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  1. Joint testimony of Alfred Hal Hlavac, born in Cervenice, Czechoslovakia, and Fruma Hlavac, born in Riga, Latvia, regarding Alfred's experiences as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Buzuluk, and Fruma's experiences in Riga, the Novosibirsk camp, Moscow, a

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Joint testimony of Alfred Hal Hlavac, born in Cervenice, Czechoslovakia, and Fruma Hlavac, born in Riga, Latvia, regarding Alfred's experiences as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Buzuluk, and Fruma's experiences in Riga, the Novosibirsk camp, Moscow, a camp in Kazakhstan, and joining her husband in Buzuluk, 1950 Czechoslovakian Jews arrive in Riga, 1939-1940; detention in the Novosibirsk camp, 1941; enlistment in the Czechoslovakian Army, 1941; Czechoslovakian Army battalion at Buzuluk, 1942; Sokolovo battle, 1943; refugees in Kuybyshevo; contacts with the Czechoslovakian Embassy in Kuybi...

  2. Testimony of Michael Jellinek

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Michael Jellinek Jewish officers involved in the suppression of Nazi riots in the Sudetenland, 1938; political activities of Jews in Trinec, 1938; Jewish refugees in Poland, 1939; Zionist activities; attitude of Czechoslovakian Consulate; assistance of Jewish community in Krakow; British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia; role of H. Field; Czechoslovakian Trust Fund; Czechoslovakian military personnel in Krakow, 1939; dealings with commander Ludvik Svoboda; fighting with Polish Army against Germans; Jewish participation in fighting against the Germans; in Russian capti...

  3. Testimony of Chana Nagelova, from Slovakia, regarding her experiences at foced labor in Siberia, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Buzuluk and in combat at Sokolovo and in Dukla

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Chana Nagelova, from Slovakia, regarding her experiences at foced labor in Siberia, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Buzuluk and in combat at Sokolovo and in Dukla Arrival of Jewish refugees from Slovakia and Volhynia, 1939; deportation to Siberia, 1940; forced labor in Siberia; life as Jewish refugees in the Abkashevo Soviet labor camp, 1941; contact with Czechoslovakian units, 1942; participation of Jews in the Czechoslovakian battalion at Buzuluk, 1942; enlistment in the Czechoslovakian battalion at Buzuluk; situation of volunteers from Carpathian-Ruthenia; participation...

  4. Testimony of Chaim David Zwiebel, born in Krakow, Poland, age 16, regarding his experiences in Rozwadow, the Soviet Union, Iran and his aliya to Eretz Israel in 1942

    1. O.12 - Perlman Collection: Testimonies of refugees from Poland who arrived in Eretz Israel, 1942-1943
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    Testimony of Chaim David Zwiebel, born in Krakow, Poland, age 16, regarding his experiences in Rozwadow, the Soviet Union, Iran and his aliya to Eretz Israel in 1942 Life in Rozwadow during the German occupation; abuse; escape with the family to Russia; life as a refugee in Russia; escape to Iran; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1942. The testimony was recorded during the war.

  5. Testimony of Naftali Gutman, born in Jaroslaw, Poland, age 16, regarding his experiences in Jaroslaw, Russia, Teheran and aliya to Eretz Israel in 1943

    1. O.12 - Perlman Collection: Testimonies of refugees from Poland who arrived in Eretz Israel, 1942-1943

    Testimony of Naftali Gutman, born in Jaroslaw, Poland, age 16, regarding his experiences in Jaroslaw, Russia, Teheran and aliya to Eretz Israel in 1943 Life in Jaroslaw during the German occupation; escape to Soviet occupied territory; deportation East to Russia; family life as refugees in Russia; joins a group of Polish orphan children; move to Teheran; aliya with the orphans to Eretz Israel, February 1943. The testimony was recorded during the war.

  6. National Council of Jewish Women (Cincinnati, Ohio) Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project

    Interviews with survivors of World War II living in Cincinnati. Topics include displaced persons, Jewish Holocaust, immigration, national socialism and Germany during that period. Selected interviews from this collection are published in: Peck, Abraham J. and Uri D. Herscher. "Queen City Refuge: An Oral History of Cincinnati's Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany." West Orange, N.J. : Behrman House, 1989.

  7. Rena M. Rohrheimer Papers

    Correspondence with friends, relatives, committees, and organizations mainly regarding refugees and efforts to rescue Jews from Germany and other Nazi-occupied countries. Also includes notes, reports, and essays by Rohrheimer about her trips to Europe.

  8. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Chaim Barlas and Dr. Joseph Goldin, Jewish Agency representatives on the Va'ad Hatzala in Istanbul

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Chaim Barlas and Dr. Joseph Goldin, Jewish Agency representatives on the Va'ad Hatzala in Istanbul Correspondence with Chaim Barlas and Dr. Joseph Goldin, Jewish Agency representatives on the Va'ad Hatzala in Istanbul, regarding aliya, budgets for relief and rescue activities and sending parcels and protective passports to long-time members of the Zionist movement. Also in the file: - Contents of a telephone conversation between Chaim Barlas in Geneva and Moshe Shertok (Sharett) in Amsterdam regarding legal aliya certificates to Eretz Is...

  9. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the Comite International De La Croix Rouge (CICR) (International Red Cross) in Geneva

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the Comite International De La Croix Rouge (CICR) (International Red Cross) in Geneva Correspondence with the CICR in Geneva regarding shipments of food, clothing and medicines to Poland, to POW camps in Germany, to the Ferramonti Di Tarsia camp, the Bolzano camp, the Paramaribo camp and to refugees in Shanghai. Also in the file: - Protocol regarding POWs from Eretz Israel, 11 June 1941; - Correspondence with the German Red Cross regarding transfer of food shipments to the Society for the Preservation of the Health of the Jewish Populati...

  10. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Reports and circulars issued by the Executive Committee of the World Union of Poalei Zion in the United States

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Reports and circulars issued by the Executive Committee of the World Union of Poalei Zion in the United States Reports and circulars issued by the Executive Committee of the World Union of Poalei Zion in the United States regarding what is happening in the World Union parties in Europe, Eretz Israel and the United States, and regarding problems of Jewish existence in those countries Also in the file: - Protocol from the consultation meeting held by members of the Executive Committee of the World Union, 09 May 1940, regarding the American proposal to settle ...

  11. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with people in the countries occupied by Germany regarding relief, shipment of parcels, rescue passports, the search for relatives and other subjects, along with 22 file folders

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with people in the countries occupied by Germany regarding relief, shipment of parcels, rescue passports, the search for relatives and other subjects, along with 22 file folders The correspondence is arranged in alphabetical order. Also in the file folders: - Correspondence with the brothers Ervin and Theodore Bienenstock, Mendes France, Rosemarin, Emil Zumerstein and Oskar Schveierman; - Correspondence with Maria Schwartz Stein regarding Jewish refugees in Casablanca and Tangier and the World Jewish Congress in New York; - Correspondence wit...

  12. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archives: Various lists of survivors

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archives: Various lists of survivors In the file: - Children's Aid Society (OSE) lists of children in camps for survivors of the Holocaust in Europe after World War II (She'erith Hapletah) camps in Germany as part of the illegal immigration to Eretz Israel (Aliya Bet), and of sick children transferred for treatment in Switzerland and England; - Lists of survivors whose names were broadcast on Radio Lublin; - Lists of Dutch Jews who survived in Theresienstadt and other camps compiled by the Joodse Coordinatie Commissie - Jewish Coordination Committee of Dutch Jewry (...

  13. Testimony of Berel Krengel, regarding his experiences in Pilviskiai, Germany and hearsay testimony of the Kalvarija Jews

    1. O.71- Koniuchowsky Collection: Testimonies Regarding the Holocaust of Lithuanian Jewry, 1945-1981

    Testimony of Berel Krengel, regarding his experiences in Pilviskiai, Germany and hearsay testimony of the Kalvarija Jews Life in Pilviskiai. Escape to Germany with his family; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Return to Kalvarija; life in Kalvarijia; receives information about Jewish life in Kalvarija before the war; receives information about the Soviet occupation; escape to a place for refugees from the German occupied area, 1939; German occupation, 22 June 1941; transfer of the local authority by the Lithuanians; murder of Jews, July 1941; list of names of Jews who were murdered; deporta...

  14. American Jewish Committee. Foreign Affairs Dept (FAD-1).

    This fonds contains five relevant files with regards to AJC activities in Belgium. The folder list contains the following (brief) descriptions: “Belgium. AJC correspondents (reports)”, “Belgium. Jewish Agencies”, “Belgium. Jewish community”, “Belgium. Refugees (Mermelstein orphans)” and “Belgium. Visits”.

  15. Countries and Regions

    1. Records of the Istanbul Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    These records detail the scope of the relationships between JDC's Istanbul office and refugees and survivors in Europe in the immediate aftermath of WWII. The files contain extensive information on the shipment of relief supplies, including shipping over 250,000 packages for Jewish refugees in Russia via Tehran; eyewitness accounts; inquiries regarding wartime rescue; and reports on JDC relief activities in Balkans, Romania, and Turkey, among other localities.

  16. Monogrammed bag for storing a prayer shawl saved by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Gusti and Julius Ackermann collection

    Brown tallit bag monogrammed JA brought by Julius Ackermann when he emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938. It originally belonged to his grandfather or his great-grandfather.

  17. Torah binder with his name and birthdate saved by a young German Jewish refugee

    1. Gusti and Julius Ackermann collection

    Wimpel or Torah wrapping brought with thirteen year old August Erich Mayer when he emigrated to the United States with his older sister, Gusti, in June 1937. It was created to celebrate his birth on July 27, 1924, and is inscribed in paint with his name and birthdate. His parents gave him the wrapping before he left Hermeskeil, Germany.

  18. Document holder

    1. Kovary and Neuhaus families collection

    Brown leather bifold document holder with plastic covers inside. The wallet may have contained an ID card from the Office of Military Government for Germany (U.S) issued on 9 March 1946 to Ernest Kovary.