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Documentation regarding Viktor and Anna (Pollenz) Bermann including letters and postcards they received from members of their family and friends, postcards sent from Theresienstadt by Anna Bermann's parents and more, 1908-1968

Documentation belonging to Viktor and Anna Anni (Pollenz) Bermann including letters and postcards they received from members of their family and friends, postcards sent from Theresienstadt by Anna Bermann's parents and more, 1908-1968 Letters, postcards and telegrams (in chronological order): - Three postcards sent to Viktor Bermann in Olmuetz by his mother Adele Bermann in Karlovy Vary, August 1925; - Postcard sent to Anni (Pollenz) Bermann in Olmuetz by her daughter Ewa in Thisted, Denmark, 30 April 1940; - Letters and telegrams sent to Anni Bermann by her parents Josef and Leopoldine Pollenz and...

File Number : 2189

Type of Material : Letter, Diploma, Telegram, Red Cross Letter, Newspaper Clippings, Declaration, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Postcard, Personal Documents, Journal, Official Documentation

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

Documentation of Arthur Plotsk, born in Leipzig, Germany, of Rabbi Simon Dasberg and his daughter Dina, from Groningen, the Netherlands, and of Alfred Weiss, born in Banovce, Slovakia; documentation dated, 1920-1941 - Transit pass issued for Arthur Plotzk by the police in Zagreb, before his travel to Eretz Israel, 20 February 1941; postcard sent by Jetta Plotsk from the Lodz Ghetto to her niece in Denmark, 11 November 1941; - Affidavit from Jozef Weiss (whose last place of residence before his deportation was Hilversum, the Netherlands) and by lawyer I. S. de Vries (whose last place of residence before...

File Number : 145

Type of Material : Letter, Diploma, Poem/song, Declaration, Postcard, Administrative Documentation, List of Detainees, Passport

Language : Hebrew, French, English, Dutch, Hungarian, Serbian-Croatian

Memoirs of Lottie Grussgott, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Frankfurt am Main, Brussels, France and the Malines camp

Memoirs of Lottie Grussgott, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Frankfurt am Main, Brussels, France and the Malines camp Life before the war. Life under the Nazi regime; anti-Jewish legislation; Kristallnacht; unsuccessful attempt of her father to escape to the Netherlands; capture of her father by a Dutch border guard and his return to Germany; deportation of her father to Buchenwald; being watched over along with her brother Leon by her older sister, Dora,13, because their mother was ill; release of her father from Buchenwald because he had a visa to go to England;...

File Number : 8629

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

Report-survey prepared by Rabbi Anda Shalom Zaoui, a military chaplain in the French Army, regarding what he saw during his visit in Dachau and the Vaihingen camp, including the condition of the few survivors whom he met and personal data of the survivors, 02 May 1945

File Number : 8627

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : French

Testimony [in a letter] regarding the experiences of Rene Carasso Bensoussan and his family members, from Thessaloniki, 1941-1945

Testimony [in a letter] regarding the experiences of Rene Carasso Bensoussan and his family members, from Thessaloniki, 1941-1945 German Army occupation of Thessaloniki, 09 April 1941; dismissals at his place of work; escape to Athens with his wife Aline and their daughter Flora; detention; deportation to Chaidari; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, 02 April 1944; liberation from camp by the US Army in the Magdeburg area, 13 April 1945. Move via DP camps in Charleroi, Courbevoie and Namur; move via Paris to Marseilles; move via Bari; arrival to Greece, 04 September 1945; Note: Included with the testimony is...

File Number : 8611

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : French

Experiences of Ida Kahana, born in Transylvania, 1920, during 1944-2007, written after her death by her granddaughter Yamit Lifshitz in Jerusalem

Experiences of Ida Kahana, born in Transylvania, 1920, during 1944-2007, written after her death by her granddaughter Yamit Lifshitz in Jerusalem Family background: deportation from Dez by the Nazis on Shavuot [May], 1944; arrival to Auschwitz; separation from her parents and from most of her siblings; transfer from Auschwitz on a death march; arrival to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by the Allied forces; move to Sweden with help from the King of Sweden; aliya to Israel; rehabilitation. Included in the file: - Photograph of Ida Kahana taken during her later years.

File Number : 342

Type of Material : Survey

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Sheindi (Ehrenwald) Miller, born in Galanta, Slovakia, 31 December 1930, regarding her experiences in the Galanta Ghetto, Érsekújvár Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Peterswaldau labor camp Testimony of Sheindi Miller, as it appears in the "Neveh Shmuel" Yeshiva journal, 5758 (1998); - Persecution of the Jews in Galanta, 1942; deportation of women and men to forced labor; transfer to the Galanta Ghetto, April 1944; theft of Jewish property; transfer to the Érsekújvár Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau by train, including a description of the travel in freight cars for three days; selection...

File Number : 8600

Type of Material : Excerpt(s), Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Memoirs of Meddie Silbermann, born in Romania, 1934, regarding her family's experiences in the Gura Humorului Ghetto and in Kopaygorod

Memoirs of Meddie Silbermann, born in Romania, 1934, regarding her family's experiences in the Gura Humorului Ghetto and in Kopaygorod Deportation to the Gura Humorului Ghetto; Gura Humorului Ghetto life; transfer to Transnistria; life in Kopaygorod; liberation, 1944; Return to Bukovina, 1945; her brother makes aliya to Eretz Israel via Cyprus, 1947; aliya of her family to Israel, 1950; - Mezuzah given to Yad Vashem by Meddie Silbermann; removal of the mezuzah from the door frame of their home during their deportation to the ghetto, 1940; her father kept the mezuzah and hid it in his pocket [during the...

File Number : 8597

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Diary by Mordechai Motka Gorski Gor, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1919, written, 01 December 1943-24 August 1945, and his memoirs regarding his experiences in a Soviet labor camp in the Kemerovo area and in Baydayevka Life in a Soviet labor camp in the Kemerovo area, including labor in a coal mine; description of the inmate population and the hierarchy among the inmates; clauses of crimes whose sentence was imprisonment in the camp; methods by which the food, that was sent to the inmates by their families, was stolen from them; inmates with "light" crimes were removed from the camp and sent to the front;...

File Number : 8589

Type of Material : Memoirs, Diary

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Memoirs of Gavriel Goldstein Avni, born in Oradea, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences during the war, including a summary of his experiences before the war

Memoirs of Gavriel Goldstein Avni, born in Oradea, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences during the war, including a summary of his experiences before the war Life in Bihor; death of his father, 1933; move to Oradea; learns Torah; attends an elementary school including studies in a Jewish high school in the afternoon; learns knitting in order to help earn the family's livelihood. German Army occupation of Hungary, 1944; life under German occupation including the imposition of decrees, obligation to wear a yellow badge, ban on entry into [public] places, and taxes; [deportation to the] ghetto; ghetto...

File Number : 8554

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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