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Testimony of Joseph Fries, born in Tel Aviv, Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine), 1937, regarding his experiences on a visit to Poland, in the Soviet Union and in Ural

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Fries, born in Tel Aviv, Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine), 1937, regarding his experiences on a visit to Poland, in the Soviet Union and in Ural Trip with his parents from Eretz Israel for a family visit in Poland, 1938. Escape from Niepolomice to the Soviet Union, 1939; from there for a short stay in Kiev, Saratov, Sverdlovsk and Perem; move to Naberezhnyye, Ural, 1944; his father's work as an electrician; his father's arrival at the British Consulate in Moscow in an attempt to return to Eretz Israel. Move to the city of Kazan after the end of the war, 1946; move via Warsaw,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

M.27 - Public Record Office, London: Documentation pertaining to Jewish matters

M.27 - Public Record Office, London: Documentation pertaining to Jewish matters Established under the terms of the Public Record Office Act of 1838, the Public Record Office (PRO) was the official archive of the government of Great Britain. Court documents were originally stored at the archive, however, from the middle of the 19th century, government documents were transferred there, and the law was adapted accordingly. The archive was located in the Rolls Building in the center of London from 1854. In 2003, the PRO was combined with a number of other bodies, and today it is known as The National Archives...

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report

Language : English

Correspondence and reports of the US State Department and additional organizations regarding the Weiss family and additional wealthy families from Budapest who fled to Lisbon in exchange for paying ransom to the Germans, 1941-1944 Testimony and details regarding the Weiss family from Budapest and their associates, the family wealth, ransom paid to the Germans and their escape to Barcelona. Pages 1-3: Report from US Military Intelligence including information regarding Georg Frederick, a Hungarian Jewish physician working in a Pennsylvania hospital, regarding the ammunitions factory owned by Manfred...

File Number : 86

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Record of Persecuted Persons, Record of Survivors

Language : French, English, German

Documentation belonging to Paul and Lina Levy regarding their visit to Eretz Israel in 1938, their being sent back to Germany by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, the sale of their property in Germany, their transfer to the ship, "Patria" and more

Documentation belonging to Paul and Lina Levy/i regarding their visit to Eretz Israel in 1938, their being sent back to Germany by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, the sale of their property in Germany, their transfer to the ship, "Patria" and more Volume 1: - Correspondence between Paul Levy and the German authorities regarding taking some of his property out of Germany, 1938-1942; Paul Levy and his wife, Lina Levy, from Luenen, visited Eretz Israel in 1938; they purchased a farm, and wanted to remain in Eretz Israel as illegal immigrants, however the Jewish Agency for Israel insisted that they return...

File Number : 367.1

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Records, Administrative Documentation, Diary, Memoirs, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Documentation and correspondence, primarily regarding rescue activities, with the [Eretz Israel] Office in Geneva, and transmitting information to the free world regarding the murder of the Jews of Poland, 1941-1974 The file contains: Pages 1-4: Correspondence between Dr. Chaim Pazner and Professor Edgar Salin, the British Consul in Switzerland, regarding receiving information concerning German policy on the countries it occupied, including information on the extermination of Polish Jewry and the transfer of this information to the Allied governments, 1941; Pages 5-7: Correspondence between Melech...

File Number : 46

Type of Material : Survey Report, Memoirs, Book, Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

Activities of Chaim Pazner in the Eretz Israel Office in Geneva and attempts to help the Jews in occupied European countries, 1940-1945

Activities of Chaim Pazner in the Eretz Israel Office in Geneva and attempts to help the Jews in occupied European countries, 1940-1945 The file contains: Pages 1-70: Correspondence with the British Consulates in Zurich and Geneva regarding the granting of certificates [for legal aliya to Eretz Israel], including lists of people slated for aliya, 1940-1947; Pages 71-72: Regulations of the Immigration office, April 1940; Page 73: List of Iraqi students. The page numbers do not necessarily correspond with the frame numbers in the scan.

File Number : 12

Type of Material : Official Documentation, List of Persecuted Persons, Record of Persecuted Persons, List of Names

Language : French, English

Testimony of Adolf Meir Feldmann, born in Uhorska Ves, Czechoslovakia, 1916, regarding his experiences in Bratislava and Mauritius

Testimony

Testimony of Adolf Meir Feldmann, born in Uhorska Ves, Czechoslovakia, 1916, regarding his experiences in Bratislava and Mauritius Life before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to Bratislava; activities arranging for Jews to make aliya to Eretz Israel; unsuccessful attempt to make illegal immigration to Eretz Israel; detention in Mauritius by the British; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945.

File Number : 2871

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Joint testimony of Baruch Beyth, born in Bleicherode, Germany in 1931, and Dan Beyth, born in Tel Aviv, Eretz Israel in 1936, regarding their family's experiences in Bleicherode before their aliya to Eretz Israel in 1936 Information regarding their family in Bleicherode; their family members earn their livelihood in the textile industry; their uncle Hans Beyth works as the chief assistant of Henrietta Szold; arrival of Nazi battalions to the streets; their family obtains aliya certificates with the help of the British Consul in Berlin, Captain Francis Edward Foley (later recognized by Yad Vashem as a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Student card and passport belonging to Rosa (Lipowska) Wolochwianski, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1912, issued in Poland in 1926 and 1938; family tree

Student card and passport belonging to Rosa (Lipowska) Wolochwianski, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1912, issued in Poland in 1926 and 1938; family tree - Student card belonging to Rozalja Lipowska issued by the Tadeusza Kościuszki Public School in Baranowicze, 24 March 1926 for the academic year 1925-1926; - Passport belonging to Rosa (Lipowska) Wolochwianski, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 12 August 1912, issued by the British Consulate in Warsaw, 24 January 1938; - Family tree of the Lipowska family including the names of family members who perished in the Holocaust. Notes from Nili Adorin and...

File Number : 1521

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Passport, Genealogy

Language : Hebrew, Arabic, Polish, French, English

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