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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 : Telegram, Official Documentation, Personal Documents

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 : Documentary, Personal Documents

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

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch, German

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 : Letter, Administrative Documentation, Personal Documents

Language : French, Dutch, German, Hungarian

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 : Personal Documents, Memoirs, Memoir Book

Language : English, Russian, German, Hungarian

Testimony of Malka Stern née Grinberger, born in 1926 in Ganice, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in Ganice, the Mateszalka ghetto, and the Birkenau and Lübberstedt camps during the war

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; good relations with the non-Jewish population; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; family business license evoked; father deported to a labor camp in 1941; neighbors who lack Hungarian citizenship deported; refugees from Poland arrive; German occupation ensues in March 1944; witness deported to the Mateszalka ghetto; robbed of jewelry; deported to Auschwitz on Shavuot 1944; escapes from a group being transferred in the camp to a crematorium; sent to Lübberstedt in summer 1944; life in the camp; manufacturing bombs; the front closes in and the camp is...

File Number : 13558

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Elli Moskowicz Fischer, born in Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Switzerland as of 1933; appeal by Elli and her aunt regarding the Swiss decision to deport her to Germany, 1939; letter by Samuel Moskowicz, testifying he is an Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen survivor; experiences of the Moskowicz family from Berlin, including a copy of the ID issued for Elli in Zurich in 1940 Memoirs of Elli Moskowicz Fischer, born in Berlin, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Switzerland from 1933, appeal written by her and her aunt Anna Obermann regarding the decision of the Swiss authorities to...

File Number : 8343

Type of Material : Memoirs, Letter of Testimony, Biography, Personal Documents, Documentary, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Chaim Henri Feldman, born in Brussels, Belgium in 1938, regarding his experiences as a child while in hiding in Brussels and in an orphanage in Namur

Testimony of Chaim Henri Feldman, born in Brussels, Belgium in 1938, regarding his experiences as a child while in hiding in Brussels and in an orphanage in Namur Life in his parents' home; Finding him a hiding place in his aunt's home in Brussels; escape back to his family's home; receiving information regarding a deportation to Mechelen camp and from there to Auschwitz camp on Transport no. 16 in 1942; visit by two Belgian women who are members of the Belgian underground, Jeanne and Andrée Guelen; separation from his mother; Allied Forces' air-raids; transfer to Villa Mille Fleurs in Namur; life in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Arie Eliash, born in Negresti, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences in Negresti, the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buna-Monowitz, Buchenwald and other places

Memoirs of Arie Eliash, born in Negresti, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences in Negresti, the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buna-Monowitz, Buchenwald and other places Life with his parents in Negresti; traditional family; good financial situation; attends a local school and a Jewish school; life under fascist Romanian rule including incitements. Hungarian occupation; harassment of the Jews; visit of an emissary from Poland to the synagogue; information regarding the murder of the Jews of Poland from the emissary; German occupation; refusal to escape to a hiding place in the forest; nationalization of...

File Number : 8242

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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