Documentation regarding Hans Paul Weiner, born in Trautenau, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel and service in PAL-Company 608
- Excerpts from the British Army historical documentation collection, regarding PAL-Company 608, dated, 31 March 1941-17 January 1944;
- Photographs and newspaper clippings from "The Palestine Post", 20 May-09 June 1941;
- Memoirs of Hans Paul Weiner;
Childhood in Trautenau;
Escape by his family from a pail [?] to a pogrom; [move?] to Prague, September 1938; attempts to receive an emigration visa in preparation for aliya; illegal aliya from...
File Number : 389
Type of Material : Telegram, Survey Report, Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Diary
Certification that Ilse Stern won Third Place in a shorthand competition in Langensalza, 21 April 1932
She succeeded in writing 120 shorthand symbols in one minute;
Comments by the submitter of the material:
Aliza (Stern) Yaakov was born in Langensalza, 1914; she made aliya to Eretz Israel without her parents, 1936 (they made aliya later); her brother Luther also made aliya to Eretz Israel; Aliza made aliya from the Netherlands, to where she had escaped after she had been detained in Germany and released (she had pretended that she was insane); she worked as a caregiver in a children's home, before she...
File Number : 646
Type of Material : Certification, Personal Documents
Memoirs written by Rivka Prilutzki from Berlin titled, "Mutti's Memoirs" regarding her experiences, 1941-1943
Life in Berlin before her husband's escape to Belgium; detention in Moabit prison in Berlin; transfer to the prison in Cologne; prison life for 5 months; release from prison; return home; smuggling of her sons to Yugoslavia; intention of the boys to make aliya from Yugoslavia to Eretz Israel; notification during the Pesach holiday by the Eretz Israel Office of the Jewish Agency, of the boys' arrival in Eretz Israel; escape to Brussels; transfer to Paris; illegal stay in Paris; meets her husband;...
Confirmation from Wetzlar regarding the transfer of Asan Timirbekow, born, 1912, from Giessen for interrogation by the Gestapo in Frankfurt am Main, 04 June 1943
Transfer of a Tatar, Asan Timirbekow, born, 10 February 1912, by train, to an interrogation place along with other people who had been arrested; payment of the travel expenses was made by the Gestapo; documentation regarding the details concerning the transfer of the people who had been arrested;
Included in the file:
- Explanation regarding the confirmation [document].
Documentation regarding the fate of Jacqui Israel Offen, born in Antwerp, 1939, and members of his family during the Holocaust and following it, 1941-1981
Memoirs of Jacqui:
Deportation of the family from Antwerp to Limburg, 1941; detention of his father, Moshe, born in Tarnow, 1893, and of his elder sister, Maly Malka, born in Berlin, 1924; deportation of his father and sister to Dossin camp in Malines and from there to Auschwitz, where they perished; escape of his mother Mina and the four remaining children to Namur; in hiding of the family in the St. Jean de Dieu monastery with the help of Abbe Andre; in...
Memoirs of Lottie Grussgott, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Frankfurt am Main, Brussels, France and the Malines camp
Life before the war.
Life under the Nazi regime; anti-Jewish legislation; Kristallnacht; unsuccessful attempt of her father to escape to the Netherlands; capture of her father by a Dutch border guard and his return to Germany; deportation of her father to Buchenwald; being watched over along with her brother Leon by her older sister, Dora,13, because their mother was ill; release of her father from Buchenwald because he had a visa to go to England;...
Testimony [in a letter] regarding the experiences of Rene Carasso Bensoussan and his family members, from Thessaloniki, 1941-1945
German Army occupation of Thessaloniki, 09 April 1941; dismissals at his place of work; escape to Athens with his wife Aline and their daughter Flora; detention; deportation to Chaidari; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, 02 April 1944; liberation from camp by the US Army in the Magdeburg area, 13 April 1945.
Move via DP camps in Charleroi, Courbevoie and Namur; move via Paris to Marseilles; move via Bari; arrival to Greece, 04 September 1945;
Note:
Included with the testimony is...
Memoirs of Raisa Yudovich, born in 1918, regarding her experiences in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, and using a false identity in Bar
Life in Dnepropetrovsk, including dismissal from her work as an engineer, 16 June 1941; escape to Bar with her baby daughter (born 11 July 1940); life in Bar; work in a kolkhoz; the German occupation; murder of Jews; life in the home of Yevdokiya Karelova, who worked in the kolkhoz; preparation of forged documents in the name of Raisa Yurovaya by the partisans; baking bread for the partisans; detention with her daughter; life in a cell with other women and children under crowded...
File Number : 2050
Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Records, Newspaper Clippings, Letter
Memoirs of Zinoviy Rodshtein, born in Kiev, Ukraine, regarding his experiences in prisons in Gorkiy, Kharkov, Kiev, in a Soviet forced labor camp in the Kirov region and more
Life before the war; work as the Executive Secretary of the local Comsomol Movement (Union of Communist Youth) Committee, 1936; detention of his friend, Mitya Komardinov; Rodshtein's refusal to accept the accusations leveled against his friend; dismissal from work due to his friendship with a Trotsky-terrorist; expulsion from the Communist Party; arrest, 28 October 1937; interrogations; life in prison; crowding in the cells; abuse by...
Travel permit to Cernauti, given to Yolana Wais after her release from a labor camp in Siberia, 30 December 1946
Note:
Yolana (Yehudit) Steiner, born in 1908, was married to Miklos Wais; they resided in Oradea, Transnistria; Miklos was a Communist; Yolana was pregnant when they escaped in the direction of the East, 1941; they were in detention in the Soviet Union in a prison in Moscow, for nine months; Yolana give birth to a baby daughter in prison, and the baby died due to lack of milk at the age of two weeks; Yolana and Miklos were sent to forced labor in Siberia; Miklos died of typhus after their...