Sources and References
Aside from conversations with my parents and original family documents and photos, a number of sources and publications have been used.
Abraham Family
Interviews:
- Alex Mallat
- Alex Neuhoff
- Michael Rosenberg
- Dr. Gilad Rosenberg
- Bitia Biesel
Testimonies and documents:
- The Jewish Community Of Turkey. Genealogical Archives
- Pablo Martín Asuero, Director I.C. de Damasco. Documents from the Spanish Consulate in Constantinople
- David Benaim. Documents regarding Uriel's stay in Casablanca during WW2
Publications:
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Esther Benbassa, Aron Rodrigues.
Juifs des balkans - espaces judeo-iberiques XIVeme - XXeme siecles.
Editions la decouverte.
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Avigdor Levy.
Jews, Turks, Ottomans.
Syracuse University Press.
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Chaim U. Lipschitz.
Franco, Spain, the Jews, and the Holocaust.
Ktav.
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Robert Satloff
Among the Righteous - Lost stories from the Holocaust's long reach into Arab lands.
Public Affairs
Online:
Haim Abraham / Sara Aaronsohn
Testimonies and original documents:
- Sarah Cohen Eldar - Personal Journal (unpublished)
- Beit Aaronsohn archives, Zichron Yaakov. Aaronsohn/Abraham Correspondance
- Ran Aaronsohn
Publications:
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Tsadok Eshel.
The Bulgarians of Haifa - The Story of the Bulgarian Jewish Community in Haifa.
Association of Beit Haim Abraham Trustees.
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Roman Sinkovsky.
Jüdische turnbewegung - Jewish German gymnastic system in Turkey until 1918 (online, pdf.)
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Shmuel Katz.
The Aaronsohn Saga.
Gefen Publishing.
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Ronal Florence.
Lawrence And Aaronsohn.
Penguin.
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Ida Cowen and Irene Gunther.
A Spy for Freedom: The Story of Sarah Aaronsohn.
Lodestar Books.
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Devorah Omer.
The Gideonites.
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Anita Engle
The Nili Spies.
Datnowsky Family
Interviews:
- Michael Rosenberg
- Alex Mallat
- Bitia Biesel
- Alex Neuhoff
- Morris Halle
Publications:
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Morris Halle.
Morris in Latvia - 1923 -1940.
Private publication.
Info and Photos
- Michael Frumkin, on the origins of the Datnowski family and on Moritz Datnowski's family.
Online:
Katz Family
Interviews:
- Siegmund Spiegel
- Friedel Katz
- Eve Katz
- Alex Neuhoff
Testimonies and documents:
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Survivors Registry
Publications:
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Sokal Yizkor book: Sefer Sokal, Tartakow, ... ve-ha-Seviva. Memorial book of Sokal, Tartakow... and surroundings.
A. Chomel, Ed.
Tel Aviv, 1968
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H.W. Katz.
The Fishmans.
Viking Press.
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H.W. Katz.
N. 21 Castle Street.
Viking Press.
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Max Frankel.
The Times of My Life.
Random House.
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Isaac Babel.
1920 Diary.
Yale University Press.
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Isaac Babel.
Collected Stories.
W. W. Norton.
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S. Ansky.
The enemy at his Pleasure - A Journey Through the Jewish Pale of Settlement During World War 1.
Metropolitan Books.
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Werner Simsohn.
Juden in Gera (I, II)
Hartung-Gorre Verlag.
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Stephen M. Poppel.
Zionism in Germany - 1897-1933. The Shaping of a Jewish Identity.
The Jewis Publication Society of America.
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Chaya Brasz.
The "Coffin Ship".
Vrij Nederland.
May 1, 1993.
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Hilel Yarkony.
The Story of the Illegal Immigrant Ship.
Translation: Liron Katz
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Abraham J. Edelheit & Hershel Edelheit.
History of the Holocaust - A Handbook and Dictionary.
Westview Press.
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Yitzhak Arad.
Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka.
Indiana University Press.
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Sheila Isenberg.
A Hero of Our Own: The Story of Varian Fry.
Random House.
Online:
Tabak Family
Info and Photos:
Mallah Family
Publication:
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Anne-Marie Rychner-Faraggi.
Les Mallah - Une Famille Sepharade de Salonique.
Private publication.
This family history project started September 2009.
All photos and documents belong to the author, except for maps and where indicated.
This is a work in progress. Please contact me if you have any more information to contribute.
Last Modified: Wednesday, December 14, 2011