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Personal documentation of Simon Wolf (false identity: Wladyslaw Pawel Kaczmarczyk), born in Breslau, 1915, from the years 1942-1947

Personal documentation of Simon Wolf (false identity: Wladyslaw Pawel Kaczmarczyk), born in Breslau, 1915, from the years 1942-1947 - Forged birth certificate in the name of Wladyslaw Pawel Kaczmarczyk, born in Krakow, 1914, issued by the Swietego Jozefa Catholic Church in Krakow, 09 March 1942; - Kennkarte (Identity card) in the name of Wladyslaw Kaczmarczyk, issued in Przemysl, 16 June 1942; - Work permit of Wladyslaw Kaczmarczyk, issued in Krakow, 07 June 1943; - Ausweis (Identity card) of Wladyslaw Kaczmarczyk, issued in Krakow, 15 June 1944; - Immigration permit issued for Simon Wolf at the...

File Number : 1156

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Polish, English, German

Polish passport belonging to Icek Majer Lederman, born in Krasniczyn, 1894, issued at the Polish Consulate in Tokyo, 13 August 1941

File Number : 1144

Type of Material : Passport

Language : Polish, French

List of wealthy families from Budapest who escaped to Lisbon by paying ransom to the Germans, July 1944

List of wealthy families from Budapest who escaped to Lisbon by paying ransom to the Germans, July 1944 The list was attached to a report from the United States Embassy in Lisbon regarding the arrival of the group in Lisbon; the list included the names of those who arrived and information about them. The families in question are Hoff, Mouthner, Kornfeld, Weiss and Fenyvesi. It was mentioned that Hoff is the legal counsel for Weiss. The list contains details regarding occupation, dates of arrival and passport numbers of the family heads, and the names and ages of the other family members. An additional...

File Number : 105

Type of Material : Official Documentation, List of Survivors, List of Persecuted Persons

Language : English

Collection of the Hilfsausschuß fur die Deutschen in den Niederlanden, 1940-1943

Collection of the Hilfsausschuß fur die Deutschen in den Niederlanden, 1940-1943 The role of the Hilfsausschuß fur die Deutschen in den Niederlanden was the determination of damages and payment of compensation to German citizens who suffered from war damages in the Netherlands; the Hilfsausschuß was based on VO 21/41; Germans outside of the Netherlands were also entitled to compensation, on condition that the damage to property was caused in the Netherlands; most of the claims related to the property of Jewish refugees from Germany who had stored their household contents in storage rooms of shipping...

Type of Material : Reports, Correspondence, Letter, Document, Questionnaire, Inventory List, Certification

Language : Dutch, German

List of wealthy families from Budapest who escaped to Lisbon by paying ransom to the Germans, July 1944

List of wealthy families from Budapest who escaped to Lisbon by paying ransom to the Germans, July 1944 The list was attached to a report from the United States Embassy in Lisbon regarding the arrival of the group in Lisbon (for details see the master file in Yad Vashem Archives, P.12/86). The list included the names of those who arrived and information about them. The families in question are Hoff, Mouthner, Kornfeld, Weiss and Fenyvesi. It was mentioned that Hoff is the legal counsel for Weiss. The list contains details regarding occupation, dates of arrival and passport numbers of the family heads, and...

File Number : 86

Type of Material : List of Survivors, List of Persecuted Persons

Language : English

Letter of Irving Jossel (Jechial Josselevitch), Holocaust survivor from Baranowitz, written in New York to the New York Forverts editorial board on his experiences and the experiences of the residents of his city during the Holocaust

File Number : 4.25

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Yiddish

Two letters from Shlomo Dam, Holocaust survivor from Olesk, sent to Boston to the New York Forverts editorial board, on his experiences, his mother's experiences and the Olesk Jews experiences, 01 August 1942 and 25 July 1949 Hebrew poet and translator; request from the newspaper to publish his experiences, his mother's experiences and Olesk Jews experiences for the descendants of Olesk in the United States; included is a photograph of Shlomo Dam and his mother; the photograph is part of the Yad Vashem Photo Archive collection.

File Number : 4.21

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Yiddish

Article titled Two New Americans written by G. Mecker, editor of the Forverts newspaper in New York, on the experiences of two youths during the Holocaust

Article titled Two New Americans written by G. Mecker, editor of the Forverts newspaper in New York, on the experiences of two youths during the Holocaust The article has no date; description of a conversation Mecker had in the newspaper house with two youths from the United States aged 17, Holocaust survivors from Lodz, Moshe Kujawski and Avraham Morgenthaler; experiences of the two youths in the Lodz Ghetto; experiences of Kujawski in Aushwitz and Silesia; experiences of Morgehthaler in Auschwitz and Dachau.

File Number : 4.20

Type of Material : Article

Language : Yiddish

Letter of Z. Rothenberg, Holocaust survivor from Poland, in Hartford, to the New York Forverts editorial board on her life hidden by a Polish farmer with her husband and son in an underground pit during the Holocaust, 11 April 1950 The letter was sent in response to the Forverts newspaper writing competition where Holocaust survivors wrote about their new home in the United States, My New Home America.

File Number : 4.18

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Yiddish

Letter written by the Holocaust survivor Irwin Rubin from New York to the New York Forverts newspaper editor regarding his experiences in Posen, Sachsenhausen, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Ebensee, 28 July 1947 Deportation from Poland to Posen; life in Sachsenhausen, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Ebensee; liberation by the US Army in Ebensee; included is a photograph of Rubin; the photograph is part of the Yad Vashem Photo archive collection.

File Number : 4.14

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Yiddish

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