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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Israel Supreme Court: Ruling re Jewish identity

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.Israel Supreme Court judgement against Oswald Rufeisen re application to be considered a Jew. 

  6. Israel W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel W., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1922 to a family of five children. He recalls their orthodoxy; his father working as a kosher butcher; antisemitic harassment; his parents' deaths in the 1930s; working as a furrier in Sosnowiec, ?o?dz?, then Zawiercie; German invasion in 1939; reporting for forced labor in 1940; slave labor in Auenrode, Marksta?dt, Janislawice (Johannisdorf), Gross Masselwitz (he was separated from his brother there and never saw him again), Breslau-Neukirch, and Fu?nfteichen/Marksta?dt; a death march to Gross-Rosen; train transfer to B...

  7. Israel Weiner letter concerning the fate of the Weiner family in Vinnitsa, USSR

    Photocopy of a May 1, 1944, letter written by Israel (Ezia) Weiner to his brother Moshe and sister Frieda, describing what he learned upon his return to his hometown, Vinnitsa, USSR, (Soviet Union) shortly after its liberation from the Germans. The letter contains information about the death of their mother during a pogrom in Sep. 1941 in Vinnitsa; the deaths of other family members in 1941 and 1942; and the destruction of the Weiner family home and neighborhood in Vinnitsa.

  8. Israel Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel Z., who was born in S?omniki, Poland in 1922, the youngest of four children and only son. He recalls his family's affluence; their Hasidic orthodoxy; attending public school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; attending high school in Krako?w; German invasion; arrest with his father; transfer to Miecho?w; execution of his father and another man; burying them; returning home; his mother and sisters hiding with non-Jews, obtaining false papers, and living as non-Jews; deportation to Bierzano?w; death losing meaning for him; mass killings as reprisals for escape a...

  9. Israel's independence war, produced by the United Palestine Appeal

    Shots of Jerusalem as the narrator says that despite the U.N. truce, Glubb Pasha (John Bagot Glubb) continues to arm the Transjordan Arab Legion. Looters in Jerusalem. King Abdullah of Transjordan pays a visit to the Dome of the Rock (Mosque of Omar). 01:01:07 Count Folke Bernadotte in Lake Success, New York, to report to the U.N. on the truce. Interior shots of delegates meeting to discuss the Arab Legion's defiance of the truce, June 11th, 1948. Shots of urban warfare after the May 15, 1948 declaration of the state of Israel. Women carry a wounded man on a stretcher; women and men prepare...

  10. Israel, building a nation

    Documentary which discusses the founding of the nation of Israel and the issues facing contemporary Israel. A picture of the nation's political and cultural heritage emerges through interviews with political leaders and lay people, new immigrants and old settlers.

  11. Israel, Jewish refugees, relief efforts

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Animated stills, followed by live action. CU, smiling woman. LS, people on ship waving, old woman eating, child, doctor. Man hammering, training cobblers, blacksmiths. Refugees at dock. Tractor plowing. Irrigation trench. House with Star of David on roof. Construction of building, pouring metal. Soldiers on horseback. Railways, building a road, more animated stills.

  12. Israël/Palestine

    Ce fonds contient notamment des dons individuels. Parmi les documents archivés se trouvent un Almanach d'Israël (1951-1952), un compte-rendu du 1er congrès pédagogique de l'Aliya des jeunes en France, et des documents des Nations Unies et du ministère des Affaires étrangères relatifs à Jérusalem et aux lieux saints (résolutions, correspondance, presse).

  13. Israël/Palestine

    Sous cette cote sont réunis un ensemble de dons individuels. Les différentes pièces traitent de la naissance de l'Etat d'Israël et de ses relations avec la communauté internationale. On y trouve des copies de lettres échangées entre Ben Gourion et De Gaulle en 1967, des documents de travail de l'ONU (réunions, rapports, publications) à propos de la reconnaissance de l'Etat d'Israël et les conflits en Palestine en 1947-1948, et enfin, un ensemble de copies de documents du Palmach (organisation de combat pour l'indépendance d'Israël) contenant des cartes de mobilisés, des permissions de sorti...

  14. Israeli Holocaust commemoration stamps

    Consists of one set of six commemorative stamps and a envelope stamped "day of issue," issued in Israel to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II and to honor the Jews who fought against the Nazi regime, whether as partisans or as soldiers in the Allied forces.

  15. Israeli Police Investigations of Nazi Crimes: Documentation of the Israel Police unit assigned to investigate Nazi war crimes

    In the Record Group there are files prepared by the Israel Police unit assigned to investigate Nazi war crimes for use in Nazi war criminal trials. In the files there is documentation regarding criminals or locations where crimes were committed (such as camps) including protocols of testimonies, information collected by the police, and much administrative documentation regarding the investigations and the unit itself.

  16. Israelitische gemeente Tiel

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  17. Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Hohenems Abschrift

    • Hohenems Jewish Community Transcripts

    Die Geburtsmatriken liegen ab 1769, die Ehematriken ab 1836 und die Sterbematriken ab 1786 vor. In den 1880er Jahren (1882/82) wurde Innsbruck matrikenführend. Die letzten Eintragungen stammen aus 1888. Bei den vorliegenden Matriken handelt es sich um Abschriften. Die Originale liegen in Innsbruck. Bis in die erste Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts wuchs die Hohenemser Gemeinde kontinuierlich. Den Höhepunkt erreichte die Zahl der jüdischen Einwohner 1862 mit 564 Menschen. Die Staatsgrundgesetze von 1867 und die damit verbundene freie Wahl des Wohnorts für Juden führten dann zu einer starken Abwan...

  18. Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Linz, Arisierungsakten

    • Jewish Community Linz, Aryanization Records

    Die Arisierungsakten spiegeln den Verlauf der Entziehung des jüdischen Vermögens wieder. In diesen Akten befindet sich der gesamte Schriftverkehr, der mit der Entziehung verbunden war, wie z.B. Ansuchen um Genehmigung der Erwerbung, Einsetzung eines kommissarischen Verwalters, Schätzgutachten über die Vermögenschaft, Kaufvertrag, Genehmigung des Kaufvertrages u.a. Der gesamte Bestand von 14 Schachteln ist elektronisch erschlossen und mikroverfilmt (gemeinsam mit dem Bestand "Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Linz Arisierungsakten – Vermögensanmeldungen" insgesamt 7 Mikrofilme, zum Schutz der Ori...

  19. Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Linz, Arisierungsakten, Vermögensanmeldungen

    • Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Linz, Aryanisation Records, Property Registrations

    Die "Verordnung über die Anmeldung jüdischen Vermögens v. 26.4.1938" zwang alle Juden, die ein Vermögen von über RM 5.000 besaßen, eine Vermögensanmeldung (= "Verzeichnis des Vermögens der Juden mit Stand v. 27.4.1938", vgl. RGBl I 1938, S. 414) abzugeben. Dieses Formular enthält Angaben zur anmeldenden Person sowie allen Vermögenswerten wie etwa Liegenschaften, Firmenvermögen, Wertpapiere, Schmuck u.a.

  20. Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien

    Deportationslisten, Ansuchen und Atteste betreffend Transportrückstellungen sowie Dokumente in Zusammenhang mit Deportationen