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Diary of Sara Elkes, daughter of Elchanan Elkes, head of the Judenrat in the Kaunas Ghetto, 1935-1937

Diary of Sara Elkes, daughter of Elchanan Elkes, head of the Judenrat in the Kaunas Ghetto, 1935-1937 Included in the file: - Letters, 1941-1950; - Fitness for work certificate issued to a 17-year old youth by Dr. Elkes in the hospital in Kaunas, 11 May 1940.

File Number : 101

Type of Material : Diary, Letter, Personal Documents

Language : Lithuanian, Hebrew, English

List of Jews from the Krakow community in the 1920s along with their request of Rabbi Yosef Nechemia Kornitzer that he serve as Chief Rabbi of the city of Krakow

File Number : 1087

Type of Material : List of Jewish Community Members

Language : Yiddish

Memoirs of Josef Hersch Schwartz regarding his experiences and those of his family in Szamosújvár, Enyed, Balázsfalva, and Sepsiszentgyörgy before and during the Holocaust period

Memoirs of Josef Hersch Schwartz regarding his experiences and those of his family in Szamosújvár, Enyed, Balázsfalva, and Sepsiszentgyörgy before and during the Holocaust period Section 1- Original title: Epilógusok a hitközségnél [Epilogues of the Religious Community]: József Schwarcz was a cantor and a teacher at the Jewish school in Sfântu Gheorghe/Sepsiszentgyörgy in Transylvania. He wrote his memoirs for his children - about the members of the Jewish community and the time when the Jewish community administration asked him to retire after 18 years of work, 25 August 1922-25 August 1940. The...

File Number : 11028

Type of Material : Protocol, דרשה, הספד, Letter, Memoirs

Language : English, Romanian, German, Yiddish, Hungarian

Testimony of Yehudit (Katz) Nir, born in Radauti, Romania, 1935, regarding her experiences in Radauti, Attachi and Mogilev-Podolski

Testimony

Testimony of Yehudit (Katz) Nir, born in Radauti, Romania, 1935, regarding her experiences in Radauti, Attachi and Mogilev-Podolski Religious Zionist family. Life in Radauti including her father's contacts with a local Romanian who used a bribe to rescue them; escape of the family from Atachi to Mogilev-Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski including the role of her father as head of the community, 1941-1944; Air-raids on the camp by the Red Army, 1944; liberation.Return to Radauti; aliya to Israel, 1950.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Henric Drumer, born in Petroseni, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences in Hunedoara, the Nemeti Ghetto, Sacel and Deva

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Henric Drumer, born in Petroseni, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences in Hunedoara, the Nemeti Ghetto, Sacel and Deva From a traditional family; livelihood from fur trading; life in Hunedoara before the war. Abuse and threats by the Romanians against the Jews, 1939-1941; rescue of the witness' father from murder; deportation to the Nemeti Ghetto, summer 1941; ghetto life; deportation to Sacel; life in a castle surrounded by a wall, February to summer, 1942; transfer to the synagogue in Deva, summer 1942; life in Deva including labor loading merchandise on trains and cleaning...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 3972

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

תרגום של מכתב שכתב ד''ר Elchanan Elkes בגטו Kaunas אל ילדיו באוקטובר-נובמבר 1943

File Number : 6213

Type of Material : Draft, Article, Letter

Language : English

Documentation from the State Archive in Warsaw, Poland (Archiwum Panstwowe w Warszawie - APW), 1939-1950

Official documentation from the State Archive in Warsaw, including documentation from various places in the Warsaw district. Included in the documentation are the following collections' sub-record groups: Documents of the Warsaw province and the Warsaw municipality, and the local administration (county and commune) in Warsaw, Ostrowia Mazowiecka and Minsk; Courts of Law (the Special Court, District Court, Provincial Court and Municipal Court) in: Warsaw, Żyrardow, Ciechanów, Mława, Przasnysz and Płock; Prosecutors' Offices in Warsaw, Ciechanów and Ełk; Police in Warsaw, Garwolin and Ciechanów; Prisons in...

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Administrative Documentation, Official Documentation

Language : Polish, Russian, German, Yiddish

Documentation from the State Archive in Warsaw, Grodzisku Mazowieckim branch, Poland (Archiwum Panstwowe w Warszawie, Oddzial w Grodzisku Mazowieckim - APWGM), 1917-1950

Official documentation from the State Archive in Warsaw, the Grodzisk Mazowiecki branch, including documentation from various places in the Warsaw district Official documentation of the following local authorities: Boguszyce, Gortatowice, Marianow, Regnow, Stara Wies, and Walowice; documentation from the district authorities in Rawa Mazowiecka; official documentation from cities and local authorities: Zyrardow, Guzow, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Blonie, Mszczonow, Lazy, szymanow, zaborow, Helenow, Pass, Radzikow, Pruszkow, Sochaczew, Skorosze, Skierniewice, Korabiewice, and Biala Rawska; Documentation from...

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Legal Documentation

Language : Polish, German

Memoirs of Holocaust survivor Bellina (Hasson) Sigura, born in Rhodes in 1923, regarding her experiences during 1944-1945

Memoirs of Holocaust survivor Bellina (Hasson) Sigura, born in Rhodes in 1923, regarding her experiences during 1944-1945 Her memoirs were sent to Rochelle after the war; orders given to the head of the Jewish community in Rhodes, Yaakov Franko, by the Rosenberg Committee: to concentrate the Jews on 18/07/1944; detention along with her parents and her younger sisters Fortunee and Fanny, following the orders given to Yaakov Franko, the head of the Jewish community in Rhodes; release of 39 Jews who possess Turkish passports, thanks to the intervention of the Turkish Consul; deportation to a concentration camp...

File Number : 10134

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

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