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Letter of appointment of Rabbi Mendel Schaechter as the rabbi of the Ósándorfalva community, and certifications regarding his work as the rabbi of Ósándorfalva, 1941-1944

Letter of appointment of Rabbi Mendel Schaechter as the rabbi of the Ósándorfalva community, and certifications regarding his work as the rabbi of Ósándorfalva, 1941-1944 - Letter of appointment of Rabbi Menachem Schaechter as the rabbi of the Ósándorfalva community, signed by the heads of the households of the Ósándorfalva community, April 1941; - Certification issued by the Orthodox community of Ósándorfalva that Rabbi Mendel Schaechter (born in Bustyaháza, 24 February 1920) is serving as the rabbi of the community, 05 May 1943; the certification was issued and signed by the heads of the community and...

File Number : 488

Type of Material : Certification, Personal Records, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Memoirs of Roza (Segal) Romascanu, born in Lespezi, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences and those of her family in Lespezi, Pascani, Falticeni, Botosani and Communist Romania

Memoirs of Roza (Segal) Romascanu, born in Lespezi, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences and those of her family in Lespezi, Pascani, Falticeni, Botosani and Communist Romania Life at home; the Jewish community in Lespezi before the war; displays of antisemitism among the neighbors. Outbreak of the war; deportation of the Jewish men to an unknown place, among them, Roza's father, Shmuel Segal; deportation of Roza with her mother Rachel, her sisters, Mitza and Sophie along with the rest of the Jews from the village, to Pascani; transfer of the family to Falticeni two months later; release of her...

File Number : 8637

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Photographs and drawings of synagogues and property belonging to Jewish communities in various cities in Bavaria

Photographs and drawings of synagogues and property belonging to Jewish communities in various cities in Bavaria The material was collected for the book "Der 10 November 1938" (The 10th of November, 1938) by Shimon Brueckheimer. Also in file: - Two wimpels (decorated strips of cloth for wrapping the Sefer Torah, which it was customary for parents to prepare and dedicate to the synagogue upon the birth of a son); one is from the 1800's and one is from the early 1900's.

File Number : 7

Photographs and drawings of property belonging to the Jewish communities in Germany

Photographs and drawings of property belonging to the Jewish communities in Germany The material relates to the following cities: Luebeck, Leipzig, Berlin, Ludwigshafen, Hechingen, Krefeld, Gailingen, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne, Bielefeld, Alsbach, Darmstadt, Limburg, Frankfurt, Michelstadt, Zoppot, Aachen, Worms, Eberswalde, Ladenburg, Mannheim, Danzig, Baden-Baden, Kiel, Neustadt/Saale, Koenigsberg, Offenbach, Essen, Rhina, Heidelberg, Laudenbach and Kuelsheim.

File Number : 9

Testimony of Joseph Bekhor, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia in 1927, regarding his life in Pristina, Albania, in Bergen-Belsen, and on the lost train

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Bekhor, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia in 1927, regarding his life in Pristina, Albania, in Bergen-Belsen, and on the lost train Childhood and youth in Pristina; Jews’ life and livelihood; German occupation in April 1941 and transfer of control to Italian army; exile of the men to Berat camp, Albania; life in Albania until Germans entered in late 1943; return home following a false message that Pristina had been liberated; arrest by SS men from the Skanderbeg units (which were established with the encouragement of Hajj Amin al-Husseini, mufti of Jerusalem – note M. A.); deportation to...

File Number : 13754

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Abramovitz, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia in 1929, regarding his experiences in Sajmište, Albania; Bergen-Belsen; and the “lost train”

Testimony of Aharon Abramovitz, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia in 1929, regarding his experiences in Sajmište, Albania; Bergen-Belsen; and the “lost train” Childhood in Pristina; life in the Jewish community; his mother’s death; moving to Zagreb to live with relatives; outbreak of war in April 1941; expulsion of foreign residents from Croatia; return to Pristina; entry of Germans and transfer of regime to Italian army; his father’s death; supporting himself; move to Berat, Albania, where the Jews of Pristina were exiled; entry of Germans in September 1943; return to Pristina; arrest by Germans and Muslim 21st...

File Number : 13730

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mia (Ordinon) Beili, born in Cernauti, Romania in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto and on the Aryan side

Testimony of Mia (Ordinon) Beili, born in Cernauti, Romania in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto and on the Aryan side Life before the war; assimilated, Zionist family; Deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; Cernauti Ghetto life including overcrowding; smuggled from the ghetto with her parents and taken to the smuggler's home; life on the Aryan side; retreat by the Germans; liberation by the Red Army; Move to Brasov with help from the Jewish community; she attends a Jewish school; attempt to make illegal aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Pan York" ship; detention in Cyprus;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation including statistical data regarding the size of the Jewish population in various places in the Warsaw and Lublin regions before the outbreak of the war, the number of refugees who arrived to Warsaw and Lublin during the war, and the circumstances concerning the extermination of the local Jewish communities

File Number : 313.1

Type of Material : Appendices, Map, Statistical Data

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Personal documentation of Elias Aizic Rohrlich, born in Dohoroi, Romania, 1927, March 1941-February 1950

Personal documentation of Elias Aizic Rohrlich, born in Dohoroi, Romania, 1927, March 1941-February 1950 - Certificate of citizenship issued to Leizer Rorlih, 07 March 1941; - Certificate of citizenship issued to Elias Aizic Rorlih, 19 February 1942; - Receipt for payment of registration fee at the Liceul Teoretic Evreesc (Jewish Academic High School) for Elias Rohrlich in Dorohoi, 28 May 1943; - Letter from the Governor of Dorohoi to Sura Kailer Rohrlich authorizing her exemption from the yellow badge, 12 June 1943; the exemption was approved after a meeting with the governor; - Instructions...

File Number : 314

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Certification, Official Documentation

Language : Romanian, German

Review of Jewish life in Debrecen, Kassa, Losonc, Mezokovesd, Nagyszollos, Sarretudvari, Szeged and Torokszentmiklos during the war

File Number : 26

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Hungarian

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