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Documentation regarding Erich and Rosa Rachela (Weitzner) Schwartz, including Rosa's inoculation certificate, Erich's report card, telegrams received by Rosa, and other documents, 1920-1952

Documentation regarding Erich and Rosa Rachela (Weitzner) Schwartz, including Rosa's inoculation certificate, Erich's report card, telegrams received by Rosa, and other documents, 1920-1952 Documentation related to Rosa Rachela Weitzner: - Inoculation certificate of Rosa Weitzner, issued in Essen, 06 July 1925; - Registration certificate for foreign resident, belonging to Rachela Weitzner, born in Kalusz, 04 January 1913; certificate issued in Manchester, 11 July 1939 (her date of arrival to England: 04 April 1939); - Record card for health insurance and pension contributions of Rachel Weitzner, a...

File Number : 648

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Personal Documents, Telegram

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German

Personal documentation of Pinkus Windholz, born in Krakow, Poland, 1902, and roots research regarding the experiences of the family, including his son Yehuda Elon, written by the great-granddaughter of Pinkus Windholz Original documents: - Birth certificate of Pinkus Windholz, who was born in Krakow, 22 June 1902, issued in Krakow, 22 October 1919; - Birth certificate of Pinkus Windholz, issued in Berlin Neukoelln, 27 August 1929; - Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate) of Pinkus and Rachel Windholz, signed, 30 June 1929; - Identity card (Fremdenpass) of foreign resident, Pinkus Windholz, issued...

File Number : 647

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Documentary

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, German

Correspondence between the Gross family in Eretz Israel and family in Amstelveen through the Red Cross, 1941-1943; letters sent to Szymon Benno Wind in Westerbork from Vught camp and Amstelveen, 1944; letter from a Polish Army soldier regarding meeting Szymon Benno in Westerbork and the fate of his wife Rosa (Gross) Wind, 1945; personal documentation of Szymon Benno during the war and afterwards Correspondence between the Gross family in Eretz Israel and the family in Amstelveen through the Red Cross, 1941-1943; letters sent from the Vught camp and Amstelveen to Szymon Benno Wind in Westerbork, 1944; letter...

File Number : 2225

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Red Cross Letter, Letter, Postcard, Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch, German

Testimony of Sara Shuster Tolchinski, born in Calarasi, Romania, 1925 regarding her escape to the Soviet Union

Testimony

Childhood before the war; coexistence; Outbreak of the war; arrival of Jewish refugees; mutual assistance; riots against the Jews, 1941; escape to the Soviet Union with the retreating Red Army; drafting of her father and brother to labor camps; move to Korosten; assistance from the Soviets; move to Kazakhstan; work; Rebuilding life; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1957.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documents of lawyer Desire Csongos (original name: Dezső Csöngös), born in Hungary, who emigrated to Belgium; documents dated, 1928-1944

Personal documents of lawyer Desire Csongos (original name: Dezső Csöngös), born in Hungary, who emigrated to Belgium; documents dated, 1928-1944 - Order of deportation to Mechelen camp in Belgium, sent to Lea Warth in Antwerp, Belgium, 08/08/1942; - Application by Desire Csongos to the Association des Juifs en Belgique (Association of Jews in Belgium), 05/03/1942; request to join the association; - Identity card for a non-citizen; - Pages from a notebook with dates of Transports that departed Mechelen camp, 04/08/1942-31/07/1944, including the number of deportees in each Transport; - Membership...

File Number : 159

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Administrative Documentation, Letter

Language : French, Dutch, German, Hungarian

Testimony of Moshe Amit Toker, born in Petroseni, Romania in 1934, regarding his childhood experiences in Petroseni and in Galati

Testimony of Moshe Amit Toker, born in Petroseni, Romania in 1934, regarding his childhood experiences in Petroseni and in Galati Life before the war; son of an Orthodox religious family; father born in Poland; receiving an expulsion order to Poland as stateless people in 1940; closing of the border and remaining in Romania; life in Galati; family receiving absorption assistance from the local Jews; suffering bombings; activity in Zionist youth movement after liberation; moving from Romania in a children’s group; life in Apeldoorn children’s home in 1947; aliya to Israel in 1948; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Fremdenpass (passport belonging to a stateless person) issued in Vienna, 01 March 1939, to Sumer Shmulewicz, born in Czortkow, Poland, 15 April 1883, in order to enable his aliya to Eretz Israel, and a travel pass for most sections of Eretz Israel issued to him in Tel Aviv, 31 March 1939

File Number : 247

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : French, English, German

Two memoir books written by Sándor Samuel Prágai Präger, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1916, regarding his experiences in Budapest, Vienna, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and more

Two memoir books written by Sándor Samuel Prágai Präger, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1916, regarding his experiences in Budapest, Vienna, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and more Information regarding his parents and his sister who were murdered in Auschwitz, August 1941; life before the war; membership in the Social-Democratic Party. Arrest, 15 February 1938; transfer to a jail; deportation (sentenced to deportation and not detention for not having Hungarian citizenship since his parents were originally from Poland); refusal of a Czech officer to allow him entry to Czechoslovakia; transfer to Austria; life in...

File Number : 8527

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents, Memoir Book

Language : English, Russian, German, Hungarian

estimony of Natan Kolker, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1930, regarding the ‎Kindertransport to England in 1939‎

Testimony of Natan Kolker, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1930, regarding the ‎Kindertransport to England in 1939‎ Member of an orthodox, Zionist family; lack of citizenship and deportation to Hungary in 1938; ‎arrest of his uncle in Dachau; return to Slovakia; Kindertransport with his brother to England in ‎‎1939; living in an orthodox hostel in Cambridgeshire 1939–1945; keeping in touch with his parents ‎by letter until 1942; aliya to Israel in 1950; absorption.‎

File Number : 13739

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sarah Sala Sylvia (Tzinader) Manes, born in 1930 in Stolberg, Germany, describing her move to Belgium with Kindertransport, and living in hiding places in Belgium

Testimony

Testimony of Sarah Sylvia (Tzinader) Manes, born in 1930 in Stolberg, Germany Her father immigrated from Galicia; her father's occupation - management of the family grocery store; good relations with the German saleswomen; the closing of the grocery store in 1938; her father's deportation to Poland; transfer of the witness with Kindertransport to her relatives who lived in Belgium, in January 1939; illegal border crossing into Belgium by two of her brothers in 1940; attempted escape to France with the beginning of the German occupation; deportation of her mother to Aachen camp; marched to a transport in...

File Number : 13674

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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