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Letter sent by L. Foerder from Jerusalem to Dr. F. Brodnitz in New York, regarding the possibility of publishing his diary in the United States, July 1946

Letter sent by L. Foerder from Jerusalem to Dr. F. Brodnitz in New York, regarding the possibility of publishing his diary in the United States, July 1946 - Foerder started to write his diary in Eretz Israel, August 1939; included is a chapter of the diary, from June 1941; - The letter includes a comment about the attack by Irgun members on the King David Hotel, 22 July 1946; - The diary includes references to the mood in Eretz Israel, in particular among the immigrants from Germany due to the danger of a German invasion, and the problems involved in the Bericha organization, after the end of the...

File Number : 2305

Type of Material : Diary, Letter

Language : German

Announcement sent to Lea Alayeva, 12/12/1944, that her husband Achildy Mushiyev died in battle, 14/10/1943

Announcement sent to Lea Alayeva, 12/12/1944, that her husband Achildy Mushiyev died in battle, 14/10/1943 Included in the file: Certificate of disability belonging to Abram Musheyev (the son of Lea and Achildy Mushiyev), born in 1936; certificate issued, 15/07/1954; Note: Achildy Mushiyev was born in Chatirchi, Uzbekistan; he and his wife Lea (nee Alayeva) resided in Samarkand; Achildy worked as a shoemaker before the war, and his wife studied teaching; Achildy was drafted into the Red Army at the start of the war; his wife was forced to earn the livelihood for herself and their four children and...

File Number : 1459

Type of Material : Death Certificate, Personal Documents

Language : Russian

Testimony of Elhanan Elkhononas Shokhoras Shahar, born in 1929 in Kaunas, Lithuania, about his experiences in the Kaunas ghetto, the Stutthof camp, and Dachau during the war

Life before the war; offspring of a traditional family; Soviet occupation ensues in 1940; nationalization of family business; Soviets retreat and German occupation ensues in June 1941; ghetto established and extended family joins witness in one apartment; wearing the yellow star; attending a vocational school; Aktionen; surrender of valuables and books; unsuccessful attempt to smuggle sister to the "Aryan" side; deportation from the ghetto in July 1944; parting from mother and sister in the Stutthof camp; taken to Landsberg (Dachau); life in the camp; hunger; the front closes in and the camp is evacuated on...

File Number : 13603

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter sent from the front to Yakov Karasik in Tashkent, 18 March 1944, including a document confirming that Yakov Karasik served in the Red Army as a commander of a mortars battalion, 24 January 1943, and his military paybook issued, 18 February 1944 Yakov Karasik was born in Bobruysk, Belorussia, 1908; emigration of his mother's family (the Lapidus family) to the United States; Yaakov learns in a "heder" at the age of 6; learns shoemaking from a shoemaker at the age of 6; escape to Penza at the age of 10 due to the attitude of the shoemaker and the shoemaker's wife; his family's move to Penza; escape to...

File Number : 1940

Type of Material : Personal Records, Certification, Letter

Language : Russian

Testimony of Shaul Ziman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Plonsk Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and the Ebensee camp

Testimony of Shaul Ziman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Plonsk Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and the Ebensee camp German occupation of Poland; air-raids; occupation of Warsaw; displays of antisemitism [and anti-Jewish regulations] by the Germans; establishment of the ghetto; administration by the Judenrat; smuggling of food into the ghetto by the children; Jewish policemen; leave-taking from his parents and escape from the ghetto; wanderings from village to village using a false identity (Stanislaw Vishnewski); work for a Polish farmer; arrival at the...

File Number : 8470

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters written by Irene Abraham in Cologne to her relatives in England after the war containing details regarding the fate of the family members who survived or perished in the Holocaust

File Number : 1797

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Memoirs of Eliahu Rozenberg, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and Treblinka

Memoirs of Eliahu Rozenberg, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and Treblinka Life in the Warsaw Ghetto, deportation to Treblinka, life in Treblinka including participation in the Uprising; escape from Treblinka.

File Number : 8280

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Film entitled, "Eight Stories That Haven't Changed the World", including the testimony of eight Jews, born in Poland, 1914-1933, and their experiences in Poland before World War II

Film entitled, "Eight Stories That Haven't Changed the World", including the testimony of eight Jews, born in Poland, 1914-1933, and their experiences in Poland before World War II The interviewees are: Dora Tenembaum, Szymon Tenembaum, Halina Elczewska, Feliks Nieznanowski, Krystyna Budnicka, Josef Hen, Jan Rochwerger and Marian Fuks.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish, English

List of Jews murdered in the Euthanasia Program ("Aktion" T4) in Pirna-Sonnenstein, 1940-1941

List of Jews murdered in the Euthanasia Program ("Aktion" T4) in Pirna-Sonnenstein, 1940-1941 Murder of mentally ill and disabled patients who were in local convalescent homes (sanatorium); transfer of inmates from Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen to Pirna-Sonnenstein in order to murder them in the context of the Euthanasia Program.

File Number : 1350

Type of Material : List of Murdered Jews

Language : English, German

Memoirs of Istvan Blasz, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Gusen camps

Memoirs of Istvan Blasz, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Gusen camps Satu Mare Ghetto life; Auschwitz camp life; Mauthausen camp life; Gusen camp life.

File Number : 8239

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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