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Documentation regarding Vladimir Kurtev (Righteous Among the Nations), from his personal file in the Bulgarian Militia

Documentation regarding Vladimir Kurtev (Righteous Among the Nations), from his personal file in the Bulgarian Militia - Report by an intelligence patrol during the fascist period regarding a meeting of the top leaders of the Macedonian Revolutionary Organization in the Kurtev home, 06-07 March 1943; - Interrogations of Kurtev's relatives, including his wife Paraskeva, his son Radko and his brother-in-law, Bosilkov, by militia members during the Communist regime; report regarding a search of Kurtev's home, including material confiscated; arrest of Kurtev by the militia, 07 June 1946; - Reply by...

File Number : 70

Type of Material : Death Certificate, Investigation Reports, Certification, Official Documentation

Language : Bulgarian

Testimony of Alexander Yitzhak Rozental Zauber, born in Campulungul, Romania, 1933, regarding his experiences in Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and Shargorod

Testimony

Testimony of Alexander Yitzhak Rozental Zauber, born in Campulungul, Romania, 1933, regarding his experiences in Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and Shargorod Religious family; antisemitic terror, 1939; ban on use of the Yiddish language. Yellow badge; capture of witness' father and his beating by the gendarmes; deportation in a cattle car in the winter; death of his grandmother in the cattle car; transfer to Bessarabia; transfer to Atachi; transfer on boats to Mogilev-Podolski; his father carries a Torah scroll and sugar; march until Shargorod in the snow; death of his father from typhus disease; his mother's...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Renert Ronen, born In Vijnita, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Marculesti and the Bershad Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Renert Ronen, born In Vijnita, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Marculesti and the Bershad Ghetto Displays of antisemitism; attends a high school in Tulcea. Escape to Cernauti due to fear of the fascist rule; life under Soviet rule; reoccupation by the Romanian Army, 1941; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; deportation on a freight train to Marculesti; death march until Bershad; Bershad Ghetto life; distribution of cooked food to orphans; coordination by the community, including the establishment of a kitchen for poor, needy people and study classes...

File Number : 13004

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of Jews from Shatsk who perished, 1941-1944, and list of victims of the Soviet authority from Shatsk

File Number : 298

Type of Material : List of Murdered Persons, List of Persecuted Persons

Language : Belarusian

Testimony of Yosef Weisz, born 1921 in Csonograd, Hungary, regarding his experiences after the war in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and in Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Yosef Weisz, born 1921 in Csonograd, Hungary, regarding his experiences after the war in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and in Israel Liberation by the Red Army on the last day of the war, 09.05.1945; communist regime; travel by train from Germany to Prague; hospital in the city until September 1945; travel to Budapest; return to Csonograd; meeting with the sister and relatives; training with the assistance of the JDC; arrest in Kistarcsa by the authorities; release from detention; sailing to Israel via Italy onboard the ship, "Af Al Pi"; aliya to Haifa on 15.09.1949; joins the Jewish National Fund;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eti (Zonenstein) Shoham, born in Krasna Ilski, Romania, regarding her experiences in Mogilev-Podolski, Barlad and Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Eti (Zonenstein) Shoham, born in Krasna Ilski, Romania, regarding her experiences in Mogilev-Podolski, Barlad and Bucharest Middle-class traditional family; her father owns a sawmill and her mother is the manager of a shop; the Jewish community. Soviet occupation, June 1940; life under Communism; member of the Komsomol; confiscation of property; German occupation, June 1941; in hiding in a stable; looting of the family's home; transfer on foot in the direction of the Dniester River until Bessarabia, July-September 1941; transfer on foot to Mogilev-Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski including...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation on antisemitism in Bulgaria, 1918-1943

Documentation on antisemitism in Bulgaria, 1918-1943 Order of the Soviet authorities to stop displays of antisemitism, 27 July 1918; Broadsheet of the legion organization, 31 March 1933; Copy of the article the Superior Race on the meaning of the word Pogrom published in the Poslednie Novosti newspaper, 1938; Broadsheet of Pleven Jewry against an antisemtic speech; Text of D. Kostov's antisemetic speech on the Bulgarian parliament, 12 December 1940; Circular of the Ratnik organization, 03 April 1943; Antisemitic letter of the Front Fighters Association, August 1943.

File Number : 148

Type of Material : Booklet(s), Article, Manifesto

Language : Bulgarian

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...

File Number : 565

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Testimony of Avram Siner, born in Botosani, Romania, 1914, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Zvorastea, Roman, Briceni, Jedineti, Lunca Dunarei and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Avram Siner, born in Botosani, Romania, 1914, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Zvorastea, Roman, Briceni, Jedineti, Lunca Dunarei and other places From a family with nine children; the men in the family are employed as butchers; work from the age of 12; membership in Poalei Zion; marriage at the age of 18; military service, 1936-1939; reserve service. Expulsion from the army because he was a Jew, 1942; drafted into labor battalions; transfer from Zvorastea to Roman; life in the battalion including labor paving roads; awaiting execution; cancellation of the execution by a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Romanian

Testimony of Sara (Selictar) Janku, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1935, regarding her experiences in Sofia, Vidin and Russe

Testimony

Testimony of Sara (Selictar) Janku, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1935, regarding her experiences in Sofia, Vidin and Russe Attends a Bulgarian school. Decrees against the Jews during the war; draft of men to forced labor; transfer of Jews from Sofia to outlying areas, 1943; deportation with her family to Vidin; transfer to Russe; life in Russe; finding an apartment outside the town; labor of her parents; attends a Jewish-Hebrew school; attitudes of the nuns in the convent where her mother taught; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Return to Sofia; life under Communism including studies; aliya of the family...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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