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Letter of appointment of Rabbi Mendel Schaechter as the rabbi of the Ósándorfalva community, and certifications regarding his work as the rabbi of Ósándorfalva, 1941-1944

Letter of appointment of Rabbi Mendel Schaechter as the rabbi of the Ósándorfalva community, and certifications regarding his work as the rabbi of Ósándorfalva, 1941-1944 - Letter of appointment of Rabbi Menachem Schaechter as the rabbi of the Ósándorfalva community, signed by the heads of the households of the Ósándorfalva community, April 1941; - Certification issued by the Orthodox community of Ósándorfalva that Rabbi Mendel Schaechter (born in Bustyaháza, 24 February 1920) is serving as the rabbi of the community, 05 May 1943; the certification was issued and signed by the heads of the community and...

File Number : 488

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Certification, Personal Records

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Letter from Rabbi Gdalja Tojbman in Berezno to his daughter Pnina Rabinowitz in Eretz Israel; 22 May 1939

Letter from Rabbi Gdalja Tojbman in Berezno to his daughter Pnina Rabinowitz in Eretz Israel; 22 May 1939 Included in the file: - Typewritten transcription of the letter. Notes by Shoshana Bahat, the submitter of the material: Pnina (Tojbman) Rabinowitz, the daughter of Rabbi Gdalja Tojbman, was born in 1912. Her husband, Chaim Rabinowitz, made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1929. In 1933, he returned to Berezno and married Pnina. Pnina and Chaim made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1934. Rabbi Gdalja and his children were injured during the Ukrainian riots in Wolyn in 1939-1942. In late 1941, the Germans...

File Number : 2196

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Hershkovitz, born in Somcuta Mare, Romania in 1922, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony of Shmuel Hershkovitz, born in Somcuta Mare, Romania in 1922, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and other camps Studies in yeshiva; good neighborly relations with the Romanian population; Hungarian regime in 1940; German occupation; expulsion to Baia Mare Ghetto; transport to Auschwitz-Birkenau with his siblings; dismantling of buildings in Warsaw Ghetto; march to Germany; digging in ground to find water; Dachau camp; Muehldorf and Mittergras camps; labor in forests; wounded by gunfire from a German commanding officer; approach of the front; murder of prisoners; liberation by the Americans...

File Number : 13742

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters from Rabbi Neach Ajzenbud and Rabbi Josef Rozovski in Vilna to various persons in Eretz Israel before the war

Letters from Rabbi Neach Ajzenbud and Rabbi Josef Rozovski in Vilna to various persons in Eretz Israel before the war - Letter from Rabbi Josef Rozovski in Vilna to his brother Eli Chaim Rozovski in Eretz Israel, 05 February 1935; - Two letters from Rabbi Neach Ajzenbud to his rabbinical colleagues in Eretz Israel, undated; the address of Rabbi Josef Rozovski, to which the sender requests that funds be sent, appears in his letter to Rabbi Alter Abelov; the letter contains information regarding Rabbi Josef Rozovski (executive secretary of Chaim Ozer), one of the leading rabbis in Vilna. Note: The...

File Number : 2113

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew

Documentation belonging to Osias Leib Ungarisch from Radauti from the time he was in the Djurin Ghetto, 23 August-02 November 1943

Documentation belonging to Osias Leib Ungarisch from Radauti from the time he was in the Djurin Ghetto, 23 August-02 November 1943 The documentation includes: - Resident's card in the Djurin Ghetto, belonging to Osias Leib Ungarisch, born in Radauti, Romania, 1889; - Resident's card in the Djurin Ghetto, belonging to Salo Ungarisch (the son of Osias Leib Ungarisch), born in Radauti, Romania, 1933; - Official letter from Moshe (M.) Katz, the head of the Judenrat in Djurin, certifying that Osias Ungarisch is a Judenrat member, 02 November 1943; - Recommendation letter to Aryeh Leib Ungarisch written...

File Number : 321

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Letter, Personal Documents

Language : Romanian, German

Certificate confirming that Rabbi Eliezer son of Rabbi Uri de Feauille (?) was Chatan Torah on Simchat Torah in the Bergen-Belsen camp, 11 October 1944

File Number : 626

Type of Material : Certification

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 13770

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Report on Auschwitz, 1944, and personal documentation of Benzion Kalb, 1943-1968

Report on Auschwitz, 1944, and personal documentation of Benzion Kalb, 1943-1968 - Number of inmates in the transports according to country of origin; list of Jews from Slovakia who were interned in Auschwitz, early April 1944; report written by two Slovak Jews who escaped from Auschwitz, 1944; - Letters received by Benzion Kalb in Kezmarok during the war from persons actively working with Kalb in rescuing the Jews of Poland; - Letter sent by Rabbi Weissmandl to Benzion Kalb with a request to hide the children who were rescued in homes of non-Jews; non-compliance of the request by Benzion Kalb; -...

File Number : 130

Type of Material : List of Camp Inmates, Article, Letter, List of Jewish Survivors, Documentary, Survey Report

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German, Yiddish

List of rabbis captured by the German Army during their retreat from Kaunas, 1944

List of rabbis captured by the German Army during their retreat from Kaunas, 1944 The list includes the names of ten rabbis, and it is found in a telegram sent by the War Refugee Board (WRB) to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC- Red Cross), 31 October 1944. The list is on page 20 of the scanned file. The page numbers do not necessarily correspond with the frame numbers in the scan.

File Number : 90

Type of Material : List of Persecuted Persons

Language : English

Diary of Alfred Monaster regarding the mass murder of Jews during a riot conducted by Germans and Ukrainians after the German occupation of Lwow

Diary of Alfred Monaster regarding the mass murder of Jews during a riot conducted by Germans and Ukrainians after the German occupation of Lwow Excerpt from Alfred Monaster's diary: "Szponach Hitleryzmu (In the Claws of Hitlerism)": German occupation of Lwow, 30 June 1941; reception of the Germans by crowds of Ukrainians in festive dress; life in hiding of the Jewish Maer family in an inner one-room apartment of a residential building during the three-day riot instigated by the Germans and perpetrated with the full cooperation of Ukrainian nationalists: mass murder of thousands of Jews during severe...

File Number : 524

Type of Material : Diaries and Memoirs

Language : Polish

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