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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 : Newspaper Clippings, Diary, Telegram, Official Documentation, Survey Report

Language : English, German

Letter written by Moisey Lanchin from Khmelnik regarding the murder of his parents and other Jews from Khmelnik and his experiences during the years 1941-1944

Letter written by Moisey Lanchin from Khmelnik regarding the murder of his parents and other Jews from Khmelnik and his experiences during the years 1941-1944 Moisey Lanchin enlisted in the Red Army at the outbreak of the war, and worked in the draft bureau; his parents were not evacuated from Khmelnik because they did not want to leave him; at the beginning of the German occupation, Lanchin started to work as an electrician at the Khmelnik railroad station; on 09 January 1942 the Jews of Khmelnik were taken for execution; Moisey Lanchin hid with his father in the attic, and his mother hid in the cellar of...

File Number : 239

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Letter of testimony by Basya Pikman, regarding her experiences in Minsk, Mozyr and in many other places in Belorussia during 1941-1944

Letter of testimony by Basya Pikman, regarding her experiences in Minsk, Mozyr and in many other places in Belorussia during 1941-1944 Basya Pikman, born in Mozyr, departed from Minsk on 25/06/1941 and walked approximately 30 kilometers while under German air-raids; after she encountered a German mobile unit, she wandered in a forest for four days until reaching the village of Skuraty; she returned to Minsk from Skuraty; establishment of a labor camp in Minsk; separation of the Jews from the other inmates; registration of all of the Jews; demand for payment of a [forced] contribution; establishment of the...

File Number : 156

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Letter of testimony written by Yelizaveta Pikarmer from Odessa regarding her experiences in the Domanevka and Akhmechetka camps, 1942-1944

Letter of testimony written by Yelizaveta Pikarmer from Odessa regarding her experiences in the Domanevka and Akhmechetka camps, 1942-1944 Beginning of Romanian occupation of Odessa from 16 October 1941; many arrests, demands for forced contributions from the Jews in exchange for release of those arrested, until 3-4 November; order to deport the Odessa Jews to Domanevka and Bogdanovka, 10 January 1942; murder of most of the Jews at Domanevka and Bogdanovka, late January-early February 1942. Arrival of Yelizaveta Pikarmer in Domanevka, 15 December 1942; abuse of the Jews, including beatings, humiliation,...

File Number : 155

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Collective testimony of Vayntroyb, Vapnik and the Anolik brothers, born in Vilna, regarding their experiences in Klooga camp during 1943-1944

Collective testimony of Vayntroyb, Vapnik and the Anolik brothers, born in Vilna, regarding their experiences in Klooga camp during 1943-1944 The testimony was submitted at a meeting of survivors of camps in Estonia, held in a Jewish school in Vilna on 10/12/1944; Deportation to Klooga camp; bodily, physical search of the inmates; receipt of [food] rations; forced labor in a sawmill, a factory and in workshops; labor by the men, carrying of bags of cement; labor by the women, in quarries and carrying rocks; daily schedule in the camp including check-ups, searches and punishments; poisoning of the sick and...

File Number : 15

Type of Material : Testimony, Names of Perpetrators, Names

Language : Russian

Testimony of Ana (Shuster) Fainshtayn, born in Secureni, Romania, 1920, regarding her experiences in Briceni, Mogilev, Varlejeni, Yampol, Obodovka and in the Bershad Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Ana (Shuster) Fainshtayn, born in Secureni, Romania, 1920, regarding her experiences in Briceni, Mogilev, Vartejeni, Yampol, Obodovka and in the Bershad Ghetto Deportation to Transnistria, June 1941; transfer to Briceni, transfer to Mogilev, transfer to Vartejeni; camp life, July 1941-August 1941; march to Yampol; march to Obodovka over the course of two months; life in the Bershad Ghetto, October 1941-March 1944. Life after the war; aliya to Israel, 13 August 1990.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Collection of Schoorl camp in the Netherlands, 1940-1941, and correspondence regarding Schoorl camp until 1979

Collection of Schoorl camp in the Netherlands, 1940-1941, and correspondence regarding Schoorl camp until 1979 Included in the collection: Personal documents, including letters, poems/songs and paintings; Photographs of Schoorl camp and a map of Schoorl camp and the surrounding area; Orders by the Schoorl camp administration, regarding discipline, freedom of movement, cleanliness, the receipt of postal items, and other matters; List of inmates in Schoorl camp, 1940-1941; Documents including a statement of defense by K. Berg, commander of Schoorl camp and Amersfoort camp; Appeals to various...

Type of Material : Letter, Instruction, List of Names, Document, Testimony, Poems/songs, Map

Language : Dutch, German

Collection of Ommen camp (Arbeitseinsatzlager Erika, in German) in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

Collection of Ommen camp (Arbeitseinsatzlager Erika, in German) in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 Ommen camp served as a prison for people put on trial by the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands during 1942-1943; the Germans gave the camp a new name, Arbeitseinsatzlager Erika, in 1943, and imprisoned in the camp Dutchmen who attempted to evade forced labor and students who refused to sign a declaration of loyalty to the Germans.

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Dutch

Documentation regarding Danica camp in Croatia

Documentation regarding Danica camp in Croatia Ordering of food provisions for the camp; letter regarding wearing the yellow badge; list of Jews and Serbs in the camp who are candidates for deportation to Jasenovac camp, 17 December 1941.

File Number : 203

Type of Material : List of Camp Inmates, List of Deportees, Lists, Official Documentation

Language : Serbian-Croatian

Lullaby: "Concentration Camp" by Szymon Tajc written in an unknown place at an unknown time about the life of a camp inmate who goes out to his hard labor every day

Lullaby: "Concentration Camp" by Szymon Tajc written in an unknown place at an unknown time about the life of a camp inmate who goes out to his hard labor every day The song tells of the life of a camp inmate and the difficulty in leaving his wife and little daughter when he goes out every day to his hard labor.

File Number : 343

Type of Material : Poem/song

Language : Yiddish

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