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List of children who survived by living in hiding with assistance from non-Jews in Poland, 1945-1947, from the book, "Survivors of the Holocaust in Poland, by Lucjan Dobroszycki

File Number : 1226

Type of Material : List of Children, List of Survivors

Language : English

Postcards sent by Sándor Reichenberg from the Hungarian Army labor battalions to family in Budapest, 1944; postcard sent to Reichenberg's wife Ilona (Lowinger) Reichenberg by her brother Eugen Lowinger from Majdanek, 1943; letter sent by Helen Lowinger from Nitra to her daughter Ilona (Lowinger) Reichenberg, 1941; personal documents of Ilona (Lowinger) Reichenberg and family, pre- and postwar Postcards sent by Sándor Reichenberg, a forced laborer in the Hungarian Army labor battalions to family members in Budapest, 1944, a postcard sent to Ilona (Lowinger) Reichenberg, Sándor Reichenberg's wife, by her...

File Number : 2251

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Postcard, Letter

Language : Hebrew, German, Hungarian

Documentation regarding Hans Paul Weiner, born in Trautenau, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel and service in PAL-Company 608

Documentation regarding Hans Paul Weiner, born in Trautenau, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel and service in PAL-Company 608 - Excerpts from the British Army historical documentation collection, regarding PAL-Company 608, dated, 31 March 1941-17 January 1944; - Photographs and newspaper clippings from "The Palestine Post", 20 May-09 June 1941; - Memoirs of Hans Paul Weiner; Childhood in Trautenau; Escape by his family from a pail [?] to a pogrom; [move?] to Prague, September 1938; attempts to receive an emigration visa in preparation for aliya; illegal aliya from...

File Number : 389

Type of Material : Survey Report, Diary, Telegram, Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings

Language : English, German

Postcard sent by Sara Karpen from Sweden to Zdunska Wola in order to locate surviving family members, 08 August 1945

Postcard sent by Sara Karpen from Sweden to Zdunska Wola in order to locate surviving family members, 08 August 1945 Notes from Leah (Karpen) Finklestein who submitted the material: Sara (Karpen) Speyer survived Auschwitz, and moved to Sweden after the liberation. Her sister Leah (Karpen) Finklestein, who submitted the material, found the postcard after she returned to Zdunska Wola from the Soviet Union at the end of the war.

File Number : 2243

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Polish

Documentation regarding the Dora-Mittelbau camp and other camps near Nordhausen, 1949-1999

Documentation regarding the Dora-Mittelbau camp and other camps near Nordhausen, 1949-1999 The documentation was gathered by Holocaust survivor Moshe Leib Plachta, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926: - Testimony [of] Concentration Camp Prisoner B-7092: History of the family: Deportation of his sister Luba to the Czestochowa labor camp, 1943; deportation of Moshe Leib with his parents and younger brother to Auschwitz, August 1944; murder of his patents and brother in Auschwitz; transfer of Moshe Leib to the Fuerstengrube labor camp and from there to Dora-Nordhausen, March 1945; life of the inmates in Dora;...

File Number : 444

Type of Material : Correspondence, Administrative Documentation, Postcard, Brochure, Diagram, Survey Report, Personal Documents, Drawing, Letter, Maps, Photograph

Language : French, English, German

Letter sent by Kalman Zloczewski in Lodz to friends of the family in Eretz Israel, 1934, and personal documentation belonging to his son Dan Zloczewski from the postwar period

Letter sent by Kalman Zloczewski in Lodz to friends of the family in Eretz Israel, 1934, and personal documentation belonging to his son Dan Zloczewski from the postwar period - Letter sent by Kalman Zloczewski in Lodz to friends of the family in Eretz Israel (the Zuckerman family), 1934; - Membership card in the Zionist Association in the name of Dan Zloczewski, issued 16 June 1946; - Driver's license issued to Dan Zloczewski in Rehau, 05 August 1946; - German identity card belonging to Dan Zloczewski, born in Lodz, 24 August 1924, issued in Rehau, 12 October 1946; - Document issued by the...

File Number : 2239

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents, Envelope

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

Testimony of Hannah (Loewy) Peleg, born in Vienna, Austria, 1924, regarding her experience in Vienna and Great Britain

Testimony of Hannah (Loewy) Peleg, born in Vienna, Austria, 1924, regarding her experience in Vienna and Great Britain Life in Vienna; attends a non-Jewish elementary school; coping with displays of antisemitism; attends a Jewish high school, until 1938; Anschluss; Kristallnacht; move of Hannah, her brother Issaschar Dov (Bernhard) and her sister Lisa (Ilse) to Great Britain, in the context of the Kindertransport; Life in Great Britain as a young Jewish refugee girl in non-Jewish surroundings; joins aliya training in Brosgrove, following activities in the Bachad youth movement; marriage to Yaakov Felsen;...

File Number : 253

Language : Hebrew

Postcard sent by Rachel Machtynger from Ozarow to her nephew in the United States, 22 April 1940, a letter she sent from Lodz and the Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate) of her daughter Sarah Machtynger and Yishayahu Ephraim Berkovitz, 1945 - Postcard sent by Rachel (Nisenbaum) Machtynger from Ozarow to her nephew in the United States, 22 April 1940, asking for help due to the great distress of the family. The postcard was sent from the address of her brother, Motek Nisenbaum; - Letter in Yiddish sent by Rachel Machtynger from Lodz (it is unclear when she sent the postcard and to whom); - Ketubah of...

File Number : 2234

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

Letters sent by Jesiah Wrasilek during his military service in the Jewish Brigade in Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands to his friends Sari and Menachem Leitner on kibbutz in Eretz Israel, 1945-1946

Letters sent by Jesiah Wrasilek during his military service in the Jewish Brigade in Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands to his friends Sari and Menachem Leitner on kibbutz in Eretz Israel, 1945-1946 Also in the file: - Document issued in Haifa certifying the release of Gittel Steren [sic] from the Atlit camp with the authorization of the British Mandatory government, 20 September 1947. Notes from Gila (Wrasilek) Kaplan, the submitter of the material: Samuel Joseph (Jesiah) Wrasilek was born in Vienna in 1921. He made aliya with the youth movement to the Rodges training farm in Eretz Israel in the...

File Number : 2232

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Envelope, Letter

Language : Hebrew, English

Testimony of Raja (Berkman) Beit Iosef in a letter sent from Sweden to her cousin (her mother's first cousin) Shlomo Frank in Eretz Israel regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kailis and Stutthof and the circumstances surrounding the murders of her family and Shlomo's family, 22 August 1946 Occupation of Vilna and murder of Jews; deportation of the surviving family members to the Vilna Ghetto; transfer of the family members to Ponary and their murder; escape from death in Ponary and return to the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to a concentration camp in Riga; escape from the...

File Number : 8634

Type of Material : Genealogy, Letter of Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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