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Testimony of Johanan Dicastro, born in Rome, Italy, 1924, regarding his experiences in Rome and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Johanan Dicastro, born in Rome, Italy, 1924, regarding his experiences in Rome and in hiding His childhood in a secular family; his father's work as an architect and engineer; anti-Jewish legislation including revocation of the Jews' rights, 1938; establishment of a Jewish school; plan for emigration to the Dominican Republic. Outbreak of World War II; air-raids; receives food ration coupons; reads Swiss newspapers; German Army occupation of Italy, July 1943; demanding of gold; obtains forged documents; receives information concerning an "Aktion"; escape from their home; in hiding while...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Liz (Behar) Zmora, born in Paris, France, 1938, regarding her experiences as a baby in Paris and being hidden in southern France

Testimony

Testimony of Liz (Behar) Zmora, born in Paris, France, 1938, regarding her experiences as a baby in Paris and being hidden in southern France Her father is originally from Turkey, her mother from Poland. Occupation, 1940; relocation to a tiny house; air-raids and hiding in the basement; capture of Jews on the street by the Germans; removal of her father from the house by French soldiers and his expulsion to Drancy and Auschwitz; application by her mother to OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants- Children’s Aid Society) for help; in hiding with her sister in southern France, 1942-1944; visits to a church;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora Cheslava (Domb) Anbar, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in Milosna, the Minsk Ghetto, Mazowiecki, Kupernik camp, in hiding in Warsaw and other places Life before the war; family of merchants; move with the family to Milosna due to business; life in Milosna; expropriation of the family home by the Germans; escape with the family to Minsk Mazowiecki, 1941; life in Minsk Mazowiecki, 1941; deportation of the father to forced labor; establishment of the ghetto; ghetto life; escape from the ghetto with the help of the Polish nanny; life in hiding in a village;...

File Number : 13133

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dina Dinka (Flesh) Shtoper, born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1941, regarding her experiences as a baby in Zagreb, in a monastery and in the homes of families in a village

Testimony

Testimony of Dina Dinka (Flesh) Shtoper, born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1941, regarding her experiences as a baby in Zagreb, in a monastery and in the homes of families in a village Life before the war; well-to-do family. Loss of her parents (apparently at the start of the war); abandoned in her baby carriage on the street along with her brother; placed in a monastery by neighbors along with her brother; transfer to two different families in a village; life with constant feelings of strangeness; visits in a church; lack of contact with her brother; fear of German soldiers; finds a hiding place in a barrel at...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ada (Gruenglass) Matilsky, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in hiding in the Warsaw Ghetto and assuming a false identity outside the ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Ada (Gruenglass) Matilsky, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in hiding in the Warsaw Ghetto and assuming a false identity outside the ghetto Life before the war; well-to-do family; life in the non-Jewish quarter. Outbreak of the war; her mother is wounded during an air-raid; escape of her father with her uncle to the Soviet Union; return of her father; capture of her father and his transfer to forced labor; Germans and Poles break into their home and robbery of the mother from her possessions; escape to the home of her aunt in the small ghetto; ghetto life;...

File Number : 13069

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Legal documentation from East German Stasi files regarding the investigation and indictment of Henry Schmidt, Director of Department IIB, which was responsible for the Gestapo Judenreferat (Department for Jewish Affairs) in Dresden, 1986-1987 Volume I (File 1, Part 1, pp. 1-265): - Interrogations of Henry Schmidt, Director of Department IIB in the Dresden Gestapo, regarding the establishment of a concentration camp for Jews in the suburbs of Dresden; deportation of the Jews to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz; abuse of Jewish inmates from 1942; his service as commander of the Dukla Gestapo at the beginning of...

File Number : 3095

Type of Material : Curriculum Vitae (cv), List of Persecuted Persons, Record of Deportees, Record of Murdered Persons, Statistical Data, Official Documentation, Record of Survivors, Deportation List, List of Deportees, Testimony, Death Certificate, Investigation Report, Sentence, Indictment, Legal Documentation, List of Murdered Jews, Names of Perpetrators, Personal Documents, Record of Persecuted Persons, List of Theresienstadt Camp Inmates, Survey Report

Language : German

Correspondence between Maurice Perlzweig, representative of the World Jewish Congress and Archbishop Cicognani of the Apostolic Delegation in the United States regarding the rescue of the remnants of the Jews in Slovakia Intervention of the Pope with the President of Slovakia regarding the rescue of Slovakian Jews; Pope receives assurances from the President that no harm will come to the Jews, but they would only be detained in the camps and would be permitted to emigrate to other countries.

File Number : 3

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : English

Testimony of Dina Adolf of Przeworsk, Poland, about Poles who saved her from deportation and helped her on the "Aryan" side until the end of the war, and confirmations and testimonies by Stefan Sendlak, Adam Kornecki, Irena Sendler, and Zdzisław Bronisz. Dina Adolf was tipped off about an Aktion in Przeworsk on August 1, 1942, and went into hiding in the countryside. Three days later, she returned to the town. Zofia Zawadzka concealed her, first in a convent and then with her friend, Stanisława Kotowska. The two women helped the witness and kept her fed for two weeks. Adela Szajna helped her to move to the...

File Number : 542

Type of Material : Document, Testimony

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Vertraulicher Bericht aus der Paepstlichen Kanzlei (Confidential Report from the Pontifical Chancellery) in Berlin, 23/01/1942

File Number : 75

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Newspaper clippings, publications and letters regarding the Catholic Church, the Jews and the Holocaust, 1978-1983

File Number : 99

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : German

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