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Testimony of Shlomo Heilbron, born in Muehlhausen, 1920, regarding his experiences in Muehlhausen, Leipzig, England and Australia

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Testimony of Shlomo Heilbron, born in Muehlhausen, 1920, regarding his experiences in Muehlhausen, Leipzig, England and Australia Family life in Muehlhausen; his parents’ livelihood; move to Leipzig; attends school; antisemitism; learns a trade; the Jewish community in Leipzig; farming; anti-Jewish laws; burning of Jewish homes and synagogues during Kristallnacht; detention of Jews, among them relatives; Gestapo men break in to their homes; deportation of his father to a concentration camp; release of his father; desperate attempts of his family to escape from Germany; leaving for England, August 1939; life...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 12189

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Documentation of Bulgarian, Romanian, German and Austrian immigrant organizations in Eretz Israel, 1940-1941

Documentation of Bulgarian, Romanian, German and Austrian immigrant organizations in Eretz Israel, 1940-1941 Emergency plan of German and Austrian immigrant association's, 1940; Two letters written by Mayer Ebner, president of the Romanian Immigrant's Association in Tel Aviv, to W. Churchil and the British authorities on riots in Romania and the need of more certificates for immigrants from Romania; Review written by Y. Nitzani titled Bulgarian Jewry are Next.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 224

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Report, Letter, Manifesto

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, English

Testimony of Pinkas Rosengarten, born in Nowy Sacz, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Nowy Sacz, prisons in the Soviet Union and service in Iran as a military chaplain in Anders Army

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Testimony of Pinkas Rosengarten, born in Nowy Sacz, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Nowy Sacz, prisons in the Soviet Union and service in Iran as a military chaplain in Anders Army Life before the war; education; ordination as a rabbi; move to Krakow; academic studies; return to Nowy Sacz; work as a teacher in a Tarbut high school; community life; establishment of a Hashomer Hadati chapter. German occupation; forced labor; escape to the Soviet Union; arrest on the charge of espionage; detention in various prisons; prison life including forced labor and illnesses; hospitalization; pardon after...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Official documentation regarding cooperation by various Jewish organizations concerning rescue attempts, in particular in Hungary, 1944

Official documentation regarding cooperation by various Jewish organizations concerning rescue attempts, in particular in Hungary, 1944 Page 4: Letter from Chaim Pazner, Geneva, to Zionist organization member Kubo, [most probably A. L. Kubowitzki], partly in code, 07 January 1944, regarding: - Veteran certificates for Isaac-Leon Elbaum and his family; - A veterans list, containing 69 families or individuals, sent by the Jewish Agency, Jerusalem, transmitted by the Foreign Office, London, via the Protecting Power, Bern, to the responsible authorities in Germany; - Registration for the exchange; -...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 131

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Copy, Telegram, Correspondence, Testimony, Letter(s), Official Documentation, Reports

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, Polish, French, English, German, Yiddish

Documentation regarding efforts to rescue the Jews of Poland, 1942-1945

Documentation regarding efforts to rescue the Jews of Poland, 1942-1945 Pages 4, 28-35, 40-41, 43, 49: Letters from Dr. Chaim Pazner to Wenia Pomeranietz, Istanbul, regarding: - Brief news concerning various persons, mentioned mostly by first name; - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, destruction of Jochanan's quarter (probably in reference to the Warsaw Ghetto), 12,000 [German Army] soldiers, some Jews rescued on account of tunnels, 15 April-18 May 1943; - Information in code concerning endangered Polish Zionist movement members; - Establishment of a Zionist asylum for young refugees; - Deteriorating situation...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 129

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Copy, Excerpt(s), Telegram, Correspondence, Letter(s)

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

Diary kept by Shoshana (Bolle Benedictus) Migdali using the underground name Martien/Tineke Kramer while being hidden in Dordrecht by the Burger family, a Dutch family (later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations), 1942-1945 The diary was written in 14 notebooks; it includes the experiences of the writer and five members of her family along with one other person who were hidden by a Dutch family for two and a half years, including the military and political situation on all the fronts according to information from the radio and underground periodicals. Notebook No. 1, 09 October 1942-26 January 1943,...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 4906

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Diary

results.listIds.lang : Dutch

Correspondence with organizations and persons regarding the war in Europe, the Jews in Europe, and Eretz Israel, Part One

Correspondence with organizations and persons regarding the war in Europe, the Jews in Europe, and Eretz Israel, Part One - Correspondence regarding the Jews in Russia: the government of Russia and the Jews (1906), Zionism among the Jews of Russia, [and] suppression of the Zionists in Russia (1918-1937), Bolshevist domestic and foreign policies (1919), Russian Jewish refugees, correspondence with the American Nansen Committee during 1923-1924, displays of antisemitism in Russia, and newspaper clippings (1927, 1929, 1931 and 1937), political prisoners (1928), relations between Britain and Russia, [including]...

results.listIds.fileNumber : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Reports, Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation

results.listIds.lang : English

Correspondence and newspaper clippings regarding Jewish communities in various countries and regarding Germany and Nazism, Parts Seven to Eight

Correspondence and newspaper clippings regarding Jewish communities in various countries and regarding Germany and Nazism, Parts Seven to Eight Part Seven: - Correspondence regarding Britain's policies in Eretz Israel and in Europe; - Correspondence regarding Britain's position at the outbreak of World War Two, the balance of powers, Britain's Jewry, relations between the United States and Britain, support of Europe's Jewry, and "The British War Relief" (1938-1941); - Correspondence regarding Eretz Israel, the British Mandate, the Yishuv, the Arab population and aliya; - Correspondence regarding...

results.listIds.fileNumber : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Article, Reports, Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation, Research Article

results.listIds.lang : French, English

Joint testimony of Eytan Ginat, born in Vienna, 1920, and his wife Lili (Synter) Ginat, regarding his experiences in the Saint-Cyprien camp, in Toulouse and in the Mouvement De La Jeunesse Sioniste - MJS

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Joint testimony of Eytan Ginat, born in Vienna, 1920, and his wife Lili Ginat, regarding experiences in the Saint-Cyprien camp, in Toulouse and in the Mouvement De La Jeunesse Sioniste - MJS Middle class family; active in Maccabi Hatzair as a soccer player and on champion team "HaKoach" and its junior "foxes" team; displays of antisemitism at school; escape to Brussels; active in Zionist movements. Occupation of Belgium, May 1940; deportation as Austrian citizen to Saint-Cyprien camp; released; escape to Toulouse; studies in the University of Montpellier; unsuccessful attempt to emigrate to the United States;...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 10369

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Diary written by Yitzchak --, from Riga, in Buchenwald camp during April-May 1945

Diary written by Yitzchak --, from Riga, in Buchenwald camp during April-May 1945 Diary written in Buchenwald camp; he writes where he was on Pesach during the previous four years: his first Pesach was in the Riga Ghetto; the second Pesach was at a sugar factory in Mitau; the third Pesach was in Dundaga camp, and the fourth Pesach was in Niederorschel camp; he makes efforts to observe the mitzva of baking matzot in all of these places; information regarding the evacuation of Niederorschel camp; life en route to Buchenwald camp; Buchenwald camp life; fleeing of the SS men on 12 April 1945; waving of white...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 10152

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Diary

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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