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Correspondence of Menachem Degani Kornblueh from Eretz Israel with his brother David Kornblueh who was in Bardejov and Bratislava, 1938-1940, and Krattigen, Switzerland, 1944-1945, letters sent by Menachem to his parents and sisters in Bardejov, 1938-1940 and his personal documentation from the period prior to his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938 Letters and postcards: - Letter from Menachem Degani in Cesky Tesin to his brother David Kornblueh, 10 September 1937; - Letter from Menachem Degani in Cesky Tesin to Rabbi Simcha Tannenbaum, 09 November 1937; - Letters sent by Menachem Degani in Eretz Israel to...

File Number : 2237

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents, Newspaper Clippings, Postcard, Official Documentation

Language : Slovak, Hebrew, German, Yiddish, Hungarian

Testimony of Naomi Erika Reizl (Unger) Shtraser, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1938 regarding the journey on the Kastner train and her stay in Bergen-Belsen and Switzerland

Testimony

Early childhood in a well-to-do observant family, active in Mizrachi; German occupation, March 1944; arrest of her father by the Gestapo; listing of her family on the passenger list intended for the Kasztner train; her mother's efforts to release her father; the family's departure on the Kasztner train, June 1944; arrival at Bergen-Belsen; life with her mother and cousin in a women's barracks under conditions of hunger and cold; departure to Caux, Switzerland, December 1944; recovery; transfer to a children's home; Return to Hungary with her parents; rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel,1950.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Zoltán Moor written in Caux, Switzerland, January-May 1945 including a description of his experiences during the war in Budapest, on the Kasztner train and in Bergen-Belsen

Memoirs of Zoltán Moor written in Caux, Switzerland, January-May 1945 including a description of his experiences during the war in Budapest, on the Kasztner train and in Bergen-Belsen Also in the file: - Letter from Zoltán Moor to Jolán Földes, a Jewish writer, 11 June 1945 (the letter was apparently not sent); - Postcards written by Tamás Moor during the time he was a forced laborer in a draft center in Jászberény and in a labor camp (apparently the Bor camp) to his father Zoltán Moor in Budapest, June-August 1944; - Letter sent by Tamás Moor in Bucharest to his uncle István Back in Timisoara, 14...

File Number : 8632

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Memoirs, Telegram

Language : German, Hungarian

Letter written by Sophia Schlesinger in the Caux refugee camp to her husband István Schlesinger in Eretz Israel, 18 December 1944

Letter written by Sophia Schlesinger in the Caux refugee camp to her husband István Schlesinger in Eretz Israel, 18 December 1944 In the letter there is a description of life in the Caux camp [following their arrival from Bergen-Belsen, December 1944]; the care for their daughters, the state of health of István's father and her efforts to expedite their aliya to Eretz Israel (apparently the letter relates to a group of survivors from the Kasztner train). Also in the file: - List of six silver objects in Hungarian and in Hebrew translation; - Confirmation regarding the deposit of valuables belonging to...

File Number : 2054

Type of Material : List, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Letter sent by Jolanda (Schlezinger) Deutsch in Budapest to her husband Andor Deutsch, 1944 and letters written in Bergen-Belsen camp to her brother-in-law Vilmos Gaspar, March 1945

Letter sent by Jolanda (Schlezinger) Deutsch in Budapest to her husband Andor Deutsch, 1944 and letters written in Bergen-Belsen camp to her brother-in-law Vilmos Gaspar, March 1945 - Letters written by Jolanda (Schlezinger) Deutsch in Bergen-Belsen camp to her brother-in-law Vilmos Gaspar, who also was in Bergen-Belsen camp (on one of the letters the date 23 March appears); transfer of the letters by a POW, in exchange for food; - Letter written by Jolanda (Schlezinger) Deutsch in Budapest, to her husband Andor Deutsch in a labor camp, 05 July 1944; - Continuation of the letter, 16 October...

File Number : 1929

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hungarian

Letters sent from Greece by Rachel Jutka Weinberger, born in Sajoszentpeter, Hungary, to her sister Eva Weinberger in Eretz Israel, 1946-1948

Letters sent from Greece by Rachel Jutka Weinberger, born in Sajoszentpeter, Hungary, to her sister Eva Weinberger in Eretz Israel, 1946-1948 Comments by the person submitting the letters: Rachel (Weinberger)(Schwartz) Grossberger was born in Sajoszentpeter in 1928; her siblings were Eva, Shmuel and Joseph; death of her brothers in the Holocaust; murder of her parents, Mindel and Menachem Weinberger, in Auschwitz; survival of Eva on the Kasztner train and her aliya to Eretz Israel; deportation of Rachel together with her family to Auschwitz; survival and transfer to Greece as part of a Bnei Akiva group,...

File Number : 1898

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

List of Jews transported from Budapest to Bergen-Belsen on the Kasztner train, summer 1944

File Number : 51

Type of Material : List

Language : German

Correspondence of Dr. Israel Kasztner and Zionist leaders in Hungary with public figures, regarding the rescue of Jews in Hungary during the Holocaust, 1943-1952, and the fate of the Jews who left Hungary on the Kasztner train, summer 1944

File Number : 31

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Documentation regarding the Dr. Kasztner Rezső Emlékét Megörökítő Bizottság (Committee for the Memorialization of Dr. Israel Kasztner) in Israel, 1950s and 1960s

Documentation regarding the Dr. Kasztner Rezső Emlékét Megörökítő Bizottság (Committee for the Memorialization of Dr. Israel Kasztner) in Israel, 1950s and 1960s - Regulations of the Committee for the Memorialization of Dr. Israel Kasztner (undated); - Summary prepared by Moór Zoltán regarding the activities of the Committee for the Memorialization of Dr. Israel Kasztner, July 1957; - Letters regarding the activities of the Committee for the Memorialization of Dr. Israel Kasztner, 1957 and 1967; - Article published in the "Híradó" ("News Report") newspaper in London regarding Komlós Aladár, a...

File Number : 22

Type of Material : Letter, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Testimony of Miriam Tratner née Stern, born in 1927 in Cluj, Romania, about her experiences in Cluj, Budapest, and Romania, and her immigration to Eretz Israel in August 1944

Offspring of a Zionist family in Clug; grandfather, a rabbi, visits Eretz Israel; father dies; witness joins the Habonim movement; older brother immigrates to Eretz Israel in 1938; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; witness attends a Hebrew gymnasium; German occupation in 1944; brother inducted into labor service; ideas about escaping to Romania; obtains false papers with help from the movement; escapes to Budapest; information about the Cluj ghetto; receives an offer to board the "Kasztner train"; decides to escape to Romania; aided by the Zionist pioneering underground; sinking of the MV Mefküre;...

File Number : 13548

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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