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Testimony of Zipora Dak, born in Kosice Mesto, Czechoslovakia, 1914, regarding her experiences in Kosice Mesto and Bratislava during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora Dak, born in Kosice Mesto, Czechoslovakia, 1914, regarding her experiences in Kosice Mesto and Bratislava during the war Her childhood and family background in Kosice Mesto; attends the Neolog school and a Czech school; religious holidays; membership in the Zionist club; work as a teacher in the Hungarian school; move to Budapest and work in an orphanage; return to Kosice Mesto; confiscations. Hungarian occupation and the change in the economic situation; registration of the Jews' names; escape to Bratislava; life in Bratislava; memories of Gisi Fleischmann; witness' husband is active...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Alfred Dov Gellis, born in Sopron, Hungary, 1918, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, in hiding in a bunker and in a private transport of the Kasztner train to Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Aharon Alfred Dov Gellis, born in Sopron, Hungary, 1918, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, in hiding in a bunker and in a private transport of the Kasztner train to Switzerland Life before the war; move to Bratislava; life in Bratislava including education. Absorption of refugees; collaboration by Slovakians with the Nazis; pogroms implemented by Slovakians; attacks on the Jews by the Hlinka Guard including looting; deportations to labor camps; concentration of the Jews in the district city; deportation of the Jews in transports to Poland, 1942; contact with Rabbi Weissmandel;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation, letters and memoirs of Leonie Schwarz, Gisi Fleischmann's secretary

Personal documentation, letters and memoirs of Leonie Schwarz, Gisi Fleischmann's secretary - Recollections of Gisi Fleischmann's work in WIZO, HICEM and the JDC, 1930s; activities of Gisi Fleischmann in Bratislava together with Rabbi Michael Weissmandel in rescuing the Jews of Slovakia, 1939-1944; - Personal documents belonging to Leonie Schwarz, born in Tesin, 30 September 1907, recommendations regarding her work at the JDC and HICEM in Bratislava, 1930s and 1940s; Slovak identity card; - Letters from relatives in Chile containing personal information; Included in the file: Sermon on "Noach", the...

File Number : 28

Type of Material : Memoirs, Letter, Personal Documents

Language : Slovak, German

Booklet by Yirmeyahu Oskar Neumann titled, "Gisi Fleischmann Die Geschichte Einer Kaempferin" ("Gisi Fleishmann - the Story of a Woman Fighter")

Booklet by Yirmeyahu Oskar Neumann titled, "Gisi Fleischmann Die Geschichte Einer Kaempferin" ("Gisi Fleishmann - the Story of a Woman Fighter") Booklet published by the WIZO Education Department.

File Number : 27

Type of Material : Study, Research Article

Language : German

Rescue operations in Czechoslovakia, 1943-1945

Rescue operations in Czechoslovakia, 1943-1945 The file contains: Pages 1-52: Letters from Slovakia, primarily from Bratislava, written by Gisi Fleischmann and Mosche Daks, including reports regarding the situation (also in Bulgaria) and requests for assistance, especially financial, April-November 1943; Pages 53-55: Report regarding Theresienstadt, the author is identified as "a member of Hashomer Hatzair who escaped from Prague to a neighboring country", 05 September 1943; Pages 56-58: Request from Max Herzl (Herzl's nephew) for certificates [for legal aliya to Eretz Israel] for his...

File Number : 34

Type of Material : Survey Report, Telegram, Official Documentation, List of Persecuted Persons

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Documentation regarding the transfer of help to the Jews in Slovakia and Hungary, including correspondence between Saly Mayer and Nathan Schwalb concerning the transfer of help, reports by Gisi Fleischmann about the situation of the Jews in Slovakia, a list of Jewish survivors in Slovakia, and other matters; documents dated, 1943-1984 - Correspondence between Saly Mayer - JDC representative in Switzerland, and Nathan Schwalb - Hechalutz movement representative in Switzerland, regarding help and rescue of Jews in Slovakia; - Reports by Gisi Fleischmann, chairman of the "Working Group" underground...

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : Survey Report, Correspondence, List of Survivors, Official Documentation

Language : French, English, German, Hungarian

Documentation regarding the Jews of Slovakia during the war, including reports by Gisi Fleischmann about the situation of the Jews, a lecture about labor camps in Slovakia, a speech by the Slovakian Minister of the Interior regarding the fate of the Jews, and other matters; documents dated, 1942-1984 - Documentation regarding the deportation of the Jews from Slovakia to Poland, and attempts for the rescue of the Jews, 1942-1943; - Newspaper clipping from "Haaretz", published, 21 May 1984, regarding the "Weissmandel Affair" (Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandel, a member of the Working Group), related to the...

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Red Cross Letter, List of Persecuted Persons, Lecture, Speech, Correspondence, Survey Report

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

Documentation, including correspondence between Saly Mayer and Josef Blum regarding the transfer of relief to persecuted Jews, a report by the Hechalutz movement regarding the situation of the Jews in Hungary, sections of reports by Gisi Fleischmann regarding the deportation of Hungarian Jewry, and other matters, 1940-1944 - Confirmation by Morris C. Troper, chairman of the JDC organization's governing council for Europe, that Josef Blum is an official JDC organization representative, 08 June 1940; - List of Hungarian Jewish students studying in Zurich, 21 November 1941; - Correspondence between Saly...

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : Correspondence, Certification, Official Documentation, List, Survey Report

Language : English, German

Documentation, including reports and testimonies sent to Nathan Schwalb by Hechalutz movement members in German-occupied countries, a list of aliya training places in the East Upper Silesia area, a postcard sent by Israel Kasztner to Nathan Schwalb regarding the situation in Hungary, and other matters, 1941-1944 - Reports and testimonies sent by Hechalutz movement members in German-occupied countries to Nathan Schwalb, the Hechalutz movement's representative in Geneva; Schwalb consistently sent copies of the reports in German to Saly Mayer, the JDC organization's representative in Switzerland; -...

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : List, Letter, Testimony, Official Documentation, Survey Report

Language : French, English, German

Testimony of Uziel Lichtenberg, born in Zuromin, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Bratislava and Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Uziel Lichtenberg, born in Zuromin, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Bratislava and Budapest Life before the war; move to Lodz; activities in Hanoar Hatzioni; work and studies; work to earn the family's livelihood; draft into the Polish Army, 1938. Combat and taken captive by the Germans at the outbreak of the war, 1939; transfer to Germany; labor as a Polish POW on the farm of an SS man; return home, February 1940; move to Warsaw; joins the leadership of a "kibbutz"; life on an aliya training farm; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, late 1940; ghetto life including...

File Number : 9318

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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