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  1. 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...

  2. 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.

  3. 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...

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Israel Joe Sachs photograph collection

    The collection consists of 28 photographs showing pre-World War II Jewish life in Poland and displaced persons camps in Germany after the war.

  7. Israel K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel K., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1923, one of seven children. He recalls attending Jewish schools; his family's orthodoxy; German invasion in September 1939; his father fleeing when the Germans wanted him to head the Jewish Council; ghettoization in October; forced labor; trading outside the ghetto using false papers; his father's return; a brother and brother's wife being shot in May 1942; hiding in a bunker with his parents and sister during the ghetto's liquidation; leaving the bunker with his sister (he never saw his parents again); slav...

  8. Israel Kalk

    L'archivio di Israel Kalk è costituito nella sua maggioranza dalle carte relative all'organizzazione della Mensa dei Bambini di via Guicciardini (carteggio generale, corrispondenza con le autorità e con gli internati, circolari agli oblatori, modulistica, richieste di assistenza, scritti con impressioni sulla vita che si svolgeva all'interno del Campo che Kalk appuntava su fogli sparsi note a margine, foglietti sull'attività agricola e sportiva, sul commercio, sull'insegnamento privato) e da fotografie che ritraggono i bambini durante la mensa, le feste religiose ebraiche, le gite, o altri ...

  9. Israel Lichtenstein collection

    The collection consists of a handmade greeting card and photographs documenting the experiences of Menachem Mendel Lichtenstein, his wife Shifra, and son, Israel, in France during the Holocaust when Menachem was interned in Beaune-la-Rolande transit camp and Israel lived in the Masgelier's children's home.

  10. Israel M. Holocaust tesimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel M., who was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1921. He recounts his family's move to Brussels in 1922; moving to Antwerp; his father's bankruptcy in 1930; being supported by his fourteen year-old brother; working as a diamond cutter; German invasion; working with a German refugee (his future wife) smuggling Jews to Belgium; marriage; arrest; incarceration in Antwerp, then Malines; an encounter with Mala Zimetbaum; choosing to remain with his wife when he could have left; his deportation to Laurahu?tte; a Jewish funeral when the first prisoner died, but none thereaft...

  11. Israel M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel M., who was born in Slonim, Poland (today Belarus), in 1937. Mr. M. tells of being sent by his family (whom he never saw again) to visit his uncle in 1941; fleeing east from the German attack with his uncle and family; traveling through Minsk to Kiev, where they entrained for Soviet Central Asia; German air attacks en route; and arrival in Samarqand, Uzbekistan in late 1941. He recounts the lack of food and poor sanitation; the deaths of his relatives from disease; placement in a Russian orphanage in 1942; returning to liberated Poland in 1945; anti-Semitic tau...

  12. Israel M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel M., who was born in Hanušovce nad Topl̕ou, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1922, one of six children. He recounts one brother's illness and death; attending a Jewish school, then yeshivas in Šurany and Galanta; Slovak independence; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor building roads; escaping with a friend to Sátoraljaújhely; assistance from local Jews; visiting his brother in Košice; traveling to Sárospatak, then Budapest; obtaining false papers; arrest; transfer to Žilina; his sister smuggling money to him in a toothpaste tube; deportation to ...

  13. Israel P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel P., who was born in Przysucha, Poland in 1917, the youngest of ten children. He recalls his parents' deaths when he was a child; attending a yeshiva in Lublin; moving to Warsaw; membership in the Bund; joining his brothers in Paris in 1936; socialist activities; enlisting in the military in 1939; serving in a Polish unit; demobilization in July 1940; returning to Paris; anti-Jewish measures; losing his job; arrest in May 1941; incarceration in Pithiviers; organized Sabbath observance and cultural activities; transfer to Beaune-la-Rolande; deportation with three...

  14. Israel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel R., who was born in Piotrko?w, Poland in 1927, one of nine children. He recalls attending Polish school and cheder; his family's orthodoxy; German invasion; one older sister leaving for the Soviet Union; his father being rounded-up and beaten; his return and death; ghettoization; forced factory labor outside the ghetto; obtaining extra food for his family; being detained in the factory; learning almost the entire town was deported to Treblinka, including his family; feeling he lived in a ghost town; transfer to Skarz?ysko; slave labor in a munitions factory; ho...

  15. Israel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel R., who was born in Rzeszów, Poland in 1926, the younger of two brothers. He recounts his family's 1929 emigration to Antwerp to join relatives; their orthodoxy; attending Agudat Israel on weekends; the births of two younger siblings; attending a commercial school in Berchem; German invasion; fleeing with his family to Brussels via Ostende, then to De Panne and Adinkerke, intending to leave for France; not being able to cross the border because they were Polish citizens; traveling to Eeko, Bruges, then Ghent; working in Brussels; anti-Jewish restrictions; visi...

  16. Israel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel R., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1924. Mr. R. recalls his childhood in a predominantly Chrisitian neighborhood; the outbreak of the war; his family's forced relocation to the ?o?dz? ghetto; slave labor under the Germans; the liquidation of much of the ?o?dz? ghetto and the resulting formation of the small ghetto; sneaking food to his parents in hiding; the death of his sister; the Jewish police; and his father's death in a mass shooting. He describes his evacuation in September 1944 to Cze?stochowa; slave labor in a bullet factory; liberatio...

  17. Israel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel S., who was born in Munka?cs, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine) in 1929. He recalls his religious family and happy childhood; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish measures; escaping deportation to Poland; German invasion in 1944; evacuation with his family to a brick factory; separation from his mother and sisters upon arrival at Auschwitz (he never saw his mother again); two weeks in Birkenau; separation from his father upon transfer to Mauthausen; forced labor in a coal mine in Melk; a prisoner saving him during an accident (he was seriously injured); assistance from...

  18. Israel Sjouwerman identification card

    The identification card was issued to Israel Sjouwerman in Antwerp, Belgium, and states that he was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on January 9, 1874.

  19. Israel Socolar papers

    Two spiral bound notebooks, hand-inscribed by Israel Socolar. The contents possibly describe events and people living in the city of Lukatz, the invasion of the town and Jewish community, events that transpired, and names of those that lived in the community surrounding the Holocaust. Yiddish. Account most likely written as events were described to Israel Socolar, probably written in Baltimore, Maryland.