Typed manuscript titled “Ha’Bricha Derech Czechoslovakia Ba’Shanim 1945-1946” by Elchanan Gafni. Gafni studied at the Sorbonne, Prague University, and Hewbrew University in Jerusalem, and served in several public positions in Israel. This unpublished draft manuscript describes the efforts to bring survivors from Czechoslovakia to Israel shortly after World War II.

Arthur L. Zegart (1917-1989) was born in Chicago and attended the University of Chicago. During World War II, he was part of a U.S. Army Air Force combat photography unit. He covered postwar relief and refugee efforts by UNRRA and the JDC in Czechoslovakia and Austria. He became chief of the United Nations film division in the late 1940s. Later, Zegart was involved in the production of 125 documentaries, ...

11:00:12 Refugees getting on board buses and trains, UNRRA officials help. Refugees waiting at the border at Nachod, a village on the Czech/Polish border. Reception center at Bratislava. 11:07:25 Jewish refugees leaving Europe for Palestine. Groups of DPs (Bricha Underground) crossing the Alps from Gnadenwald, Austria to Italy in February 1948. Many shots of walking up paths, climbing slopes, jumping ...

Ruth Salton was born January 22, 1927, in Berlin, Germany. She was hidden in Warsaw, Poland, by a Polish family at the time of the Nazi invasion in 1939. She escaped to the Russian-occupied region of Poland and was deported to Siberia until 1944. She moved to Stettin, Germany, and joined a kibbutz there and was later active in the Bricha, helping to smuggle Jews across Europe en route to Palestine ...

The photographs include one photoprint depicting George Salton at age 17 in Lubeck in June 1945; one a copy print depicting Salton’s parents soon after their marriage; two photoprints depicting members of Bricha in Łódź in 1947; one photoprint depicting members of Bricha in Szczecin in 1947, and one photoprint of survivors in front of the Kibbutz DROR in Szczecin in 1947.

Warburg speaking intercut with: Various JDC headquarters NYC and Paris (Leavitt and Schwartz). JDC supply trucks and warehouses in Europe. Memorial ceremonies: Rome, Munich. Shots of DPs eating various places. Liberation footage. UN meeting. Warsaw: Ghetto ruins, TOZ hospital, nursery (pre-war?), JDC warehouse, TB sanatorium, orphanage. Bricha: DPs get onto trains, along road, into Czechoslovakia, ...

Warburg speaking intercut with: Various JDC headquarters NYC and Paris (Leavitt and Schwartz). JDC supply trucks and warehouses in Europe. Memorial ceremonies: Rome, Munich. Shots of DPs eating various places. Liberation footage. UN meeting. Warsaw: Ghetto ruins, TOZ hospital, nursery (pre-war?), JDC warehouse, TB sanatorium, orphanage. Bricha: DPs get onto trains, along road, into Czechoslovakia, ...

Warburg speaking intercut with: Various JDC headquarters NYC and Paris (Leavitt and Schwartz). JDC supply trucks and warehouses in Europe. Memorial ceremonies: Rome, Munich. Shots of DPs eating various places. Liberation footage. UN meeting. Warsaw: Ghetto ruins, TOZ hospital, nursery (pre-war?), JDC warehouse, TB sanatorium, orphanage. Bricha: DPs get onto trains, along road, into Czechoslovakia, ...

Schmuel Rakowski, now Samuel Ron, the son of Joseph and Sophie Banach Rakowski, was born on July 28, 1924 in Kazimierza Wielka. Schmuel worked in the town's sugar processing plant and eventually smuggled himself along with his parents, Joseph and Sophie Banch Rakowski into the Krakow ghetto. When Krakow residents were moved to camp Płaszów, Schmuel was transferred to another camp, Pionki, an ammunitions ...

Rena Berliner was born Rena Schönthal in 1925 in Lvov (now Lviv, Ukraine) to Salomon Schönthal (1890-1943) and Klara Rapp Schönthal. Her family lived in the ghetto in Lvov from 1941-1943, but after her father died, she and her mother went into hiding in Warsaw using false papers. After liberation, they spent several months in Krakow before being smuggled into Germany with the help of the Bricha. They ...

Collection of photographs, correspondence and document (Registration/Identity Card) of the Zyndorf and Rosenbaum families in Bedzin and Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland before the war, during the war in the Srodula ghetto, in the Bobrek concentration camp a sub-camp of Auschwitz, ILAG XVVII in Austria, and after the war in the Landsberg displaced persons camp. Fela Zyndorf (donor's mother) was imprisoned in ...

The Harry Langsam papers include a letter written by Harry Langsam to his gentile neighbor, Mr. Glazar, inquiring about his family and the rest of the Jewish population as well as a translation of the letter, in English. Also included are two photographs of Jewish policemen in the Ziegenhain displaced persons camp and a photograph of a group of men learning the bricklaying trade as part of vocational ...

Herman (Hersh) Lewinter (1907-1999) was born in Seretecz, Poland (now Seretets, Ukraine) to Emanuel Greensaid and Rosa Lewinter. He grew up in Markopol (Markopil') and Zloczow (Zolochiv). Lewinter worked as a photographer in Zloczow, and he and his wife Clara had a son named Manek. The Lewinter family was forced into the Zloczow ghetto during the German occupation. Lewinter was later transferred to ...

Dr. Aharon (Aaron) Pick (also spelled Pik or Pieck) (1872-1944) was born in Kėdainiai, Lithuania and practiced medicine and participated actively in Jewish cultural life in Šiauliai (Shavli). He and his family were forced into the Šiauliai ghetto in 1941, and Aharon worked in the ghetto hospital until his death following an illness in June 1944. His wife, Dvorah (Deborah) Tatz Pick, survived the ghetto ...

The collection includes a copy of a translation of "The Book of Strzyzow and Vicinity," translated from Hebrew and Yiddish by Harry Langsam. The book contains information about the town of Strzyżów, Poland including the history of the community from 1898, notable rabbis and other citizens, the celebration of Jewish holidays, prominent families, the years of the Holocaust, remembrances of Strzyżów ...

Hakibbutz Ha'arzi Archives Collection: She’erith Hapletah, the rescue of children and the Bricha Organization
 
 The documentation (nine folders) contains:
 
 - Memoirs of Hasia Bornstein-Bilitzka, of Blessed Memory (one of the founders of Kibbutz Lahavot Habashan), regarding the initial organization of the movement by ghetto survivors, educational work with children as part of ...

The collection contains correspondence, identification papers, photographs, testimonies, and restitution claims documenting the experiences of Regina Gruber and Tuvia Sheres in Poland, Lithuania, and Italy during the Holocaust, and their post-war experiences in Italy prior to immigrating to Canada. Included are papers regarding their time as displaced persons in Bari, Italy; and their work with the ...

Jack Zimmermann (born Janek Zimmermann) was born on April 16, 1932 in Przemyśl, Poland and had a sister, Cesia (b. 1929). His father, Wilhelm Zimmermann was a salesman and his mother, Malwina Schechter Zimmermann, took care of the children. Przemyśl was under Soviet administration from September 1939 until June 28, 1941. A ghetto was established in Przemyśl in July 1942 and more than 12,000 Jews were ...

Brown leather dress shoes crafted by Noel Galicki in Sedan Kaserne displaced persons camp in Ulm, Germany, between 1946 and 1949. Noel was taught and certified as a shoemaker in the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training (ORT) vocational training program at the camp. Noel, 27, was a soldier in the Polish Army during the German invasion on September 1, 1939. Seventeen days later, the Soviet ...

Joseph Harmatz was born January 23, 1925 to Abrasha (Abraham) and Dora (Dvora) Baron Harmatz of Rokiskis, Lithuania and had two brothers, Zvi Hirsch (b. 1923) and Efraim (b. 1927). Joseph's father was a wholesale merchant, who owned a warehouse in Rokiskis' market square. The Harmatz family moved to Vilna in 1940, where Abrasha purchased several factories. Joseph was enrolled in a Lithuanian gymnasium ...

Born in Sebastopol, Russia, in 1918, he was educated in the Hebrew high school in Vilna and in the school of the arts. At a very young age he became a trainee in the "Hashomer Hatzair" Youth Movement. In 1940-41 when Vilna wast the capital of the Soviet Republic of Lithuania, Kovner was a member of the undergorund organization. After the German occupation in June 1941, Kovner hid with a few friends ...

Raya Kirschner (later Feig) was born on May 21, 1929, in Bialystok, Poland, to Rabbi Meir Leib and Shaindel (Sonia) Denenberg Kirschner. She had an older brother Ben-Zion (Beno), born in 1925 in Papile, Lithuania. The family lived in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. Her father was born in 1895 in Papile to Ben Zion and Rasha Rutenberg Kirshner. Rabbi Kirschner was the director of the Hebrew Gymnasium in ...

Consists of eight postcards written by donor's family in the Łódź ghetto to the donor in Lvov and later in a labor camp in Siberia; and 31 pre-war photographs depicting the donor's classmates in the private Jewish gymnasium, the Maria Hochstein school, in Łódź.