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Testimony of Ruth Atzmoni, born in Rakospalota, 1926, regarding her experiences in Rakospalota, on the Kasztner Train and in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Testimony

Testimony of Ruth Atzmoni, born in Rakospalota, 1926, regarding her experiences in Rakospalota, on the Kasztner Train and in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp A close family; her father's livelihood; life at home; celebrating the relgious holidays; studies in a school; the Jewish community; joining a youth movement; arrival of refugees; removing the yellow badge; meeting members of her youth movement in Budapest; the system of getting papers for refugees; marking of Jewish houses; taking of friends to labor camps; entry of the Germans to Hungary; return of the refugees to Czechoslovakia; escape of her...

File Number : 11615

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation related to Konrad Katriel Bodzanowski, born in Breslau, Germany, and his wife Hadassah Hodes (Birnbaum) Bodzanowski, from Berlin, Germany, and their family members, dated 1913-1949

Documentation related to Konrad Katriel Bodzanowski, born in Breslau, Germany, and his wife Hadassah Hodes (Birnbaum) Bodzanowski, from Berlin, Germany, and their family members, dated 1913-1949 - Diary (without the name of the writer) of a trip from Breslau to Switzerland during 04/05-04/07/1912; diary regarding the illegal emigration of the Bodzanowski family to Belgium and the emigration of several members of the Birnbaum family to the Netherlands, written during 1939-1944; - Invitation to the marriage of Konrad Katriel Bodzanowski and Helen Zvia Hadas Birnbaum in Breslau on 21/08/1932; - Poster (in...

File Number : 810

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Poster, Invitation, Catalog, Diary

Language : French, Dutch, German, Yiddish

Memoirs of Holocaust survivor Frumka Frida (Braver) Pordes, born in Bolechow, Poland, from the prewar period, the war period, and the postwar period

Memoirs of Holocaust survivor Frumka Frida (Braver) Pordes, born in Bolechow, Poland, from the prewar period, the war period, and the postwar period Trip in Nature with her class when she was a small child, during the course of which she first experienced antisemitism: in the middle of the forest, there was a sudden heavy rainstorm, and all the children sheltered in a little chapel, except for the Jewish children who were not permitted to enter; Zionist activities in reaction to the mounting antisemitism among the [female] pupils: The older [female] students founded a "Rachel" movement and the younger girls...

File Number : 9491

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Part 2 of the conference of the alliance of World War II veterans who fought the Nazis held in May 2000

- a visit to the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in the closed city of Zvyozdnyi; - visit to the Marfino holiday home and museum; - Visiting Poklonnaya (Bowing) Hill in Moscow (the Holocaust Memorial Synagogue and the Victory Park).

File Number : 777

Type of Material : Documentary

Language : Russian

A conference of the alliance of World War II veterans who fought the Nazis, held in St. Petersburg in May 2000

A trip to St. Petersburg; a ceremony commemorating the victory in World War II and the speech of the chairman of the alliance, Avraam Koen; continuation of the trip in St. Petersburg; meeting of the alliance of veterans at the Center for Jewish Art; the veterans' speeches and receiving medals; the continuation of the trip and visits to museums; festive dinner.

File Number : 774

Type of Material : Documentary

Language : Russian

Documentation of the family of Gabriel Ernst Wolfgang Gottschalk Sheleg, born in Biedenkopf, Germany in 1922, and his wife Ruth (Schnurmann) Sheleg, born in Manheim, Germany in 1920; documentation dated, 1916-1944 Diary 1: - Diary titled, "Was Paris mir bot" ("What Paris gave me"), written about the visit that Gabriel had as a youth in Paris in the home of his aunt Juliette and his uncle Paul during 12-28 July 1937, including his experiences at various tourist sites, and including photographs, entrance tickets to tourist sites, and an identity card with the name Ernst Gottschalk, used for entrance to an...

File Number : 9880

Type of Material : Postcard, Diary

Language : German

The memoirs of Madeleine Schwartz regarding her family’s experiences in France, the Exodus, stays in Toulouse and Vindrac, her father's deportation to Buchenwald in 1944 and more

The memoirs of Madeleine Schwartz regarding her family’s experiences in France, the Exodus, stays in Toulouse and Vindrac, her father's deportation to Buchenwald in 1944 and more - memoirs of Madeleine Schwartz Mayer from France regarding her family's experiences in the Holocaust: Marcel Schwartz, Madelaine’s father, was born in Strasbourg on 1 January 1886; Marcel's military service in World War I; Marcel and Marguerite's marriage in 1920; Marcel's trip to Indochina and China and his return to France in 1925; World War II: Marcel's recruitment to Défense passive (Passive Defense) in Paris in 1939-1940; the...

File Number : 8951

Type of Material : Memoirs, Identity Card

Language : French

Internet material (email) sent to Yehuda Alexander (born: Lutz Schneider) in 2007, regarding his family members, born in Ortelsburg, who perished during the Holocaust

Internet material (email) sent to Yehuda Alexander (born: Lutz Schneider) in 2007, regarding his family members, born in Ortelsburg, who perished during the Holocaust Yehuda's brothers and sisters, born in Ortelsburg, perished during the Holocaust, most of them in Riga; Pages of Testimony can be found for his brothers, sisters and his parents Willy and Eva Schneider; Included in the file: Document titled, "Return from the Diaspora", taken from the internet and written by Yehuda Alexander in Israel, 24/06/2011, regarding a roots trip to Germany on 14/05/2008; Yehuda was adopted by relatives following...

File Number : 1550

Type of Material : Internet Material, Letter

Language : Hebrew, English

Memoirs of David Grinvald, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Kosice Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Plaszow, Gross-Rosen and Gorlitz camps

Memoirs of David Grinvald, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Kosice Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Plaszow, Gross-Rosen and Gorlitz camps Life before the war; information about his grandparents from Lwow; information about his grandparents from Kosice; death of his father, 1938; re-annexation to Hungary; German occupation, 1944; anti-Jewish legislation; deportation to the Kosice Ghetto; Kosice Ghetto life; activities of the Judenrat; deportation to Auschwitz with his family, 02/06/1944; Auschwitz camp life; transfer of his mother and younger brother to the gas chambers;...

File Number : 8815

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Video testimony given by the son of Meyer Wiesel, born in Horni Abscha in 1930, regarding his family's experiences in Horni Abscha and Topolcany, deportation to Auschwitz and Meyer's emigration to the United States Video testimony given by the son of Meyer (Michael Morris) Wiesel, born in Horni Abscha on 25 November 1930, regarding the family's experiences in the Holocaust (he talked about his experiences during a roots trip made by family members to places related to the family's history): The trip of the son of Meyer Wiesel to Vysni Apsa, Meyer's hometown; a conversation with a local resident who knew...

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English, Ukrainian

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