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Survey of conditions in Nazi-occupied countries and Near Eastern countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses with an emphasis on the situation of the Jews, July 1943

Survey of conditions in Nazi-occupied countries and Near Eastern countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses with an emphasis on the situation of the Jews, July 1943 Poland: Information from coded letters regarding the murder of Jews in Krakow and Warsaw; murder in Treblinka and Belzec; Jews in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek and small German company camps; deception of the inmates regarding their imminent murders; situation in Bialystok is still reasonable; demographic situation of the Jews of Lodz; the library of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva; Germany: Germany's strength has been...

File Number : 13

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

"Dokumente uber Methoden der Judenverfolgung im Ausland" (Documentation regarding methods of persecution of Jews outside Germany), 1939-1944, prepared by the United Restitution Organization (URO) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1960

"Dokumente ueber Methoden der Judenverfolgung im Ausland" (Documentation regarding methods of persecution of Jews outside Germany), 1939-1944, prepared by the United Restitution Organization (URO) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1960 Included in the file: Agreement between the Bulgarian commissar for Jewish questions, Alexander Beleff, and the German representative, SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer Theodor Dannecker, concerning the deportation of 20,000 Jews from Bulgaria and Macedonia to the Eastern territories occupied by Germany, 22/02/1943 (pp. 3-4); Excerpts from notes and letters by Rudolf Hess, 1946-1947:...

File Number : 136

Type of Material : Memoirs, Note, Questionnaire, Agreement, Testimony, Protocol, Survey, Letter(s)

Language : German

Postcards written by Eliezer Tagger in Sofia and Italy to Lucia, Adolf and Ann Haimoff and to Mathilda in Sofia, Bulgaria

Postcards written by Eliezer Tagger in Sofia and Italy to Lucia, Adolf and Ann Haimoff and to Mathilda in Sofia, Bulgaria - Postcard written by Eliezer Tagger in Sofia, Bulgaria to his granddaughter Ann Haimoff in Sofia, Bulgaria, 01/04/1938; - Postcard written by Eliezer Tagger in Trieste, Italy to his daughter Lucia Haimoff in Sofia, Bulgaria, 24/07/1943; - Postcard written by Eliezer and Vittoria Tagger in Varese, Italy to Adolf Haimoff in Sofia, Bulgaria (Adolf Haimoff is Lucia's husband), 15/08/1943; - Postcard written by Eliezer Tagger in Argegno, Italy to Mathilda, at the address of A....

File Number : 3406

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Italian, Bulgarian, French

Testimony of Sheli (Choef) Yulezari, born in 1931 in Sofia, Bulgaria, about her experiences as a girl in Sofia and Ruse

Testimony of Sheli (Choef) Yulezari, born in 1931 in Sofia, Bulgaria, about her experiences as a girl in Sofia and Ruse Life before the war; offspring of a Zionist secular mercantile family; family owns a confectionary and a porcelain import business; mother active in WIZO (Women's International Zionist Organization); family members lack Bulgarian citizenship; war breaks out in 1939; German occupation ensues; Jews placed under restrictions; "Aryanization" of Jewish-owned businesses; deportation to Ruse; witness attends a Jewish school; studies Hebrew, chumash, and reading Hebrew literature; renews visa each...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Diary of Greti Mordechai, a student at the Girls' School in Plovdiv, written 05-30 September 1943

Diary of Greti Mordechai, a student at the Girls' School in Plovdiv, written 05-30 September 1943 Written on the binding of the diary: Greti Mordechai A student in Grade V The St. Joseph School for Girls in Plovdiv On the frontispiece her name is written as "Gretty". In her diary Greti writes many words of praise for Boris III, the King of Bulgaria, who rescued the Jews. The diary begins on 05 September 1943, the day the king was buried (he died 28 August 1943). On the first page of the diary Greti writes of 10 March 1943, the day the Jews were concentrated in Plovdiv for deportation to Poland...

File Number : 9304

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Bulgarian

Testimony of Neora Nora Goralnik née Teplitzki, born in 1938 in Burgas, Bulgaria, about her wartime experiences in Burgas

Testimony

Testimony of Neora Nora Goralnik née Teplitzki, born in 1938 in Burgas, Bulgaria, about her wartime experiences in Burgas Childhood before the war; affluent religious family that owns a restaurant; war breaks out; sirens; father sent to a labor camp for two years; restaurant "Aryanized"; Bulgarian friends support the witness and her mother; moving from an apartment in a mixed neighborhood to one in the Jewish quarter; movement restrictions; curfew; the yellow star edict; father's life in the camp including cold, hunger, housing in barracks with wooden bunks; cultural life and mutual aid; liberation by Red...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Ernestina Rufeizen née Solomonova, born in 1925 in Ruse, Bulgaria, about her experiences in Sofia and Berkovitsa

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Ernestina Rufeizen née Solomonova, born in 1925 in Ruse, Bulgaria, about her experiences in Sofia and Berkovitsa Daughter of a secular Sephardi family in Ruse; father is a German merchandise agent; witness studies German; active in the Betar movement; good relations with the neighbors; plans to immigrate to Eretz Israel; moves to Sofia; deported to Berkovitsa when the war breaks out; wears the yellow star; works at a fly-trap ribbon factory; father sent away to forced labor; Allied bombardments; liberation; back to Sofia; activity in Youth Aliyah and the Hehaluts movement; travels by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew