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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

Registration card of the inmate Zoltán Kornhauser, born in 1923, interned in Hungary for being a Communist, sometime in 1940's [exact date is illegible]

Registration card of the inmate Zoltán Kornhauser, born in 1923, interned in Hungary for being a Communist, sometime in 1940's [exact date is illegible] Note of Rachel Fisher, the submitter of the material (sister of Zoltán Kornhauser), born in 1926: Their mother was Regina Bernáth, born in Targu Mures [?] Romania, 1904; ownership of a textile shop by their father, Joshua Josef Kornhauser, born in Targu Mures; move from Targu Mures to Cluj when Rachel is six years old [1932]; language spoken at home: Hungarian. Deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; death of their father; deportation of Zoltán to...

File Number : 486

Type of Material : Document

Language : Hungarian

Travel permit to Cernauti, given to Yolana Wais after her release from a labor camp in Siberia, 30 December 1946

Travel permit to Cernauti, given to Yolana Wais after her release from a labor camp in Siberia, 30 December 1946 Note: Yolana (Yehudit) Steiner, born in 1908, was married to Miklos Wais; they resided in Oradea, Transnistria; Miklos was a Communist; Yolana was pregnant when they escaped in the direction of the East, 1941; they were in detention in the Soviet Union in a prison in Moscow, for nine months; Yolana give birth to a baby daughter in prison, and the baby died due to lack of milk at the age of two weeks; Yolana and Miklos were sent to forced labor in Siberia; Miklos died of typhus after their...

File Number : 711

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : Russian

List of Communists from the Za Otechestvo partisans detachment active in the Logoysk district, 1941-1944

File Number : 3551

Type of Material : List of Partisans, List of Communists

Language : Russian

Testimony of Sam Katz, born in Tels, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, in Slobodka, in the Slobodka Ghetto, in Augsburg and in Stutthof

Testimony of Sam Katz, born in Tels, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, in Slobodka, in the Slobodka Ghetto, in Augsburg and in Stutthof Death of his mother when he was 8 years old; studies in a "heder" in Tels; family life; treatment by the local population; sympathy for the Communist Party; escape of his brother Chaim to the Soviet Union; detention of his brother Chaim in a camp for several years; emigration of his sister to Rhodesia; move to Slobodka due to his marriage to Masha Mishkovski, 1935; birth of his son, Yakov, 1937; death of his father, February 1939; work as a...

Type of Material : Interview(s)

Language : English

Testimony of Sam Katz, born in Tels, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in hiding in the Slobodka Ghetto, in the Stutthof area and in the Augsburg camp

Testimony of Sam Katz, born in Tels, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in hiding in the Slobodka Ghetto; the Stutthof area and the Augsburg camp Life before the war; death of his mother when he was 8 years old; learns in a "heder"; affinity towards the Communist movement; escape of his brother Chaim to the Soviet Union; deportation of his brother to a camp; move to Slobodka following his marriage to Masha Mishkovski, 1935; life in Slobodka; birth of his son, Yakov, 1937, death of his father, February, 1939. The Soviet occupation; labor as a watchmaker; his appointment as a Commisar; fleeing of the Red...

File Number : 8505

Type of Material : Interview(s)

Language : English

Memoirs of Yisrael Goldhar, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences and those of his family in Warsaw before the war and letters he received in Arkhangelsk, Soviet Union, from his father and his sister Guta in Warsaw, 11 October 1940-10 March 1941 Part 1 - Family history: Diagram of the family home and of the surrounding area, on 33 Mila St., Warsaw; attitude of the neighbors; Yom Kippur and Pesach; Moshe Goldhar, the father who perished and his family; the family of his mother, Chana Hilsberg, who perished; the sisters, Guta, born in 1899, who perished in the Warsaw Ghetto; Sala, born in...

File Number : 8485

Type of Material : Memoirs, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Postcards sent by Mojsze and Frida Lejzerowicz from the Lodz Ghetto to their son Adam Abraham in Revda, the Soviet Union, 1940-1941

Postcards sent by Mojsze and Frida Lejzerowicz from the Lodz Ghetto to their son Adam Abraham in Revda, the Soviet Union, 1940-1941 Note: - Adam Abraham Lejzerowicz was born in Lodz, Poland, 03 February 1920; he worked, at first, in construction carpentry for the Germans, 1939; he received a travel permit to the Soviet Union from the German commander in Lodz, late 1939; his father Mojsze Lejzerowicz refused to leave [Poland], lest he would not find work; Adam moved to the Soviet Union along with his younger brother Shmuel; - Chana (Sosnowski) Lejzerowicz was born in Kutno; her father died when Chana...

File Number : 1852

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Polish, German

Personal and official documentation of Judyta Finkel, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1938, and her family, 1940 - 1950

Personal and official documentation of Judyta Finkel, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1938, and her family, 1940 - 1950 Judyta Finkel: death of her father Mosze Dawid Finkel, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1905, from typhus in the Warsaw Ghetto, 30 June 1942; escape with the mother Chaja Helena Grynberg, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1912, from the Warsaw Ghetto to Mlociny, 17 April 1943; in hiding until the Warsaw Polish Uprising, 1944; move to Pruszkow with forged documents; move to a village in the Krakow area; life with an assumed identity until the end of the war; move with her mother to Warsaw; move to a children's home in...

File Number : 1164

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents, Death Certificate, Vouchers, Poster, Telegram, Memoir Book, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Memoirs of Avri Avraham Davidovich Sela, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Presov and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940

Memoirs of Avri Avraham Davidovich Sela, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Presov and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940 Life before the war. Life in Presov, 1938-1940. Aliya to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliyah, 04 April 1940. The memoirs include excerpts from a letter of testimony written by the witness' sister, Ahuva Davidovich, 1982.

File Number : 8341

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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