Personal documentsation and official documents of Hugo Kaufmann and Helena (Doppler) Kaufmann, from Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1932-1978
- Birth certificate of Gertruda Kaufmann (the daughter of Hugo and Helena Kaufmann), born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 30 August 1932;
- Certificate given by the Ministry of the Treasury of Slovakia to Helena (Doppler) Kaufmann, stating that she and her family members (her husband Hugo and their two twin daughters Gertruda and Viera) will not be deported from Slovakia, 05 June 1942;
- Application submitted to the Central Economics Office in Bratislava by the...
File Number : 140
Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Official Documentation, Personal Documents
Personal documentation belonging to Aron Velleman, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 10 April 1907, including a thank you letter from Prince Bernhard, 1945
- Forged identity card in the name of Arie Katwijk prepared for Aron Velleman from Rotterdam, place and date of issue: Tilburg, 07 October 1943;
- Forced document in the name of Henriette de With prepared for Henriette Velleman (wife of Aron Velleman) from Rotterdam, place and date of issue: Tilburg, 07 October 1943;
-Letter from the Employment Bureau in Rotterdam certifying that Arie Katwijk was examined by a physician and was found to be unfit...
File Number : 144
Type of Material : Personal Documents, Vouchers, Official Documentation, Genealogy
Personal documents of the Guns family from Zagreb, 1941, regarding their experiences in hiding in Split and Sibenik while using a false identity, 1941-1944
- Forged identity cards of Miksa and Irena Guns, while using the false names Miklosch Balogh and Ilona Balogh; documents issued in Kovacica, 13 July 1941;
- Permits for travel from Torontalvasarhely to Hvar via Zagreb and Split, issued to Miklosch and Ilona Balogh, 13 July 1941; on the back of the documents is a transit pass signed by a liaison officer [acting in cooperation] with the German Army;
- Jewish identity card of Miksa Guns, from Szenta,...
Diaries kept by Rosy (van Geldere) de Vries while in hiding in Velp, 09 December 1943-11 December 1944
Also in the file:
- A complete transcript of the diaries;
- Edition of the "De Vliegende Hollander" newspaper announcing the surrender of Germany, issued 10 May 1945.
Note:
Rosy (van Geldere) de Vries was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 03 August 1917; her husband, Sigfrid de Vries was born in Rotterdam, 1915; Rosy, Sigrid and their children were in hiding in Velp; at a certain point of the war, their children were entrusted to other people; when the people hiding the children were captured, the...
Letters written by members of the Jourgrau family, and personal documentation regarding members of the family, 1927-2009
Letters and postcards:
- Letter from Dov Jourgrau in Amsterdam to his brother Mendel Jourgrau in Eretz Israel, 23 December 1938;
- Letters and a postcard written by Dov Jourgrau to his daughter, Ruth, while she was in hiding using the false identity of Lieske or Liesje; members of the underground showed these letters to Ruth and then took them back as a precaution; at the end of the war, the letters were returned to her;
- Two letters from Lea Jourgrau (apparently from Westerbork)...
File Number : 2063
Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents, Notebook, Postcard, Drawing, Poem/song, Article(s), List(s), Text(s)
Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch, German, Yiddish
Memoirs of Pavel Klein regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Budapest, Hungary, his desertion from the battalion during a death march to Stary Oskol, his imprisonment in a Soviet POW camp and his service as a physician on the front lines in the Czech unit of the Red Army
Work as a physician in the Jewish hospital in Budapest, Hungary.
Outbreak of the war; draft of the Jewish men to labor battalions at the front; draft of his brother, Laci; message regarding the death of his brother; draft of Pavel to a labor battalion as a physician, late 1942;
final preparations and arrival in Ersekujvar;...
Certificate stating that the farmer Alfred Weiss and his family members are not to be deported from Kamanová due to his being an essential worker for the economy of Slovakia, issued by the Government of Slovakia, 24 July 1942
Document was also issued in a translation to German;
Comments by the submitter of the material:
Alfred Weiss was born in Kamanová, Slovakia, 20 April 1900; his wife, Vera (Gutman) Weiss, was born in Budapest, Hungary, 1910; she worked as a housewife; two daughters were born: Hella and Zuzana; Alfred studied agriculture in an institution for higher learning, and he worked as a...
Correspondence and personal documentation belonging to the Suchostaver and Feuereisen families from Liptovsky Sv. Mikulas and Bratislava, 1940-1945
- Postcard from Moritz Feuereisen in Zilina to his sister Melania Suchostaver in Bratislava, apparently prior to his deportation to Sobibor, 1942; escape of his sister with the family from Liptovsky Sv. Mikulas to Bratislava; search for his sister and her family in order to deport them;
- Letter written on a calendar page from Moritz Feuereisen to relatives, immediately prior to deportation, May 1942;
- Postcard from Esti Einhorn Stieglitz in Novaky camp...
File Number : 1954
Type of Material : Money, Official Documentation, Letter, Personal Records, Note, Postcard
Testimony of Alexander Javor Kahn, born in Rajec, Czechoslovakia, 1902, regarding his experiences in Nove Mesto, Piestany, in hiding in Bratislava and with the partisans in Pastuchov
Life before the war; attends an elementary school; life in Zilina including attending high school; attends the agricultural academy; drafted to the Czechoslovakian Army (discharged with the rank of First Lieutenant); life in Male Lednice including work on the family farm; move to Germany, 1926; life in Germany; work on an experimental farm raising domestic animals; visits to experimental farms in Sweden and Denmark; marriage to...
Notebooks filled with poetry and drawings by Mina (Luftschein) Schenfeld from Boryslaw, written while she was being hidden by Poles, 1943-1944
In the second notebook, there is a letter dated 10 March 1957 written by Stankiewicz, the Pole whose family hid Mina; preservation of the notebooks by Stankiewicz and his sending them to Israel, 1957.
Comments from the woman who submitted the material:
Mina (Luftschein) Schenfeld, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1915; her two sisters, Dolka and Gincia, were murdered together with her parents, Alter Hillel and Rosa (Friedlander) Luftschein; escaped from the Boryslaw...
