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Testimony of Chaim Meirovitz/Meierovich, born in 1928 in Lodz, about his experiences in the Lodz ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Kaltwasser camps, etc.

Life before the war; antisemitism before the war; German occupation ensues in September 1939; anti-Jewish legislation; the yellow-star edict; abuse of bearded Jews; dispossession; deportation to the Lodz ghetto in February 1940; hunger; working in a metal factory; activity of the Judenrat; activity of the Jewish police; deportation to labor camps; evading the transports; the Sperre Aktion in September 1942; witness finds shelter with mother in a loft; hardships at "training centers"; faith during the Holocaust; ghetto liquidated in summer 1944; deportation to Auschwitz in late August 1944; sent to the...

File Number : 13618

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Samuel Scharf, born in Sighet, Romania, 1919, regarding his experiences in Sighet, Iasi, Cernauti, Stalingrad, Lyubimovka and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Samuel Scharf, born in Sighet, Romania, 1919, regarding his experiences in Sighet, Iasi, Cernauti, Stalingrad, Lyubimovka and other places His childhood in Sighet in a family of Vizhnitz hasidim; his family's move to Iasi, 1935; activities in Torah V'Avodah; community's concern for refugees from Poland, 1939; move to the Soviet area, summer 1940; life in Cernauti; move to work in a steel factory in Stalingrad, autumn 1940. German Army occupation, June 1941; labor in a quarry in Frolovo; transfer to labor drilling oil in Lyubimovka and in a nearby kolkhoz; approach of the military front;...

File Number : 13200

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara (Ashkenazi) Gen, born in Warez Miasto, Poland, 1935, regarding her experiences as a child in Warez Miasto, Sokal, Tomsk and an orphanage in Namangan

Testimony

Testimony of Sara (Ashkenazi) Gen, born in Warez Miasto, Poland, 1935, regarding her experiences as a child in Warez Miasto, Sokal, Tomsk and an orphanage in Namangan Life before the war; Orthodox family; her father is the local rabbi; tension between her father and the local Jewish community for fear he is a Zionist. German occupation; escape with her family to Sokol; life in Sokol until 1940; deportation by the Soviet authorities to the East; life in a labor camp in Tomsk; release by the Soviets, summer 1941; escape to Namangen; life in Namangen; death of her parents and eldest brother, 1942; move to a...

File Number : 13109

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ida (Reish) Shkoler, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1919, regarding her experiences in Marculesti and Bershad

Testimony

Testimony of Ida (Reish) Shkoler, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1919, regarding her experiences in Marculesti and Bershad Life before the war; witness' father is a salaried carpenter, her mother has a poultry store; attends an ORT school. German occupation, 1941; deportation to Marculesti by train, December 1941; transfer to Bershad; life in Bershad including deaths of her parents and brother from typhus; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Move to Bacau; Mizrachi aliya training; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Pan York", 1947; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1948; marriage, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence between Menachem and Mirjam (Waterman) Pinkhof and family members and friends in the Netherlands, Eretz Israel and Switzerland, 1939-1944

Correspondence between Menachem and Mirjam (Waterman) Pinkhof and family members and friends in the Netherlands, Eretz Israel and Switzerland, 1939-1944 - Letter sent by Menachem Pinkhof to his friend, Maurits van der Ven in Haifa asking for help from the Technion administration in Haifa in obtaining a certificate (for legal aliya to Eretz Israel) as a student (pp. 7-9); - Letter written by Ab Pimentel from the Torah Va'Avodah movement in the Netherlands (pp. 1-4), 30 June 1940; - Circular sent to members of Hechalutz in the Netherlands regarding the personal safety of the members, 18 November...

File Number : 18.11

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew, Dutch, German

{Announcement of a] gathering for an important discussion regarding Shabbat, posted by members and supporters of the Mizrachi-Torah V'Avodah Movement and Bnei Akiva

File Number : 1360

Type of Material : Invitation

Language : Yiddish

Invitation to an Oneg Shabbat (Shabbat get-together), posted by Histadrut Mizrachi-Torah V'Avodah at the Bad Reichenhall DP camp

File Number : 1267

Type of Material : Invitation

Language : Yiddish

Announcement regarding a meeting of the Torah V'Avodah Chapter

File Number : 1254

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : Yiddish

Memorial service for the Rabbi, the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Hacohen Kook, Of Saintly Memory, to be held 01 September 1946, posted by the Torah v'Avodah Movement of the HaHistadrut HaZionit Achida (United Zionist Federation) at the Munich Neu Freimann DP camp

File Number : 841

Type of Material : Invitation

Language : Yiddish

Parties

Parties Overview of the establishment of the Mizrachi party in the Leipheim camp. Also in the file: - Notice: "To the Observant Jews Among the She'erith Hapletah", the Mizrachi movement, [known as] "Torah Va'Avodah" in Germany, calls to the She'erith Hapletah to make aliya to Eretz Israel (in Yiddish).

File Number : 27

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Yiddish

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