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Memoirs of Moshe Kaplan, born in Woronow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army, the Tannenberg POW camp, the Woronow Ghetto, in hiding in the forest, as a partisan in the Naliboki forests and more Life in Woronow after World War I; death of his father Avraham Kaplan in 1922; attendance at the Tarbut elementary school; displays of antisemitism; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; underground activities and imprisonment of his brother as a member of the Communist Party; death of his mother, 1932; life in an aliya training kibbutz in Bialystok; meeting his future wife, Chaya; release of his...

File Number : 8643

Type of Material : Memoirs, Poems/songs, Genealogy

Language : Hebrew

Letters and postcards received by Hermann Helfgott in a POW camp in Germany from his family members and friends in Serbia, Hungary and other places, 1941-1944, a letter written by his future wife Malvine Bodner, including information regarding her family's experiences, 09/12/1946, and personal and official documentation regarding Hermann Helfgott and the Bodner family - Letters and postcards received by Hermann Helfgott in a POW camp in Germany (he served in the Yugoslavian Army and was taken captive by the Germans in 1941) from his family members and friends in Vrsac, Budapest, Dragutinovo, Kragujevac,...

File Number : 2223

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Postcard

Language : Serbian, Hebrew, Polish, English, German

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

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German, Yiddish

Confirmation regarding the decision of the Court of Law in Pultusk to officially recognize the death of Srul Chaim Gut, and a birth certificate in the name of Srul Chaim Gut, issued in Przasnysz, 05/11/1949 - Confirmation regarding the decision of the Court of Law in Pultusk, 09/05/1946, to officially recognize the death of Srul Chaim Gut; confirmation issued, 28/07/1950; - Birth certificate in the name of Srul Chaim Gut, born in Jastrzebiec, Poland, 04/01/1911; certificate issued in Przasnysz, 05/11/1949 . Notes by Eliezer Gut, the submitter of the material: The family of Srul Chaim Gut resided in...

File Number : 1474

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Yaakov Scheffel Palgi, born in Czesniki, Poland, 1906, regarding his experiences and the experiences of his wife Rachel (Herbst) Scheffel, 1906-1947, including their aliya to Eretz Israel, 1934, and the experiences of the Scheffel, Teichman and Herbst family members during the war Life before the war; move to the home of his grandparents, the Teichman couple, in Rohatyn when he was 6 years old; draft of his father Michael into the Polish Army, 1914; escape from the Russian Army along with his mother Esther, four siblings and his uncle Avraham and his family members; return to the family's home;...

File Number : 8628

Type of Material : Letter, Sentence, Memoirs, Will, Death Certificate

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Letters and postcards sent to Erich and Sali (Dermer) Neugeboren in Eretz Israel by their family in Ostrava, Prague, Vilaucea and Tarnopol, 1922-1963

Letters and postcards sent to Erich and Sali (Dermer) Neugeboren in Eretz Israel by their family in Ostrava, Prague, Vilaucea and Tarnopol, 1922-1963 - Postcard sent from Franzensbad to Anna Neugeboren in Witkowitz, 18 June 1922; - Postcard sent to Anna Neugeboren in Ostrava by her brother Poldi in Karlsbad, 18 July 1937; - Letters sent to Erich (Eli) and Sali (Dermer) Neugeboren by their family in Ostrau and Prague, 1939; - Postcard (in Yiddish) sent from Rechovot to Sara Neugeboren in Kibbutz Kfar Giladi, 16 August 1939; - Letters and postcards sent to Sali Neugeboren by her father, Abraham...

File Number : 2069

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, Red Cross Letter

Language : Czech, German, Yiddish

Personal documents of Josef Aiger and his family members, 1923-1977

Personal documents of Josef Aiger and his family members, 1923-1977 Postcards and letters: - Postcard sent by Breina, from Augostow, to her sister Lea Sherman in Eretz Israel, 20 May 1940; - Postcard in Russian sent to Annette Marcus in the United States by her sister Rakhil in Augostow, 21 May 1940; included is a translation to Hebrew; - Postcard sent by Szmul Aiger in Krakow to his brother Josef Aiger in Eretz Israel by means of H. S. Frisch in Bucharest, Romania, 25 December 1939 (including a translation to Hebrew); - Postcard sent from Fagaras, Romania, by request of his brother Szmul Aiger...

File Number : 2039

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter, Memoirs, Postcard, Genealogy

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Russian, German, Yiddish

Transcripts of testimonies of Jews from Poland who fought in the Polish Army and in the Red Army during the war

Transcripts of testimonies of Jews from Poland who fought in the Polish Army and in the Red Army during the war - Testimony of Szymon Bilgoraj, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1916, regarding his experiences as a soldier in the Polish Army fighting in Ukraine, Germany and Poland; - Testimony of Wiktor Margulis, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences as a soldier in the Polish Army, the Soviet Union and the Red Army; - Testimony of Eugeniusz Gerszon Landsberg, born in Poland, 1911, regarding his experiences in the Zbaraz Ghetto, in hiding and as a soldier in the Polish Army in Oder Neisse...

File Number : 8579

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

Letters and postcards to Icchak Rojzen in Eretz Israel from his family in Wisniowiec, 1935-1940

Letters and postcards to Icchak Rojzen in Eretz Israel from his family in Wisniowiec, 1935-1940 Also in the file: - Military service certificate issued to Icchak Rojzen, 30 June 1932; - Membership card in the League for the Working Land of Israel in Poland, 1932; - Membership card in Poalei Zion issued to Icchak Rojzen in Warsaw, 24 June 1934; - Policyholder certificate for Luck insurance company issued to Icchak Rojzen; -Invitation to the Eretz Israel office for a medical examination and technical arrangements for making aliya, 30 September 1935; - Memory book belonging to Icchak Rojzen...

File Number : 1968

Type of Material : Memoir Book, Official Documentation, Postcard, Personal Documents, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

Personal documentation of the Fern family including a military service booklet belonging to Bernard Berl Fern, born in Wolostkow, Poland, 1899

Personal documentation of the Fern family including a military service booklet belonging to Bernard Berl Fern, born in Wolostkow, Poland, 1899 - Military service booklet belonging to Bernard Berl Fern, born in Wolostkow, Poland, 1899, who was drafted into the Polish Army, 29 August 1923; - Birth certificates for Bernard Fern, his wife Helena (Goldberg) Fern, born in 1898, and their son, Ozjasz Wolf, born in 1935; - Medical certificates for the Fern couple and for the sons, Ozjasz Wolf and Herman, issued by the Eretz Israel office in Warsaw and Lwow.

File Number : 1173

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish

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