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Letters and postcards received by Hermann Helfgott in a POW camp in Germany from his family members and friends in Serbia, Hungary and other places, 1941-1944, a letter written by his future wife Malvine Bodner, including information regarding her family's experiences, 09/12/1946, and personal and official documentation regarding Hermann Helfgott and the Bodner family - Letters and postcards received by Hermann Helfgott in a POW camp in Germany (he served in the Yugoslavian Army and was taken captive by the Germans in 1941) from his family members and friends in Vrsac, Budapest, Dragutinovo, Kragujevac,...

File Number : 2223

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

Language : Serbian, Hebrew, Polish, English, German

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

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German, Yiddish

Testimony of Abraham Ernst Ponger, born in Mikulas Litovsky Svaty, Czechoslovakia, in 1922, regarding his experiences in the Sered camp and in the battle of the partisans

Childhood before the war; Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria 1938; expulsion from school and carpentry studies; independence of Slovakia and anti-Jewish legislation 1939; deportation of Jews and escape to the mountains in March 1942; going back home and deportation to the Sered camp,in April 1945; work in carpentry; underground in the camp; Slovak uprising and escape ,in August 1944; joining partisans; actions against Germans; liberation by the red army,in April 1945; joining aliya training; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the Theodor Herzl ship,on 01 April 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya back to...

File Number : 13772

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Joint testimony of Jakob Haas, born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1941, and Jon (Josef) Haas, ‎born in Esbanderup, Denmark in 1943, regarding their escape from Denmark to Sweden

Joint testimony of Jakob Haas, born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1941, and Jon (Josef) Haas, ‎born in Esbanderup, Denmark in 1943, regarding their escape from Denmark to Sweden Children of a German father, who came to Denmark in 1939, and a Danish mother; the parents ‎worked on a farm with Hechalutz Movement aliya training, and in Saunte, near Copenhagen, ‎following the German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940; birth of the children; the family’s ‎escape to Sweden on fishing boats, with the help of Danish fishermen, in October 1943, and their ‎rescue from the Nazis; life in Landskrona, Sweden; placed in an...

File Number : 13714

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Eliezer Leo Matzger, born in Kiel, Germany, in 1920, regarding his experiences in ‎Kiel and Hamburg and his aliya to Eretz Israel

Testimony of Eliezer Leo Matzger, born in Kiel, Germany, in 1920, regarding his experiences in ‎Kiel and Hamburg and his aliya to Eretz Israel Born into a religious family from Galicia; life in Kiel in a non-Jewish area until 1933; life after the ‎Nazi Party came into power; membership in the Zionist Habonim Movement; aliya of his older ‎sisters to Eretz Israel in 1934; closing of the family store; escape to the Hechalutz Movement’s ‎aliya training center in Hamburg in 1936; decision of the movement’s leadership in spring 1939 to ‎send him to Eretz Israel; travel through the Czech region, Austria and Italy;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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 : Memoir Book, Official Documentation, Postcard, Personal Documents, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

Memoirs of Yisrael Goldhar, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences and those of his family in Warsaw before the war and letters he received in Arkhangelsk, Soviet Union, from his father and his sister Guta in Warsaw, 11 October 1940-10 March 1941 Part 1 - Family history: Diagram of the family home and of the surrounding area, on 33 Mila St., Warsaw; attitude of the neighbors; Yom Kippur and Pesach; Moshe Goldhar, the father who perished and his family; the family of his mother, Chana Hilsberg, who perished; the sisters, Guta, born in 1899, who perished in the Warsaw Ghetto; Sala, born in...

File Number : 8485

Type of Material : Memoirs, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Testimony of Mikhail Rozenbaum, born in 1923 in Malice, Poland, about his survival in Siberia and Ukraine

Testimony

Testimony of Mikhail Rozenbaum, born in 1923 in Malice, Poland, about his survival in Siberia and Ukraine Deportation (escape) to Siberia and on to Ukraine; muarder of three older sisters and their children in Auschwitz in 1943; father joins partisans; family reunited; witness immigrates to Israel in June 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence between Ferdinand Nandy Goldstein from Kyjov and his friends in the Maccabi organization, 1938-1939

Correspondence between Ferdinand Nandy Goldstein from Kyjov and his friends in the Maccabi organization, 1938-1939 Included in the file: - Documentation regarding the Maccabi Hatzair activities in Czechoslovakia, before the outbreak of the war.

File Number : 1

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Letter, Play

Language : Czech, Swedish, German, Hungarian

Memoirs of Yehoshua Polin, born in Gera, Germany, 1924 regarding his experiences in Berlin, Denmark and Sweden

Memoirs of Yehoshua Polin, born in Gera, Germany, 1924 regarding his experiences in Berlin, Denmark and Sweden Life in Berlin until 1939; immigration from Germany within the Youth Aliyah framework; life in Denmark; life in Sweden. Also in the file: English translation of sections of the testimonies presented in the film, "Kibbutzen i Falun" (Kibbutzim in Falun" [Sweden]); Documentation regarding the fate of Jewish youth who arrived in Denmark and Sweden within the Youth Aliyah framework during the years of World War II.

File Number : 8268

Type of Material : Testimony, Memoirs, Newspaper Clippings, Documentary

Language : English, Swedish, German

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