Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

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File Number : 5458

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German, Yiddish

Testimony of Michael Michel Rappoport, born in Lille, France, in 1941, regarding his experiences being smuggled into a monastery in 1942 and into hiding in a local home

Testimony

Testimony of Michael Michel Rappoport, born in Lille, France, in 1941, regarding his experiences being smuggled into a monastery in 1942 and into hiding in a local home Testimony regarding an immigrant family from Łódź; deportation with his mother to Lille train station by gendarmes; being smuggled into a monastery together with his mother with the help of railway workers in 1942; hiding with a local family; end of the war; staying at an Oeuvre de protection des enfants Juifs (OPEJ) boarding school; aliya to Israel in 1961.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence between the Kaufman and Levinsky families and relatives in Eretz Israel, France, the United States and the Soviet Union, 1936-1982; letters and telegrams regarding the child Aimé Levinsky who survived the Holocaust in France, and more A Hebrew translation is attached to most of the letters. Personal letters regarding the Kaufman and Levinsky families: - Letters written by K. Lichtenstein in Tel Aviv to her friend Luba Kaufman in Eretz Israel, 15 and 22 January 1936; - Letters written by Lea (Kaufman) Levinsky in Châlette-sur-Loing, France to her sisters Luba, Chana and Zipporah...

File Number : 3775

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Telegram, Newspaper Clippings, Personal Documents, Documentary, Article, Map, Letter

Language : Hebrew, French, English, Russian, Yiddish

Testimony of Yisrael Birnberg, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in a convent in Kortrijk, Belgium

Testimony

Testimony of Yisrael Birnberg, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in a convent in Kortrijk, Belgium Childhood in the home of his parents, stateless immigrants from Poland. The German occupation, 1940; his father's departure for France on business; start of the deportations from Belgium, summer, 1942; sending of forged documents for his mother, his sister, and him by his father; their departure for Paris by train; forcing the passengers to leave the train in Menin, on the Belgian-French border; detention of his mother who denied that his sister and he were her...

File Number : 14063

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters from René Herlinger from Villeurbanne, France, to Deborah Toledano, Israel, 2006, regarding the experiences of his family during the Holocaust

Letters from René Herlinger from Villeurbanne, France, to Deborah Toledano, Israel, 2006, regarding the experiences of his family during the Holocaust - Letter from René Herlinger from Villeurbanne, France, to Deborah Toledano, Israel, 27 February 2006: Life in Strasbourg, 1958; life in Roanne, France; deportation of his mother, Françoise Fuchsova, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1915, to Auschwitz, 1944, where she perished; being hidden by a priest, 1942-1944; - Letter sent by René Herlinger from Villeurbanne, France, to Deborah Toledano, Israel, 03 March 2006: Deportation of his mother to Auschwitz,...

File Number : 2967

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, French