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Documentation regarding the Heymann family, including diaries and a memoir book belonging to Suse Angela Heymann, documents regarding the military service of Meyer Manfred Heymann during World War I, food ration cards, forged documents, and other documents, 1868-1983 Diaries: - Diary of Suse Angela Heymann, written in the Netherlands, 22 January-15 August 1942, and after the war, 1945-1949 (written mainly in German and at the end in Dutch); - Diary written by Suse Angela Heymann toward the end of the war and immediately after the end of the war, including poems written (or copied) by her, a collection...

File Number : 644

Type of Material : Passport, Diary, Memoir Book, Personal Documents, Postcard, Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Poems/songs

Language : Dutch, German

Personal documentation belonging to the Wolfgang family from Vienna from the prewar and postwar periods, 1886-1970

Personal documentation belonging to the Wolfgang family from Vienna from the prewar and postwar periods, 1886-1970 - Invitation to the wedding of Regine (Loewy) and Isaias Weissman (the parents of Julie [Weissman] Wolfgang), 15 June 1886; - Birth certificate issued in the name of Karl Wolfgang (husband of Julie [Weissman] Wolfgang), born 01 March 1892 (He was actually born on 29 February, however, because the date recurs only once every four years, the 01 March date was entered in the birth certificate); - Plumbing certification document issued to Karl Wolfgang in Vienna, 13 September 1909; -...

File Number : 249

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Red Cross Letter, Letter

Language : English, German

Letter sent by Lottchen from Krakow to Herbert, her beloved German soldier, January 1944

Letter sent by Lottchen from Krakow to Herbert, her beloved German soldier, January 1944 - The last names of Lottchen and Herbert are unknown; it is clear that Lottchen is trying to discover why she has not received any letters from Herbert; a description of her service as a nurse in a military hospital. Also in the file: - Empty military service booklet from the Nazi Navy; - Notice from the German Army Intelligence Service.

File Number : 2288

Type of Material : Notepad, Letter

Language : German

Memoirs of Bela Arshavski, born in Gadyach, Ukraine, 1921, regarding her experiences in Gadyach, as a Red Army soldier in Alekseyevka, a captive of the German Army and using a false identity in the villages of Ukraine Life in Gadyach at the outbreak of the war; drafted to the Red Army as a medical nurse; retreat after the Red Army [?]; correspondence with her family which had been evacuated to Uzbekistan; transfer to Alekseyevka with her battalion; air-raids; encounter with the German Army; killing of all the soldiers in the battalion except her and another physician; hiding of their personal documents and...

File Number : 8550

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Testimony of Ariela Fulman Harkavi, born in Lodz, Poland, in 1924, regarding her experiences in the ‎Lodz and Warsaw Ghettos, her escape and living under a false identity

Testimony of Ariela Fulman Harkavi, born in Lodz, Poland, in 1924, regarding her experiences in the ‎Lodz and Warsaw Ghettos, her escape and living under a false identity Her childhood in a well-to-do secular family; attendance at a Polish school; antisemitism; ‎occupation by the Germans; her expulsion from secondary school due to “Numerus Clausus” ‎‎(Jewish quotas); torching of the synagogue; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto at the beginning of ‎‎1940; transfer to Warsaw; transfer to the Warsaw Ghetto; studies at the Florence Nightingale ‎School of Nursing in the ghetto; death of her father; life in the...

File Number : 13653

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation belonging to Regina (Jedwab) Widawski and her husband Szaja Ber Widawski, both born in Lodz, 1945-1948

Personal documentation belonging to Regina (Jedwab) Widawski and her husband Szaja Ber Widawski, both born in Lodz, 1945-1948 - Marriage certificate of Regina Jedwab, born 28 November 1913, and Szaja Ber Widawski, born 06 August 1907, issued in Ozorkow, 10 September 1948; - Divorce certificate of Regina Jedwab from Abram Rozenbaum, born in Zawierce, Poland, 01 May 1913, issued in Lodz, 15 August 1947; - Transit pass from Katsdorf, Austria to Poland, issued to Regina Jedwab, 28 October 1945; - Certificate attesting to the fact that Regina Jedwab worked in a voluntary capacity as a medical nurse in a...

File Number : 698

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Polish, English, German

Testimony of Yaffa Charlotte Ben Meir née Landau, born in 1927 in Kisvarda, Hungary, about her experiences in the Tab ghetto, Auschwitz, Lichtenau, Leipzig, and elsewhere

Testimony

Testimony of Yaffa Charlotte Ben Meir née Landau, born in 1927 in Kisvarda, Hungary, about her experiences in the Tab ghetto, Auschwitz, Lichtenau, Leipzig, and elsewhere Life before the war; daughter of an Orthodox family; owner of Balaton Szarszo Hotel; accommodating refugees from Poland at the Passover seder; studies in Budapest; brothers inducted into labor companies; German occupation ensues in 1944; deportation to the Tab ghetto; leaving the hotel's Torah scroll in the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz on July 7, 1944; life in the camp with her sister; selections; transfer to Lichtenau; manufacturing...

File Number : 13454

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew