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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documents of Lina Van Straten and an affidavit by the Dutch Red Cross regarding the fate of Daniel Hes and his family members, 1939-1946

Personal documents of Lina Van Straten and an affidavit by the Dutch Red Cross regarding the fate of Daniel Hes and his family members, 1939-1946 - Red Cross letter sent by the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem to the Jewish Council in Amsterdam, with a request to inform Lina Van Straten and her family members that their names appear on the 6th Veteran Zionists list, 25 January 1944, and they are therefore included on the list of people intended for aliya to Eretz Israel in the context of the exchange agreements; - Certification regarding the deportation of Lina Van Straten on the transport departing, 15 March...

File Number : 143

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Diploma, Letter, Red Cross Letter, Personal Records

Language : English, Dutch, German

Personal documentation of the Jewish physician Lev Kulik, born in Grodno, Poland, 1908, including details about his activities as a partisan in the Minsk Ghetto and the circumstances surrounding his murder by the Gestapo on 10 December 1942 The file includes confirmation from the National Archives of Belorussia regarding Kulik's activities in the underground while serving as the head physician of the hospital in the Minsk Ghetto, 1941-1942, and a newspaper article of Kulik's acts of heroism published, 30 October 2010.

File Number : 1363

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Certification, Record of Murdered Persons, Official Documentation

Language : Russian

Postcard written by Jeanne Weil Ulhman from the Rothschild Jewish hospital in Paris to her son Etienne Bertrand Weil in Grenoble, 03 February 1943

File Number : 1773

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : French

Testimony of Irena Yocheved Gafner née Peskowska, born in Łódź in 1923, about her experiences in the Łódź ghetto and in the Bergen-Belsen, Auschwitz, and Salzweden camps until April 1945

Offspring of an affluent family in Łódź; attends a Jewish Zionist school; war breaks out; home expropriated; witness captured in the street and assigned to cleaning work; sent to the ghetto; mother works at the ghetto offices; father runs a cooking station; witness goes to school in Marysin; embroidery workshop; father captured in an Aktion in 1942; a doctor helps the witness find shelter in a hospital; selection by Hans Biebow; brother and father die in the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; transferred to Bergen-Belsen in October 1944; works in a munitions plant at the Salzwedel camp until April...

File Number : 13520

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Arie Eliash, born in Negresti, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences in Negresti, the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buna-Monowitz, Buchenwald and other places

Memoirs of Arie Eliash, born in Negresti, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences in Negresti, the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buna-Monowitz, Buchenwald and other places Life with his parents in Negresti; traditional family; good financial situation; attends a local school and a Jewish school; life under fascist Romanian rule including incitements. Hungarian occupation; harassment of the Jews; visit of an emissary from Poland to the synagogue; information regarding the murder of the Jews of Poland from the emissary; German occupation; refusal to escape to a hiding place in the forest; nationalization of...

File Number : 8242

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara (Khazanov) Kirchner, born in Iwaniki, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Iwaniki, Pinsk, in the Red Army, Gorki and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Sara (Khazanov) Kirchner, born in Iwaniki, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Iwaniki, Pinsk, in the Red Army, Gorki and other places Red Army occupation of Iwaniki, 1939; life under Soviet rule, 1940; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 1941; her family's escape to Pinsk; her family's return; joins a group in preparation for an escape to the border of the Soviet Union; opening of a passage to the city of Lenin, 1941; evacuation of the witness [and others] by the retreating Red Army into territories of the Soviet Union; draft into the Red Army as a nurse in a field...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gershon Shapiro, born in Lodz, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto, HASAG Czestochowa and in Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Gershon Shapiro, born in Lodz, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto, HASAG Czestochowa and in Germany His childhood in a traditional, Zionist family. German Army occupation of Lodz, September 1939; escape to Warsaw; return to Lodz; life in Lodz including decrees and restrictions; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, 1940; Lodz Ghetto life including activities by Rumkowski, the head of the Judenrat; "Sperre", curfew "Aktion", 1942; labor in the hospital; deportation to HASAG Czestochowa camp, January 1944; camp life including labor in a weapons factory; liberation by the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomi Yehuda (Deutsch), born in 1925 in Košice, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Košice, Auschwitz, Wolfsberg; a death march, and Ebensee

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomi Yehuda (Deutsch), born in 1925 in Košice, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Košice, Auschwitz, Wolfsberg; a death march, and Ebensee Hungarian rule in 1939; Betar movement in Košice and Mukacevo; aiding refugees from Poland and Slovakia; brother is conscripted into labor service; German occupation ensues in 1944; roundup at a brick factory; placing valuables in hiding with a non-Jew; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in May 1944; assignment to infrastructure work in Wolfsberg, Silesia, in May 1944; bartering bread for eyeglasses; flogged for wear-and-tear on shoes; death march to...

File Number : 13393

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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