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Testimony of Judit Somogy Rudwein, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1918, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Bergen-Belsen, Switzerland and Eretz Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Judit Somogy Rudwein, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1918, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Bergen-Belsen, Switzerland and Eretz Israel Childhood in a cultured, wealthy and assimilated home; Outbreak of the war; meets Jewish refugees; receives news of the murder of Jews; imposition of limits on Jews; marriage, 1937; birth of her daughter, 1938; work until 1944; move to a (marked) Jewish house; transport to Bergen-Belsen on the Kasztner train; camp life for half a year including education and culture; liberation of some of the inmates, August 1944; doubts arising regarding the success of the...

File Number : 13278

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Azriel Emil Baer, born in Halberstadt, Germany, 1922, regarding his experiences in Halberstadt, in Hamburg and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Azriel Emil Baer, born in Halberstadt, Germany, 1922, regarding his experiences in Halberstadt, in Hamburg and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939 Information regarding his family's history in Germany, starting from the 17th century; Orthodox, religious family; activities in the Agudat Israel organization; Kristallnacht; deportation of Jews who were born in Poland; detention of Jews; imposition of monetary fines on the Jews; activities in the Youth Aliyah organization; life in aliya training in Hamburg; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939. Life in Jerusalem.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea (Pinchuk) Zeiger, born in Rafalowka, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Rafalowka Ghetto, in hiding in a forest and with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Pinchuk) Zeiger, born in Rafalowka, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Rafalowka Ghetto, in hiding in a forest and with the partisans Traditional family; Hebrew education when she attends a Tarbut school; activities in the Beitar movement. Outbreak of the war, 1939; attends a Soviet school; exile of wealthy people to Siberia; termination of private commerce; German occupation, 1941; termination of the Jews' trade activities and studies; deportation to the Rafalowka Ghetto; forced labor of young people; mass murder, and burial in a common grave; acts of murder; hides in a pit...

File Number : 12947

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea (Feinstein) Orbach, born in Vilna, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Riga, Kaiserwald, Stutthof and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Feinstein) Orbach, born in Vilna, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Riga, Kaiserwald, Stutthof and a death march Life in Vilna before the war; Zionist, traditional family; witness attends Jewish schools; meets Jewish deportees from Germany; help by the Jewish community to the refugees. Outbreak of the war, 1939; Soviet occupation; transfer of Vilna to Lithuanian rule; deportation of wealthy people to Siberia; German occupation, 1941; air-raids; anti-Jewish restrictions including the yellow badge; termination of studies; forced labor; deportation to the Vilna...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Ernst Shlezinger, born in Topolcany, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding his experiences in Topolcany, Vyhne and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Ernst Shlezinger, born in Topolcany, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding his experiences in Topolcany, Vyhne and in hiding Life before the war; the witness' grandfather is head of the Jewish community; attends a Jewish school; life in Topolcany including the partition of Czechoslovakia. Outbreak of the war, 1939; restrictions on the Jews including ban on studies; Aryanization; deportation of Jews to Vyhne, 1942; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, 1942; Aryanization of family businesses; his brother's attempt to make aliya using a false identity; his brother is informed on and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation of Chaim Szycher, born in Starokonstantynow, pertaining to his early education and higher education in Warsaw, 1925-1933

Personal documentation of Chaim Szycher, born in Starokonstantynow, pertaining to his early education and higher education in Warsaw, 1925-1933 - Membership card in the League for Working Eretz Israel issued for Chaim Szycher in Warsaw, 1933; - Student cards for a student in the Social and Political Science Faculty of the Wszechnica Polska (Polish Free University) issued for Chaim Szycher in Warsaw, 1927-1928; a grades registry notebook is attached to the cards; - List of courses for Chaim Szycher in the Institute of Jewish Wisdom in Warsaw, 1928-1929; - Card for a student in the Humanities Faculty...

File Number : 1020

Type of Material : Membership Cards, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English

Announcement regarding the opening of a school for children who stutter

File Number : 1271

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : Yiddish

Announcement regarding a performance in honor of Hanukkah by the students at the Beit Bialik School in Stuttgart under the direction of Mordechai Katz

File Number : 925

Type of Material : Invitation

Language : Yiddish

Memoirs of Iosef Behar Rafael on Karnobat during the Ottoman period until the middle of the 20th century

Memoirs of Iosef Behar Rafael on Karnobat during the Ottoman period until the middle of the 20th century The file also includes: Five photographs of Iosef Behar Rafael, his mother, his mother's grave from 1950 and their home in Karnobat in 1938.

File Number : 240

Type of Material : Notebook, Letter

Language : Bulgarian

Matriculation certificate of Fryderyk Schorr, born in Zurawno in the Stanislawow Region, awarded in 1934, and reconfirmed in Lwow, 1940

File Number : 897

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Polish

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