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Certificate given to Dawid Kudler, born in Jaroslaw, Poland, 1920, by the Eretz Israel office in Rome, 30 October 1945, and a document submitted in Koblenz, 19 January 1960, in order to receive compensation from Germany Deportation of Kudler to the Krakow Ghetto, 18 November 1939; deportation to Rakowice; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to Tschenstochau; transfer to Buchenwald; transfer to Dora; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation, 15 April 1945. His parents, Mendel and Bracha Kudler, perished; two brothers made aliya to Eretz Israel before the war; death of his brother Arieh during the Israeli War of...

File Number : 726

Type of Material : Document, Document

Language : Italian, German

Letters and postcards to Icchak Rojzen in Eretz Israel from his family in Wisniowiec, 1935-1940

Letters and postcards to Icchak Rojzen in Eretz Israel from his family in Wisniowiec, 1935-1940 Also in the file: - Military service certificate issued to Icchak Rojzen, 30 June 1932; - Membership card in the League for the Working Land of Israel in Poland, 1932; - Membership card in Poalei Zion issued to Icchak Rojzen in Warsaw, 24 June 1934; - Policyholder certificate for Luck insurance company issued to Icchak Rojzen; -Invitation to the Eretz Israel office for a medical examination and technical arrangements for making aliya, 30 September 1935; - Memory book belonging to Icchak Rojzen...

File Number : 1968

Type of Material : Postcard, Memoir Book, Letter, Personal Documents, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

Personal documentation and official documents of Zdenka (Lengsfeld) Loewy, her first husband Paul Hoenig, and her second husband Otto Loewy

Personal documentation and official documents of Zdenka (Lengsfeld) Loewy, her first husband Paul Hoenig, and her second husband Otto Loewy Personal documentation and official documents of Zdenka (Lengsfeld) Loewy, born in Humpolec, Czechoslovakia, 1907, and her second husband, Otto Loewy, born in Teplitz, Czechoslovakia, 1905; The file includes: Documents related to her first husband, Paul Hoenig, born in Falknov, Czechoslovakia, 1902, who was murdered in Kaufering camp, 15 February 1945; document dealing with the fate of his property, prepared by the Central Office in Prague for the Emigration of...

File Number : 436

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Certification, Personal Documents, Administrative Documentation, Correspondence, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Czech, English, German

Documentation regarding Golda Landau, her family and her husband, Dow Wiener

Documentation regarding Golda Landau, her family and her husband, Dow Wiener Postcards and letters sent to Golda Landau in Mandatory Palestine by her family members in Sadowa Wisznia, 1932-1940; The file includes: - Letter sent by Golda Landau to Mandatory Palestine from Tatarow, 1939; - Correspondence by Rachel Landau with her family members and acquaintances in Germany and Poland, 1920s-1930s; - Austrian passport of Rachel Landau, 1917; - Telegrams with congratulations to the Landau family, on the occasion of the wedding of Golda with Dow Wiener, 1935; - Letters received by Dow Wiener...

File Number : 1767

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Passport, Personal Documents, Postcard, Letter, Telegram

Language : Polish, English, German, Yiddish

Documentation belonging to Samuel Schinbach, 1940-1945

Documentation belonging to Samuel Schinbach, 1940-1945 - Letters sent by Samuel Schinbach from Australia to the Jewish Agency and other institutions in an attempt to obtain certificates for legal aliya to Eretz Israel for himself and for members of his family who remained in Breslau; - Red Cross letters sent by Samuel Schinbach to his wife in Breslau, 1940-1945. Also in the file: Letters sent by Samuel Schinbach to various institutions, 1944-1945, in order to locate traces of his wife and children who were deported to Poland.

File Number : 804

Type of Material : Letter, Red Cross Letter

Language : English, German

Correspondence between Abraham Silberschein and Chaim (Posner) Pazner and Samuel Scheps, heads of the Eretz Israel Office in Geneva, Switzerland, 1940-1947

Correspondence between Abraham Silberschein and Chaim (Posner) Pazner and Samuel Scheps, heads of the Eretz Israel Office in Geneva, Switzerland, 1940-1947 Correspondence of Abraham Silberschein with the heads of the Eretz Israel office in Switzerland (the office was moved from Basel to Geneva in 1939 due to the outbreak of World War II). Also in the file: - Newspaper clippings [from articles] written in honor of the 80th birthday of Dr. Samuel Scheps, 1984; - Article by Samuel Scheps regarding the Wannsee Conference, the Riegner Cable and denial of the Holocaust, 15 May 1984; - Letter from Samuel...

File Number : 32

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, English, German

Testimony of David Schlesinger, born in Velky Meder, 1928, regarding his experiences after the occupation in Komarom and Auschwitz, Eintrachthuette, Aushwitz-Birkenau, Buna-Monowitz camps

Testimony

Testimony of David Schlesinger, born in Velky Meder, 1928, regarding his experiences after the occupation in Komarom and Auschwitz, Eintrachthuette, Aushwitz-Birkenau, Buna-Monowitz camps Life before the war including school and Beitar activities. His fathers trading permit was suspended after the area was annexed into Hungary, November 1938; entry of the Germans into Hungary, March 1944; deportation of the family to Komarom; life in Komarom; deportation of the family to Auschwitz-Birkenau; life in Barrack 21; transport via Katowice to the Eintrachthuette labor camp; life in the camp; transport to...

File Number : 10999

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Joint testimony of Arie Menczer, born in Vienna, Austria, 1906, and his brother, Mordechai Menczer, born in Vienna, Austria, 1908, regarding their Zionist movement experiences until aliya to Eretz Israel in 1939 and 1932. Testimony of Arie Menczer: studies for his doctorate in philosophy at Vienna University; attends a Jewish teachers' seminary; activities as a youth leader in a Zionist youth movement; teaches in Jewish schools; member of the Eretz Israel office; aliya to Eretz Israel with his family, March 1939. Testimony of Mordechai Menczer: active in a Zionist youth movement; a founder of Gordonia;...

File Number : 3913

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jehuda Weissbrod Brott, born in Tarnopol, Poland, 1908, regarding his experiences in Vienna until 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Jehuda Weissbrod Brott, born in Tarnopol, Poland, 1908, regarding his experiences in Vienna until 1939 Life in Vienna before the war; work as Executive Secretary of the Poalei Zion party. Annexation to Germany; interrogation of Jewish representatives and Zionist party heads by Eichmann; fund raising in London with Teddy Kollek and Ehud Avriel for the emigration of poor children; interrogation by the Gestapo in Vienna; establishment of Youth Aliyah in Vienna; participation in the Zionist Congress in Geneva, August 1939. Aliya to Eretz Israel at the outbreak of the war; information about...

File Number : 3912

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony

Testimony of Zeew Willy Ritter, born in Vienna, Austria, 1913, regarding his experiences as Executive Secretary of the Hechalutz Movement in Vienna and regarding the Zionist organizations before annexation to Germany and afterwards The Zionist organizations according to their political affiliation; influence of emissaries from Eretz Israel on various groups within the Zionist movement; activities as Executive Secretary of the Hechalutz movement from 1936; problems of Zionist education; establishment of an urban aliya training facility; movement branches at agricultural training facilities in the vicinity;...

File Number : 3982

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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