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Testimony

Family deported to Westerbork on October 30, 1942; Ruth handed over at the Groningen train station to a man along with a note on which her grandparents' address is noted; taken to Amsterdam and placed with the van Noorden family, friends of her parents; deportation to Westerbork after it becomes known that the van Noordens will also be deported on May 10, 1943; transported by train to Bergen-Belsen; men, women, and children are separated in the camp; hunger; grandparents die; taken by train marked with red crosses to Theresienstadt in 1945; train is bombarded; train liberated by the Red Cross in 1945; improper...

File Number : 13540

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sela Shtovitska Uri Urlich, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1930 regarding deportation to the Polish border and regarding his leaving nazi Germany in Kindertransport

Testimony

Childhood in Frankfurt an der Oder; life during nazi regime in 1933; arrest of the father accused of communist activity and his deportation to Poland as a Polish subject in 1933; attending the Jewish school Philanthropyn in 1936; moving to the Jewish Children's Home Stiftung in 1936; deportation with the mother from Frankfurt an der Oder to the Polish border in 1938; Kristallnacht riots; his joining a group of children who were sent by Kindertransport sponsored by James and Dorothy Rothschild in 1939; the journey via Hoek van Holland, Holland to London, Britain in 1939; moving to the estate of James Rotschild...

File Number : 13713

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Tzvi Mul Hennes, born in Arnhem, Netherlands, about his experiences as a boy with members of the resistance and in hiding with the Rip family in Deventer until the end of the war

Family escapes to Devener in 1940; witness placed with members of the Dutch resistance; placed with the Rip family (members of the resistance) in Goor in early 1943; living with the Rips (subsequently recognized as Righteous among the Nations); mother and father visit; witness presented as an orphan taken in by the family after shelling of Rotterdam; liberation; returns to parents in May 1945; maintaining close relations with the Rips; family life in Duiendrecht; back to Deventer; family life in the Netherlands; the Habonim movement; immigration to Israel in 1966; adjustment to life in Israel.

File Number : 13541

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Berkovits, born in Huedin, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in Turda, Sibiu, Gura Humorului and in a camp near Arad

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Berkovits, born in Huedin, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in Turda, Sibiu, Gura Humorului and in a camp near Arad From an Orthodox, Zionist home; move to Turda immediately after his birth; childhood; his brother makes aliya, 1933. Outbreak of war; numerus clausus in the schools; expulsion of the witness from his high school, restrictions on Jews; Habonim activities; aliya training in Arad, 1941; drafted to forced labor; laying train tracks in the Sibiu camp, 1941; transfer to a labor camp in Gura Humorului, 1942; transfer to a labor camp near Arad; digging anti-tank trenches;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yaacov Klein Katsir, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Yaacov Klein Katsir, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Bucharest Family background; Shabbatot and religious holidays; attends a Sephardic Jewish school; synagogues; youth movements and mutual help in the community; arrival of refugees in Bucharest. Anti-Jewish legislation during the Goga-Cuza government; terror on the part of the Iron Guard legionnaires; attempts by the Romanian Army to disperse the legionnaires; persecution of youth groups; deportations to Transnistria; forced labor; agricultural labor in a rural area; air-raids on factories by the US...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Fredi Peretz Kahana, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Brno and in London in the context of the Kindertransport

Testimony

Testimony of Fredi Peretz Kahana, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Brno and in London in the framework of the Kindertransport Assimilated family; membership in the Czech youth movement, Sokol; displays of antisemitism during a visit in Vienna, 1937; move to the Maccabi Hatzair movement; his parent's plan to have the witness make aliya to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliyah. German occupation, March 1939; witness' move to London in the framework of the Kindertransport, with help from relatives in Great Britain and the mediation of Nicholas Winton, June 1939; life and studies in a...

File Number : 12926

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Kaufman, born in Cuzdrioara, Romania, 1918, regarding his experiences in Bistrita, the Bistrita Ghetto, a labor camp in the Ukraine, Mauthausen, Auschwitz and Guenskirchen camps and a death march His childhood in Sintereag; death of his father and move of the family to Bistrita, 1925; studies and qualified as an accountant. Drafted into the Romanian Army, 1939; military service for 18 months, until mid-1940; return to Bistrita; deportation to a labor camp in the Ukraine, 1942; return to Bistrita, 1944; deportation to the Bistrita Ghetto, May 1944; deportation to Auschwitz, June 1944;...

File Number : 12601

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Henri Chaim Bomblat, born in Paris, France, 1931, regarding his experiences in southern France, Paris and hiding in Montsurs

Testimony

Testimony of Henri Chaim Bomblat, born in Paris, France, 1931, regarding his experiences in southern France, Paris and hiding in Montsurs His family are originally from Poland but are now living in Paris; his father's work in odd jobs. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to southern France with the family; return to Paris; life during the German occupation; his sister's deportation to Drancy, 1942; escape to Montsurs; life in Montsurs under the protection of a local family; help from neighbors and priests; liberation, 1944. Return to Paris; maintaining contact with the Montsurs residents and the family...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nathan Berger, born in Salomas, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Lawoczne, Voloc, Mauthausen, Gunskirchen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Nathan Berger, born in Salomas, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Lawoczne, Voloc, Mauthausen, Gunskirchen and other places Move to Budapest; life before the war. Drafted into forced labor, October 1942; forced labor in Bretcu; smuggles weaons and equipment over the Polish-Hungarian border, Pesach 1943; transfer to Lawoczne; transfer to Voloc; transfer to Chust; release from forced labor with the change of government in Hungary; escape to the mountains; move to Chap; move to Budapest, November 1943; meets his mother and brother; return to forced labor; deportation to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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