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Testimony of Miriam Marila Liber Prague née Kostin, born in 1921 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, in Hungary, with the partisans in Yugoslavia, and as a forced laborer in Germany

Life before the war; German occupation ensues; dispossession; deportation to the Warsaw ghetto; life in the ghetto; escaping to the "Aryan" side with help of forged papers; marrying; escaping to Lwów; escaping back to Warsaw; escaping to Hungary; receiving privileges from the Polish Consulate; escaping to Yugoslavia; joining the partisans in March 1944; sabotaging a railroad track; arrested by the Germans and taken to Germany; working in a factory that manufactures spare parts for tanks; posing as a Croat; receiving extra privileges; liberated by American forces; reaching Buchenwald; encountering Holocaust...

File Number : 13612

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters from Solomon Heller in Odessa to his son-in-law Garold Wimmer in Siberia , September 1941

Letters from Solomon Heller in Odessa to his son-in-law Garold Wimmer in Siberia , September 1941 Expression of concern regarding the fate of his daughter Emilia who was deported from Odessa to the East, September 1941. Comments from the submitter of the material regarding the experiences of Solomon Heller, born in Odessa, Ukraine, 1895: - Employed as a violinist for the Odessa opera orchestra; - Remained in Odessa after the outbreak of the war in 1941, not concerned about the Germans; - Disappearance after being taken from his home with his violin by the Germans.

File Number : 1932

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Letters and postcards sent to Miklós Sonnenfeld from his parents in the Szombathely Ghetto, 1944, letters from Miklós Sonnenfeld to his brother Pál Sonnenfeld who was a POW in the Soviet Union, 1946-1947, and personal certificates belonging to Miklós Sonnenfeld before the war and the period following the war First letter from parents Izabella (Stadler) and Móricz Ferenc Sonnenfeld in Szombathely to their son Miklós Sonnenfeld, serving in a Hungarian Army labor battalion, relating that they are well and they are still living in their home, 24 April 1944; - Letters and postcards sent to Miklós Sonnenfeld...

File Number : 1928

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Interview(s), Personal Documents, Postcard, Letter, Official Documentation

Language : English, Russian, Hungarian

Letter sent by Hirsz and Bronka Weinfeld from Krakow to Hirsz' sister Shoshana Ruzia Ashkenazi in Eretz Israel, 07/03/1940

Letter sent by Hirsz and Bronka Weinfeld from Krakow to Hirsz' sister Shoshana Ruzia Ashkenazi in Eretz Israel, 07/03/1940 Included in the file: - Greetings from Irka Orbach to a girlfriend (her name is not indicated), 03/06/1939; - Plans for performances by young musicians (Wilhelm Mantel, among them) in Krakow, 19/05/1937 and 07/11/1937; - Invitation to a concert of the Young Musicians Association, 05/04/1936; Note: Hirsz Weinfeld perished in Mauthausen camp; Bronka Weinfeld perished in Bergen-Belsen camp; Irka Orbach perished in Plaszow camp.

File Number : 1839

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Letter

Language : Polish, German

Testimony of Moshe Zagorski, born in 1927 in Wadowice, Poland, about being sent to the Groeditz, Faulbrück, and Gunzlau camps for forced labor, death march, and additional camps

Offspring of a well-to-do family; war breaks out in September 1939; escaping to relatives in Kraków; back to Wadowice; forced labor in Wadowice; deportation to Annaberg in autumn 1940 for forced labor; finds an uncle in the camp; transfer to Groeditz and life at a flour mill; cultural life in the camp; construction work in Faulbrück and separation from uncle; transferred to the Bunzlu camp apparently in summer 1942; Bunzlau becomes a concentration camp and assignment to young peole's block in May 1944; death march to Dora Mittelbau in February 1945 and several days in the camp; taken to Ellrich satellite camp;...

File Number : 13440

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Bracha (Grosberger) Socher, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928, regarding her experiences in Budapest, on the Kasztner train, in Bergen-Belsen camp and in Switzerland

Memoirs of Bracha (Grosberger) Socher, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928, regarding her experiences in Budapest, on the Kasztner train, in Bergen-Belsen camp and in Switzerland Life in Budapest, until June 1944. Life on the Kasztner train; Bergen-Belsen camp life; transfer to Switzerland .

File Number : 8234

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Collection of articles regarding art and medicine in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, including poems written by inmates in the ghetto, undated

Collection of articles regarding art and medicine in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, including poems written by inmates in the ghetto, undated - Article by Vilem Weber, regarding the fate of Jewish poetess Ilse Weber, who was an inmate in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, and perished, 1944. Including in the file are the names of the following poets: Ilse Weber; Kurt Kapper; Arnost Weisz; Alena Synkova; Dagmar Hilarova.

File Number : 467

Type of Material : Poem/song, Article

Language : Czech, German

Testimony of Inga (Weissler) Sinigaelia, born in Danzig, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in Danzig, Beuthen, Cardiff and London

Testimony of Inga (Weissler) Sinigaelia, born in Danzig, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in Danzig, Beuthen, Cardiff and London Her father's position as a physician; receives information concerning the murder of her father in Danzig by the Germans, 1933; her mother's remarriage; move to Beuthen with her mother, 1934; emigration to Cardiff, England with help from the Jewish community, 1936; help to Jewish refugees, 1936-1939. Outbreak of the war; air-raids on Cardiff, 1939-1940; move with other children to a village for two weeks. Life in London after the war; travels to Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Music written by the Frand Klezmorim from Dubiecko

Music written by the Frand Klezmorim from Dubiecko In the file there is also information regarding the family, a letter and more.

File Number : 234

Type of Material : List of Jews

Language : English

List of workers in cultural and art institutions from the Bialystok region, 1940

File Number : 3070

Type of Material : List of Workers in Cultural and Artistic Institutions

Language : Russian

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