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Two postcards sent by Elemier Galambos from Nagyvarad to Pal Galambos in Kolosvar, March 1944

Two postcards sent by Elemier Galambos from Nagyvarad to Pal Galambos in Kolosvar, March 1944 Included in the file: Personal documents of Galambos family members, including a document confirming Elemier Galambos's work as a theater actor, 28 January 1915.

File Number : 1747

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter

Language : Romanian, Hungarian

Memoirs of Cypora Glikson, born in Warsaw, Poland, a Yiddish actress, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, Bialystok and Uzbekistan

Memoirs of Cypora Glikson, born in Warsaw, Poland, a Yiddish actress, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, Bialystok and Uzbekistan "Memoirs of a Yiddish Actress": Escape from Warsaw to the Soviet Union, 1939; life in Bialystok; life in Uzbekistan; end of the war. The memoirs were translated from Yiddish by Yaacov David Shulman.

File Number : 8034

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Testimony of Rina (Gilde) Rubinstein, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1940, regarding her experiences as a baby in the Kaunas Ghetto and with a foster family

Testimony

Testimony of Rina (Gilde) Rubinstein, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1940, regarding her experiences as a baby in the Kaunas Ghetto and with a foster family Zionist family; aliya of her mother to Eretz Israel, 1935; her mother's work as an actress in Hamatat'e Theater; return of her parents to Lithuania. Outbreak of the war, 1941; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto; "Aktion" against children; witness is placed with a neighbor named Julija Vitkauskiene, who was later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations; fostered by a physician who is an acquaintance of her father; end of the war. Knowledge...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter written by Z. Schvimmer from New York to the New York Forverts editorial board regarding the experiences of the Holocaust survivor Solomon Wieder, from Detroit, in concentration camps, 21 September 1948 The activities of Wieder in concentration camps included entertaining his fellow inmates with song and dramatics; the paralysis of his left arm due to shooting by the Germans of Wieder's both arms on the day of the liberation of Bergen Belsen; includes two photographs of Wieder when he was a Jewish Theatre actor for youth in Poland before the war and one photograph of him in the United States after he...

File Number : 23.71

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : English, Yiddish

Announcements and placards regarding various cultural events held in the Vilna Ghetto, 1941 - 1943

Announcements and placards regarding various cultural events held in the Vilna Ghetto, 1941 - 1943 The various cultural events include: plays, concerts, sport competitions, lectures, and other events; most of the announcements include the names of the artists who implemented the events.

Type of Material : Announcement, Poster

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish