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Letter sent by Sara Zubrickas in the Pithiviers camp to her sister Dora (Zubrickas) Tannenbaum in Paris, 22 October 1941, and documentation regarding their brother Maurice Zubrickas who was in the Stalag II A POW camp during the war Documentation regarding Maurice Zubrickas (original): - Reply letter from the Central Agency for Prisoners of War in Geneva to Ms. Wieviorka in Paris according to which Maurice Zubrickas was in the Stalag II A POW camp in Germany, September 1940; - Participation card in the population census issued to Maurice Zubrickas, 06 May 1945; - Booklet granting benefits in receiving...

File Number : 2238

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

Language : Hebrew, French, Yiddish

Postcards containing information regarding the whereabouts of Salomon Jassy, born in Strasbourg, France, 1936, retained by his mother, Eidela Jassy, until after the war and documentation regarding the experiences of the Jassy family members - Postcards containing information regarding the whereabouts of Salomon Jassy retained by his mother, Eidela Jassy, until after the war including: 1) Postcard from Simone Coque Stolze in Rodez to Eidela Jassy in Terrasson, 10 October 1944; son [Salomon] was hidden by Simone Coque Stolze in a monastery near Rodez; 2) Postcard from Simone Coque Stolze, 11 October...

File Number : 1944

Type of Material : Personal Records, Newspaper Clippings, List of Children, Postcard

Language : French, German

School certificates and a letter of the experiences of Judyta Joseph, born in Lwow, Poland, 1934, during the war including in hiding with an assumed name

School certificates and a letter of the experiences of Judyta Joseph, born in Lwow, Poland, 1934, during the war including in hiding with an assumed name Letter with the notification of the death of a nun in a convent in Zamosc where Judyta Joseph was hidden with the assumed name Franciszka Koniak, 1945; Grade 2 elementary school report card for Franciszka Koniak that was bought with other forged documents for Judyta Joseph in 1942; School certificate issued for Judyta Joseph with her original name in Otwock in 1948.

File Number : 1160

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents

Language : Polish

Testimony of Rachel (Niego) Serezo, born in Paris, France, 1935, regarding her experiences in Paris, Lyon and in hiding in a monastery

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Niego) Serezo, born in Paris, France, 1935, regarding her experiences in Paris, Lyon and in hiding in a monastery Emigration of her family from Turkey to Paris; her childhood in a Sephardi Jewish community. Outbreak of the war; life under German occupation; escape to Lyon, 1942; receives help from the local population; in hiding in a monastery, 1943; receives a religious, Christian education, until 1944; liberation. Return to Judaism; life fafter the war; move back to Paris; aliya to Israel; life in Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : French

Letters and postcards written by nuns and a friend in the St. Angele-a-Ternat convent in Gent to Helen Chaimovicz in Brussels, 1945-1947, and a permit from another convent in Gent in which Helen was being hidden Helen Chaimovicz was born in Etterbeek, 31 January 1933; At the outbreak of war between Belgium and Germany Helen escaped to France together with her family, 1940; she escaped with her family to Anderlecht with the help of the Belgian underground, 1941, and Helen was transferred to a hiding place in the St. Vincent de Paul monastery in Gent; Helen stayed in the monastery for a year and a half;...

File Number : 1468

Type of Material : Postcard, Personal Documents, Letter

Language : French, Dutch

Memoirs of Fany Schumer, born in Munkacz, Czechoslovakia in 1913, titled "Diary of Bomama", regarding her and her daughter Yetti Schumer's experiences while hidden in the Preventerium monastery in Stoumont, Belgium

File Number : 7612

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shraga Birman, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Bucharest, Sarata and Baldovinesti

Testimony

Testimony of Shraga Birman, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Bucharest, Sarata and Baldovinesti From a traditional family; good relations with the Romanian neighbors; displays of antisemitism in the Romanian newspapers and rumors regarding what is happening in Europe from refugees from Poland; the Jewish men are taken for forced labor in a suburb next to Bucharest; work in a hospital and unloading cargo from trains; deportation to Sarata; camp life; transfer by cattle train for two days; mutual help among the camp inmates; forced labor and the humiliating attitude towards the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter written to Martin Stamler by his father, sent from Dachau; Martin, born in Antwerp, 1941 was in hiding in Belgium; letter dated, 03/05/1945

Letter written to Martin Stamler by his father, sent from Dachau; Martin, born in Antwerp, 1941 was in hiding in Belgium; letter dated, 03/05/1945 Note: Martin (known as Elimelech, in Israel) was detained along with his family members, November 1942, and all of them were deported to the Dossin detention camp, from which they were released, nine months later. In September 1943, his father [whose name is not mentioned in the letter] responded to the order calling Jews with Belgian citizenship to present themselves before the Gestapo, and he was deported. The remainder of the family members (Martin's mother...

File Number : 1353

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew, Dutch

Testimony of Felicja (Lipsztadt) Lowental, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding in various places

Testimony

Testimony of Felicja (Lipsztadt) Lowental, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding in various places Traditional family; witness attends a Jewish elementary school and Jewish high school; studies in a commercial school; activities in the Zionist youth movements; displays of antisemitism. Outbreak of the war; German occupation, September 1939; anti-Jewish decrees; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940; forced labor in a clothing factory for the Germans; "Aktion"; deportation of her mother and younger sister to extermination; escapes from the "Aktions" and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Faradzhi Yechail, born in Volos, Greece, 1933, regarding his experiences in Volos, in hiding in Almirós and a covent in the Thessaly district

Testimony

Testimony of Yechial Faradzhi, born in Volos, Greece, 1933, regarding his experiences in Volos, in hiding in Almirós and a covent in the Thessaly district Life before the war: his father owns a millinery; his mother’s work in a cigarette factory; Greek public school. German occupation; escape with the family to the Christian quarter; antisemites break into the apartment; move by a non-Jewish acquaintance to a catholic priests house in the village Almirós; changes his name to Adam; the priest is informed on; move to the Maria Theresa monastery in the Thessaly district; life in the monastery including work...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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