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Letters written in a labor camp by Haim Isak Daniel to his wife Solcha and daughter Shelka in Sofia and Kyustendil, including personal documents of the Daniel family and memoirs of Rashel Sheli (Daniel) Carmi regarding her family's experiences during the Holocaust - Confirmation of the birth of Rashel Daniel, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1937; document issued, 02 August 1937; - Identity card of Haim Daniel, born in Dupnitsa, Bulgaria, 1905, issued in Sofia, 19 April 1947; - Identity card of Solcha Daniel, born in Kyustendil, Bulgaria, 1911, issued in Sofia, 19 April 1947; - Letter written by Haim Daniel...

File Number : 1891

Type of Material : Identity Card, Personal Documents, Poem/song, Letter, Memoirs

Language : Bulgarian, Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Benvenisti, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1921, regarding his experiences in Sofia, Gradeshnitsa, Marikostino, Shumen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Benvenisti, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1921, regarding his experiences in Sofia, Gradeshnitsa, Marikostino, Shumen and other places Life in Sofia before the war. Yellow badge, 1941; transfer to forced labor for the Bulgarian Army, summer 1942; camp life in Gradeshnitsa; labor preparing a surface for railroad tracks; release and return to his family's home; transfer to Marikostino; camp life; desertion and escape to Shumen; escape to Ruse; life in Ruse; put on trial in a military court for desertion; transfer to a military prison, 20 May 1944; liberation by the Red Army, September...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sheli Rachel (Avtalion) Cherni, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1935, regarding her experiences as a child in Stara Zagora and in hiding in Razgrad

Testimony

Testimony of Sheli Rachel (Avtalion) Cherni, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1935, regarding her experiences as a child in Stara Zagora and in hiding in Razgrad From a well-to-do secular family; relations with the non-Jewish population. Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation to Stara Zagora, 1942; deportation in the direction of Poland; partisan attack on the train and release of the deportees; move to Razgrad; life being hidden by villagers; draft of her father to labor paving roads; liberation by the Red Army, September 1944. Reunion with her father; return to Sofia; return of their property by their...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzchak Levi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1931, regarding his experiences in Pirot and Dupnitsa

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Levi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1931, regarding his experiences in Pirot and Dupnitsa Life before the war; witness's father and uncle own a hat shop. Escape to Pirot, 1942; life in Pirot including being beaten up at school; deportation to a camp, March 1943; camp life; transfer of the family out of the camp; transfer to Dupnitsa; camp life during air-raids; liberation, 1944. Return to Sofia; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 21 May 1948; work for the police.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew