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Testimony of Kiti Katalina (Shor) Guttman, born in Satoraljaujhely, Hungary, 1936, regarding her experiences as a child in marked houses and an orphanage in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Kiti Katalina (Shor) Guttman, born in Satoraljaujhely, Hungary, 1936, regarding her experiences as a child in marked houses and an orphanage in Budapest Life before the war; secular family with hardships; move to Budapest, 1939; life in Budapest. Outbreak of the war; deportation of her father to forced labor, 1940; imposition of anti-Jewish decrees; transfer to marked houses; difficulties with the distribution of food; deportation of her mother; return of her mother to Budapest as an essential worker; placed in an orphanage; transfer of food to the orphans by the Jewish underground;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Collection of the Ministry of Interior in the Netherlands, Department for Needy Persons, 1936-1945 Another name for the collection: Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken: Afdeling Armwezen in The Hague

Collection of the Ministry of Interior in the Netherlands, Department for Needy Persons, 1936-1945 Another name for the collection: Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken: Afdeling Armwezen in The Hague The collection attests to the coping by the Dutch government with the influx of Jewish refugees before the war, and the policies of the Dutch government during the German occupation period; Included in the collection: Internal correspondence regarding stipends to Jews; Documents regarding mixed marriages among Jews in Rotterdam, 1942; Documents regarding the care of war orphans and children who are...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Dutch, German

Testimony of Arkadi Sobol, born in Ukraine, 1930, regarding his experiences in Bar, wanderings and in the Kopai Gorod Ghetto

Testimony of Arkadi Sobol, born in Ukraine, 1930, regarding his experiences in Bar, wanderings and in the Kopai Gorod Ghetto Life in Bar. Outbreak of the war; German occupation of the city of Bar, July 1941; cruelty of Gregory Androsov, the Chief of Police; establishment of three ghettos in the Bar; concentration of the Jews; establishment of a Judenrat; forced labor and murder of Jews who were found unfit for labor, including his grandmother, 19 August 1942; difficulties in subsistence and help from the local population; escape from an "Aktion" due to being warned; in hiding and wanderings; murder of his...

File Number : 15

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of the Skopje Jewish community, 1941-1943

Documentation of the Skopje Jewish community, 1941-1943 Documentation of the Skopje Jewish community from occupation of Skopje by the Bulgarian Army until summer, 1943. -The anti-Jewish legislation; - Lists of poor Jews and foreign citizens; - German documents regarding deportation of the Jews; - Blank forms regarding confiscation of property after the deportation; - Government decisions; - Photographs of the deportation including deportation of the Jews of Thrace.

File Number : 26

Type of Material : List of Persecuted Persons, List of Jews, Official Documentation, Photograph

Language : Bulgarian, Hebrew, German, Serbian-Croatian

Correspondence by representatives of the Jewish welfare organizations and committees in Radomysl Wielki, Poland with the administration of the Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (Jewish Social Self-Help organization - ZSS) in Krakow, 25/08/1940-30/04/1942 - Correspondence with the Radomysl Wielki Judenrat, regarding welfare associations that were active before the outbreak of war: the Talmud Torah Association, a Jewish charity organization named for Rywka and Dwojra Weinberger, the National Jewish Library, and the Gemiluth Hasidim organization; - List of Jewish entrepreneurs in the Radomysl Wielki community; -...

File Number : 1006

Type of Material : Telegram, Documentation, List of Jewish Community Members, Letter(s), Postcard, Correspondence, List of Jews, Administrative Documentation

Language : Polish, German

Documentation of Marco Baruch, founder of the Zionist organization in Bulgaria

Documentation of Marco Baruch, founder of the Zionist organization in Bulgaria Copies of documents and letters on Baruch; Certificate of Baruch from a university in Bern, 28 July 1893; Letter written by Dr. Reuven Birer to Chief Rabbi Dr. Mordehai Grunvald, 29 May 1895; Letters of Baruch regarding his Zionist activities, December 1895; Newspaper articles with letters written by Baruch to Herzl in Vienna regarding his Zionist activities, 1898-1899; Memoirs of Baruch written by prominent Zionists in Bulgaria including Jacob Caleb, Raphael Kalev and Dr. Joshua Calev; Notes on Baruch, without the name of...

File Number : 243

Type of Material : Letter, Newspaper Clippings, Survey

Language : Bulgarian, Hebrew, French, German

Testimony of Mania Vinik, born in Teplik, Ukraine, 1927, regarding her experiences in Tarasovka, forests, in hiding and the Bershad Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Mania Vinik, born in Teplik, Ukraine, 1927, regarding her experiences in Tarasovka, forests, in hiding and the Bershad Ghetto From a family of limited means; witness's father is a carpenter; her mother is a seamstress. German occupation, 1941; anti-Jewish decrees including white armband with a Jewish star; deportation to Tarasovka; camp life including labor building a road between Uman and Vinnitsa; escape to forests; escape to a village; village life including being hidden in a cellar and afterwards in the attic in the home of a farmer woman; escape to Bershad; ghetto life including contact...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Reghina (Schiff) Demeter, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1922, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Liebau

Testimony

Testimony of Reghina (Schiff) Demeter, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1922, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Liebau From a poor ultra-Orthodox family; witness's father is a rabbi; attends a Romanian school. Re-annexation to Hungary; increase in antisemitism; escape to Budapest; German occupation, March 1944; decrees including yellow badge; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, summer 1944; transfer to Liebau; camp life including labor at an air field; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945. Return to Budapest; marriage; aliya to Israel, 1990.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Two letters sent from Tluszcz and Warsaw to relatives in the United States, 1939

Two letters sent from Tluszcz and Warsaw to relatives in the United States, 1939 - Letter sent by Leah Gittel from Tluszcz to her daughter in the United States regarding family problems and the desire to know how the children, the grandchildren and the relatives are; - Letter sent by Rojsa Goldstein from Warsaw to her uncle in the United States regarding the lack of work and family problems.

File Number : 659

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Yiddish

Correspondence of the Judenrat in Radomsko with Jewish aid organizations from 1940-1942

Correspondence of the Judenrat in Radomsko with Jewish aid organizations from 1940-1942 - Correspondence of the Judenrat in Radomsko with the Jewish Social Self-Help Organization (Jüdische Soziale Selbsthilfe) and other aid organizations from 1940-1942; the correspondence includes descriptions of the economic distress of the ghetto residents, overcrowding, impoverishment, livelihood hardships and transfer of Jews to forced labor; the correspondence also includes a list of members of the Judenrat dated 20 August 1940 (Chairman - Moses Berger), reports on the activities of the Judenrat in January-May 1941,...

File Number : 1862

Type of Material : Statistical Reports, Certification, Survey Report, Letter, Official Documentation

Language : Polish, German

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