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Letters and postcards sent to Jakob Amram in Zurich, 1939-1945

Letters and postcards sent to Jakob Amram in Zurich, 1939-1945 - Letter sent by Seligmann Hirschberg and Goldine Dina Amram from Leer to the Wortheim family, 15 December 1939; not having enough time to write since their son Yehiel made aliya to Eretz Israel and they are busy corresponding with him; - Postcards and letters sent to Jakob Amram in Zurich by his mother and sisters, Dina and Frida, in Frankfurt am Main, 1940-1942; - Correspondence between Jakob Amram and Berti Heilbrunn, the young woman who worked together with Seligmann and Goldine, 15 September 1942; deportation of the Hirschberg couple...

File Number : 2118

Type of Material : Postcard, Official Documentation, Letter

Language : German

M.1.PC- Questionnaires filled out by children in the Foehrenwald DP camp, 1945-1946

M.1.PC- Questionnaires filled out by children in the Foehrenwald DP camp, 1945-1946 The Central Historical Committee (CHC) distributed questionnaires among the children (some from Hungary, and the rest from Poland) in DP camps, in order to collect information by asking questions regarding the fate of the children and the fate of their families during the Nazi period. The questionnaires include questions concerning the names of family members, their places of origin and the general background of the children. On the reverse side of each questionnaire there is a short survey regarding the history of the...

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Biography, Record of Deportees, Record of Survivors, Questionnaire, Record of Murdered Persons

Language : English

Documentation regarding the activities by Eva Warburg in rescuing children before the outbreak of the war, 1938-1966

Documentation regarding the activities by Eva Warburg in rescuing children before the outbreak of the war, 1938-1966 1. Interview with Eva Warburg regarding her activities in Sweden in rescuing children through Youth Aliyah, from 1938, 1966 2. Report regarding the journey Warburg made to Germany 14 years later; 3. Letters by Hamburg Jewish community members to Dr. Warburg in Sweden, 1942; 4. Correspondence regarding the establishment of a DP camp in Koesterberg-Blankenese that would be under the jurisdiction of the JDC; 5. Miscellaneous items: Lists of children, poems, newspaper clippings of...

File Number : 3363

Type of Material : Memoirs, Letter, Poems/songs, Newspaper Clippings

Language : English, Swedish, German

סיפורה של ניצולת שואה צילי פייזר לבית לויטוס ילידת Frankfurt 1925 שנכתב בידי Lutz van Dijk על בסיס שיחות ראיונות איתה

File Number : 12928

Type of Material : סיפור חיים

פריט ללא רישום מורכב

File Number : 5707

Type of Material : Certification, Letter, Red Cross Letter, Postcard, Envelope, Biography, Personal Documents

Language : English, Swedish, German

Letters written by child survivors from the children’s home in Blakenese to Alex Kashtan in Eretz Israel between 1946-1947, and more

File Number : 1921

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Article, Diary, Letter

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Khaim Shneir (formerly Schneider), born in Kostopol in 1934, regarding his experiences in Poland, the Soviet Union, Germany in Israel in the 1930s and 1940s

Memoirs of Khaim Shneir (formerly Schneider), born in Kostopol in 1934, regarding his experiences in Poland, the Soviet Union, Germany in Israel in the 1930s and 1940s - Khaim Shneir’s memoirs, written as a supplement to the memoirs of his brother Michael Sheni "On the Path of Life. History of the Schneider Family". Michael Shani's memoirs were written in 2004 and Khaim Shneir’s additions were written in the first version in 2011 and the current version in 2018: The activity of their parents (members of the Communist Party) in the Soviet government in Kostopol in 1939-1941; escape from Kostopol in June...

File Number : 11519

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Michael Sheni and his brother Khaim Shneir (previously Michael and Haim Schneider), regarding their family’s experiences in the Soviet Union during the Holocaust

Memoirs of Michael Sheni and his brother Khaim Shneir (previously Michael and Haim Schneider), regarding their family’s experiences in the Soviet Union during the Holocaust - memoirs of Michael Sheni (formerly Michael Schneider), born in Kostopol in 1933, written in March 2004. Attached to the memoirs are obituaries for the witness's parents - Eliezer Schneider and his wife Kayla (Goldstein), and poems and articles from the Kibbutz Gan Shmuel newsletter. The memoirs include information about the history of the Schneider family in Poland, the Soviet Union, Germany and Israel: Childhood in Kostopol; life...

File Number : 11518

Type of Material : הספד, Poems/songs, Memoirs, Excerpt(s)

Language : Hebrew

The experiences of Ruth Tzedekoni in Beit Shafir in Germany, Theresienstadt, England and Israel, and a memoir in which her friends wrote in Theresienstadt, 1942-1945

The experiences of Ruth Tzedekoni in Beit Shafir in Germany, Theresienstadt, England and Israel, and a memoir in which her friends wrote in Theresienstadt, 1942-1945 - A biography of Ruth (Spier) Zitkoni, born in Berlin, 1927, written by her in the 1960s: Childhood in Berlin and Bamberg; stay in a boarding school (Jewish orphanage) in Paderborn, since 1934; deportation of boarding school children to Theresienstadt, June 1942; liberation, May 1945; stay in England; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946; marriage, 1955, and starting a family; - A memoir of Ruth Spier containing dedications, greetings and poems...

File Number : 11689

Type of Material : Letter, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Memoir Book, Personal Documents, Identity Card

Language : English, German

Letters sent by Jacob Bok from Berlin and from Poland to his granddaughter Marion Renzer and to his son Adolf in the United States, 1934 and 1939

Letters sent by Jacob Bok from Berlin and from Poland to his granddaughter Marion Renzer and to his son Adolf in the United States, 1934 and 1939 - Keepsake letters written to Marion Renzer by her mother, Frida Renzer, her grandfather, Jacob Bok, and her grandmother, Matilda Bok, in Berlin, August 1934; - Letter written by Jacob Bok in Falencia, to his son Adolf in the United States, 06 June 1939, asking that he obtain a visa to the United States for him. Comments of the submitter of the material: Miriam (Renzer) Shpielman was born in Berlin, 1923. After the events of Kristallnacht, the Jewish...

File Number : 4728

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

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