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Memoirs of Henek Kudler and his wife, Cesia (Hecht) Kudler, about their experiences in the Holocaust; correspondence in 1945–1946; and personal documentation from the late 1940s

Memoirs of Henek Kudler and his wife, Cesia (Hecht) Kudler, about their experiences in the Holocaust; correspondence in 1945–1946; and personal documentation from the late 1940s - notebook with pages separated from it, including: -- memoirs of Cesia (Hecht) Kudler, about the deportation of her fiancé, Heniu, from the Płaszów camp on October 15, 1944, and her deportation to Auschwitz on October 21, 1944. The memoir was written in the Doverstorp on May 22, 1945. Hebrew translation attached; -- memoirs of Henek Kudler about family members and his experiences in Kraków, Grębałów, and the Kraków ghetto, and in...

File Number : 12562

Type of Material : Declaration, Film, Poems/songs, Personal Documents, Genealogy, Letter, Telegram, Correspondence, Memoirs, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Swedish, German

Documentation related to the "White Buses" rescue operation of the Swedish Red Cross in March-April 1945, lists of refugees who arrived in Sweden in 1943-1945 and after the war, and information about the refugees and their experiences The file includes: - Sketches-drawings of markings on vehicles (the Swedish flag and the Red Cross organization) sent to the Allies in order to prevent harm to vehicles of the Swedish Red Cross organization, with a letter with clarifications regarding the rescue operation of 6 March 1945; - Four travel documents to Germany of the "white bus" drivers sent from Sweden to rescue...

File Number : 42

Type of Material : Record of Survivors, Drawing, List of Jewish Survivors, Official Documentation, Booklet(s), List of Refugees, Statistical Data, Personal Records

Language : English, Swedish

To be translated

File Number : 4843

Type of Material : Memoirs, Letter

Language : German

Correspondence between Max Majew in Theresienstadt and the Rosöga refugee camp with members of his family in Sweden, 1943–1945; poem that he wrote in Theresienstadt; and personal documentation of the Majew family - correspondence between Max Majew in Theresienstadt and his wife, Lisa Majew, in Landskrona and Helsjön, and with other relatives in Sweden, November 1943–January 1945; - postal receipts and thank-you cards related to sending of parcels to Max Majew in Theresienstadt by family members and friends in Sweden, March–November 1944; - letter sent to Lisa Majew (the spelling "Lisa Majin" is recorded)...

File Number : 4661

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Postcard, Letter, Newspaper Clippings, Poems/songs, קבלות, Envelope

Language : Russian, Swedish, German, Yiddish, Danish

Memoirs of Marilla (Kozminsky) Boymel, born in Łódź, Poland in 1915, regarding her experiences in Łódź, in the Kielce Ghetto, and in Auschwitz, Ravensbrück and Malchow camps

Memoirs of Marilla (Kozminsky) Boymel, born in Łódź, Poland in 1915, regarding her experiences in Łódź, in the Kielce Ghetto, and in Auschwitz, Ravensbrück and Malchow camps Life in Łódź with her husband Michael and her son Bronek; outbreak of the war, 01/09/1939; draft of Michael into military service; Michael returns home; family's escape (the witness, her husband, her son, and her sister Halina with her husband and their mother) to Kielce; Kielce Ghetto life; birth of a son to Halina; deportation of her mother to extermination in 08/1942; "Aktion" against children, 29/05/1943 (deportation of her son and...

File Number : 10655

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, English

Diaries of Lore Bender, 1945–1946; her letters from the Vught camp; book of dedications to her from women prisoners in the Vught camp; and additional documentation associated with members of the Bender and Mainzer families - Notebook (including pages separated from it), containing: --list of dates and places associated with the experiences of Lore Bender during the Holocaust: Internment in the Vught camp from January 20, 1943, to June 2, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz in June 1944; transfer from Auschwitz to Reichenbach; internment in Reichenbach starting June 12, 1944; transfer to the Sportschule camp on...

File Number : 12724

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Certification, Letter, תעודת שחרור ממחנה, Memoir Book, Article, Diary, Genealogy, Article, Death Certificate, Telegram, Correspondence, Newspaper Clippings, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, French, English, Dutch, German

To be translated

File Number : 12723

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Dutch