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  1. Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: Activities of the Partisans, Pioneers, and Soldiers Organization(PCh"Ch)

    Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: Activities of the Partisans, Soldiers, Pioneers Organization(PCh"Ch) The Partisans, Pioneers, and Soldiers Organization (PCh"Ch) began its activityin liberated Poland in 1945, and continued its activities in Germany, Austria, Italy and Cyprus until the members of the organization made aliya to Eretz Israel. The organization archives were brought to Eretz Israel by Shalom Cholovsky, a headquarters member. The documentation includes material from the main headquarters of the organization in Germany arranged in 11 files. Much importance is assigned to the...

  2. Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: Hashomer Hatzair Movement activities in the Warsaw Ghetto

    Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: Hashomer Hatzair Movement activities in the Warsaw Ghetto The Collection contains very valuable documentation from the Hashomer Hatzair underground press in the Warsaw Ghetto from the Ringleblum Archive and the underground archive of the Bund Movement in Warsaw (photostats, copies and the original editions), as well as diaries of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising activists from the Hashomer Hatzair movement such as Aliza Melamed, Israel Gutman and others. There are also files containing original material regarding and belonging to the organizers and activists in ...

  3. Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: Hashomer Hatzair Movement activity in Poland during World War II

    Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: Hashomer Hatzair Movement activity in Poland during World War II The Collection is comprised of six files containing letters, testimonies and original memoirs of movement members from the Rowne, Zdunska Wola, Krakow, Czestochowa, Bendin, Zaglebie and Osziany Ghettos which were written during the war and immediately afterwards regarding the situation of the Jews and the movement in these ghettos. The description is based on the original description that was written by Emanuel Berand at the time when the collection was submitted to Yad Vashem, 03 Novembe...

  4. Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: She’erith Hapletah, the rescue of children and the Bericha Organization

    Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: She’erith Hapletah, the rescue of children and the Bricha Organization The documentation (nine folders) contains: - Memoirs of Hasia Bornstein-Bilitzka, of Blessed Memory (one of the founders of Kibbutz Lahavot Habashan), regarding the initial organization of the movement by ghetto survivors, educational work with children as part of the Zionist Coordinating Group for the Redemption of Children in Poland and the rescue of children from non-Jews; - Two letters from children who were rescued from non-Jews; - Survey-report prepared by Yosef Indig regardin...

  5. Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: The Bialystok Ghetto Uprising

    Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: The Bialystok Ghetto Uprising Most of the documentation in this Collection comes from Haika Grossman and includes her testimonies regarding the Uprising in Bialystok, a report concerning the activities of the fighters from the Hechalutz Movement, which was submitted to the main headquarters of the Partisan Movement in 1944 and more. The description is based on the original description that was written by Emanuel Berand at the time when the collection was submitted to Yad Vashem, 03 November 1958 (the original description has been attached to the multim...

  6. Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: The Hashomer Hatzair Movement Chapter in the Lodz Ghetto

    Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: The Hashomer Hatzair Movement in the Lodz Ghetto This Record Group is one of the most important Record Groups in the Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection. The documentation regarding the Lodz Ghetto is extremely rich, but this material is unique and complements our knowledge of the lives of the Jews in the Lodz Ghetto. The material was gathered, organized and brought to Eretz Israel by Feival Podmesky. The documents were arranged in 35 files containing hundreds of original documents (thousands of pages), which were written in the ghetto by Feivel Podm...

  7. Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: The Hashomer Hatzair Movement in Hungary and Slovakia

    Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: The Hashomer Hatzair Movement in Hungary and Slovakia In the Record Group there are seven files containing Hashomer Hatzair documentation from Hungary and Slovakia. In the Collection there is a journal kept by the "Hahagshama" group in Budapest, conducted from 1939 until the murder of the Jews of Hungary, including a description of the events and underground activities. The journal was transferred to Eretz Israel by Zvi Erez, one of the survivors of the group. In the Collection there is also documentation regarding the activities of the parachutists [f...

  8. Hakker-Wach family. Collection

    This collection contains four biscuit boxes with prints referring to "Antwerpse handjes", the cookie invented by Joseph Hakker, grandfather of the donor ; seven baking tins used in the Hakker bakery, including a mould to cut "Antwerpse handjes" ; three tablecloths from Phylis Wach's trousseau ; three pieces of table silver owned by Phylis's father Wolf Wach ; documents including adds published by the Hakker bakery, several postcards sent from the Dossin barracks and the Drancy transit camp, and a booklet with notes on the illness of his mother Rachel Simons by Simon Hakker ; photos illustra...

  9. Hakman family papers

    Consists of documentation regarding the Holocaust experiences of Mieczyslav Hakman and his wife, Helen Wachsberg Hakman. Includes identity cards for Ruchla Akierman and Mieczyslav Hakman, wartime and post-war photographs of Mieczyslav Hakman and postcards to Hela Sara Wachsberg in the Parsznitz work camp.

  10. Hal and Robyn Klein collection

    This collection consists of two metal signs posted by the Jewish Council in the Łódź Ghetto. One is for the Statistical Department and the other is for the two white enameled metal signs with black text: One is from "Der Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt / Zentral-Einkaufsstelle" [Main Purchasing Agency of the Łódź ghetto Jewish Council]; Łódź, Poland; dated 1944; in German The other sign (accreted to the collection in 2016) reads "Der Aelteste Der Juden / in Litzmannstadt / Statische Abteilung"

  11. Hal and Robyn Klein collection

    The collection consists of an unused Star of David patch, three Theresienstadt ghetto labor camp parcel stamps, and a letter relating to the history of the Holocaust in German occupied Czechoslovakia and Netherlands.

  12. Hal L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hal L., who was born in Wanne-Eickel, Germany in 1923. He recalls his traditional and strict upbringing; his father's medical practice; non-Jewish friends; anti-Semitic incidents in school; expulsion of Jewish students in 1936; attending Jewish high school in Cologne, where he lived with an aunt; and emigrating alone to the United States in 1937. Mr. L. recounts living with a Jewish family in Washington, D.C.; corresponding with his family; their arrival in 1939; assistance from the Baron de Hirsch Fund to purchase a chicken farm in Woodbine, New Jersey; his father's ...

  13. Halberstadt family collection

    Contains five letters written by donor's paternal aunt and uncle, Jonas and Frieda Halberstadt, to their children, Leo and Bessy, in England after their arrival via the Kindertransport. Also contains thirty-nine family photographs of the Halberstadt and Strauss families in Germany and the U.S.

  14. Halina B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Halina B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1929. She recalls German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; distracting herself from harsh conditions by reading and dreaming of becoming invisible; her brother disposing of corpses on the Umschlagplatz after deportations; hiding during round-ups; escaping deportation with her mother and brother by bribing a soldier; hiding in a bunker with her mother, brother, and his wife Hela; deportation to Majdanek; separation from her mother and brother; appels, hunger, beatings, selections, and slave labor; fighting to st...

  15. Halina B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Halina B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1930. She recalls her father's Swiss watch import business; German invasion in 1939; ghettoization; escaping to Kielce with assistance from a former housekeeper; returning to the "Aryan" side of Warsaw, posing as non-Jews using false papers; assistance from two Polish women, the Swiss counsel, and his secretary; her father helping relatives escape; moving to Podkowa Leśna, then the woods near Pruszków; hiding in a bunker; their rescuers bringing food and books; threats of exposure from the Polish underground; returning to...

  16. Halina Borska collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Halina Borska. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  17. Halina Diller Gartenberg collection

    Contains memoirs, photographs, and other documents regarding the Holocaust experiences of Halina Diller Gartenberg and her family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  18. Halina Dubnov collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Halina Dubnov and her family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  19. Halina Gozdzik Milich photograph collection

    The collection consists of eight photographs depicting Halina Gozdzik Milich and her relatives before World War II in Łódź, Poland, and after liberation.

  20. Halina Hershkowitz papers

    Contains two Bescheinigung, one black and white photograph from Foehrenwald, and one copy of a Ketubah.