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Letters written by Naum Yakub in Gorkiy to his daughter Revekka Yakub during her military service as a physician in the Red Army on the Ukrainian front and near Berlin, 1945

Letters written by Naum Yakub in Gorkiy to his daughter Revekka Yakub during her military service as a physician in the Red Army on the Ukrainian front and near Berlin, 1945 Also in the file: - Notice of his acceptance as a student at Moscow University sent to Naum Yakub in Novgorod, 04 September 1912; - Visiting card of the physician, Naum Yakub; - Congratulations on the completion of her studies sent to Revekka Yakub by the members of her family in Reutovo, 15 June 1942; - Letters and a postcard sent to Revekka (Vera) Yakub in Sochi by her father Naum Yakub in Gorkiy, 1956-1957; - Postcard...

File Number : 2252

Type of Material : Postcard, Personal Records, Letter

Language : Russian

Postcard sent by Leonid Birgir from the front to his mother Yekaterina Miropolskaya in Tashkent, 1942

Postcard sent by Leonid Birgir from the front to his mother Yekaterina Miropolskaya in Tashkent, 1942 Note: The postcard was sent to Saratov and transferred from there to Tashkent. Also in the file: - Military service booklet issued to Leonid Birger, 14 January 1942 (the booklet is torn due to being struck by a bullet); - Reserve officer's Red Army military service booklet issued to Leonid Birger (born in Moscow, the Soviet Union, 27 November 1927) issued in Moscow, 31 July 1968. Notes from Svetlana Birger who submitted the material: Leonid Birger's parents were Arkadi Birger, a famous architect...

File Number : 2248

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Postcard

Language : Russian

Documentation regarding Matvey Likhterman, including confirmation of his service in the Red Army, being wounded at the front, receipt of medical treatment, and other documents, 1959-2010

Documentation regarding Matvey Likhterman, including confirmation of his service in the Red Army, being wounded at the front, receipt of medical treatment, and other documents, 1959-2010 - Confirmation that Matvey Likhterman served in the Red Army, 14 March 1941-19 May 1946, issued by the Military Komisariat in Roslavl, 12 November 1959; - Confirmation that Matvey Likhterman was wounded while serving at the front during the war, 02 August 1941, issued by the Museum of Military Medicine, 16 October 1969; - Confirmation that Red Army soldier Matvey Likhterman received medical treatment, 29 January-07...

File Number : 385

Type of Material : Personal Documents, List of Soldiers, Interview(s)

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Leon Grynblat, born in Stary Orzechow, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in hiding in the forest near Stary Orzechow, as a partisan and as a Polish Army soldier

Memoirs of Leon Grynblat, born in Stary Orzechow, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in hiding in the forest near Stary Orzechow, as a partisan and as a Polish Army soldier Transfer to the village of Komarowka, 1943; life in the home of a non-Jewish neighbor with connections to the partisans; transfer of letters to the partisans; escape to the forest, May 1942; information regarding the imminent "Aktion" in Stary Orzechow; finding a hiding place for the members of his family; joining the partisan camp with his brother Laibish and his sister Sheindel; hiding the family in the forest until Pesach (April)...

File Number : 8644

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Russian

Memoirs of Bronia (Bratt) Landau, born in Kromolow, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Sagan and Gruenberg labor camps, on a death march to Helmbrechts, escape from the death march in Wildenau and wanderings until the liberation Deportation of male Jews to labor camps, including her brothers and her father; 1940-1941; return of her father, taking leave of her family and deportation to Sosnowiec, 10 February 1942; volunteering for labor and transfer together with 100 women to Sagan camp in Germany; transfer to Gruenberg camp, after seven months; camp life for approximately three years; labor in...

File Number : 8625

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German

Letter of testimony written by Yaakov From in a DP camp in Italy to his brother, Shalom From, in Eretz Israel, 14 November 1945, with testimony regarding his experiences in Rutka, a POW hospital in Bialystok, the Lomza Ghetto, the Zambrow camp and more Life in Lomza including air-raids in September 1939; escape to Rutka with his family; life in Rutka during the German occupation; deportation of the Jews (approximately 1,500 people) to a potato field, and their being forced to lie down on the ground; remaining on the ground until 10:00 the following morning; transfer back to Rutka and their concentration in...

File Number : 8614

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Certification issued by the hospital in Kursk regarding the death of Red Army soldier Yakov Kore, 27/07/1941, and an entrance permit to the Third Army headquarters given to Kore, 25/04/1941

Certification issued by the hospital in Kursk regarding the death of Red Army soldier Yakov Kore, 27/07/1941, and an entrance permit to the Third Army headquarters given to Kore, 25/04/1941 - Entrance permit to the Third Army headquarters, given to politruk (political commissar) Yakov Kore, 25/04/1941 ; - Two notorized copies of a certificate issued by the hospital in Kursk confirming the hospitalization of Yakov Kore in the hospital, 09-14/07/1941; transfer of Kore to a nerve clinic, where he died, 27/07/1941; notorized copies issued, 04/1947; Notes by the submitter of the material: Yakov Kore was...

File Number : 1466

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Death Certificate

Language : Russian

Letters sent by Leo Billet, a Jewish soldier in the US Army, from Germany and later on from Britain, to his sister in Tirat Zvi, Eretz Israel, 1944-1945

Letters sent by Leo Billet, a Jewish soldier in the US Army, from Germany and later on from Britain, to his sister in Tirat Zvi, Eretz Israel, 1944-1945 - Two letters sent by Leo Billet from Germany, 13 January 1944 and 28 January 1944; his aunt, Rachel, and his grandmother were found alive during a visit to Paris; murder of his uncle, Josef, deportation of his two daughters to Lublin; - Letter sent by Leo Billet from Germany, 01 April 1944; participation in the battles in Metz, the Netherlands, Aachen, the Ruhr area and more; - Letter sent by Leo Billet from an Army Hospital in Britain, leg injury;...

File Number : 2169

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English, German

Diary by Mordechai Motka Gorski Gor, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1919, written, 01 December 1943-24 August 1945, and his memoirs regarding his experiences in a Soviet labor camp in the Kemerovo area and in Baydayevka Life in a Soviet labor camp in the Kemerovo area, including labor in a coal mine; description of the inmate population and the hierarchy among the inmates; clauses of crimes whose sentence was imprisonment in the camp; methods by which the food, that was sent to the inmates by their families, was stolen from them; inmates with "light" crimes were removed from the camp and sent to the front;...

File Number : 8589

Type of Material : Memoirs, Diary

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Notebook belonging to Dawid Karu, from Stanislawow, with the words of songs sung by the illegal immigrants on the "Exodus" ship, and the illegal immigrant certificate issued to Dawid Karu, 24 October 1947 - Notebook in which Dawid Karu wrote the words sung by the illegal immigrants on the "Exodus" ship, 1947; - Illegal immigrant certificate from the "Exodus from Europe 5707" ship, issued to Dawid Karu, 24 October 1947; - Immigrant card of Dawid Karu, issued by the Jewish Agency, 16 May 1949; - Experiences of Dawid Karu, as written by his grandson: His family's life in Stanislawow; outbreak of...

File Number : 718

Type of Material : Documentary, Poems/songs, Personal Records

Language : Hebrew, English

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