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Documentation regarding Abraham and Esther (Gottlieb-Potaschnik) Adlerstein and members of their families, including letters, postcards, telegrams and more, 1931-1946

Documentation regarding Abraham and Esther (Gottlieb-Potaschnik) Adlerstein and members of their families, including letters, postcards, telegrams and more, 1931-1946 Letters, postcards and telegrams: - Scrap of an envelope (with the stamp "Der Fuhrer in Vienna") sent to Abraham Adlerstein in Eretz Israel by Ester Gottlieb-Potaschnik in Vienna, 17 March 1938; - Letter sent to Ester Gottlieb-Potaschnik by Menachem Bader, a member of the Jewish underground, 14 July 1938; the letter concerns the transfer of possessions belonging to the Jews of Vienna into the right hands so that the Jews could take them...

File Number : 2212

Type of Material : Letter, Red Cross Letter, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Postcard, Official Documentation, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German, Yiddish

Letters sent to Hadasa Sokolik in Eretz Israel by her family in Ostrow Mazowiecka, 1937-1938, postcards sent by Hadasa Sokolik from Vilna to her brother in Jerusalem, 1940, and a diary kept by Hadasa Sokolik in Poland before her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1929-1933 Letters and postcards: - Letters in Hebrew sent to Hadasa Sokolik by her brother Aharon Yehuda in Rypin, 1931-1932; - Letter sent to Hadasa Sokolik in Eretz Israel by her friend, Rachel, in Warsaw, 18 October 1936; - Letters and postcards sent by Aharon Yehuda Sokolik from Haifa and Tel Aviv to his sister, 1935-1938; - Letters and postcards...

File Number : 1997

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Newspaper Clippings, Memoir Book, Diary, Article, Personal Documents, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, Yiddish

Diary written by Ahuva Luba Solodovnik's sister in Antwerp, Slonim, and Warsaw, 1926-1931, and Ahuva's Polish passport using the false identity of Luba Jakimowska with which she made aliya to Eretz Israel, in 1933 - The first name of the diary's author is not known; the author is apparently an educated woman; the diary is written in Yiddish, French and Hebrew; Included in the diary: - Poems and translations into Hebrew of classic Russian poetry - Pushkin, "Wise Oleg's Song" and Nekrasov, "Listening to the Horrors of War", written in Slonim and Kaunas, 1920-1921; - Reflections regarding the Jews of...

File Number : 8501

Type of Material : Passport, Diary, Poems/songs

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, Russian, Yiddish

Letters and postcards sent to Yisrael and Rivka (Ciechanowiecki) Katz in Eretz Israel by their family members from Krasne and Bransk, Poland, 1936-1939, a diary written by Yisrael Katz, 1931, and personal documentation of Yisrael Katz Letters, postcards and greeting cards: - Postcards sent to Rivka Katz in Eretz Israel by her mother Chana Kozydowicz in Bransk, 1938-1941; - Letters and postcards sent to Yisrael Katz in Eretz Israel by his brothers Mendel and Yosef Katz in Krasne, 1936-1940; - Letters sent to Rivka Katz in Eretz Israel by her family members in Bransk, 1936-1940; - Letters and...

File Number : 1831

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter, Notebook, Postcard, Obituary, Diary

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, Yiddish

From the diary of Dr. Norbert Stern, Munich, Germany: Transcript of a radio broadcast based on Norbert Stern's experiences in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1942-1945

From the diary of Dr. Norbert Stern, Munich, Germany: Transcript of a radio broadcast based on Norbert Stern's experiences in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1942-1945 First deportations from Berlin, Munich, Cologne and Vienna to Theresienstadt, June 1942; deliberate misleading of the deportees by the Gestapo; handing over of large amounts of money by the deportees who had been led to believe that Theresienstadt was a gracious retirement home. Deportation of Dr. Norbert Stern, who was blinded during military service in World War I, from Munich to Theresienstadt, 21 July 1942; confiscation of his property;...

File Number : 1033

Type of Material : Reports, Radio Broadcasts, Diary

Language : German

Documentation regarding the experiences of Tomi Reichental during the Holocaust and his activities to commemorate the Holocaust, and comments regarding the experiences of Oskar and Edit Reichental

Documentation regarding the experiences of Tomi Reichental during the Holocaust and his activities to commemorate the Holocaust, and comments regarding the experiences of Oskar and Edit Reichental - The life story of Tomi Reichental, born in Piestany in 1935: Capture with family members by the Gestapo during a manhunt for Jews in Bratislava in October 1944; deportation to Sered camp and from there to Bergen Belsen camp; life in Bergen Belsen camp; liberation in April 1945; receiving information regarding the fate of the extended family (most of them perished); life in Dublin since 1959; activities to...

File Number : 642

Type of Material : Documentary, Biography

Language : Hebrew, English

Memoirs of Meir and Paula Shtein regarding their experiences in the Vilna, Warsaw and Białystok Ghettos, written in hiding in Białystok in 1943-1944

Memoirs of Meir and Paula Shtein regarding their experiences in the Vilna, Warsaw and Białystok Ghettos, written in hiding in Białystok in 1943-1944 - memoirs of Meir Shtein regarding the situation in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 (written in hiding in Białystok in 1943-1944); - memoirs of Paula Shtein (maiden name: Znamirovski) regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and in the Białystok Ghetto (written in hiding in Białystok in 1943-1944): life in Vilna with her husband Mark and son Izho (Israel), after their escape from Warsaw on 3 September 1939; air-raids on Vilna on 22 June 1941; the German...

File Number : 11253

Type of Material : Memoirs, Diary

Correspondence between members of the Herszberg family in Będzin, Düsseldorf and Eretz Israel and members of the Emert family in Ostrów Mazowiecka, in the Lachwa ghetto and in Eretz Israel during 1933-1942 The Herszberg family: - Letter sent by Chaim-Tuvia Hirschberg (Tobi) in Düsseldorf to his parents in Będzin, dated 28 June 1933; - Letters and postcards sent to Mordechai Herszberg in Palestine by his family in Będzin (including his parents Yosef and Hinda-Yeta Herszberg, his brothers Ephraim-Fischel and Yehuda-Leib, and his brother-in-law Leibush Neumann) from 1935-1939. One of the letters gives...

File Number : 5049

Type of Material : Draft, Correspondence, Letter, Marriage Certificate, הודעה, הקדמה, Article, Invitation, Personal Documents, סיפור, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German, Yiddish

Memoirs of Gertrud Lernau (maiden name: Barschall), born in Fürstenwalde in 1872, regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt camp in 1942-1945, and her biography written by her grandson Omri Lernau

Memoirs of Gertrud Lernau (maiden name: Barschall), born in Fürstenwalde in 1872, regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt camp in 1942-1945, and her biography written by her grandson Omri Lernau - Gertrud Lernau's memoirs of her experiences in 1942-1947, written down in Mexico in April 1948: Deportation by train from Berlin to Theresienstadt on 31 August 1942, robbed of personal belongings and valuables; admission process at Theresienstadt; life in the ghetto; deportations from the ghetto to an unknown destination; kitchen and cleaning work; meeting her relative Stephan Prager, an influential Jewish...

File Number : 11100

Type of Material : Memoirs, מחקר תולדות המשפחה

Language : Hebrew, German

Letters from the Cycowicz family of Białystok to Ahuva Halevi Levin née Cycowicz, 1940–1941; letters and memoirs of Ahuva Halevi Levin, born in 1919 in Tykocin

- postcards and letters from members of the Cycowicz family in Białystok to Ahuva Cycowicz in Kefar Pines and Tel Aviv, 1940–1941. The sender: Awiezer Cycowicz. - copy of cable and letter from Ahuva Halevi Levin née Cycowicz, Eretz Israel: -- to her father, Awiezer Cycowicz, in Białystok, September 11, 1 942; -- to the Youth Aliyah Department of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, applying for immigration to Eretz Israel of her siblings in Białystok, then under German occupation: Yitzhak, born in 1933; Rachel, born in 1931; Chaya Batya, born in 1929; Moshe Arye, born in 1927, and Bayla, born in 1926, all born in...

File Number : 4868

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, Memoirs, Telegram, Envelope

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

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