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Memoirs of Pavel Klein regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Budapest, Hungary, his desertion from the battalion during a death march to Stary Oskol, his imprisonment in a Soviet POW camp and his service as a physician on the front lines in the Czech unit of the Red Army Work as a physician in the Jewish hospital in Budapest, Hungary. Outbreak of the war; draft of the Jewish men to labor battalions at the front; draft of his brother, Laci; message regarding the death of his brother; draft of Pavel to a labor battalion as a physician, late 1942; final preparations and arrival in Ersekujvar;...

File Number : 8555

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Sonia Engelsberg, born in Torun, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Cesky Tesín, in a Polish village near the Dniester river, the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz, the prison in Most, Theresienstadt and other places Move to Cesky Tesín, life with her parents and four siblings until 1938. Clash between the Polish Army and the Czechoslovakian Army; the German occupation; anti-Jewish legislation and regulations; draft of Jewish men to forced labor; escape of the family to Torun; annexation of the area to Hungary, 1939; deportation of the Jews without Hungarian citizenship to Poland,...

File Number : 8482

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Czech

Personal documentation of Abraham Rosenman, born in Banovce, Slovakia, 1918, and Miriam Magda Guttman Rosenman, born in Michalovce, Slovakia, 1922

Personal documentation of Abraham Rosenman, born in Banovce, Slovakia, 1918, and Miriam Magda Guttman Rosenman, born in Michalovce, Slovakia, 1922 Letters and postcards sent by Abraham and Miriam Rosenman in Eretz Israel to relatives in Michalovce and Banovce, 1939 - 1940; correspondence of Abraham with relatives in Slovakia via the Red Cross, 1942; letters Miriam received from the fiancé of her sister, Robert Messinger, soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army, 1941 - 1943; personal diary of Abraham Rosenman including notes of Miriam, 11 - 13 July 1945; Abraham and Miriam Rosenman: Abraham and Miriam's...

File Number : 1823

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents, Documentary, Postcard, Diary

Language : Slovak, Hebrew, German

Memoirs of Yaakov Kleinman, a resident of Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, as told to his daughter, Rachel Shpunt, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer, a captive of the Soviets and his return to Czechoslovakia

File Number : 8334

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the experiences of Zikmund Spitzer, born in Krakow, Poland, 1915, who served in the Czech Army as a sergeant, was deported to Nisko camp, 18/10/1939, escaped from the camp, and was sent to Theresienstadt, 10/08/1942

File Number : 15

Type of Material : Documentary, Article

Language : Czech

Documentation regarding the experiences of Dr. Hanus Rebenwurzel Rezek, born in Straznice, Czechoslovakia, 1902, president of the Maccabi association and active in the social-democratic movement

Documentation regarding the experiences of Dr. Hanus Rebenwurzel Rezek, born in Straznice, Czechoslovakia, 1902, president of the Maccabi association and active in the social-democratic movement Included in the file: - Documents regarding the circumstances of the air[craft] accident in which Dr. Rezek was killed, 1948; Rezek made aliya to Eretz Israel after the war; he enlisted in the Czech unit as an army chaplain; he was active in the rehabilitation of the Jewish community in Czechoslovakia, as the secretary of the Jewish community in Prague.

File Number : 11

Type of Material : Documentary, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, Czech

Memoirs of Josef Mueller, born in Cop, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Hungarian labor battalions, in the Soviet Union following his escape in 1942, in battles in Prague and Dukla while in the Czechoslovakian Army, and in Israel after the end of the war

File Number : 4

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Czech

Memoirs of Sam Gottesman, born in Irsava, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto, Auschwitz, Wustegiersdorf, Wolfsberg and other places

Memoirs of Sam Gottesman, born in Irsava, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto, Auschwitz, Wustegiersdorf, Wolfsberg and other places Life before the war; re-annexation to Hungary; life in Ungar under Hungarian rule, until 1944. Munkacs Ghetto life; Auschwitz camp life; Wolfsberg camp life; Wustegiersdorf camp life; Gross-Rosen camp life; Bergen-Belsen camp life; Hildesheim camp life; Hannover camp life; liberation by the Red Army.

File Number : 8301

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Memoirs of Harry Kessler, born in Vienna in 1930, regarding his family’s experiences in Vienna, Brno and England in the 1930s-1940s

Memoirs of Harry Kessler, born in Vienna in 1930, regarding his family’s experiences in Vienna, Brno and England in the 1930s-1940s - "My Accidental Life": Harry Kessler's memoirs of his experiences and his family's experiences before and during the Holocaust: Family life in Vienna; meeting and becoming friends with the Jones family from England during a trip to Vienna in 1934; Anschluss (annexation of Austria to the Third Reich); escape of his family to Brno thanks to his father's Czechoslovakian citizenship in 1938; German occupation of Czechoslovakia; looking for ways to emigrate; emigration to England...

File Number : 11213

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

Language : English, German

Personal documentation belonging to Abraham Herskovic from Neresnice and Helena (Kirschenbaum) Herskovic from Velyki Kopani; declaration by Abraham Herskovic regarding his experiences as a forced laborer during the war Personal documentation: - Temporary certificate issued to Czechoslovakian Army soldier Abraham Herskovic; - Confirmation of the military service of Abraham Herskovic, 05 January-31 October 1945; - Certificate issued by the Czechoslovakian Repatriation Office given to Helena Kischenbaumova in Usti nad Labem, 06 November 1945; - Membership certificate in the Neresnice [Jewish]...

File Number : 1715

Type of Material : Declaration, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Czech, German

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