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Red Cross letters sent by Eduard and Schmuel Ullmann from Eretz Israel to their parents and siblings in the Nováky camp, November-December 1944

Red Cross letters sent by Eduard and Schmuel Ullmann from Eretz Israel to their parents and siblings in the Nováky camp, November-December 1944 - Red Cross letter sent by Eduard Ullmann from Eretz Israel to his parents (his father Heinrich Ullmann) in the Nováky labor camp, 20 November 1944; - Red Cross letter sent by Schmuel (Lazi) Ullmann from Eretz Israel to his brother Kolloman Ullmann in Nováky, 13 December 1944. Also in the file: Certificate issued by the General Bank in Bratislava to the Ullmann family regarding family jewelry deposited in the bank during the war, 15 January 1947. Notes from...

File Number : 2250

Type of Material : Red Cross Letter, Official Documentation

Language : Slovak, German

Letter sent by Dawid Brzoza from Ostrow Mazowiecka to his relatives in Eretz Israel, 1938

Letter sent by Dawid Brzoza from Ostrow Mazowiecka to his relatives in Eretz Israel, 1938 Note: On the back of the letter there is a notice regarding the public sale of his property which was published 08 February 1938. Notes from Nechama Golobinski who submitted the material: Dawid Brzoza perished with his wife and children during the Holocaust. His parents Yitzchak Dov and Chaya Sarah (Kasher) Brzoza made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1934. His brother Meir made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1932. His sister Mina (the mother of Nechama Golobinski who submitted the material) made aliya in 1936. His sister...

File Number : 2249

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Letter

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Testimony of Tzafrir Shteir Sara, born in Bedzin, Poland, in 1930 regarding the Srodula ghetto and regarding the Peterswaldau camp

Childhood before the war; programming aliya to Israel; aliya of the two brothers ; confiscation of family businesses; outbreak of the war; burning the synagogue and houses of Jews; deportation to ghetto; forced labor; murder of the father; "aktions"; deportation of the mother and sister to Auschwitz Birkenau; deportation of the witness with her sister to Peterswaldau; help of the German female commander; liberation by the Russians; escape to the American side; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1946

File Number : 13661

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence between the Gross family in Eretz Israel and family in Amstelveen through the Red Cross, 1941-1943; letters sent to Szymon Benno Wind in Westerbork from Vught camp and Amstelveen, 1944; letter from a Polish Army soldier regarding meeting Szymon Benno in Westerbork and the fate of his wife Rosa (Gross) Wind, 1945; personal documentation of Szymon Benno during the war and afterwards Correspondence between the Gross family in Eretz Israel and the family in Amstelveen through the Red Cross, 1941-1943; letters sent from the Vught camp and Amstelveen to Szymon Benno Wind in Westerbork, 1944; letter...

File Number : 2225

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Personal Documents, Red Cross Letter, Postcard, Letter

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch, German

Testimony of Markovitz and Bar Zahava Golda, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, in 1927 regarding the Moskovitz ghetto, Auschwitz camp and Bruntal labor camp

Testimony

Childhood before the war; good relations between the local population and the Jews in Uzhorod; invasion of the Hungarians in 1938; antisemitism; looting and burning of the family property by Hungarian soldiers; yellow badge; confiscation of property by the Germans; deportation to Moskovitz ghetto in 1943; harsh physical and emotional conditions; starvation; smuggling of food; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; selection; separation from the family; forced labor; crematorium; starvation; brutal attitude of the kapo; gypsy inmates; clearing the corpses; roll-calls; help by the Blockalteste to the women inmates of...

File Number : 13769

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the Heymann family, including diaries and a memoir book belonging to Suse Angela Heymann, documents regarding the military service of Meyer Manfred Heymann during World War I, food ration cards, forged documents, and other documents, 1868-1983 Diaries: - Diary of Suse Angela Heymann, written in the Netherlands, 22 January-15 August 1942, and after the war, 1945-1949 (written mainly in German and at the end in Dutch); - Diary written by Suse Angela Heymann toward the end of the war and immediately after the end of the war, including poems written (or copied) by her, a collection...

File Number : 644

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Postcard, Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Poems/songs, Memoir Book, Diary, Passport

Language : Dutch, German

Personal diary of an unnamed resident of Dombrowa, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Dombrowa Ghetto and in Tarnow

Personal diary of an unnamed resident of Dombrowa, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Dombrowa Ghetto and in Tarnow Life in Dombrowa during the German occupation in 1939; harm done to Jews and their property; establishment of a Judenrat and Jewish police force; imposition of restrictions on Jews in 1940; communal and cultural life of local Jews; outbreak of typhus epidemic in winter 1940-1941; transfer of Jews to Postkow camp in summer 1941; mass murder of Jews on 27 April 1942; names of several of the people who were murdered; first “Aktion” of local Jewish residents; names of the people who were...

File Number : 8663

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Documentation from the Finanzaemter 11 in the Duesseldorf region

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Correspondence of members of the Moses family, 1938-1942

Correspondence of members of the Moses family, 1938-1942 - Pages of Testimony of members of the Moses family and their relatives; - Letters from Rosa Moses to her relatives, 1938-1942; - Letter from Rosa and Sigmund Moses to Anny Moses sent through the Red Cross in Vienna , 26 March 1942; - Letter from Anny Moses to her parents, 27 February 1942; - Final letter received by Anny Moses from her parents, 15 May 1942, before their murder in the Sobidor camp, June 1942; - Letters and notices from Rosa and Sigmund Moses to their daughter Anny Moses and to their son Bruno Moses; some of the letters...

File Number : 2158

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

List of inventory of the property of the Kőrösi family, from Cegléd, Hungary, 1944

List of inventory of the property of the Kőrösi family, from Cegléd, Hungary, 1944 - Included is a translation of the list to Hebrew by a cousin of Miklós Zvi Kőrösi. Comments by the submitter of the material: - The submitter of the material, Miklós Zvi Kőrösi, was born in Cegléd, Hungary, 04 September 1927; - His father, Jenő Kőrösi, born in 1888, was a merchant who owned a delicatessen shop; - His mother, Margit (Klein) Kőrösi, born in 1892, was a housewife and assisted in the shop; - His sister Magda was born in Cegléd, 1932.

File Number : 484

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Hungarian

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