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Testimony of Yisrael Veisvaser, born in 1922 in Krasnystaw, Poland, about the German occupation in September 1939 and his escape to the Soviet Union

Testimony

Testimony of Yisrael Veisvaser, born in 1922 in Krasnystaw, Poland, about the German occupation in September 1939 and his escape to the Soviet Union Childhood in a traditional home; attends a cheder and a Polish elementary school; active in the Betar movement; German occupation ensues; Soviet invasion ensues in 1939; witness escapes to Brest and thence to Minsk; back to Brest; on to Ludman; arrested due to Zionist activity; deported to a labor camp in Rom, Soviet Union; transferred to a camp for craftspersons; released in June 1943; reaches Zhitomir and Chełm; discharged from the Polish Army in 1946; moves...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Diploma presented by the Commerce School for Girls in Bialystok, Poland, 01 June 1912 to Khaya (Inditzki) Veinshtein, born in Bialystok, 25 June 1895

Diploma presented by the Commerce School for Girls in Bialystok, Poland, 01 June 1912 to Khaya (Inditzki) Veinshtein, born in Bialystok, 25 June 1895 Notes from Sara (Veinshtein) Avni, the submitter of the material: Occupation of Bialystok by the Red Army and arrest of Yosef Veinshtein, husband of Khaya (Inditzki) Veinshtein because the family owned a factory; Khaya's trip to collect the signatures of employees who would testify regarding the character of her husband; Khaya's taking her own personal documents with her; Khaya's deportation to Siberia, rather than her return to Bialystok; her saving of the...

File Number : 1204

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Russian

Postcard sent by Abram Piaseczny from Dereczyn, Poland, to his son Chaim in Tel Aviv, 27 January 1941

Postcard sent by Abram Piaseczny from Dereczyn, Poland, to his son Chaim in Tel Aviv, 27 January 1941 Family's life including the detention of their son Moshe Hersh and his exile to Siberia for five years of forced labor; Abram Piaseczny: Membership in the Ostroleka community council, 1932-1935; serves as the council's chairman; escape with his wife Faige and their family members to Lomza, which was under Soviet occupation, 1939; arrival of the family to Dereczyn; German Army occupation of Dereczyn; murder of the Dereczyn Jews in a forest, by the Germans, including Piaseczny family members; escape of...

File Number : 2105

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Yiddish

Postcards and letters written by Czerwinski family members in Lowicz, and sent to Jonas and Pola (Czerwinski) Olsztajn in Chelyabinsk, and a memoir book of C. Czerwinski (Pola's sister) with signatures and dedications by her girlfriends in Lowicz, 1925-1941 - Postcards and two letters written by Czerwinski family members in Lowicz, and sent to Jonas and Pola (Czerwinski) Olsztajn in Chelyabinsk, 1940-1941; - Postcard sent from Strzegom, 15 September (the sender and year are unclear); - Letter sent to Pola Czerwinski by her 9 year old nephew, Moniek Burgerman, 21 January 1941, including an announcement...

File Number : 2078

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, Memoir Book

Language : Polish

Letters sent to Josiek Tytelman and his daughter Rachel in Siberia, by their family members in Warsaw, 1940-1941

Letters sent to Josiek Tytelman and his daughter Rachel in Siberia, by their family members in Warsaw, 1940-1941 - Three letters sent by Perla Tytelmanowa (the wife of Josiek and mother of Rachel) from Warsaw, to Josiek Tytelman and Rachel in Siberia, 1940-1941; - Letter sent by Samuel Tytelman (the son of Josiek and brother of Rachel) in Warsaw, to Josiek and Rachel in Siberia, 01 April 1941; Included are translations into Hebrew of all the letters. Note: Rachel (Tytelman) Wigodsky was born in Warsaw, 1922; her parents were Josef [Josiek] and Perla (Polina Kolik) Tytelman; she had a brother...

File Number : 2065

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish

Testimony of Tzipora Sharf Klein, born in Stryi, Poland in 1936, regarding her experiences during ‎the liquidation of the Stryi ghetto and hiding in a bunker in 1943-1944‎

Testimony of Tzipora Sharf Klein, born in Stryi, Poland in 1936, regarding her experiences during ‎the liquidation of the Stryi ghetto and hiding in a bunker in 1943-1944‎ Her father was a timber merchant who was exiled to Siberia in 1940; the German conquest in ‎‎1941; looting of their house by Ukrainians; order to relinquish possessions; prohibition to leave the ‎house; sale of gold; expulsion to the ghetto; impersonating a Polish girl and escaping through the ‎ghetto fence; looking for food outside the ghetto at the age of five; murder of her grandmother ‎during the Great Aktion; hiding in a wine cellar;...

File Number : 13700

Type of Material : Testimony

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, Documentary, Poems/songs

Language : Hebrew, English

Memoirs of Zinoviy Rodshtein, born in Kiev, Ukraine, regarding his experiences in prisons in Gorkiy, Kharkov, Kiev, in a Soviet forced labor camp in the Kirov region and more

Memoirs of Zinoviy Rodshtein, born in Kiev, Ukraine, regarding his experiences in prisons in Gorkiy, Kharkov, Kiev, in a Soviet forced labor camp in the Kirov region and more Life before the war; work as the Executive Secretary of the local Comsomol Movement (Union of Communist Youth) Committee, 1936; detention of his friend, Mitya Komardinov; Rodshtein's refusal to accept the accusations leveled against his friend; dismissal from work due to his friendship with a Trotsky-terrorist; expulsion from the Communist Party; arrest, 28 October 1937; interrogations; life in prison; crowding in the cells; abuse by...

File Number : 8546

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Memoirs

Language : Russian

Travel permit to Cernauti, given to Yolana Wais after her release from a labor camp in Siberia, 30 December 1946

Travel permit to Cernauti, given to Yolana Wais after her release from a labor camp in Siberia, 30 December 1946 Note: Yolana (Yehudit) Steiner, born in 1908, was married to Miklos Wais; they resided in Oradea, Transnistria; Miklos was a Communist; Yolana was pregnant when they escaped in the direction of the East, 1941; they were in detention in the Soviet Union in a prison in Moscow, for nine months; Yolana give birth to a baby daughter in prison, and the baby died due to lack of milk at the age of two weeks; Yolana and Miklos were sent to forced labor in Siberia; Miklos died of typhus after their...

File Number : 711

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : Russian

Postcards sent to Nuta Stein in Finland by members of her family and her friends in the Kowno Ghetto, France and the Netherlands, 1942-1943

Postcards sent to Nuta Stein in Finland by members of her family and her friends in the Kowno Ghetto, France and the Netherlands, 1942-1943 - Telegram sent by Luba Grodsenski from Tonneins [France] to her sister, Nuta, in Finland with the information that her husband, Julius Grodsenski, has been taken to an unknown destination, 26 August 1942; - Postcards sent to Nuta Stein in Finland by her sister, Luba Grodsenski from Tonneins (France), 1942; - Postcard sent to Nuta Stein in Finland by her sister, Luba Grodsenski from Casseneuil, 01 September 1942; - Postcard sent from Finland to Luba Grodsenski...

File Number : 2026

Type of Material : Postcard, Telegram, Letter

Language : German

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