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Aliya certificate for Samuel Friedmann, born in Nagytarna, Romania, 02 October 1923, issued in Vienna, 23 March 1949, and a fisherman's certificate from the Agriculture Ministry to Samuel Friedmann, 05 April 1951 - Samuel Friedmann was born in Nagytarna, Romania, 02 October 1923, came on aliya to Israel, 14 April 1949; - Father, Mordechai; - Mother, Hodes. Comments by the submitter of the material: Death of the father of the submitter, Samuel Friedmann, September 1939; move from Transylvania, Romania, to Budapest, Hungary, in order to support his mother, his brothers and his sisters; detention and...

File Number : 739

Type of Material : Documents

Language : Hebrew

Experiences of Ida Kahana, born in Transylvania, 1920, during 1944-2007, written after her death by her granddaughter Yamit Lifshitz in Jerusalem

Experiences of Ida Kahana, born in Transylvania, 1920, during 1944-2007, written after her death by her granddaughter Yamit Lifshitz in Jerusalem Family background: deportation from Dez by the Nazis on Shavuot [May], 1944; arrival to Auschwitz; separation from her parents and from most of her siblings; transfer from Auschwitz on a death march; arrival to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by the Allied forces; move to Sweden with help from the King of Sweden; aliya to Israel; rehabilitation. Included in the file: - Photograph of Ida Kahana taken during her later years.

File Number : 342

Type of Material : Survey

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Esther (Schechter) Vardi, born in Técső, Czechoslovakia, 12 June 1922, regarding her experiences and those of her family during the Holocaust, and the memoirs of Chava Rozenberg regarding the experiences of Chanan Vardi-Rozenberg and the life of the Rozenberg family in Berlin, until 1939

Memoirs of Esther (Schechter) Vardi, born in Técső, Czechoslovakia, 12 June 1922, regarding her experiences and those of her family during the Holocaust, and memoirs of Chava Rozenberg regarding the experiences of Chanan Vardi-Rozenberg and the life of the Rozenberg family in Berlin, until 1939 Memoirs of Esther (Schechter) Vardi: Life of the family in Técső before the war. Leaving home, 03 March 1944; joining Hashomer Hatzair; underground activity as a courier; delivery of forged identity cards from Budapest to various towns; detention; deportation to Auschwitz; on a death march to Bergen-Belsen,...

File Number : 8595

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Genealogy of the Rübenfeld family, from Poland

Genealogy of the Rübenfeld family, from Poland Comments by the submitter of the material: Yaakov Rübenfeld, the father of the submitter of the material, studied medicine in Krakow; termination of his studies, due to the numerus clausus law; deportation of his parents, Salamon Rübenfeld and Rosa (Felix) Rübenfeld, to Auschwitz, December 1941.

File Number : 318

Type of Material : Genealogy

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Margita Gerti (Fuks) Veis, born in Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences during the Holocaust

Memoirs of Margita Gerti (Fuks) Veis, born in Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences during the Holocaust - Annexation of the village, Joka, to Hungary, 1938; service of her brother, Yona, in forced labor for the Hungarian Army, together with his brother in law, Laci Taub (his sister Sidi's husband); escape to the Soviet area; death of Yona and Laci; German occupation of Joka, spring 1944; concentration of the Jews in Bedőháza; deportation to the Érsekújvár Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; death of her mother Rivka (Reichenberg) and her niece, Évike; sending of Gerti and her sister, Elsa, to forced...

File Number : 8563

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Experiences of Josef Tibor Deutsch during the Holocaust as recorded by Judith Guth and testimony of Judith Guth regarding her experiences in Budapest, Hungary, during the Holocaust

Experiences of Josef Tibor Deutsch during the Holocaust as recorded by Judith Guth and testimony of Judith Guth regarding her experiences in Budapest, Hungary, during the Holocaust Testimony of Judith (Gondán) Guth, born in Budapest, Hungary, 26 November 1930: - Mother - Irma Kuncz; - Father - Ödön Jakow Gondán; - Childhood in Budapest, Hungary, in the 1930s. - Life in hiding together with her parents during the Holocaust. - Marriage following the war to Joseph Guth whose family lived in Tapolca, Hungary; and who perished in the Holocaust; death of her husband; remarriage to Endre Nay; divorce;...

File Number : 8558

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Memoirs of Dina Chana (Veis-Adler) Bleyer[?], born in Senta, Yugoslavia, 1919, regarding her experiences in Senta, in the Szeged Ghetto, Baja Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen

Memoirs of Dina Chana (Veis-Adler) Bleyer[?], born in Senta, Yugoslavia, 1919, regarding her experiences in Senta, in the Szeged Ghetto, Baja Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen - Childhood in the home of her grandfather, Rabbi Naftali Herz Adler who perished in Auschwitz, and his wife Zelda; deportation of the family to the Szeged Ghetto, April 1944; transfer to the Baja Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz, June 1944; transfer of Dina to an ammunitions factory, in Gruenberg, November 1944; on a death march to Bergen-Belsen, February 1945; liberation, May 1945. Move to a convalescent home in...

File Number : 8552

Type of Material : Diary, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Letters sent to Rosa (Huino) Levi in Eretz Israel by her mother Mazal Tov Huino and her teacher Moshe Moise Vital in Rodos, Italy, 1939-1940, and by her sister Flora in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1939-1960

Letters sent to Rosa (Huino) Levi in Eretz Israel by her mother Mazal Tov Huino and her teacher Moshe Moise Vital in Rodos, Italy, 1939-1940, and by her sister Flora in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1939-1960 Comments by the submitter of the material (Matilda Mazal Levi): Mazal Tov (Filosof) Huino was born in Rodos, Italy, 13/04/1889; she was deported to Athens and then to Auschwitz, 07/1944, where she perished on 16/08/1944; her husband Yosef Huino died and was buried in Rodos; their daughter Rosa Huino made aliya to Eretz Israel with her brother Avraham as illegal immigrants in 1938; she married Menachem Levi in...

File Number : 1864

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Spanish, Hebrew, Ladino

List of the Jews from the Covasna and Harghita area who perished in Auschwitz; the list was taken from the book: "Comunitatae evreilor din Brasov Secolele XIX-XX"

File Number : 1360

Type of Material : List of Murdered Persons

Language : Romanian

Testimony of Veronika (Sztrul) Friedmann, born in Sarmas, Transylvania, 1918, regarding her experiences before the Holocaust and in the Plaszów, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Parschnitz camps

Testimony

Testimony of Veronika (Sztrul) Friedmann, born in Sarmas, Transylvania, 1918, regarding her experiences before the Holocaust and in the Plaszów, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Parschnitz camps Born to an observant family in Sarmas (Hungarian: Salamas); her parents were Adolf, born in Bilbor and Eszter (Rubin) Sztrul, born in Salamas; her siblings were Jenő Sztrul and Ernő Sztrul; her other siblings were not mentioned by name; her maternal grandfather was Salamon Rubin whose two sons Adolf and Herman perished in the Holocaust, and whose daughter, the witness' mother, and the two children of his second daughter,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

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