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Documentation regarding Yeshayahu Drucker, who administered an orphanage in Zabrze and was active in the removal of Jewish children from non-Jewish families after the war

Documentation regarding Yeshayahu Drucker, who administered an orphanage in Zabrze and was active in the removal of Jewish children from non-Jewish families after the war - Article written by William Liebner about Yeshayahu Drucker, who was active on behalf of the rehabilitation of Jewish life in Poland after the war, who dealt with the removal of Jewish children from non-Jewish families, and who administered an orphanage in Zabrze; - Memoirs of Batia (Eisenstein) Akselrad, born in Krosno, Poland, 1932, and David Danielski Danieli, born in Pszczyna, Poland, 1921, who lost their parents during the war and...

File Number : 8309

Type of Material : Article, Memoirs, Documentary

Language : English

Testimony of Benjamin Kaufman, born in Baiertal, Germany, 1930, regarding his experiences in Gurs, Rivesaltes, Switzerland and Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Benjamin Kaufman, born in Baiertal, Germany, 1930, regarding his experiences in Gurs, Rivesaltes, Switzerland and Israel His childhood. Deportation of his family to Gurs, France, 1940; life without his father for several months; transfer to Rivesaltes camp; smuggled by the O.Z. [?] to a children's institution along with other children; smuggled to other institutions; smuggled to Switzerland with several other children, 1943; life in children's institutions until his legal aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945. Life in Israel.

File Number : 13157

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Efraim Fritz Friedman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences in Berlin, Belgium, Alsace-Lorraine, Israel and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Efraim Fritz Friedman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences in Berlin, Belgium, Alsace-Lorraine, Israel and other places Death of his parents before the war; education in a Jewish orphanage in Berlin; move of relatives outside Germany. Kristallnacht; crosses the border of Belgium with his brother; concentration of the refugees from Germany on the French-Belgian border; German occupation of Belgium, 1940; transfer of the refugees to France by the authorities; camp life, in Gurs and Saint Cyprien camps; volunteers for labor; help from the Jewish Agency; organization of aliya...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Zawadzki, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, escape from the ghetto with the help of Irena Sandler (later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations) and using a false identity Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; draft of his father into the Polish Army; disappearance of his father in the Soviet Union; deportation to the small ghetto; ghetto life; assistance to Jewish refugees from Berlin; "Aktions"; remaining of corpses on the streets; finding a hiding place during the "Aktions"; lack of food; transfer to the large ghetto; escape from...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Katalin (Szabados) Halevi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1922, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Gyor, Landsberg, Tuerkheim and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Katalin (Szabados) Halevi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1922, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Gyor, Landsberg, Tuerkheim and other places Life in Budapest before the war; well-to-do Neolog family; witness attends a Jewish elementary school and the Jewish high school; studies in a commerce academy. Numerus clausus, 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions including ban on work in the free professions; curfew; transfer of her father to forced labor; disappearance of her father, 1944; deportation to labor of women who are 15-40 years old; transfer to a stadium; transfer on foot without food or water;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Collection of the Le-Ezrath Ha-Jeled (Le-Ezrat Ha-Yeled, Help to the Child) organization, the Netherlands, 1945-1964

Collection of the Le-Ezrath Ha-Jeled (Le-Ezrat Ha-Yeled, Help to the Child) organization, the Netherlands, 1945-1964 The Jewish non-profit organization, Le-Ezrath Ha-Jeled (Help to the Child), was established after the war with the aim of taking care of Jewish foster children; the children were hurled into a sensitive situation concerning their Judaism, being that many of them had lived in non-Jewish surroundings while in hiding places during the years of the occupation in the Netherlands; in order to restore the children's identity, the non-profit organization Le-Ezrath Ha-Jeled was active in placing the...

Type of Material : Reports, Letter, Statistical Reports, Legal Documentation, Survey, Document, List of Names, Correspondence, Survey Report

Language : English, Dutch

Testimony of Malka (Maievski) Gemara, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1937, regarding her experiences as a young child in a Jewish institution in Brussels and with a non-Jewish family in a village

Testimony

Testimony of Malka (Maievski) Gemara, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1937, regarding her experiences as a young child in a Jewish institution in Brussels and with a non-Jewish family in a village From a family of immigrants from Odessa; her father is active in the Jewish community in Brussels. Outbreak of the war; separation from her family, 1940; placed in a Jewish institution in Brussels; life in the institution; transfer to non-Jewish family in a village; fate of her family members, 1945. Move to a Youth Aliyah institution; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945; life in an Agudat Israel institution in Petah...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the treatment of Jewish children hidden by non-Jewish families in the Netherlands, 1945-2003

Documentation regarding the treatment of Jewish children who were hidden by non-Jewish families in the Netherlands, 1945-2003 - Underground activities of Menachem Pinkhof and his future wife, Mirjam (Waterman) Pinkhof, who found hiding places for Jewish children among the non-Jewish Dutch population; the struggle at the end of the war for jurisdiction over the "Oorlogspleegkinderen (Jewish children hidden by non-Jewish people)" in the Netherlands between the Jewish community and the Dutch establishment and between the Church and the non-Jewish families that had hidden the children. - "The Battle for the...

File Number : 18.1

Type of Material : Survey, Newspaper, Personal Documents, Sculpture, Article, Artifact(s)

Language : Hebrew, Dutch

Testimony of Viktor Getzel, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in hiding in Moissac, Taluyers, Toulouse and Barcelona

Testimony

Testimony of Viktor Getzel, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in hiding in Moissac, Taluyers, Toulouse and Barcelona Life before the war; move to Roanne. Outbreak of the war, 1939; German occupation; Vichy laws, 1942; life in hiding in a institution in Moissac; transfer to an institution in Taluyers; drafted to forced labor in accordance with the STO by the Vichy police, 1944; escape from the deportation train; in hiding in Toulouse; help from the JDC to move to Barcelona. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945; return to France, 1948; return aliya, 1970.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : French

Personal documentation of Chaim Szycher, born in Starokonstantynow, pertaining to his early education and higher education in Warsaw, 1925-1933

Personal documentation of Chaim Szycher, born in Starokonstantynow, pertaining to his early education and higher education in Warsaw, 1925-1933 - Membership card in the League for Working Eretz Israel issued for Chaim Szycher in Warsaw, 1933; - Student cards for a student in the Social and Political Science Faculty of the Wszechnica Polska (Polish Free University) issued for Chaim Szycher in Warsaw, 1927-1928; a grades registry notebook is attached to the cards; - List of courses for Chaim Szycher in the Institute of Jewish Wisdom in Warsaw, 1928-1929; - Card for a student in the Humanities Faculty...

File Number : 1020

Type of Material : Membership Cards, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English

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