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Testimony of Raja (Berkman) Beit Iosef in a letter sent from Sweden to her cousin (her mother's first cousin) Shlomo Frank in Eretz Israel regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kailis and Stutthof and the circumstances surrounding the murders of her family and Shlomo's family, 22 August 1946 Occupation of Vilna and murder of Jews; deportation of the surviving family members to the Vilna Ghetto; transfer of the family members to Ponary and their murder; escape from death in Ponary and return to the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to a concentration camp in Riga; escape from the...

File Number : 8634

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Genealogy

Language : Hebrew

Letters and postcards sent to Erich and Sali (Dermer) Neugeboren in Eretz Israel by their family in Ostrava, Prague, Vilaucea and Tarnopol, 1922-1963

Letters and postcards sent to Erich and Sali (Dermer) Neugeboren in Eretz Israel by their family in Ostrava, Prague, Vilaucea and Tarnopol, 1922-1963 - Postcard sent from Franzensbad to Anna Neugeboren in Witkowitz, 18 June 1922; - Postcard sent to Anna Neugeboren in Ostrava by her brother Poldi in Karlsbad, 18 July 1937; - Letters sent to Erich (Eli) and Sali (Dermer) Neugeboren by their family in Ostrau and Prague, 1939; - Postcard (in Yiddish) sent from Rechovot to Sara Neugeboren in Kibbutz Kfar Giladi, 16 August 1939; - Letters and postcards sent to Sali Neugeboren by her father, Abraham...

File Number : 2069

Type of Material : Letter, Red Cross Letter, Postcard

Language : Czech, German, Yiddish

Postcard sent to Mosze Princ in Zurawno, Poland by the Falk family in the Lwow Ghetto, 25 December 1942

Postcard sent to Mosze Princ in Zurawno, Poland by the Falk family in the Lwow Ghetto, 25 December 1942 Note: Mosze Princ, born in Zurawno, Poland, 1919; deported to the Stryj Ghetto together with his family; escaped by jumping from the train on the way to the ghetto; rescue from the war; aliya to Israel, 1948; his entire family was murdered including the people sending the postcard.

File Number : 2014

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Polish

Letter sent by Regina Anisfeld from Budapest to her brother Mosche Zuckermann-Simchowitz in Eretz Israel during the war, with a request to arrange a certificate for her and her husband

Letter sent by Regina Anisfeld from Budapest to her brother Mosche Zuckermann-Simchowitz in Eretz Israel during the war, with a request to arrange a certificate for her and her husband Note: Rivka Regina (Zuckermann-Simchowitz) Anisfeld was born in Cesky Tesin, 1916; her parents were Yeshayahu and Blima Simchowitz; her family had eight children; four of the children perished, along with their parents; three of the children made aliya to Eretz Israel: Mosche Zuckermann-Simchowitz, Yechiel Zuckermann and Esther Zuckermann (later: Erlich); Rivka married Izak Anisfeld, 1943; deportation of Rivka and Izak...

File Number : 1999

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Memoirs of Dvora (Lichter) Levinson, born in Tarnopol, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Tarnopol Ghetto, using a false identity in villages and in a prison

Memoirs of Dvora (Lichter) Levinson, born in Tarnopol, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Tarnopol Ghetto, using a false identity in villages and in prison Life before the war; attendance at a Polish school; afternoon classes at the Hebrew school. Soviet occupation; closing of the Hebrew school; German occupation; draft of Jews to the Judenrat and murder of the draftees including her father; deportation to the Tarnopol Ghetto; ghetto life in hiding in a bunker; leaving the bunker with forged documents in the name of Stanislawa Dobryk; discovery of the bunker by the Germans and murder of those...

File Number : 8510

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German

Memory book belonging to Bat Sheva Sabina Mendelson, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1931, written by friends in her Bnei Akiva group in Cyprus when she took leave of the group, 1947

Memory book belonging to Bat Sheva Sabina Mendelson, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1931, written by friends in her Bnei Akiva group in Cyprus when she took leave of the group, 1947 Notes from Chana Shinar who submitted the material: During the evacuation of the Warsaw Ghetto, Bat Sheva escaped from the train, and wandered among the villages. Some of the villages knew her identity and hid her. In the course of her wanderings she arrived in Lodz, and she made aliya from there to Eretz Israel as part of Youth Aliyah. In 1947 she was deported on the illegal immigrant ship, "Theodor Herzl" to Cyprus, where she...

File Number : 700

Type of Material : Memoir Book

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German

Letters written in a labor camp by Haim Isak Daniel to his wife Solcha and daughter Shelka in Sofia and Kyustendil, including personal documents of the Daniel family and memoirs of Rashel Sheli (Daniel) Carmi regarding her family's experiences during the Holocaust - Confirmation of the birth of Rashel Daniel, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1937; document issued, 02 August 1937; - Identity card of Haim Daniel, born in Dupnitsa, Bulgaria, 1905, issued in Sofia, 19 April 1947; - Identity card of Solcha Daniel, born in Kyustendil, Bulgaria, 1911, issued in Sofia, 19 April 1947; - Letter written by Haim Daniel...

File Number : 1891

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents, Poem/song, Identity Card, Letter

Language : Bulgarian, Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Tavori Tureholz, born in Staszow, Poland, 1930, regarding deportation to Auschwitz, jumping off a train, joining partisans and assistance in the fighting against the German army

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Tavori Tureholz, born in Staszow, Poland, 1930, regarding deportation to Auschwitz, jumping off a train, joining partisans and assistance in the fighting against the German army Family background, religious family; relocation to Arad, Romania, 1932; a visit to Eretz Israel, 1933, where his mother's family lives; attempt to stay in Eretz Israel; buying a plot of land; stabbing of his father by an Arab in Jaffa; the British authorities' investigation of the father and the understanding that there are no certificates for the family to remain in Eretz Israel; deportation within four weeks...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Forged Belgian identity card with the name Antoinette Marie Bergs, issued in Achel, Belgium, 10 March 1940, for Tauba Edelsztejn, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930

Forged Belgian identity card with the name Antoinette Marie Bergs, issued in Achel, Belgium, 10 March 1940, for Tauba Edelsztejn, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930 Move of Edelsztejn to Amsterdam when she was seven years old. German Army occupation of Amsterdam; deportation of her family to a concentration camp; Tauba jumps from the train with her twin sister Adela during its travel in Belgium; injury of her sister; search for help; receives help from a Belgian family; her sister undergoes surgery; transfer of her sister to a monastery; Tauba's life with the Belgian family, including work as a housemaid;...

File Number : 88

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : Dutch

Hebrew-Yiddish and Hebrew-Romanian dictionary written by Haim Leon Finkelshtein, born in Iasi, Romania, 1921, in the detention camp in Cyprus, 1947-1948

Hebrew-Yiddish and Hebrew-Romanian dictionary written by Haim Leon Finkelshtein, born in Iasi, Romania, 1921, in the detention camp in Cyprus, 1947-1948 Notes from Ruti Vinberg who submitted the material: Haim Leon Finkelshtein and Luba Greenberg, born in Iasi, Romania, 1921, met before the war and were married when it ended. Luba remained in Iasi and Leon was deported to an extermination camp by train. He managed to escape from the train and reach a labor camp. At the end of the war, he returned to Iasi and met Luba. They set sail for Eretz Israel on an illegal immigrant ship and were sent to Cyprus....

File Number : 692

Type of Material : Dictionary

Language : Hebrew, Romanian, Yiddish

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