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Testimony of Marta Reizner Fisher, born in 1925 in Vag Farkasd, Slovakia, regarding the Nove ‎Zamky Ghetto, and Auschwitz and Langenbielau concentration camps

Testimony

Testimony of Marta Reizner Fisher, born in 1925 in Vag Farkasd, Slovakia, regarding the Nove ‎Zamky Ghetto, and Auschwitz and Langenbielau concentration camps Life under the Hungarian regime in 1938; move to Budapest, Hungary in 1941; return to Vag ‎Farkasd in 1942; German occupation in 1944; transfer of Marta and her sisters to a farm for a few ‎weeks; deportation to Sala Ghetto in 1944; transfer to Nove Zamky Ghetto in 1944; deportation to ‎Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 for two months; transfer to a labor camp in Langenbielau, Germany in ‎‎1944; forced labor at Langenbielau sewing uniforms and clothes for...

File Number : 13765

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Certification that Ilse Stern won Third Place in a shorthand competition in Langensalza, 21 April 1932

Certification that Ilse Stern won Third Place in a shorthand competition in Langensalza, 21 April 1932 She succeeded in writing 120 shorthand symbols in one minute; Comments by the submitter of the material: Aliza (Stern) Yaakov was born in Langensalza, 1914; she made aliya to Eretz Israel without her parents, 1936 (they made aliya later); her brother Luther also made aliya to Eretz Israel; Aliza made aliya from the Netherlands, to where she had escaped after she had been detained in Germany and released (she had pretended that she was insane); she worked as a caregiver in a children's home, before she...

File Number : 646

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Certification

Language : German

Memoirs of Chaim Reichert, born in Golina, Poland, 1907, regarding his experiences in Jordanow, in hiding in a forest, in prison in Krakow, in Rensdorf and Auschwitz camps, and in other places

Memoirs of Chaim Reichert, born in Golina, Poland, 1907, regarding his experiences in Jordanow, in hiding in a forest, in prison in Krakow, in Rensdorf and Auschwitz camps, and in other places Life in Golina during German Army air-raids on the municipality building; escape to Sompolno with his family; life in Sompolno; German Army occupation; imposition of restrictions on the Jews; confiscation of the kerosene and gasoline store owned by Chaim Reichert; receives information regarding the murder of his family members in Golina; eviction of the family from their apartment; concentration in the center of the...

File Number : 8570

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Letters sent to brothers Walter and Ernst Lebenstein in Eretz Israel by family members in Stadtlohn, Germany, 1935-1940, letters sent to the brothers from various people in Stadtlohn after the war, and personal documents belonging to the brothers, before their aliya to Eretz Israel Letters: - Letters sent to brothers Walter and Ernst Lebenstein in Eretz Israel by their parents and sisters in Stadtlohn, 1935-1940; - Two letters of the Red Cross organization (scans), sent to Walter and Ernst Lebenstein in Eretz Israel by their father Daniel Lebenstein in Stadtlohn, by means of the Hazorim organization...

File Number : 1973

Type of Material : Letter, Red Cross Letter, Documentary, Official Documentation, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, German

Certificate stating that the farmer Alfred Weiss and his family members are not to be deported from Kamanová due to his being an essential worker for the economy of Slovakia, issued by the Government of Slovakia, 24 July 1942 Document was also issued in a translation to German; Comments by the submitter of the material: Alfred Weiss was born in Kamanová, Slovakia, 20 April 1900; his wife, Vera (Gutman) Weiss, was born in Budapest, Hungary, 1910; she worked as a housewife; two daughters were born: Hella and Zuzana; Alfred studied agriculture in an institution for higher learning, and he worked as a...

File Number : 138

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Slovak, German

Testimony of Alexander Javor Kahn, born in Rajec, Czechoslovakia, 1902, regarding his experiences in Nove Mesto, Piestany, in hiding in Bratislava and with the partisans in Pastuchov

Testimony of Alexander Javor Kahn, born in Rajec, Czechoslovakia, 1902, regarding his experiences in Nove Mesto, Piestany, in hiding in Bratislava and with the partisans in Pastuchov Life before the war; attends an elementary school; life in Zilina including attending high school; attends the agricultural academy; drafted to the Czechoslovakian Army (discharged with the rank of First Lieutenant); life in Male Lednice including work on the family farm; move to Germany, 1926; life in Germany; work on an experimental farm raising domestic animals; visits to experimental farms in Sweden and Denmark; marriage to...

File Number : 8513

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Slovak, Hebrew

Personal documentation of Straus and Kontess family members, from Bratislava, 1916-1938

Personal documentation of Straus and Kontess family members, from Bratislava, 1916-1938 The file includes the following documents: Documents of the Straus family: - Medical documents of Priska Straus, born in Presov, Slovakia, 25 June 1915, issued in Piestany, 04 May 1939; - Medical documents of Samuel Frantisek Straus, born in Dunajska Streda, Slovakia, 13 November 1870, issued in Piestany, 04 May 1939; - Medical documents of Paulina Straus, born in Jelsava, Slovakia, 03 May 1879, issued in Piestany, 04 May 1939; - Medical certificates of Siegfrid Steiner and Olga (Straus) Steiner,...

File Number : 137

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Personal Documents

Language : Slovak, Spanish, German, Hungarian

Personal documentation of Hanita Izabella (Waldbaum) Leshem, born in Lwow, Poland, 1940, for the years 1945-1946, and of her parents Leo and Ella Amalie Waldbaum who perished in the Holocaust

Personal documentation of Hanita Izabella (Waldbaum) Leshem, born in Lwow, Poland, 1940, for the years 1945-1946, and of her parents Leo and Ella Amalie Waldbaum who perished in the Holocaust - Recommendation for Ella Klaften (later Waldbaum) to a medical committee written as part of an application for candidacy for the Pharmacy Faculty at Lwow University, 1931; including a Hebrew translation; - Certificate issued by the Jewish community in Lwow during the German occupation containing information regarding the employment of Amalie and Leo Waldbaum in the fur products field; - Birth certificate for...

File Number : 1172

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Polish, German

Memoirs of Mrs. - (Levin) Vakhtel, born in Riga, Latvia, 1915, regarding her experiences in Riga

Memoirs of Mrs. - (Levin) Vakhtel, born in Riga, Latvia, 1915, regarding her experiences in Riga Life before the war; witness attends school until 1932; sewing studies; marriage to Heinrich Vakhtel, 25 December 1938. Outbreak of the war; German occupation; abuse of the Jews by Latvians.

File Number : 8411

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Letters and postcards written by the Goldsztajn family members in Bedzin and Pajeczno, 1937 - 1942

Letters and postcards written by the Goldsztajn family members in Bedzin and Pajeczno, 1937 - 1942 Letter sent in Czestochowa to Ruth Goldsztajn Ways on the fate of her relatives during the war, her memories of Pajeczno where she was born and family members who perished during the Holocaust, 06 May 1946; The file also includes: Announcement of the opening of a sewing course under the management of Henri Goldsztajn in Bedzin, May 1931.

File Number : 1820

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Memoirs, Announcement

Language : Polish, French, Yiddish

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