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Yitzhak Kofler
Testimony
Testimony of Yitzhak Kofler, born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1926, regarding his experiences as a refugee in Aprika-Pass, Ljubljana and Switzerland
Family background; displays of antisemitism from 1939.
Help to refugees from Austria; German occupation; confiscation of the family property; escape to Italy; capture; return to Zagreb; escape to Ljubljana; escape to Aprika-Pass; help from a local priest; labor logging trees; escape to Switzerland, September 1943; stay in a refugee camp; attends an ORT school.
Return to Yugoslavia, May 1945; imprisonment of his father for being a capitalist; aliya to Israel.
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item Id
3564496
First Name
Yitzhak
Yitzkhak
Last Name
Kofler
Date of Birth
1926
Place of Birth
Zagreb, Yugoslavia
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
9999
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
15/01/1997
Date of Creation - latest
15/01/1997
Name of Submitter
קופלר יצחק
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
53
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Subjects
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection