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Testimony of Lia (Hauzer) Gross, born in Berlin, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Berlin, Krakow, Bratislava, Ferramonti and more

Testimony

Testimony of Lia (Hauzer) Gross, born in Berlin, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Berlin, Krakow, Bratislava, Ferramonti and more Childhood in Berlin; move to Krakow; life in Krakow including abuse of Jews. Escape to Bratislava; setting sail on a river boat for approximately half a year on the Danube; setting sail on the Aegean Sea towards Crete; debarkation via the Camilla Nisi bridge of the 500 ship passengers travelling to Eretz Israel; aid from the Jews of Rhodes; transfer of passengers to Ferramonti camp; treatment by the Italians; transfer to aliya training in Bari, 1944; Aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit Ida (Abromovitz) Gradovsky, born in Ibanesti, Romania, 1920, regarding her experiences in Ibanesti and Tecuci

Testimony

Testimony of Yehudit Ida (Abromovitz) Gradovsky, born in Ibanesti, Romania, 1920, regarding her experiences in Ibanesti and Tecuci Life before the war. German occupation, June 1941; deportation in the direction of Transnistria; transfer to Tecuci; life in Tecuci; transfer to labor cleaning hospitals of the German Army; liberation, September 1944. Aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Shechter, born in Tesin, Czechoslovakia, 1916, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, Rhodes, Ferramonti Di Tarsia and other places, and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Shechter, born in Tesin, Czechoslovakia, 1916, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, Rhodes, Ferramonti Di Tarsia and other places, and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944 Life before the war; activities in the Beitar movement; his family's move to Poland; move to Bratislava; life in aliya training, in preparation for aliya to Eretz Israel. Illegal aliya in the direction of Eretz Israel on the "Pencho" ship; sets sail on the Danube River; sinking of the ship near Camila Nisi; rescue by the Italian Army; transfer to Rhodes; life in Rhodes under the protection of the Italian Army;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Akiva Karl Shvartz, born in Vienna, Austria, 1921, regarding his experiences in Vienna during the Anschluss, escape to Bratislava, setting sail on an illegal immigrant ship to Yugoslavia, life on Rodi Island and other places From an assimilated Zionist family; education; displays of antisemitism; joins Beitar. Anschluss, March 1938; escape with a Czechoslovakian passport, April 1938; move to Bratislava; Beitar aliya training conducted by a Jewish farmer; sets sail from Bratislava, May 1940; deportation of the ship to Yugoslavia from Romanian waters; Romania permits the ship to cross its...

File Number : 12627

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leo Yehuda Buksbaum, born in Frystat, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in Sosnowiec and prison

Testimony

Testimony of Leo Yehuda Buksbaum, born in Frystat, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in Sosnowiec and prison Life before the war; move to Moravska Ostrava; activities in the Blau Weiss movement. German occupation, 1939; the German's take over the family's shop with a non-Jewish trustee; life on aliya training near Pilsen, 1940; detention and deportation to Sosnowiec; transfer to a prison; release. Aliya attempt onboard the ship "Pentcho"; sinking of the boat off the Greek island of Camica Nisi Kamtla; rescue by the Italian Army; transfer to Rhodes; life in Beitar youth movement under the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation and correspondence belonging to Yitzchak Felix Meyer and his parents, Michael and Amalia Meyer, who made aliya to Eretz Israel from Germany, survived the "Patria" tragedy and were detained in Atlit, 1881-1997 Volume I (pp. 1-262) This volume contains personal documentation belonging to Yitzchak Felix Meyer from his birth: Page 1: Copy of the opening page ("Index") with 12 chapters, nine of which (1-6, 10-12) mention their topics; the topics are (the numbers of the pages of the present file containing material matching the topic in the "Index" are given in parentheses): 1. "I As a...

File Number : 356

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Lecture, List of Deportees, Announcement, Personal Records, Booklet(s), Inventory List, Newspaper Clippings, Book, Letter, Memoirs, Diary, Postcard, Record of Persecuted Persons, Poems/songs, Newspaper

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Mrs. Gisi Fleischmann from Bratislava regarding the "Pentcho" Affair and extending help to survivors in Rhodes

Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Mrs. Gisi Fleischmann from Bratislava regarding the "Pentcho" Affair and extending help to survivors in Rhodes Also in the file: - Correspondence with representatives of the Vyhne refugee camp regarding aliya to Eretz Israel; - Memo from DELASEM (Relief Delegation to the Emigrants) in Rome regarding the fate of the ship, "Pentcho" and possibilities of helping survivors, 10 September 1941.

File Number : 91

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Documents, essays, lists and photographs regarding the Theresienstadt Ghetto, the fate of the Jews of Czechoslovakia and Slovakia and the illegal immigrant ship, "Pentcho" - "Ghetto Nasich Dnu", a book by Mirko Tuma, on the Theresienstadt Ghetto, published in Prague with a German translation, 1946; - Essay on the history of the Theresienstadt Ghetto, prepared for the Nazi authorities; - Copy of an order to report for deportation from Theresienstadt and Jewish autonomous administration bank documents; - Original supply coupons from the Theresienstadt Ghetto; - List of 1200...

File Number : 128

Type of Material : Personal Documents, List of Survivors, Book, Newspaper Clippings, Research Article

Language : Czech, German

Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Lists of survivors of the ship, "Pentcho", in detention in the Rhodes closed camp, according to their countries of origin (Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary)

Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Lists of survivors of the ship, "Pentcho", in detention in the Rhodes closed camp, according to their countries of origin (Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary) Also in the file: - List of 127 members of the Benghazi group; -List of relatives of the survivors in the United States.

File Number : 175

Type of Material : List of Survivors

Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Reports and surveys (Numbers 1-12) regarding the situation of the Jews in Italy and Greece

Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Reports and surveys (Numbers 1-12) regarding the situation of the Jews in Italy and Greece Also in the file: - Reports regarding the situation of the refugees from Poland in Italy and regarding the survivors of the ship, "Pentcho", 22 April 1943; - Survey issued by the Greek Information Bureau in Cairo, 1944 (?), regarding the situation of the Greek Jews before and during World War II, the deportation of the Jews of Thessaloniki and the sympathetic treatment of the Jews by the Greek population; - Testimony of a refugee from Athens who arrived in Istanbul regarding...

File Number : 107

Type of Material : Survey Report, Negative, Testimony

Language : French, German

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