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Documentation regarding Hans Paul Weiner, born in Trautenau, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel and service in PAL-Company 608

Documentation regarding Hans Paul Weiner, born in Trautenau, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel and service in PAL-Company 608 - Excerpts from the British Army historical documentation collection, regarding PAL-Company 608, dated, 31 March 1941-17 January 1944; - Photographs and newspaper clippings from "The Palestine Post", 20 May-09 June 1941; - Memoirs of Hans Paul Weiner; Childhood in Trautenau; Escape by his family from a pail [?] to a pogrom; [move?] to Prague, September 1938; attempts to receive an emigration visa in preparation for aliya; illegal aliya from...

File Number : 389

Type of Material : Survey Report, Diary, Telegram, Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings

Language : English, German

To be translated

File Number : 1222

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : English

Testimony of Efraim Furman, born in Wasiliszki, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in Biala Podlaska camp, Konskowola camp, Budzyn camp, Plaszow camp, Gross-Rosen camp and more

Testimony of Efraim Furman, born in Wasiliszki, Poland, 1917, regarding his experiences in Biala Podlaska camp, Konskowola camp, Budzyn camp, Plaszow camp, Gross-Rosen camp and more Death of his mother before the war; work of his father as a tailor; marriage of his elder brother; five siblings; service in the Polish Army before the war; Being taken prisoner by the Germans one half year after the beginning of the war; transfer to a POW camp in Stalag 1; life in Stalag 1 including forced labor in a separate regiment for Jewish POWs, until late 1940; deportation from Germany to Poland, 1941; arrival at...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Permit issued in the Lamsdorf POW camp for British soldier Albert Fano, 13 May 1942, and military service booklet received by him upon mobilization, 9 December 1940

Permit issued in the Lamsdorf POW camp for British soldier Albert Fano, 13 May 1942, and military service booklet received by him upon mobilization, 9 December 1940 - Permit issued in the Lamsdorf POW camp for the transfer of British Jewish soldier Albert Fano to the camp hospital, 13 May 1942; - Notification sent on behalf of the British Army regarding Albert Fano being taken captive, 16 August 1941; - Military service booklet belonging to Albert Bohor Fano, born in Burgas, Bulgaria, 23 March 1908, mobilized in Sarafand, 9 December 1940; booklet contains soldier’s personal information, including...

File Number : 634

Type of Material : Personal Records, Notepad, Official Documentation

Language : English, German

To be translated

File Number : 3592

Type of Material : Names, Official Documentation

Language : Russian

Postcards sent by Leon Marcel Blum in Oflag XVII A and Offizierlager X C POW camps in Lubeck to Charles and Sophie Heinrich in Bischwiller (Bischweiler) in the Bas Rhin region, 1941-1944

Postcards sent by Leon Marcel Blum in Oflag XVII A and Offizierlager X C POW camps in Lubeck to Charles and Sophie Heinrich in Bischwiller (Bischweiler) in the Bas Rhin region, 1941-1944 Comments by the submitter of the material (Marianne Duvernoy): Leon Marcel Blum was born in Bischwiller, 05/07/1907; his father Albert Blum owned a textile factory; his mother Emma Simo was from Germany (her parents were Karl and Sophie Simo); Leon had one brother, Claude, born in 1908; Albert Blum was the head of the community in Bischwiller, and he established the city's electricity infrastructures. He was chosen...

File Number : 1911

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : French, German

Two articles that appeared in the "Bolshevistskiy natisk" newspaper regarding Nazi crimes in Lyubar and Sanok

Two articles that appeared in the "Bolshevistskiy natisk" newspaper regarding Nazi crimes in Lyubar and Sanok The first article, "Ne zabudem, ne prostim" (Never Forget and Never Forgive), includes a survey report regarding Nazi crimes in Lyubar; in August 1941 the Germans gathered all the Jews living in Lyubar and brought them to the sand quarries near the city; there they shot the Jews to death in groups of 50-80 people; on 29 October 1941, the time of the second "Aktion", an execution of the Jews of Lyubar was held in the sand quarries, published 17 January 1944; The second article deals with the...

File Number : 297

Type of Material : Names, Article, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Russian

Article published in the "Za schastye Rodiny" (For the Happiness of the Motherland) newspaper regarding Nazi crimes in Vinnitsa

Article published in the "Za schastye Rodiny" (For the Happiness of the Motherland) newspaper regarding Nazi crimes in Vinnitsa The article is entitled "V dni koshmara" (In the Days of the Nightmare); occupation of the city of Vinnitsa by the German Army, 18 July 1941; order to all the Jews of the city to report to the stadium in Vinnitsa, where they were surrounded by Germans and taken to a murder site in the forest, approximately two kilometers from Vinnitsa; establishment of a camp for Soviet POWs; deportation of young local residents for forced labor in Germany; at the end of the article there is a call...

File Number : 286

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : Russian

"Stalinskoye Znamya" (Stalin's Flag), an article published in a newspaper, regarding Nazi crimes in Drogobych

"Stalinskoye Znamya" (Stalin's Flag), an article published in a newspaper, regarding Nazi crimes in Drogobych Division of German forces after they occupied Drogobych in late June 1941; explanation of the term "Aktion"; interviews with eyewitnesses; one of the witnesses who escaped from the camp told of murder by gas at the Magerov camp; murder of 18,000 Jews in Drogobych; "death of natural causes" in the Soviet POW camp. In the article there is a photograph of local residents near the bodies of those murdered in the village of Poddembin, in the Drohobych Region; at the end of the article there is a call...

File Number : 281

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : Russian

Letter of Testimony written by Red Army soldier Mazur regarding life in the Latonovo camp and in hiding in Taganrog

Letter of Testimony written by Red Army soldier Mazur regarding life in the Latonovo camp and in hiding in Taganrog Letter written by Mazur, a Red Army soldier, who was taken captive and detained in a POW camp in Latonovo; despite the order by the Germans to hand over the Jewish POWs, the POWs did not turn him in; Georgiy Sakhshvilli, one of the POWs in the camp who knew that Mazur was a Jew, helped him and took him to the hospital in Taganrog, and even carried the wounded Mazur on his back for part of the journey; in Taganrog, he was treated at the hospital and he received the documents of Morozov, one of...

File Number : 234

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Names of Rescuers

Language : Russian

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