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Personal documents of the Metzger family, from Kiel, Germany, 1931-1940

Personal documents of the Metzger family, from Kiel, Germany, 1931-1940 - Letters sent by Herman and Frida Metzger from Kiel and Leipzig to their daughters in Eretz Israel, 1939-1940; most of the letters were meant for Dina Metzger and her sister Dina; postcard sent by Herman Metzger from Berlin, 04 August 1939; - Letter sent by Irene from Antwerp to Rosa Metzger in Eretz Israel, 11 March 1940; - Letter sent by Dina Metzger to her sister Edith, undated; - Red Cross letter sent by Walter Neumann during his detention in Les Milles camp to his former pupil Dina Metzger, in Eretz Israel, 25 August...

File Number : 1985

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Red Cross Letter, Postcard, Letter

Language : German

Testimony of Dov Bandel, born in 1919 in Delmenhorst, Germany, about his experiences in hakhsharot in Gut Wingel and Britain and in a camp on the Isle of Man

Life under Nazi rule from 1933 on; antisemitism escalates and high-school studies are terminated; active in the Young Maccabi youth movement; sets out to a hakhshara (Zionist training activity) in Gut Winkel, in the vicinity of Berlin, in 1937; mother and brother are driven across the Polish border in 1938 as Jews who hold Polish nationality; Kristallnacht in 1938; escaping to London and joining a Bahad (Religious Pioneers Alliance) hakhshara in a Salvation Army camp in 1939; deported by the authorities to the Isle of Man due to citizenship in an enemy country; three months of internment in the camp in 1940;...

File Number : 13582

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Naomi Inge (Fridman) Levinsky, born in Berlin, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Berlin and Winkel

Testimony

Testimony of Naomi Inge (Fridman) Levinsky, born in Berlin, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Berlin and Winkel Rise to power of Nazi Party; life in Berlin, 1933; increasing displays of antisemitism, 1935-1938; Maccabi Hatzair activities; work of her mother in assisting the emigration of Jews; move to studies at a Jewish school, 1934; move to an agricultural farm in Winkel for aliya training, 1938; Kristallnacht, 1938. Registration with Youth Aliyah, 1938; aliya to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliyah, March 1939.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Walter Weil, born in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, 1918, regarding his experiences in Frankfurt Am Main and Manchester

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Walter Weil, born in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, 1918, regarding his experiences in Frankfurt Am Main and Manchester His childhood in a well-to-do, traditional family; his family had roots in Germany, from 1700; his father was a [German Army] soldier in combat during World War I; activities in the Ebd [?] youth movement and in Maccabi Hatzair. Kristallnacht, November 1938; deportation of his father to Buchenwald; his parents' escape to England; his parents' escape to the United States; witness' activities as a counselor on the Kindertransport [en route] to England; meets his future wife;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ezra Bach, born in Berlin, Germany, 1930, regarding his experiences in Berlin, Hamburg, La Paz and Buenos Aires

Testimony

Testimony of Ezra Bach, born in Berlin, Germany, 1930, regarding his experiences in Berlin, Hamburg, La Paz and Buenos Aires His childhood in Germany; increase in antisemitism. Kristallnacht; dismissal of his father from his work as a representative of a German company; deportation of his father to Sachsenhausen, 1938; receipt [by his father] of an exit permit from Germany; release of his father from the camp, early 1939; move to Hamburg with help from his father's German Communist friend; obtaining of a forged visa to Bolivia for mother and child; smuggle of his father; move from Germany, 1939; sets sail...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Fries, born in Tel Aviv, Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine), 1937, regarding his experiences on a visit to Poland, in the Soviet Union and in Ural

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Fries, born in Tel Aviv, Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine), 1937, regarding his experiences on a visit to Poland, in the Soviet Union and in Ural Trip with his parents from Eretz Israel for a family visit in Poland, 1938. Escape from Niepolomice to the Soviet Union, 1939; from there for a short stay in Kiev, Saratov, Sverdlovsk and Perem; move to Naberezhnyye, Ural, 1944; his father's work as an electrician; his father's arrival at the British Consulate in Moscow in an attempt to return to Eretz Israel. Move to the city of Kazan after the end of the war, 1946; move via Warsaw,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of members who were active in the Maccabi Zionist sports movement in Focsani, Romania, prepared in 2004

File Number : 290

Type of Material : Lists

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Heler, born in Plzen, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Plzen and a village in Bohemia until 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Heler, born in Plzen, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Plzen and a village in Bohemia until 1939 Middle-class family; looked after by a nanny; work of his parents in a textile shop; his parents were musicians in an orchestra; cultural life; his father is a Zionist, sportsman and member of Maccabi; displays of antisemitism; confiscation of his grandparents factory by the Germans, 1938; his grandmother came to live with them; move with his brother and mother to a farmer's in a village in Bohemia; life using a false identity; abuse in school; the German nanny...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documents: Letters written by the family members of Zoltan Sherman while he was in the labor battalions in Nagyvarad, April-May 1944, and the memoirs of Sherman's brother-in-law, Laszlo Ohlmacher, regarding his experiences in Soviet captivity after the war and concerning the labor battalions and rescue of Jews by Imre Reviczky, Righteous Among the Nations Letter by his friend, Tibor Weiss, regarding their experiences in the labor battalions; memoirs of his brother-in-law, Laszlo Ohlmacher, regarding his experiences in Soviet captivity after the war, in labor battalions [during the war], and the...

File Number : 6688.1

Type of Material : Photograph, Memoirs, Letter, Personal Documents

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Zvi Heniek Cukierman, born in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine, 1927, regarding his experiences in Bedzin and Bismarckhuette, Reigersfeld, Blechhammer and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Heniek Cukierman, born in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine, 1927, regarding his experiences in Bedzin and Bismarckhuette, Reigersfeld, Blechhammer and other camps Family life of the extended Cukierman family; family's return from Mandatory Palestine to Bedzin, Poland. German occupation, 1939; deterioration of the family's personal, security and economic situation; restrictions, decrees and his brother's disappearance; concentration of the Jews of Bedzin; selection, August 1942; displays of resistance; presents himself for forced labor in Bismarckhuette, March 1943; labor paving roads; transfer...

File Number : 12233

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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