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Memoirs of Esther (Deutsch) Schlesinger and of Elek Deutsch, born in Salgótarján, Hungary, in 1938; postcard to Joszef Deutsch in the Bergen-Belsen displaced-persons camp; and documentation associated with the Deutsch and Rauchwerger families - article in the Israel Hayom newspaper, 2020, with memoirs of Esther (Deutsch) Schlesinger, born in Salgótarján, Hungary, in 1938: Parents: Zeev Vilmos and Rachel (Rauchwerger) Deutsch; a pedigreed and affluent family; Zeev inducted into the Hungarian Army labor battalions; Germans enter Salgótarján in 1944; the yellow star edict; internment in ghetto in town;...

File Number : 12637

Type of Material : Biography, Newspaper Clippings, Article, Genealogy, Letter, Memoirs, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, English, Hungarian

Memoirs of Yehuda Levkovitz regarding his stay in Theresienstadt (Dresdner Kaserne) immediately after the liberation

Also in the file: - Documentation of a journey of the roots of Shlomo Lebkowitz, the son of Yehuda Lebkowitz, in Krakow and nearby camps; Comments of the submitter: Yehuda Lebkowitz was born in Krakow in 1920. His parents - Moshe Lebkowitz (was on Schindler's list) and Pnina nee Goldkorn. They both survived and made an aliya to Eretz Israel together with Yehuda, 1946.

File Number : 12143

Type of Material : Documentary, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

The history of the Zerf and Raschal families from Latvia before, during and after the Holocaust

The history of the Zerf and Raschal families from Latvia before, during and after the Holocaust - Roots paper written by Ofer Zerf-Raschal in 2019: history of the Zerf and Raschal families in Latvia; information regarding members of the families who perished in the Holocaust; experiences of Meir Zerf, born in Jelgava in 1905, and his wife Anna (Nyuta) (Raschel), born in Šiauliai in 1904, in Latvia and Israel in the 1930s-40s; biographical summary of their son Aryeh Zerf, born in Riga in 1933; researching family roots and the roots trip of Ofer Zerf (Aryeh Zerf’s son) to Latvia in September 2019; The file...

File Number : 671

Type of Material : עבודת מחקר, Genealogy

Language : Hebrew, English

Documentation of the experiences of Rachel (Klejman) Kadi as a child in hiding on the Beloeil estate during the Holocaust

Documentation of the experiences of Rachel (Klejman) Kadi as a child in hiding on the Beloeil estate during the Holocaust Jakob Klejman's (born in Lodz in 1901, resident of Brussels) appeal to the rescue organization CDJ during the German occupation, in an effort to save his daughters; his daughter Hannah's stay in hiding in Quaregnon (survived); the stay of daughter Rachel (Rachel Klejman, or Kleinman, born in Brussels) on the estate of Prince Eugène de Ligne in Beloeil; her stay there as one of hundreds of Jewish children who were hidden on the estate; Rachel's baptism in April 1944; Rachel's stay in...

File Number : 670

Type of Material : Biography, עבודת מחקר

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation of the Schwabe-Barlewin family from Varel, postcards sent to Gustav Schwabe on the occasion of the Zionist congresses from 1899-1931 and press clippings regarding Gustav Schwabe and the Jews of Varel from before the war and during the years 2016-2018 Personal documentation of the Schwabe family: - Marrriage certificate of Gustav Jacob Schwabe and Pauline Barlewin, who married in Hofgeismar in 1884; - Document on behalf of the Jewish publishing house (Judischer Verlag) in Berlin in the name of Gustav Schwabe in Varel; - Certificate of participation in the Zionist Congress in Wien in...

File Number : 872

Type of Material : Postcard, Newspaper Clippings, Study, Personal Documents

Language : German

Letters from the Steinwerzl family in Lipica Górna to Yaakov Steinwerzl in Eretz Israel, 1932–1941, and documentation associated with the Steinwerzl, Chaimovic, and Judenberg families

Letters from the Steinwerzl family in Lipica Górna to Yaakov Steinwerzl in Eretz Israel, 1932–1941, and documentation associated with the Steinwerzl, Chaimovic, and Judenberg families - letters from members of the Steinwerzl family in Lipica Górna to Yaakov Steinwerzl in Eretz Israel, 1932–1941; - notebook of Miriam Steinwerzl at vocational school in Stanisławów, with sketches of clothing. Personal documentation issued in Lipica Górna, Stanisławów, Mukačevo, and Eretz Israel, 1924–1954, of: - Mindel Mina—Miriam Schumert, born in Buczacz in 1909; - Walter Judenberg, born in Germany in 1909, and his...

File Number : 5165

Type of Material : Biography, Certification, Passport, List of Murdered Jews, Letter, Memoirs, Envelope, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Czech, Russian, Yiddish

The roots trip of Miriam Suss to Czernowitz and Bershad, and the experiences of Cecilia Cilli (Zacharias) Zydower, born in Cernăuţi in 1918

The roots trip of Miriam Suss to Czernowitz and Bershad, and the experiences of Cecilia Cilli (Zacharias) Zydower, born in Cernăuţi in 1918 - a roots trip taken by Miriam Suss in 2002 to Czernowitz (Cernăuţi, in Romanian), to Bershad, and to a cemetery in Bershad where members of her family who perished in the Holocaust are buried (where a memorial was erected thanks to Miriam and her family); - the experiences of her mother Cecilia Cilli (Zacharias) Zydower, born in Cernăuţi on 04 July 1918, and of her family: The residence of the Zacharias family in Cernăuţi; the deportation of Cecilia, her parents...

File Number : 283

Type of Material : Memoirs, Biography

Language : English

Documentation from a roots trip to Poland by Esther (Sufrin) Melman, born in Kraków

Documentation from a roots trip to Poland by Esther (Sufrin) Melman, born in Kraków A visit to Warsaw, Jabłonna, Rozwadów (the city of her childhood), Stalowa Wola and Krakow; information regarding the experiences of her family during the Holocaust: Esther, her parents Natan (a liquor store owner) and Golda Sufrin, her brother Chaim and her sisters Chana and Rivka were deported by the Nazis in 1939, from Rozwadów to Baranowice across the San River . From Baranowice they wandered into forests and labor camps in Russia. Chaim drowned in the Volga River when he went fishing for the family.

File Number : 661

Type of Material : Documentary

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Ernest Hausmann regarding his experiences in Germany and the United States, the memoirs of R.E.H. Simon regarding his family, and documentation concerning the Hausmann, Simon and Markus families Documentation concerning the Hausmann family: - "My German experience: past and present": the memoirs of Ernest Hausmann, born in Heidelberg in 1929, regarding his family's experiences in Germany and in the United States: His family members and their experiences in Heidelberg and Flehingen; imposition of restrictions on the Jews in the 1930s; Aryanization of the family business in June 1938; arrest of...

File Number : 11119

Type of Material : Birth Certificate, Genealogy, Article, Certification, Marriage Certificate, תעודת בית הספר, Letter, כתובה, Book, Certificate of Nationality, Personal Documents, Memoirs, הודעה, Identity Card

Language : English, German, Aramaic

Letters of Jakob and Gitel )Geliebter( Nutkiewicz from Warsaw from 1935-1939, letters, memoirs and documentation of Roma (Nutkiewicz) Benatar

- postcard from Frankfurt to G. (Geliebter) Nutkiewicz in Warsaw, from 1933; - letters of Gitel and Jakob Nutkiewicz and their children in Warsaw to Gitel's mother in Eretz Israel, from 1935-1939; - letters of Roma (Nutkiewicz) mainly from Eschwege DP camp in Israel from 1945-1948, to her grandmother in Eretz Israel; - memoirs of Roma Romana (Nutkiewicz) Benatar, born in Warsaw in 1926, regarding the experiences of her family in the Holocaust; - documentation of Romana (Nutkiewicz); Included in the file: - drawings by students from the Förderschule school in Geesthacht. The drawings were given to Roma...

File Number : 5286

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Declaration, Letter, Postcard, Memoirs, Envelope, Drawing, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German, Yiddish

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