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Diaries kept by Rosy (van Geldere) de Vries while in hiding in Velp, 09 December 1943-11 December 1944

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...

File Number : 8590

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Dutch

Memoirs of Joseph Yativ, born in Nabuel, Tunisia, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Nabeul

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...

File Number : 8585

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

M.84 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from Archives in Serbia

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

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

Language : Hebrew, Russian, Yiddish

Memoirs of Moshe Zeev Gelbert, born in Ilisesti, Romania, 1937, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Ataki, Mogilev and Katsmazov

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 : Red Cross Letter, Memoirs, List of Deportees

Language : Hebrew, Romanian

"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

"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 Rescuers, Names, Newspaper Clippings, Names of Jewish Partisans

Language : Russian

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

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 : Newspaper Clippings, Article, Personal Documents

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

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 : Testimony, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Letter, Article

Language : Russian

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

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 : Letter, Official Documentation, Investigation Reports, Telegram, List of Persecuted Persons, Newspaper Clippings, Documentary

Language : Slovak, English, Hungarian

Correspondence of Dr. Israel Kasztner and Zionist leaders in Hungary with public figures, regarding the rescue of Jews in Hungary during the Holocaust, 1943-1952, and the fate of the Jews who left Hungary on the Kasztner train, summer 1944

File Number : 31

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

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