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Memoirs of Michael Kuker, regarding his experiences in Lwow and in Asino, Siberia: "From heaven to hell and to happiness - The war for survival"

File Number : 7514

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Anita (Orlova) Shutaya, born in Peshchanitsa, Ukraine, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Peshchanitsa Ghetto, Bershad Ghetto, im hiding and in the Bessarabia area

Testimony

Testimony of Anita (Orlova) Shutaya, born in Peshchanitsa, Ukraine, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Peshchanitsa Ghetto, Bershad Ghetto, im hiding and in the Bessarabia area Life before the war; from a family with hardships; her siblings' deaths from starvation. Romanian occupation, 1941; restrictions on the Jews including yellow badge; deportation to the Peshchanitsa Ghetto; ghetto life including help from Ukrainians from Obodovka; theft of property; burning of the Peshchanitsa Ghetto by Romanian soldiers; transfer to the Bershad Ghetto; ghetto life; transfer to forced labor; sexual abuse by the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Shoshana (Tushak) Gordon, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928, regarding her experiences in a protected house and in hiding in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana (Tushak) Gordon, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928, regarding her experiences in a protected house and in hiding in Budapest From a middle-class assimilated family; attends an Italian high school. Outbreak of the war, 1939; decrees and restrictions on the Jews; ban on employing a housemaid; yellow badge; displays of antisemitism at school; German occupation, 1944; intensification of the decrees; drafting of her father to labor as an accountant at German headquarters; draft of young women over the age of 16 for forced labor; labor cleaning and clearing rubble; meets with Adolf Eichmann;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

History of the Schlesinger family from Rybnik and a list of "houses of Jews" in Dortmund, from 1941-1942

File Number : 244

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Biography

Language : German

Testimony of Klara Caro, born in 1886, wife of Rabbi Isidor Caro, regarding her experiences and the experiences of the Jews in Cologne and Theresienstadt

Testimony of Klara Caro, born in 1886, wife of Rabbi Isidor Caro, regarding her experiences and the experiences of the Jews in Cologne and Theresienstadt Klara Caro (1886-1979) was the wife of Rabbi Isidor Caro, the last rabbi to serve in Cologne; - Eviction of all the Jews of Cologne from "non-Jewish" houses, spring 1940; - Evacuation of all the Jews living in the suburbs, 1941; rounding up of the remaining Jewish population; crowding; many couples having to share one room; confiscation of Jewish property, mainly furniture; - Start of deportations: departure of the first transport to Litzmannstadt...

File Number : 287

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Hildegard Henschel, wife of the Chairman of the Jewish community in Berlin, 1940-1943, regarding Jewish community activities, 1941-1943 and the fate of the community leaders, 1943-1945

Testimony of Hildegard Henschel, wife of the Chairman of the Jewish community in Berlin, 1940-1943, regarding Jewish community activities, 1941-1943 and the fate of the community leaders, 1943-1945 Publication of the order regarding the wearing of the yellow badge, 05 September 1941; Yom Kippur (01 October 1941); announcement from Franz Pruefer from the Gestapo to the community leaders, Philipp Kozower, Moritz Henschel and Marta Mosse regarding eviction of some of the Berlin Jews from their apartments in order to house German families in the apartments cleared of Jews; eviction of the Jews and their transfer...

File Number : 52

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation of the State Archives of the Brest Region, regarding Jews in Pruzhany, Poland, 1924-1940

The number of buildings in which only Jews resided, according to streets in Pruzhany, and information regarding the last names, names of parents, date and place of birth, religion, and place of registration. The names of the streets are: Apteczny ,Boreszewski, Brześća, Browarna, Wodnej, Holendry, Grodzieńska, Gorka, Dombrovsky, Zaretskaya, Zamkowa, Rzeźnicka, Rżeski, Kobryńska, Łazienkowa, Mieszczanska, and others; Appeals by Jewish residents in Pruzhany to the Court of Law, for the issuing of passports (with photographs); The names of approximately 1,000 Jews who were persecuted and...

Type of Material : Passport, List of Names in Government Records, List of Jewish Residents, List of Residents, Identity Card, Questionnaire, List, Official Documentation, Personal Documents, Lists

Language : Polish, Russian

Memoirs of Esther Weiss regarding her experiences in Budapest in 1944-1945

Memoirs of Esther Weiss regarding her experiences in Budapest in 1944-1945 Life in Budapest in a "Jewish home"; transfer of Joseph, Esther's husband to a labor camp in 1944; deportation of Esther to Auschwitz in November 1944; paying a bribe to a Hungarian soldier and escaping with his help while marching towards Vienna; escape back to Budapest; obtaining a certificate of sponsorship from the Swiss Embassy with the help of her cousin, Mordechai Leichter; hunger; murder in Auschwitz of Sara Bracha Fishbein (Esther's sister), together with her family members (they lived in Nyergesujfalu); liberation by the Red...

File Number : 10881

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Memoirs of Moise Maurice Lampert, born in Belfort in 1938, regarding his experiences in Belfort, in children's homes in Paris and the surrounding area, in Fontenay-Saint-Père, the liberation, aliya to Israel in 1949, and documentation regarding his family - Memoirs of Moshe Moise Lampert, born on 27/04/1938: His parents were Yitzhak Lampert, born in Niemirów in 1906 (he survived; he died in 1993), and Itta (Drucker) Lampert, born in Jaworów on 12/03/1909 (she perished); Moshe's sister was Renée (later, Reich), born in France in 1931 (she survived). Residence in Belfort; his father was a tailor; his mother...

File Number : 10625

Type of Material : Certification, Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, French

Biography of Moritz Haike (b. 1867 in Schwerin, Germany), written for a ceremony in his memory, and Moritz Israel Heike's declaration of property, drawn up in Berlin on January 12, 1944, ahead of his deportation on January 21, 1944, to Theresienstadt, where he perished. - Biography of Moritz Haike, recounting his emigration from Poland and settlement in Berlin in 1894, establishing a family, business and political activity up to the end of the 1920s, banishment to a Judenhaus and thence to Theresienstadt in January 1944, and his death in Theresienstadt on May 11, 1944; the biography was apparently written...

File Number : 353

Type of Material : Declaration of Personal Wealth, Biography

Language : German

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