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Memoirs of Leon John Bortniker, born in Vienna, Austria, 1919, regarding his experiences in Vienna until his emigration to the United States, 1939

Memoirs of Leon John Bortniker, born in Vienna, Austria, 1919, regarding his experiences in Vienna until his emigration to the United States, 1939 Life in Vienna between World War I and World War II; displays of antisemitism in schools, activities of the Schutzbund Federation (Republican Protection Association) of the Social Democrats party and of the Heimwehr (Home Guard) of the Christian Socialists party; murder of Dr. Engelbert Dolfuss, 1935; election of Kurt von Schuschnigg as the prime minister; Anschluss, and the annexation of Austria to the German Reich; persecution of the Jews; entry of Hitler into...

File Number : 254

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Propaganda booklet, "On les aura les boches", with antisemitic and anti-Nazi content and cartoons, 1943

Propaganda booklet, "On les aura les boches", with antisemitic and anti-Nazi content and cartoons, 1943 The booklet was printed by Belgian socialists, 1943.

File Number : 82

Type of Material : Propaganda

Language : French

Testimony of Bernard Jozef Natt, born in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences in Frankfurt, Wieringen, Amsterdam, Muenster and Auschwitz

Testimony of Bernard Jozef Natt, born in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences in Frankfurt, Wieringen, Amsterdam, Muenster and Auschwitz Life in Frankfurt until March 1938; life in the Werkdorp Nieuwesluis agricultural training farm in Wieringen. Using a false identity in Amsterdam, March 1941-February 1943; in prison in Muenster; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life.

File Number : 8241

Type of Material : Memoirs, Record of Deportees, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : English

Letter written by the Holocaust survivor Josef Nudelman, Baltimore, to the New York Forverts editorial board regarding his activities as a socialist and his request to publish his short articles, 18 May 1949 His experiences as an active socialist; request to the newspaper's editors to publish his short articles.

File Number : 23.72

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Yiddish

Announcement about a meeting of members, the Poalei Zion Party committee, Hitachdut

File Number : 1444

Type of Material : Invitation

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Sipora (Segal) Avny, born in Iasi, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Sipora (Segal) Avny, born in Iasi, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Iasi Financially secure traditional family; theatre lovers; her brother is disabled; displays of antisemitism, 1939. German occupation, 1941; escape to a shelter; capture of her father; death of her father in the deportation train; forced labor of her brother; liberation of Iasi by the Red Army, 1944. Joins aliya training in Romania; aliya attempt onboard the "Pan York"; detention in Cyprus; marriage and aliya to Israel, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Broadsheets of Jewish organizations in Bulgaria, 1903-1936

Broadsheets of Jewish organizations in Bulgaria, 1903-1936 Broadsheet subjects include: Two broadsheets, 1903 and 1922; Broadsheets of the Jewish organization Edinstvo; Broadsheet, 25 October 1929; Broadsheet encouraging the boycott of the school committee elections, 18 March 1932; Broadsheet of the Saedinenie Cultural Club; Two issues of the At the Front newspaper, 22 October 1932-12 November 1932; Four broadsheets of the school committee elections.

File Number : 302

Type of Material : Announcement, Manifesto, Poster

Language : Bulgarian, Ladino / Solitreo, Polish, French

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests and trials, 20 July 1942 - 30 July 1942

Report of the Vienna Gestapo regarding arrests and trials, 20 July 1942 - 30 July 1942 Among the subjects in the report: Transport 34 with 1,000 Jews deported by train from the Aspang railroad station in Vienna to Theresienstadt, 28 July 1942. - Arrest of a converted Polish Jew who volunteered to serve as a translator for the German Ortskommandatur in Dawidgrodek, Poland and wore a German uniform while hiding his origin; - Arrest of a Jewish woman married to an Aryan who had been exempted from wearing a yellow badge and took advantage of this exemption to make friends with soldiers in the barracks...

File Number : 3482

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Survey Report, Statistical Data

Language : German

Letter written in Rome to Dr. Sandro Pertini by Matilde Bassani, 26 August 1944

File Number : 84

Type of Material : Letter

Article for the "Il Partigiano" (The Partisan) newspaper by Matilde Bassani regarding the struggle of members of the Bruno Bouzzi Partisan Brigade to liberate the city of Florence, published in August 1944

File Number : 82

Type of Material : Article

Language : Italian

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