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Testimony of Mikhael Peter Hendrich Ben Dror Kelman, born in 1941 in Hilversum, Netherlands, about his experiences as an infant in the Amsterdam ghetto, in the Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen camps, and immigration to Eretz Israel as part of a prisoner swap

Parents born in Germany; grandson of the writer Georg Hermann Borchardt; family escapes from Germany to the Netherlands in 1933; grandfather's books burned in Germany; father, Herbert Kelman, escapes; deportation to the Amsterdam ghetto along with mother and grandfather; deportation to Westerbork in 1943; hospitalized in the camp and spared from the transports; grandfather sent to Auschwitz and transferred to Bergen-Belsen; swapping of Templer prisoners from Mandate Palestine; transported to Eretz Israel by train via Turkey in June 1944; received by Kibbutz Sede Nehemia.

File Number : 13546

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter from the Society of Jewish Writers in Argentina, regarding their worry about the situation of Jewish culture in the Soviet Union, which they call "the cultural murder of a people", and they ask Ilya Ehrenburg about the well-being of the following famous Jewish writers: David Bergelson, Yitsik Fefer, Samuil Galkin, Der Nister, Moyshe Broderzon, and others

File Number : 9

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Testimony of Bruno Landesberg, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1920, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, Bucharest, Siberia, Khmelnik, Poltava and other places

Testimony of Bruno Landesberg, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1920, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, Bucharest, Siberia, Khmelnik, Poltava and other places Traditional family; witness attends an elementary school and a Romanian high school; move to Radauti, 1927; activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement; move to Bucharest, 1934; displays of antisemitism. Soviet occupation, 1940; life in Cernauti under Communist rule, 1940; changes in the economic and religious situation; exiled to Siberia, 1941; re-occupation by the Romanians, summer 1941; joins the Soviet retreat along with his wife; hardships en...

File Number : 12902

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Etka (Kaplinsky) Liberman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Unterluess

Testimony of Etka (Kaplinsky) Liberman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Unterluess Life before the war; Orthodox family; attends a Jewish girls school. German occupation, September 1939; yellow badge; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto and escape of her younger brother; ghetto life including labor in a vegetable garden; work in the "Resort", workshop sewing coats for the German Army; work of her father in a boys school; her mother and father have become weak; death of her father from starvation, August 1942; death of her mother from...

File Number : 13089

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation from 1941-2005 belonging to the writer, Clara Asscher-Pinkhof, from the Netherlands

Personal documentation from 1941-2005 belonging to the writer, Clara Asscher-Pinkhof, from the Netherlands - Documentation regarding the Holocaust period and especially the Palestina Austausch (agreement to exchange Jews for German citizens) through which Clara Asscher-Pinkhof and her mother were transferred from Bergen-Belsen to Eretz Israel (pp. 28, 32, 86-87, 97, 270-273); - Poems written by Clara Asscher-Pinkhof about the Holocaust, including the poem, "Hanukkah in Westerbork" (p. 66); - Article by Maartje Steller written to mark the anniversary of Clara Asscher-Pinkhof's death including an excerpt...

File Number : 19.2

Type of Material : Money, Letter, Administrative Documentation, Poems/songs, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Dutch

Two letters from Shlomo Dam, Holocaust survivor from Olesk, sent to Boston to the New York Forverts editorial board, on his experiences, his mother's experiences and the Olesk Jews experiences, 01 August 1942 and 25 July 1949 Hebrew poet and translator; request from the newspaper to publish his experiences, his mother's experiences and Olesk Jews experiences for the descendants of Olesk in the United States; included is a photograph of Shlomo Dam and his mother; the photograph is part of the Yad Vashem Photo Archive collection.

File Number : 4.21

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Yiddish

Album of poems by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, born in Cernauti, Romania, dedicated to Lejser Fichman, 1939-1941

Album of poems by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, born in Cernauti, Romania, dedicated to Lejser Fichman, 1939-1941. She and Fichman were members of the Jewish youth movement Hashomer Hatzair; Lejser Fichman was the writer's steady boyfriend. Selma and her parents were incarcerated in the Czernowitz ghetto, and in June 1942 they were deported to Transnistria and imprisoned in the Mikhailowka camp. Before her deportation, Selma gave her poetry anthology to her friend Else Schächter, so that she could pass it on to Leiser. The anthology contains 57 poems, 52 written by Selma herself, and 5 translations from other...

File Number : 179

Type of Material : Drawing, Poems/songs

Language : Hebrew, German

Verdict in the trial against Arno Heinz Schindler-Salinger, Louis Hammerstein, Kaufmann Curt Seidemann and Dr. Julius Wohlgemuth who were accused of reading and distribution of a letter from the author Thomas Mann following the revocation of his Doctorate, 1936

File Number : 214.1

Type of Material : Sentence, Letter, Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation of the Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda), Germany, 1934-1944

Documentation of the Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda), Germany, 1934-1944 The ministry was established by law, on 13 March 1933, and received its authority by virtue of an order published, 30 June 1933; its areas of responsibility were defined as Geistigen Einwirkung auf die Nation, der Werbung fuer Staat, Kultur und Wirtschaft, der Unterrichtung der Oeffentlichkeit (emotional impact on the nation, the advertising for State, Culture and Economy, information to the public: The materials that reached Yad Vashem include correspondence...

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : German

Invitation to a literary discussion in Hebrew regarding the book, "Dos Meserl" (The Pocket Knife) by Shalom Aleichem, posted by students at the Tarbut School in the Foehrenwald DP camp

File Number : 1321

Type of Material : Invitation

Language : Yiddish

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