz Israel by the Finkelstein family in Duisburg, Amsterdam and the Westerbork camp, by the Franken family in Friesheim and by their families and friends in Germany, the Netherlands and Ecuador, 1936-1950 - Letter sent to Bernhard Finkelstein in Eretz Israel by members of his family in Duisburg, 26 October 1936; - Letters sent to Bernhard Finkelstein in Eretz Israel by members of his family in Amsterdam, 1938-1940; - Four postcards sent by the Franken family in Friesheim to the Weisbecker family in Eretz Israel,...

File Number : 2126

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Red Cross Letter, Telegram, Personal Records, Newspaper Clippings, Letter, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Letters and postcards sent to Jakob Amram in Zurich, 1939-1945

Letters and postcards sent to Jakob Amram in Zurich, 1939-1945 - Letter sent by Seligmann Hirschberg and Goldine Dina Amram from Leer to the Wortheim family, 15 December 1939; not having enough time to write since their son Yehiel made aliya to Eretz Israel and they are busy corresponding with him; - Postcards and letters sent to Jakob Amram in Zurich by his mother and sisters, Dina and Frida, in Frankfurt am Main, 1940-1942; - Correspondence between Jakob Amram and Berti Heilbrunn, the young woman who worked together with Seligmann and Goldine, 15 September 1942; deportation of the Hirschberg couple...

File Number : 2118

Type of Material : Postcard, Official Documentation, Letter

Language : German

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