Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

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Documents regarding Israel Bresler, born in Kalisz, Poland and Mirla Laja Bresler-Ber, born in Golin, Poland, residents of Jarny, France, and documents regarding the guardianship of their orphaned children resident in Israel, 1942-1965 - Red Cross letter sent from Geneva, Switzerland to Israel Bresler in Feytiat, France, 12 November 1942; lack of information regarding his wife; - Request form submitted by Ruehla Nowodworska, the guardian of the Bresler orphans in Jarny, France, 23 December 1953; "Status of Deportee" given for Israel Bresler, who was deported from Drancy, 15 May 1944; - Certification...

File Number : 538

Type of Material : Administrative Documentation

Language : French

Correspondence between Jacob Weinstein and Regina Rywka (Potasz) [Weinstein] in Eretz Israel and family members in Wolbrom [Poland] through the Red Cross, personal documentation belonging to Rywka Potasz during her stay in Poland and a letter from her mother Sara Potasz - Letter to Regina Weinstein in Eretz Israel from her mother Sara Potasz in Wolbrom (unknown date); - Letter from Sara Potasz in Olkusz to Eretz Israel through the Red Cross, 05 March 1942; - Letter to Jacob Weinstein in Jerusalem through the Red Cross in Geneva following a request from the German Red Cross to appraise them of the...

File Number : 1962

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents, Memoir Book, Envelope, Red Cross Letter

Language : Polish, French, German

Documentation regarding the activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the War Refugee Board (WRB), 1944

Documentation regarding the activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the War Refugee Board (WRB), 1944 Pages 22, 24 (?): Incomplete dispatch (No. 7454) from the US Legation, Bern, to the Secretary of State, Washington, regarding the proposed program of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for the relief of Jewish refugees and other persecuted groups in enemy territory, 02 March 1944; Page 2: Enclosure No. 1 to dispatch No. 7454 from the US Legation, Bern, to the President of the ICRC, Geneva, regarding the provision of food and medicines for Jews and other...

File Number : 93

Type of Material : Memorandum, Correspondence, Official Documentation, Note, Letter(s), Financial Accounts, Telegram

Language : French, English

Memoirs of Jacob Jacobson, born in Schrimm, Poland, 1888, regarding his experiences in Berlin and Theresienstadt

Memoirs of Jacob Jacobson, born in Schrimm, Poland, 1888, regarding his experiences in Berlin and Theresienstadt Deportation from Berlin to Theresienstadt, 15 September 1942. His period of service as Director of the General Archives of the Jews of Germany. Also in the file: Red Cross letter received by the family in London, May 1944; letters he sent to the Reichssippenamt in Berlin regarding the translation into German of books and manuscripts in Hebrew, including a registry book of marriages, mohels (ritual circumcisers) and Chevra Kadisha (burial society); poem/song written by Walter Lindenbaum...

File Number : 8205

Type of Material : List, Letter, Newspaper Clippings, Documentary, Poem/song, Memoirs, Official Documentation

Language : German

Red Cross letter sent by Eva Gerson from Tel Aviv to her mother Martha Gerson from Rabka, 1941

Red Cross letter sent by Eva Gerson from Tel Aviv to her mother Martha Gerson from Rabka, 1941 The response is written on the other side of the letter dated 13 May 1942. The file also includes the testimony of Isidor Zelinger on the murder of Martha Gerson and Mrs. Warszawczyk with 95 additional Jews from Rabka during July 1942, 19 May 1947; murder of the father of Martha Gerson by the Germans, 12 September 1939; murder of her uncle by Germans, 12 September 1939; burial of those murdered with six additional Jews in a mass grave in Mszana Dolna.

File Number : 1721

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Red Cross Letter

Language : Hebrew, German

Letter written by Grunie Finkelstein in Eretz Israel sent via the Red Cross to her father Israel Finkelstein in Warsaw, 08 July 1941, including the father's response written on the other side of the letter, 03 February 1942

File Number : 1705

Type of Material : Red Cross Letter

Language : German

Archive of Rabbi Shaul Weingort: Correspondence regarding refugees and refugee camps in Switzerland, 1942-1945

Archive of Rabbi Shaul Weingort: Correspondence Concerning Refugees and Refugee Camps in Switzerland, 1942-1945 Envelopes: 554-560 Envelope 554: - Postcard from Rosa Fuerst in Beatenberg, residing at the Schweizerhof camp, dated 15 November 1944. She worked as a handicrafts teacher and asked Mrs. Miriam Weingort to send her the wool she needed. Rosa praised the sacred religious atmosphere of the place but expressed a preference to return home [?]; - An emotional letter from Bella and Max Brik, dated 10 December 1944, describing their impressions following the arrival of a group of 200 Hungarian...

File Number : 32

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Record of Survivors, Envelope, Financial Accounts, Telegram, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : Hebrew, French, German, Yiddish

Letters received by Hanna Oppenheimer in Eretz Israel from her parents in Prague and her grandmother in the United States and documents from the Red Cross regarding the deportation of her brother to Sobibor, 1938-1957 - Letters received by Hanna Oppenheimer in Eretz Israel from her parents in Prague, 1938-1941; - Letters received by Hanna Oppenheimer from her grandmother, a survivor of Theresienstadt, in the United States, 1950s; - Documents of the Red Cross Organization regarding the deportation of her brother, Heinrich Kohn, from Amsterdam to Sobibor, 1943.

File Number : 1672

Type of Material : Letter, Certification, Red Cross Letter

Language : German

Documentation regarding Roman Shaposhnikov including letters he wrote at the front to his family in Chkalovsk, Russia, notifications regarding his falling in battle, correspondence of his sister with various organizations regarding his place of burial and more, 1944-1981 - Letters written by Roman Shaposhnikov to his family in Chkalovsk, 1944; - Notification regarding Roman Shaposhnikov, born in Moldova, 1924, falling in battle at the front, 16 October 1944; - Death certificates for the parents of Roman Shaposhnikov; - Correspondence by Roman Shaposhnikov's sister with the Red Cross and the Polish...

File Number : 1655

Type of Material : Death Certificate, Letter, Personal Documents

Language : Russian

Correspondence via the Red Cross between Iren Druckmann in Jerusalem and her husband's parents in Bucharest, 1941-1944

File Number : 1650

Type of Material : Red Cross Letter

Language : German

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