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Letter by M. Nadel, regarding the fate of Jewish culture in the Soviet Union

File Number : 63

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Letter from Avraam Glezer and Yankel Shvartsman in Vilna regarding the importance of Jewish culture in the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin

Letter from Avraam Glezer and Yankel Shvartsman in Vilna regarding the importance of Jewish culture in the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin Glezer and Shvartsman do not agree with Stalin's definition of the term "People", and claim that the Jews of the Soviet Union are a "People" with a culture and a language of its own; they request that Ehrenburg relate to this matter and write about it.

File Number : 35

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Yiddish

O.20 - Max Lowenthal Collection: Department for Jewish Restitution in Germany, Headquarters of the US Forces, US Occupation Zone in Germany, January-April 1947

O.20 - Max Lowenthal Collection: Department for Jewish Restitution in Germany, Headquarters of the US Forces, US Occupation Zone in Germany, January-April 1947 Postwar documentation regarding the restitution of Jewish cultural property looted during World War II; in the US Occupation Zone in Germany. Documentation regarding the incorporation of the Jewish Restitution Commission.

File Number : 23

Type of Material : Document(s), Telegram, Draft, Letter(s), Correspondence, Official Documentation

Testimony of Bezalel Zalik Katz, born in the Soviet Union, 1924, regarding his experiences in Kiev and Kizlyar

Testimony

Testimony of Bezalel Zalik Katz, born in the Soviet Union, 1924, regarding his experiences in Kiev and Kizlyar Studies in an art college in Kiev before the outbreak of the war. Escape to the north of Caucasus at the outbreak of the war; life in Kizlyar until 1942; draft [into the Red Army] at the front, May 1942; release [from the military], 1943 [1945?]; murder of his family at Babi Yar. Works of art by Bezalel Katz and by Elia Leib Katz and Malka, Sofia and Raisa Katz were accepted by the art committee of Yad Vashem, 2009.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Joseph Szames, born in Ludwipol, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Ludwipol Ghetto and in hiding in a forest

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Szames, born in Ludwipol, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Ludwipol Ghetto and in hiding in a forest From a well-to-do family; attends a Tarbut school; Bnei Akiva and Bnei Yehuda activities. Outbreak of the war; occupation by the Red Army; limitations on Jewish property; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Ludwipol Ghetto; Judenrat; preparation of a hiding place in a cellar; "Aktion"; liquidation of the ghetto; murder of his father and mother; escape to a forest and preparation of a bunker (for approximately 11 people) in the forest; obtaining food from villagers...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana (Veinberger) Kohn, born in Holesov, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Holesov and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana (Veinberger) Kohn, born in Holesov, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Holesov and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939 Life before the war; activities in the Maccabi Hatzair movement; aliya training. Robbery of jewelry by SS men while on a train; aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Galilea" ship, July 1939; correspondence with her parents with help from the Red Cross organization; receives knowledge regarding the implementation of anti-Jewish restrictions; receives knowledge regarding the deportation of her parents to Theresienstadt, 1941; receives knowledge regarding her...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Sanderovitz Zur, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Siauliai Ghetto and in hiding in a forest

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Sanderovitz Zur, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Siauliai Ghetto and in hiding in a forest Life in Siauliai before the war; from a Zionist family; attends a Jewish elementary school and a Jewish high school; Hashomer Hatzair activities; his sister’s aliya to Eretz Israel, 1936. Soviet occupation, 1940; closing of Jewish institutions; deportation of well-to-do people to Siberia; establishment of a Zionist underground; nationalization of Jewish enterprises; appointment as manager of a company; verbal antisemitism on the part of the Lithuanians; German...

File Number : 12831

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Collective testimony of Tova (Movshovitz) Drut, born in Vilna, (Lithuania) Poland, 1936, and Moshe Bloch, born in Vilna, (Lithuania) Poland, 1937, regarding their experiences as young children in the Vilna Ghetto and outside the ghetto using a false identity German occupation, June 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; ghetto life; Tova's performances for the Germans as a wonder child; liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto, September 1943; deportation of the family to HKP in Vilna; camp life; Tova is smuggled to the Aryan side in a sack by her uncle; Tova is hidden in the home of a non-Jewish woman; life using a...

File Number : 12921

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Collection of the Van Leer Stichting (Van Leer Institute) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1941-1959

Collection of the Van Leer Stichting (Van Leer Institute) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1941-1959 The Van Leer Stichting (Van Leer Institute) was established in 1941 following anti-Jewish legislation in the Netherlands; financing of the institute came from the dissolution of the factory of B. van Leer, a Jewish industrialist who emigrated from the Netherlands to the United States; the anti-Jewish legislation, whose implementation in the Netherlands was appointed to H. A. Rauter, isolated the Jews from the cultural life in the Netherlands as of 15/09/1941; the Van Leer Institute provided a response, on one...

Type of Material : Reports, Correspondence, Announcement, Financial Accounts, Protocol, Notebook

Language : Dutch

Three programs from concerts that were held in Lodz and Warsaw, 1932-1936

File Number : 1063

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : Polish, Yiddish

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