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Testimony of Avraham Finkler regarding his fate among the Jews of Szydlowiec, the heroic death of Rabbi Chaim Rabinowitz and the philanthropist and activist Rabbi Yitzchak Steinman, and their words of encouragement to the deportees on the transport

Jewish life in Szydlowiec before the war; the relations between the Jews of Szydlowiec and the Nazi authorities; relative calm from 1939 to 1941; first deportation by SS men and Ukrainians, 23 September 1942; murder of community leaders, elderly, and children; murder of patients in the hospital located in Rabbi Neta Eisenberg's synagogue, with the cooperation of the Polish police and Polish firefighters, and the local population took part in hunting Jews; Rabbi Chaim Rabinowitz and three judges were among the deportees in the first deportation, with words of encouragement from the rabbis to the deportees; about...

File Number : 1752

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Documentation associated with Arye Schilo: his birth, Leopold Schindelmann and Frida Zionah née Hecht, before and after their immigration to Eretz Israel from Czechoslovakia in1933, and recipe notebook of Haethe Hecht née Mueller - personal documentation of Arye Leopold Schilo Schindelman and Frida Zionah née Hecht: -- school transcripts, 1920/21 and 1926/27, issued for Frieda Hecht by school in Bratislava; -- graduation certificate issued to Frida Hecht (b. August 4, 1914, in Bratislava) by a college in Bratislava on May 30, 1931; -- certificate from summer session of Young Maccabi, given to Zioniah...

File Number : 469

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Personal Documents, מתכונים, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Obituary, Letter, Invitation

Language : Slovak, Hebrew, Czech, English, German, Hungarian

Two postcards sent by Natan Yitzchak Hajda in Sosnowiec to his brother Aaron Heida in New York, 06 May 1938 and 20 November 1939

Two postcards sent by Natan Yitzchak Hajda in Sosnowiec to his brother Aaron Heida in New York, 06 May 1938 and 20 November 1939 Notes from Natan Laufer who submitted the material: Natan Yitzchak Hajda was the grandfather of Natan Laufer who submitted the material. The members of Natan Laufer's mother's family (her parents, brothers, sisters and their families) perished in the Holocaust. Pages of Testimony have been submitted for them. Natan Yitzchak Hajda hid in an attic in the home of non-Jewish Poles in Sosnowiec and perished there, apparently from dehydration and starvation. After the liberation,...

File Number : 3504

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Berysz Aurbach, born in Biała Podlaska, Poland in 1917, regarding his experiences in Warsaw and Biała Podlaska

Memoirs of Berysz Aurbach, born in Biała Podlaska, Poland in 1917, regarding his experiences in Warsaw and Biała Podlaska Warsaw Ghetto life during the war; in hiding with help from the Polish underground; liberation; return to Biała Podlaska in 1945; organization of Jews who were in hiding and in the forests during the war period; destruction of the cemetery in Biała Podlaska by the Germans; establishment of a Jewish committee along with other survivors in Biała Podlaska; activities by the committee in Biała Podlaska, including the search for the corpses of Jews who were murdered and buried in Biała...

File Number : 9616

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Testimony of Chaim Begam, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1927, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and as a refugee in the Soviet Union during the war, and the story of his aliya to Eretz Israel Life in Warsaw before the war; his family's attitude to [Jewish] tradition and Zionism; start of the discrimination toward the Jews during the first days of the German occupation; establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto; transfer of his father to forced labor; escape from Warsaw with his father; wanderings and arrival to Pinsk; life in Pinsk with family members; detention of his father by the NKVD, and deportation...

File Number : 11262

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the visit by Emma Katz in Kamenka, in memory of her grandparents Moisey Rubin and Tzeytla Rubin, who were murdered along with the Jews of Kamenka in 1941

Documentation regarding the visit by Emma Katz in Kamenka, in memory of her grandparents Moisey Rubin and Tzeytla Rubin, who were murdered along with the Jews of Kamenka in 1941 - Memories of Emma Katz of her visit in Kamenka during the 1990s, and her efforts to commemorate the memory of her grandfather and grandmother (Moisey Rubin was drowned in the Dniester River along with other Jews from Kamenka during winter 1941, and Tzeytla Rubin was shot near Kamenka during battles there), (date not indicated); - Article by Valerian Ponomarev, regarding the visit of Emma Katz in Kamenka, published in the magazine...

File Number : 79

Type of Material : Article, Memoirs, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Russian

Video of a ceremony held in Trutnov, Czechoslovakia, 18/08/2011, including a memorial service and the recitation of the Kaddish prayer in commemoration of 41 young Jewish women who perished in German labor camps during the Holocaust

Type of Material : Ceremonies, Prayer

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Iegev Yosef, born in Jerusalem, Eretz Israel in 1930, regarding his experiences in Tighina during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Iegev Yosef, born in Jerusalem, Eretz Israel in 1930, regarding his experiences in Tighina during the war Family’s life in Jerusalem; family fifth generation, of Bucharian origin; move to town of Romanovka as an infant; attending Tarbut school; Russian occupation; withdrawal to town with Russians; receiving information from Romanian officer about annihilation of the Jews; family disguises as Muslim family; move to the German village of Ementhal and from there to Tighina; labor in local hospital; move on trucks to the forests near Tighina; saying kaddish near shooting pits; parents’...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation including Yizkor (Memorial Service) and Kaddish (Prayer for the Dead) prayers written for the members of his family who perished in the Holocaust by Jakob Popowski in Miedzyrzec Podlaski, 23 October 1944 The prayers were written in transliteration. The names mentioned in the Yizkor prayer: - Dowid Ben Szlojmoj (his father, David ben Shlomo); - Tojbe-Raszul Bat Zelig (his mother, Toyva Rachel bat Zelig); - Awroom-Icchok Ben Dowid (his brother, Avraham Yitzchak ben David); - Odje Bat Salmon (his sister-in-law, wife of Avraham Yitzchak, Hodaya bat Zalman); - Szlojmoj Ben...

File Number : 1278

Type of Material : Prayer

Language : Hebrew