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Testimony of Rivka Reuveni, born in Checiny, Poland, about her life in the ghetto and in the Częstochowa, Skarzysko, and Bergen-Belsen camps, and her 'aliya after the liberation

Testimony of Rivka Reuveni, born in Checiny, Poland, about her life in the ghetto and in the Częstochowa, Skarzysko, and Bergen-Belsen camps, and her 'aliya after the liberation. Rivka Reuveni lived in Checiny, Poland, with her parents and her four sisters. When the ghetto there was established, her aunt's family joined them. Rivka was sent to the Skarzysko Kamienna labor camp at the age of twelve. She fell ill with typhus and due to denunciation was sent to a death camp. With the help of a Jewish doctor, she recovered and returned to work. As the Red Army approached, she was sent to a labor camp in...

File Number : 1238

Type of Material : Manuscript, Testimony

Testimony of Hannah (Loewy) Peleg, born in Vienna, Austria, 1924, regarding her experience in Vienna and Great Britain

Testimony of Hannah (Loewy) Peleg, born in Vienna, Austria, 1924, regarding her experience in Vienna and Great Britain Life in Vienna; attends a non-Jewish elementary school; coping with displays of antisemitism; attends a Jewish high school, until 1938; Anschluss; Kristallnacht; move of Hannah, her brother Issaschar Dov (Bernhard) and her sister Lisa (Ilse) to Great Britain, in the context of the Kindertransport; Life in Great Britain as a young Jewish refugee girl in non-Jewish surroundings; joins aliya training in Brosgrove, following activities in the Bachad youth movement; marriage to Yaakov Felsen;...

File Number : 253

Language : Hebrew

List of members of the Hashomer Hatzair movement in aliya training in kibbutz "Maanit" in Grodno, kibbutz "Bamivchan" in Slonim and in other places in Poland before the war, who perished during the Holocaust

File Number : 1324

Type of Material : Biography, List of Murdered Jews

Language : Hebrew

Film entitled "Kibbutzen i Falun" (Kibbutzim in Falun [Sweden]), including the testimonies of people who arrived in Sweden during World War II within the framework of Youth Aliyah

Type of Material : Testimony, Documentary

Language : Swedish, German

Documentation regarding the Dereczynski family including letters received by Arie Dereczynski in Eretz Israel, aliya certificate to Eretz Israel, documents regarding the situation of family members in Slonim and more, 1931-1938 - Letters received by Arie Dereczynski in Eretz Israel from Luzek, 1938; - Documents attesting to Arie Dereczynski's membership in the Hechalutz[?] Hatzair organization and in the kibbutz, [apparently from 1931]; - Aliya certificate to Eretz Israel, issued [apparently to Dereczynski family members], 24 April 1933; - Permits issued by the Jewish community of Slonim regarding...

File Number : 1551

Type of Material : Personal Records, Letter, Membership Cards

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Testimony of Esther (Braun) Walerstein, born in Rzeszow, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in Rzeszow, Lwow, Siberia, Tyumen and Szczuczyn

Testimony

Testimony of Esther (Braun) Walerstein, born in Rzeszow, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in Rzeszow, Lwow, Siberia, Tyumen and Szczuczyn Membership in Hashomer Hatzair, 1930s; draft of her boyfriend into the Polish Army. German Army occupation of Rzeszow, 1939; encouragement of the members of the [Hashomer Hatzair] movement to escape to the Soviet Union; escape to Lwow; deportation to Siberia; life in Siberia including labor logging trees in forests; invasion of the German Army into the Soviet Union; release from the camp; life in Tyumen including hunger; birth of her daughter, 1945. Move back...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Leo Grinbaum, born in Nuremberg, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences in Nuernberg and in aliya training in Berlin

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Leo Grinbaum, born in Nuremberg, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences in Nuremberg and in aliya training in Berlin Childhood and family background in Nuremberg; attendance at a German school and at a Jewish school; atmosphere in the Weimar Republic; religious holidays; Habonim membership; Nazi rise to power, 1933; raising Nazi flags; economic embargo; aliya training in the Niederschoenhausen quarter in Berlin; aliya to Eretz Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Professor Meier Schwartz, born in Nuremberg in 1926, about his experiences in Nuremberg up to 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Professor Meier Schwartz, born in Nuremberg in 1926, about his experiences in Nuremberg up to 1939 Childhood and family background in Nuremberg; religious life; membership in the Esra youth movement when the Nazis came to power; father is murdered in Rottendorf; various restrictions; less advertising of proclamations during the Olympic Games; help from German neighbors in Nuremberg; receiving information about the witness’ brother, who was in a training facility in Neuendorf and perished in Auschwitz; the Kristallnacht pogrom; acts of abus by SA members; destruction of dwelling; torching of...

File Number : 13230

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka Neudorfer, born in Majdan, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Lwow, Siberia, Zatobolsk and Uzbekistan

Testimony

Testimony of Rivka Neudorfer, born in Majdan, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Lwow, Siberia, Zatobolsk and Uzbekistan From an Orthodox family; displays of antisemitism before the war. Outbreak of the war; escape to the Soviet Union; arrival in Lwow; deportation to Siberia; transfer to Zatobolsk; life in a camp with barracks; her parents' work digging pits; work in coal mines in exchange for bread; transfer to Uzbekistan; work at weaving; typhus; end of the war. Return to Poland; help from UNRRA; move to a DP camp in Austria; Dror-Habonim activities in preparation for aliya; aliya to Eretz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hanah Charna (Gorbach) Elroi, born in Rozyszcze, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Rozyszcze Ghetto, a camp and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Hanah Charna (Gorbach) Elroi, born in Rozyszcze, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Rozyszcze Ghetto, a camp and in hiding Life before the war; activities in Zionist youth movements; meets Jewish refugees from Germany, 1938. Outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation; deportation of Jews to Siberia; German occupation, 1941; anti-Jewish decrees and restrictions; deportation to the Rozyszcze Ghetto; Rozyszcze Ghetto life including deportation with youth people to a camp; camp life including mutual help between Jews; escape to the forests; finds a hiding place when hidden in the home of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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