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Collection of Riga House Committee books

Collection of Riga House Committee books In the collection there are House Committee books arranged by street.

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Latvian

To be translated

File Number : 13651

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzila Cela Stocanski née Smalc, born in 1936 in Lokacze, Poland, about her experiences as a girl in the Lokacze ghetto and in hiding in the homes of Polish peasants in the vicinity

Life before the war; offspring of a traditional family; ghettoization in 1941; murder of young m en; wearing the yellow star; mother works outside the ghetto; smuggling food; liquidation of the ghetto and escape to mother's workplace in 1942; finding a hideout in a pigsty owned by a Polish peasant and staying there for approx. a year; members of a gang under Bandera (leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement) enter the courtyard and burn down the peasant's house; witness's mother raped; wandering from village to village in the area; falls ill; helped by a Polish doctor; attempt to enter the Włodzimierz...

File Number : 13534

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation belonging to David and Judith Kaelter, 1939-1978

Personal documentation belonging to David and Judith Kaelter, 1939-1978 In the file (page numbers correspond to those in the scanned material): Pages 2-4: - List of items that were brought from Germany and list of expenses, 1939; Page 5: - Health certificate of Ms. Bracha Lewin, 24 November 1939; Page 6: - Apartment lease, 1942; Pages 5-14: - Documents regarding David and Judith Kaelter's claims for reparations including a payment order from Germany, 1956-1957; Page 16: - Letter sent by Karl Marx, editor of a Jewish newspaper in Duesseldorf, 11 May 1956; Page 18: - Letter...

File Number : 10

Type of Material : Certification, Declaration, Inventory List, Letter, Newspaper Clippings, Personal Documents, Financial Accounts, Record of Persecuted Persons, Official Documentation, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, French, English

Testimony of Israel Kasovicz, born in Cluj, (Hungary) Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child on the Kasztner train and in Bergen-Belsen

Testimony of Israel Kasovicz, born in Cluj, (Hungary) Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child on the Kasztner train and in Bergen-Belsen Family life; the Jewish community; studies; Gordonia activities by his father. Transfer to Cluj as refugees; draft of his father to labor service and to forced labor; desertion of his father; murder; numerus clausus and numerus nullus; arrest and interrogations; transfer to Budapest and being hidden in Jewish homes; his family joins the Kasztner group following his father's request; transport on a train to Bergen-Belsen and a stopover in Linz, Austria;...

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Godel Kleiman, born in Sulita, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences during the deportation to Transnistria and with Ukrainians in Cosarnita

Testimony

Testimony of Godel Kleiman, born in Sulita, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences during the deportation to Transnistria and with Ukrainians in Cosarnita Childhood, family. Persecution of Jews and murder of Jews with the German and Romanian occupation of Sulita, 1941; deportation to Transnistria; march in convoys; daily life in Transnistria; life in a stable in Cosarnita; life in the homes of local Ukrainians; mortality due to diseases, typhus, cold and hunger. Aliya to Israel, 1972.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka Lavi, born in Siret, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Transnistria and Balta, and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944

Testimony

Testimony of Rivka Lavi, born in Siret, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Transnistria and Balta, and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944 Childhood; family. Persecution of the Jews, 1941-1944; closure of schools; deportation to Transnistria; death march in Transnistria; life in an orphanage in Balta; deaths of her parents and her sister in pigsties. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pinchas Peter Grosman, born in Hejocsaba, Hungary, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Miskolc camp, a labor battalion and Komarom camp

Testimony

Testimony of Pinchas Peter Grosman, born in Hejocsaba, Hungary, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Miskolc camp, a labor battalion and Komarom camp Life before the war; education in Miskolc; education in Budapest. Restrictions on the Jews and numerus clausus; deportation of his father to a labor battalion; Hungarian gendermes activities; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; deportation to Miskolc camp; deportation of the family to Auschwitz; death of her mother in camp; transfer to a labor battalion in Komarom; camp life; life with Wermacht soldiers;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Mitrani, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Sofia and Shumen

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Mitrani, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Sofia and Shumen Life before the war; attends a state school. Deportation of his mother to forced labor, 1941; German occupation, March 1941; passing of the Law for the Protection of the Nation; yellow badge; deportation of Jews from Turkey and Macedonia to Treblinka; deportation order for Sofia Jewry; establishment of protest movements; deportation with the family on a train to Shumen; life in Shumen; attends a Jewish school; deportation of youth to forced labor; correspondence with his father; liberation...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Levi Moshkovitz, born in Orsowa, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in the Brustury forest, Kosice, Hodmezovasarhely, Novi Sad and Cop

Testimony

Testimony of Levi Moshkovitz, born in Orsowa, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in the Brustury forest, Kosice, Hodmezovasarhely, Novi Sad and Cop Life before the war. Annexation to Hungary, March 1939; nationalization of property and ban on ritual slaughter; learns in a yeshiva in Kosino; deportation of Jews to Galicia as foreign citizens and their murder; drafted into labor battalions; labor in the Brustury forest; camp life including religious life; transfer to Kosice; transfer to Hodmezovasarhely by freight train; Yom Kippur prayers on the train; forced labor digging...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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