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Two letters sent by Margit Traubl in Cacov, Slovakia, to her daughter Magda (Traubl) Roth in Eretz Israel, Red Cross letter sent on 17 June 1941 to Margit Traubl announcing the wedding of her daughter Magda to Mordechaj Roth, and a postcard sent by Jenő Roth in Nagyszőllős to Margit Traubl, 01 December 1940 - Letter in German written in Tel Aviv, 15 February 1940 (it is not clear who wrote the letter and to whom); - Postcard in Hungarian sent by Jenő Roth in Nagyszőllős to Margit Traubl in Cacov, 01 December 1940; - Red Cross letter from Eretz Israel sent on 17 June 1941 to Margit Traubl announcing the...

File Number : 2253

Type of Material : Postcard, Red Cross Letter, Letter

Language : German, Hungarian

Testimony of Rivka Reuveni, born in Checiny, Poland, about her life in the ghetto and in the Częstochowa, Skarzysko, and Bergen-Belsen camps, and her 'aliya after the liberation

Testimony of Rivka Reuveni, born in Checiny, Poland, about her life in the ghetto and in the Częstochowa, Skarzysko, and Bergen-Belsen camps, and her 'aliya after the liberation. Rivka Reuveni lived in Checiny, Poland, with her parents and her four sisters. When the ghetto there was established, her aunt's family joined them. Rivka was sent to the Skarzysko Kamienna labor camp at the age of twelve. She fell ill with typhus and due to denunciation was sent to a death camp. With the help of a Jewish doctor, she recovered and returned to work. As the Red Army approached, she was sent to a labor camp in...

File Number : 1238

Type of Material : Testimony, Manuscript

Testimony of Hannah (Loewy) Peleg, born in Vienna, Austria, 1924, regarding her experience in Vienna and Great Britain

Testimony of Hannah (Loewy) Peleg, born in Vienna, Austria, 1924, regarding her experience in Vienna and Great Britain Life in Vienna; attends a non-Jewish elementary school; coping with displays of antisemitism; attends a Jewish high school, until 1938; Anschluss; Kristallnacht; move of Hannah, her brother Issaschar Dov (Bernhard) and her sister Lisa (Ilse) to Great Britain, in the context of the Kindertransport; Life in Great Britain as a young Jewish refugee girl in non-Jewish surroundings; joins aliya training in Brosgrove, following activities in the Bachad youth movement; marriage to Yaakov Felsen;...

File Number : 253

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation belonging to the Wolfgang family from Vienna from the prewar and postwar periods, 1886-1970

Personal documentation belonging to the Wolfgang family from Vienna from the prewar and postwar periods, 1886-1970 - Invitation to the wedding of Regine (Loewy) and Isaias Weissman (the parents of Julie [Weissman] Wolfgang), 15 June 1886; - Birth certificate issued in the name of Karl Wolfgang (husband of Julie [Weissman] Wolfgang), born 01 March 1892 (He was actually born on 29 February, however, because the date recurs only once every four years, the 01 March date was entered in the birth certificate); - Plumbing certification document issued to Karl Wolfgang in Vienna, 13 September 1909; -...

File Number : 249

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Red Cross Letter, Letter

Language : English, German

Excerpt from the diary of Joseph Richter written in Shaidan, Tadzhikistan, April-May 1942, and prewar personal documentation belonging to Helena Balter and her family from Rowne

Excerpt from the diary of Joseph Richter written in Shaidan, Tadzhikistan, April-May 1942, and prewar personal documentation belonging to Helena Balter and her family from Rowne Documentation including: - Excerpt from the diary of Joseph (Zunik) Richter written in Yiddish in Shaidan, Tadzhikistan, April-May 1942 (including a translation into Hebrew by his sister Miriam Yechieli-Richter [the submitter of the material]); -Invitation to the Engagement Ceremony of Zus Richter and Liza Balter held in Rowno, 29 March 1913 (sent to Mr. Balter in Rowno); - Temporary identity card issued 18 December 1919 in...

File Number : 8638

Type of Material : Postcard, Official Documentation, Diary, Personal Documents

Language : Polish, Russian, Yiddish

Four postcards in Yiddish sent to Eva (Kranz) Bojer in Eretz Israel by her father Juda Kranz in Bojan, 1938-1940

Four postcards in Yiddish sent to Eva (Kranz) Bojer in Eretz Israel by her father Juda Kranz in Bojan, 1938-1940 Included in the file (scans): - Poem in Yiddish, written in Latin letters in honor of the holiday of Pesach by Eva's brother Hugo Kranz, born in 1920, written between 21 March-06 April 1934; - Poem written by Hugo Kranz and dedicated to his mother, 07-15 March 1938; - Engagement document of Chava [Eva] Kranz and Chaim Eliezer Bojer, written in Cernauti, 03 August 1935; - Invitation to the wedding of Eva Kranz and Chaim Bojer, held, December 1935; Comments by the submitter of the...

File Number : 2192

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Postcard, Poems/songs

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters, Hebrew, German, Yiddish

Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate) and marriage certificate for Favel Mathias and Ilse (Loebel) Jacobsthal issued by the Jewish community in Shanghai, China, 21 October 1945

Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate) and marriage certificate for Favel Mathias and Ilse (Loebel) Jacobsthal issued by the Jewish community in Shanghai, China, 21 November 1945 - Ketubah (in Aramaic); - Marriage certificate for Favel Mathias and Ilse (Loebel) Jacobsthal issued by the Jewish community in Shanghai, 21 November 1945 (in German); - Marriage contract for Favel Mathias and Ilse (Loebel) Jacobsthal signed in Shanghai, 20 November 1945 (in English); - Marriage certificate in Chinese. Information regarding the married couple: Favel Mathias was born in Braila, Romania, 11 September...

File Number : 742

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Chinese, English, German, Aramaic

Correspondence between Pinkus Teitelbaum in Eretz Israel and his daughter Sara Rotenberg, during her stay in Belgium, the Netherlands and the United States, 1938-1942, and personal documents of Elazar Henoch Rotenberg and Sara (Teitelbaum) Rotenberg - Postcard sent by Pinkus Teitelbaum in Eretz Israel to his daughter Sara (Teitelbaum) Rotenberg in Antwerp, 25 November 1938; - Postcard sent by Pinkus Teitelbaum to his daughter Sara Rotenberg in Rotterdam, 28 November 1938; - Letter sent by Sara Rotenberg to her parents in Eretz Israel, 29 October 1938; - Letters sent by Sara (Teitelbaum) Rotenberg...

File Number : 2161

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Postcard, Letter

Language : French, German, Yiddish

Personal documents of Henia Wachsman, dated, 1917-1939

Personal documents of Henia Wachsman, dated, 1917-1939 - Postcards and letters written in Yiddish, sent to Henka Wachsman in Eretz Israel by her parents in Krakow, 1936-1939; - Letters written in Polish, sent by Ceska Dranger in Krakow to her sister Henia Wachsman in Eretz Israel, 1937-1939; one letter is dated, 15 April 1937, and the remainder of the letters are dated, 1939; - Postcard sent by Bobek Dranger in Andrychow to his aunt Henka Wachsman in Eretz Israel, 08 January 1939; - Letter sent by her sister Ceska and her nephew Baruch Dranger to Henia Wachsman in Eretz Israel, undated; - Letter...

File Number : 2160

Type of Material : Letter, Obituary, Postcard, Personal Documents, Memoir Book

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

Yiddish songs written by Ezriel Kuczynski from Skierniewice, Poland, 1943-1944; personal documentation of the Kuczynski family, 1905-1949

Yiddish poems written by Ezriel Kuczynski from Skierniewice, Poland, 1943-1944; personal documentation of the Kuczynski family, 1905-1949 - Marriage certificate for Ezriel Kuczynski and Dwojra-Gitla Frankensztein issued in Skierniewice, 22 December 1948; - Marriage certificate for Abram Lajzer Kuczynski and Fajga Ruchla Rawicka issued in Skierniewice, 04 June 1947; - Birth certificates for Ezryl Kuczynski, born in Skierniewice, Poland, 24 August 1902, for his parents, Abram Lajzer Kuczynski and Fajga Ruchla (Rawicka) Kuczynski and for other family members, issued in Skierniewice, 1946-1947; -...

File Number : 281

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Death Certificate, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Russian, Yiddish

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