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Personal documentation of Pinkus Windholz, born in Krakow, Poland, 1902, and roots research regarding the experiences of the family, including his son Yehuda Elon, written by the great-granddaughter of Pinkus Windholz Original documents: - Birth certificate of Pinkus Windholz, who was born in Krakow, 22 June 1902, issued in Krakow, 22 October 1919; - Birth certificate of Pinkus Windholz, issued in Berlin Neukoelln, 27 August 1929; - Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate) of Pinkus and Rachel Windholz, signed, 30 June 1929; - Identity card (Fremdenpass) of foreign resident, Pinkus Windholz, issued...

File Number : 647

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Documentary

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, German

Letters sent by Robert Lucas Boissevain from Vught and Oranienburg camps to his wife Sonja Tienhoven-Boissevain, 1944, and to his sister Tolly Boissevain-Mesritz, 1945; Russian-Dutch dictionary and exercises written by Lowske Goldberg while hidden by the Boissevain family; Dutch underground placard against anti-Jewish discrimination; documents related to the Goldberg and Boissevain families Letters sent by Robert Lucas Boissevain from the Vught camp and the Oranienburg camp to his wife Sonja Tienhoven-Boissevain in Haarlem, 1944, and to his sister Tolly Boissevain-Mesritz in Geneva, January 1945; a...

File Number : 2233

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Dictionary, Genealogy, Documentary, Letter, Research Article, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Poster, Poems/songs

Language : English, Russian, Dutch, German

Letter from Varvara Rumyantzeva in Odessa to her husband Vladimir Rumyantzev, in service in the Red Fleet, 23 September 1941, and a letter from Vladimir Rumyantzev to his wife and son in Odessa, 04 July 1944 Also in the file: - Excerpt from an issue of the "Krasny Flot" [The Red Fleet] newspaper with documentation regarding the naval battle conducted by the ship on which Vladimir Rumyantzev (father of Yuriy Rumyantzev) was serving, 1942. Notes by Yuriy Rumyantzev, the submitter of the material: The first letter was sent shortly before the German occupation of Odessa. The family in Odessa perished,...

File Number : 2215

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Letter

Language : Russian

Testimony of Malka Bakon née Varshavski, born in 1934 in Drohiczyn, Poland, about her experiences as a girl in the Drohiczyn ghetto, in hiding with villagers in the vicinity, and immigration to Eretz Israel in 1944

Life in Drohiczyn; ghettoization; life in hiding with various villagers for a year and a half; liberation by Red Army forces; immigration to Eretz Israel in 1944; rehabilitation and adjustment to life in Eretz Israel.

File Number : 13555

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avigdor Janos Peter Balint Bar On, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding his experiences in Budapest and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Avigdor Janos Peter Balint Bar On, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding his experiences in Budapest and in hiding His childhood in Budapest with his family. Outbreak of the war; German Army occupation of Hungary; in hiding outside the ghetto while using forged documents. Aliya to Eretz Israel within the context of the Hashomer Hatzair movement.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Helen (Meltzer) Marks, born in Swir, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Swir, Swieciany, Jewje camp, Vilna, the United States and Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Helen (Meltzer) Marks, born in Swir, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Swir, Swieciany, Jewje camp, Vilna, the United States and Israel Her childhood in a traditional, Zionist family; attends a Tarbut elementary school; attends a Polish school; attends the Tarbut kindergarten teachers' college in Vilna; Soviet occupation of Swir, 1939; move to Swieciany; activities in the Hechalutz Hatzair movement; activities in the Beitar movement. Outbreak of the war, summer 1941; Swieciany Ghetto life; deportation to Jewje camp, August 1942; camp life including labor paving a road until 1943;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana Zsuzsanna (Shomlo) Beer, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1927, regarding her experiences in hiding in Budapest during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana Zsuzsanna (Shomlo) Beer, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1927, regarding her experiences in hiding in Budapest during the war

File Number : 13324

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documents from the trial conducted in Landesgericht (regional court) in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna against members of the HSSPF Lublin: Documentation of the trial, volume 15; Testimonies by Austrian and German perpetrators and Jewish survivors, 1961 Letters (1961) of the investigating judge from the Landesgericht Salzburg (regional court) to various magistrate courts in Germany requesting legal assistance in the criminal proceedings against Hermann Hoefle; the letters contain an account of the suspicion, its factual foundation, and Hoefle's vindication, as well as requests for hearings of the witnesses...

File Number : 72

Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, Maps, Official Documentation, Legal Documentation

Language : German

Documentation from the trial of Ludwig Hahn, KdS in Warsaw, 1944, accused of murder of Jews, held in the Hamburg Regional Court, testimonies by German perpetrators and Jewish survivors, 20/07/1961 - 12/12/1961 Comments of the leading prosecutor at the Landgericht (regional court) Hamburg on the reliability of the following witnesses: Szlama Bines, Mojsche, Marek Levin, [Ted Aron] Back and [Mordecha] Markusfeld (pp.2f); Note of the leading prosecutor concerning the fact that witness Mieczyslaw Kamionek is not resilient and that interrogations will damage him (pp.4f); Three testimonies of witness Dr....

File Number : 53

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Record of Survivors, Testimony, Names of Perpetrators, Legal Documentation, Official Documentation, Investigation Reports

Language : German

Testimony of Yehuda Feigenbaum, born in Swoszowa, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences in the Biecz Ghetto and in hiding in a village and a forest

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Feigenbaum, born in Swoszowa, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences in the Biecz Ghetto and in hiding in a village and a forest Religious family. Deportation to the Biecz Ghetto; Biecz Ghetto life, until 1942; escape from the ghetto; life in hiding in a bunker while hidden by Wladyslaw Kozak, later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations; informing on the rescuer (Kozak), and his murder; escape of the witness and his family to forests in the vicinity; life until the liberation, 1945. Story about a group of Jews who lived in hiding while hidden by Wladyslaw Kozak; exposure of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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