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"Letter From Warsaw": Poem by Bunam Warshavsky, published in the "Forojs" newspaper, January 1944

"Letter From Warsaw": Poem by Bunam Warshavsky, published in the "Forojs" newspaper, January 1944 Warshavsky's poem was written in reaction to the story of the 93 Beit Yaakov graduates who died a martyr's death refusing to be forced into prostitution for the Germans.

File Number : 68

Type of Material : Poem/song

Language : German

Testimony of Avraham Wertheimer, born in Medias, 1911, regarding his experiences in the Gross Wardein Ghetto, in hiding, and escape from a train to Slovakia

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Wertheimer, born in Medias, 1911, regarding his experiences in the Gross Wardein Ghetto, in hiding, and escape from a train to Slovakia His father's army service in World War I; his father builds a synagogue; learns in various yeshivas; prepares gravestones; the attitude of the neighbors; Hungarians break into the rabbi's home; concentration of draftees at Tusnad; forced labor dismantling train cars; absence from roll call; beatings; forced labor, digging; life in the Gross Wardein Ghetto; hiding in a bunker; discovery of the bunker; being registered as a construction worker; liquidation...

File Number : 11175

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters and testimonies of Erich Goldschmidt regarding his deportation from Brussels and his experiences in concentration camps in France including Les Milles and Saint Cyprien

Letters and testimonies of Erich Goldschmidt regarding his deportation from Brussels and his experiences in concentration camps in France including Les Milles and Saint Cyprien Pages 1-4: 1) Letter from Erich to his mother, [while staying] at Les Milles camp in Aix-en-Provence, written in German with words and expressions in Hebrew, 11 March 1941: - Repeated unsuccessful attempts to obtain military leave to Bellac [from] the Haute-Vienne Department; reports regarding food in the camps; living conditions [including] delousing; intent to borrow money from a Mr. Nussbaum; arrival of 60 inmates from Gurs...

File Number : 1858

Type of Material : Certification, Document, Poem/song, Letter, Musical Notes, Testimony

Language : French, English, Russian, German

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

Stephan Lux 1888 - 1936

Stephan Lux 1888 - 1936. On July 3, 1936, Stefan Lux, a Slovak Jewish journalist and poet, and a Czechoslovak citizen, entered the assembly hall of The League of Nations in Geneva, while it was in session, and shot himself. It later became clear, both because of statements that he made in the hours before he died, and from letters he left behind, that Lux had decided to kill himself in order to call attention to the criminal and morally insane regime then in power in Germany. The folder contains letters, newspaper articles, and other texts commemorating Stephan Lux and his self-immolation.

File Number : 447

Type of Material : Photo(s), Chart(s), Drawing(s), Newspaper Clippings, Article(s), List(s), Excerpt(s), Letter(s)

Language : Spanish, Hebrew, French, English, German, Yiddish

Yehoshua Eibeshitz: On religious matters in ghettos and camps

Yehoshua Eibeshitz: On religious matters in ghettos and camps. Various typewritten essays and newspaper aricles on religion in the ghettos and camps, plus two accompanying letters.

File Number : 227

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : Hebrew