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Citizenship certificate for Wlodzimierz Schiz, born in Krzemieniec, Poland, 1919, including his request to receive Eretz Israeli citizenship

Citizenship certificate for Wlodzimierz Schiz, born in Krzemieniec, Poland, 1919, including his request to receive Eretz Israeli citizenship - Eretz Israeli citizenship certificate for Wlodzimierz Schiz, born in Krzemieniec, Poland, 1919, 1939; - Request for citizenship in Eretz Israel by Wlodzimierz Schiz, 13 April 1939, including a naturalization certificate, 09 May 1939; Wlodzimierz Schiz was born, 01 July 1919, worked as a clerk and his family status was unmarried. Comments: - Dvora Schiz Schneider, submitter of the material, was born in Krzemieniec, Poland, 1921; Dvora made aliya to Eretz...

File Number : 1180

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, English

Documents of Halina Ruth Cypel, including a forged identity card with a false name used during her life on the Aryan side of Warsaw, a postcard written by Jan Jakimin in Poland, 1944, received during her stay as a Polish forced laborer in Germany, 1944, and letters received in the United States after the war - Postcard sent by Jan Jakimin from Poland to Halina Stefanska (Halina Ruth Cypel's false name) in Berlin, 18 December 1944; - Halina Ruth Cypel's forged identity card with false name Halina Stefanska, used during her life on the Aryan side of Warsaw, issued in Warsaw, 07 June 1943; - Letters sent...

File Number : 1947

Type of Material : Personal Records, Names, Declaration, Letter, Postcard

Language : Polish, English, German

Personal documentation and letters of Wolf Fajwel Zylbersztejn, born in Garwolin, Poland, 1909, and his wife Bajla Furman Zylbersztejn, born in Warsaw, 1932 - 1943

Personal documentation and letters of Wolf Fajwel Zylbersztejn, born in Garwolin, Poland, 1909, and his wife Bajla Furman Zylbersztejn, born in Warsaw, 1932 - 1943 Immigration of the Zylbersztejn couple to Paris, 1930; birth of his son Jean, 1932; birth of their son Andre, 1938; birth of their daughter Therese Nicole, 1940; draft of Wolf to the French Army; transfer of Wolf to Pithiviers camp, 1941; deportation of Wolf to Auschwitz on transport 6; death of Wolf in Auschwitz, 15 January 1943; survival of Bajla in Paris; transfer of the sons to a children's house in Paris; in hiding of the sons in Nogent...

File Number : 1829

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Polish, French

Personal documentation of Joseph Levy from Colombes, born in Constantinople, Turkey, 1895, and his family including forged documents, 1943

Personal documentation of Joseph Levy from Colombes, born in Constantinople, Turkey, 1895, and his family including forged documents, 1943 Rachel Levy: born in Paris, France, 1927; escape with the family to the south of France; death of the mother Victoria Alfandary Levy, the younger brother Jacques Levy, the grandmother, the aunt and first cousin during an air-raid over Etampes, 14 June 1940; return to Paris; in hiding with an assumed name in a French orphans dormitory; The documentation also includes: Forged French ID with the name Andre Lepelletier issued to Joseph Levy in Pontivy on 22 April...

File Number : 528

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Letter

Language : Turkish, French

Letters written by Lina Seewald in Amsterdam and Hertogenbosch to her children Herta Wolf in Eretz Israel and Max Seewald in the United States, 1940-1941

Letters written by Lina Seewald in Amsterdam and Hertogenbosch to her children Herta Wolf in Eretz Israel and Max Seewald in the United States, 1940-1941 Included in the file: - Memoirs of Dr. Siegfried Rothschild, the son of the director of the Dinslaken orphanage and a childhood friend of Walter Wolf, regarding Dinslaken; - Certificate of inoculation given to Avraham Wolf, born in 1932, issued by Dr. Herbert Schlein in Dinslaken; - Copy of the will of Willy and Lina Seewald, 1937; the will was written in 1913; - Two letters sent by Max Seewald from the United States to Herta Wolf in Eretz...

File Number : 1816

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Genealogy, Letter, Postcard, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Testimony of Mordekhai Teitelbaum born in 1927 in Ostrołęka, Poland, about his experiences in Ostrołęka, escape to the Soviet Union, to Lomzha, and evacuation to Gryazi and the Kemerovo area

Testimony

Childhood in Ostrołęka; community life; attending synagogue on Sabbaths; attending a Jewish elementary school; father dies in 1935; war with Germany breaks out in September 1939; family escapes to Ostrów Mazowiecka; lives in a synagogue; German occupation ensues; German soldiers enter town; curfew; order to leave town and live elsewhere; back to Ostrołęka; escaping to the east; slipping into Belorussia, Soviet Union; reaching Lomzha; living in a synagogue; receiving Soviet citizenship; transport by rail to Russia via Belostok; reaching Gryazi; mother works in a factory; witness attends a Russian elementary...

File Number : 13379

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Betty (Ehrlich) Lowenstein, born in Germany, 1890, regarding her experiences in Germany, Harbin, Japan and her emigration to the United States, 1940

Memoirs of Betty (Ehrlich) Lowenstein, born in Germany, 1890, regarding her experiences in Germany, Harbin, Japan and her emigration to the United States, 1940 Emigration from Germany, 1940; escape on the Trans-Siberian railroad to Harbin; escape to Japan; escape to the United States, August 1940. The file includes: - German passport of Betty (Ehrlich) Lowenstein, issued in Nuremberg, 1939; - United States naturalization certificate of Betty Ehrlich Lowenstein; - Correspondence between Betty Lowenstein and Henny Messinger, the actual mother of her adopted son, Heinz Lowenstein, via the American...

File Number : 8289

Type of Material : Passport, Personal Documents, Memoirs, Red Cross Letter

Language : English, German

Personal documentation including business documents belonging to Albert Koppe from Breslau, Germany regarding the experiences of his family in Germany until 1939, and in Shanghai until 1950

Personal documentation including business documents belonging to Albert Koppe from Breslau, Germany regarding the experiences of his family in Germany until 1939, and in Shanghai until 1950 Move of his wife, Marie (Konigsberger) Koppe, to Shanghai; move of his son, Felix Peter Koppe, to Shanghai; diary kept by Koppe during his last year in China; letters from the Red Cross regarding the fate of relatives of Koppe who remained in Germany; submission of the documentation by Felix Peter Koppe.

File Number : 617

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Genealogy, Passport, Diary, Administrative Documentation

Language : Chinese, Polish, English, German

Documentation regarding the Ilewicki family, including letters and postcards sent to Benjamin Ilewicki in the United States by his wife and children in Baranowice, and personal documentation, newspaper clippings and other documents, 1923-1987 - Letters and postcards sent to Benjamin Ilewicki in the United States by his wife and children in Baranowice, 1940-1941; - Personal documents of Benjamin Ilewicki Lewis and his family members; - Letters received by Benjamin Ilewicki Lewis from various places, before and after the war; - Correspondence by George Lewis (Benjamin's brother) with official...

File Number : 1685

Type of Material : Postcard, Newspaper Clippings, Personal Documents, Letter, Telegram, Questionnaire, Official Documentation

Language : Belarusian, Polish, English, Russian, Yiddish

Testimony of Eric Wasserman, born in Wuerzburg, Germany, 22 July 1921, regarding his experiences in the Jungfernhof camp and concerning mass murders which took place there

Testimony of Eric Wasserman, born in Wuerzburg, Germany, 22 July 1921, regarding his experiences in the Jungfernhof camp and concerning mass murders which took place there In the file: - Legal report regarding Rudolf Seck, the commandant of the camp; - Personal documentation of Eric Wasserman from the period after his liberation from Buchenwald; - Two letters from June-July 1946 telling of the fate of Wasserman's sister, Ilsa Wasserman, who perished in the Holocaust; - Death certificate for Wasserman's father, Karl Wasserman, who was in the Riga camp and perished. Personal documentation...

File Number : 8080

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Death Certificate, Investigation Report, Letter, Reports

Language : English, German

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