Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

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List of Jews from Berdichev who perished, 1941-1944, recorded on [the inside cover of] a volume of the Mishna and an inside page of another book [apparently a book of the Bible, maybe Jeremiah]

File Number : 243

Type of Material : List of Murdered Persons, Religious Literature - Sermons

Language : Hebrew

Invitation to a Sefer Torah celebration to be held at Negev, the camp Beit Midrash (Study Hall), posted by the Observance Committee

File Number : 918

Type of Material : Invitation

Language : Yiddish

Documentation regarding requests to the Central Jewish Committee and the religious department in Linz from representatives of the JDC organization and lawyers' services, and concerning the rescue of a Torah scroll in Goisern and other matters - Requests to the Central Jewish Committee and the religious department in Linz from representatives of the JDC organization and the distribution department in Linz; the requests, dated, 10 June 1949, relate to the refugee camps in Linz and Salzburg and the entire US Occupation Zone, and include the following subjects: the Four Species [for Sukkot], pp. 121, 171, 195,...

File Number : 25.a

Type of Material : Letter, Administrative Documentation, Reports

Language : English, German

Testimony of Esther (Kulinovski) Kreingel, born in Luoke, Lithuania, 1920, regarding her experiences in Luoke, the Telsiai Ghetto, Garliava and Vevirzenai

Testimony

Testimony of Esther (Kulinovski) Kreingel, born in Luoke, Lithuania, 1920, regarding her experiences in Luoke, the Telsiai Ghetto, Garliava and Vevirzenai German occupation; deportation to a labor camp on a farm near Luoke; murder of her husband with Shlomo Nuaik; murder of 100 men, 15 July 1941; transfer with the wives of those murdered to Vervirzenai; transfer to Garliava; escape with four women to a forest on the eve of the evacuation of the camp, December 1941; murder of thousands of Jews in an adjacent forest; life in the Telsiai Ghetto; rescue of Jews by Father Macijauskas and Dr. Girbudas, both later...

File Number : 3217

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Ernst Einhorn regarding his professional work for Jewish war victims in both the old and the new Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (RVJ-Reich Association of the Jews in Germany), 1933-1945, and regarding the work of the RVJ, 1943-1945 Testimony of Ernst Einhorn, tax accountant, born circa 1899, who worked in the Department of Advocacy for Jewish War Victims in both the old and the new RVJ, regarding his professional work on behalf of Jewish war victims, 1933-1945, and the work of the RVJ, specifically between 1943 and 1945. - The Department of Advocacy for Jewish War Victims was...

File Number : 258

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Rabbi Dr. Max Nussbaum, born in Suczawa, Bucovina, Romania, 1908, regarding his experiences in Berlin under Nazi rule until his emigration in 1940

Testimony of Rabbi Dr. Max Nussbaum, born in Suczawa, Bucovina, Romania, 1908, regarding his experiences under Nazi rule in Berlin until his emigration in 1940 - Summons to the Berlin Gestapo, 1937; interrogation by Kuchmann, an officer responsible for Jewish Affairs; request that Rabbi Nussbaum resign from the Zionistische Vereinigung fuer Deutschland (ZVfD -Zionist Federation of Germany) and join the Revisionist Association (most likely the Zionist Association that split from the ZVfD in 1925); refusal of the witness to comply with the request; order to refrain from any activity in public outside of his...

File Number : 222

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Moses Malz regarding what happened to a Torah scroll from Sokal

File Number : 1371

Language : Yiddish

Documentation of the experiences of Mordechai Kanner, born in Kielce in 1910, before, during, and after the Holocaust

Documentation of the experiences of Mordechai Kanner, born in Kielce in 1910, before, during, and after the Holocaust Biography of Mordechai Kanner, recorded in 2003 as told by his daughter, Sara Kanner: Life in Kielce with parents (Alexander and Sorah Ruchl) and two sisters (Leah and Feige); escaping to the Soviet Union upon outbreak of World War II; wandering in the Soviet Union; meeting his future wife, Rivka Bacharach, in Kharkov; marrying; reaching Poland after the war with his wife and members of her family; Mordechai and Rivka move to Kielce and attempt to trace members of the Kanner family;...

File Number : 906

Type of Material : סיפור חיים, סיפור

Language : Hebrew

Letters and postcards sent to David Zwingermann in England by his family in Berlin and by the Schreyner family in Germany and Poland in 1938-1939

Letters and postcards sent to David Zwingermann in England by his family in Berlin and by the Schreyner family in Germany and Poland in 1938-1939 Personal correspondence: - Letter to David Zwingermann regarding membership fees from the Maccabi Sports Club in Berlin dated 02 May 1938; - Letters and postcards sent to David Zwingermann in England by his parents and other family members in Berlin in 1938-1939; - Postcards and letters sent by Erwin Schreyner in Zwickau to his cousin David Zwingermann between December 1938 and March 1939; - Letter to David written by Moritz and Anna Schreyner in Leipzig on 23...

File Number : 5072

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Envelope, Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Memoirs of Noach Edelist, about his experiences in the Częstochowa ghetto, forced labor at a HASAG plant, and celebrating Simhat Torah

Memoirs of Noach Edelist, about his experiences in the Częstochowa ghetto, forced labor at a HASAG plant, and celebrating Simhat Torah - memoirs of Noach Edelist of Częstochowa, relating to his experiences in the Holocaust, translated into English by Cedric Olivestone under the auspices of the Częstochowa landsmanshaft in Israel and Dor Hemshech German forces occupy Częstochowa; religious implements confiscated; the memoirist is evicted to the Częstochowa ghetto; Jews deported from the Częstochowa ghetto to Treblinka; sent to forced labor at a HASAG plant; story about a shofar and a small Torah scroll; the...

File Number : 11393

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

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