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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 : Testimony, Official Documentation

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

To be translated

File Number : 2355

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Josef Pinker regarding the lives of Jews in Nowy Dwor and their fate during the Nazi occupation

Jewish life in Nowy Dwor before World War II; Polish anti-Jewish activity with Hitler's rise to power and Jewish counteractivity; riots by Poles and Volksdeutsche during the German invasion; looting of property from Jewish evacuees fleeing the bombs; escape of Jews to the Soviet Union; forced contributions imposed on the Jewish community and imprisonment of wealthy Jews and intellectuals as hostages; hangings; deportation of Jews from Rypin and Serpc through Nowy Dwor; attempts by Nowy Dwor Jews to save deportees; desecration and burning of Torah scrolls in the market square while humiliating elderly Jewish...

File Number : 563

Type of Material : Testimony

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, סיפור חיים

Language : Hebrew

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