Postcards sent by Sándor Reichenberg from the Hungarian Army labor battalions to family in Budapest, 1944; postcard sent to Reichenberg's wife Ilona (Lowinger) Reichenberg by her brother Eugen Lowinger from Majdanek, 1943; letter sent by Helen Lowinger from Nitra to her daughter Ilona (Lowinger) Reichenberg, 1941; personal documents of Ilona (Lowinger) Reichenberg and family, pre- and postwar
Postcards sent by Sándor Reichenberg, a forced laborer in the Hungarian Army labor battalions to family members in Budapest, 1944, a postcard sent to Ilona (Lowinger) Reichenberg, Sándor Reichenberg's wife, by her...
File Number : 2251
Type of Material : Personal Documents, Postcard, Letter
Letter sent by Kalman Zloczewski in Lodz to friends of the family in Eretz Israel, 1934, and personal documentation belonging to his son Dan Zloczewski from the postwar period
- Letter sent by Kalman Zloczewski in Lodz to friends of the family in Eretz Israel (the Zuckerman family), 1934;
- Membership card in the Zionist Association in the name of Dan Zloczewski, issued 16 June 1946;
- Driver's license issued to Dan Zloczewski in Rehau, 05 August 1946;
- German identity card belonging to Dan Zloczewski, born in Lodz, 24 August 1924, issued in Rehau, 12 October 1946;
- Document issued by the...
File Number : 2239
Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter, Envelope
Personal documentation of Bruno Hoffman, including confirmations regarding his stay in Wuestegiersdorf and Ebensee camps, and a birth certificate; documents dated, 1945-1998
- Document issued in Ebensee DP camp confirming that Bruno Hoffman, born in Davor, 25 May 1926, resided in Novy Sad before his deportation and that he stayed in concentration camps, 01 May 1944-06 May 1945; document dated, 17 June 1945;
- Birth certificate of Bruno Hoffman, the son of Hinko Hoffman and Rozalija (Mandlovic) Hoffman, issued in Nova Gradiska, 27 October 1997;
- Confirmation issued by the International Tracing Service...
Testimony of Mózes Farkas, born in Makó, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in Makó, the Makó Ghetto, the Szeged Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kaufering camp and more
Anti-Jewish decrees, 1944; obligation to wear a yellow band and badge; restrictions on movement; prohibition against the opening of businesses [?]; deportation to the Makó Ghetto; ghetto life including the prohibition against leaving the ghetto; transfer to the Szeged Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz on the last transport from Hungary, June 1944; travel in train cars for a period of approximately six days; arrival in Auschwitz; selection by Mengele;...
Letter sent by Samuel Benedek from Sachsenhausen camp, Germany, to his non-Jewish neighbor, Jozsef Szasz in Nagyvarad, Romania, 03 August 1944
Comments by the submitter of the material:
Samuel Benedek was deported to Auschwitz together with his wife, Gisella. From Auschwitz he was transferred to Sachsenhausen camp and sent the letter from there. He did not survive the Holocaust. His son, Alexander Benedek, born in 1924, was drafted to labor battalions and spent the war there. Upon his return home to Nagyvarad he received the letter from the neighbor.
Letters and postcards sent to Bernhard Dov and Jaffa (Franken) Finkelstein in Eretz Israel by the Finkelstein family in Duisburg, Amsterdam and the Westerbork camp, by the Franken family in Friesheim and by their families and friends in Germany, the Netherlands and Ecuador, 1936-1950
- Letter sent to Bernhard Finkelstein in Eretz Israel by members of his family in Duisburg, 26 October 1936;
- Letters sent to Bernhard Finkelstein in Eretz Israel by members of his family in Amsterdam, 1938-1940;
- Four postcards sent by the Franken family in Friesheim to the Weisbecker family in Eretz Israel,...
File Number : 2126
Type of Material : Personal Records, Official Documentation, Postcard, Newspaper Clippings, Telegram, Letter, Red Cross Letter
"Every Person Has a Name, In Memory of Family Members Who Perished in the Holocaust", a pamphlet written by Zvi Stettiner in 2011, regarding the experiences of the members of his family and the members of the family of Yocheved (Finklestein) Stettiner
- The family of Yocheved (Finklestein) Stettiner:
Her mother: Penina Finklestein
Her grandmother: Zipora Finklestein from Biala Podlaska who was murdered near Miedzyrzwecz, 09 October 1942;
Her uncle: Moshe Finklestein from Biala Podlaska, who was deported to the Miedzyrzecz Ghetto and perished (the circumstances of his death are not known);
Her aunt: Sara...
Letter sent by Stefica (Stein) Goldberger from Djakovo camp to her mother-in-law Gizela Goldberger in Zagreb, 27 February 1942, and a postcard written by Aleksandar Goldberger in Fericanci camp to his family members in Zagreb, 30 July 1942
- Letter sent by Stefica (Stein) Goldberger from Djakovo camp to her mother-in-law Gizela Goldberger in Zagreb, 27 February 1942; description of the camp life; request to send her the "Miriam" prayer book; included is a translation to Hebrew;
- Postcard sent by Aleksandar Goldberger from Fericanci camp to his family members in Zagreb, in which he acknowledges the...
File Number : 2102
Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, Article, Memoirs
Testimony of Yocheved Yehudit Hamburger Boxbaum, born in Brzesko, Poland, 1928, regarding the Bochnia ghetto and deportation to the Auschwitz II - Birkenau camp
Family background, religious family; studies in a Polish school; life before the war.
The outbreak of the war; dropping out of school; great fear of the Germans; deportation to the ghetto; aktions; deportation of the first intelligence personnel; whistleblowing by Jewish policemen on Jews; rumors of camps; construction of bunkers; hiding in hideout during an aktion; exposing the witness' family during the aktion and killing them; the escape of the...