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Rabbinic ordination certificate received by Jacob Mandelbaum after completing his studies at the Wolozyn Yeshiva, 09 October 1913

Rabbinic ordination certificate received by Jacob Mandelbaum after completing his studies at the Wolozyn Yeshiva, 09 October 1913 Rabbi Jacob Mandelbaum from Siedlce received rabbinic ordination when he was only 18 years old.

File Number : 1212

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : Hebrew

Personal documents of Josef Aiger and his family members, 1923-1977

Personal documents of Josef Aiger and his family members, 1923-1977 Postcards and letters: - Postcard sent by Breina, from Augostow, to her sister Lea Sherman in Eretz Israel, 20 May 1940; - Postcard in Russian sent to Annette Marcus in the United States by her sister Rakhil in Augostow, 21 May 1940; included is a translation to Hebrew; - Postcard sent by Szmul Aiger in Krakow to his brother Josef Aiger in Eretz Israel by means of H. S. Frisch in Bucharest, Romania, 25 December 1939 (including a translation to Hebrew); - Postcard sent from Fagaras, Romania, by request of his brother Szmul Aiger...

File Number : 2039

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Genealogy, Postcard, Memoirs, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Russian, German, Yiddish

Memoirs of Rabbi Hillel Kustanowicz, born in Luban, Poland, 17 August 1900, regarding his experiences in Lachowicze and Siberia during the Soviet occupation, 1941-1946

Memoirs of Rabbi Hillel Kustanowicz, born in Luban, Poland, 17 August 1900, regarding his experiences in Lachowicze and Siberia during the Soviet occupation, 1941-1946 His childhood in Luban with his father Shimon Arie and his mother Lena Reisel; learns in a yeshiva in Sluck; continues his learning in a yeshiva in Kleck; move to Nieswiez; return to Kleck; move to Lachowicze; marriage to Sonia Rozowski. Red Army occupation; return to Luban; move to Sluck and then to Bobroisk; return to Lachowicze; retreat of the Soviets, June 1941; evacuation to the East; travel by train via Minsk, Baranowicze and...

File Number : 8529

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Documentation regarding the Glueckstein and Kopel family members from Kitzingen, and their fate during the Holocaust

Documentation regarding the Glueckstein and Kopel family members from Kitzingen, and their fate during the Holocaust Documentation regarding the deportation of the Glueckstein family from Kitzingen to Poland; death certificate of Julius Glueckstein, who perished in Sachsenhausen camp, 28 May 1942; list of inmates who were executed the same day; list of Jews deported to Izbica, 23 March 1942; personal documents of Adolf Avraham Glueckstein, who made aliya to Eretz Israel, 1934; letter of testimony written by Gedalia Kopel in Sweden, 25 August 1945; Documentation regarding the Glueckstein family: -...

File Number : 1411

Type of Material : Personal Records, List of Murdered Jews, Letter of Testimony, List of Deportees, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German, Yiddish

Book containing the history of the Szmaragd family in Piotrkow, Zamosc and Warsaw, Poland; memoirs of Yisrael Szmaragd regarding his experiences in the Belzec camp and the Czestochowa camp in Poland and the family tree Memoirs of Yisrael Szmaragd: Learns in a "heder"; attends Yesodei Hatorah, the religious elementary school in Piotrkow; learns in the Beit Yosef yeshiva; membership in the Hashomer Hadati youth movement. Deportation to the Belzec work camp; labor digging anti-tank trenches; liberation from the Czestochowa labor camp by the Red Army. Wanderings in Poland after the war; joins the Lodz...

File Number : 8348

Type of Material : Biography, Genealogy, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Natan Nute Zinger Ran, born in Berhomet, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences in as a child in the Slidi Ghetto, Mogilev-Podolski, Kishinev and other places

Memoirs of Natan Nute Zinger Ran, born in Berhomet, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences in as a child in the Slidi Ghetto, Mogilev-Podolski, Kishinev and other places Deportation to Transnistria with his family, 1941; Slidi Ghetto life; death of his parents; placed in an orphanage in Mogilev-Podolski, spring 1943; life in children's homes and with foster families in Kishinev, Odessa and Chernovitz. Aliya to Israel, 1948; The file includes: Experiences of his wife, Pnina (Mizrachi) Ran, born in Tiberias, Mandatory Palestine, 1934.

File Number : 8315

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Sam Gottesman, born in Irsava, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto, Auschwitz, Wustegiersdorf, Wolfsberg and other places

Memoirs of Sam Gottesman, born in Irsava, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Munkacs Ghetto, Auschwitz, Wustegiersdorf, Wolfsberg and other places Life before the war; re-annexation to Hungary; life in Ungar under Hungarian rule, until 1944. Munkacs Ghetto life; Auschwitz camp life; Wolfsberg camp life; Wustegiersdorf camp life; Gross-Rosen camp life; Bergen-Belsen camp life; Hildesheim camp life; Hannover camp life; liberation by the Red Army.

File Number : 8301

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Correspondence between "Chevrat Tiferet Bachurim" in Kovno, Rabbi Shnior Zalman Zingerevich, and his son-in-law Rabbi Barukh Reuven Kaplan in Janishok

Correspondence between "Chevrat Tiferet Bachurim" in Kovno, Rabbi Shnior Zalman Zingerevich, and his son-in-law Rabbi Barukh Reuven Kaplan in Janishok The first letter is typewritten and addressed to Rabbi Shnior Zalman Zingerevich; the letter apparently was sent from Kovno to Janishok by the "Chevrat Tiferet Bachurim" center; The second letter is handwritten on stationery from the shop of Rabbi Zingerevich (a fabric and clothing shop in Janishok) and was written by Rabbi Barukh Reuven Kaplan, who later perished in the Kovno Ghetto along with his wife and six children; Shnior Zalman Zingerevich...

File Number : 1760

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Testimony of Shalom Weiss, born in Békéscsaba, Hungary, 1929, regarding his experiences in Békéscsaba, Ópályi, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Trzebinia and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Shalom Weiss, born in Békéscsaba, Hungary, 1929, regarding his experiences in Békéscsaba, Ópályi, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Trzebinia and Bergen-Belsen Childhood in Békéscsaba; religious family; studies in a 'room'; studies at a yeshiva in Ópályi for a year, 1943; the Law on the enlistment of Jews for forced labor; enlistment of his father and eldest brother into labor troops, father from 1942, and brother in 1944; arrival of many Jewish refugees in the town. German occupation, March 1944; stigma; arrest and deportation by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau; tattoo number on the hand; entrance to a gypsy...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal invitation given to Z. Kalmanowitz, for the celebration of the conclusion of studies of a Talmud Tractate in a yeshiva in the Vilna Ghetto on 24/01/1943, in handwriting by the Vaad Hayeshiva [Yeshiva committee] (in Hebrew and Yiddish)

File Number : 686

Type of Material : Invitation

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

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