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Testimony of Yuri Joseph Gonen Feldman, born in Zitavske Knazice, , Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences being hidden by a Slovak couple on a farm in a village

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Testimony of Yuri Joseph Gonen Feldman, born in Zitavske Knazice,, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences being hidden by a Slovak couple on a farm in a village Childhood; attendance at a Czechoslovak elementary school; the synagogue that served the Jews of his village and those of the surrounding area was located in the witness's courtyard; displays of antisemitism before the war; Slovakian fascist regime; decrees; yellow star; arrest and deaths of his parents and sick grandmother; arrival in the village of a Jewish couple named Brichta who arranged for him to be hidden by a farming couple in a village called Velke Levare; life hiding in the cellar until the end of the war; Return to Zitavske Knazice and joining the Gordonia Movement in Bratislava; being sent as a movement youth leader to Brno, Trivana, Zelina and other cities; aliya to Israel, December 1949; absorption and rehabilitation.
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11727603
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Joseph
Yurai
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Feldman
Gonen
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20/04/1929
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Zitavske Knazice, Czechoslovakia
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Testimony
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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18/08/2015
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18/08/2015
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גונן יוסף
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YES
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ISRAEL
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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