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Testimony of Joseph Shner Schwartz, borin in 1932 in Kalocsa, Hungary, about his experiences as a boy in the Kalocsa ghetto and in an apartment in Budapest during the war

Life in a Neolog community before the war; Jews not admitted to high school; moves to Budapest for studies; family receives extra privileges because grandfather died in World War I; receives information from a refugee from Poland in 1943 about murder of Jews; German occupation ensues; living in the Kalocsa ghetto; escaping to Budapest; living in an apartment due to the family's extra privileges; hiding acquaintances in the apartment; conditions worsen in October 1944; mother captured and interrogated; life in hiding in the apartment until liberation; Zionist youth movement; slipping into Czechoslovakia;...

File Number : 13600

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Solomon Divald, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Marculesti and Tsybulevka

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Solomon Divald, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Marculesti and Tsybulevka From a religious, Zionist family. Soviet occupation, 1940; nationalization of the family's grocery store; re-occupation by the Romanian Army; 1941; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; yellow badge; deportation to Marculesti, autumn 1941; robbery of his family's jewelry and money by Romanian Gendarms; transfer on foot to Cosauti; crosses the Nistru River; transfer on foot to Tsybulevka; life in a stable; life in a Ukrainian farmer's house; deportation of his father to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Fuks, born in Radauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Atachi, Mogilev Podolskiy and in the underground in the Dzhurin Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Fuks, born in Radauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Atachi, Mogilev Podolskiy and in the underground in the Dzhurin Ghetto Life before the war. Deportation to Atachi by the Romanian gendarmes; transfer to Mogilev-Podolskiy; transfer to the Dzhurin Ghetto, 1941; ghetto life including underground activities as part of Hanoar Hatzioni; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Move to Brizheni; return to Radauti, 1945; life in Radauti; agricultural training at Oradea; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus, 1947; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Itzkovitz, born in Benedikovce, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, Ebensee and Gunskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Itzkovitz, born in Benedikovce, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, Ebensee and Gunskirchen From an ultra-Orthodox family; learns in a "heder" and attends school. Life under Hungarian rule from 1939; activities of the community rabbi of Mukacevo; deportation to labor camps near Mukacevo; camp life including labor as a messenger; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Mukacevo Ghetto; reaction of the neighbors; theft of property; his mother's illness; deportation to Auschwitz; murder of his parents and siblings;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Two documents issued by the Jewish community in Linz to Rudolf Gans-Schiller, including certification of his appointment as Director of the Emigration Bureau in Linz, 1938

Two documents issued by the Jewish community in Linz to Rudolf Gans-Schiller, including certification of his appointment as Director of the Emigration Bureau in Linz, 1938 - Thank-you letter to Rudolf Gans-Schiller from the Jewish community in Linz for the donation of 4,000 Reichsmark in support of needy Jews and assistance to the emigration of needy Jews; - Certificate from the Jewish community in Linz that Rudolf Gans-Schiller was appointed by Max Hirschfeld, Chairman of the Jewish community, as Director of the Emigration Bureau in Linz, and responsible for the entire Oberdonau area, and an additional...

File Number : 225

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation belonging to the Pinkhof family from the period of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, 1942-2000

Documentation belonging to the Pinkhof family from the period of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, 1942-2000 - Eulogies memorializing Pastor Th. F. Trienekens, the Righteous Among the Nations priest from the village of Grubbenvorst in the Limburg region, (pp. 1-13); - Testimony of Katarina Galanova regarding the Jewish physician, Dr. Salomon Kroonenberg from Amsterdam, who, according to her words, saved her life in Theresienstadt, 18 April, 2000; - Article in a Dutch newspaper regarding Twillenhaar in Nijverdal which served as a labor camp for Jewish inmates during the period of the German...

File Number : 2

Type of Material : Biography, Newspaper, Letter, Postcard, Testimony

Language : Dutch, German

Correspondence between the Jewish Social Self-Help ("Juedische Soziale Selbsthilfe", JSS) and the office of the Generalgouvernement, the "Bevoelkerungswesen und Fuersorge" (population and welfare) department and other authorities, regarding matters concerning welfare work, social help, and JSS activity reports, 1940-1942 Letters by the JSS organization, written in most cases by Dr. Michael Weichert, to the office of the Generalgouvernement, the "Bevoelkerungswesen und Fuersorge" (population and welfare) department, regarding: - Request for permission to buy goods for the manufacture of clothing,...

File Number : 14

Type of Material : Letter(s), Newspaper Clippings, Copy, Official Documentation, Correspondence

Language : Polish, German

Urgent call to the public by the social welfare department's help committee in Foehrenwald DP camp, to give donations to Jews in transit camps who lack all essential goods

File Number : 1474

Type of Material : Poster

Language : Yiddish

List of donations received by the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) and correspondence on the transfer of a synagogue to the Leeuwarden Municipality, 1939-1943

List of donations received by the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) and correspondence on the transfer of a synagogue to the Leeuwarden Municipality, 1939-1943 List of donations that were received or forced by the Joodse Raad from members of the Friesland district Jewish community; correspondence regarding the transfer of a synagogue to the Leeuwarden Municipality after it ceased to fulfill its function, (pp. 2-8).

File Number : 25

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Dutch

Lists of Jews from Belgium and the Netherlands, deported, survived, perished, missing, or donors, prepared by the Committee of Belgian Jews in London, 1944-1945

Lists of Jews from Belgium and the Netherlands, deported, survived, perished, missing, or donors, prepared by the Belgian Jewish Committee in London, 1944-1945 - List of Jews from the Netherlands in the Free Zone, including name (partial), address and/or place of residence, 08-12/10/1944 (pp. 1-4); - List of Jews registered in the Antwerpsch Comite ter Verdediging Van de Joodsche Belangen (Antwerp Committee of the Jewish Community of Belgium), including name, date of birth and address (pp. 5-19); - List of people who arrived from Theresienstadt, including date of birth and profession (pp....

File Number : 9

Type of Material : List of Murdered Persons, Record of Survivors, List of Persecuted Persons, List of Deportees

Language : French, English, Dutch

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