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Testimony of Miriam Eshel, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1938, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Bergen-Belsen, Switzerland and Eretz Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Eshel, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1938, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Bergen-Belsen, Switzerland and Eretz Israel Her childhood in a well-to-do, traditional, Zionist family; antisemitism before the war; imposition of restrictions on Jews; dismissal of her father from his work; curfew; obligation to wear the yellow badge; her mother's work on the community [Relief and Rescue] Committee as a forger of certificates for refugees who arrived to Budapest. German occupation of Hungary, March 1944; deportation to a Jewish [marked] house; life during the German occupation, including...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation pertaining to the Jewish communities in Poland including statistical data and itemization of various Jewish institutions and organizations in Poland, 1945-1946

Documentation pertaining to the Jewish communities in Poland including statistical data and itemization of various Jewish institutions and organizations in Poland, 1945-1946 - Circular of the Ministry for Civilian Administration in Poland regarding resolution of religious matters pertaining to the Jewish population, 1945: - Report regarding activities of the religious Jewish community of Poland and the Chief Rabbinate of Poland; its establishment in Lublin immediately after the liberation in 1944, and its areas of activity; complaints regarding attempts by the Central Jewish Committee to reduce the scope...

File Number : 97

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Directive from the Chairman of the Lodz Judenrat, Chaim Rumkowski, to Jewish organizations in the city to hand their assets over to the Judenrat, 10 November 1939

Directive from the Chairman of the Lodz Judenrat, Chaim Rumkowski, to Jewish organizations in the city to hand their assets over to the Judenrat, 10 November 1939 A list of the Jewish institutions in Lodz, and a guideline to whom each institute should hand over its assets is attached to the directive.

File Number : 212

Type of Material : Instruction

Language : Polish, German

Historical overview by Bela Mandelsburzanka regarding the history of the Jews in Lublin in the 16th and 17th centuries, published in the "Wiadomosci Krajoznawcze" newspaper in 1928

Historical overview by Bela Mandelsburzanka regarding the history of the Jews in Lublin in the 16th and 17th centuries, published in the "Wiadomosci Krajoznawcze" newspaper in 1928 The overview opens with a description of the flourishing of Jews in Lublin in the 16th century, including Jewish institutions that were active in the city, among them courts, publishing houses, and a famous yeshiva where Szolom Szachna and Mojzesz Isserles studied. The lively commerce contributed to the enrichment of the residents, including the Jews, even though they were not permitted to live in the city. The deterioration of...

File Number : 405

Type of Material : Article, Survey

Language : Polish

Letter from the Czestochowa Judenrat to the Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS- Jewish Social Self Help) administration in Krakow, 28 August 1940

Letter from the Czestochowa Judenrat to the Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS- Jewish Social Self Help) administration in Krakow, 28 August 1940 Overview of cultural institutions and organizations and of charity and social welfare associations in Czestochowa; the Judenrat is requesting to maintain those institutions and organizations the termination of whose activities has been decided by order of the German authorities as of 23 July 1940. A list of organizations included in the German order dated 23 July 1943 is in the file.

File Number : 347

Type of Material : Letter, List

Language : Polish, German

Testimony of Naomi Paulina Ader ( Kalderon), born in Yambol, Bulgaria 1932 regarding her family's persecutions and her experiences in Bulgary.

Testimony of Naomi Paulina Ader ( Kalderon), born in Yambol, Bulgaria 1932 regarding her family's persecutions and her experiences in Bulgary. Information regarding the Jewish community and its institutions in Yambul. The German invasion 1941; anti Jewish legislation; closing of the school; her father's exemptions; her father's deportation to forced labour in agriculture; her father's suicide attempt after coming back home; the burden of survival befalls on her mother ;activity of the Bulgarian partisans; the liberation by the red army September 1944. Zionist organization; aliya to Israel 1948; absorption in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rafael Adler, born in Velatin, Czechoslovakia in 1923, regarding his escape to Budapest and while hiding in a protected house of the Swiss Embassy and in an abandoned building

Testimony of Rafael Adler, born in Velatin, Czechoslovakia in 1923, regarding his escape to Budapest and while hiding in a protected house of the Swiss Embassy and in an abandoned building His childhood in an ultra-Orthodox family; studies in a heder and a yeshiva; his father is the principal of the heder in Rachov; activities in the Beitar movement in Velatin; re-annexation of Velatin to Hungary in 1939; transfer of two of his brothers to forced labor for the Hungarian Army; escape to Budapest; entrance into a protected house under the protection of the Swiss Embassy; receipt of forged documents; escape to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters written by rabbis, religious leaders and heads of yeshivot, and other documentation regarding the experiences of Jews in Europe; documents dated 1882-1939

Letters written by rabbis, religious leaders and heads of yeshivot, and other documentation regarding the experiences of Jews in Europe; documents dated 1882-1939 Letters written by rabbis, religious leaders and heads of yeshivot, and other documents regarding the experiences of Jews in Europe during 1882-1939, which were discarded from the Archive of the Chief Rabbinical Court in London in the late 1940s and kept by the father of the submitter of the material: - Appeal sent to the Chief Rabbi of London Nathan Adler by Jews in Hungary (including Rabbi Menachem Katz Prostitz and Rabbi Leopold Lipschitz) in...

File Number : 3612

Type of Material : Passport, Application, Identity Card, כתובה, Letter, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Russian, German, Aramaic

Memoirs of Chaim Wortzman, born in Berezne, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences during 1939-1943

Memoirs of Chaim Wortzman, born in Berezne, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences during 1939-1943 Jewish life in the town of Berezne until the German occupation, 1941, including the educational, cultural, religious and social institutions and the youth movements; murder, with the help of the local population; establishment of the ghetto; deportation and the entrance of his family members into the ghetto; he hides outside the ghetto and smuggles food goods into the ghetto for his family members; his capture by the Jewish police; escape, while en route to the camp; in hiding while hidden by Christians; mass...

File Number : 905

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Yiddish