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File Number : 3540

Language : Hebrew, Dutch

Photographs of drawings made by Lea Grundig, presented at an exhibition in Warsaw, July 1949

Photographs of drawings made by Lea Grundig, presented at an exhibition in Warsaw, July 1949 - Reproductions of the drawings made by Lea Grundig on the subjects of the Holocaust and the war, 1941-1948; - Clippings from the Polish and Hebrew press regarding the exhibition and the works of Lea Grundig, the artist, a graduate of the Dresden Academy of Art, who was arrested by the Gestapo in 1936, transferred to Vienna, and sent from there to Bratislava. In 1941 she managed to reach Palestine with a group of friends. The news of what was happening in Europe under the Nazi occupation and her acquaintance...

File Number : 1304

Type of Material : Drawing, Poster

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Personal documentation belonging to Anna Chana (Cygler) Goldberg, born in Lodz, Poland, 12 February 1919

Personal documentation belonging to Anna Chana (Cygler) Goldberg, born in Lodz, Poland, 12 February 1919 - Release certificate from the Warsaw Ghetto in the name of Chaim Szyja Cygler; - Passport of Chaim Szyja Cygler and Chana Cygler; - Original notebook from the Lodz Ghetto, including poems/songs, illustrations of Rumkowski, and a map of the ghetto.

File Number : 1077

Type of Material : Identity Card, Maps

Testimony of Raya (Shatzberg) Verter, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Atachi and the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Raya (Shatzberg) Verter, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Atachi and the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto Only child from a well-to-do family; Maccabi Hatzair activities; increase in antisemitism during the late 1930s. Soviet occupation, 1940; life under occupation including nationalization of her father's merchandise; German occupation, June 1940; escape to her aunt's house; decrees including yellow badge and establishment of the Cernauti Ghetto; ghetto life including living in the school hall; deportation to Atachi, September 1941; transfer to the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Diary of Thea Hoechster, born in 1898, written in secret in Theresienstadt

Diary of Thea Hoechster, born in 1898, written in secret in Theresienstadt Labor by Thea Hoechster, as a head nurse in the psychiatric department in Theresienstadt; - Drawing of Thea Hoechster in her nurse's uniform, April 1944; - Tag from Thea Hoechster's suitcase, used when she crossed the border to Switzerland; - Transit pass for foreign residents belonging to Grete Hoechster, the daughter of Thea Hoeschster; - Identity document with personal details and visas to British Mandatory Palestine, issued for Grete Hoechster; - Certificate of graduation from home economic studies in Basel,...

File Number : 7136

Type of Material : Drawing, Diary, Personal Documents

Language : German

Testimony of Alexsander Kramer, born in Vilna, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Ponary and in hiding in a labor camp

Testimony

Testimony of Alexsander Kramer, born in Vilna, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Ponary and in hiding in a labor camp Poor traditional Zionist family; attends an elementary Tarbut school. Soviet occupation; German occupation, 1941; decrees including confiscation of property and the yellow badge; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; ghetto life including kidnappings by the Lithuanians; the Judenrat; Jewish police; in hiding in a house; informed on and capture by the Jewish police; liquidation of the ghetto; deportation to Ponary; separation from his family and escape attempt; capture...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Riva (Shmukler) Reichel, born in Vilna, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Vilnius Ghetto, Vaivara, Kivioli, Stutthof and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Riva (Shmukler) Reichel, born in Vilna, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Vilnius Ghetto, Vaivara, Kivioli, Stutthof and other places Life before the war. Arrival of refugees from Poland after the outbreak of the war, 1939; pogrom by Lithuanians; German occupation, June 1941; air-raids; escape attempt by the family; capture by the German Army; transfer back to Vilna; restrictions on Jews including termination of studies; detention of men and deportation to Ponary; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; ghetto life and in hiding during the deportation on Yom Kippur; in hiding with 50...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara (Zalomon) Berkovitz, born in Zdunska Wola, Poland, 1917, regarding her experiences in Zdunska Wola, Lodz, Auschwitz and the Freiberg aircraft factory

Testimony

Testimony of Sara (Zalomon) Berkovitz, born in Zdunska Wola, Poland, 1917, regarding her experiences in Zdunska Wola, Lodz, Auschwitz and the Freiberg aircraft factory From a wealthy religious family; attends a Beit Yaakov school and a local Polish high school. German occupation; family escapes in the direction of Warsaw; return via Lodz; deportation to the Zdunsk Wola Ghetto, 1942; ghetto life including her father's position on the Judenrat; liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to Lodz; life in hiding in an apartment in the Lodz Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; murder of the members of her family except...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Fogel Drori, born in Neresnice, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Zeitz and Buchenwald

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Fogel Drori, born in Neresnice, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Zeitz and Buchenwald Life before the war. Annexation of the Sudetenland to Germany, 1938; Ukrainian occupation; displays of antisemitism; organises self-defence; re-annexation to Hungary; 1939; anti-Jewish legislation; deportation of Jews to Ukraine; deportation of his father; death of his father; German occupation, March 1940; anti-Jewish legislation; yellow badge; deportation to the Mateszalka Ghetto; ghetto life; meets Jewish refugees from Poland; deportation...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

"Legends from Claartje Pink's Camp", a book in Hebrew by Detje-Adele-Pinkhof in Hebrew with corrections and notes to the text by Fieke Langer and Mirjam (Waterman) Pinkhof, undated

"Legends from Claartje Pink's Camp", a book in Hebrew by Detje-Adele-Pinkhof in Hebrew with corrections and notes to the text by Fieke Langer and Mirjam (Waterman) Pinkhof, undated In the legends illustrated by the writer, there is a description of what happened to the Pinkhof family in the time between their first deportation from Amsterdam to Westerbork until their return home before the second deportation from which they did not return; above the word "Legends" appear the words "A Series: With Slices of Bread"; apparently the legends are part of an entire series.

File Number : 13

Type of Material : Survey, Stories, Book, Drawing, Project

Language : Hebrew

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