Documentation of Sabina Korn-Neuberg, born in Leczno, Poland, 1933, including a claim for compensation from the District Court for Social Affairs in Essen, Germany, 1944-2012
- Article titled, "Chasias Kinder" published in the German magazine "Stadt Revue", November 1994, regarding the activities of Chasia Bielicka who took orphan Jewish Holocaust survivors under her wing, including Sabina Neuberg; attached to the article is a photograph [of Sabina Neuberg] from 1946;
- Invitation to the Second Conference, on 20 May 2000, sent to Sabina Korn;
- Six lists containing the names of children in Poland who...
File Number : 1226
Type of Material : Propaganda, Survey Report, Newspaper Clippings, Personal Documents, Legal Documentation, Lists, Poems/songs, Survivors and Refugees Registration Form, Drawing, Article, List of Orphan Children, Correspondence, Letter
Documentation of Rena Plavner Bar-Niv, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1922, for the years 1944-1998
- Three letters written by Rina Bar-Niv to her daughters, April and May 1977, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, establishment of the Konsky Ghetto, 1940, and ghetto life including leaving the ghetto in secret in order to find food for the family;
- Memoirs written by the daughters, Miki and Irit, 1986-1988:
Deportation by the Germans to a labor camp in Wannweil near Stuttgart using the false identity of Kazimiera Swierczynska;
Work for UNRRA following liberation in Team 589 in Reutlingen, as a secretary...
File Number : 1241
Type of Material : Administrative Documentation, Memoirs, Personal Documents, Letter
Testimony of Mina-Mira Rechter-Lavi, born in 1928 regarding her experiences in Chutin, Bessarabia and Romania, 1940-1947
Occupation of Chutin by the Red Army,1940; closing of parents' store from fear of abuse by the Soviets; air-raids on Chutin by the Germans and Romanians, 1941; family moves to the home of Uncle Shlomo after their house is destroyed in the air-raids; deportation of the Jews of Chutin to Mogilev via Sikuren and other towns; deportation to the Mogilev Ghetto;draft of Leibel, her father, to forced labor; death of the father.
Unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel via Bucharest and from...
Documentation including circulars regarding Martin Bormann and photographs from the Warsaw Ghetto, from 1935-1941
- circular signed by Heinrich Himmler from Berlin that was distributed to all police stations in the Reich on 26 June 1935, with an instruction to approve the collection of funds from the Jews by the National Zionist Committee for the purpose of the emigration of the Jews to Eretz Israel;
- circular from Cologne dated 5 November 1935 to the national police station in Cologne, the heads of the region, the mayor of Bonn and the Cologne police chief regarding the lifting of the ban on Dr. Martin...
File Number : 653
Type of Material : Circular, Photograph, Administrative Documentation
Research by Ayala Hinda (Cytrynbaum) Gal-Or, regarding the experiences during 1939-1966, of her parents, Tzvi and Jehudit Idel (Milgrom) Cytrynbaum, who were born in Deblin Modrzyce, Poland, 1914
Introduction, including her family's background; chapter titled: Historical survey regarding Poland and its Jewish residents; map describing a route used by Jews during their escape from occupied Poland, 1939, including a notation of significant dates; survey regarding the life of Jews in Deblin-Modrzyce before the Holocaust, including photographs; Jehudit's memories of her childhood; survey regarding the events in...
File Number : 1262
Type of Material : Poems/songs, Survey Report, Document
Memoirs of Eliezer Brenner, his sister Shaindel (Brenner) Vigenanski, and his wife, Yettie (Lanzet) Brenner, regarding their experiences in Krakow, the Melk camp, the Plaszow camp, Transnistria and more
Experiences of Eliezer Brenner, born in Rzeszow, Poland, 1913:
Deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; deportation to the Plaszow camp; camp life including labor in Wieliczka; camp life with his brother, Moshe; transfer to the Mauthausen camp; camp life; selection; labor in a quarry; transfer to the Melk camp; labor in a subterranean ammunitions factory; transfer to the Ebensee camp by death march; liberation in...
Documentation regarding Dola Ickowitz-Blaiberg, born in Krakow, Poland, 1936; documents dated, 1957-2010
- Correspondence by Dola Ickowitz and notaries Dr. Gluecksmann and Haas in Tel Aviv, with the compensation payment authorities in Saarburg and Mainz, Germany, 1957-2010, regarding Ickowitz' experiences during the war;
- Her life as a Christian, while hidden by Aniela Matras in Krakow; move to the Krakow Ghetto, by Matras; Krakow Ghetto life, with two Jewish girls; escape from the ghetto along with 10 children, while under the protection of a youth named Romek; return to Matras; life in hiding [with...
File Number : 538
Type of Material : Correspondence, Survey, Personal Records, Photograph, Drawing, Official Documentation
Experiences of Avraham Acker Ekroni, born in Debreczin, Hungary, and of his family members, as written by his grandson in Haifa
Deportation of the Acker family to the Debreczin Ghetto, including Avraham's father David, his mother Ita, their sons Binyamin, Avraham, Menachem and Tuvia, and their daughters Vera (Rivka) and Yehudit; arrival to Strasshof camp in Germany; transfer of his older brother Binyamin to Theresienstadt; liberation of the remainder of the family members by the Red Army.
Return to Hungary; aliya to Eretz Israel with the help of the Bericha organization, via Italy; reunion with his...
Experiences of Yezhi Brauner (Yonatan Iurek), born in Krakow, Poland, 1926, while hidden by a Polish farmer, and in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow and Bruenlitz
Experiences of his grandfather David Brauner and his grandmother Rosalia Rosenfeld; he attends the Hebrew school in Krakow, until the outbreak of the war; [establishment of the Krakow Ghetto]; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; escape, along with his mother; in hiding with his mother on a farm while hidden by a Polish farmer; murder of many of his family members during the "Aktions" in Krakow, 1942; return to the Krakow Ghetto, 15 November 1942; labor on...