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Poem in Hebrew written by Mordechai Zeev Schachter, 5698-1938

Poem in Hebrew written by Mordechai Zeev Schachter, 5698-1938 The author was a teacher in the Mizrachi school in Krakow who perished in an extermination camp, 1941-1942.

File Number : 263

Type of Material : Poem/song

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Testimony of Dvora (Polak) Ron, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in a teacher's home in a village in Denmark

Testimony

Testimony of Dvora (Polak) Ron, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in a teacher's home in a village in Denmark Well-to-do Zionist family in Prague; life before the war; her father is a Czech political activist and a Zionist activist. German occupation, 1938; membership in the Blau-Weiss youth movement; move to Denmark with a group of children under the protection of the Jewish Agency and the Danish Women's League for Peace and Freedom, November 1939; life in a teacher's home in a village including work as a housemaid for the family; social and cultural activities lead by an...

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

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

Documentation from the State Archive of the Ternopil Region, Ukraine, 1920-1958

The Ternopil Oblast State Archive began operating on 01 November 1939, following the annexation of Western Ukraine to the Soviet Union. The Dominican monastery was adapted as an archival repository. After the establishment of the Ternopil Oblast in the Soviet Union on 04 December 1939, the Ternopil Oblast State Archive was renamed the Ternopil Oblast Historic Archive. From 1941 it was known as the State Archive of the Ternopil Oblast. The most important documents of the State Archive of the Ternopil Oblast were evacuated during World War II, and the main part was left on site, leading to irreversible losses. In...

Language : Polish, Russian, German, Greek, Ukrainian

Testimony of Michael Marton Zelmanovich Zel, born in Zavidovo, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Zavidovo, the Mukacevo camp, Auschwitz, the Mauthausen camp and more

Testimony of Michael Marton Zelmanovich Zel, born in Zavidovo, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Zavidovo, the Mukacevo camp, Auschwitz, the Mauthausen camp and more Life before the war; re-annexation to Hungary, 1939; Imposition of financial limitations on the Jews; draft of Jews, including Marton's father to the Hungarian Army; return of Marton's father to the family; persecution of the Jews, 1941; robbery of Jewish property in various ways; deportation of Jews for forced labor; declaration of Jews without proper documents; life in Zavidovo until 1944; draft of his older brother for...

Type of Material : Video

Language : English

Personal documentation belonging to the Brager family, including correspondence of Ernst Brager from the Sachsenhausen camp, Paris and London with his wife Gretel [Brager] Brager in Hamburg, and his uncle in England, 1938-1940, and Red Cross letters sent by Ernst and Gretel Brager in London to family members in Hamburg, 1940-1941 Letters, postcards and telegrams: - Letter sent by Ernst and Gretel (Brager) Brager from Hamburg to Mrs. Sarfaty, apparently in the United States, 02 January 1938; - Letter sent to Ernst and Gretel Brager in Hamburg by their Aunt Martha and Uncle Martin in England, 03 April...

File Number : 2462

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Postcard, Letter, Genealogy, Official Documentation, Memoirs, Telegram, List of Deportees, Poems/songs, Declaration

Language : English, German

Testimony of Beniamin Kider Kopstein, born in Seesen, Germany in 1923, regarding his childhood and youth in Nazi Germany

Testimony

Testimony of Beniamin Kider Kopstein, born in Seesen, Germany in 1923, regarding his childhood and youth in Nazi Germany Childhood; Jewish father a Supreme Court justice and mother a German who converted; move to Braunschweig and then to Berlin in 1935 after father’s dismissal; receiving Zionist education; father’s visit to Eretz Israel; joining Recha Freier’s Youth Aliya; aliya to Israel in 1948; absorption; father’s death in sinking of the “Patria.”

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew