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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 of Elhanan Ziv Vili Weisz, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child using a false identity in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Elhanan Ziv Vili Weisz, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child using a false identity in the Budapest Ghetto From a traditional family; attends a Hungarian school. Outbreak of the war, 1939; draft of his father to a labor battalion; German occupation, 1944; life in the Budapest Ghetto using a false identity including living in a children's center and labor as a messenger; liberation by the Red Army. Activities in the Zionist youth movement; aliya to Israel, 1949; enlists in the IDF; marriage and starts a family.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gershon Giorgio Castelnuovo, born in Rome, Italy, 1930, regarding his experiences in hiding in a monastery and with an Italian family

Testimony

Testimony of Gershon Giorgio Castelnuovo, born in Rome, Italy, 1930, regarding his experiences in hiding in a monastery and with an Italian family Well-to-do assimilated family; anti-Jewish legislation, 1938; move of the family to Asmara in Eritrea; attends a local school; return to Italy, June 1940; attends a Jewish school. German occupation of Rome, 1943; hidden by a priest; transfer using a false identity to Antonio Parisi monastery; hidden by an Italian family; liberation by the British Army. Move to Bari to aliya training; obtains certificates for the entire family; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945;...

File Number : 10787

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew