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Documentation regarding the Dora-Mittelbau camp and other camps near Nordhausen, 1949-1999

Documentation regarding the Dora-Mittelbau camp and other camps near Nordhausen, 1949-1999 The documentation was gathered by Holocaust survivor Moshe Leib Plachta, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926: - Testimony [of] Concentration Camp Prisoner B-7092: History of the family: Deportation of his sister Luba to the Czestochowa labor camp, 1943; deportation of Moshe Leib with his parents and younger brother to Auschwitz, August 1944; murder of his patents and brother in Auschwitz; transfer of Moshe Leib to the Fuerstengrube labor camp and from there to Dora-Nordhausen, March 1945; life of the inmates in Dora;...

File Number : 444

Type of Material : Postcard, Drawing, Photograph, Diagram, Correspondence, Survey Report, Personal Documents, Maps, Letter, Brochure, Administrative Documentation

Language : French, English, German

Letter by R. Volovich, with an invitation to Ilya Ehrenburg to a gathering in commemoration of the Riga Ghetto victims, to be held in the Rumbula forest on 25 October 1964, and reply by Ehrenburg that he received the invitation after the event took place due to being absent from Moscow At the event, a temporary monument was dedicated at the site of the mass murder of the Jews from the Riga Ghetto, including Jews from other places in Europe who had been deported to the Riga Ghetto.

File Number : 126

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Letter written by I. B. Sluch, from Moscow, regarding collecting funds for a monument in memory of the Jews murdered in Babiy Yar, noting the number of Jews murdered there, and the number of Jews who received Medals of Honor for their participation in World War II; Ilya Ehrenberg's reply, informing Sluch of the authorities' decision to establish a monument and the tender for the project Letter written by I. B. Sluch from Moscow regarding the need to collect funds for setting up a monument in memory of the Jews murdered in Babiy Yar, while noting the number of Jews murdered in Babiy Yar and the number of...

File Number : 110

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Letters sent by World War II veteran D. Skvirskiy, from Moscow, in which he suggests collecting money for the establishment of a monument in memory of the people who perished in Babiy Yar; reply by Ilya Ehrenburg, that he agrees with the writer concerning the need to establish a monument in Babiy Yar, but that the decision is not his to make

File Number : 109

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Letter by M. Kitaychuk, regarding the establishment of a monument in the Jewish cemetery in Zhlobin in memory of the Jews murdered by the Nazis, and the order by the local authorities to remove an inscription in Yiddish from the monument; request for help in the matter; reply by Ilya Ehrenburg that the matter gives cause for complaint, but it does not seem that his intervention will be of help

File Number : 54

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Documentation regarding the roots trip made by Gadi Oron to Ozernica, Belorussia, 2008

File Number : 1301

Type of Material : Documentary, Study, List of Jewish Residents

Language : Hebrew, Russian

Testimony of Chaim Leib Meizner Vilenberg, born in Makow Mazowiecki, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, Vilna, the Saratov vicinity, Akhtubinsk and other places

Testimony of Chaim Leib Meizner Vilenberg, born in Makow Mazowiecki, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, Vilna, the Saratov vicinity, Akhtubinsk and other places Life in Makow Mazowiecki before the war; move to Warsaw for studies; life in Warsaw including attending the Tachkemoni school. Outbreak of the war; escape to Vilna with friends; life in Vilna including deportation of Jews to Siberia by the Soviets; arrest and change of name; Hashomer Hadati activities; German occupation, June 1941; escape to the Soviet Union by train; life in the Soviet Union including detention by the police;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sima (Chaperman) Brisman, born in Mogilev-Podolski, Ukraine, 1935, regarding her experiences as a child in Mogilev-Podolski and the Pechora Ghetto

Testimony of Sima (Chaperman) Brisman, born in Mogilev-Podolski, Ukraine, 1935, regarding her experiences as a child in Mogilev-Podolski and the Pechora Ghetto Life before the war; her mother's work as a kindergarten teacher who keeps the religious tradition; her grandfather is a jeweler; detention of her grandfather. Outbreak of the war; draft of her father into the Red Army; German occupation; deportation to Pechora, 1942; Pechora Ghetto life in a stable and separation from her mother and brother; arrival of refugees; murder of Jews and her rescue in exchange for bribery; murder of Jews who were in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

List of Jews from Ada who perished during the Holocaust

File Number : 1039

Type of Material : List of Murdered Persons, List of Murdered Jews

Language : German, Serbian-Croatian

Testimony of Erno Yona Shliser, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Debrecen Ghetto, Auschwitz, Dachau and Garmisch Partenkirchen

Testimony of Erno Yona Shliser, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Debrecen Ghetto, Auschwitz, Dachau and Garmisch Partenkirchen Life before the war in Debrecen. Witness is drafted to forced labor as a carpenter's apprentice; deportation to the Debrecen Ghetto in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau by train; transfer to Auschwitz on foot; camp life including labor digging; transfer to Dachau on foot; transfer to Garmisch Partenkirchen; liberation. Move to Feldafing; life in the DP camp; joins Bnei Akiva; move to Greece; aliya training; aliya attempt to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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