Sara Getzler (b. Markovitz, Poland) emigrated to Palestine in July 1945

The testimony describes Emil Jacoby's Holocaust recollections and his return to Eastern Europe to visit various concentration camps in 1987. Included is information about imprisonment at Auschwitz, survival of a death march in Austria, liberation by the Soviet army, and Jacoby's involvement in a Zionist organization called the Palestine Brigade (a.k.a. Jewish Brigade).

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Anti-Nazi caricature depicting animals with the faces of prominent Nazi leaders, published in Palestine in the early 1940s. If the instructions on the paper are followed, and the sheet is properly folded, the joined animals will create an image of Adolf Hitler. To escape persecution from the Nazis, many German and European Jews began immigrating to Palestine, which was awarded to Great Britain following ...

A history of the Bełżec death camp, based largely on testimonies of former perpetrators, residents of the village of Bełżec, Poles who were engaged there in construction work and transportation, and a few Jewish and Gypsy survivors. The first Nazi camps in this area were labor camps established in 1940 for the construction of a fortification line along the new German-Soviet border. Construction of ...

Palestinian Brigade badge traded to American serviceman David Richer, by a Palestinian Jewish soldier.

Consists of one memoir, in Hebrew, written by Emanuel Ascarelli (1919-1999), originally of Bologna, Italy. In the memoir, Emanuel describes his family history and his experiences in the Jewish Brigade.

Photocopied identity documents for Arnold Einhorn including a Spanish immigration document, French documents attesting to Einhorn's service in the Jewish Brigade, and documentation that he was enrolled at University of Montpellier, in France.

Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania http://www.inshr-ew.ro/ro/

Ernö (Ernest) Schiffer, born in Námesztó in 1893, studied medicine at university in Budapest. He enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I and was in charge of a medical unit on the Russian Front. In the 1920s, he worked at the Jewish Hospital in Budapest and specialized in the new field of radiology, developing techniques for the X-ray apparatus, various shutters, and cooling devices, ...

"The collections of the heads of the counties contain important documents concerning the Holocaust in the Lithuanian provinces" (Galina Žirikova, Lietuvos centrinio valstybės archyvo fondai: holokausto Lietuvoje tyrimo šaltinis (The Collections of the State Archive of Lithuania: a Source of Research on the Holocaust in Lithuania), Vilnius: Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono Žydų Muziejus, p. 12). The ...

The Abraham Atsmon papers consist of identification papers, biographies, correspondence, reports, narratives, photographs, newspapers, protocols, and minutes documenting Atsmon’s family and pre-war life in Poland, his participation in a partisan brigade in the areas of Słonim and Brest during the war, his organization and leadership of a Holocaust survivor group (Sh'erit ha-Pletah) in the American ...

Typescript draft of a play, 16 pages, titled "Megilat Haman," written on the occasion of Purim, mid-1940s, and attributed to a member of the Jewish Brigade. Play makes comparisons between Haman and contemporary Nazi leaders (Hitler, Goering, Goebbels). Undated, approximately mid-1940s.

According to the 1918 act of union of Bessarabia with Romania, there was carried out a network of institutions that had the task of organizing the public order. Through the Romanian Government Decree of 1918 on the organization of the police, in each district there were opened and established Prefectures of Police and Special Brigades of Security. Police prefectures were subordinated to the Police ...

A history of the Treblinka camp, based largely on accounts of eyewitnesses - Jewish survivors, German and Ukrainian perpetrators, and Polish bystanders. Some of the accounts were obtained by Chocholáty, who interviewed survivors in the early 2000s. Other accounts were taken from testimonies at war crimes trials, memoirs, and wartime reports by Polish members of the resistance. Discusses the construction ...

Airmail envelope received by the Jaffe family in New York, relatives of Nesse Galperin Godin. It was postmarked December 1940 and sent from Warsaw in German occupied Poland to New York. In June 1941, Siauliai, Lithuania, where Nesse lived with her closeknit family, was occupied by Nazi Germany. Nesse, her parents Pinchas and Sara, and her brothers, Yechezkel and Menashe were soon forced into the ghetto. ...

Éva (János’s sister) plays with a shovel in City Park in summer. Excursion to the country, on a hillside. János carries the camera bag. (01:15) János, Andris Berkes, and Gyuri Quittner race each other on the park pathway and play-wrestle. Along with fathers Sandor Berkes and Emi Quittner in knickerbockers, they hike in the hills and play tag in the grass. (03:52) János, Éva, mother Erzsébet, and the ...

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Sylvain Paul Zucker was born in Berchem, Antwerp, on 3 October 1913, as the son of diamond merchant Naftali Mozes alias Maurice Zucker and his wife Hena alias Helene Mire. Sylvain had two older brothers: Joseph (born on 16 March 1910 in Antwerp) and Adolf Isaac (born on 24 April 1912 in Antwerp). In 1913 the Zucker family moved to the Netherlands where a fourth son, named Jacques Theodoor, was born ...

Copies at USHMM RG-54.001M and RG-54.004M

The David Eilenberg papers consist of biographical materials and photographs documenting David Eilenberg’s time at the Landsberg DP Camp, his marriage to Hala Kowalska, their family members in Łódź and Malmö, and their political activities in support of the creation of the State of Israel and in assisting the emigration of European Jews to Palestine. Biographical materials include travel passes and ...

The participation of Jews in the anti-Nazi underground was reflected in various categories of documents, starting with the list of Communists left in the rear of the enemy by the party organs, the NKVD organs of the Ukrainian SSR, and the state security organs of the UkrSSR to establish underground activities. According to these documents, out of the 150 people left in the region, 12 were Jews [inventory ...

Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania http://www.inshr-ew.ro/ro/

The collection consists of a group of Nazi material including embroidered ribbons, patches, armbands and a metal belt buckle, all with Nazi insignia or inscriptions. The items were found by Oscar Schwartz while in Germany with the Jewish Brigade 1 box containing: 2 ribbons; 2 patches; 1 belt buckle; 2 armbands