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Memoirs of Miriam (Mandel) Goldshmidt, born in Ober Apsa, Czechoslovakia, including memoirs of various family members

Memoirs of Miriam (Mandel) Goldshmidt, born in Ober Apsa, Czechoslovakia, including memoirs of various family members Memoirs of Miriam (Mandel) Goldshmidt, born in Ober Apsa, Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in Ober Apsa until 1944; Mateszalka Ghetto life until June 1944; Auschwitz-Birkenau camp life; Stutthof camp life and life on an agricultural farm near the camp, including forced labor, until March 1945; life on board a ship under the guard of SS men until liberation at Neustadt; Bindermichl DP camp life; Memoirs of her family members: 1) Montzi (Vizel) Mandel, born in Ober Apsa,...

File Number : 8284

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordechai Theo Markus Werderber Vered, born in Cologne, Germany, 1928, regarding his experiences in Cologne, Zbaszyn, Warsaw, the Kindertransport, Welwyn and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Theo Markus Werderber Vered, born in Cologne, Germany, 1928, regarding his experiences in Cologne, Zbaszyn, Warsaw, the Kindertransport, Welwyn and other places Life with his family, including religious life and attending the "Moriah" school; activities in the Bachad youth movement; acts of abuse by Hitler-Jugend. Deportation to Zbaszyn; move to Warsaw; receives food and money from Warsaw Jews; move to London in the context of the Kindertransport; life in Welwyn; [arrival of] Jewish children from Austria; attitude of the director of the children's home, Rabbi Dr. Lewin; move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Salomon Matsil, born in Preveza, Greece, 1925, regarding his experiences in Preveza, in hiding, in the partisans and in Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Salomon Matsil, born in Preveza, Greece, 1925, regarding his experiences in Preveza, in hiding, in the partisans and in Israel His childhood; Jewish community life in Preveza. Outbreak of the war with Italy, October 1940; evacuation of the residents by the authorities; transfer on ships to Athens before Pesach (April), 1941; air-raids on the port of Peiraieus; in hiding while hidden by Greeks; move with help from the Greek underground, 1943; joins the Greek partisans including receiving the partisan name Maratona; combat with the partisans against the Germans in the mountains and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sándor Hirschhorn, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1911, regarding his experiences during service in a labor battalion in Vác and Jászberény, and in Engerau, Mauthausen and other camps

Testimony of Sándor Hirschhorn, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1911, regarding his experiences during service in a labor battalion in Vác and Jászberény, and in Engerau, Mauthausen and other camps Deportation to forced labor in service in a labor battalion in Vác and Jászberény on 25/11/1942; he is attached there to a battalion designated for the Eastern front; retreat of the Hungarian Army from the Eastern front, and his release from the transfer to the Eastern front; transfer to forced labor in service in a labor battalion in Vác, four weeks later, on 05/03/1943; transfer to Budapest, and labor at the...

File Number : 2561

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Documentation regarding the experiences of Moshe Birenbaum, born in Cluj in 1915, on his way to Eretz Israel in 1940

Documentation regarding the experiences of Moshe Birenbaum, born in Cluj in 1915, on his way to Eretz Israel in 1940 - The story of Moshe Birenbaum’s journey to Eretz Israel, from a paper written by one of his grandchildren on the history of his family: The life of the family in the Cluj area; the voyage of Moshe and his brother David to Eretz Israel on an illegal immigrant ship (the "Milos", the "Pacific" or the "Atlantic") in 1940; transfer of the illegal immigrants to the ship "Patria" by the British, with the intention of deporting them to Mauritius; bombing of the "Patria" by members of the Hagana; the...

File Number : 644

Type of Material : School Project

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation related to Matilda Mionis, born in Athens in 1935, and her brother Israeli Mioni, from 1946-1947, and documentation regarding the fate of members of the Mionis (Magionis) family in Greece during the Holocaust period - "Open ends": Comments by Galit Fisher, the granddaughter of Matilda Mionis, regarding members of the Migionis family and their fate during the Holocaust period (most of them were murdered or disappeared); the comments were written on 23/05/2018; - Personal documentation related to members of the Magionis family: --- Birth certificate of Mazalto Magionis, born in...

File Number : 18

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Death Certificate, Documentary, Diploma, Identity Card, Personal Documents, Birth Certificate

Language : Hebrew, English, Greek

Diary kept by Elizabeth (Meisl) Freund, born in Světlá nad Sázavou in 1889, covering the months October-December 1940, on her journey to Israel on the ship "Pacific" and during the "Patria" disaster Pages from a diary written by Elizabeth (Meisl) Freund, including pictures drawn between 6 October and 27 December 1940 (a transcribed copy of these pages is also attached): Departure from Tulcea on the ship "Pacific" on 7 October 1940; the conditions on the ship; arrival to Haifa beach on 1 November 1940; transfer to the ship "Patria" on 7 November 1940; comments on the "Patria" disaster; mention of the...

File Number : 10190

Type of Material : Diary

Language : German

To be translated

File Number : 1227

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

A film about the fate of the survivors of the "Patria" disaster

- A film about the "Patria" disaster and the fate of the survivors of the disaster. The film was produced by the ARGO production company with the support of the Czech Republic Ministry of Culture. The film is based on the diary of Karel Brandýs and includes excerpts of testimonies given by "Patria" survivors (the names of the survivors who participated in the film appear in the subtitles at the end of the film).

File Number : 305

Type of Material : Film

Language : Czech

Memoirs of Dina Dicha Fried-Bodenstein, born in 1927, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, and in Kaiserwald, Strasdenhof and Stutthof camps

Memoirs of Dina Dicha Fried-Bodenstein, born in 1927, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, and in Kaiserwald, Strasdenhof and Stutthof camps - family members: -- her mother Feigl (Riyar ) Fried - perished in the Holocaust. -- her father Aaron Fried - perished in the Holocaust. -- her brother Moshe Fried - escaped to the Soviet Union, served in the Red Army and was killed. -- her aunt Nechama (Riyar) Geller - perished. - occupation of Vilna by the Nazis; obligation to wear a yellow badge; bans and restrictions such as the ban on walking on the sidewalk; transfer of men to forced labor for...

File Number : 9274

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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