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Testimony of Yechiel Hahn, born in 1932 in Budapest, about his experiences as a boy in protected houses of the Swedish and Spanish embassies in Budapest during the German occupation

Life before the war in parents' home; grandfather, Gerson Hahn, establishes a Sephardi Orthodox synagogue in Budapest; antisemitism in school; father inducted into the Hungarian labor service in 1940; German occupation ensues in March 1944; secretly listening to BBC radio broadcasts; wearing the yellow star; shop nationalized; studies halted; movement restrictions imposed; ban on employing a non-Jewish domestic; concealing valuables; moving to a marked house; moving to a house protected by the Swedish Embassy in July 1944; a rescue and relief organization helps with food; bombardments; moving into a cellar; a...

File Number : 13604

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Lists containing the names of people with whom Dr. Israel Kasztner corresponded regarding his report on the activities of the Relief and Rescue Committee of Budapest, 1942-1945, list prepared, 1947

File Number : 19

Type of Material : List

Language : German, Hungarian

Lists of items, valuables and cash handed over to German bureaucrats by the Relief and Rescue Committee of Budapest, 1944

File Number : 11

Type of Material : Lists

Language : German

Report written by Dr. israel Kasztner following World War II regarding the activities of Vaad HaEzra Ve'haHatzala (Relief and Rescue Committee) of Budapest, 1942-1945

Report written by Dr. israel Kasztner following World War II regarding the activities of Vaad HaEzra Ve'haHatzala (Relief and Rescue Committee) of Budapest, 1942-1945 - The copy is in German; Note: There are pages missing.

File Number : 5

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Reports

Language : German

Documentation containing copies of a report written by Dr. Israel Kasztner regarding the activities of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest, 1942-1945

File Number : 4

Type of Material : Reports

Language : German

Report prepared by Dr. Israel Kasztner following World War II regarding the activities of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest, 1942-1945, Hebrew translation

File Number : 3

Type of Material : Reports, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew

P.54 - Archive of Dr. Israel Kasztner, one of the leaders of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest, and Collection of Dov Dinur, Kasztner's Biographer

P.54 - Archive of Dr. Israel Kasztner, one of the leaders of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest, and Collection of Dov Dinur, Kasztner's biographer Biography of Dr. Israel Rezső Rudolf Kasztner: Israel Kasztner was born in Cluj, Transylvania, Romania in 1906. Between World War I and World War II, he worked as a journalist and an attorney at law, and, at the same time, he was an activist in the Zionist Labor Movement in Cluj. After the annexation of northern Transylvania to Hungary in 1940, Kasztner moved to Budapest and continued his Zionist Movement activities. He was one of the founders of...

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation, Survey Report, Letter

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Hungarian

Letters from Yehiel Bruck from Nagymegyer, Hungary, to his son Uri Bruck in Tel Aviv, 1939-May 1943

Letters from Yehiel Bruck from Nagymegyer, Hungary, to his son Uri Bruck in Tel Aviv, 1939-May 1943 Included in the file: - Documentation from the years, 1918-1946; Comments by the submitter of the material: - Uri Bruck made aliya to Eretz Israel on an illegal immigrants' ship, 1939; his parents and 13 brothers and sisters remained in Hungary; out of all of them one sister succeeded in being rescued via the Kasztner train and made aliya to Eretz Israel.

File Number : 1107

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hungarian

Letters to Hansi Brand sent from Eretz Israel and other countries regarding personal matters and the activities of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest during the war, 1944-1980s

File Number : 58

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Letters received by Hansi Brand from Eretz Israel and other countries regarding personal matters and the activities of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest during the war years, including letters that were sent by Rachel Rose Zsoldos, Imhof Dezső, Acél Aranka and Kasztner Rezso Israel, 1945-1983

File Number : 53

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German, Hungarian

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