Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

8 Results

Personal documentation belonging to Rabbi Dr. Ernst Hoffman and his wife, Lotte Lota Krakauer, from Breslau, who both perished during the Holocaust period

Personal documentation belonging to Rabbi Dr. Ernst Hoffman and his wife, Lotte Lota Krakauer, from Breslau, who both perished during the Holocaust period Note: Rabbi Dr. Ernst Hoffman was a relative of Arthur Silbergleit, the author.

File Number : 579

Type of Material : Article, Photograph

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Menachem Miklosh Miron Mermelstein, born in Szombathely, Hungary, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Ujpest Ghetto, Columbus camp, Budapest and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Miklosh Miron Mermelstein, born in Szombathely, Hungary, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Ujpest Ghetto, Columbus camp, Budapest and Bergen-Belsen Religious family; move to his grandparents in Ujpest; attends a religious Jewish school, "heder" and learns in a yeshiva; Zionist activities; learns Hebrew; move to a general school; studies philosophy and psychology at a university in Budapest and a rabbinical "Beit Midrash" (religious study hall); livelihood from lectures and private tuition. German occupation, 1944; deportation with his mother to the Ujpest Ghetto; draft of his...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the Jewish community in Bonn and especially related to the activities of Prof. Otto Toeplitz and his wife, Erna Toeplitz, on behalf of the community, 1933-1940

Documentation regarding the Jewish community in Bonn and especially related to the activities of Prof. Otto Toeplitz and his wife, Erna Toeplitz, on behalf of the community, 1933-1940 Otto Toeplitz, an educator, was active as the scientific advisor to the Reichsvertretungder Deutschen Juden (Reich's Deputation of the German Jews) from 1935, and he set up a Jewish elementary school in Bonn; his wife, Erna, serve as Chairwoman of the Bonn Association of Jewish Women; Otto and Erna Toeplitz escaped to Jerusalem in 1939. Page 2: Notice from the Zentrale Juedische Beratungsstelle (Central Jewish Counseling...

File Number : 403

Type of Material : Survey Report, Record of Murdered Persons, Names of Rescuers, Record of Persecuted Persons, Lists, Memoirs, Curriculum, Survey

Language : German

Activities report of the Taetigkeitsbericht des Obersten Rates fuer das Jahr 1937 (Supreme Council of the Jewish Communities in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia) for the year 1937

Activities report of the Taetigkeitsbericht des Obersten Rates fuer das Jahr 1937 (Supreme Council of the Jewish Communities in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia) for the year 1937 - Legislation of the Jewish communities in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia; - Activities of the Rabbinical Seminary; - Role of the Rabbinate in the community; - Activities of the Paedagogikum (School for Religious Studies Teachers); - Summer course for teachers; - Committee for teachers' examinations; - Publication of study books; - Translation to Czech of the Machzor (festival prayer book) and the Books of Vayikra...

File Number : 314

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Letters and postcards, mainly from the Holocaust period

Letters and postcards, mainly from the Holocaust period - Censored correspondence from France, Czechoslovakia, Poland and the United States; - Envelope from a letter sent from Germany to Eretz Israel attesting to the existence of a rabbinical seminary in Berlin, in Nazi Germany, in 1936; - Postcard sent from Krakow to Bucharest; written with invisible ink (in code).

File Number : 2

Type of Material : Telegram, Letter

Language : Romanian, German, Hungarian

Testimony of Eliezer Andor Bass Ben-Shachar, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1924, regarding his experiences in labor battalions and in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Eliezer Andor Bass Ben-Shachar, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1924, regarding his experiences in labor battalions and in Budapest Poor, religious family; only son after the death of his younger brother; his father was a second lieutenant in World War I and worked as a clerk; his mother was a clerk until her marriage; attends a Jewish school, which was also a rabbinical seminary, until the end of high school. German occupation of Budapest; unsuccessful escape attempts; draft to a labor battalion in Jaszbereny; his unit serves Hungarian Army warehouses, May 1944; labor clearing rubble; Allied...

File Number : 10970

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Natan Bela Blum, born in Szatmarnemeti, Hungary, 1913, regarding his experiences in Czortkow, Kamionka-Bogdanowka, Podwolowczyska, prison in Budapest and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Natan Bela Blum, born in Szatmarnemeti, Hungary, 1913, regarding his experiences in Czortkow, Kamionka-Bogdanowka, Podwolowczyska, prison in Budapest and other places Move to Kiralyhaza, 1914; family life; learns in a Bratislava yeshiva, Bratislava University, in a Budapest rabbinical seminary and at Budapest University. Deportation to Czortkow, July 1941; life in Czortkow; transfer to Kamionka Bogdanowka labor camp, October 1941; camp life; release with the help of a Jewish lawyer, February 1942; life in Podwoloczyska; return to Czortkow; crosses the border to Hungary, June 1942; detention...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Postcards written by Golda Beller in Stanislau to her son Aron Beller in Eretz Israel, 1940, and personal documentation of Aron Juda Beller, born in Grodzisko, Poland, 1912

Postcards written by Golda Beller in Stanislau to her son Aron Beller in Eretz Israel, 1940, and personal documentation of Aron Juda Beller, born in Grodzisko, Poland, 1912 - Postcard written by Golda Beller in Stanislau to her son Aron Beller in Eretz Israel, 05/09/1940; Personal documentation of Aron Juda Beller, including documentation regarding his studies: - Birth certificate of Aron Juda Beller, born in Grodzisko, 10/07/1912, issued in Lezajsk, 03/07/1924; - Matriculation certificate of Aron Juda Beller, born in Grodzisko, Poland, 1912, issued in Stanislau, 13/06/1932; - Studies booklet of...

File Number : 2605

Type of Material : Personal Records, Postcard, Diploma, Personal Documents

Language : Latin, Hebrew, Polish, Russian, German

Identification Details

Archival Information