Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

1,306 Results

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

Language : English, German

Memoirs written by Rivka Prilutzki from Berlin titled, "Mutti's Memoirs" regarding her experiences, 1941-1943

Memoirs written by Rivka Prilutzki from Berlin titled, "Mutti's Memoirs" regarding her experiences, 1941-1943 Life in Berlin before her husband's escape to Belgium; detention in Moabit prison in Berlin; transfer to the prison in Cologne; prison life for 5 months; release from prison; return home; smuggling of her sons to Yugoslavia; intention of the boys to make aliya from Yugoslavia to Eretz Israel; notification during the Pesach holiday by the Eretz Israel Office of the Jewish Agency, of the boys' arrival in Eretz Israel; escape to Brussels; transfer to Paris; illegal stay in Paris; meets her husband;...

File Number : 8665

Type of Material : Memoirs

Testimony of Sela Shtovitska Uri Urlich, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1930 regarding deportation to the Polish border and regarding his leaving nazi Germany in Kindertransport

Testimony

Childhood in Frankfurt an der Oder; life during nazi regime in 1933; arrest of the father accused of communist activity and his deportation to Poland as a Polish subject in 1933; attending the Jewish school Philanthropyn in 1936; moving to the Jewish Children's Home Stiftung in 1936; deportation with the mother from Frankfurt an der Oder to the Polish border in 1938; Kristallnacht riots; his joining a group of children who were sent by Kindertransport sponsored by James and Dorothy Rothschild in 1939; the journey via Hoek van Holland, Holland to London, Britain in 1939; moving to the estate of James Rotschild...

File Number : 13713

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Shimshon Moshe, born in Gherla, Romania, in 1925 regarding activity in the Zionist youth underground between 1941 and 1944

Father-merchant; moving to Cluj; Hungarian control in 1940; activity in the Zionist youth movement; agriculture studies in Budapest; recruitment for underground activity; smuggling Jewish workers from Poland to Romania between 1942 and 1944; German occupation; denunciation and arrest; investigations; escape from the prison by the underground; aliya to Israel via Turkey in May 1944; absorption ; information about the death of relatives in the camps

File Number : 13746

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Lazar Livshitz, born in Gomel, Belorussia, 1919, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier in Bialystok, using a false identity in the Baranovichi camp, the Biala Podlaska camp, the Deblin camp and more Part I (written 06 December 1945 as a letter to his beloved telling of his experiences): Outbreak of the war; being taken captive; transfer to the Baranovichi camp; camp life using a false identity (Nikolay Kulinenko); transfer to the Biala Podlaska camp; camp life in open cages without shelter from the rain and snow; abuse by the so-called camp police which was made up of inmates; transfer...

File Number : 8620

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Testimony of Fredi Knoler, born in Vienna, Austria, in 1921 regarding the French resistance and the Drancy, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony

German occupation and annexation of Austria( Anschluss) in 1938; Kristallnacht in 1938; crossing borders to Antwerpen,Belgium in 1938 where acquaintances of the family stayed; transfer to a camp for Jewish refugees (with the support of the Jewish community) in Merkplas in 1939; escape to France after the German occupation of Belgium in 1940; his detention in Lille,France because of his German (Austrian) nationality and transfer to the detention camp in St Cyprien in 1940; his escape from the camp to Gaillac and his work in agriculture in 1940; buying of forged certificates and his moving to Paris,as a French...

File Number : 13473

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Notarized testimony by Buhusi residents, collected, 1948, according to which Iacob Herscu Solomon, the son of Regina Solomon, was sent to a prison in Jilava, 1942, and perished, 02/1944

Notarized testimony by Buhusi residents, collected, 1948, according to which Iacob Herscu Solomon, the son of Regina Solomon, was sent to a prison in Jilava, 1942, and perished, 02/1944 - Testimony given by Natan Soicher, Anna Ursu and Etti Sender; Note: Iacob Herscu Solomon was the brother of Eva Solomon, the mother of the submitter of the material.

File Number : 1468

Type of Material : Investigation Report, Testimony, Record of Murdered Persons

Language : Romanian

Testimony of Rub Israel, born in Sasovo, Carpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia, in 1923 regarding his arrest in Prague and Dresden and regarding Theresienstadt , Dachau and other camps

-Childhood in Sasovo and Trebusany in Carpathian Ruthenia; his family is from a hasidic background( Hasidut Dolina); attendance at the "heder" in Berehovo in 1934; Hungarian control in 1938; his family moves to Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, in 1938; attendance at a yeshiva in Solotvina, Carpathian Ruthenia(Hungary) in 1937; he goes back to his family in Moravska Ostrava in 1938; he joins the Bnei Akiva movement and moves to Prague, Czechoslovakia; agricultural training on a farm in Louny and in Stribrna Skalice; he goes back to Prague and moves to a farm in Hostoun Kladno; he is arrested by the gestapo in...

File Number : 13688

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Registration card of the inmate Zoltán Kornhauser, born in 1923, interned in Hungary for being a Communist, sometime in 1940's [exact date is illegible]

Registration card of the inmate Zoltán Kornhauser, born in 1923, interned in Hungary for being a Communist, sometime in 1940's [exact date is illegible] Note of Rachel Fisher, the submitter of the material (sister of Zoltán Kornhauser), born in 1926: Their mother was Regina Bernáth, born in Targu Mures [?] Romania, 1904; ownership of a textile shop by their father, Joshua Josef Kornhauser, born in Targu Mures; move from Targu Mures to Cluj when Rachel is six years old [1932]; language spoken at home: Hungarian. Deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; death of their father; deportation of Zoltán to...

File Number : 486

Type of Material : Document

Language : Hungarian

Memoirs of Shamai Kizelsztejn, born in Bialystok, Poland, 19 December 1924, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, the Bialystok prison, and in Majdanek, Blizyn, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna and other camps Life in Bialystok under the Red Army occupation; German occupation of Bialystok; establishment of the Bialystok Ghetto; deportation to the Bialystok Ghetto; Bialystok Ghetto life including labor constructing the Krywlany airfield and forced labor constructing a road, spring 1942; detention in the Bialystok prison; transfer to Majdanek camp; transfer to Blizyn camp; camp life; transfer to...

File Number : 8594

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Items per page:

1 – 10 of 1306