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Memoirs of Yaakov Scheffel Palgi, born in Czesniki, Poland, 1906, regarding his experiences and the experiences of his wife Rachel (Herbst) Scheffel, 1906-1947, including their aliya to Eretz Israel, 1934, and the experiences of the Scheffel, Teichman and Herbst family members during the war Life before the war; move to the home of his grandparents, the Teichman couple, in Rohatyn when he was 6 years old; draft of his father Michael into the Polish Army, 1914; escape from the Russian Army along with his mother Esther, four siblings and his uncle Avraham and his family members; return to the family's home;...

File Number : 8628

Type of Material : Letter, Will, Memoirs, Death Certificate, Sentence

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Curriculum vitae (CV) of the artist Mordechai Krubicki, born in Lipno, Poland, in two versions, written for a 1996 exhibition in Jerusalem (no date or signature)

Curriculum vitae (CV) of the artist Mordechai Krubicki, born in Lipno, Poland, in two versions, written for a 1996 exhibition in Jerusalem (no date or signature) Curriculum vitae (CV) written for a solo exhibition of the drawings of Krubicki in the foyer of the Jerusalem Theater, 01-31 August 1996; Life in Lipno; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; family members perished during the Holocaust; joins the navy of the Red Army; combat on the Finland front; joins Aliya Bet after the war; development as an artist.

File Number : 344

Type of Material : Curriculum Vitae (cv)

Language : Hebrew

Front page of a Red Army newspaper, "Go Forward to Attack the Enemy", 17/09/1943

File Number : 380

Type of Material : Newspaper

Language : Russian

Diagrams containing the deployments and military moves of Artillery Battalion 161, Balka Karavatka area near Stalingrad, November 1942-January 1943, including a report of military actions taken by the battalion, 15 September 1942-27 January 1943, 03 February 1943 Included in the file: Assessment of military actions taken by Artillery Battalion 161, 15 September-23 November 1942; character evaluation of David Korabelnikov by the Leningrad factory in which he worked until the outbreak of the war and following his discharge from the Red Army, 1946; David Korabelnikov was born in Gomel, Belorussia, 1910;...

File Number : 375

Type of Material : Diagram, Official Documentation

Language : Russian

"Mest stuchit v serdtse" (Revenge Beats in My Heart), an article regarding the liberation of the city of Medzhibozh by the company commanded by Mikhail Yoffe, the officer

"Mest stuchit v serdtse" (Revenge Beats in My Heart), an article regarding the liberation of the city of Medzhibozh by the company commanded by Mikhail Yoffe, the officer Details regarding Soviet soldiers of various nationalities, and their officer Mikhail Yoffe; liberation of the birthplace of Mikhail Yoffe and information concerning the murder of his wife Eva Yoffe and their baby Leonid with other Jewish residents of Medzhibozh; in the article there is a call for revenge.

File Number : 277

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : Russian

Article regarding the Red Army soldier, Isaak Shpeer, who died in battle in Berdichev, his birthplace

Article regarding the Red Army soldier, Isaak Shpeer, who died in battle in Berdichev, his birthplace One of the Red Army companies that liberated Berdichev on 05 January 1944 was the company under the command of First Lieutenant Bashkatov; in the company was a Jewish soldier named Isaak Shpeer, who was born in Berdichev; he spoke with his former neighbors who told him that his parents, sister and little Borya and Dorochka as well, had been murdered with other Jews in Lysaya Gora in Berdichev; Isaak Shpeer the soldier fought in the first line in the attack on Lysaya Gora and did not have the opportunity to...

File Number : 245

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Letter written by Red Army soldier Tilman regarding the members of his family who were murdered at the front and on the home front, 1941-1944

Letter written by Red Army soldier Tilman regarding the members of his family who were murdered at the front and on the home front, 1941-1944 The writer Mr. Tilman, aged 53, relates that his son Izrail Tilman was wounded at the front in 1941, and since then there has been no contact with him; his daughter Sofya, born in 1915, was drafted in Bobrovitsy; his son, Aleksandr, born in 1920, was also drafted to the Red Army; his daughter, Zhenya, born in 1923, was also drafted to the Red Army; not one of them returned; his wife Agnessa and their two granddaughters Allochka and Tamara were murdered in 1941; Mr....

File Number : 203

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Correspondence between brothers Yefim Temchin and Lazar Temchin with their sister Manya, with friends and former neighbors, regarding the fate of their family in Slutsk during the German occupation

Correspondence between brothers Yefim Temchin and Lazar Temchin with their sister Manya, with friends and former neighbors, regarding the fate of their family in Slutsk during the German occupation Both of the brothers Yefim Temchin and Lazar Temchin are located in various places at the front; they correspond with each other in order to know about the fate of their family members in Slutsk during the German occupation; they are very happy about the renewal of contact between themselves; they receive letters from institutions in the local Soviet authority, from neighbors, and from their friends who reside in...

File Number : 202

Type of Material : Letter, Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Aharon Renert, born in Vijnita, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Vijnita, Mogilev, Yaruga and Skazintsy

Memoirs of Aharon Renert, born in Vijnita, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Vijnita, Mogilev, Yaruga and Skazintsy Childhood with his family in Vijnita; beginning of the persecutions against the Jews, 1938; financial difficulties due to fines and heavy taxes; Bar-Mitzvah celebration; law according to which each school must have at least 50% non-Jewish registration; Soviet occupation; persecution of Jews by the Communist regime; retreat of the Soviets; pogroms perpetrated by Romanians against the Jews; deportation to Transnistria; arrival in Mogilev; transfer to Yaruga; life in Yaruga, until...

File Number : 8489

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Letter written by M. I. Konzharov-Melamed, a Red Army soldier and former POW who escaped from a POW camp, to Ilya Ehrenburg

Letter written by M. I. Konzharov-Melamed, a Red Army soldier and former POW who escaped from a POW camp, to Ilya Ehrenburg M. I. Melamed, born in 1916, was taken into captivity near Kiev, September 1941; when he saw the treatment of the Jewish POWs, he understood that he had to hide his Jewishness; he announced that he was an Azeri [Azerbaijani] and chose the false identity of M. I. Konzharov; he worked as a medic in POW camps until 1943; on 04 November 1943 he escaped from the camp near Belaya Tserkov and returned to the Red Army; at the time of the writing of the letter, he was at the front in...

File Number : 134

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Letter

Language : Russian

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