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Letters sent by Robert Lucas Boissevain from Vught and Oranienburg camps to his wife Sonja Tienhoven-Boissevain, 1944, and to his sister Tolly Boissevain-Mesritz, 1945; Russian-Dutch dictionary and exercises written by Lowske Goldberg while hidden by the Boissevain family; Dutch underground placard against anti-Jewish discrimination; documents related to the Goldberg and Boissevain families Letters sent by Robert Lucas Boissevain from the Vught camp and the Oranienburg camp to his wife Sonja Tienhoven-Boissevain in Haarlem, 1944, and to his sister Tolly Boissevain-Mesritz in Geneva, January 1945; a...

File Number : 2233

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Poster, Research Article, Dictionary, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Newspaper Clippings, Documentary, Genealogy, Letter

Language : English, Russian, Dutch, German

Memoirs of Zhenya Chernyavskaya, born in Rogozno, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in detention, in the Demidowka Ghetto, in hiding, her wanderings using a false identity, underground activism and more Family history; parental home in Rogozno; the Soviet occupation; move to Dubno; high school studies; work as a teacher in a village in the Kozin area; pedagogical studies at Rowne. Outbreak of the war and retreat of the Soviet forces; the German occupation; establishment of Ukrainian auxiliary forces; detention, 26 July 1941; abuse by Ukrainians; release to house arrest and second detention after two...

File Number : 8531

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Documentation regarding Siegfried Schalom Baron and Elsa (Safern) Baron, 1921-1988

Documentation regarding Siegfried Schalom Baron and Elsa (Safern) Baron, 1921-1988 Documentation regarding Siegfried Schalom Baron: - Letter sent from Bialystok by Filip Baron to his brother, Schalom Baron in Tel Aviv, 21 May (no year stated); - Two postcards sent to Siegfried Schalom Baron by his brother, Filip Baron, from Stanislawow and Bednarow (both undated); - Letters and postcards sent to Schalom Baron by his parents, Hermann and Pepi Baron, from Bochum, 07 June 1939, Zbaszyn and Krakow, 1939; - Postcard (in Hebrew) sent to Schalom Baron by Josef Marcuse with information regarding the...

File Number : 1988

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents, Postcard, Official Documentation, Letter

Language : Hebrew, French, German

To be translated

File Number : 3621

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Russian

Testimony of Peter Adorian, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1911, regarding his experiences in Novaky camp including his activities in the underground, escape from camp and participation with the partisans in the Slovak National Uprising

File Number : 8292

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sini Cohen, born in 1925 in Amsterdam, about her work at a children's home and the rescue of children in Amsterdam in 1942–1943

Testimony

Oppression of Dutch Jews from 1940 on; concentrating the Jewish population of Amsterdam in a theatre building without basic provisions; separating children from parents; establishing a children's home; witness placed in charge of the children's safety; deportation of Jews to Westerbork; children smuggled out and placed with Dutch families with the help of the Dutch resistance; bribing the Germans with alcohol; persuading parents to place their children in the children's home to save their lives; working with the manager of the children's home, Henriëtte Pimentel; saving the children until 1943; meeting her...

File Number : 13340

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Letters written by Sylvia Brodfeld, an activist in the FTP-MOI underground organization in the Frenses prison in Romainville and in Drancy camp, correspondence of Max and Leon Brodfeld in Drancy camp with their female relative in Paris and letters they wrote in Blechhammer camp, 1941-1943 - Correspondence of Max and Leon Brodfeld in Drancy camp with their female relative in Paris, 1941; - Letters written by Sylvia Brodfeld, activist in the FTP-MOI underground organization in the Frenses prison in Romainville and in Drancy camp, 1942-1943; - Letters written by Max and Leon Brodfeld in Blechhammer camp,...

File Number : 1532

Type of Material : Letter

Language : French

Testimony of Efraim Fritz Friedman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences in Berlin, Belgium, Alsace-Lorraine, Israel and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Efraim Fritz Friedman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences in Berlin, Belgium, Alsace-Lorraine, Israel and other places Death of his parents before the war; education in a Jewish orphanage in Berlin; move of relatives outside Germany. Kristallnacht; crosses the border of Belgium with his brother; concentration of the refugees from Germany on the French-Belgian border; German occupation of Belgium, 1940; transfer of the refugees to France by the authorities; camp life, in Gurs and Saint Cyprien camps; volunteers for labor; help from the Jewish Agency; organization of aliya...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Halina (Shmulevitz) Barkani, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Czestochowa, the Czestochowa Ghetto, Tarvisio, Cyprus and Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Halina (Shmulevitz) Barkani, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Czestochowa, the Czestochowa Ghetto, Tarvisio, Cyprus and Israel Her childhood in a Zionist family. German Army occupation of Czestochowa, 1939; life under German occupation including termination of studies, restrictions on earning a livelihood and the decree regarding wearing a yellow badge; deportation to the Czestochowa Ghetto; "Aktions"; obtaining of forged documents for the family members; receives a work permit with her aunt; hiding of her parents during the "Aktion"; capture of her mother;...

File Number : 13281

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yozef Bramson, born in Franeker, the Netherlands, 1934, regarding his experiences in the Westerbork camp, the Vught camp, the Barneveld camp, Bergen-Belsen and his liberation on "The Lost Train" in Troebitz

Testimony

Testimony of Yozef Bramson, born in Franeker, the Netherlands, 1934, regarding his experiences in the Westerbork camp, the Vught camp, the Barneveld camp and Bergen-Belsen, and his liberation while on "The Lost Train" in Troebitz Immediate family; his parent's professions; way of life at home; Shabbatot and religious holidays; setting up of a community kibbutz training facility by his father; move to Wildervank; attends a Jewish school. Anti-Jewish legislation and yellow badge; occupation of the Netherlands, May 1940; plan to make aliya to Eretz Israel that is not realized; his father's library and its...

File Number : 13243

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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