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  1. Israel and Shalom L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel L., who was born in Subotica, Yugoslavia in 1936 and his brother Shalom L., who was born in 1940. They recall their extended family; their orthodoxy; their father's compulsory service in a Hungarian slave labor battalion; moving to Budapest with their mother and sisters; living with their maternal grandparents; forced relocation; being placed with the Kasztner group due to their grandfather's and cousin's influence; deportation from the Dohany synagogue to Bergen-Belsen via Linz; remaining with the group which received better treatment; transfer to Saint Gall, ...

  2. Israel B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel B., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1925, the eldest of two children. He recalls participating in Hashomer Hatzair; his father's death in 1936; his uncles paying for him to attend a Jewish gymnasium; finding ways to help support his family, including singing in the main synagogue choir; summer vacations with his grandmother in Malech; German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; his mother removing his star and sending him to her brothers in Warsaw, hoping he would survive; learning they had left; joining his grandmother and other relatives in Soviet-oc...

  3. Israel Barzilai personal archives (RG-95-15), ישראל ברזילי

    Personal archives of Israel Barzilai (1913-1970) contains letters, personal documents, reports on his mission in France during WWII, council's meetings, lectures, speeches, records related to Israeli government and Knesset elections, papers on operation "Sinai" and afterwards.

  4. Israel Beider collection

    Correspondence, poetry and writings of Israel Beider, in Hebrew and Yiddish. Handwritten or published in the Hebrew and Yiddish press in Poland before the war.

  5. Israel Berkenwald memoir

    Consists of a 5 page handwritten memoir by Israel Berkenwald, formerly of Łódź, Poland, concerning his experiences during the Holocaust and the fates of his loved ones.

  6. Israel Donner collection

    Consists of black and white photographs: 1) Israel Donner and Shimon Schipper standing on a balcony, wearing camp uniforms; 2) a group of young people standing in front of a tent with "1933 in a camp" on verso; 3) group of youths walking along a road with "Jewish sport club, Antwerp" on verso; 4) a group of young people standing behind a table-tennis table with "Jewish sport club" on verso; 5) a arge group of youths with "Jewish sport club, Antwerp" on verso; 6) portrait of the Donner family; 7) a group portrait of children.

  7. Israel Elefant papers

    The papers consist of two postcards sent to Israel Elefant in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, from a family member, Ch. Zylberberg, in Stopnica, Poland.

  8. Israel Ellen collection

    Contains materials donated by Israel Ellen. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Israel F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel F., who was born in the United States in 1913. He recounts his experiences as a United States soldier trained as a bacteriologist in the medical corps. He shares his recollections of liberated Weimar; the odor of the boxcars containing prisoners who had been bound for Buchenwald; the history of the camp; and the prisoners' self-liberation. He describes the condition and activities of the liberated prisoners, including some children, when he arrived three days later; and the denial of local citizens who were forced to visit Buchenwald. Mr. F. tells of the nation...

  10. Israel Feldhuhn collection

    Israel Feldhuhn collection 

  11. Israel Fischer and Lajos Spitz letters

    Contains photograph duplicates of six letters by Israel Fischer and Lajos Spitz. Magda Spitz Bergstein, a citizen of the United States, was the recipient of the letters. They contain pleas for help by Fischer and Spitz in their attempts to flee Hungary during the Holocaust.

  12. Israel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel G., who was born in Khmelʹnik, Ukraine in 1930, the older of two brothers. He recounts relatives emigrating to the United States and Palestine, including a great-grandmother who returned in 1929 and lived with them; attending school in a nearby village; his father's military draft in 1939; an influx of Jewish refugees; his father's return in 1940; attending a camp in Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡; German invasion in 1941; fleeing to Kiev; returning home; his father's remobilization in July; anti-Jewish restrictions; a mass killing in August; hiding with his family during a mas...

  13. Israel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel G., who was born in Piotrków, Poland in 1930. He recounts living in Łódź; attending a Jewish school; German invasion in September 1939; immediately fleeing with his mother and grandfather to Lublin; his father's arrival; their return to Łódź; joining their family in Piotrków; ghettoization in October 1939; Germans murdering his grandparents; slave labor with his father in the Hortensia glass factory (his father paid for him to work there and "changed" his age to eighteen); confinement to the factory during round-ups; his mother's deportation; returning to...

  14. Israel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel G., a prominent Holocaust scholar, who was born in 1923 in Warsaw, Poland. He recounts his family moving frequently; their economic instability; his older sister's illness; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; German invasion; his father's death; ghettoization; meetings of Hashomer Hatzair; supporting his family by doing forced labor in place of others; his older sister's and mother's deaths; placing his younger sister in the Korczak orphanage; delivering underground newspapers; acting as a counselor to Hashomer Hatzair children's groups which provided social ser...

  15. Israel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel G., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1928. He recalls childhood in an observant home; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; fleeing with his family to Latvia; witnessing many killings in Daugavpils; returning to Kovno; observing blood-stained streets resulting from pogroms; ghettoization; frequent brutal killings and beatings; and deportation with his family in 1943 to Stutthof. He recounts parting from his mother; transport with his father and brother to Dachau; arduous work constructing cement bunkers; reassignment tending the soldiers' quarters; sh...

  16. Israel Glazer personal papers (RG-95-47) ישראל גלזר

    Personal archives of Israel Glazer (1919-1970) contains documents with his biographical information, records of the Hashomer Hatzair in Poland, Jewish organizations after WWII, correspondence (1945-1947), a list of the members of the Hashomer Hatzair, articles, interviews, speeches, lectures, documents on the kibbutz Tel Amal.

  18. Israel H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel H., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1922, one of three children of Polish émigrés. He recounts moving to Liège in 1924, then to Brussels in 1934; his very happy childhood; attending public school; his bar mitzvah; German invasion; an aborted attempt to flee south; anti-Jewish restrictions; he and his family choosing not to wear the yellow star; hiding with a non-Jewish family in Liège; his parents and siblings hiding in Brussels; attending university using false papers; his non-Jewish aunt delivering packages from his parents; denouncement; incarceratio...

  19. Israel Haimovich collection

    The collection consists of a desk set and a pin relating to the experiences of Israel Haimovich while in a detention camp in Cyprus after the Holocaust.

  20. Israel Harvey Eisen collection

    Consists of three photographs from the collection of Israel Harvey Eisen, a member of the 15th Army Air Force. Includes two photographs of Eisen while he was in training in Florida and Alabama 1943, and a formal group photograph of members of the 15th Army Air Force in Foggia, Italy.