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Testimony of Moshe Mishke Katz, born in Kurzeniec, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Kurzeniec and in hiding in forests and villages

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Mishke Katz, born in Kurzeniec, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Kurzeniec and in hiding in forests and villages Life in Kurzeniec before the war; attends a Tarbut school. Soviet occupation, 1939; German occupation, June 1941; pogroms against the Jews by Polish villagers; finds a hiding place in a cowshed; escape to a forest with his family; life in forests and villages; attempt to join the partisans; life in bunkers in the forest; hunt for Jews by the Germans; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Life with refugees in Lodz; life in Stettin; aliya to Israel by ship, 1950.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Roza (Kushcinsky) Lewkowicz, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Siniawka, forests, in hiding and Uzbekistan

Testimony

Testimony of Roza (Kushcinsky) Lewkowicz, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Siniawka, forests, in hiding and Uzbekistan From a traditional family; education; sport; move to her grandparents' home in Siniawka. Life under Soviet rule including confiscation of property and her father's arrest; German occupation; hidden by a Pole; escape to forests with her brother; hiding in a village including labor milking cows; escape to Uzbekistan; life on a kolkhoz including her brother's illness; escape; liberation. Reunion with her father; nursing studies; return to Poland; marriage...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal observations of Benjamin Arditti regarding the historical events which took place in Bulgaria, 1939-1945

Personal observations of Benjamin Arditti regarding the historical events which took place in Bulgaria, 1939-1945 Observation subjects: - What happened to Bulgarian Jewry during the war including statistical data; - Assistance to Jews and their rescue by Bulgarians including Dimitar Peshev and Lilyana Panitza; - Translation of German documents; - Contents of books and articles on the subject of the Holocaust which befell the Bulgarian Jews; - Memoirs of 15 Thessaloniki Jews regarding life in Auschwitz.

File Number : 12

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Document, Statistical Data

Language : Bulgarian, Hebrew, German

Articles by Benjamin Arditti on historic topics and critiques on his books, 1940-1970

Articles by Benjamin Arditti on historic topics and critiques on his books, 1940-1970 Article topics: First Zionist newspaper in Bulgaria; First visit of Jabotinsky to Bulgaria on 23 November 1926 as was announced in the "Oved Haleumi" journal during July 1952 including a draft in Bulgarian; Jews in the Bulgarian Army; Dr. Isak Menahemov; Events which transpired in Bulgaria during the war including the rescue of Bulgarian Jewry and the Sephardi problem; The file also includes: Review on the warning before the People's Court in Bulgaria, 1945; Critiques on the books of Benjamin Arditti; Critique...

File Number : 10

Type of Material : Documentation, Article

Language : Bulgarian, Spanish, Hebrew, French, German

Documentation from the Klaipeda Regional State Archive, 1955-1940

Documentation from the Klaipeda Regional State Archive, 1955-1940 The collection of documents from the first half of the 20th century (1902-1939) includes material related to the Klaipėda port, Neringa, Dutch caps [hats], etc.; From the Soviet period, the collection of documents consists of archival funds for the years: 1940-1941 - Documents of the agricultural commissions of Kretinga County and Šilute County; 1944-1990 - Documents of institutions, companies and organizations that were active in cities in the Klaipėda, Palanga, Neringa, Kretinga, Skuoda and Šilute districts during that period, in...

Type of Material : Certification, Legal Documentation, List of Residents, List of Jews, Death Certificate, List of Names, Names, Official Documentation, Record of Persecuted Persons, List of Murdered Persons

Language : Lithuanian

Personal documentation of Vera Zhovtis, born in Lyubar, Ukraine, 1916

Personal documentation of Vera Zhovtis, born in Lyubar, Ukraine, 1916 - document issued in Akhtyrskoye on 20 February 1946 confirming that Vera Zhovtis worked as an accountant in a kolkhoz in 1941-1942 and in 1943-1946. Comments from the submitter of the material: (Klara Kaplansky) Klara Kaplansky was born in Saki, in the Crimea region, 1947. Her parents: her mother Vera (Esther) Zhovtis, was born in Lyubar, Ukraine, 1916, and her father Semyon Zaretsky was born in Petrikov, Belorussia, 1914. Semyon and Vera had a daughter who died during the war. Vera was unable to escape with the evacuation because...

File Number : 974

Type of Material : Certification

Language : Russian

Testimony of Efim Chaim Goldshmidt, born in Secureni, Romania, 1922 regarding his experiences in the Red Army during World War II, 1942-1945

Childhood; attends a heder; learns in Talmud Torah for eight years; activity in Beitar; Soviets occupation, 1940; outbreak of the war, June 1941; escape to Mogilev; arrival in Kiev; drafting into the Red Army ranks; participation in the war from 1942 until July 1945; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1993; absorption.

Language : Russian

Postcards sent to Isaak Yelkin and his family in Kazan by relatives from Dzhankoy, Karasubazar and Kurman Kemelchi, during the evacuation in 1941

Postcards sent to Isaak Yelkin and his family in Kazan by relatives from Dzhankoy, Karasubazar and Kurman Kemelchi, during the evacuation in 1941 - Postcards sent to Isaak Yelkin and his family during the evacuation in Kazan, Tatarskaya ASSR by his father-in-law Yakov Shulman, from Dzhankoy, Karasubazar and Kurman Kemelchi, from 08/08/1941 and until 13/10/1941; - Postcard received by Isaak Yelkin in Kazan, sent by his brother/s in Dzhankoy, 10/08/1941.

File Number : 3200

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Russian

Diary written by Paul Selkowitsch in Eretz Israel during 1941-1943

Diary written by Paul Selkowitsch in Eretz Israel during 1941-1943 The diary was written in two notebooks: during 11/09-18/12/1941 and during 06/02-07/10/1943; the diary is dedicated to his father and mother; - Notes, including a description his moods and expressions of his world view; - Poems/songs written by Selkowitsch and by known poets, including Heinrich Heine; - References to political events, including the German Army occupation of Charkow, the declaration of war by the United States against Japan, the declaration of war by the British against Japan, the declaration of war by the United...

File Number : 9222

Type of Material : Diary

Language : German

Letters of greeting sent to former Red Army soldier Boris Primak, born in Novograd Volynskiy, Ukraine in 1926, by the municipal council in Novograd Volynskiy on the Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War - Letter of greeting sent to former Red Army soldier Boris Primak, a resident of Novograd Volynskiy, on the 40th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War; - Letter of greeting sent to former Red Army soldier Boris Primak, a resident of Novograd Volynskiy, on the 45th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War; Comments by the submitter of the material (Dan...

File Number : 476

Type of Material : Letter, Official Documentation

Language : Russian

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