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Testimony of Sara Aharoni née Iudovitz, born in 1928 in Chust, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in the Chust ghetto, Auschwitz, and Theresienstadt during the war

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; Shabbat and festivals; attends a Jewish school; Jewish community life; activity of synagogues and Zionist youth movements; witness joins the Bnei Akiva movement; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; men inducted into the labor service; witness deported to the Chust ghetto; life in the ghetto; cultural and religious life; Hungarian gendarmes guard the ghetto; confiscation of valuables; witness wears the yellow star; deported to Auschwitz; selection in the camp and separation of family members; sister sent to Bergen-Belsen and dies from typhus there; roll...

File Number : 13610

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation from Stuttgart and from Radom including an identity card for Lejzor Herszek Konar, 1944, and flyers announcing festive events in "Beit Bialik", the Jewish school in Stuttgart

Documentation from Stuttgart and from Radom including an identity card for Lejzor Herszek Konar, 1944, and flyers announcing festive events in "Beit Bialik", the Jewish school in Stuttgart - Identity card for Lejzor Herszek Konar, born in Maciejowice, Poland, 1923, issued in Radom, 02 April 1944; - Commemorative ad issued by Itzhak Leib Richtman in memory of his parents and his sister; - Announcement sent by the German authorities to the Jews of Radom regarding the establishment of a ghetto; the original announcement can be found in the Ghetto Fighters' Museum Archive; - [Document cotaining...

File Number : 1170

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Announcement, Poster, Map, Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German, Yiddish

Internal correspondence of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), regarding the cancellation of a lecture planned to be held in the Jüdisches Lehrhaus (Jewish Beit Midrash [religious study hall]) in Frankfurt am Main, concerning the economic situation of the Jews of Germany in light of the Gestapo's orders, 28/01-27/02/1935

File Number : JM/28888

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), regarding the organization of lectures and a Gesprächkreis (discussion group), 15/01/1934-10/07/1935

File Number : JM/28888

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation regarding the supply of books on Jewish subjects, publicity material for school libraries, and lists of the recommended books supplied by the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), 27/03/1921-25/10/1932

File Number : JM/28887

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Renata (Hendler) Weintraub, born in Vienna, Austria, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Vienna, in Oostende, in England and Argentina

Testimony of Renata (Hendler) Weintraub, born in Vienna, Austria, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Vienna, in Oostende, in England and Argentina Life before the war; German occupation; expulsion from school; escape to a children's home; escape to Oostende; escape to England; emigration to Argentina; return to Vienna; conversion [to Christianity?].

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Family roots project compiled by Dana Hohenstein about the family of her grandfather, Zvi Hohenstein , born in Kolomyja, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences in Kolomyja, the Soviet Union, during wanderings and in a Polish children's home in Chkalov Experiences of her grandfather, Zvi Hohenstein: Life in Kolomyja until June 1941; escape to the Soviet Union with his family; wanderings; arrival at a Polish children's home in Chkalov, 1944. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948. Also in the file: - Declarations made by Zvi Hohenstein and his two sisters, Malka Zisman and Frieda Pieczyty regarding their...

File Number : 8330

Type of Material : Declaration, Medical Documentation, Documentary, Interview(s)

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Zagorski, born in 1927 in Wadowice, Poland, about being sent to the Groeditz, Faulbrück, and Gunzlau camps for forced labor, death march, and additional camps

Offspring of a well-to-do family; war breaks out in September 1939; escaping to relatives in Kraków; back to Wadowice; forced labor in Wadowice; deportation to Annaberg in autumn 1940 for forced labor; finds an uncle in the camp; transfer to Groeditz and life at a flour mill; cultural life in the camp; construction work in Faulbrück and separation from uncle; transferred to the Bunzlu camp apparently in summer 1942; Bunzlau becomes a concentration camp and assignment to young peole's block in May 1944; death march to Dora Mittelbau in February 1945 and several days in the camp; taken to Ellrich satellite camp;...

File Number : 13440

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Circulars sent by the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) to its regional branches and clerks, regarding the compilation of a dictionary of concepts in Judaism, and regarding an advertisement in the "C.V. - Zeitung" newspaper, 23/08-03/09/1934 - Circular sent by the Centralverein - CV to all of its regional branches and clerks, regarding the addition of entries about important people in German Jewry in the new dictionary for the study of Judaism that is to be published by the Jewish book publishing company, Philo Verlag (pp. 2040-2041); - Circular sent by the...

File Number : JM/28883

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Circular

Language : German

Testimony of Eynat Aron Zelkind, born in 1934 in Wilno, Lithuania, about his experiences as a boy in the Wilno ghetto and the H.K.P. camp

Testimony

Testimony of Eynat Aron Zelkind, born in 1934 in Wilno, Lithuania, about his experiences as a boy in the Wilno ghetto and the H.K.P. camp Life in the Wilno ghetto from September 1941 to mid-September 1943; deportation to the H.K.P. camp; life in the camp from mid-September 1943 to July 5, 1944; liberation by Red Army forces; immigration to Israel in 1950.

File Number : 13378

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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