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Testimony of Asher Richard Boimler, born in Lodz, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Lodz, assumes a false identity in Warsaw, with a Polish family in Kielce and Piotrkow

Testimony

Testimony of Asher Richard Boimler, born in Lodz, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Lodz, assumes a false identity in Warsaw, with a Polish family in Kielce and Piotrkow Life before the war; traditional family; attends a Polish school. German occupation, September 1939; escape to Warsaw due to his mother's bad health; life in Warsaw with an assumed Polish identity; life with forged documents; death of his mother, February 1942; burial of his mother in a non-Jewish cemetery; escape to a Polish family in Kielce; life in Kielce with an assumed identity with a Polish family, 1942; escape...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea Esther Cohen, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in Budapest, the Budapest Ghetto and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Lea Esther Cohen, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in Budapest, the Budapest Ghetto and in hiding Life before the war; move to Budapest in the mid-30s; death of her father. German occupation; life in the Budapest Ghetto including labor sewing satchels and Bnei Akiva activities; deportation in the direction of Austria; escape; return to Budapest; in hiding in a synagogue and a shelter for orphans; detention; escape; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Debrecen; reunion with her sisters; aliya to Israel, 1950.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriana Ivkovic Slehan, born in Osijek, Yugoslavia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Yugoslavia, Ferramonti camp, in hiding, using a false identity and with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Miriana Ivkovic Slehan, born in Osijek, Yugoslavia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Yugoslavia, Ferramonti camp, in hiding, using a false identity and with the partisans Childhood in a traditional family in Zagreb; joins the Maccabi movement; learns Hebrew. German occupation, April 1941; arrest of her father; her father is in hiding from the Ustasha; arrest of her family; confiscation of their house; escape to Italy with forged documents; arrest by the Ustasha; detention in prison; release; escape to Susak; in hiding for one month; escape to Ljubljana; in hiding; hospitalization; escape...

File Number : 12505

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nathan Markusovicius Maron, born in Kretinga, Lithuania, 1908, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Danzig, Dachau, Landsberg and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Nathan Markusovicius Maron, born in Kretinga, Lithuania, 1908, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Danzig, Dachau, Landsberg and other places From a Zionist family in Kretinga; learns in a "heder" and a German high school; his father is a merchant; family members make aliya in 1936; medical studies in France; return to Lithuania; drafted into the army; return to France and work as a physician. German occupation; escape to southern France; return to Lithuania and meetings with relatives in Kaunas; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto; ghetto life including labor building an airfield...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Joint testimony of Gabriel Werkstell and Rina (Werkstell) Navott, born in Warsaw in 1924 and 1927, regarding their experiences in Warsaw, escape using a false identity to Italy and Turkey, and aliya to Eretz Israel Childhood and youth of the witnesses, who are siblings, in Warsaw. Outbreak of war and shelling of Warsaw, 1939; escape with their parents to relatives' home; overcrowding; tension, 1940; escape to Trieste using forged passports; escape to Turkey after entry of Italy into war; joining a refugee group in Istanbul; aliya to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliyah, 1940; staying in Ben Shemen; Gabriel...

File Number : 10811

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Article entitled "The Bern Group: A Rescue Story", regarding the forgery of thousands of Paraguayan passports by the Polish ambassador and consul in Switzerland during the Holocaust

Rabbi Yisrael Chaim Eiss, born in Galicia, 1876; moved to Switzerland, was a representative of Agudat Israel. With the outbreak of war and the division of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union, he began working to obtain South American passports for members of ultra-Orthodox communities who wanted to escape from the communist regime. This activity served as the basis for the rescue operation of the Bern Group. Those involved in the Bern Group included Eiss and his secretary, Polish Ambassador Alexander Ładoś, the Ambassador's deputy Stefan Ryniewicz, the Polish consul Konstanty Rokicki, his assistant...

File Number : 192

Type of Material : Article

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Alfred Klein (b. Romania) about his illegal immigration to Eretz Israel via Budapest, Milan, Camp Edmund, Cyprus, etc.

Memoirs of Alfred Klein (b. Romania) about his illegal immigration to Eretz Israel via Budapest, Milan, Camp Edmund, Cyprus, etc. Preparing for illegal immigration to Eretz Israel with a group of friends; receiving false papers from members of the Bricha organization; the group sets out on April 20, 1946; life on the road; detention at the Romanian-Hungarian border; release by means of bribery; life at a Jewish hospital in Budapest; sneaking across the Hungarian border into Austria; arrest by Austrian police and handover to British soldiers; transport by rail to Austria; leaving three friends behind in a...

File Number : 10222

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Dr. Mihály Moskovits (Yehiel Zvi ben Shlomo), born in Ruscova on 09/01/1917, regarding his experiences before, during and after the war

Memoirs of Dr. Mihály Moskovits (Yehiel Zvi ben Shlomo), born in Ruscova on 09/01/1917, regarding his experiences before, during and after the war - Memoirs of Dr. Mihály Moskovits (Yehiel Zvi ben Shlomo), a Holocaust survivor: Life in Ruscova before the war; Orthodox Jewish community with two synagogues; history of his family; witness' Torah studies and high school studies; outbreak of the economic crisis in 1931; his family's financial debts; his studies in the Beit Midrash for Rabbis in Budapest; Racial Laws - numerus clausus ([1920] - restrictions on the number of students in high schools and...

File Number : 10506

Type of Material : Postcard, מחקר תולדות המשפחה, Medical Documentation, Letter, Telegram, Document, Diploma, Memoirs, Interview(s)

Language : Hebrew, Romanian, Hungarian

Testimony of Aliza Alicja (Hiter) Gilon, born in Krakow, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in the special Bergen-Belsen camp

Testimony of Aliza Alicja (Hiter) Gilon, born in Krakow, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in the special Bergen-Belsen camp Her family's move to Katowitz for economic reasons, 1937; German occupation, 1939; her father's flight to Uzbekistan and loss of contact with him; deportation of the family to the Krakow Ghetto; receipt of nine forged passports through the consul for Guatemala and Honduras in Switzerland with the help of a Swiss relative; deportation of the family to the Montelupich prison in Krakow in order to verify their identity; transfer to a special camp in Bergen-Belsen; falling sick...

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Yoel Eugene Elovic, regarding his family's experiences in Újfehértó, their escape to France, Spain, Portugal and Cuba, their stay in the United States, and aliya to Israel

Memoirs of Yoel Eugene Elovic, regarding his family's experiences in Újfehértó, their escape to France, Spain, Portugal and Cuba, their stay in the United States, and aliya to Israel - Memoirs of Yoel Eugene Elovic, born in Újfehértó, Hungary on 16/12/1932, regarding his family's experiences during the Holocaust, written by Yoel in 2004 for his grandchildren and for the coming generations; - Yoel's parents were Dov Bernat Elovic, born in Bardejov, Slovakia on 27/11/1898, and Esi Helena (Ashkenazi) Elovic, born in Lwów, Poland on 01/04/1902; marriage of Dov Bernat and Esi Helena in Budapest, apparently in...

File Number : 9351

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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