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Testimony of Gerda (Bomstein) Nussbaum, born in Breslau, Germany in 1927, regarding her experiences in Germany, in Zbaszyn and Sosnowiec, and her transfer to England in the context of the Kindertransport in 1939 Her parents emigrate from Poland to Germany; their synagogue is set on fire on Kristallnacht; deportation to Zbaszyn; life in Sosnowiec; a letter is sent to Chaim Weizmann with a request regarding leaving Poland; her transfer to England in the context of the Kindertransport in September 1939; work as a housekeeper in the home of Jews; acts of rape; loss of contact with her parents in 1941; life at a...

File Number : 13596

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Heini Chaim Bornstein, born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1920, about rescue operations in occupied Europe that were managed from Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Heini Chaim Bornstein, born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1920, about rescue operations in occupied Europe that were managed from Switzerland Participation in the World Jewish Congress in Geneva in August 1939; carrying out twenty-two relief and rescue operations in the Soviet Union, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Germany, Poland, and Slovakia in 1939–1946; helping refugees and youth-movement members; important activity with the Rescue Committee in Switzerland.

File Number : 13227

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shaul Salo Schieber, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Cernauti and in the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Shaul Salo Schieber, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Cernauti and in the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto Life before the war; displays of antisemitism. Outbreak of the war; meets Polish soldiers; offering help to Polish soldiers; Soviet occupation, 1940; German and Romanian occupation, 1941; pogrom on the Jews; concentration of the Jews; robbery of the Jews; deportation to Mogilev-Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski including being informed on, and the murder of his father; help by the Judenrat in the concentration of Jews and deportation of Jews; stealing of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Documents, articles, newspaper clippings and notes regarding the deportation of Jews from various countries to concentration and extermination camps, forced labor; the Jews of Italy and Hungary including Joel Brand's mission; the Theresienstadt Ghetto; the Jewish Agency; rescue of Jews and other topics The file is divided into 10 volumes: Volume I Documents, articles, excerpts from research books, notes regarding deportations and transports to extermination camps, mainly Auschwitz; regarding the Theresienstadt Ghetto; the Jews of Greece; forced labor and Righteous Among the...

File Number : 35

Type of Material : Survey Report, Newspaper, Protocol, Official Documentation, Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Letter written by Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's will, emigration and more

Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Letter written by Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's will, emigration and more There are three volumes in the file: Volume I Letter from Rudolf Hess to Julius Streicher; Adolf Hitler's political will. Volume II Lists of articles and bibliography regarding emigration of the Jews; article regarding Chaim Weizmann; clippings from the Jewish newspapers C.V. Zeitung and Allgemeine Zeitung Des Judentum, 1938. Volume III Unsorted material from the London Record Office.

File Number : 25

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Newspaper, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Testimony of Dov Kesner, born in Viseul de Sus, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in Viseul de Sus and Hungarian labor battalions in Poland and the Soviet Union

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Kesner, born in Viseul de Sus, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in Viseul de Sus and Hungarian labor battalions in Poland and the Soviet Union Life before the war; his father was a combat soldier in World War I; Jewish community. Draft to Hungarian Army labor battalions; forced labor; attitude of his commanders; deportation of his mother to Auschwitz; witness' transfer to Poland; life in various labor camps in Poland; lack of ability to keep the religious commandments; transfer on foot to the area of the Soviet Union; life in various camps; liberation, September 1944. Move...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Klein, born in Focsani, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Focsani Ghetto and as a forced laborer

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Klein, born in Focsani, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Focsani Ghetto and as a forced laborer Life before the war; Zionist family; attends a public school; displays of antisemitism in school; Zionist youth movement activities; Jewish community; learns Hebrew; his father supports the establishment of a Jewish political party that was elected to the Romanian parliament; work as a reporter for the newspaper, "Techiyatenu". Ban on Zionist activities; pogroms; deportation to the Focsani Ghetto, 1940; ghetto life; food shortage in the ghetto; drafted to forced labor in a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Survey of the situation in various countries, as reported in the Turkish, Nazi and local press, July 1943

Survey of the situation in various countries, as reported in the Turkish, Nazi and local press, July 1943 Eretz Israel: Chaim Weizmann's proposal to Great Britain; Arab demands for independence; demographic statistics regarding Jewish settlement in Eretz Israel; Jewish armed organizations; the problem of Jewish-Arab relations; Egypt: Egyptian-United States relations; Egypt's position on the Arab Federation; Syria: Parliamentary elections; Turkey: The article: "Turkey and the Arabs"; Turkey vis a vis British and American interests; Turkey and the Jews; Italy: Developments in Italy following Mussolini's...

File Number : 11

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Survey of what is happening in the world, as reported in the Nazi and local press, and from various sources of information, with emphasis on the situation of the Jews, February 1943

Survey of what is happening in the world, as reported in the Nazi and local press, and from various sources of information, with emphasis on the situation of the Jews, February 1943 Poland: Memo from the Polish Government in Exile in London regarding events in the Warsaw Ghetto before the deportations, 10 December 1942; Book describing the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto as seen through the eyes of the Nazi "artist", Bruno Hant; various items of information from the Generalgouvernement; German settlers in the Generalgouvernement; bringing of German children for convalescence in the Generalgouvernement; destruction...

File Number : 6

Type of Material : Survey Report, Documents

Language : Hebrew

Articles from European Zionist newspapers, 1901-1931

Articles from European Zionist newspapers, 1901-1931 Section of the L'echo Sioniste newspaper with reports on Jewish problems in Bulgaria, May 1901; Page from the Die Arbeit newspaper of Hapoel Hatzair, 15 February 1920; Issue of Haolam newspaper with excerpts on Zionist events in Europe at the time.

File Number : 278

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : Hebrew, French, German

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