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Testimony of Anina Vohrazik Korty, born in 1921 in Prague, about illegal immigration to Eretz Israel in 1940 and deportation to Mauritius until 1945

Offspring of a Zionist family; membership in the Young Maccabi movement; parents support refugees from Germany, 1930s; movement training in Moravia, 1938; paying a ransom before immigration to Eretz Israel, 1939; illegal immigration vessels stuck in the Danube; brother taken to Sweden for survival; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel aboard the Atlantic; S.S. Milos Atlantic and Pacific detained; the Patria is blown up and sinks; deporation to Mauritius, December 1940–August 1945; temporary correspondence with parents via the Red Cross; exiles volunteer for service in the Allied armies; back to Eretz Israel in...

File Number : 13573

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Veronika (Katz) Kraus, born in Kecskemet, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Kecskemet Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Allendorf and Melsungen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Veronika (Katz) Kraus, born in Kecskemet, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Kecskemet Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Allendorf and Melsungen camps Life before the war. Deportation to a brick factory with the Jews; transfer to the Kecskemet Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz- Birkenau, 01 July 1944; camp life; transfer to Allendorf with a group of women, including her sister; camp life; forced labor; transfer to a room in the Revier, the camp hospital; receives lighter labor; transfer on a death march; the Germans flee; escape to a house belonging to the Hitler-Jugend...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Announcement regarding a population census of the Jews in all the Occupation Zones in Germany by order of the military

File Number : 1416

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters

Certificate given to Ulisse Finzi confirming that he was a collaborator in the work of the Psychological Warfare Branch of the Allied Forces Headquarters (AFHQ), signed by J. A. Vernoni, 20 July 1944

File Number : 244

Type of Material : Certification

Language : English

Rules governing civilian travel in the cities south of the front line, sent by the Comando Superiore Partigiani (CSP-Supreme partisan headquarters) in Rome to the Allied Forces Military Police Office in Rome (undated)

File Number : 105

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : Italian

Allied forces message form

File Number : 100

Type of Material : Form

Language : English

Personal documents, an address book and a 1944/1945 calendar belonging to Max Rosin, born on 15/06/1922, from the period of his stay in Flak Kaserne, a camp for survivors who were liberated at Dachau camp - Certificate of a Survivor of the Concentration Camps in Germany during 15/08/1941-02/05/1945; the certificate was issued in the Munich-Freimann DP camp in Germany on 05/08/1945; - D.P. Index Card, issued by the Allied Expeditionary Forces in the name of Faivl Zabar; - Jewish Calendar for Soldiers and Sailors, for the year 1944/1945, belonging to Max Rosin; written on the calendar are exercises for the...

File Number : 143

Type of Material : Survey Report

Testimony of Pesia Bodner, born in SimleuI, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Marghita Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Thersienstadt camps

Testimony

Testimony of Pesia Bodner, born in SimleuI, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Marghita Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Thersienstadt camps Life before the war; attends elementary school. Entry of the Hungarians; sanctions against Jews; move to relatives in Marghita; deportation of Jews to a ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including forced labor digging ditches; transfer to forced labor in an ammunitions factory near Dresden; Allied air-raids; evacuation from the camp on trains; transfer to Thersienstadt; liberation by the Red Army. Move to Prague and then to...

File Number : 10475

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation issued 1945-1980 regarding the military service of Dr. Robert Jacques Lederer, born in Paris, 1918, in the French Army, the Allied Forces and the US Army, 1939-1945, and more

Documentation issued 1945-1980 regarding the military service of Dr. Robert Jacques Lederer, born in Paris, 1918, in the French Army, the Allied Forces and the US Army, 1939-1945, and more - Documentation from 1945-1980 regarding the military service of Dr. Robert Jacques Lederer, born in Paris, 22 September 1918, in the French Army, 1939-1941, the Allied Forces and the US Army as a physician in 1945, and the places where he stayed during his service in France and Germany; - Letters written by Gérard Georges Lederer in Paris to the Israeli Ambassador in Paris and to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, 07 July 2016...

File Number : 14

Type of Material : Reports, Letter, Personal Records

Language : French, English

"De Vliegende Hollander" ("The Flying Dutchman") newspaper, Issue no. 11, distributed by the Special Forces Air Force en route to Germany, 29/09/1943

"De Vliegende Hollander" ("The Flying Dutchman") newspaper, Issue no. 11, distributed by the Special Forces Air Force en route to Germany, 29/09/1943 Included in the newspaper, among other articles: Buitenlandsch Overzicht section, a survey of the foreign news, a survey of the situation of the combat against the German U-boats, the Russian attack after the fall of Smolensk, the monetary agreement between the Netherlands and Belgium, quotations from the speech given by Churchill in Parliament after his return from the United States, the war in the Far East against Japan, appreciation in the British media...

File Number : 168

Type of Material : Newspaper

Language : Dutch

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