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  1. Haim B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim B., who was born in approximately 1923, one of five children. Mr. B. recounts his family's affluence; living in Vilnius; visiting his grandfather in Valozhyn; participating in Hashomer Hadati; Soviet invasion; brief Lithuanian independence, followed by Soviet reoccupation; attending university; his father's arrest for "illegal trading"; helping secure his release; managing his father's factory in Kaunas; German invasion; one sister's death in a bombing; anti-Jewish restrictions; thousands of Jews disappearing; learning they were killed at Paneriai; reporting for ...

  2. Haim D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim D., who was born in 1928 and grew up in Metz, France. He recalls Jewish refugees from Germany; antisemitic incidents; his father's conscription into the French military; his oldest brother's disappearance; their transfer with other military families to another town; attending a Catholic school; his father's release after eight months; German invasion; orders in November 1940 for all Jews to register; leaving for Paris with his family; compulsory wearing of the yellow star and other anti-Jewish restrictions in 1941; his bar mitzvah at year's end; frequent arrests ...

  3. Haim family collection

    Consists of 8mm film, photographic negatives, a wedding certificate and documents related to forced labor. The collection concerns the prewar and wartime experiences of Max Licco Haim and family in Bulgaria.

  4. Haim G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim G., a prominent Israeli poet, journalist, and filmmaker, who was born in Tel Aviv, Palestine (presently Israel) in 1923. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-1352), Mr. G. discusses attending a memorial service in the main Budapest synagogue in 1947; accompanying a group of survivors traveling to Vienna; observing poor conditions at the Rothschild Hospital displaced persons camp; training survivors in Czechoslovakia as future paratroopers for the Israeli military; returning to Israel to fight in the Arab-Israel War, often al...

  5. Haim G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim G., a prominent Israeli poet, journalist, and filmmaker, who was born in Tel Aviv in 1923. He recounts his parents' emigration from Russia in 1919; their political activism and commitment to leftist, atheist beliefs; tensions due to political conflicts in Palestine; being sent as a child to live at Kibbutz Bet Alfa without his parents; active participation in Shomer ha-tsa?ir and another youth group; attending Kaduri; studying with Yitzhak Rabin and Yigal Allon; writing lyrics and poetry; joining the Haganah and Palmah?; writing songs; learning of the Warsaw ghet...

  6. Haim K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim K., who was born in Suchednio?w, Russia (presently Poland) in 1911, the second of seven children. He recounts their move to Da?browa in 1929; German invasion; escaping east with his father and brothers; German detention in Wolbrom; transfer to Zawiercie; release; returning home; fleeing toward the Soviet zone with his brothers and a brother-in-law; being smuggled to Przemys?l; traveling to L?viv; returning home to retrieve his sister and her son; visiting friends in Sosnowiec; smuggling his sister and her son to L?viv; returning home again to bring his parents an...

  7. Haim Roet papers

    The Haim Roet papers consist of pre-war, wartime, and postwar photographs of Haim Roet; his family, wearing Star of David badges; his rescuers, Anton and Adelaide Deesker; and his brother Josef’s rescuers, Reinier and Margaret Veerman. Additional photographs depict Prims family weddings (Josef and Mathilda Prims, Maurits and Betty Prims), a 90th birthday celebration, a Jewish school in Amsterdam, and rescuers Max Leons and Arnold Douwes. The papers include a May 1945 postcard from Josef Roet in Dedemsvaart to his parents updating them on his and Haim’s situations as well as a July 1945 post...

  8. Haim S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim S., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in approximately 1923, one of six children of Turkish e?migre?s. He recounts he and one brother were Belgian citizens, but his parents and other siblings, Turkish; speaking Ladino at home; observing Jewish holidays; German invasion in May 1940; briefly going to southern France; completing high school; participation in a Zionist group; studying agronomy at the University of Gembloux; expulsion due to anti-Jewish laws; attending a Zionist horticultural school in Brabant and the clandestine University of Brussels; denunciation i...

  9. Haim S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim S., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1923. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony, he recounts the importance of singing to his family; his bar mitzvah; briefly fleeing to Toulouse at the German invasion; participating in Gordonyah; singing for extra food in the camps; public hangings; being raped by a German kapo; and his mother and sisters returning from Turkey after the war with Red Cross assistance. Mr. S. discusses reciting poetry and mentally calculating equations as a coping mechanism in the camps; continuing behaviors r...

  10. Hájková, Alena, PhDr.

    • PhDr. Alena Hájková / NAD 1226
    • Národní archiv
    • 1226
    • English
    • 1929-1997
    • Textual material Photographic images 6,75 linear meters

    The personal fonds of historian Alena Hájková is a valuable source of information relating to the issue of racial discrimination against the Jewish population and the beginnings of Jewish resistance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The fonds contains mainly her manuscripts of scientific works related to the anti-Nazi resistance with a focus on the Jewish resistance. The fonds contains manuscripts of works such as The List of Jews in 1939-1941, Participation of Jews in the Czech Resistance Movement, The Disappeared Ones in the First Months of the Occupation, and Administration in ...

  11. Hajos family collection

    Collection of materials documenting the experiences of the Hajos family during and immediately following the Holocaust in Budapest, Hungary. Collection includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs, the papers issued to Neje Hajos (donor's mother) from the Swiss embassy foreign interest representative in Budapest.

  12. Hakibbutz Ha'artzi Archives Collection: the Vilna Ghetto

    Hakibbutz Ha'artzi Archives Collection: the Vilna Ghetto Material from the Vilna Ghetto was collected during the war and after the liberation, and brought to Eretz Israel by members of the Hashomer Hatzair movement, Vilna Ghetto Uprising activists and members of the partisan movement in the Vilna area . The material is divided into 39 files and contains hundreds of original documents dealing with the history of the establishment of the Fareynegte Partizaner Organizatsye (FPO-United Partisans Organization), the way it worked and the preparations for the uprising. The organization placards ca...

  13. 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...

  14. 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 ...

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. 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...

  20. 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...