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Postcard sent by Pesach Fischler in Tibeni to his niece Rosa Weinrauch in Buenos Aires, two weeks before he was murdered, 08 January 1941

Postcard sent by Pesach Fischler in Tibeni to his niece Rosa Weinrauch in Buenos Aires, two weeks before he was murdered, 08 January 1941 The file also contains: - Transcript of the postcard written by Karl Chaim Fischler; Note: The couple, Pesach and Chana (Kraft) Fischler lived in Tibeni and had three sons and one daughter: Tzvi Herman, Karl Chaim (the submitter of the material), Natan Avraham and Pnina; Pesach was murdered by the Romanians, 1941; Chana and her children were deported to Transnistria and then transferred to Dzhurin; the mother died from an intestinal disease and Tzvi and Natan...

File Number : 2011

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : German

Memoirs of Chaim Chacham, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in hiding in Iasi and letters sent to his father, Avram Hahamu Chacham, head of the Jewish community in Iasi

Memoirs of Chaim Chacham, born in Iasi, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences in hiding in Iasi and letters sent to his father, Avram Hahamu Chacham, head of the Jewish community in Iasi Life before the war; activities of his father, Avram Hahamu Chacham, as head of the Jewish community in Iasi, 1940-1944; his mother Esther (Shtruminger) Chacham. In hiding in a cellar underneath the synagogue; capture of his father by a German Army patrol (arrested with binoculars and a camera when Jews were required to turn in all the optical equipment they were holding), life in hiding during the pogrom in Iasi;...

File Number : 8526

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Letter, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Romanian

Memoirs of Melita Reis, born in Cernauti, Romania, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Bucharest, Istanbul, her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1943 and more

Memoirs of Melita Reis, born in Cernauti, Romania, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Bucharest, Istanbul, her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1943 and more Life in Cernauti during the Romanian occupation, 22 June 1941; murders and persecution of the Romanian Jews and their deportation to Transnistria; establishment of the Cernauti Ghetto; ghetto life; request made by Traian Popovici, the mayor, that Jewish professionally skilled workers remain in the city; removal of Popovici from office due to his attempts to help the Jews and the proliferation of deportation release permits he signed; termination of...

File Number : 8520

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Postcard from Rabbi Zvi Guttman, the sole survivor of the mass murder in Bucharest, 22 January 1941, to Sara Deskel in Israel, in which he testifies regarding the murder of her husband Shabtai Deskel

Postcard from Rabbi Zvi Guttman, the sole survivor of the mass murder in Bucharest, 22 January 1941, to Sara Deskel in Israel, in which he testifies regarding the murder of her husband Shabtai Deskel Also in the file: - Experiences of Shabtai Deskel, including the circumstances of his murder as written by his granddaughter, Razia Adam; Comments by the submitter of the material regarding the experiences of Shabtai Deskel, born 1888 in Bessarabia, Romania: Murder of Shabtai along with 69 Jewish men who went to the synagogue in Bucharest to pray, 22 January 1941; transfer of 70 men by truck from the...

File Number : 1961

Type of Material : Documentary, Letter of Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Moshe Zeev Gelbert, born in Ilisesti, Romania, 1937, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Ataki, Mogilev and Katsmazov

Memoirs of Moshe Zeev Gelbert, born in Ilisesti, Romania, 1937, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Ataki, Mogilev and Katsmazov Anti-Jewish legislation, 1941; deportation to Transnistria; order to remove jewelry and hand it over to Romanian soldiers in Burdujeni; arrival in Ataki; assembly of Jews in the synagogue; finding a sign on the wall written in blood, reading, "Jews were murdered in this place. You Jews passing by here, please say Kaddish"; murder of Jews by the Romanian gendarmerie; destruction of the certificates [of the murdered?] so that they could not be identified; arrival in Mogilev on...

File Number : 8497

Type of Material : Memoirs, List of Deportees, Red Cross Letter

Language : Hebrew, Romanian

Memoirs written in 1945 by Genya (Tractenbroit) Ben Tov, born in Lipcani, Romania, regarding her experiences in Bessarabia, Edineti, Mogilev-Podolski, Rublenitsa, Secureni and Kosharintsy, 1940-1941 [1945] Occupation of Bessarabia by the Red Army; escape of the Romanians and the rejoicing of the Jews (at the arrival of the Red Army]; retreat by the Red Army; acts of retaliation against the Jews by the Germans and the Romanians; robbery and breaking into shops; escape from Lipcani by her family; deportation to Transnistria; transfer to Edineti; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; transfer of the family back to...

File Number : 8474

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Yiddish

Memoirs of Bracha Bronislava (Belcher) Sheinholtz, born in Sekureni, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Sekureni, Transnistria and Mogilev

Memoirs of Bracha Bronislava (Belcher) Sheinholtz, born in Sekureni, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Sekureni, Transnistria and Mogilev Life before the war. The Romanian fascist regime; pogrom against the Jewish population of Sekureni, 1941; deportation to Briczen; transfer to Transnistria; transfer to Mogilev; living quarters in the local hospital following the paralysis of her father's legs; abuse of members of the family by a Romanian soldier; deportation of her mother and her four year old sister Tova to the Pechera camp; their escape from the camp; transfer of Tova to an orphanage and her...

File Number : 8459

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Yitzhak Moshe Libovitz, born in Targu Frumos, Romania, 1941, regarding his family's experiences in Targu Frumos and Roman,after the war in Borsa and their aliya to Eretz Israel, 10 September 1950; names of family members, some of whom perished in the Holocaust Yitzhak Moshe Libovitz's parents, Binyamin and Fradel Libovitz, were married in 1934; life in Borsa; move to Iasi and then to Targu Frumos. Murder of Binyamin Libovitz when he crossed the railroad track at a place where it was forbidden to cross, along with a group of approximately 100 Jews, and he was killed by the only shot fired by the...

File Number : 8419

Type of Material : List of Murdered Jews, List of Jewish Survivors, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Josef Finkelstein, "Iasii Mei" ("My Iasi"), regarding the pogrom in Iasi, 27 June 1941

Memoirs of Josef Finkelstein, "Iasii Mei" ("My Iasi"), regarding the pogrom in Iasi, 27 June 1941 The file includes: - Confirmation by the commander of Calarasi camp that Iosef Finkelstein was an inmate in the camp after his deportation from Iasi, 06 July-25 August 1941; - Death certificates of Hersch Finkelstein and Leonte Finkelstein, who were murdered during the pogrom; - Photographs of a Jewish cemetery in Romania.

File Number : 8401

Type of Material : Memoirs, Certification, Death Certificate

Language : Romanian

List of Jews murdered in a pogrom in Bucharest, 21-23/01/1941

List of Jews murdered in a pogrom in Bucharest, 21-23/01/1941 The list was published in the "Revista Cultului Mozaic" newspaper, Nr. 706-707, January 1991.

File Number : 1381

Type of Material : List of Murdered Jews, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Romanian

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