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[Announcement regarding] a gathering in memory of the Zionist leaders, Benjamin Zeev [Theodor] Herzl, and Chaim Nachman Bialik, posted by the Keren Kayemet L'Israel (KKL-JNF Jewish National Fund)

File Number : 860

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Michael Marci Hershkovitz Ofri, born in Dombovar, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Dombovar, Gorgenyoroszfalu, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camp and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Michael Marci Hershkovitz Ofri, born in Dombovar, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Dombovar, Gorgenyoroszfalu, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camp and other places Family life before the war; his father is a cantor; community leaders forbid Zionist activities; studies in Budapest. Drafted to forced labor, October 1943; Yom Kippur in Cluj; forced labor building an air field in Gorgenyoroszfalu; transfer to Ferihegy; builds an airfield in Rakoshegy, winter 1943; German occupation, May 1944; removal of Jewish belongings from Rakoshegy; transfer to Ersekujvar, autumn, 1944;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Horvitz, born in Miskolc, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Sajoszentpeter Ghetto, Jelsava camp, Pelmonostor, Budapest and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Horvitz, born in Miskolc, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Sajoszentpeter Ghetto, Jelsava camp, Pelmonostor, Budapest and other places His parents are from the Rabbi Tennenbaum and Rabbi Nuefeld families. Draft of his father to forced labor in Kunmadaras, 1942; arrival of refugees from Poland and Slovakia; German occupation, March 1944; closure of the family's shop; deportation to the Sajoszentpeter Ghetto, May 1944; drafted to a labor battalion; transfer to Jelsava; camp life including agricultural labor and in forests; failed escape attempts; transfer to Palmonostora,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Distribution lists of Jewish newspapers published in London, 1941-1945

Distribution lists of Jewish newspapers published in London, 1941-1945 - Distribution lists of Jewish newspapers, including "Our Tribune", the "Jewish Chronicle" and the "Jewish Weekly"; the distribution list is arranged by categories: Jewish organizations in London, Jewish organizations outside of London, clergy, Polish governmental authorities; private individuals and soldiers; - Distribution list of Jewish newspapers in Yiddish and Hebrew; - Distribution list of the journal "Dziennik Polski" in Great Britain, Canada, Eretz Israel and Argentina.

File Number : 649.1

Type of Material : List of Names, Newspaper, Lists, Journal

Language : Polish, English, Yiddish

Work certificates and other permits belonging to Menasze Mozelsio from the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944

Work certificates and other permits belonging to Menasze Mozelsio from the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944 - Two work certificates of Menasze Mozelsio attesting to his employment on the Lodz Ghetto Judenrat as a physician; the first certificate was not extended and the second was issued 01 July 1944; - Travel permit on the streets of the Lodz Ghetto issued for Menasze Mozelsio by the local Judenrat; - Certificate dated 20 June 1941, attesting to the fact that Menasze Mozelsio has been appointed to work in the Sanitation Department of the Hospital for Tuberculosis Patients in the Lodz Ghetto; - Newspaper...

File Number : 548

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Official Documentation

Language : German, Yiddish

Official documents from the Centrala Evreilor din Romania (CE - Jewish Center in Romania) regarding the activities of Dr. Wilhelm Filderman, Radu Lecca, Commissioner for Jewish Problems, and Nandor Ghingold, General Secretary of the CE Central Committee, 1941-1943 - Activities of Dr. Wilhelm Filderman, Radu Lecca and Nandor Ghingold regarding the following issues: annulment of work contracts of Jews; emigration and repatriation; providing assistance to deportees; aliya to Eretz Israel; petitions to employ Jews; anti-Jewish legislation; confiscation of property by the Centrul National de Romanizare (CNR -...

File Number : 200

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation

Language : Romanian

Testimony of Gheorghe Balanceanu Ionescu, Executive Secretary of the Romanian Royal Family, 28 August 1962

Testimony of Gheorghe Balanceanu Ionescu, Executive Secretary of the Romanian Royal Family, 28 August 1962 - The testimony was given while Gheorghe Balanceanu Ionescu was in detention.

File Number : 198

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Romanian

Documentation of the Centrala Evreilor (CE - Jewish Center) regarding the activities of Radu Lecca, Commissioner for Jewish Problems, and Nandor Ghingold, General Secretary of the CE Central Committee, 1941-1963 - Correspondence regarding Jewish physicians, including the Association of Jewish Doctors; confiscation of property by the Centrul National de Romanizare (CNR - National Center for Romanization) (p.109); forced labor; anti-Jewish legislation; emigration with the help of the Red Cross (French, p. 147); taxes; payments in exchange for exemptions from forced labor; deportations to Transnistria; Jewish...

File Number : 160

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report

Language : French, Romanian, German

Pertitions of the Uniunilor de Comunitati Evreesti (UCE - Union of Jewish Communities) and the Federatia Uniunilor de Comunitati Evreesti (FUCE - Federation of Jewish Communities Unions) to government offices regarding the antisemitic policy of the Antonescu regime and the intensification of the antisemitic policy after the outbreak of the war against the Soviet Union, June-November 1941 - Petitions of the UCE and the FUCE to government offices regarding the antisemitic policy of the Antonescu regime and the intensification of the antisemitic policy after the outbreak of the war against the Soviet...

File Number : 94 94.3(A-C)

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Romanian

Testimony of the former Minister Vincenzo Giovanni Soro, the Second Secretary at the Italian Embassy in Warsaw

Testimony of the former Minister Vincenzo Giovanni Soro, the Second Secretary at the Italian Embassy in Warsaw - Testimony of the former Minister Vincenzo Giovanni Soro, the Second Secretary at the Italian Embassy in Warsaw regarding the help given by the First Secretary Di Stefano in the rescue of Jews from Poland after its occupation by granting travel permits and visas to San Domingo; the sympathetic position taken by the Italian Foreign Ministry to their activities; difficulties thrust on them by the German Occupation authorities in Warsaw, especially Zeitchele, and contacts with Meissinger, the Warsaw...

File Number : 138

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Italian

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