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Testimony of Pinkhas (Peter Shmulevitz) Shmueli born in Breslau, Germany, 1924regarding life in Breslau until the summer of 1933 and in Mandatory Palestine from September 1933

Testimony

Childhood in a Zionist family with a father who was born in Poland; life without antisemitism; studies in a Jewish school; his father is active in a Jewish-Polish-Yiddish social framework; Nazi rise to power, January 1933; deportation order issued for his father, summer 1933; his father’s insistence on leaving for Eretz Israel; obtaining certificates for professionals through a false declaration; train journey through Poland and Italy and sailing to Eretz Israel; arrival September 1933; Acclimatizing difficulties in the country.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Regev Yisrael Gerber, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, in 1927, regarding the Garan camp, Slovakia.

Testimony

Childhood in Mukacevo; Hebrew school founded and managed by his father; life under Hungarian ruling in 1938; they received a deportation order according to which the whole family was to leave Hungary within 30 days because they didn't have a Hungarian nationality; at the same time his father got a recruitment order for the labor service within the Hungarian army in 1940;his father's service in the labour service during 9 months; return of his father and deportation of the family to the Garan detention camp, Slovakia in 1941; ( because they didn't have a Hungarian nationality); stay in the camp for a few months;...

File Number : 13774

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzipora Frieda (Markovitz) Nemesh, born in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia in 1919, regarding her experiences in Mukačevo Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau and Zittau camps

Testimony of Tzipora Frieda (Markovitz) Nemesh, born in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia in 1919, regarding her experiences in Mukačevo Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau and Zittau camps Life before the war; receiving a Hebrew education; activity in Hashomer Hatza’ir youth movement; publication of blood libel; German occupation in March 1944; expulsion to ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; murder of part of the family in camp; transfer to Zittau about six months later; life in camp; labor in factory; liberation by Red Army; life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1956; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence between the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) in East Prussia and the association's administration, regarding the current activities of the branch, 06/08/1936-09/03/1938

File Number : JM/28890

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Paul Pinchas Ben-Shaul Reichmann, born in 1934 in Lille, France, about his wartime experiences as a boy in hiding in France, the Champery refugee camp, the home of a Jewish family in Lausanne, etc.

German occupation ensues in 1940; family tries unsuccessfully to escape to the south of France (to Rue); escaping back to Lens in 1940; escaping to Paris; escaping to Piot in 1941; attempting to run the border with the family to the Free Zone of France; arrested by the Germans; trial and detention in a lockup in Biarritz in 1941; father detained separately; released and returns to Paris for several months; another attempt to escape to the south of France; escaping to Benejacoq in 1941; life in hiding there; transferred with help from the French resistance and the Jewish MJC organization to a convent in...

File Number : 13616

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation regarding Itzhak Izak Fruehman (former chairman of the Jewish National Fund in Dembica) and his wife Frida (Laufbahn) Fruehman, 1929-1935

Personal documentation regarding Itzhak Izak Fruehman (former chairman of the Jewish National Fund in Dembica) and his wife Frida (Laufbahn) Fruehman, 1929-1935 Included in the documentation: - Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate) of Itzhak Fruehman and Frida Laufbahn (Freidl Laufbahn), signed in Dembica, 21 October 1928; - Congratulations from Sima Shuldenfrei in the name of the national library committee in Dembica on the occasion of the aliya of Itzhak Izak Fruehman to Eretz Israel, 11 March 1935; - Telegrams of congratulations on the occasion of the marriage of Itzhak Izak Fruehman and Frida...

File Number : 1179

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter, Telegram

Language : Hebrew, Polish

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File Number : 13397

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation belonging to Joachim Friedler, born in Skole, Poland, 15 October 1874, and his son, Hugo, born in Skole, Poland, 1908, afterwards residents of Leoben, Austria; correspondence of Hugo Friedland concerning his efforts to obtain a certificate for legal aliya to Eretz Israel and his autobigraphy from that time, 1939 The documentation includes: - Certificates testifying to the fact that Joachim Friedler is a resident of Leoben and belongs to the local community, 1938; - Permits issued by the Merchants Association in Leoben allowing Joachim Friedler and his son, Hugo Friedler, to engage...

File Number : 243

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Prayer, Correspondence, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Certification

Language : German

Correspondence of Dr. Arie Leo Goldhammer Zahavi from his time in Vienna until his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939, and his time in Eretz Israel until his death, 1949; documents related to his activities as one of the Austrian Zionist leaders, condolence letters, eulogies and press clippings in his memory The documentation includes: - Correspondence of Dr. Arie Leo Goldhammer with Zionist and Jewish organizations and institutions from his time in Vienna until 1939; - Correspondence of Dr. Arie Leo Goldhammer Zahavi with Zionist and Jewish organizations and institutions from his time in Eretz Israel until his...

File Number : 242

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Study, Correspondence, Newspaper Clippings, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

Personal documentation and letters of the Lesegeld family from Dunajska Streda and the Moses family from Mattersburg before the war

Personal documentation and letters of the Lesegeld family from Dunajska Streda and the Moses family from Mattersburg before the war The file also includes: A letter written by the Mizrachi movement from Mattersburg to the Zionist Council in Vienna, 08 July 1934; Comments of Jehudit Moses on the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day.

File Number : 1720

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter

Language : Slovak, German, Hungarian

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