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Joint testimony of Jacob Joshua, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1932, and Henri Joshua, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1934, regarding their experiences in Scheveningen, Amsterdam, Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen and other places

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Joint testimony of Jacob Joshua, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1932, and Henri Joshua, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1934, regarding their experiences in Scheveningen, Amsterdam, Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen and other places Life in Hamburg; move to the Netherlands; life in Scheveningen, 1937. German occupation, 1940; move to Utrecht; attends a public school; obtains a Paraguayan passport; their father's membership on the Judenrat; deterioration of economic conditions; deportation to Amsterdam, 1943; their father's arrest; detention of the other family members in the theater building; transfer to Westerbork, June 1943; camp life; life in an orphanage; exemption from deportation due to the Paraguayan passport; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, January 1944; camp life; their father's death, January 1945; transfer on a Red Cross train to Germany as part of a prisoner exchange arrangement; wanderings through the streets of Germany; transfer to Biberach an der Riss; transfer to a camp on one of the formerly British Channel islands occupied by Germany; receives medical treatment; attends a school; liberation by the French Army, April 1945. Move to France, winter 1946; emigration to the United States, 1948; Jacob's aliya to Israel, 1951; their mother's and sister's aliya; Henri's life in the United States.
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4690707
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Yaakov
Jacob
Khenri
Henri
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Dzhoshua
Joshua
Joshua
Dzhoshua
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1932
1934
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Hamburg, Germany
Hamburg, Germany
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Testimony
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English
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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27/11/03
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27/11/03
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JOSHUA HENRI
JOSHUA JACOB
ג'ושוע יעקב
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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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Video
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection