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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 : Letter, Official Documentation

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Documentation regarding Dola Ickowitz-Blaiberg, born in Krakow, Poland, 1936; documents dated, 1957-2010

Documentation regarding Dola Ickowitz-Blaiberg, born in Krakow, Poland, 1936; documents dated, 1957-2010 - Correspondence by Dola Ickowitz and notaries Dr. Gluecksmann and Haas in Tel Aviv, with the compensation payment authorities in Saarburg and Mainz, Germany, 1957-2010, regarding Ickowitz' experiences during the war; - Her life as a Christian, while hidden by Aniela Matras in Krakow; move to the Krakow Ghetto, by Matras; Krakow Ghetto life, with two Jewish girls; escape from the ghetto along with 10 children, while under the protection of a youth named Romek; return to Matras; life in hiding [with...

File Number : 538

Type of Material : Correspondence, Official Documentation, Personal Records, Survey, Drawing, Photograph

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Letters sent by Syma Fridman and family members from Zambrow, Poland, to son Hershel in Eretz Israel, 1940-1941, including a letter sent by Hershel to his brother in Argentina using the name Gidon Ben Shalom, 20 September 1938 - Letter sent by Gidon Ben Shalom in Slonim to his brother Yekutiel in Argentina, 20 September 1938; - Letters sent by Syma Fridman from Zambrow to her son Hershel (Gidon Ben Shalom) in Eretz Israel, 1940-1941; - Letter sent by Syma Fridman from Zambrow to her son Hershel in Eretz Israel and, on the other side, a letter sent by Mordechai, Hershel's brother (letter undated); -...

File Number : 2082

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Letters and postcards sent by family members in Bereza Kartuska and Ciechanow to Boruch Fiszer and Rachel Segal in Eretz Israel, and personal documents of Rachel Segal and Boruch Fiszer, 1939-1992

Letters and postcards sent by family members in Bereza Kartuska and Ciechanow to Boruch Fiszer and Rachel Segal in Eretz Israel, and personal documents of Rachel Segal and Boruch Fiszer, 1939-1992 Letters and postcards: - Postcards sent to Boruch Fiszer in Eretz Israel by his father in Bereza Kartuska, 1940-1941; - Postcard sent to Boruch Fiszer in Eretz Israel by Motel in Bereza Kartuska, 1940; - Red Cross letters sent between Rachel Segal in Eretz Israel and her mother Blima Segal in Ciechanow, 1940-1941; - Postcard sent by Blima Segal Bauman from Ciechanow, 24 February 1940, and which arrived...

File Number : 2037

Type of Material : Letter, Red Cross Letter, Memoirs, Postcard, Newspaper Clippings, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German, Yiddish

Letters sent to Hadasa Sokolik in Eretz Israel by her family in Ostrow Mazowiecka, 1937-1938, postcards sent by Hadasa Sokolik from Vilna to her brother in Jerusalem, 1940, and a diary kept by Hadasa Sokolik in Poland before her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1929-1933 Letters and postcards: - Letters in Hebrew sent to Hadasa Sokolik by her brother Aharon Yehuda in Rypin, 1931-1932; - Letter sent to Hadasa Sokolik in Eretz Israel by her friend, Rachel, in Warsaw, 18 October 1936; - Letters and postcards sent by Aharon Yehuda Sokolik from Haifa and Tel Aviv to his sister, 1935-1938; - Letters and postcards...

File Number : 1997

Type of Material : Memoirs, Letter, Personal Documents, Postcard, Diary, Article, Memoir Book, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, Yiddish

Original end of year report cards for Samuel Felber from the Jewish school, Yavne, in Lancut, 1936, and from the Polish school in Lancut, 1936-1937

Original end of year report cards for Samuel Felber from the Jewish school, Yavne, in Lancut, 1936, and from the Polish school in Lancut, 1936-1937 Note: Samuel Felber was born in Lancut, 19 July 1928; from a religious, Zionist family; his father was a cattle trader; his mother a housewife; attendance at the Jewish school, Yavne, and the local Polish school. Outbreak of the war; life together with his family in the Krakow Ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; escape and finding hiding places in various locations. Aliya to Israel together with his family, 1949.

File Number : 1178

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Correspondence between Jacob Weinstein and Regina Rywka (Potasz) [Weinstein] in Eretz Israel and family members in Wolbrom [Poland] through the Red Cross, personal documentation belonging to Rywka Potasz during her stay in Poland and a letter from her mother Sara Potasz - Letter to Regina Weinstein in Eretz Israel from her mother Sara Potasz in Wolbrom (unknown date); - Letter from Sara Potasz in Olkusz to Eretz Israel through the Red Cross, 05 March 1942; - Letter to Jacob Weinstein in Jerusalem through the Red Cross in Geneva following a request from the German Red Cross to appraise them of the...

File Number : 1962

Type of Material : Letter, Envelope, Memoir Book, Red Cross Letter, Personal Documents

Language : Polish, French, German

Letters sent to Chawa Awerbuch in Eretz Israel from her family in Równe and Vilna, 1936-1939

Letters sent to Chawa Awerbuch in Eretz Israel from her family in Równe and Vilna, 1936-1939 Most of the letters were from her father Mordechai Awerbuch and her sister Sheindale in Równe; Also in the file: - Letters to Chawa Awerbuch during her stay in Tiberias from her friends in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, 1938-1939; - Yearly report cards from the coeducational branch of the Tarbut High School in Równe, 1933-1935; - Notification sent to Chawa Awerbuch in Równe, from the Lodzki bank depozytow (Lodz Deposit Bank), regarding the deposit of funds in the account of the Friends of the Hebrew University,...

File Number : 1933

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Letter, Personal Documents, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

Memoirs of Dvora (Lichter) Levinson, born in Tarnopol, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Tarnopol Ghetto, using a false identity in villages and in a prison

Memoirs of Dvora (Lichter) Levinson, born in Tarnopol, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Tarnopol Ghetto, using a false identity in villages and in prison Life before the war; attendance at a Polish school; afternoon classes at the Hebrew school. Soviet occupation; closing of the Hebrew school; German occupation; draft of Jews to the Judenrat and murder of the draftees including her father; deportation to the Tarnopol Ghetto; ghetto life in hiding in a bunker; leaving the bunker with forged documents in the name of Stanislawa Dobryk; discovery of the bunker by the Germans and murder of those...

File Number : 8510

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German

Memoirs of Moshe Lederman, born in Jedrzejow, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Jedrzejow, Czechia, Fiume, his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938 and more

Memoirs of Moshe Lederman, born in Jedrzejow, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Jedrzejow, Czechia, Fiume, his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938 and more Life before the war; attends a government elementary school; attends a Hamizrachi school conducted in Hebrew; displays of anti-Semitism; imposition of a commercial boycott on Jews; life in an aliya training facility; move to Czechia; move to Austria; move to Fiume; life at the Fiume port; aliya to Eretz Israel, 20 September 1938.

File Number : 8508

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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