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Testimony of Anina Vohrazik Korty, born in 1921 in Prague, about illegal immigration to Eretz Israel in 1940 and deportation to Mauritius until 1945

Offspring of a Zionist family; membership in the Young Maccabi movement; parents support refugees from Germany, 1930s; movement training in Moravia, 1938; paying a ransom before immigration to Eretz Israel, 1939; illegal immigration vessels stuck in the Danube; brother taken to Sweden for survival; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel aboard the Atlantic; S.S. Milos Atlantic and Pacific detained; the Patria is blown up and sinks; deporation to Mauritius, December 1940–August 1945; temporary correspondence with parents via the Red Cross; exiles volunteer for service in the Allied armies; back to Eretz Israel in...

File Number : 13573

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gershon Katzir Kachmarek, born in Bydgoszcz, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Bydgoszcz, Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Gershon Katzir Kachmarek, born in Bydgoszcz, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Bydgoszcz, Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and a death march Childhood in Bydgoszcz. Outbreak of the war; move to Lodz, December 1939; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, 1940; ghetto life; education; labor in workshops; hunger; deportation to Auschwitz, August 1944; labor at a farm near Auschwitz; death march to Buchenwald, January 1945; liberation, 11 April 1945. Move to France; move to relatives in Bratislava; aliya training; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.

File Number : 12587

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ruth (Lindner) Epstein Aloni, born in Ratibor, Germany, 1929, regarding her experiences in Ratibor during Kristallnacht and on the ship “Patria” off the shores of Haifa

Testimony

Testimony of Ruth (Lindner) Epstein Aloni, born in Ratibor, Germany, 1929, regarding her experiences in Ratibor during Kristallnacht and on the ship “Patria” off the shores of Haifa Life before the Nazi rise to power; ant-Jewish decrees. Kristallnacht, 1938; expulsion from school; aliya of her sister to Eretz Israel, 1938; deportation of her father to Buchenwald; release of her father; restrictions on Jews; move to Vienna, 1940; move to Slovakia; move to Romania. Aliya attempt; fighing against the British off the shores of Haifa; forced boarding onto the ship "Patria"; blowing up of the ship;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Red Cross letter sent by David Razon (David Chazon) from Tel Aviv to Flor Cohen in Thessaloniki, Greece, 13/01/1942

Red Cross letter sent by David Razon (David Chazon) from Tel Aviv to Flor Cohen in Thessaloniki, Greece, 13/01/1942 Brief reply by Flor Cohen on the back of the letter, 25/09/1942.

File Number : 1035

Type of Material : Red Cross Letter

Language : French

Broadsheets of Jewish organizations in Bulgaria, 1903-1936

Broadsheets of Jewish organizations in Bulgaria, 1903-1936 Broadsheet subjects include: Two broadsheets, 1903 and 1922; Broadsheets of the Jewish organization Edinstvo; Broadsheet, 25 October 1929; Broadsheet encouraging the boycott of the school committee elections, 18 March 1932; Broadsheet of the Saedinenie Cultural Club; Two issues of the At the Front newspaper, 22 October 1932-12 November 1932; Four broadsheets of the school committee elections.

File Number : 302

Type of Material : Announcement, Manifesto, Poster

Language : Bulgarian, Ladino / Solitreo, Polish, French

Newspaper reports on the history of the Jewish people in the Diaspora and Israel and issues within Israeli society, 1946-1969

Newspaper reports on the history of the Jewish people in the Diaspora and Israel and issues within Israeli society, 1946-1969 Sections from newspapers including Herut, Haaretz, Davar, Yediot Aharonot and L'echo D'hisrael with reports on Jewish history, questions on Israeli society and memoirs of the Zionist movement.

File Number : 298

Type of Material : Memoirs, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Bulgarian, Spanish, Hebrew, French, English, Russian

Protest broadsheets against British terror in Eretz Israel, 1940

Protest broadsheets against British terror in Eretz Israel, 1940 Protest broadsheets and calls for strikes due to events connected with the Aliya Bet ships "Patria" and the "Atlantic" in Haifa and Atlit in 1940 including abuse by the police and the British Army.

File Number : 223

Type of Material : Manifesto

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rubim Jakob Parasol, born in Olkusz, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Olkusz Ghetto, Sikorka, Strzemieszyce, Blechhammer and on a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Rubim Jakob Parasol, born in Olkusz, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Olkusz Ghetto, Sikorka, Strzemieszyce, Blechhammer and on a death march Life before the war; witness' father is an insurance salesman. German occupation, 1939; life in the Olkusz Ghetto including witness' father's labor in a tin working factory; transfer to Sikorka, 1941; transfer to Strzemieszyce, summer 1941; transfer to Blechhammer, spring 1942; camp life including labor as an electrician; death march, January 1945; escape; liberation. Return to Olkusz with his father; reunion with his mother; aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Zionist organizations documentation in Bulgaria, 1945-1947

Zionist organizations documentation in Bulgaria, 1945-1947 Documents on the attitude of the Revisionists to establish a Jewish State and the needs of the community in Eretz Israel; Internal bulletin on the Zionist Congress' activities in Basel and the situation of the Jews in Europe and Eretz Israel.

File Number : 89

Type of Material : Booklet(s), Manifesto

Language : Bulgarian

Bulletins and Zionist broadsheets from Bulgaria, 1945-1948

Bulletins and Zionist broadsheets from Bulgaria, 1945-1948 Bulletins of the Zionist Organization; Broadsheets of the Central Committee of the Zionist Organization, WIZO and the JNF, Jewish National Fund executive. The file also includes: Advertisements on a Jewish play and Jewish owned business in Shumen.

File Number : 87

Type of Material : Booklet(s), Manifesto

Language : Bulgarian

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