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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

Testimony of Moshe Klagsbald, born in Trzebinia, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Trzebinia Ghetto, in Markstaedt, Gogolin, Ebensee and the Jewish Brigade in Italy following liberation

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzafrir Shteir Sara, born in Bedzin, Poland, in 1930 regarding the Srodula ghetto and regarding the Peterswaldau camp

Childhood before the war; programming aliya to Israel; aliya of the two brothers ; confiscation of family businesses; outbreak of the war; burning the synagogue and houses of Jews; deportation to ghetto; forced labor; murder of the father; "aktions"; deportation of the mother and sister to Auschwitz Birkenau; deportation of the witness with her sister to Peterswaldau; help of the German female commander; liberation by the Russians; escape to the American side; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1946

File Number : 13661

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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 Nancy Vera Rachel Arbel, born in Baktaloranthaza, Hungary, in 1826 regarding deportation to the Auschwitz Birkenau , Plaszow and Reichenbach camps

Testimony

Childhood before the war; coexistence; outbreak of the war; restrictions on Jews; German occupation in March 1944; deportation to ghetto; mutual help; robbery of property; fictitious marriage for the purpose of rescue; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to a protected camp; improvement in food and living conditions; transfer back to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Germany for agricultural works and for working in a factory manufacturing planes; liberation by the Russians; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1949

File Number : 13703

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Two letters sent by Hermann Stern in Moissac to the Jewish Committee in London and to his uncle and brother in England, June 1945, including information regarding the deaths of his parents and sister who had been with him in the Stutthof camp after their expulsion from Germany - Letter written by Hermann Stern, born 14 February 1927, during his stay in Moissac, France, to the Jewish Committee in London, 22 June 1945, with a request to search for his brother Heinz Stern, born 17 August 1924, who had emigrated to England before the outbreak of the war; Hermann writes that for four years he was in a...

File Number : 2219

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English

Memoirs of Yisrael Klein, born in Radomysl, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Radomysl, in hiding in the forest and being hidden by farmers, in Paleniec, in a commune of Jews hiding in the forests, as Red Army soldier and more Life before the war including the ultra-Orthodox way of life of his family. German occupation, 08 September 1939; hiding with his father in the attic during the concentration of the Jewish men in the municipal market; confinement of the Jews in the church without food or water for several days; murder of many Jews by shooting; transfer of the wounded to German military...

File Number : 8636

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the Rosenfeld family, including letters and postcards sent to Alfred Rosenfeld in Bratislava and Eretz Israel by his family in Ivančice, testimonial letters by Otto Rosenfeld and his daughter Helly regarding their experiences during the war, personal documents of the family members and more, 1929-2011 Letters and postcards: - Two postcards sent to Alfred Rosenfeld in Bratislava by his parents and sister Helly Helena in Ivančice, December 1939; - Two letters sent to Alfred Rosenfeld in Eretz Israel by his parents and sister in Ivančice, January 1940; - Postcard sent to Otto...

File Number : 2208

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Vouchers, Personal Documents, Passport, Official Documentation, Letter, Postcard

Language : Czech, English, German

Testimony of Zeev Semel On, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, in 1924, regarding labour camps, his deportation to Buchenwald and other camps

Testimony

-Parents'house; anti-semitism; air-raids; occupation by the German army on 04 September,1939; humiliations; forced labour; deportation to the Piotrkow Trybunalski ghetto; the father is a member of the Judenradt; contribution demand; confiscation of furs; walking on the pavement is forbidden; starvation; passing of valuables to local neighbours; reduction of the ghetto; issuance of working papers on 21 October 1942; his work as a porter in "Shneider shop" (tailor shop) for the needs of the German army and cargo transfer from place to place; assembling the children in the big synagogue and their murder;...

File Number : 13463

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters and translations of letters received by Avraham Yitzchak Merhavia in Eretz Israel from his family in Radzilow, 1935-1939, and from his brother Eliezer during the period of Eliezer's military service in the Jewish Brigade, 1942-1945 - Three letters written in Yiddish sent by Eliezer in Radzilow to his brother Avraham Yitzchak Merhavia in Eretz Israel, 1938-1939; - Letters written in Hebrew sent by Eliezer during the period of his military service in the Jewish Brigade to his brother Avraham Yitzchak Merhavia in Eretz Israel, 1942-1945; - Two letters written by Eliezer in Belgium after the war,...

File Number : 2172

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

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