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
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
Testimony
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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item Id
4690707
First Name
Yaakov
Jacob
Khenri
Henri
Last Name
Dzhoshua
Joshua
Joshua
Dzhoshua
Date of Birth
1932
1934
Place of Birth
Hamburg, Germany
Hamburg, Germany
Type of material
Testimony
Language
English
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives