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Reconstructed map of Ricka, Czechoslovakia, [drawn] by Mordechai Martin Vizer

Reconstructed map of Ricka, Czechoslovakia, [drawn] by Mordechai Martin Vizer Comments by the submitter of the material: Mordechai Martin Vizer was born in Ricka, Czechoslovakia, August 1925; move of the family to Volove, late 1920s; learns in a yeshiva in Kosice Mesto; his father had a business producing alcoholic beverages. Deportation of the family to Auschwitz, 1944; labor there in a coal mine; on a death march; liberation by the Red Army, apparently. Return of Vizer to Volove and reunion there with his brother and his sister; move to Belgium, life in Belgium until 1949; aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 338

Type of Material : Map

Language : Hebrew

Article by Dora Gabe containing a speech she delivered before the screening of a documentary film about Nazi criminals in Majdanek, and a portrait of Abraham Bahar, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1903, as an inmate of a labor camp, drawn by David Perez - Preparation for screening a documentary film about Nazi criminals in Majdanek by the Polish-Bulgarian Fellowship; opening speech delivered by Dora Gabe, the vice-chairperson of the Fellowship, before the screening of the film; - Portrait of Abraham Bahar as an inmate of a labor camp, drawn by David Perez. Note by the submitter of the material, Moshe Bahar,...

Type of Material : Article, Drawing

Language : Bulgarian

Documentation gathered in the Theresienstadt Ghetto regarding the activities of the Aeltestenrat (Council of Elders) Transportabteilung (Transport Department), undated

Documentation gathered in the Theresienstadt Ghetto regarding the activities of the Aeltestenrat (Council of Elders) Transportabteilung (Transport Department), undated - Lists of inmates in the ghetto; - List of Jewish inmates deported from the Netherlands to the Theresienstadt Ghetto prepared by the Joodse Coordinatie Commissie (Jewish Coordinating Committee); - List of children who drew pictures in the ghetto and were deported to Auschwitz where they were murdered.

File Number : 49

Type of Material : Deportation List

Language : Czech, French, German

Memoirs of Golda (Schnitzer) Noilander, born in Romania, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz camp

Memoirs of Golda (Schnitzer) Noilander, born in Romania, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz camp Memoirs entitled "The story of Grandma Golda" edited by Racheli Noy, Golda's daughter-in-law: Life in Auschwitz camp; transfer to forced labor; distribution of food rations after the day’s labor in the camp; giving her meal to a child on the other side of the barbed wire fence; leg wound from the sharp barbed wire and suffering from inflammation; sent for treatment and returning to forced labor; Included in the file: - a painting by Rachel Noy describing an episode from Golda Noilander’s life in...

File Number : 11389

Type of Material : Drawing, Genealogy, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Story and presentation about a painting produced by Jewish children at the Hebrew-language Atzmaut school in Rowne in 1935, on the occasion of the immigration to Eretz Israel of Dvora Duda Shandrovich, born in 1926 in Radom - Story of a painting produced by Jewish children at the Hebrew-language Atzmaut school in Rowne in 1935; the painting was produced on the occasion of the immigration to Eretz Israel of Dvora Shandrovich, nicknamed Duda, born in 1926 in Radom, daughter of Nachum Shandrovich and Sonja Shandrovich née Warba ; the painting was found in her home by Hani Bruchin, Dvora’s daughter, on June 27,...

File Number : 453

Type of Material : Documentary, Drawing

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sonia Sara Gurfein Burger, born Vilna, Poland, 1927, regarding deportation to the Oszmiana and Molodeczno Ghettos and to Stutthof camp

Testimony

Testimony of Sonia Sara Gurfein Burger, born Vilna, Poland, 1927, regarding deportation to the Oszmiana and Molodeczno Ghettos and to Stutthof camp Only daughter of a traditional family; livelihood of her father from trading in animal organs; move of her family to Oszmiana when she was seven years old; studying at a Polish school; activity in Hashomer Hatzair; outbreak of war in 1939; Soviet occupation of Oszmiana; studies in Russian ; invasion of the Soviet Union by the Wehrmacht in 1941; arrest of her father with other Jewish men and their murder; continuing to live at home in the ghetto with her mother;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Baruch Vind, born in Chodorow, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Chodorow Ghetto, using a false identity on a farm in Ivanovka and in the Kharkow area, as a Red Army soldier in Berlin, and more From an observant Orthodox family in Chodorow; Hashomer Hazair membership from 1936; his father's death. Soviet occupation, 1939; attendance at a Yiddish school; artistic abilities; painting the school's walls; publication of Soviet propaganda by the authorities; prohibition on Zionist activities; German occupation, June 1941; the first "Aktion" and the murder of his mother; deportation to...

File Number : 14128

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence and official documents related to the experiences of Wolfgang Masser, born in Munich, Germany in 1927, and his family members, 1918-2011

Correspondence and official documents related to the experiences of Wolfgang Masser, born in Munich, Germany in 1927, and his family members, 1918-2011 • Letters and postcards sent by Lothar Masser, a bank manager, and his wife, violinist Gertrud (Hirsch) Masser, residents of Munich, Germany, to their son Wolfgang, whom they sent to Switzerland in order to escape from the Nazi decrees, while they themselves did not succeed in leaving Germany, 25/12/1939-09/11/1941; • Letters from Wolf's grandmother Augusta Hirsch, who emigrated to the Netherlands following the Nazi rise to power and who resided in The...

File Number : 3272

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Administrative Documentation, Letter, Postcard

Language : German