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Travel diary written by the youth, Matan Borenstein, during his [school] trip to Poland, March 2010

Travel diary written by the youth, Matan Borenstein, during his [school] trip to Poland, March 2010 Writing of the diary in the form of conversations with his dead grandfather regarding his visit to Warsaw, Majdanek, Lublin, Auschwitz, Plaszow, Krakow, Lodz and Treblinka

File Number : 1240

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Hebrew

Reconstructed map of Ricka, Czechoslovakia, [drawn] by Mordechai Martin Vizer

Reconstructed map of Ricka, Czechoslovakia, [drawn] by Mordechai Martin Vizer Comments by the submitter of the material: Mordechai Martin Vizer was born in Ricka, Czechoslovakia, August 1925; move of the family to Volove, late 1920s; learns in a yeshiva in Kosice Mesto; his father had a business producing alcoholic beverages. Deportation of the family to Auschwitz, 1944; labor there in a coal mine; on a death march; liberation by the Red Army, apparently. Return of Vizer to Volove and reunion there with his brother and his sister; move to Belgium, life in Belgium until 1949; aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 338

Type of Material : Map

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Regina Tova Kaim Davidovitz, born in 1929 in Chust, Czechoslovakia, about her deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau

Testimony

Testimony of Regina Tova Kaim Davidovitz, born in 1929 in Chust, Czechoslovakia, about her deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau Daily life in Chust; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; witness and her two sisters survive; forced labor in a belt factory; death marches to Ravensbrück and thence to a labor camp in Neustadt Glewe; hospitalized in Prague; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel in 1947 aboard the Exodus; deportation; re-immigration to Israel in 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Aliya certificate for Samuel Friedmann, born in Nagytarna, Romania, 02 October 1923, issued in Vienna, 23 March 1949, and a fisherman's certificate from the Agriculture Ministry to Samuel Friedmann, 05 April 1951 - Samuel Friedmann was born in Nagytarna, Romania, 02 October 1923, came on aliya to Israel, 14 April 1949; - Father, Mordechai; - Mother, Hodes. Comments by the submitter of the material: Death of the father of the submitter, Samuel Friedmann, September 1939; move from Transylvania, Romania, to Budapest, Hungary, in order to support his mother, his brothers and his sisters; detention and...

File Number : 739

Type of Material : Documents

Language : Hebrew

Genealogy of the Rübenfeld family, from Poland

Genealogy of the Rübenfeld family, from Poland Comments by the submitter of the material: Yaakov Rübenfeld, the father of the submitter of the material, studied medicine in Krakow; termination of his studies, due to the numerus clausus law; deportation of his parents, Salamon Rübenfeld and Rosa (Felix) Rübenfeld, to Auschwitz, December 1941.

File Number : 318

Type of Material : Genealogy

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation belonging to Yehuda Nir Korngold, born in Lublin, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences during the war and afterwards

Personal documentation belonging to Yehuda Nir Korngold, born in Lublin, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences during the war and afterwards - Excerpt from a book written Yehuda Nir Korngold's grandson (based on family stories) regarding Yehuda Korngold's experiences during the war and afterwards. In the excerpt there is information regarding Yehuda's life in Lublin until 1942; deportation to Belzec; escape back to Lublin; life in hiding in a cupboard in the family home; escape to his mother; life in hiding in an attic near the family home; escape to the forests in the area; surrendering himself to the...

File Number : 315

Type of Material : Document, Personal Documents, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, English

Written testimony of Sara (Schvartz) Hess regarding the experiences of her father, Joseph Schvartz, born in Hungary, and of his family during the Holocaust, 2010

Written testimony of Sara (Schvartz) Hess regarding the experiences of her father, Joseph Schvartz, born in Hungary, and of his family during the Holocaust, 2010 Residence of Joseph Schvartz, born in Balassagyarmat, Hungary, 1902, in Szombathely, Hungary, together with his family; marriage to his first wife, Sara Lea (Berkovits) Szerén; death of his wife in Auschwitz; death of his three children, Rakhel, 14 years old; Moshe Yitzkhak, 9 years old, and Elisha, 8 years old, in Auschwitz; draft of Joseph to the labor battalions. Remarriage to Rivka, a Holocaust survivor, 1948; birth of his daughter, Sara;...

File Number : 328

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Mimi Camhi de Faraggi regarding her experiences in Skoplje, Urosevac and using a false identity in Albania

Memoirs of Mimi Camhi de Faraggi regarding her experiences in Skoplje, Urosevac and using a false identity in Albania Life in Skoplje during the German occupation, 06 April 1941; escape together with her family to Urosevac, 10 March 1943; her family remaining in Skoplje and their murder in Treblinka; escape to Albania; life in Albania using a false identity as a Muslim; end of the war. Return to Skoplje; life in Skoplje; finding an album that her grandparents entrusted to a friend, 1946; life during the Soviet regime; escape to Albania; escape to Italy; life in the Bari DP camp; move to live near the...

File Number : 8578

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Spanish

Personal documentation of Straus and Kontess family members, from Bratislava, 1916-1938

Personal documentation of Straus and Kontess family members, from Bratislava, 1916-1938 The file includes the following documents: Documents of the Straus family: - Medical documents of Priska Straus, born in Presov, Slovakia, 25 June 1915, issued in Piestany, 04 May 1939; - Medical documents of Samuel Frantisek Straus, born in Dunajska Streda, Slovakia, 13 November 1870, issued in Piestany, 04 May 1939; - Medical documents of Paulina Straus, born in Jelsava, Slovakia, 03 May 1879, issued in Piestany, 04 May 1939; - Medical certificates of Siegfrid Steiner and Olga (Straus) Steiner,...

File Number : 137

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Personal Documents

Language : Slovak, Spanish, German, Hungarian

Letter of testimony by Stefa Polyak, from Rava Ruska, regarding her escape from the train that transported Jews to Belzec extermination camp

Letter of testimony by Stefa Polyak, from Rava Ruska, regarding her escape from the train that transported Jews to Belzec extermination camp Stefa Polyak was 21 years old in 1941; she tells about the first "Aktion" in Rava Ruska during the night between 26-27/08/1942; deportation of Jews from Rava Ruska to Belzec extermination camp; the writer of the letter was deported with her parents and her brother to the market square in the city; separation of the family members in the market square, and she and her mother arrived with other women to the prison building; in the afternoon of the same day, they exited...

File Number : 159

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

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