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Memoirs of Rachel Iskoviez, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1931, regarding her experiences in southern France, Rivesaltes, in an OSE children's home and in a monastery using a false identity

Memoirs of Rachel Iskoviez, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1931, regarding her experiences in southern France, Rivesaltes, in an OSE children's home and in a monastery using a false identity The German occupation; escape of the family to southern France; life in the home of local non-Jews; German occupation; deportation of Jews to the Rivesaltes camp; unsuccessful attempt to escape from the camp by her father; his transfer to the Gurs camp; entrusting of Rachel to the Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE-Organization to Save the Children) organization and her transfer to a children's home with her brother, Danny;...

File Number : 8633

Type of Material : Personal Records, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, French

Memoirs of Shamai Kizelsztejn, born in Bialystok, Poland, 19 December 1924, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, the Bialystok prison, and in Majdanek, Blizyn, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna and other camps Life in Bialystok under the Red Army occupation; German occupation of Bialystok; establishment of the Bialystok Ghetto; deportation to the Bialystok Ghetto; Bialystok Ghetto life including labor constructing the Krywlany airfield and forced labor constructing a road, spring 1942; detention in the Bialystok prison; transfer to Majdanek camp; transfer to Blizyn camp; camp life; transfer to...

File Number : 8594

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Notebook belonging to Dawid Karu, from Stanislawow, with the words of songs sung by the illegal immigrants on the "Exodus" ship, and the illegal immigrant certificate issued to Dawid Karu, 24 October 1947 - Notebook in which Dawid Karu wrote the words sung by the illegal immigrants on the "Exodus" ship, 1947; - Illegal immigrant certificate from the "Exodus from Europe 5707" ship, issued to Dawid Karu, 24 October 1947; - Immigrant card of Dawid Karu, issued by the Jewish Agency, 16 May 1949; - Experiences of Dawid Karu, as written by his grandson: His family's life in Stanislawow; outbreak of...

File Number : 718

Type of Material : Personal Records, Poems/songs, Documentary

Language : Hebrew, English

Memoirs of Tzali Goronovski, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Baranowicze Ghetto, the Koldyczewo camp and as a partisan in the Naliboki forest

Memoirs of Tzali Goronovski, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Baranowicze Ghetto, the Koldyczewo camp and as a partisan in the Naliboki forest Life before the war; work manufacturing tin products with his father. German occupation; unsuccessful attempt to escape to the East; deportation to the Baranowicze Ghetto; deportation of his father to forced labor in the Molodechno Ghetto; murder of forced laborers including his father; murder of his mother and sisters, Bela and Perl; transfer to the Koldyczewo camp, 1941; camp life; beatings from a policeman; help from Yorun, a...

File Number : 8559

Language : Polish, Russian

Testimony of Prof. David Jakoby Jakobowitz, born in Antwerpen, Belgium, 1928, regarding his experiences in Antwerp, Lyon, Geneva, Adliswil and Celerina

Testimony

Testimony of Prof. David Jakoby Jakobowitz, born in Antwerpen, Belgium, 1928, regarding his experiences in Antwerp, Lyon, Geneva, Adliswil and Celerina Childhood in Antwerp; his father is a partner of a diamond company; studies at a Jewish elementary school for boys “Jashobeam”. German occupation, 10.05.1940; escape with his family on a train to France; German occupation; back home to the hometown; studies in a French public high school; yellow badges; restrictions; cancellation of food tickets for Jews; beginning of the deportation of the city's Jews to Poland, autumn of 1942; escape with his family by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters and postcards sent to Dina Bibring, born in Stanislawow, Poland, 1910, in Eretz Israel by her family members in Stanislawow, 1934-1941, and letters sent by Dina from Mikuliczyn to her future husband Adolf Jankolovits in Eretz Israel, 1938, and including Dina's personal documents and her memoirs regarding her experiences and the experiences of her family members Letters and postcards: - Letters and postcards sent to Dina Bibring in Eretz Israel by her father Mordekhai Markus Bibring and her mother Mina, her sister Gincia, and her brother Salo in Stanislawow regarding their life in Stanislawow,...

File Number : 1917

Type of Material : Travel Ticket, Memoirs, Documentary, Personal Documents, Postcard, Letter, Notebook

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German, Yiddish, Hungarian

Postcards sent by Arnold and Ester Sieradzki in Praszka to their son Wladyslaw in Bialystok, 1939-1940

Postcards sent by Arnold and Ester Sieradzki in Praszka to their son Wladyslaw in Bialystok, 1939-1940 Included in the file: Telegram sent by Wladyslaw Wladek Sieradzki to his parents in Praszka, announcing that he passed his examination successfully, 1930; Comments by the submitter of the material (Doron Sieradzki Sheratzki): Arnold and Ester Sieradzki resided in Praszka along with their daughter Zosia, at the outbreak of the war. Their son Wladek worked in a hospital in another place at the same time, and he succeeded in escaping to Bialystok. Their son sent a man to the German occupied area in...

File Number : 1843

Type of Material : Postcard, Telegram

Language : Polish

Translation of the memoirs of Erwin Miller, born in Vinkovci, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Vinkovci, as a forced laborer in the Jasenovac camp and in Stara Gradiska

Translation of the memoirs of Erwin Miller, born in Vinkovci, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Vinkovci, as a forced laborer in the Jasenovac camp and in Stara Gradiska Informed on; deportation from Vinkovci to the Jasenovac camp, December 1941; en route to the camp; labor in a workshop; various departments in the workshops; camoflauge of the extermination camp as a labor camp; labor division techniques; torture and abuse; hunger; labor logging trees and building a dam; execution of 50 Jews by shooting, as punishment for the attempted escape of two inmates; inclusion of the witness as one of...

File Number : 8399

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of David Viktor Schwarcz, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion, in the Kosice Ghetto, Hangony, Zdenová, in the Red Army in Dargov, and in other places Life in Kosice including the termination of studies, 1942; life in Budapest including work; deportation to a labor battalion, October 1943; transfer to the Kosice Ghetto in the context of the labor battalion; Kosice Ghetto life including forced labor; transfer to Hangony with a labor battalion; transfer to a labor battalion in Zdenová; transfer to Rimaszombat with a labor battalion; transfer to Leventetelep...

File Number : 8382

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yoel Braunfeld Bar Sade, born in Rabka Zdroj, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Rabka Zdroj, the Krakow Ghetto and in Plaszow, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ebensee camps

Testimony of Yoel Braunfeld Bar Sade, born in Rabka Zdroj, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Rabka Zdroj, the Krakow Ghetto and in Plaszow, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Ebensee camps Life before the war; his father owned a factory; witness attends the Polish school. Unsuccessful attempt to escape to the Soviet Union; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto, 1942; labor in a metalworking workshop; unsuccessful attempt to obtain forged documents; deportation to Plaszow camp; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; meetings with Dr. Mengele; transfer to Ebensee camp; liberation by the US Army. Move to...

File Number : 8372

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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