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Memoirs of Shulamit Katz, born in Vilna, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and in Auschwitz and other camps

Memoirs of Shulamit Katz, born in Vilna, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and in Auschwitz and other camps Vilna Ghetto life; murder of Jews in Ponary; finds a hiding place in a garbage container; loss of her two children; deportation to various camps; liberation in Auschwitz camp; Background notes: - Memoirs regarding the experiences of Shulamit Katz were told by her daughter and written by her granddaughter Chaya Apel; the first part of the memoirs is an introduction including the historical background; the main part includes the memoirs of the grandmother, Shulamit Katz;...

File Number : 8329

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Joint testimony of sisters Etti (Bramzon) Netzer, and Tova (Bramzon) Katz, regarding the experiences of their father, Yisrael Bramzon, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1913, and their mother, Elka Svirski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1927 Witnesses' father, Yisrael Bramzon, was born in Bialystok, Poland, 1913; witnesses' mother, Elka Svirski, was born in Bialystok, Poland, 1927; murder in Bialystok of their father's wife and children from a previous marriage, 1942; escape of their father to a forest; their father's life in hiding while hidden by a Polish family in the Bialystok area, 1943-1944; murder of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

"Second Generation (Of Wars from Which One Does Not Return)": Poem written by Iris Segev in memory of Natan Reiner, 6, the story of whose death in the Holocaust she heard from his brother, also named Natan Reiner

File Number : 220

Type of Material : Poems/songs

Language : Hebrew

Letter written by Shimon Mesika Yahalomi, regarding his family's experiences during the war and his request for compensation

File Number : 6322

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew

"Now it Is Permissible": poems written by Miriam Sinber regarding her experiences as the daughter of Holocaust survivors, written for Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day, 5755-1995

File Number : 101

Type of Material : Poem/song

Language : Hebrew

Newspaper clippings and publications regarding long-term damage existent among Holocaust survivors, 1970-1979

Newspaper clippings and publications regarding long-term damage existent among Holocaust survivors, 1970-1979 - Research conference held in Cologne, regarding long-term damage existent among Holocaust survivors, 1977; - Newspaper clippings, dated, summer 1970, regarding the Tagorang Trial held against Trimborn, Severin and Goerz, who belonged to Einsatzkommando 10A; - Newspaper clippings, dated, 1971, regarding the trial of Franz Swidersky, who was a guard in Treblinka.

File Number : 50

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : German

Testimony of Chana Kiner, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, a camp near Bremen and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Chana Kiner, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, a camp near Bremen and Bergen-Belsen Religious family; attends a Jewish school; antisemitic propoganda; terminationn of studies with the outbreak of the war. Yellow badge; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, 1940; ghetto life including labor in a uniform badge factory; death of relatives from disease and starvation; deportation of her relatives from the ghetto; birth of her brother, 1941; deportation of her grandfather and baby brother to extermination, 1942; detention of her father for...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Opal Leshem (previous name Rebeka) Tal about her childhood, including excerpts from the memoirs of her grandmother, Sali Sarah (Moskovitz) Linker, about her experiences before and during the Holocaust - "Life beyond the Fence": memoirs of Opal Leshem (previous name Rebeka) Tal about her mother and grandmother—Holocaust survivors; excerpts from the memoirs of the author's grandmother, Sali (Moskovitz) Linker, appear in the book: Childhood in Botoșani; working as a fashion designer; opening a shop in Rădăuți; meets a textile merchant named Hermann Linker; marries him; moves to Austria; back to...

File Number : 12574

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Dioniza (Rzepkowicz ) Brunicka regarding her involvement in the escape of camp prisoners in Białystok in 1944, her son's testimony and her forged documents from the Holocaust

Memoirs of Dioniza (Rzepkowicz ) Brunicka regarding her involvement in the escape of camp prisoners in Białystok in 1944, her son's testimony and her forged documents from the Holocaust "Uwolnienie z obozu": Dioniza Brunicka's memoirs regarding her part in organizing the escape of the prisoners of Zielona camp in Białystok in summer 1944; her memoirs were published in the book "Białostoccy Żydzi" by Prof. Adam Dobroński (in 1993), and in the "Kurier Poranny" newspaper in 1999; a Hebrew translation is attached; letter from Rev. Julian Zawadzki of Supraśl, dated 28 December 1945; Article published in the...

File Number : 12382

Type of Material : Testimony, Letter, Personal Documents, Birth Certificate, Article, Work Permit, Memoirs, Identity Card

Language : Polish, German

Presentation on the history of the extended Levi family of the Dorcol neighborhood of Belgrade

Presentation on the history of the extended Levi family of the Dorcol neighborhood of Belgrade - Presentation retelling the history of the extended Levi family of the Dorcol neighborhood of Belgrad and the fate of family members in the Holocaust (most perished in 1942), including family documents and photographs (discovered by the survivor Monicko Levi in his family home after the war) and explanations and notes by Venecija Levi-Breder

File Number : 272

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Birth Certificate, Postcard, Speech, Obituary, Letter

Language : Serbian, English, Croatian, German, Ladino

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