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Research project written by Bella Haber, born in Horodenka, Poland, 1899, in the Chemistry Department of the University of Lwow, 1925-1926

Research project written by Bella Haber, born in Horodenka, Poland, 1899, in the Chemistry Department of the University of Lwow, 1925-1926 The research study was edited and republished by her daughter, Lili Chuwis-Thau, Haifa, 2008; - Attached is a review of Bella Haber's experiences: Childhood in Horodenka; childhood in Kolomea; studies at the University of Lwow; marriage; hiding of her daughter from the Germans during a large "Aktion", August 1942; capture by the Germans during an "Aktion"; death of Bella.

File Number : 1225

Type of Material : Research Article, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Research by Ayala Hinda (Cytrynbaum) Gal-Or, regarding the experiences during 1939-1966, of her parents, Tzvi and Jehudit Idel (Milgrom) Cytrynbaum, who were born in Deblin Modrzyce, Poland, 1914

Research by Ayala Hinda (Cytrynbaum) Gal-Or, regarding the experiences during 1939-1966, of her parents, Tzvi and Jehudit Idel (Milgrom) Cytrynbaum, who were born in Deblin Modrzyce, Poland, 1914 Introduction, including her family's background; chapter titled: Historical survey regarding Poland and its Jewish residents; map describing a route used by Jews during their escape from occupied Poland, 1939, including a notation of significant dates; survey regarding the life of Jews in Deblin-Modrzyce before the Holocaust, including photographs; Jehudit's memories of her childhood; survey regarding the events in...

File Number : 1262

Type of Material : Document, Poems/songs, Survey Report

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

Testimony of Nehama May Margolin Alsace, born in Voorburg, the Netherlands, 1941, regarding her hiding place with a Dutch family in The Hague during the war

Testimony of Nehama May Margolin Alsace, born in Voorburg, the Netherlands, 1941, regarding her hiding place with a Dutch family in The Hague during the war Childhood in a religious family; her father's work in a parchment paper factory; parental acquaintance with Borculo; her mother's origin is Hague; move of her family to the suburb of Hague, to Voorburg. German occupation, 1940; birth of the witness, April 1941; deportation of Jewish men, 1942; decision on immigration to South America; obtaining documents for immigration; witness disease in kidney disease; cancellation of immigration plans; giving the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Memoirs of Kalman Mnuskin, born in Zetel, Poland, and his cousin, Miriam (Mnuskin) Noi, born in Zetel, Poland, 1941, regarding their experiences in hiding in the Zetel Ghetto and the Puszcza Bialowieska forest - "About Zetel During World War II", memoirs of Kalman Mnuskin (cousin of Miriam [Mnuskin] Noi): Life in Zetel during the German occupation; preparation of hiding places in the Zetel Ghetto by the Mnuskin brothers, Shmuel (Mulka) and Shleimka; escape to his uncle's hiding place; escape to the Puszcza Bialowieska forest. - Memoirs of Miriam (Mnuskin) Noi: Life in hiding in the Zetel Ghetto;...

File Number : 8553

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Lejser Matz during the Holocaust

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Lejser Matz during the Holocaust Lejser Matz, born in Vilna, Poland, 1929: Deportation to the Vilna Ghetto with his family, July 1942; his parents, one brother and two sisters were shot in his presence; transfer to the Ponary labor camp; transfer to Tallinn, Estonia, October 1943; forced labor; transfer to Buchenwald (Germany); liberation in Buchenwald by the US Army. Arrival at the Wolfratshausen DP camp, 12 November 1945.

File Number : 51

Type of Material : Record of Survivors, Record of Deportees, Questionnaire

Language : English

Testimony of Huta Ruthi Jervi Hagag, born in Zaouia, Libya, regarding her experiences in Zaouia

Testimony of Huta Ruthi Jervi Hagag, born in Zaouia, Libya, regarding her experiences in Zaouia Childhood in Zaouia; her father is a tinsmith and sells haberdashery; religion and belief; father's visits to a synagogue; partnership relationships with local population. Her brothers' studies in a Jewish school; stay in Zaouia during the war. The end of the war; riots in the town, 1945; murder of her brother; injury of her sister; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948. * Year of birth of the witness is unknown; a story about the murder of her brother and the injury of her sister can refer to the war period.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Arabic

Testimony of Prof. David Jakoby Jakobowitz, born in Antwerpen, Belgium, 1928, regarding his experiences in Antwerp, Lyon, Geneva, Adliswil and Celerina

Testimony of Prof. David Jakoby Jakobowitz, born in Antwerpen, Belgium, 1928, regarding his experiences in Antwerp, Lyon, Geneva, Adliswil and Celerina Childhood in Antwerp; his father is a partner of a diamond company; studies at a Jewish elementary school for boys “Jashobeam”. German occupation, 10.05.1940; escape with his family on a train to France; German occupation; back home to the hometown; studies in a French public high school; yellow badges; restrictions; cancellation of food tickets for Jews; beginning of the deportation of the city's Jews to Poland, autumn of 1942; escape with his family by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Article by the poet, Second Lieutenant Yuriy Levitanskiy, published in a Soviet newspaper, regarding crimes of the Romanians in the Odessa Region

Article by the poet, Second Lieutenant Yuriy Levitanskiy, published in a Soviet newspaper, regarding crimes of the Romanians in the Odessa Region The name of the article is "Rumynskiye Shakaly" (The Romanian Jackals): Orphanage in the village of Bogdanovka where 300 orphaned children lived and were educated; arrival there of a Romanian officer who checked the list and took the Jewish children and the members of the families of the Soviet activists to the site where they were murdered; in the villages near Odessa the Romanians gathered children and took blood from them for the Romanian Army; some of the...

File Number : 285

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : Russian

Testimony of a Jewish girl regarding the early days of the occupation of Bialystok, mass murders of Jews and her trip to Bielsko and back to the Bialystok Ghetto with her family

Testimony of a Jewish girl regarding the early days of the occupation of Bialystok, mass murders of Jews and her trip to Bielsko and back to the Bialystok Ghetto with her family Memories of an unknown eight year old Jewish girl after the German occupation of Bialystok in June 1941; mass arrests of Jewish men; release of her father from detention; entry of the Germans into the courtyard of their building a short time afterwards; taking of the men by the Germans and random shooting of whomever they found in the building; taking of her baby sister and her sibling(s) by the writer and escaping to her...

File Number : 233

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish

Letter from M. L. Kron from Siauliai to Ilya Ehrenburg requesting that he investigate what happened to the children deported from Siauliai to Auschwitz, 05 November 1943

Letter from M. L. Kron from Siauliai to Ilya Ehrenburg requesting that he investigate what happened to the children deported from Siauliai to Auschwitz, 05 November 1943 M. L. Kron relates that when the adults left the Siauliai camp for forced labor on 05 November 1943, the children and elderly Jews were taken to the railroad station and from there they were transferred to Tauroge; the elderly and handicapped children were murdered in the forest approximately nine kilometers from Tauroge; the rest of the children were sent to Auschwitz; Kron claims that according to rumors, the children remained alive until...

File Number : 118

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, List of Jewish Children

Language : Russian

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