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List of reporters from the Mogilev region, 20/10/1940

File Number : 3369

Type of Material : List of Reporters

Language : Russian

Testimony of David Himelfarb Shachar, born in Krasnosielc, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Syktyvkar, a Polish school next to Moscow, the Polish Army and a kolkhoz next to Kursk

Testimony

Testimony of David Himelfarb Shachar, born in Krasnosielc, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Syktyvkar, a Polish school next to Moscow, the Polish Army and a kolkhoz next to Kursk Religious family. German occupation; murder of his father by SS men; escape to Bialystok; attitude of the local community; escape to the Soviet Union; life in Syktyvkar; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union; attends school; chess games with an NKVD agent; attends a school for gifted Polish children next to Moscow; draft into the Polish Army; reunion of the family in a kolkhoz next to Kursk; end of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Newspaper clippings from Chkalov, 1942

File Number : 164

Type of Material : Newspaper

Language : Russian

Personal testimony of Liza Czapnik (Marysia Mrozowska), born in 1922 Grodno, Poland

Personal testimony of Liza Czapnik (Marysia Mrozowska), born 1922; the file contains a certificate affirming her service as head of the anti-fascist partisan committee in Bialystok, issued on July 30, 1944; information about the cipher used by the partisans of her unit and drawings with information about the German garrison given by Liza Czapnik to the partisans; press clippings about the activities of Liza Czapnik and the head of the partisan group, Mikolaj Wojciechowski, from June 29, 1968.

File Number : 331

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Russian

Personal documentation related to Iliya Gelfgat, born in Ukraine, 1904, regarding his service in the Red Army

- photograph of a group of Red Army soldiers including Iliya Gelfgat, from a military newspaper; - slips received by Iliya Gelfgat in 1943-1944, after he was awarded a medal for his military service; Comments from the submitter of the material: (Ella Vinitsky) Iliya Gelfgat was born in 1904. He served in regular service in the Red Army in Baku, during which he met his future wife, Elizaveta. They had two daughters, Raisa, probably born in the 1920s, and Ella, the submitter, born in 1937. Iliya was an industrial food inspector by profession, Elizaveta worked in a bread bakery as a warehouse manager. At the...

File Number : 1067

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Document

Language : Russian

Documentation related to the experiences of Esther Lurie after the liberation and to her efforts to obtain the paintings she painted in the Kaunas Ghetto

- Permit issued to Esther Lurie in the Aversa DP camp in April 1945; - Correspondence by Esther Lurie during her stay in Italy and in Eretz Israel in 1945, conducted with private individuals (regarding her experiences during the Holocaust and afterwards) and with the British Mandatory government (regarding the fate of her works from the Kaunas Ghetto); - Draft of a letter written by Esther Lurie to the management of the Vilna Museum, regarding the fate of her works (undated); Included in the file: - Excerpts of lists of survivors, in which the name of Esther Lurie appears; - Issue of the "Einikait"...

File Number : 8

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Application, Newspaper, List of Jewish Survivors, Letter, Draft, Certification, Appeal to the Authorities, Postcard, Correspondence

Language : Hebrew, English, Russian, Yiddish

Documentation related to Rivka Alishayeva, born in Samarkand, 1919

Included in the file: - certificate of Rivka Alishayeva's participation in the war in 1941-1945; - newspaper clipping regarding Rivka Alishayeva, who served as a nurse in the Red Army during the war. Comments from the submitter of the material: (Moti Yitzhakov) Rivka Alishayeva was born in Samarkand,1919. Her parents were David and Shuri Alishayeva. After the war she married Uriel Haimov. During the war, Rivka served as a nurse at the front, and traveled as far as Poland.

File Number : 1025

Type of Material : Diploma, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Russian

Letters sent by Yakov Suponitski from the front to his family in evacuation in 1941-1942, and more

Letters sent by Yakov Suponitski from the front to his family in evacuation in 1941-1942, and more - letters written by Yakov Suponitski while he was at the front and in a military hospital to his family in 1941-1942; Documentation of Yakov Suponitski, born in Khorol in 1906: - disability certificate for Yakov Suponitski after being wounded in battle, issued in 1945; - copy of Yakov Suponitski's World War II disability certificate, issued in 1976; - confirmation of the return of Yakov Suponitski with his family to Kiev; - work record of Yakov Suponitski, issued in 1951; - issues of the "Stalinskaya...

File Number : 5232

Type of Material : Letter, Newspaper, Diploma, Certification

Language : Russian, Ukrainian

Documentation associated with Mikhail Katz, born in Surazh in 1908, and his family, 1902–1983

Documentation associated with Mikhail Katz, born in Surazh in 1908, and his family, 1902–1983 - marriage certificate of Gilel Shur and Kreyna Levina, issued in Kherson in 1902 and notarized on March 28, 1903; - marriage certificate of Mikhail Katz and Sarra Shur, issued in Surazh on July 20, 1935; - Russian newspaper, 1983, with an obituary notice for Mikhail Katz; - excerpts of a book about the Kompressor enterprise, which had been managed by Mikhail Katz; - invitation to the wedding of Mendel Katz and Lyubov Krupkina, held in Surazh in 1896. Submitter's remarks: Galina (Katz) Manzon, born in Moscow...

File Number : 957

Type of Material : Marriage Certificate, Personal Documents, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Boris Efros, born in Yanovichi in 1928, and Lyubov Altshuler (maiden name: Efros), born in Yanovichi in 1926, regarding their experiences during the Holocaust

Memoirs of Boris Efros, born in Yanovichi in 1928, and Lyubov Altshuler (maiden name: Efros), born in Yanovichi in 1926, regarding their experiences during the Holocaust - memoirs of Boris Efros edited by Arkadiy Shulman: The outbreak of war and the conscription of her father Lazar into the Red Army (he was killed in battle); escape of his family from the village and wandering between different villages; return to Yanovichi; German invasion of the village; murder of Jews; establishment of a ghetto; leaving the ghetto in search of food; liquidation of the ghetto; hiding; murder of Jews (his family members...

File Number : 11617

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Newspaper Clippings, Memoirs, Birth Certificate, Diary, Marriage Certificate, Diploma

Language : Russian

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