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Aliya certificate issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel in Cyprus for Hava Winitzer, 21 December 1947

Aliya certificate issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel in Cyprus for Hava Winitzer, 21 December 1947 Aliya of Hava (Winitzer) Wolf, born in Romania, 1932 [to Eretz Israel via] the illegal immigrant ship, "Geulah"; release from Cyprus, 22 December 1947.

File Number : 734

Type of Material : Document

Language : Hebrew, English

Diaries written by Avraham Lipkonsky Aviel, born in Dugalishok, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in a Youth Aliyah institution in Salvino, Italy and in Cyprus and Eretz Israel, 1946-1948

Diaries written by Avraham Lipkonsky Aviel, born in Dugalishok, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in a Youth Aliyah institution in Salvino, Italy and in Cyprus and Eretz Israel, 1946-1948 - Diaries (three sections) written by Avraham Lipkonsky Aviel in Cyprus and in Eretz Israel, 1946-1948 (pp. 2-92); - Correspondence between members of Kvutzat [Kibbutz] Hanita, 16 November 1946-24 November 1948 (pp. 93-129); - Articles written by Avraham Lipkonsky (in Hebrew), Gershon Klein (Yiddish), Zvi Kanner (Yiddish), and A. Liberman (Hebrew) (pp. 130-134); - Letters written by Reuven Donat, 19 November...

File Number : 731

Type of Material : Diary, Testimony, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Memoirs of Gavriel Goldstein Avni, born in Oradea, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences during the war, including a summary of his experiences before the war

Memoirs of Gavriel Goldstein Avni, born in Oradea, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences during the war, including a summary of his experiences before the war Life in Bihor; death of his father, 1933; move to Oradea; learns Torah; attends an elementary school including studies in a Jewish high school in the afternoon; learns knitting in order to help earn the family's livelihood. German Army occupation of Hungary, 1944; life under German occupation including the imposition of decrees, obligation to wear a yellow badge, ban on entry into [public] places, and taxes; [deportation to the] ghetto; ghetto...

File Number : 8554

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Emanuel Gutmann, born in Munich, Germany, 1924, regarding his experiences in Munich until 1936

Testimony

Testimony of Emanuel Gutmann, born in Munich, Germany, 1924, regarding his experiences in Munich until 1936 Life in Germany before the Nazi rise to power; his father's service as a medical officer during World War I; witness attends the Ohel Yaakov Jewish school; membership in a Jewish sports organization; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1936; activities as an emissary in Cyprus at the end of the war.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Ari Polak, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1938, regarding his experiences as a young child in the Cernauti Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Aharon Ari Polak, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1938, regarding his experiences as a young child in the Cernauti Ghetto From a family of hasidim; life before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; Soviet occupation; life under Soviet occupation; Romanian and German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; deportation of most of the community to Transnistria; permit to stay in Cernauti; deportation of his father to forced labor; ghetto life; transfer to a smaller apartment; mutual help; yellow badge; livelihood from trade in stolen goods; sends kosher food to his father; liberation by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther (Krzepicka) Poler, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen and Aschersleben

Testimony

Testimony of Esther (Krzepicka) Poler, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen and Aschersleben From a religious family; attends a Jewish school. Outbreak of the war, 1939; life in the Lodz Ghetto; labor in a straw workshop and a rug workshop; escape with her mother and sister during the “Sperre”, curfew "Aktion"; liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto, summer 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; camp life until January 1945; transfer to Aschersleben by train; camp life including labor in an aircraft factory;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Smuel Ostri, born in Borduzani, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in Luchinets, Mogilev-Podolski and Atachi

Testimony

Testimony of Smuel Ostri, born in Borduzani, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in Luchinets, Mogilev-Podolski and Atachi Life before the war. Deportation to Luchinets; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski including his family's work baking and selling pies; transfer to Atachi; life in Atachi including labor building bridges; typhus at the time of liberation by the Red Army. Arrest on the charge of stealing a door; drafted into the Red Army; construction of an airfield in eastern Prussia; transfer to Poland and Czechoslovakia with the army; transfer to Minsk; meetis his uncle;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Woltser, born in Tomaszow Lubelski, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Rawa Ruska, Siberia, Guryev and Biesgun

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Woltser, born in Tomaszow Lubelski, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Rawa Ruska, Siberia, Guryev and Biesgun From a traditional Zionist family; witness's father is a house painter and his mother is a housewife. Escape to a village with the outbreak of the war; in hiding and return home; unsuccessful attempts to escape to the Soviet area; return to Tomaszow Lubelski; escape to Rawa Ruska with his father; life in Rawa Ruska including labor painting for the Red Army; deportation to Siberia; life in Siberia including labor logging trees; learns in a dormitory; arrival in Guryev...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lili (Preizler) Avivi, born in Viseul de Sus, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences in Viseul de Sus, Auschwitz, Bromberg, Philippsthal and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Lili (Preizler) Avivi, born in Viseul de Sus, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences in Viseul de Sus, Auschwitz, Bromberg, Philippsthal and other places Life before the war; attends a Romanian school. Draft of her father to forced labor for the Romanian Army; deportation to the Viseul de Sus Ghetto; deportation in the last "Aktion" to Auschwitz; separation from her family; transfer to Bromberg; camp life including labor harvesting carrots and storing them; transfer to Philippsthal; camp life including labor in a weapons factory; death march; escape to the mountains; life in the shelter of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzkhak Tzigler, born in Charsznica, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, in Plaszow, Mauthausen and Melk camps, and in other places

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzkhak Tzigler, born in Charsznica, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, in Plaszow, Mauthausen and Melk camps, and in other places Family background; life before the war; outbreak of the war, 1939; air-raids on the town and on the railroad tracks; his family escapes to Miechow; his father escapes across the border into the Soviet Union and returns to Miechow several days later; his family stays in Miechow for several days; return to Charsznica; they find that their house is partially destroyed; arrival of German soldiers into the town; bans and restrictions; curfew...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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