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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence by representatives of the Jewish welfare organizations and committees in Radomysl Wielki, Poland with the administration of the Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (Jewish Social Self-Help organization - ZSS) in Krakow, 25/08/1940-30/04/1942 - Correspondence with the Radomysl Wielki Judenrat, regarding welfare associations that were active before the outbreak of war: the Talmud Torah Association, a Jewish charity organization named for Rywka and Dwojra Weinberger, the National Jewish Library, and the Gemiluth Hasidim organization; - List of Jewish entrepreneurs in the Radomysl Wielki community; -...

File Number : 1006

Type of Material : Telegram, Documentation, List of Jewish Community Members, Letter(s), Postcard, Correspondence, List of Jews, Administrative Documentation

Language : Polish, German

Documentation regarding the establishment of the Shanghai Foreign Relief Association - the umbrella organization of relief organizations for foreign citizens in Shanghai, 1947

Documentation regarding the establishment of the Shanghai Foreign Relief Association - the umbrella organization of relief organizations for foreign citizens in Shanghai, 1947 The umbrella organization was established at the request of UNRRA in December 1945, with the aim of coordinating and concentrating relief to foreign citizens. The organization included representatives of national organizations, including the Hebrew Relief Society headed by H. Kammerling, and the Sephardic [Spanish] Community headed by J. Jacob; Included in the file: - the organization's regulations; - documents in Chinese.

File Number : 91

Language : Chinese, English

Report submitted by Dr. Trembski from the Comptroller's Department of the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) in Warsaw, 20 October 1948, regarding aid to Jews being repatriated from the Soviet Union who arrived in Poland in 1948 Activities of Jewish organizations, among them Wojewodzkie Komitety Zydowskie (Regional and National Jewish Committees), Panstwowe Urzedy Repatriacyjne (State Repatriation Offices), and Centralny Komitet Opieki Spolecznej (Central Committee for Social Welfare) in Poland on behalf of 773 Jews being repatriated from the Soviet Union who arrived in Poland, 20 April-20 October...

File Number : 502

Type of Material : Reports

Language : Polish, English

Testimony of Nuchim Gildener, Linz, regarding a member of the Jewish Council of Boryslaw who allegedly enriched himself and survived at the expense of fellow Jews

Testimony of Nuchim Gildener, Linz, regarding a member of the Jewish Council of Boryslaw who allegedly enriched himself and survived at the expense of fellow Jews The testimony names Grossmann, a former member of the Boryslaw Judenrat, who managed the Jewish Council's welfare department; Grossmann worked together with Engelberg, Jakob Tannenbaum and Goldmann (the latter of whom was shot); according to Gildener, "2,000 Jews died of hunger [starvation] but Grossmann looked healthier than before the war and survived due to the fortune he acquired at that time".

File Number : 481

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish, German

תיעוד הנוגע לקורותיו של Náthán Schwarcz בתקופת השואה

Documentation associated with the experiences of Náthán Schwarcz during the Holocaust - Submitter's remarks: Miriam Bugler, the submitter, is the granddaughter of Náthán Schwarcz, born in Nyíregyháza in 1899. Náthán Schwarcz and his family lived in Gheorgheni; they were evicted from their home after Hungary annexed the area; reached Debrecen in 1942; Náthán Schwarcz sent to a labor camp in Debrecen in 1944; works as a translator for Germans; escapes from the camp and reaches a Red Cross hospital; hides in the hospital with doctors' assistance; area liberated in late 1944 by Red Army forces; Red Cross...

File Number : 3664

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : Hebrew

Letters from Miriam Fachler to her brother, Eli Fachler, during their stay in the UK in 1939–1945

Letters from Miriam Fachler to her brother, Eli Fachler, during their stay in the UK in 1939–1945 - attached: a letter from Eva (identity unclear) in Peppard Common, 1942. Also in the file: - letters and notices to Eli Fachler from activists and organizations associated with relief for Jewish refugee children in the UK, 1941–1943, concerning his sister, Miriam Fachler; - registration card of Eli Fachler, born in 1923 in Berlin, from the UK, 1947 (he reached the UK on May 22, 1939). Submitter's remarks: Miriam (Fachler) Litke was born in Berlin in 1927. Her parents, David Meir and Feige (Milkhman)...

File Number : 5607

Type of Material : Letter, Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Memoirs of Henryk Bryskier, born in Warsaw in 1899, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in Lipowa camp

Memoirs of Henryk Bryskier, born in Warsaw in 1899, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in Lipowa camp Persecution of Jews after the German occupation of Poland; establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto; description of institutions and organizations that operated in the ghetto; daily life in the ghetto; labor at Herman Brauer's factory; activity in the ZTOS organization; preparation of bunkers; stay at the Brauer factory on the day the uprising broke out in the ghetto; Brauer factory workers, including the witness, taken for execution; collapse due to a heart attack and recovery; deportation...

File Number : 11562

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Microfilms from the Archives of HIAS - HICEM, series I

Microfilms from the Archives of HIAS - HICEM, series I Roll 10; file III; correspondence between HIAS and HICEM, interoffice correspondence and memoranda. Roll 30, 31, 32; file XII; correspondence Poland to Portugal. Roll 35, 36; file XII; Portugal to Yugoslavia.

File Number : 255

Type of Material : Correspondence

Language : Spanish, Serbian, Hebrew, Polish, Czech, French, English, Croatian, Portuguese, German

Letters sent by Holocaust survivors Mordechai and Berta Schattner in Eretz Israel to their daughter Olga Spandorf and her husband Dov Spandorf, illegal immigrants to Mandate Palestine aboard the ship "Exodus 1947" who were deported to Germany in late 1947, and additional documentation of the Schattner and Spandorf family members - Letter sent to Berta Schattner by a relative in New York on 04 March 1947; - Letters sent by Mordechai and Berta Schattner in Eretz Israel to their daughter Olga Spandorf in November-December 1947, together with an undated letter; - Letters sent to Olga and Dov Spandorf by their...

File Number : 1691

Type of Material : Marriage Certificate, Personal Documents, Letter, Birth Certificate, Passport, Declaration, Diploma, Certification, הודעה

Language : Latin, Hebrew, Polish, English, German, Aramaic, Hungarian

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