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Farewell postcard sent by Mirka to her relative Pesia Ratner in Bialystok, Poland, 13 December 1938

Farewell postcard sent by Mirka to her relative Pesia Ratner in Bialystok, Poland, 13 December 1938 - The postcard was sent shortly before Pesia Ratner's emigration to Australia; the sender apparently also resided in Bialystok; - Section of a letter written in Polish; the identity of the sender is unknown, as well the place where the letter was written and on what date. Comments by the submitter of the material: Paula Pesia (Ratner) Dziwak was born in Bialystok, Poland, 1921; her parents Yitzchak and Sara Ratner perished during the Holocaust, in unknown circumstances.

File Number : 2139

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter

Language : Polish

Correspondence and personal documentation belonging to the Hartman family in Pap, Hungary, 1926-1994

Correspondence and personal documentation belonging to the Hartman family in Pap, Hungary, 1926-1994 - Farewell letter from Joseph Hartman to his brother Eugene Hartman in Pap a short time prior to Eugene's emigration to Canada, March 1926; - Letter from Miklós in Pap to his brother Joseph Hartman in the United States, 1942; - Letter from Miklós Nicholas Hartman to President Roosevelt requesting a student visa in order to continue studying medicine (copy), 29 December 1939; - Certification from UNRRA issued to Leslie Hartman, that Miklós and Zoltan Hartman perished in Dachau, their father Adolf...

File Number : 1966

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Investigation Report, Official Documentation, Letter

Language : English, Hungarian

Letter sent by Israel Schusheim to his daughter Golda who was in hiding near Krakow at the beginning of the war

Letter sent by Israel Schusheim to his daughter Golda who was in hiding near Krakow at the beginning of the war The letter contains instructions on how to behave and a request to send her small niece into hiding, the names of various people (apparently people who are able to help) and an address in Lille. Comments by the person submitting the material: Golda (Schusheim) Kashmin was born in Mielec; German occupation when she was 15 years old; Golda placed in hiding with local Poles; search of the area by the German Army; request by the people hiding her to leave; finding a hiding place in the Christian...

File Number : 1899

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish

Last letter sent by Zvi and Rivka Weissman in the Czortkow Ghetto to their sons Lonek and Akiva in Eretz Israel, 09/04/1943

Last letter sent by Zvi and Rivka Weissman in the Czortkow Ghetto to their sons Lonek and Akiva in Eretz Israel, 09/04/1943 The farewell letter was written before Zvi's departure from his hiding place and his subsequent murder by the Germans; there is a translation to Hebrew, of the original letter in Polish; Included in the file: - Two pages from the book, "Voices from the Black Forest" by Mara Goren, in which the letter is brought as an example of adherence to faith despite the desperate situation; Comments by the submitter of the material (Niva Regev): Zvi Weissman's two sons in Israel: -...

File Number : 1863

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish

Letter written by Beniamin Rubinstein to his daughter Khana Sara in Warsaw, on the day of her emigration to Uruguay, 1931

Letter written by Beniamin Rubinstein to his daughter Khana Sara in Warsaw, on the day of her emigration to Uruguay, 1931 Decision by Khana Sara Rubinstein to emigrate from Warsaw to Uruguay, 1931; her father Beniamin objected to the emigration; Beniamin escorted his daughter Khana Sara to the railroad station; her father handed her a letter in which he had written: "Know, that I know that we shall never see each other again".

File Number : 1750

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Yiddish

Letters written by Joseph Eschwege and Bertha (Adler) Eschwege from Frankfurt, to their children Yehudit, Chana and Nathan, who were sent on a Kindertransport to Heiden, Switzerland, 01/05/1939, and to Shimon Simon and Shlomo Salomon who made aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938-1942 Religious education; detention of the family's father following Kristallnacht, and his deportation to Buchenwald; release of the father, five weeks later; unsuccessful attempt by the parents to receive aliya certificates in the context of Aliyah Bet, 06/1940; with the help of an organizer of the Kindertransport, Isidor Marx, the director...

File Number : 1428

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter

Language : German

Letter written by a shop assistant named Marusia Kolganov, in the name of Rahkel Reizberg, to Rahkel Reizberg's sister Mrs. Brusha, 21/01/1943

Letter written by a shop assistant named Marusia Kolganov, in the name of Rahkel Reizberg, to Rahkel Reizberg's sister Mrs. Brusha, 21/01/1943 - Murder of the family of Rahkel Reizberg and her daughters Sara and Fira, and Fira's son Misha who was 5 years old, in a gas van by fascists in Zhutov, 04/10/1942; - Death certificate of Rahkel Reizberg, dated, 17/10/1942 (not included in the file).

File Number : 1405

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Letters, including Red Cross letters, between Epstein family members in Germany and Eretz Israel: Marta Epstein and Ruth (Epstein) Schoenstein in Breslau, and Kurt Epstein in Ramatayim and Walter Epstein in Kvutzat Yavne, 1939-1943

File Number : 1375

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, German

Postcard written by Ilona to the Fisher family, friends and neighbors from Budapest, before her deportation to Auschwitz, June 1944

File Number : 1374

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

Documentation belonging to the Lobstein and van der Heijden from Oisterwijk, Borculo and other places in the Netherlands, 1942-1996

Documentation belonging to the Lobstein and van der Heijden from Oisterwijk, Borculo and other places in the Netherlands, 1942-1996 - Part of a diary kept by Dr. Jacques Lobstein, born in Borculo, the Medical Director of the Jewish psychiatric hospital in Apeldoorn, 1936-1943; some sections of the diary tell of his experiences and those of his wife, Gonda, in Bergen-Belsen, 15 February-06 April 1945; genealogical information regarding the Lobstein and van der Heijden families from the early 18th century to the present time; - Two editions of the "Het Parool" newspaper, 09 May 1945 and 10 May 1945...

File Number : 129

Type of Material : Diary, Official Documentation, Photograph, List of Detainees, Personal Documents, Letter, Original

Language : Dutch

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