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Memoirs of Moshe Kaplan, born in Woronow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Polish Army, the Tannenberg POW camp, the Woronow Ghetto, in hiding in the forest, as a partisan in the Naliboki forests and more Life in Woronow after World War I; death of his father Avraham Kaplan in 1922; attendance at the Tarbut elementary school; displays of antisemitism; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; underground activities and imprisonment of his brother as a member of the Communist Party; death of his mother, 1932; life in an aliya training kibbutz in Bialystok; meeting his future wife, Chaya; release of his...

File Number : 8643

Type of Material : Memoirs, Poems/songs, Genealogy

Language : Hebrew

Letters and postcards received by Hermann Helfgott in a POW camp in Germany from his family members and friends in Serbia, Hungary and other places, 1941-1944, a letter written by his future wife Malvine Bodner, including information regarding her family's experiences, 09/12/1946, and personal and official documentation regarding Hermann Helfgott and the Bodner family - Letters and postcards received by Hermann Helfgott in a POW camp in Germany (he served in the Yugoslavian Army and was taken captive by the Germans in 1941) from his family members and friends in Vrsac, Budapest, Dragutinovo, Kragujevac,...

File Number : 2223

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Postcard

Language : Serbian, Hebrew, Polish, English, German

Personal documentation regarding the fate of Zamory family members and the family members of Gerda Behr, the wife of Leo Zamory; documents dated, 1920-1966

Personal documentation regarding the fate of Zamory family members and the family members of Gerda Behr, the wife of Leo Zamory; documents dated, 1920-1966 - Red Cross letter sent by Else Zamory and her daughter Helga in Berlin to Karl Kranzdorf in Eretz Israel, 08 February, 1942; announcement regarding the death of Josef Zamory, the head of the family; - Red Cross letter sent by Else Zamory and her daughter Helga in Berlin to Karl Kranzdorf in Eretz Israel, 14 June 1942; lack of information regarding Leo; - Affidavit by Leo Arije Zamory regarding the fate of his family members, submitted, 03 July...

File Number : 2157

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents

Language : German

Permit issued in the Lamsdorf POW camp for British soldier Albert Fano, 13 May 1942, and military service booklet received by him upon mobilization, 9 December 1940

Permit issued in the Lamsdorf POW camp for British soldier Albert Fano, 13 May 1942, and military service booklet received by him upon mobilization, 9 December 1940 - Permit issued in the Lamsdorf POW camp for the transfer of British Jewish soldier Albert Fano to the camp hospital, 13 May 1942; - Notification sent on behalf of the British Army regarding Albert Fano being taken captive, 16 August 1941; - Military service booklet belonging to Albert Bohor Fano, born in Burgas, Bulgaria, 23 March 1908, mobilized in Sarafand, 9 December 1940; booklet contains soldier’s personal information, including...

File Number : 634

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Notepad, Personal Records

Language : English, German

Reports sent to the central committee of the Communist Party in Belorussia by the People's Commissariat for Internal Matters in Belorussia, regarding the murder and persecution of Jews in the Minsk and Mogilev regions during 1941-1942 Survey reports regarding the murder of Jewish POWs in a POW camp in Gomel, 1941-1942; establishment of the Minsk Ghetto; murder of Minsk Jews in a brick factory near the city, starting in September 1941; deportation of Jews from Germany to the Minsk Ghetto, December 1941; murder of Mogilev Jews, August-September 1941; murder of Borisov Jews, 1941-1942; murder of Smolevichi...

File Number : 3678

Type of Material : List of Partisans, List of Collaborators, List of Underground Members, Official Documentation

Language : Russian

Forged and genuine certificates made out to Rebecca (Karlin) Marmur from Nancy, and a certificate from the POW Association made out to Gerald Marmur, 1941-1945

Forged and genuine certificates made out to Rebecca (Karlin) Marmur from Nancy, and a certificate from the POW Association made out to Gerald Marmur, 1941-1945 - Forged identity card belonging to Rebecca Marmur using the name Renee Marmur, 1944; - Genuine identity card in the name of Rebecca Marmur from her stay in Moulins, 1941; - Identity card stamped with the word "Juif" (Jew) issued in Nancy, 27 January 1943; - Certificate from the Association des Prisonniers de Guerre (POW association) issued to Gerald Marmur in Lyon, 13 August 1945. Comments by the submitter of the material regarding the...

File Number : 533

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : French

Release certificate from German captivity issued to Albert Hano, a British soldier, as part of a prisoner exchange between England and Germany, 05 November 1942

Release certificate from German captivity issued to Albert Hano, a British soldier, as part of a prisoner exchange between England and Germany, 05 November 1942 "Brit. Jude" (British Jew) appears under "Nationality" [on the certificate]. Comments by the submitter of the material regarding the experiences of Albert Hano, born in Bulgaria, 1908: - Aliya to Eretz Israel with his wife Lenka, 1935; - Fought in the British Army; - Capture by the German Army; - Life in Lamsdorf camp including working in the coal mines; - Release from captivity as part of an exchange of sick prisoners, due to his...

File Number : 628

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : German

Letter written by Layosh Veynberger in the name of the Jewish forced laborers for the Hungarian Army who are imprisoned in the Soviet POW camp in Kharkov

Letter written by Layosh Veynberger in the name of the Jewish forced laborers for the Hungarian Army who are imprisoned in the Soviet POW camp in Kharkov One of 132 Jewish POWs with Hungarian, Czechoslovakian and Romanian citizenship who served as forced laborers in the Hungarian Army is requesting their release and repatriation since they themselves are victims of Nazism and their only crime is that they stayed alive; in his appeal, Layosh Veynberger points out that many criminals to whom they were subordinate in the Hungarian Army have already been released, while the Jews remain behind bars in Camp No....

File Number : 94

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Two letters written by the Goldberg brothers; letter from Aleksandr Shapiro regarding German captivity, his escape and return to the Red Army

Two letters written by the Goldberg brothers; letter from Aleksandr Shapiro regarding German captivity, his escape and return to the Red Army Letters from the political officer, M. Goldberg and his brother B. Goldberg who has enlisted in the Red Army and requests to be sent to the front. Letter from Aleksandr Shapiro from Dnepropetrovsk regarding his escape from German captivity; Aleksandr Shapiro fought and advanced at the front until 21 September 1941 when his unit was surrounded and he was taken captive; a group of Jewish soldiers was separated from the other captives immediately and ordered to dig a...

File Number : 185

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Yaakov Kleinman, a resident of Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, as told to his daughter, Rachel Shpunt, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer, a captive of the Soviets and his return to Czechoslovakia

File Number : 8334

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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