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Memoirs of Joseph Yativ, born in Nabuel, Tunisia, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Nabeul

Memoirs of Joseph Yativ, born in Nabuel, Tunisia, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Nabeul Life in Nabuel under the Vichy regime; expulsion of Jews from the schools; imposition of restrictions on the Jews including the yellow badge; breaking into the apartments of Jews and robbing the apartments; murder of Jews who attempted to defend their property; activities of Mordechai Karilla, the head of the Nabuel Jewish community; general meeting of members of the local Jewish community; Mordechai Karilla's request not to take any initiatives; arranging for a trained defense unit made up of community...

File Number : 8585

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Chaim Reichert, born in Golina, Poland, 1907, regarding his experiences in Jordanow, in hiding in a forest, in prison in Krakow, in Rensdorf and Auschwitz camps, and in other places

Memoirs of Chaim Reichert, born in Golina, Poland, 1907, regarding his experiences in Jordanow, in hiding in a forest, in prison in Krakow, in Rensdorf and Auschwitz camps, and in other places Life in Golina during German Army air-raids on the municipality building; escape to Sompolno with his family; life in Sompolno; German Army occupation; imposition of restrictions on the Jews; confiscation of the kerosene and gasoline store owned by Chaim Reichert; receives information regarding the murder of his family members in Golina; eviction of the family from their apartment; concentration in the center of the...

File Number : 8570

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Letters written to Ilya Ehrenburg by Yevsey Lantsman from the front, regarding the murder of Jews, Jewish resistance and rescue

Letters written to Ilya Ehrenburg by Yevsey Lantsman from the front, regarding the murder of Jews, Jewish resistance and rescue In his first letter, Yevsey Lantsman tells about the important role of Ehrenburg's articles among the fighters at the front; Yevsey Lantsman arrived to the city of Piryatin one day after its liberation, and he tells about Nazi war crimes in the city: Decrees imposed on the Jews from the first days of the German occupation; establishment of the ghetto; epidemics and starvation in the ghetto until Pesach (April) 1942; transfer to Pirogovskaya Levada of Jews who did not succeed in...

File Number : 122

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Letter

Language : Russian

Documents from the process in Regional Courts (Landesgericht) in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna against members of the HSSPF Lublin: Documentation of the trial, volume 28; Testimonies by Austrian and German perpetrators and Jewish survivors, 1960 - 1962 Testimony (05/09/1960) of Eugen Schweizer, born 1908; member of the NSDAP since 1933; police inspector with administrative tasks; transferred to Warsaw in 01/1940, ranked as SS-Obersturmfuehrer (first lieutenant); at the office of the KdS (commander of the security police) until 12/1944, detached to the RSHA (Reich Main Security Office) in Berlin in 01/1945;...

File Number : 85

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Legal Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Chava (Veis) Mordchovitz, born in Soporna, Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding her experiences in hiding in Hlohovec, Soporna and Hungary

Testimony

Testimony of Chava (Veis) Mordchovitz, born in Soporna, Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding her experiences in hiding in Hlohovec, Soporna and Hungary Outbreak of the war; unsuccessful attempts to make aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939; move to Hlohovec; life in hiding, alternately in Hlohovec and Soporna; smuggled into Hungary with her brother, 1943; her brother is placed in an orphanage in Budapest; deportation of her brother to Auschwitz, and his murder; German occupation, March 1944; return to Czechoslovakia; identified by the Slovakian police commander; hidden in exchange for a promise to give testimony to his...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation from the trial of Ludwig Hahn, Kommandeure der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (Kds-SIPO and SD Headquarters) in Warsaw, 1944, on the charge of murder of Jews, held in the Hamburg Regional Court, November 1961-June 1962 Two documents (sent from Poland) from the office of "E.K.-Sicherheitspolizei, Kampfgruppe Reinefarth" [E.K.= Einsatzkommando], written in Warsaw on 21 and 22/08/1944, signed by Timm [SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer (captain)] containing reports on the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising; authenticity of the documents confirmed; Accompanying commentaries from 1961 containing a list of...

File Number : 54

Type of Material : Investigation Reports, Names of Perpetrators, Record of Persecuted Persons, Testimony, Record of Survivors, Legal Documentation, Official Documentation

Language : German

Photographs and articles concerning the MOI (Main D’œuvre Immigree) underground in France and its activists

Photographs and articles concerning the MOI (Main D’œuvre Immigree) underground in France and its activists Underground activists: Andre Kirchen, Simone Schoss, Samuel Tyzelman, the Engros family, the Lemberger family, Raymond Kojitsky ,l’affiche Rouge ,Jeannine Sontag, Rosine Bet, Marcel Langer,Leopold Tepermann, Boris Frenkel ,Jacques Insel, David Freiman.

File Number : 501

Type of Material : Photograph, Article

Language : French

Photographs and articles regarding the FTP-MOI (Francs Tireurs et Partisans de La Main D'Oeuvre Immigree- French Fighters and Partisans of the Immigrant Work Force) underground in France, and regarding Aline Korenbajzer, a 3-year old child sent to Auschwitz, 28 August 1942 In the file: - Two pages from the diary of Father Franz Stock who ministered to the Manouchian group members condemned in the "L'Affiche Rouge" affair before their executions in Mont Valerien; - Letter from Clemens Ruether, the German commander (from his archives) regarding three photographs taken in Mont Valerien, 21 February...

File Number : 503

Type of Material : Article, Photograph, Film

Language : French

Memoirs written by Shalom Brier regarding the experiences of his father Avraham Yaakov Brier, leader of an uprising in Kostopol camp during the war

File Number : 7421

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzvi Shafir, born in Topolcany, 1929, regarding his experiences in Topolcany, the Novaky camp and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Tzvi Shafir, born in Topolcany, 1929, regarding his experiences in Topolcany, the Novaky camp and in hiding Childhood in Prague and Bohemia with foster parents until 1939; return to his biological parents, 1939 His father's disappearance, September 1939; move to basements; return to the house; deportation to Novaky, March 1941; life in Novaky; labor in factories; the Germans and their collaborators flee, August 1944; escape to the Stare Hory Mountains; in hiding until early 1945; torture by the Gestapo; rescue by a local farmer. Move to a hospital in Topolcany, April 1945; convalescence...

File Number : 12522

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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