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Certificate from the municipal Hebrew kindergarten in Sofia, issued to Viki Alevi, who attended the kindergarten during the 1941-1942 school year, and certificate from the Hebrew elementary school in Plovdiv, that she attended the school during the 1943-1944 school year - Certificate (in Hebrew and Bulgarian) given by the municipal Hebrew kindergarten in Sofia to Viki Alevi, that she attended the kindergarten during the 1941-1942 school year; certificate issued, 19 June 1942; - Certificate from the Hebrew elementary school in Plovdiv that Viktoria Alevi, who was born in Sofia, 06 April 1936, attended the...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 73

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Certification, Personal Documents

results.listIds.lang : Bulgarian, Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Likht, born in Hajduszoboszlo, Hungary, 1924 regarding his experiences in Hungary during the war period

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His parents' home; antisemitism; move to Budapest, 1942; German occupation, March 1944; obligation to report for labor clearing rubble; restrictions on movement; yellow badge; drafting order; transfer to Szolnok; labor in a military factory, July 1944; sorting of skilled workers; drafting into the Hungarian Army and deployment to the front; approach of the Soviet front; retreat; Horthy's declaration, 1944; expulsion from the Hungarian Army; concentration of the Jewish soldiers and transfer to the Austrian border; transfer into the hands of the German Army, Sopron; labor building fortifications along the...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana Zuzi Zhuzha (Polak) Levinger, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932 regarding her experiences in Budapest in a marked house, in the ghetto and in a children's home

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Childhood in a secular family; living in various towns due to her father's work; good relations with Christians; Move to Budapest, summer 1942 or 1943; drafting of her father into a labor battalion, probably early 1944; German occupation, March 1944; air-raids; move to a marked house; move to a protected house; eviction of all the residents by members of the Arrow Cross Party, her father arrived in an army uniform and took her out of the group; continued life in the ghetto with many children; staying in shelter most of the time; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945; Joining Youth Aliyah; aliya to...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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Testimony of Yeshayahu Shaike Goldhersh, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland in 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in the Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto, and in Bergen-Belsen and Ravensbrueck camps Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto life; deportation to Ravensbrueck camp; transfer to Bergen-Belsen camp; Bergen-Belsen camp life, without work [labor]; suffering from diseases and hunger; apathy; cruelties by the Ukrainian guards; piles of corpses; liberation by the British Army on 15 April 1945; transfer to Sweden with his mother for the purpose of his mother's convalescence; he studies for the first time in a...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13662

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Mirka (Klaver) Zaklikovski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and other camps, 1940-1945

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Childhood before the war; Outbreak of the war; arrival of refugees from Czechoslovakia and Germany; restrictions; deportation to the ghetto; curfew; forced labor; taking of her father to forced labor; "Aktions"; public hangings of Jews; escapes from the ghetto; cultural life in the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to labor camps in Germany; working in a weapons factory; reasonable treatment by the Germans; liberation by the British Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1949.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13855

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Letters sent to their relatives in Eretz Israel by the Fridlender family, refugees from Poland to the Soviet Union, 17 February 1941 and 27 December 1945

Letters sent to their relatives in Eretz Israel by the Fridlender family, refugees from Poland to the Soviet Union, 17 February 1941 and 27 December 1945 - Letter sent by Sara Fridlender and members of her family in Rudnik to her sister in Eretz Israel, 17 February 1941; the letter contains the addresses of other family members in the Soviet Union: R. Fridlender in Mariupol and Leiba Brand in Zhmerinka. - Another letter sent to their relatives in Eretz Israel by the Fridlender family, 27 December 1945. Notes from Yehudit Glicksberg, who submitted the material: The family escaped from Poland to the...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 2254

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter

results.listIds.lang : Yiddish

List of children who survived by living in hiding with assistance from non-Jews in Poland, 1945-1947, from the book, "Survivors of the Holocaust in Poland, by Lucjan Dobroszycki

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1226

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : List of Children, List of Survivors

results.listIds.lang : English

Testimony of Yaakov Amit Altman, born in Noua Sulita, Romania, 1935 regarding the deportation of his family to Transnistria

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Family background; drafting of his father into the Red army; His family's escape to Ukraine following the Red Army; capture of his family by the Germans along with additional escapees; deportation of his family to Chernovitse; his family's livelihood from knitting; obtaining food with great difficulty; living in a basement; living conditions; liberation by the Red Army; Week-long return by foot to Noua Sulita; living conditions in Noua Sulita; reunion with his father; move to Transylvania and Bukovina, Romania; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the ship "Knesset Israel"; arrest by the British and...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Requests for the sending of parcels received by Relico, the Relief Committee of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Geneva, 1941-1943

results.listIds.fileNumber : 478

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Postcard, Letter

results.listIds.lang : French, German

Two letters sent by Margit Traubl in Cacov, Slovakia, to her daughter Magda (Traubl) Roth in Eretz Israel, Red Cross letter sent on 17 June 1941 to Margit Traubl announcing the wedding of her daughter Magda to Mordechaj Roth, and a postcard sent by Jenő Roth in Nagyszőllős to Margit Traubl, 01 December 1940 - Letter in German written in Tel Aviv, 15 February 1940 (it is not clear who wrote the letter and to whom); - Postcard in Hungarian sent by Jenő Roth in Nagyszőllős to Margit Traubl in Cacov, 01 December 1940; - Red Cross letter from Eretz Israel sent on 17 June 1941 to Margit Traubl announcing the...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 2253

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Postcard, Red Cross Letter, Letter

results.listIds.lang : German, Hungarian

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