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Postcard sent by Leonid Birgir from the front to his mother Yekaterina Miropolskaya in Tashkent, 1942

Postcard sent by Leonid Birgir from the front to his mother Yekaterina Miropolskaya in Tashkent, 1942 Note: The postcard was sent to Saratov and transferred from there to Tashkent. Also in the file: - Military service booklet issued to Leonid Birger, 14 January 1942 (the booklet is torn due to being struck by a bullet); - Reserve officer's Red Army military service booklet issued to Leonid Birger (born in Moscow, the Soviet Union, 27 November 1927) issued in Moscow, 31 July 1968. Notes from Svetlana Birger who submitted the material: Leonid Birger's parents were Arkadi Birger, a famous architect...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 2248

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Personal Documents, Postcard

results.listIds.lang : Russian

Letters and postcards sent by Sara Lajchter from Lublin to her children in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941

Letters and postcards sent by Sara Lajchter from Lublin to her children in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941 - Three letters and a postcard sent by her mother, Sara Mindeleh Lajchter from Lublin to Lena Lajchter during her stay in Bor (the Gorkiy region), 1940-1941; the last postcard was sent 06 April 1941, and speaks of the przesiedlenie" ("transfer") and what was really the deportation from Lublin; "No One Wants to Return for There Is Nowhere to Return", a poem written by Lena Lajchter in her own handwriting regarding departure out on the sea to the unknown, expressing the hope that "The waters of the sea and...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 2231

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter, Postcard, Poem/song

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Diploma presented by the Commerce School for Girls in Bialystok, Poland, 01 June 1912 to Khaya (Inditzki) Veinshtein, born in Bialystok, 25 June 1895

Diploma presented by the Commerce School for Girls in Bialystok, Poland, 01 June 1912 to Khaya (Inditzki) Veinshtein, born in Bialystok, 25 June 1895 Notes from Sara (Veinshtein) Avni, the submitter of the material: Occupation of Bialystok by the Red Army and arrest of Yosef Veinshtein, husband of Khaya (Inditzki) Veinshtein because the family owned a factory; Khaya's trip to collect the signatures of employees who would testify regarding the character of her husband; Khaya's taking her own personal documents with her; Khaya's deportation to Siberia, rather than her return to Bialystok; her saving of the...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1204

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Personal Documents

results.listIds.lang : Russian

Diary by Mordechai Motka Gorski Gor, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1919, written, 01 December 1943-24 August 1945, and his memoirs regarding his experiences in a Soviet labor camp in the Kemerovo area and in Baydayevka Life in a Soviet labor camp in the Kemerovo area, including labor in a coal mine; description of the inmate population and the hierarchy among the inmates; clauses of crimes whose sentence was imprisonment in the camp; methods by which the food, that was sent to the inmates by their families, was stolen from them; inmates with "light" crimes were removed from the camp and sent to the front;...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8589

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs, Diary

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, Yiddish

Postcards sent by Regina Baumgart in Lublin, to her siblings Lea and Leon Baumgart in the Soviet Union, 1941 and postcards from the Jewish communities of Krakow and Lublin, sent to Chaja Baumgart in the Soviet Union, 1940, in reply to her request to locate her relatives - Postcard sent by the population registration office of the Jewish community of Krakow, to Chaja Baumgart in Berezovka, the Arkhangelsk region, 28 October 1940; reply to the request by Chaja Baumgart to locate her relatives; announcement that Abram Baumgart, from Kalisz, and his family members are not to be found in Krakow and that they...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 2092

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Postcard

results.listIds.lang : Polish

Testimonial letter written by Roman Kaplan regarding the evacuation of his family from Polotsk to Sverdlovsk, 1941, and the experiences of his family during the war and afterwards

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8567

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Letter of Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Russian

Notebook belonging to Dawid Karu, from Stanislawow, with the words of songs sung by the illegal immigrants on the "Exodus" ship, and the illegal immigrant certificate issued to Dawid Karu, 24 October 1947 - Notebook in which Dawid Karu wrote the words sung by the illegal immigrants on the "Exodus" ship, 1947; - Illegal immigrant certificate from the "Exodus from Europe 5707" ship, issued to Dawid Karu, 24 October 1947; - Immigrant card of Dawid Karu, issued by the Jewish Agency, 16 May 1949; - Experiences of Dawid Karu, as written by his grandson: His family's life in Stanislawow; outbreak of...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 718

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Documentary, Poems/songs, Personal Records

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, English

Memoirs of Zinoviy Rodshtein, born in Kiev, Ukraine, regarding his experiences in prisons in Gorkiy, Kharkov, Kiev, in a Soviet forced labor camp in the Kirov region and more

Memoirs of Zinoviy Rodshtein, born in Kiev, Ukraine, regarding his experiences in prisons in Gorkiy, Kharkov, Kiev, in a Soviet forced labor camp in the Kirov region and more Life before the war; work as the Executive Secretary of the local Comsomol Movement (Union of Communist Youth) Committee, 1936; detention of his friend, Mitya Komardinov; Rodshtein's refusal to accept the accusations leveled against his friend; dismissal from work due to his friendship with a Trotsky-terrorist; expulsion from the Communist Party; arrest, 28 October 1937; interrogations; life in prison; crowding in the cells; abuse by...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8546

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Newspaper Clippings, Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : Russian

Travel permit to Cernauti, given to Yolana Wais after her release from a labor camp in Siberia, 30 December 1946

Travel permit to Cernauti, given to Yolana Wais after her release from a labor camp in Siberia, 30 December 1946 Note: Yolana (Yehudit) Steiner, born in 1908, was married to Miklos Wais; they resided in Oradea, Transnistria; Miklos was a Communist; Yolana was pregnant when they escaped in the direction of the East, 1941; they were in detention in the Soviet Union in a prison in Moscow, for nine months; Yolana give birth to a baby daughter in prison, and the baby died due to lack of milk at the age of two weeks; Yolana and Miklos were sent to forced labor in Siberia; Miklos died of typhus after their...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 711

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Personal Records

results.listIds.lang : Russian

Booklet containing research on the family history (roots) of Adela (Esther Ita) (Gerstman) Frenkel and Chaim Frenkel written by their daughter, Chana (Frenkel) Shtauber, 1990

Booklet containing research on the family history (roots) of Adela (Esther Ita) (Gerstman) Frenkel and Chaim Frenkel written by their daughter, Chana (Frenkel) Shtauber, 1990 Included in the booklet:: - Description of the experiences of Adela and Chaim Frenkel and their family until their aliya to Israel; - Certified testimonial declaration by Adela Frenkel in Pardes Chana, 23 October 1989, regarding her rescue during the war by a Polish woman, Wiktoria Szymanska, later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem and invited by Adela Frenkel to visit Israel, (in Hebrew, with instructions...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8537

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Personal Documents, Testimony, Memoirs, Declaration, Photograph, Booklet(s)

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, Polish

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