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Documentation of Sabina Korn-Neuberg, born in Leczno, Poland, 1933, including a claim for compensation from the District Court for Social Affairs in Essen, Germany, 1944-2012

Documentation of Sabina Korn-Neuberg, born in Leczno, Poland, 1933, including a claim for compensation from the District Court for Social Affairs in Essen, Germany, 1944-2012 - Article titled, "Chasias Kinder" published in the German magazine "Stadt Revue", November 1994, regarding the activities of Chasia Bielicka who took orphan Jewish Holocaust survivors under her wing, including Sabina Neuberg; attached to the article is a photograph [of Sabina Neuberg] from 1946; - Invitation to the Second Conference, on 20 May 2000, sent to Sabina Korn; - Six lists containing the names of children in Poland who...

File Number : 1226

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Lists, Survey Report, Survivors and Refugees Registration Form, Propaganda, List of Orphan Children, Correspondence, Newspaper Clippings, Drawing, Letter, Personal Documents, Legal Documentation, Article

Language : Polish, English

estimony of Beverli Mizrahi Shreier, born in 1941 in Radziwillow, Poland, regarding her experiences in hiding with a Catholic family

Testimony of Beverli Mizrahi Shreier, born in 1941 in Radziwillow, Poland, regarding her experiences in hiding with a Catholic family. The family; giving the girl baby to a Polish servant; murder of the servant and her husband by the Gestapo; moving the baby to another hiding place; the baby's return to the family hiding her; fleeing towards Berlin; in the Russian sector; escape to the American sector; joining a street gang; emigration to the United States; adjusting to a new life.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Confirmation from Wetzlar regarding the transfer of Asan Timirbekow, born, 1912, from Giessen for interrogation by the Gestapo in Frankfurt am Main, 04 June 1943

Confirmation from Wetzlar regarding the transfer of Asan Timirbekow, born, 1912, from Giessen for interrogation by the Gestapo in Frankfurt am Main, 04 June 1943 Transfer of a Tatar, Asan Timirbekow, born, 10 February 1912, by train, to an interrogation place along with other people who had been arrested; payment of the travel expenses was made by the Gestapo; documentation regarding the details concerning the transfer of the people who had been arrested; Included in the file: - Explanation regarding the confirmation [document].

File Number : 642

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Story by Chaim Kamelmacher (Harry Kamel), born in Maniewicze, Poland, regarding the fate of the Maniewicze Jews during the war; story written, 1979

Story by Chaim Kamelmacher (Harry Kamel), born in Maniewicze, Poland, regarding the fate of the Maniewicze Jews during the war; story written, 1979 Story describing the Jewish community of Maniewicze, which served the railroad that was built and instituted during the period of the Russian Czar; the train that passed through the town fills a central role in the story, in which it turns out that the train takes a part in the murder of the Jewish community during the war.

File Number : 8607

Type of Material : Memoirs Literature

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Prof. David Jakoby Jakobowitz, born in Antwerpen, Belgium, 1928, regarding his experiences in Antwerp, Lyon, Geneva, Adliswil and Celerina

Testimony of Prof. David Jakoby Jakobowitz, born in Antwerpen, Belgium, 1928, regarding his experiences in Antwerp, Lyon, Geneva, Adliswil and Celerina Childhood in Antwerp; his father is a partner of a diamond company; studies at a Jewish elementary school for boys “Jashobeam”. German occupation, 10.05.1940; escape with his family on a train to France; German occupation; back home to the hometown; studies in a French public high school; yellow badges; restrictions; cancellation of food tickets for Jews; beginning of the deportation of the city's Jews to Poland, autumn of 1942; escape with his family by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordekhai Teitelbaum born in 1927 in Ostrołęka, Poland, about his experiences in Ostrołęka, escape to the Soviet Union, to Lomzha, and evacuation to Gryazi and the Kemerovo area

Childhood in Ostrołęka; community life; attending synagogue on Sabbaths; attending a Jewish elementary school; father dies in 1935; war with Germany breaks out in September 1939; family escapes to Ostrów Mazowiecka; lives in a synagogue; German occupation ensues; German soldiers enter town; curfew; order to leave town and live elsewhere; back to Ostrołęka; escaping to the east; slipping into Belorussia, Soviet Union; reaching Lomzha; living in a synagogue; receiving Soviet citizenship; transport by rail to Russia via Belostok; reaching Gryazi; mother works in a factory; witness attends a Russian elementary...

File Number : 13379

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Betty (Ehrlich) Lowenstein, born in Germany, 1890, regarding her experiences in Germany, Harbin, Japan and her emigration to the United States, 1940

Memoirs of Betty (Ehrlich) Lowenstein, born in Germany, 1890, regarding her experiences in Germany, Harbin, Japan and her emigration to the United States, 1940 Emigration from Germany, 1940; escape on the Trans-Siberian railroad to Harbin; escape to Japan; escape to the United States, August 1940. The file includes: - German passport of Betty (Ehrlich) Lowenstein, issued in Nuremberg, 1939; - United States naturalization certificate of Betty Ehrlich Lowenstein; - Correspondence between Betty Lowenstein and Henny Messinger, the actual mother of her adopted son, Heinz Lowenstein, via the American...

File Number : 8289

Type of Material : Passport, Red Cross Letter, Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : English, German

Testimony of Jenny (Weintraub) Weil, born in Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 1932, regarding her experiences in Luxembourg, Marseille, Annemasse, Zurich, Heiden and other places

Testimony of Jenny (Weintraub) Weil, born in Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 1932, regarding her experiences in Luxembourg, Marseille, Annemasse, Zurich, Heiden and other places Her childhood with her family; her father serves as the rabbi of Luxembourg. German Army occupation of Luxembourg; escape by train in the direction of Cuba via the Spanish border; death of people in the train from hunger due to the closure of the gates; burial of the corpses by her father; transfer by train to a detention camp in Bayonne; move to Marseille with help from her uncle; help from the OSE organization by giving them food and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Haya (Palchowski) Goldberger, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, Bialystok, Kotlas, a village in the Ural Mountain area and in Uzbekistan

Testimony of Haya (Palchowski) Goldberger, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, Bialystok, Kotlas, a village in the Ural Mountains area and in Uzbekistan Childhood in Warsaw; attends a Jewish school. Outbreak of war; evacuation to the Warsaw city center; return home after about a month; life in Warsaw under German occupation; escape to Bialystok via Siedlice; residence in a slaughterhouse; joined by Avraham Chumpa [?], a future fighter on Mila 18 [St.] [during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising]; transfer to Kotlas with Red Army soldiers; setting sail on a ship toward the Komi Assr...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Elisheva (Stern) Tzimet, born in Sighet, Romania, 1932, regarding her experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Torgau

Testimony of Elisheva (Stern) Tzimet, born in Sighet, Romania, 1932, regarding her experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Torgau Hungarian occupation; life in a religious family with 10 people; witness' father had been a well-to-do lumber merchant during the Romanian rule; attends a Beit Yaakov school; Zionism; contribution to the Herzliya Gymnasium in Tel Aviv; Hungarian occupation, 1940; anti-Jewish legislation and restrictions on the Jews; displays of antisemitism by the neighbors; eviction from her home, Pesach (7 April) 1944; life in the Sighet Ghetto for approximately one...

File Number : 13254

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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