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Rabbinic ordination certificate received by Jacob Mandelbaum after completing his studies at the Wolozyn Yeshiva, 09 October 1913

Rabbinic ordination certificate received by Jacob Mandelbaum after completing his studies at the Wolozyn Yeshiva, 09 October 1913 Rabbi Jacob Mandelbaum from Siedlce received rabbinic ordination when he was only 18 years old.

File Number : 1212

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmaryahu Weiss, born in Papa, Hungary, 1939, regarding his aliya to Israel through a certificate, 1943

Testimony

Testimony of Shmaryahu Weiss, born in Papa, Hungary, 1939, regarding his aliya to Israel through a certificate, 1943 Family background. Enlistment of his father to the labor battalions and his work in a forced labor camp, 1942; deportation of his aunt, uncle and their two children from Bratislava, and their arrival in the hometown of witness ,Papa, 1943; attaching the witness and his brother to the certificate with the uncles; approval of aliya to Eretz Israel with consultation and recommendation of Rabbi Meltz in Budapest; crossing to Budapest and departing by train, evening of Yom Kippur 1943; travel to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Bill for the sale of leavened food, written by Rabbi Yaakov Bornstein in Gargzdai, including the signatures of the members of the Jewish community of Gargzdai, 1916

File Number : 115

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Names

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of Arthur Plotsk, born in Leipzig, Germany, of Rabbi Simon Dasberg and his daughter Dina, from Groningen, the Netherlands, and of Alfred Weiss, born in Banovce, Slovakia; documentation dated, 1920-1941 - Transit pass issued for Arthur Plotzk by the police in Zagreb, before his travel to Eretz Israel, 20 February 1941; postcard sent by Jetta Plotsk from the Lodz Ghetto to her niece in Denmark, 11 November 1941; - Affidavit from Jozef Weiss (whose last place of residence before his deportation was Hilversum, the Netherlands) and by lawyer I. S. de Vries (whose last place of residence before...

File Number : 145

Type of Material : Postcard, Diploma, Letter, Administrative Documentation, Passport, List of Detainees, Poem/song, Declaration

Language : Hebrew, French, English, Dutch, Hungarian, Serbian-Croatian

Testimony of Shmuel Hershkovitz, born in Somcuta Mare, Romania in 1922, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony of Shmuel Hershkovitz, born in Somcuta Mare, Romania in 1922, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and other camps Studies in yeshiva; good neighborly relations with the Romanian population; Hungarian regime in 1940; German occupation; expulsion to Baia Mare Ghetto; transport to Auschwitz-Birkenau with his siblings; dismantling of buildings in Warsaw Ghetto; march to Germany; digging in ground to find water; Dachau camp; Muehldorf and Mittergras camps; labor in forests; wounded by gunfire from a German commanding officer; approach of the front; murder of prisoners; liberation by the Americans...

File Number : 13742

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ben Dor Blau Yohanan Yitzkhak Tibor, born in Makó, Hungary in 1935, regarding his experiences in Makó and Szeged Ghettos and in Theresienstadt and Strasshof camps

Testimony of Ben Dor Blau Yohanan Yitzkhak Tibor, born in Makó, Hungary in 1935, regarding his experiences in Makó and Szeged Ghettos and in Theresienstadt and Strasshof camps Childhood in a modern Orthodox family; father was vice president of the Mizrachi movement in Hungary after the war; studies in Neolog School and in heder at the same time; antisemitism; entry of Germans in March 1944; confiscation of radio receivers and valuables; yellow badge; closing of Makó Ghetto and family living in grandfather’s home inside the ghetto; expulsion via freight train to Újszeged; roundup of Jews on a soccer pitch;...

File Number : 13654

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters from Rabbi Neach Ajzenbud and Rabbi Josef Rozovski in Vilna to various persons in Eretz Israel before the war

Letters from Rabbi Neach Ajzenbud and Rabbi Josef Rozovski in Vilna to various persons in Eretz Israel before the war - Letter from Rabbi Josef Rozovski in Vilna to his brother Eli Chaim Rozovski in Eretz Israel, 05 February 1935; - Two letters from Rabbi Neach Ajzenbud to his rabbinical colleagues in Eretz Israel, undated; the address of Rabbi Josef Rozovski, to which the sender requests that funds be sent, appears in his letter to Rabbi Alter Abelov; the letter contains information regarding Rabbi Josef Rozovski (executive secretary of Chaim Ozer), one of the leading rabbis in Vilna. Note: The...

File Number : 2113

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Abramovitz, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia in 1929, regarding his experiences in Sajmište, Albania; Bergen-Belsen; and the “lost train”

Testimony of Aharon Abramovitz, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia in 1929, regarding his experiences in Sajmište, Albania; Bergen-Belsen; and the “lost train” Childhood in Pristina; life in the Jewish community; his mother’s death; moving to Zagreb to live with relatives; outbreak of war in April 1941; expulsion of foreign residents from Croatia; return to Pristina; entry of Germans and transfer of regime to Italian army; his father’s death; supporting himself; move to Berat, Albania, where the Jews of Pristina were exiled; entry of Germans in September 1943; return to Pristina; arrest by Germans and Muslim 21st...

File Number : 13730

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Certificate of ordination to the rabbinate, given to Mordka Piekarz from Lukow, issued by the Association of Rabbis of Poland in Warsaw, 22/07/1935

File Number : 1183

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Rabbi Hillel Kustanowicz, born in Luban, Poland, 17 August 1900, regarding his experiences in Lachowicze and Siberia during the Soviet occupation, 1941-1946

Memoirs of Rabbi Hillel Kustanowicz, born in Luban, Poland, 17 August 1900, regarding his experiences in Lachowicze and Siberia during the Soviet occupation, 1941-1946 His childhood in Luban with his father Shimon Arie and his mother Lena Reisel; learns in a yeshiva in Sluck; continues his learning in a yeshiva in Kleck; move to Nieswiez; return to Kleck; move to Lachowicze; marriage to Sonia Rozowski. Red Army occupation; return to Luban; move to Sluck and then to Bobroisk; return to Lachowicze; retreat of the Soviets, June 1941; evacuation to the East; travel by train via Minsk, Baranowicze and...

File Number : 8529

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

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