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Poem written by Frieda Oppenheimer in Theresienstadt in honor of Hanukkah, 1944

Poem written by Frieda Oppenheimer in Theresienstadt in honor of Hanukkah, 1944 Comments by the submitter of the material: The poem was copied (from where is unknown) by the mother of Rachel Schwab (the submitter of the material); she herself was not in Theresienstadt.

File Number : 283

Type of Material : Poem/song

Language : German

Poems written by Karl Rosenzweig from Cernauti in the Tulchin camp, 1943-1944

Poems written by Karl Rosenzweig from Cernauti in the Tulchin camp, 1943-1944 - Journal of poems written by Karl Rosenzweig from Cernauti in the Tulchin camp, including a poem written in Mogilev, 30 May 1944; - "Geburtstagswunsch (Birthday Wish)", dedicated to Rosa Rozenshtraus-Rozenhak, written 13 June 1944; - "In Ladijin, im Grab am Bug (In Ladijin, in a Grave by the Bug river)", in memory of Richard Rosenzweig (Karl Rosenzweig's brother) who perished in the Holocaust and was buried in Ladijin by the Bug river in Transnistria, 04 November 1943.

File Number : 280

Type of Material : Poems/songs

Language : German

Memoirs of Shimon Gutman, born in Irena Deblin, Poland, regarding his experiences in Bergen-Belsen

Memoirs of Shimon Gutman, born in Irena Deblin, Poland, regarding his experiences in Bergen-Belsen Life in Bergen-Belsen, 14 June 1945; transfer to the sick barrack after contracting typhus, February 1945; being unconscious for eight days; observing the Pesach holiday (March 1945) including baking matza and saying kiddush over the matza; transfer of his brother Yaakov to the sick barrack; announcement by the block leader of the transfer of all the inmates except for those in the sick barrack; order to evacuate the camp; remaining with his sick brother and additional patients with typhus; caring for the sick;...

File Number : 8506

Type of Material : Memoirs, Poems/songs, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Poems composed by Sara (Gurevich) Licht, 1944-1945, and written down after the war, including a translation of one of the poems into Hebrew

Poems composed by Sara (Gurevich) Licht, 1944-1945, and written down after the war, including a translation of one of the poems into Hebrew Notes from Hedva Volkovich, the submitter of the material: Sara (Gurevich) Licht was born in Poland in 1931. During the war she was at the Stutthof camp, and she was liberated in 1945. After the war she lived in Lithuania, and in 1958 she moved to Poland. She died in Israel in 1984.

File Number : 274

Type of Material : Poems/songs

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Memoirs of Herrmann Heinz, born in Opava, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in Terezin and Auschwitz-Birkenau, translated to Hebrew and titled "Mein Kampf versus the Final Solution", 1984 The essay was originally called "Mein Kampf gegen die Endloesung"; it was translated to Hebrew by Yehudit Beichler and can be found in the Yad Vashem Library.

File Number : 2

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Collection of articles regarding art and medicine in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, including poems written by inmates in the ghetto, undated

Collection of articles regarding art and medicine in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, including poems written by inmates in the ghetto, undated - Article by Vilem Weber, regarding the fate of Jewish poetess Ilse Weber, who was an inmate in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, and perished, 1944. Including in the file are the names of the following poets: Ilse Weber; Kurt Kapper; Arnost Weisz; Alena Synkova; Dagmar Hilarova.

File Number : 467

Type of Material : Poem/song, Article

Language : Czech, German

Poems/Songs written by Iren (Steier) Weinberger in the Nagyvarad Ghetto, Auschwitz and Goerlitz, 1944-1945

Poems/Songs written by Iren (Steier) Weinberger in the Nagyvarad Ghetto, Auschwitz and Goerlitz, 1944-1945 Her poems were also published in the Hungarian weekly journal, "Het Tukre".

File Number : 246

Type of Material : Poems/songs

Language : Hungarian

Poems by Mary Goldberg regarding camp life for the female inmates of the Plauen labor camp, written May 1945

File Number : 240

Type of Material : Poems/songs

Language : Polish

Testimony of Zipora Kohn, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Groden and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora Kohn, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Groden and other places Her childhood in an Orthodox, religious family including attending a Hebrew school and Zionist activities. Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; Lodz Ghetto life including labor in workshops; distribution of food; "Aktion" against children; arrival of Jewish refugees from Germany; lack of knowledge regarding [the fate of] the Jews in camps; liquidation of the ghetto, summer 1944; deportation to Auschwitz with her sister; camp life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Ella Rosenblatt née Wertheim: Songs, poems, letters, and other texts

Ella Rosenblatt née Wertheim, born Wloclawek 1905: Songs, poems, letters, and other texts, 1941-1946 Letters to the Jewish Central Committee in Warsaw about the lives of Holocaust survivors in Pomerania, Germany after the war; The witness notes that 200 Jews from Germany and Jews from Vilna, Kovno and Lodz survived in Polczyn, Pomerania. A kollel has been set up there, and a hostel for Jewish children from Poland is planned; a list of girls searching for relatives in Poland; A collection of songs and poems written between 1941-1945 in Warsaw, Grodno, and Grochow; in these poems, the author describes the...

File Number : 545

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Letter

Language : Polish, German

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