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Certificate from the municipal Hebrew kindergarten in Sofia, issued to Viki Alevi, who attended the kindergarten during the 1941-1942 school year, and certificate from the Hebrew elementary school in Plovdiv, that she attended the school during the 1943-1944 school year - Certificate (in Hebrew and Bulgarian) given by the municipal Hebrew kindergarten in Sofia to Viki Alevi, that she attended the kindergarten during the 1941-1942 school year; certificate issued, 19 June 1942; - Certificate from the Hebrew elementary school in Plovdiv that Viktoria Alevi, who was born in Sofia, 06 April 1936, attended the...

File Number : 73

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Certification

Language : Bulgarian, Hebrew

Testimony of Sela Shtovitska Uri Urlich, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1930 regarding deportation to the Polish border and regarding his leaving nazi Germany in Kindertransport

Testimony

Childhood in Frankfurt an der Oder; life during nazi regime in 1933; arrest of the father accused of communist activity and his deportation to Poland as a Polish subject in 1933; attending the Jewish school Philanthropyn in 1936; moving to the Jewish Children's Home Stiftung in 1936; deportation with the mother from Frankfurt an der Oder to the Polish border in 1938; Kristallnacht riots; his joining a group of children who were sent by Kindertransport sponsored by James and Dorothy Rothschild in 1939; the journey via Hoek van Holland, Holland to London, Britain in 1939; moving to the estate of James Rotschild...

File Number : 13713

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Regev Yisrael Gerber, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, in 1927, regarding the Garan camp, Slovakia.

Testimony

Childhood in Mukacevo; Hebrew school founded and managed by his father; life under Hungarian ruling in 1938; they received a deportation order according to which the whole family was to leave Hungary within 30 days because they didn't have a Hungarian nationality; at the same time his father got a recruitment order for the labor service within the Hungarian army in 1940;his father's service in the labour service during 9 months; return of his father and deportation of the family to the Garan detention camp, Slovakia in 1941; ( because they didn't have a Hungarian nationality); stay in the camp for a few months;...

File Number : 13774

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shalom Jakubovitz, born in Sighetul Marmatiei, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sighetul Marmatiei, Auschwitz-Birkenau; Buna-Monowitz and Buchenwald

Testimony of Shalom Jakubowitz, born in Sighetul Marmatiei, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sighetul Marmatiei, Auschwitz-Birkenau; Buna-Monowitz and Buchenwald Life before the war in Sighetul Marmatiei; Outbreak of the war, 1939; increasing displays of antisemitism; draft of Jews to labor battalions; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; forced labor; transfer to Buna-Monowitz; forced death march of the inmates, 18 January 1945; travel on a train for eight days including mortality and eating snow; arrival in Buchenwald; life in the children's block in Buchenwald; liberation; Aliya to Eretz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documents of Jacob Rosenzweig, born in Tecuci, Romania, 1929; documents dated, 1940-1947

Personal documents of Jacob Rosenzweig, born in Tecuci, Romania, 1929; documents dated, 1940-1947 - Notebook belonging to Jacob Rosenzweig for his Jewish history studies in the Asey Tov school in Vaslui, Romania, 1940-1941; - Emblem of the Hanoar Hazioni [Hanoar Hatzioni] movement, "Moshavat HaMaavak, 5707" (1947); - Exit permit from Romania received by the Histadrut's Hanoar Hatzioni group in Bucharest, 29 December 1947. Note by the submitter of the material: Jacob Rosenzweig was born in Tecuci, Romania, July 1929. He was the director general of the Hanoar Hatzioni organization in Romania. He...

File Number : 340

Type of Material : Notebook

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel [Zagron] Levi, born in Tunis, Tunisia in 1928, regarding her experiences in ‎Soliman

Testimony of Rachel [Zagron] Levi, born in Tunis, Tunisia in 1928, regarding her experiences in ‎Soliman Her childhood in Tunis; parents were born in Djerba; move to Soliman in 1939; studies at Alliance ‎School; studies at a French school; the German occupation at the end of 1942; life without food ‎shortages; increased air raids approaching the German retreat; direct hit on the house, killing ‎family members; liberation in May 1943; post-war life; marriage in 1948; move to Tunis; life after ‎the war; aliya to Israel with her husband and seven children in 1971.‎

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mia (Ordinon) Beili, born in Cernauti, Romania in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto and on the Aryan side

Testimony of Mia (Ordinon) Beili, born in Cernauti, Romania in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto and on the Aryan side Life before the war; assimilated, Zionist family; Deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; Cernauti Ghetto life including overcrowding; smuggled from the ghetto with her parents and taken to the smuggler's home; life on the Aryan side; retreat by the Germans; liberation by the Red Army; Move to Brasov with help from the Jewish community; she attends a Jewish school; attempt to make illegal aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Pan York" ship; detention in Cyprus;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation of Izu Cohin, born in Vaslui, Romania, 1930, including school report cards, Jewish identity card and more

Personal documentation of Izu Cohin, born in Vaslui, Romania, 1930, including school report cards, Jewish identity card and more - School report card for Izu Cohin, born in Vaslui, Romania, 1930, issued by the Jewish school in Barad, 1941-1942; - School report card for Izu Cohin, born in Vaslui, Romania, issued, 1941; - Order from the Education Ministry forbidding Jewish children to continue their studies, 07 December 1941; - Confirmation that Izu Cohin attended first grade in Barlad, 1941-1942, and ended his studies, 20 April 1942; - Jewish identity card for Izu Cohin, the card requires him to...

File Number : 331

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Romanian

Testimony of Huta Ruthi Jervi Hagag, born in Zaouia, Libya, regarding her experiences in Zaouia

Testimony

Testimony of Huta Ruthi Jervi Hagag, born in Zaouia, Libya, regarding her experiences in Zaouia Childhood in Zaouia; her father is a tinsmith and sells haberdashery; religion and belief; father's visits to a synagogue; partnership relationships with local population. Her brothers' studies in a Jewish school; stay in Zaouia during the war. The end of the war; riots in the town, 1945; murder of her brother; injury of her sister; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948. * Year of birth of the witness is unknown; a story about the murder of her brother and the injury of her sister can refer to the war period.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Arabic

Postcard sent by Klara Kanfer in Brzuchowic to the Halpern family in Eretz Israel, 14 May 1941

Postcard sent by Klara Kanfer in Brzuchowic to the Halpern family in Eretz Israel, 14 May 1941 Also in the file: - Polish passport issued in Lwow, to Rosa Halpern born in Narajow, Poland, 1873, enabling her to travel to Eretz Israel, 02 October 1935; - Tarbut Hebrew school certificate issued in Lwow to Natan Birst, born in 1929; the certificate was isssued on 15 Shvat 5699-04 February 1939.

File Number : 1927

Type of Material : Passport, Postcard, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish

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