Diaries kept by Rosy (van Geldere) de Vries while in hiding in Velp, 09 December 1943-11 December 1944
Also in the file:
- A complete transcript of the diaries;
- Edition of the "De Vliegende Hollander" newspaper announcing the surrender of Germany, issued 10 May 1945.
Note:
Rosy (van Geldere) de Vries was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 03 August 1917; her husband, Sigfrid de Vries was born in Rotterdam, 1915; Rosy, Sigrid and their children were in hiding in Velp; at a certain point of the war, their children were entrusted to other people; when the people hiding the children were captured, the...
Memoirs of Joseph Yativ, born in Nabuel, Tunisia, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Nabeul
Life in Nabuel under the Vichy regime; expulsion of Jews from the schools; imposition of restrictions on the Jews including the yellow badge; breaking into the apartments of Jews and robbing the apartments; murder of Jews who attempted to defend their property; activities of Mordechai Karilla, the head of the Nabuel Jewish community; general meeting of members of the local Jewish community; Mordechai Karilla's request not to take any initiatives; arranging for a trained defense unit made up of community...
M.84 - Documantation regarding the Holocaust from Archives in Serbia
The Record Group was created following the division of the former Yugoslavian Record Group - M.70. In the Record Group there is archival documentation photocopied from the Central Archive of Serbia, the Military Archive, and the Foreign Ministry Archive.
Included in the Record Group:
- Documentation of the Yugoslavian Government-in-Exile including the Foreign Ministry, from the World War II period and afterwards;
- Documentation regarding rescue activities of Jews in the areas of Yugoslavia during the war period;
- Investigations...
Language : Italian, English, German, Hungarian, Serbian-Croatian
Letters written by Hinda and Rivka Berenstein in Ylakiai, Lithuania and sent to their sister Ida (Berenstein) Lev in Eretz Israel, 1941
- Postcard sent by Hinda Berenstein from Ylakiai to her sister Ida Paper, 24/02/1941;
- Postcard sent by Hinda to Ida Lev, 09/05/1941;
- Letter by Rivka (Berenstein) Gilene to her sister Ida, 29 September (year, unknown);
- Scan of a letter written by Rina Glaz (the daughter of Rivka Gilene) to Yad Vashem's "Righteous Among the Nations" department, 20/11/1996, including information regarding Anele Glavetzkene, who rescued Rina from the ghetto, and was recognized by...
File Number : 1897
Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Letter of Testimony
The file includes (note: some scans contain more than one document):
- Postcard sent by Samuel Wolf in Bochnia, 12 February 1943 (scans 8-9).
- Postcard sent by Rosa Rapaport in Liebenau, 29 January [year not specified] (scans 8-9).
- Postcard sent by Lavesine Glashek Paneth [name unclear - handwriting difficult to read] in Tarnow, 12 September 1940, about her condition; greetings from Rachel Paneth (scans 24-25).
- Postcard sent by Leontina Glasscheit [name unclear] in Tarnow, 7 November 1940; she requests help locating relatives in the United States (scans 26-27).
- Postcard in Polish sent...
File Number : 82
Type of Material : Postcard, Record of Survivors, Record of Persecuted Persons, List of Names, Approval, Record of Murdered Persons, Letter, Photograph, Telegram, Record of Deportees
Language : Polish, French, English, German, Yiddish
Memoirs of Moshe Zeev Gelbert, born in Ilisesti, Romania, 1937, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Ataki, Mogilev and Katsmazov
Anti-Jewish legislation, 1941; deportation to Transnistria; order to remove jewelry and hand it over to Romanian soldiers in Burdujeni; arrival in Ataki; assembly of Jews in the synagogue; finding a sign on the wall written in blood, reading, "Jews were murdered in this place. You Jews passing by here, please say Kaddish"; murder of Jews by the Romanian gendarmerie; destruction of the certificates [of the murdered?] so that they could not be identified; arrival in Mogilev on...
File Number : 8497
Type of Material : Memoirs, List of Deportees, Red Cross Letter
"Podvig staroy uchitelnitsy" (The Act of Bravery of the Elderly Teacher), an article published in a Soviet newspaper regarding the rescue of Jewish children by Aleksandra Zhevetskaya in Vilna
Rescue of children, including Jewish children by Aleksandra Zhevetskaya, the teacher from Vilna; Zhevetskaya cared for Getella Gitelman who was born in the ghetto, and whose father returned after the liberation of Vilna from serving as a partisan; she also cared for Stanislav, the son of Ber Shershievskiy and Roza Kats; Roza Kats was murdered in the ghetto and Ber Shershievskiy escaped to the partisans and returned...
File Number : 287
Type of Material : Names of Jewish Partisans, Newspaper Clippings, Names of Rescuers, Names
Visa to Japan for Daniel Gudes, born in Mikielewszczyzna, Poland, 1914, including a certificate issued in his name by the Polish Legation in Kaunas, 05 August 1940
Visas to Japan was granted to Daniel by Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese Vice-Consul in Kaunas (later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations); the cousin, Zerach Warhaftig, obtained visas to Japan for Daniel, his father Shimon, and his brother Zvi Hirsch, escape of Daniel to Kobe, 1940; aliya to Eretz Israel via Burma and India, 1942.
The file includes:
- Newspaper clipping from "Hazofe" describing the story of a Holocaust survivor from a...
File Number : 109
Type of Material : Article, Personal Documents, Newspaper Clippings
Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, English, Japanese
Letter and article written by Moisey Evenson regarding the murder of the Jews of Kislovodsk in a trench near Mineralnye Vody, September 1942
Biography of Moisey Evenson, born in Kovno, 1866; studies at the Reali School in Vilna; dismissal for revolutionary activities; escape to Vienna; work and university studies; return to St. Petersburg, Russia, 1888; exile to Kiev from St. Petersburg with his wife and family; move to Zhitomir; work on a newspaper editorial board; return to Kiev with his family after the death of the editor of the newspaper, 1905; murder of his son during the civil war; move to Baku and...
File Number : 51
Type of Material : Curriculum Vitae (cv), Testimony, Article, Letter
Documentation regarding the activities of Ladislav László Sedivy, a Calvinist priest from Nyitra, on his baptizing 720 Jews from Nyitra and the surrounding areas, 1939-1943
- Letters from the Slovak Interior Ministry and the Ustredna Statnej Bezpečnosti (USB - Central State Security) in Slovakia regarding the activities against the State of Ladislav László Sedivy, the Calvinist priest from Nyitra, in baptizing Jews from Nyitra and the surrounding areas, 1939-1943);
- Detention in a prison in Ilava, 1942,
- Pleas by his wife to release him and the priest's commitment not to commit any more acts against...
File Number : 136
Type of Material : Official Documentation, Telegram, Investigation Reports, List of Persecuted Persons, Newspaper Clippings, Letter, Documentary