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Documentation regarding the annual general meeting of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), 25/02-02/03/1926

File Number : JM/28887

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Confirmations from Keren Hayesod in Warsaw regarding the request of Naftali Yisraelowicz to make aliya to Eretz Israel, 15-18 June 1939

Confirmations from Keren Hayesod in Warsaw regarding the request of Naftali Yisraelowicz to make aliya to Eretz Israel, 15-18 June 1939 The documents were sent to his brother Elimelech Yisraelowicz who was living in Tel Aviv.

File Number : 1082

Type of Material : Documents, Certification

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chana (Orenstein) Leser, born in Vinkovci, Yugoslavia, 1919, regarding her experiences in Vinkovci and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940

Testimony

Testimony of Chana (Orenstein) Leser, born in Vinkovci, Yugoslavia, 1919, regarding her experiences in Vinkovci and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940 From a Zionist family; witness' father is an aliya-to-Eretz-Israel activist; Jewish National Fund, JNF, and United Israel Appeal, UIA, activities in Vinkovci; activities of emissaries from Eretz Israel; Hashomer Hatzair activities; training for growing fish in ponds in Bijeljina; visit to Eretz Israel as a tourist, 1940. Remains in Eretz Israel; aliya of her mother and sister; information about her father's death.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ora (Plessner) Khaion, born in Pijesak, Yugoslavia, 1920, regarding her experiences in Zagreb and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940

Testimony

Testimony of Ora (Plessner) Khaion, born in Pijesak, Yugoslavia, 1920, regarding her experiences in Zagreb and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940 From a Zionist family; witness' father is a lumber merchant; her grandfather is a physician; family moves to Zagreb; life in Zagreb including attendance at a Maccabi Jewish school; Women's Zionist Organization, WZO, activities; Jewish National Fund, JNF, activities; Hashomer Hatzair activities as a member of the executive leadership; distribution of legal aliya certificates; escape to Bulgaria; escape to Turkey; escape to Syria; escape to Lebanon. Legal aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Klein, born in Focsani, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Focsani Ghetto and as a forced laborer

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Klein, born in Focsani, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Focsani Ghetto and as a forced laborer Life before the war; Zionist family; attends a public school; displays of antisemitism in school; Zionist youth movement activities; Jewish community; learns Hebrew; his father supports the establishment of a Jewish political party that was elected to the Romanian parliament; work as a reporter for the newspaper, "Techiyatenu". Ban on Zionist activities; pogroms; deportation to the Focsani Ghetto, 1940; ghetto life; food shortage in the ghetto; drafted to forced labor in a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara (Gronich) Enzer, born in Tel Aviv, Eretz Israel, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Sara (Gronich) Enzer, born in Tel Aviv, Eretz Israel, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto From a Zionist-Liberal family; her family move to Cernauti; life before the war; studies in a Hebrew school where her father is the principal. Soviet occupation, 1939; in hiding to evade deportation to Siberia; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; ghetto life; leaves the ghetto; her father's arrest; leaves Romania legally. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Nahum Hermann, born in Shargorod, Ukraine, 1899: details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

Nahum Hermann, born in Shargorod, Ukraine, 1899: details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in France; activities as the first Chief Executive Officer of the Keren Hayesod (United Israel Appeal); establishment of the CDJC (Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center) with other people. Outbreak of the war; work as a foreign correspondent for "The Jewish Morning Journal" newspaper; work for newspapers from Eretz Israel; activities in the underground AJ (Jewish Army); taken captive in Limoges during an attempt to transfer money to OSE (Children's Aid Society);...

File Number : 35

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Survey Report, Letter, Newspaper Clippings, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Official Documentation

Language : French, Yiddish

Testimony of Ruth (Confino) Ben Chorin, born in Brod Slavonski, Yugoslavia, 1930, regarding her experiences in Brod Slavonski, Pirot and using a false identity in Sofia and Albania

Testimony

Testimony of Ruth (Confino) Ben Chorin, born in Brod Slavonski, Yugoslavia, 1930, regarding her experiences in Brod Slavonski, Pirot and using a false identity in Sofia and Albania Life in a well-to-do secular Jewish family; learns religious studies with a rabbi once a week; attends a public school; arrival of refugees from Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1941. Draft of her father into the military and he is taken captive by the Bulgarians, March 1941; German occupation of Brod Slavonski, April 1941; decrees; release of her father from captivity, June 1941; move to Pirot; life in the Jewish quarter; life in a...

File Number : 12240

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Broadsheets of Revisionist Zionist organizations in Bulgaria, 1927-1946

Broadsheets of Revisionist Zionist organizations in Bulgaria, 1927-1946 Broadsheet for the elections of representatives at the 15th Zionist Congress, 1927; Two broadsheets against antisemtism in Germany and Europe and promoting the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz Israel, 1932, 1934; Broadsheet against the White Paper, March 1932; Broadsheet on the occasion of a Jewish assembly in Bulgaria, 1932; Broadsheet on the murder of Arlosoroff, 06 July 1933; Two broadsheets on independent Zionists (Revisionists after 1944), 1946; Broadsheet with pictures and names of five Bulgarian's, members of the...

File Number : 303

Type of Material : Manifesto, Poster

Language : Bulgarian

Memoirs on Sharlo Zhak Farhi and Levi Heskia on the problems involved with the Bulgarian aliya, 1948

Memoirs on Sharlo Zhak Farhi and Levi Heskia on the problems involved with the Bulgarian aliya, 1948 Memoirs on Sharlo Jack Farhi, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in a newspaper article, 1960, and a speech in his memory, 1969; activities of Farhi in Beitar; aliya of Farhi to Eretz Israel; combat of Farhi with Lehi; death of Farhi in an operation at the train station in Haifa, 1946; Memoirs on Levi Heskia, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1881, in a newspaper article written by Shmuel Semo, 1960; Zionist activities of Levy; participation of Levy at the 6th and 13th Zionist Congress; writing of a booklet and history...

File Number : 270

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Survey

Language : Bulgarian

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