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Memoir book by Natan Gross, born in Krakow, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences and those of his family in Krakow and Warsaw on the Aryan side using a false identity

Memoir book by Natan Gross, born in Krakow, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences and those of his family in Krakow and Warsaw on the Aryan side using a false identity Survival in the Krakow Ghetto; obtaining forged documents; transfer to a hiding place on the Aryan side with forged documents, 10 December 1942; in hiding in Borki; move to Warsaw due to suspicions by neighbors regarding their identities and threats of being informed on, April 1943; frequent changes of housing due to fear of discovery of the Jewish identities of the family members; help from Poles; displays of antisemitism among the Poles,...

File Number : 534

Type of Material : Memoir Book

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Norwegian underground activists Odd Westeng and Alf M. Bredesen regarding smuggling those persecuted by the Nazi regime from Norway into Sweden in 1942-1944

Memoirs of Norwegian underground activists Odd Westeng and Alf M. Bredesen regarding smuggling those persecuted by the Nazi regime from Norway into Sweden in 1942-1944 Odd Westeng's stay in the Grini camp in 1942; the arrival of Odd Westeng and Alf Bredesen from Oslo to the area near the border between Norway and Sweden in 1942, under the false identity of loggers; organization of the smuggling route; accompanying groups of people persecuted by the Nazi regime into Swedish territory; move to Sweden in September 1944; Anti-Nazi underground activity until the end of the war.

File Number : 11636

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Letter sent by Leo Trepp in Amsterdam to his relatives in the United States in 1945, with documentation of his experiences during the Holocaust

Letter sent by Leo Trepp in Amsterdam to his relatives in the United States in 1945, with documentation of his experiences during the Holocaust - letter written by Leo Trepp in Amsterdam to his uncle in the United States in spring 1945, translated into Hebrew by Harel Oren. The letter includes memoirs regarding his experiences in the Netherlands during the Holocaust: Worsening of the persecution of Amsterdam Jews in February 1941; living in hiding due to the persecution of Jewish refugees from Germany; his father's life in a labor camp for about three months at the beginning of 1942; the activity of the...

File Number : 5107

Type of Material : עבודת מחקר, Letter, Newspaper Clippings, Personal Documents, כתובה, תעודת נישואין שהונפקה על ידי הקהילה היהודית, Genealogy, List of Jews, Certification

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch, German, Aramaic

Documentation regarding the murder of Masha Bruskina in Minsk in October 1941 and an article in a newsletter about the liquidation of the Borisov Ghetto in autumn 1941

Documentation regarding the murder of Masha Bruskina in Minsk in October 1941 and an article in a newsletter about the liquidation of the Borisov Ghetto in autumn 1941 Included in the file: - Vera Bank's memoirs regarding the murder of Masha Bruskina by Germans and Lithuanian collaborators in 1941; Masha Bruskina's studies at the Institute of Medicine; the outbreak of war and the German occupation of Minsk; helping wounded prisoners of war in a hospital (medical equipment, forged documents, clothing, etc.); the betrayal of members of the underground, including Masha Bruskina, by one of the prisoners of...

File Number : 483

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Record of Murdered Persons, Article

Language : Russian

Documentation pertaining to Jakob Schor and the members of his family, 1939-1945 including a postcard his parents wrote from Krakow, 1941, and a document with false identities from the time he stayed with his uncle's family in Budapest using a non-Jewish Polish identity at the end of the war General documentation: - Birth certificate of Samuel Schor, the son of Sussel and Bluma (Ekstein) Schor, born in Krakow, 1922, issued in Krakow, 30 December 1939; - Birth certificate of Jakob Schor, the son of Sussel and Bluma (Ekstein) Schor, born in Krakow, 1933, issued in Krakow, 30 January 1940; - Postcard...

File Number : 1754

Type of Material : Birth Certificate, Postcard, Personal Records

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German, Hungarian

Testimony of Hannah (Van Den Bergh) Friedman, born in 1939 in Scheveningen, Netherlands, about her escape from the Netherlands and her experiences in Belgium

Testimony of Hannah (Van Den Bergh) Friedman, born in 1939 in Scheveningen, Netherlands, about her escape from the Netherlands and her experiences in Belgium Family life; witness escapes with father, mother, and sister to Brussels in 1941; life in a hotel; Germans invade and search for American pilots who bailed out in the area; witness and cousin placed in hiding with a neighbor; parents and materal aunt arrested; deported to Malines; deported to Auschwitz and murdered there; contact maintained with Andrée Morison, a businesswoman associated with the Belgian resistance; witness and cousin taken to the...

File Number : 14389

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel (Shemesh) Levy, born in 1937 in Amarah, Iraq, about her experiences in Amarah

Testimony of Rachel (Shemesh) Levy, born in 1937 in Amarah, Iraq, about her experiences in Amarah Childhood in Amarah; offspring of family of nine; attends a mixed school; brothers active in the Zionist underground; members of the underground assemble in each other's homes; immigration to Israel via Basra and Iran in 1950.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zwika Araten, born in Amsterdam, Holland 1943 regarding his hiding by the Jewish resistance.

Testimony of Zwika Araten, born in Amsterdam, Holland 1943 regarding his hiding by the Jewish resistance. His birth and getting the name Henry Richard, the son of Karl and Amelia Hammerslag; Myriam Werthman's visit, representative of the Jewish underground in Holland at his parents'house, his parents'agreement with Myriam Werthman to rescue the surviving witness together with his eldest sister, his parents' deportation to the camp Sobibor 1943, the children are left in a pram at a train station and taken by someone from the underground,life in hiding accompanied by a liaison female member of the underground...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Karmela Renata Ilan Bauer, born in 1937 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, about her experiences in Yugoslavia

Testimony of Karmela Renata Ilan Bauer, born in 1937 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, about her experiences in Yugoslavia Parents' names; placement with a non-Jewish family when war breaks out; loss of parents and relatives; contact with Marshal Tito's resistance; life in a children's home after the war; assistance from Marshal Tito in rehabilitation; immigration to Israel via Trieste in 1948; reception in Israel via Youth Aliyah.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Maksi Rozenberg, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1932, regarding his experiences in Brussels, Ostende, in hiding using a false identity, and being hidden in Havelange by Righteous Among the Nations, Suzanne Romain and Andrée (Romain) Delforges Life in a well-to-do family of immigrants from Poland; German occupation, May 1940; escape to Ostende in order to emigrate to England; bombing by the German Army; wounding of his father; return to Brussels with his parents; non-renewal of their rental lease based on their religion; moving to another apartment; stopping of schooling for Jewish...

File Number : 14216

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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