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File Number : 8666

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

Diary kept by Pál Kis, the Jewish photographer, October- 05 December 1944, regarding his experiences and those of this family during the war

Diary kept by Pál Kis, the Jewish photographer, October- 05 December 1944, regarding his experiences and those of this family during the war Life in the forced labor battalion in Szentimre and the area, including forced labor from 20 October 1944; escape from the forced labor battalion in Budapest; life with his wife and two other siblings in the home of his younger brother, Sanyi; life of his older daughter in a Red Cross protective house; entrusting his younger daughter to a Christian educational institution. There is an introduction written by the author's daughter, Shoshana Mariana (Kis) Shofaroni,...

File Number : 8616

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Gershon Volkovitz, born in 1930 in Kalisz, Poland, about his experiences as a boy in Kalisz, escape to Rowne, evacuation to the Ural region, and wandering through the Soviet Union with his mother and alone during the war

Life before the war; offspring of an affluent traditional Zionist family; attends a Hebrew gymnasium; war breaks out in 1939 and father escapes; witness escapes with his mother by motor vehicle toward Warsaw and thence to the Soviet frontier; escape to Rowne; reuniting with father; evacuation to the Soviet interior in early 1941; leaving Rostov in summer 1941; wandering; hunger en route to the Ural region; living in the Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan; hunger; mother dies in 1943; placed with aunt; placed in a Polish orphanage in Andizhan; escaping from the orphanage; wandering across Russia; unsuccessful attempt to...

File Number : 13644

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Mikhail Tifbenkel, born in Zhmerinka, Ukraine 1934, regarding his experiences in the Zhmerinka Ghetto until 1944

Memoirs of Mikhail Tifbenkel, born in Zhmerinka, Ukraine 1934, regarding his experiences in the Zhmerinka Ghetto until 1944 Family life in Zhmerinka before the war. Outbreak of the war; the family's decision not to leave [the house]; robbery of Jewish houses by local residents; pogroms in Brailov, 1942; murder of family members, including his grandmother in Brailov, 1942; life under Romanian rule in Zhmerinka; establishment of the Zhmerinka Ghetto, September 1941; ghetto life including yellow badge; visit of the Red Cross and its help to Jews in the ghetto; establishment of the Jewish police in the...

File Number : 8267

Type of Material : Drawing, Record of Survivors, Diagram, Map, Orders, Letter, Record of Murdered Persons, Memoirs

Language : Russian, Yiddish

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File Number : 2414

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Miriam Eshel, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1938, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Bergen-Belsen, Switzerland and Eretz Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Eshel, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1938, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Bergen-Belsen, Switzerland and Eretz Israel Her childhood in a well-to-do, traditional, Zionist family; antisemitism before the war; imposition of restrictions on Jews; dismissal of her father from his work; curfew; obligation to wear the yellow badge; her mother's work on the community [Relief and Rescue] Committee as a forger of certificates for refugees who arrived to Budapest. German occupation of Hungary, March 1944; deportation to a Jewish [marked] house; life during the German occupation, including...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Lists of Jewish pupils from Pinsk, 1936-1938

File Number : 3184

Type of Material : List of Jewish Pupils

Language : Polish

Certificates from the Belzyce School, 1934-1937

File Number : 1093

Type of Material : Diploma

Language : Polish

Testimony of Shimon Stashek Polishuk Peleg, born in Kowel, Poland, 1937, regarding his experiences in an orphanage in Chelm and living with a farmer

Testimony

Testimony of Shimon Stashek Polishuk Peleg, born in Kowel, Poland, 1937, regarding his experiences in an orphanage in Chelm and living with a farmer Separation from his family; transfer to an orphanage in Chelm; deportation to the ghetto or to Sobibor with the children from the orphanage; kidnapped by a local farmer while en route to an unknown destination; discovery that he is Jewish; abuse of the witness by the farmer and his family. Removal from the farmer's family by the Geulat Yaldei Yisrael Organization; transfer to an orphanage in Lublin under the protection of Chasya Bilitzki; aliya to Eretz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of staff members from a children's home who were evacuated to the Uvelskiy District, prepared in 1942

File Number : JM/24731

Type of Material : List of Evacuated Persons

Language : Russian

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