Last letter sent by Josef and Lea Lisowoder from Lwow to their daughter while she was en route to Eretz Israel, 09 November 1940
Lidia Avidan (granddaughter of Josef and Lea Lisowoder) was born in Krakow, Poland, 1932.
Escape of Lidia from Lwow with her parents Roma and Ludwig Bluhbaum, 1939; arrival of Lidia and her parents to Bucharest; aliya of Lidia and her parents to Eretz Israel via Turkey on a small ship after their unsuccessful attempt to make aliya on the "Patria" ship; Lidia and her parents receive a letter from Josef and Lea after their arrival to Eretz Israel; her family remaining in Lwow...
Memoirs of the twins Alla (Gaber) Bruk and Kira (Gaber) Rashba, born in Leningrad, Soviet Union, 1935, regarding their experiences in Leningrad, Dzhankoy and using a false identity in Akkerman
Growing up in the parents' home;
Outbreak of the war; digging defense trenches; evacuation from Leningrad, 28 June 1941; arrival at Malaya Vishera; air-raids; murder of children; escape to Armavir; in hiding in a cellar; wanderings at the front; arrival to Dzhankoy; morbidity; rescue of one of the sisters by a surgeon in a German hospital in Dzhankoy; arrival in Akkerman; life using a false identity with the family...
Death certificates of Messod Cohen, born in Fez, Morocco, 1896, and his family members, residents of Paris, France, including a census record of the Jews in Morocco from the Casablanca municipality, with the name Raphael Cohen, dated, 03/10/1941
Death certificates issued in Paris, 06-07 March 1947, confirming the detention of Messod Cohen and his deportation to Drancy, 03 June 1942; his deportation to Auschwitz, 22 June 1942; detention of his wife Jeanne (Radziejewski) Cohen, born in 1897, and their daughter Yolanda Fanny, born in 1924, [in Drancy], 23 January 1943; deportation of his wife and daughter to...
File Number : 1413
Type of Material : Death Certificate, Record of Murdered Persons, Official Documentation
Memoirs of Alek Elias Kleiner, born in Krakow, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Plaszow camp, Skawina and a labor camp near Landsberg
Outbreak of the war; transfer to Skawina, deportation to the Plaszow camp; forced labor in Skawina; "Aktion" in Skawina; separation from his mother, sister and brother(s); typhus; hospitalization in the clinic in Plaszow; liquidation of the camp, 1943; selection; death march; transfer to a labor camp near Landsberg; camp life including forced labor at an airport; transfer on foot to the railroad station for Kaufering; escape; wanderings; finding a hiding place in...
Memoirs of Sara Bikel, born in Carpathian Ruthenia, and her daughter Chana (Bikel) Rosenstein, born in Svalava in Carpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia in 1936, regarding their escape from the railroad station in Auschwitz
They meet Jews from Zilina; detention in camp; their escape over the course of a year in the area of eastern Slovakia while the mother pretends to be the widow of a partisan; searches and persecutions by the Germans;
Included in the file:
Newspaper clippings with the story of their escape.
Memoirs of Inga Tretyakova, born in Leningrad, the Soviet Union, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Leningrad during the siege of Leningrad, and in Pyatigorsk, Baku, Elektrostal and other places
Life before the war; music studies.
Outbreak of the war; her family's decision to stay in Leningrad; life during the siege of Leningrad; evacuation along with her mother, Yanina Mirlas, via the Lagoda Sea, March 1942; deportation on a train in the direction of the Stalinsk region; escape from the train; escape to Pyatigorsk; escape to Makhachkala; escape to Baku; life in an improvised refugee camp;...
Letter of testimony of Faina (Klotzman) Stupakova regarding the experiences of her family members, 1941-1945
Testimony regarding Itzik Klotzman, born in Floreshty, Romania, 1898, and died, 1946; testimony regarding the family of Raisa Kaushanski; Raisa's life in the Olgopol Ghetto, where she met her future husband, Semion Klotzman; testimony regarding Feiga (Boltianski) Kaushanski, born in Kruti, Ukraine, 1901, and died, 1946; testimony regarding Monuil Kaushanski, who was drafted into the Red Army, his subsequent transfer to forced labor in Kazakhstan, and the loss of contact with him;
Letter of...
File Number : 8349
Type of Material : Certification, Identity Card, Documentary, Letter of Testimony, Names
Memoirs of Nechemia Goldberg Har T-v, born in Falenica, Poland, 1941, regarding his experiences as a baby in Falenica, in hiding and in Bergen-Belsen camp
Escape from Falenica after the German occupation; escape with his mother, and search for a hiding place; life with a Polish family in exchange for food goods given by his mother; deportation to Bergen-Belsen along with his mother; camp life; his illness with polio; liberation.
Move to a DP camp; DP camp life; reunion with his father after his father's service in the Red Army; move to Marseille with his family; aliya to Eretz Israel with his family,...
File Number : 8335
Type of Material : Memoirs, Official Documentation, Photograph
Memoirs of Herrmann Heinz, born in Opava, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in Terezin and Auschwitz-Birkenau, translated to Hebrew and titled "Mein Kampf versus the Final Solution", 1984
The essay was originally called "Mein Kampf gegen die Endloesung"; it was translated to Hebrew by Yehudit Beichler and can be found in the Yad Vashem Library.
