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Letter by Red Army soldier Efim Pasternak, born in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, 1921, sent to his parents on Victory Day in Koenigsberg

Letter by Red Army soldier Efim Pasternak, born in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, 1921, sent to his parents on Victory Day in Koenigsberg Note by the submitter of the material, Karina Pasternak: Move of Efim with his parents, Dr. Aleksander Pasternak, born in 1891, and Lisa (Feigman) Pasternak, born in 1895, to Moscow in 1936; after the completion of his school studies, Efim began to study aircraft industry studies; draft of Efim into the Red Army after the outbreak of the war, and his service as a telegraphist at the front in Belorussia; return of Efim to Moscow at the end of the war, and his acceptance to medical...

File Number : 1818

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English, Russian

Diary of Sara Elkes, daughter of Elchanan Elkes, head of the Judenrat in the Kaunas Ghetto, 1935-1937

Diary of Sara Elkes, daughter of Elchanan Elkes, head of the Judenrat in the Kaunas Ghetto, 1935-1937 Included in the file: - Letters, 1941-1950; - Fitness for work certificate issued to a 17-year old youth by Dr. Elkes in the hospital in Kaunas, 11 May 1940.

File Number : 101

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents, Diary

Language : Lithuanian, Hebrew, English

Circular sent by the chairman of the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) in Brandenburg to the heads of the association's branches, regarding various antisemitic decrees in Brandenburg and documentation regarding the antisemitic decrees, 19/12/1933-06/02/1934 - Circular sent by the chairman of the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV in Brandenburg to the heads of the association's branches, regarding new antisemitic regulations in various cities of Brandenburg, including the dismissal of professionals from professional associations, the...

File Number : JM/28883

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Circular, Bibliography

Language : French, German

Testimony

Testimony of Chava Eva (Hofman) Gesheid, born in Nagykanizsa, Hungary, 1930, regarding her experiences in Nagykanizsa, the Nagykanizsa Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Grusenberg, on a death march and in other places German Army occupation [of Nagykanizsa], 1944; deportation to the [Nagykanizsa] Ghetto, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944; transfer to Grusenberg, 1944; camp life including forced labor in industry and in an ammunitions factory; death march; liberation by the US Army in the Erfurt area, 1945. Return to Hungary, 1945; life in Budapest including aliya training with Hanoar Hatzioni, 1946;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter sent to his family members by Red Army physician Boris Tziprin from a military hospital near Smolensk, January 1942, one month before he was killed in action at the front

Letter sent to his family members by Red Army physician Boris Tziprin from a military hospital near Smolensk, January 1942, one month before he was killed in action at the front Names of Tziprin family members who perished in Pikov: Isaak Tziprin, born in 1905; Fanya Tziprin, born in 1909; Anna Tziprin, who was 5 years old; Bella Tziprin, who was one year old.

File Number : 1694

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Documentation regarding Nikolay Nikitin Shteingart, partisan battalion commander in Belorussia, including newspaper clippings mentioning his story, memoirs and letters of persons who fought under his command Escape from the city to Tashkent, at the age of 13, together with a friend, detention en route by policemen; transfer to a home for children; decision to take on the family name Nikitin so people would think that his friend is his brother and they would not separate between them. Included in the file: - History of fighters in his battalion; - Letters he sent from Magadan to his family, 1948,...

File Number : 362

Type of Material : Letter, Newspaper Clippings, Certification, Memoirs, Letter of Testimony, Documentary

Language : Belarusian, Russian

Documentation regarding the Stadler family including letters and postcards, school certificates and a medical document for Anita (Stadler) Shapiro, 1939-1946

Documentation regarding the Stadler family including letters and postcards, school certificates and a medical document for Anita (Stadler) Shapiro, 1939-1946 - Postcards written by Anita (Stadler) Shapiro in Samarkand, to her father, Dr. Karl Stadler, serving as a physician in the Polish Army; - Postcards received by Anita (Stadler) Shapiro from her female friends in Lodz, 1946; - Letter received by Dr. Karl Stadler from his Army friends, 1945; - School diplomas; - Medical document belonging to Anita Shapiro, 21 January 1939; Note: Anita (Stadler) Shapiro was born in Warsaw, September...

File Number : 1542

Type of Material : Personal Records, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Testimony of Sergei Shmil Weinstein, born in Ukraine, 1927, regarding his experiences in Mogilev, Transnistria, the Red Army and Cernauti

Testimony

Testimony of Sergei Shmil Weinstein, born in Ukraine, 1927, regarding his experiences in Mogilev, Transnistria, the Red Army and Cernauti His parents' home; move to Mogilev; attends a public school, including experiencing antisemitism. Call to leave the city due to impending battles, July 1941; escape; move back home; handing over of Transnistria to Romania; anti-Jewish decrees; arrival of refugees from Bessarabia; establishment of the Mogilev Ghetto, 1942; Mogilev Ghetto life including mortality, air-raids and forced labor; initiation of extra labor in order to add to their livelihood; order by Antonescu...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of the Jewish physicians and healthcare workers in the Pinsk Ghetto, 1942-1943

File Number : 993

Type of Material : List of Healthcare Workers, List of Jewish Physicians

Language : German

List of physicians from Kremenchug who were murdered, 12/1941

File Number : 1191

Type of Material : List of Murdered Persons, List of Jewish Physicians

Language : Russian

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