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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 Fredi Knoler, born in Vienna, Austria, in 1921 regarding the French resistance and the Drancy, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony

German occupation and annexation of Austria( Anschluss) in 1938; Kristallnacht in 1938; crossing borders to Antwerpen,Belgium in 1938 where acquaintances of the family stayed; transfer to a camp for Jewish refugees (with the support of the Jewish community) in Merkplas in 1939; escape to France after the German occupation of Belgium in 1940; his detention in Lille,France because of his German (Austrian) nationality and transfer to the detention camp in St Cyprien in 1940; his escape from the camp to Gaillac and his work in agriculture in 1940; buying of forged certificates and his moving to Paris,as a French...

File Number : 13473

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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

Documentation of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), regarding work with Jewish youth and in small communities, 02/02-29/11/1932

Documentation of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), regarding work with Jewish youth and in small communities, 02/02-29/11/1932 Letter sent to Dr. Auerbach in Wuerzburg, regarding small communities in Unterfranken, 24/05/1932; helplessness, opposite the developing Nazi movement; request to supply support to the community by means of the transmission of information (pp. 2190-2191).

File Number : JM/28887

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation regarding meetings of the Centralverein - CV executive committee regarding various subjects, including work with the youth, Jews of Eastern Europe, the economic boycott, letters of protest, international negotiations, programs, publicity activities, the "Der Morgen" newspaper, and political and organizational matters, 09/12/1930-30/03/1933

Documentation regarding meetings of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) executive committee regarding various subjects, including work with the youth, Jews of Eastern Europe, the economic boycott, letters of protest, international negotiations, programs, publicity activities, the "Der Morgen" newspaper, and political and organizational matters, 09/12/1930-30/03/1933

File Number : JM/28886

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), regarding various subjects, 15/07-16/11/1934

Documentation of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), regarding various subjects, 15/07-16/11/1934 - Issues no. 552-553 of the "Frankfurter Zeitung" newspaper, 30/10/1934 (pp. 1862-1902); - Circular published by the Centralverein - CV regional branch in Brandenburg: Winterhilfswerk (Winter Relief); German businesses; list of Jewish physicians; professions related to culture; circulars of the Centralverein - CV, regarding each subject individually (pp. 1921-1932); - Correspondence regarding Jewish physicians (pp. 1944-1950, 1953-1954, 1968-1969, 1985-1990,...

File Number : JM/28883

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Russian, German

Documentation of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), regarding various matters, 12/06-19/10/1934

Documentation of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), regarding various matters, 12/06-19/10/1934 - Circular published by the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV in Brandenburg, regarding the Winterhilfswerk (Winter Relief Campaign); studies on Shabbat [Saturday]; non-Aryan factories; lists of physicians; Reichskulturkammergesetz (Law regarding Culture Bureaus) (pp. 1362-1367); - Correspondence regarding the Zentralausschuss der Deutschen Juden für Hilfe und Aufbau (Central Committee of German Jews for Help and Reconstruction) (pp. 1494, 1543); -...

File Number : JM/28883

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Russian, German

Personal documentation belonging to Fryda Lapidus, born in Wilejka, 1914, from the years 1926-1945

Personal documentation belonging to Fryda Lapidus, born in Wilejka, 1914, from the years 1926-1945 - Birth certificate of Fryda Lapidus, born in Wilejka, 1914, issued at the Rabbinate in Wilejka, 12 August 1926; - Studies certificates of Fryda Lapidus from the Henryk Sienkiewicz Primary Gymnasia in Wilejka, 1926-1933; - Student cards for Fryda Lapidus from the Henryk Sienkiewicz Primary Gymnasia in Wilejka, 1926-1933; - Correspondence between Fryda Lapidus and the "Committee of Hebrew University Seekers", 22 April-22 August 1934, on various subjects pertaining to admission to Hebrew University; -...

File Number : 1117

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Passport

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German, Yiddish

Testimony of Arie Leibish Zilberman, born in Rymanow, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in a kolkhoz in Uzbekistan, in Siberia and Tashkent

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Leibish Zilberman, born in Rymanow, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in a kolkhoz in Uzbekistan, in Siberia and Tashkent From an Orthodox family of merchants; Hebrew Zionist education; Bnei Akiva activities. Outbreak of the war; air-raids on Rymanow; deportation of the Jews to the Soviet Union; work in a kolkhoz in Uzbekistan; deportation to Siberia; hewing lumber and digging trenches; cold and hunger; escape to Tashkent; agricultural work; deaths of his parents from starvation and illness; end of the war. Return to Krakow, Poland; preparation for aliya to Eretz Israel;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shaul Chaskelovic, born in Piatra Neamt, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Piatra Neamt, as a forced laborer and as a Romanian Army soldier

Testimony

Testimony of Shaul Chaskelovic, born in Piatra Neamt, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Piatra Neamt, as a forced laborer and as a Romanian Army soldier From a religious family; learns in a heder, a Jewish school and a Romanian school; Hanoar Hatzioni activities. Outbreak of the war; anti-Jewish legislation; confiscation of businesses; ban on studies; robbery of Jewish property; physical harassment by the legionnaires; meeting with Jewish refugees from Poland; assistance; receipt of information; drafted for forced labor; labor as a dentist in the Romanian Army, April 1944; liberation by the Red...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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