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Documentation of Abraham and Genia Gemainer regarding their stay in Poppendorf on the way to Eretz Israel, 1947

Documentation of Abraham and Genia Gemainer regarding their stay in Poppendorf on the way to Eretz Israel, 1947 Documents (departure from Europe, 1947) containing confirmation regarding Abraham and Genia Gemainer making aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Exodus", 1947, and their stay in Poppendorf camp; issue of certificates by the Poppendorf camp council, with no mention of the names of the document holders.

File Number : 1215

Type of Material : Administrative Documentation

Language : Hebrew, English

Memoirs and other documentation of the Oppenheimer family from Marktbreit, Germany, before, during and after the war, 1938-2001

Memoirs and other documentation of the Oppenheimer family from Marktbreit, Germany, before, during and after the war, 1938-2001 - Interview with Marcus Mordechai Oppenheimer, born in Marktbreit, Germany, 1919, held by Dr. Christiane Kolbet In Kfar Pines, Israel, 1977, regarding Oppenheimer's experiences during the Holocaust and his illegal aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Dora" ship, via Amsterdam and Antwerp; - Essay written by Christiane Kolbet, titled "Marktbreit, Himmel und Hoelle" ("Marktbreit, Heaven and Hell"), impressions by Issaschar and Ruth Oppenheimer from Kfar Pines, regarding Klara (Levi)...

File Number : 661

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Records, Personal Documents, Survey Report, Memoirs, Poems/songs, Speech, Reports, Lists

Testimony of Sylvia Rachel Davidovicz, nee Weiss, born in Sacalaseni, Romania, in 1929, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare ghetto and in the Auschwitz Birkenau, Boizenburg and Ludwigslust camps

Testimony of Sylvia Rachel Davidowicz, nee Weiss, born in Sacalaseni, Romania, in 1929, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare ghetto and in the Boizenburg, Auschwitz Birkenau and Ludwigslust camps Childhood in Baia Mare; re- annexation of the place to Hungary in 1940; transfer of ownership of the father's flour mill to Hungarians in 1941; the rise of antisemitism; interruption of studies; the German occupation in 1944; deportation to the ghetto in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; transfer to Boizenburg; life in the camp; transfer to work in a factory manufacturing tanks and planes; transfer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mina-Mira Rechter-Lavi, born in 1928 regarding her experiences in Chutin, Bessarabia and Romania, 1940-1947

Testimony of Mina-Mira Rechter-Lavi, born in 1928 regarding her experiences in Chutin, Bessarabia and Romania, 1940-1947 Occupation of Chutin by the Red Army,1940; closing of parents' store from fear of abuse by the Soviets; air-raids on Chutin by the Germans and Romanians, 1941; family moves to the home of Uncle Shlomo after their house is destroyed in the air-raids; deportation of the Jews of Chutin to Mogilev via Sikuren and other towns; deportation to the Mogilev Ghetto;draft of Leibel, her father, to forced labor; death of the father. Unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel via Bucharest and from...

File Number : 351

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

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

Invitation received by Miriam (Yunger) Peer, born in Slatioara, Romania, 1928, to the event, "A Place of Story-Telling and Song, the 50th Anniversary of the Detention Camps in Cyprus", which was held in the amphitheater of the illegal immigrant camp in Atlit, 03 August 1998 Also in the file: - Biography of Miriam (Yunger) Peer: Miriam (Yunger) Peer was born in Romania and [attempted to make] made aliya to Eretz Israel on the [illegal immigrant] ship, "Katriel Yaffe", which left the Bocca di Magra port, 31 July 1946; Miriam was transferred to a detention camp on Cyprus in August 1946, and released from...

File Number : 334

Type of Material : Invitation

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mia (Ordinon) Beili, born in Cernauti, Romania in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto and on the Aryan side

Testimony of Mia (Ordinon) Beili, born in Cernauti, Romania in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto and on the Aryan side Life before the war; assimilated, Zionist family; Deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; Cernauti Ghetto life including overcrowding; smuggled from the ghetto with her parents and taken to the smuggler's home; life on the Aryan side; retreat by the Germans; liberation by the Red Army; Move to Brasov with help from the Jewish community; she attends a Jewish school; attempt to make illegal aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Pan York" ship; detention in Cyprus;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Moshe Lederman, born in Jedrzejow, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Jedrzejow, Czechia, Fiume, his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938 and more

Memoirs of Moshe Lederman, born in Jedrzejow, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Jedrzejow, Czechia, Fiume, his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938 and more Life before the war; attends a government elementary school; attends a Hamizrachi school conducted in Hebrew; displays of anti-Semitism; imposition of a commercial boycott on Jews; life in an aliya training facility; move to Czechia; move to Austria; move to Fiume; life at the Fiume port; aliya to Eretz Israel, 20 September 1938.

File Number : 8508

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memory book belonging to Bat Sheva Sabina Mendelson, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1931, written by friends in her Bnei Akiva group in Cyprus when she took leave of the group, 1947

Memory book belonging to Bat Sheva Sabina Mendelson, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1931, written by friends in her Bnei Akiva group in Cyprus when she took leave of the group, 1947 Notes from Chana Shinar who submitted the material: During the evacuation of the Warsaw Ghetto, Bat Sheva escaped from the train, and wandered among the villages. Some of the villages knew her identity and hid her. In the course of her wanderings she arrived in Lodz, and she made aliya from there to Eretz Israel as part of Youth Aliyah. In 1947 she was deported on the illegal immigrant ship, "Theodor Herzl" to Cyprus, where she...

File Number : 700

Type of Material : Memoir Book

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German

Testimony of Michal Mishe Rauch née Löwenherz, born in 1926 in Przemyśl, Poland, about her experiences in the Przemyśl ghetto and in hiding on the "Aryan" side in a Ukrainian's home until liberation in 1944

German occupation of Przemyśl in 1939; riots; Soviet occupation ensues in 1939; German occupation ensues in 1941; restrictions on Jews and upturn in antisemitism; deportation to the Przemyśl ghetto with parents; family members receive labor permits; father works in a factory outside the ghetto and witness works with mother on a farm outside the ghetto in 1942; finding a hideout during the second Aktion; witness and parents arrested due to denunciation and taken to a lockup in Przemyśl; they escapes from the lockup and return to the ghetto (part of which has become a labor camp) in 1943; witness and parents...

File Number : 13595

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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