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Letters written by members of the Jourgrau family, and personal documentation regarding members of the family, 1927-2009

Letters written by members of the Jourgrau family, and personal documentation regarding members of the family, 1927-2009 Letters and postcards: - Letter from Dov Jourgrau in Amsterdam to his brother Mendel Jourgrau in Eretz Israel, 23 December 1938; - Letters and a postcard written by Dov Jourgrau to his daughter, Ruth, while she was in hiding using the false identity of Lieske or Liesje; members of the underground showed these letters to Ruth and then took them back as a precaution; at the end of the war, the letters were returned to her; - Two letters from Lea Jourgrau (apparently from Westerbork)...

File Number : 2063

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Letter, Poem/song, Notebook, Drawing, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch, German, Yiddish

Transit pass issued to Arie Prushynowski, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1939, in Salzuflen, to enable his journey to Eretz Israel, 16 July 1947

Transit pass issued to Arie Prushynowski, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1939, in Salzuflen, to enable his journey to Eretz Israel, 16 July 1947 Notes from Arie Shachar-Prushynowski who submitted the material: Arie Prushynowski was born in Baranowicze, Poland in 1939 (according to the pass: 17 February). When the Germans occupied Baranowicze, his father Mordechai was murdered by the German invaders. Sonia, Arie's mother, decided to escape and, together with Arie and two of his paternal aunts, she escaped to Uzbekistan where they remained until 1946. At the time of the repatriation Sonia and her [female]...

File Number : 699

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : French, English, German

Memoirs of the twins Alla (Gaber) Bruk and Kira (Gaber) Rashba, born in Leningrad, Soviet Union, 1935, regarding their experiences in Leningrad, Dzhankoy and using a false identity in Akkerman

Memoirs of the twins Alla (Gaber) Bruk and Kira (Gaber) Rashba, born in Leningrad, Soviet Union, 1935, regarding their experiences in Leningrad, Dzhankoy and using a false identity in Akkerman Growing up in the parents' home; Outbreak of the war; digging defense trenches; evacuation from Leningrad, 28 June 1941; arrival at Malaya Vishera; air-raids; murder of children; escape to Armavir; in hiding in a cellar; wanderings at the front; arrival to Dzhankoy; morbidity; rescue of one of the sisters by a surgeon in a German hospital in Dzhankoy; arrival in Akkerman; life using a false identity with the family...

File Number : 8496

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Testimony of Dov Issachar Landau, born in Bresko, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in Tyczyn, the Bochnia Ghetto, the Zakopane prison, Krakow using a false identity and more

Testimony of Dov Issachar Landau, born in Bresko, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in Tyczyn, the Bochnia Ghetto, the Zakopane prison, Krakow using a false identity and more Life in Tyczyn before the war; occupation of Tyczyn by the Germany Army; deportation to Rzeszow, 1941; transfer to Bochnia; ghetto life; unsuccessful attempt to cross over to Czechoslovakia; detention in the Zakopane prison; release; move to Krakow using false documents; move to Liptovsky Svaty Mikulas, 1943; move to Budapest with his father. Move to Bucharest; aliya to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliyah on the ship, "Transylvania,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Film entitled, "Eight Stories That Haven't Changed the World", including the testimony of eight Jews, born in Poland, 1914-1933, and their experiences in Poland before World War II

Film entitled, "Eight Stories That Haven't Changed the World", including the testimony of eight Jews, born in Poland, 1914-1933, and their experiences in Poland before World War II The interviewees are: Dora Tenembaum, Szymon Tenembaum, Halina Elczewska, Feliks Nieznanowski, Krystyna Budnicka, Josef Hen, Jan Rochwerger and Marian Fuks.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish, English

Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS-Jewish Self Aid) activities in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1943

Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS-Jewish Self Aid) activities in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1943 The Jewish Self Aid organization (in Polish: Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna [ZSS]; in German: Juedische Soziale Selbshilfe) was set up in Krakow in 1940; it went by this name until July 1942. After that date, the organization's welfare activities were cut back by order of the German authorities, and they mainly consisted of the transferring of medicines to Jews in labor camps until this activity, too, was discontinued in mid-1944. ZSS documentation includes correspondence between the administration of the...

Type of Material : Lists, Administrative Documentation, Application, Balance Sheet, Report, Statistical Report, Reports, Survey Report, Correspondence, List of Names, Financial Accounts, List of Jews, Statistical Data

Testimony of Jozef Abram Krysztal, born in the Soviet Union, 1939, regarding his experiences as a baby in the Soviet Union

Testimony

Testimony of Jozef Abram Krysztal, born in the Soviet Union, 1939, regarding his experiences as a baby in the Soviet Union Life without his parents in the Soviet Union. Repatriation to Poland, 1946; life in children's homes in Bielsko and Krakow until the 1950s; attends an agricultural school in Sulkowice; studies in a metalwork vocational school in Nowa Huta; aliya to Israel, 1957; work in Haifa Port; service in the Israeli Navy.

File Number : 1877

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Memoirs regarding the deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto, "Aktions", and the deportation to Treblinka camp

Memoirs regarding the deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto, "Aktions", and the deportation to Treblinka camp Announcement regarding the deportation of the Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto, except for people employed in German factories, hospitals, the Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst (Jewish Police), and in the community, 22 July 1942; obtains work certificates in a German factory for his parents, and receives a certificate as a student employed in a hospital; transfer of the entire family to a place to live in the German factory; deportation of the laborers from the factory to the Umschlagplatz, September 1942; travel in...

File Number : 539

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Renia Karmel Wolf Rychwach, from the war period

Memoirs of Renia Karmel Wolf Rychwach, from the war period Excerpts of memoirs, written as images seen from the angle of a semi-anesthetized state in a hospital; mentions her parents, her uncle who was a rabbi, names of people, Poles and Jews, excerpts of dialogues, and scenes of various events; memoirs of Majdanek camp: labor, using picric acid; stay in a barracks for people who are sick with typhus; death march in the direction of Czechoslovakia, without food, for two weeks; Places that are mentioned: Krakow, Lublin, Tarnow and Siedliska.

File Number : 536

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Olek, born in Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences while in hiding at the homes of Poles on the Aryan side and wanderings alone in the city using a false identity until the liberation

Memoirs of Olek, born in Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences while in hiding at the homes of Poles on the Aryan side and wanderings alone in the city using a false identity until the liberation Transfer to the Aryan side at age eight by his mother and residence with her Polish acquaintance, late 1942; hiding under a bed in constant fear of surprise inspections; visits by his mother and obtaining Aryan documents in the name of Aleksander Olszynski; removal from the home due to the underground activities of the [family's] daughter and an expected search by the Gestapo following her departure; wanderings on...

File Number : 533

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

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