Correspondence of Hugo and Rudolf Meisl in England with their parents Paul and Erna Meisl in Brno, 1939-1941; correspondence of Paul Meisl regarding the immigration of his sons to England with the Kindertransport; death declaration issued by the court in Brno in 1947 confirming that Paul and Erna Meisl were deported to Theresienstadt and from there to Piaski in 1942
Postcards and letters:
- Letter sent to England, 16 May 1939, by Pavel Meisl in Brno requesting that a home be found for his sons, Hugo Meisl, born 09 October 1928, and Rudolf Meisl, born 09 February 1930;
- Letters sent to Paul Meisl in...
File Number : 2209
Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation, Death Certificate
Consignment document for the luggage sent by Rudolf Meisl from Brno to Prague, including lists of the contents of the suitcases, 26 July 1939
Comment by the submitter of the material:
Hugo Meisel Marom, born, 1928, was sent on the Kindertransport to England along with his brother Rudy, July 1939; Hugo Marom donated his brother's suitcases to Yad Vashem.
Memoirs of Batia Berta (Akselrad) Eisenstein, born in Krosno, Poland in 1932, regarding her experiences during the war
Her family's life at the start of the war, 1939; Batia is entrusted [moved] to a new family; murder of her parents, 1943;
Included in the file:
Copy of photographs of the witness during the war.
Newspaper clippings regarding the story of Stephanie Degulne, the Righteous Among the Nations, who hid three Jewish children in her home in Mont Saint Guibert during the war; memoirs of Silvain Gilbert, one of the children hidden in her home
Names of the children who survived because of Stephanie Degulne, known as "Aunt Fanny":
- Silvain Gilbert, formerly "Silver";
- His sister, Toni Silver;
- Annie Klainer.
In the file there is also a photograph of Mathias, Gilbert and Toni's grandfather, who perished in Belzec, 1942.
File Number : 8317
Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Photograph, Memoirs
Memoirs of Marie Budnik, born in Paris, France, 1928, regarding her experiences hidden by the Herbaut family in Dourdan
Deportation of her father to a labor camp in the Nievre department; escape of the eldest son from detention in Paris.
The witness is the widow of Herbaut and was later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations.
Personal documentation belonging to Joseph Obstfeld, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 17 April 1937, and hidden by the Von Haeringen family, later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations
File Number : 133
Type of Material : Personal Records, Personal Documents
Personal documentation belonging to the Nordheim family, 1937-2009
- Photographs;
- A home movie from Amsterdam, 1937;
- A visit to Eretz Israel;
- Article entitled "That's Me, Mom", 25 December 2009.
Testimony of Menachem Mendel Haberman, born in 1927 in Irlava, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in the Mukacevo ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Loslan, and Buchenwald
Childhood in a haredi Hasidic family; moving to Mikacevo in 1930, next door to the Munkacser rebbe's yeshiva; attending a cheder and a public school; antisemitic manifestations in Mukacevo; assigned to farm labor under Hungarian gendarmes' supervision, 1941–1943; Mukacevo ghetto sealed in March 1944 (the witness' house was in the ghetto confines); deportation in the first transpsort to Birkenau in April 1944; 120 people in each car; mutual...