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Testimony of Moshe Marcel Oren Tanenbaum, born in 1932 in Strasbourg, about his experiences as a boy in Strasbourg, Vichy, an OSE children's home in Brout-Vernet, and in hiding in Longre Les Corps until 1944

Life before the war in parents' home; membership in the Adas Yisroel congregation; refutes from Eastern Europe arrive in 1938; city evacuated; witness escapes with family to Vichy; family receives a permit to stay there as refugees from Alsace-Lorraine; helped by the Jewish community; father inducted into the French Army in December 1939; French Army surrenders and Germans capture father; witness placed in an OSE childrens's home in theChateau de Morelles in Brout-Vernet; home managed by Dr. Alexandra Bass; attends school; father returns from internment in December 1941; German army invades French free zone in...

File Number : 13599

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Sigmund Weiss, born in Dunajska Streda, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Komarom, Banhida, Kisber, the Dunajska Streda Ghetto, Auschwitz and more

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Sigmund Weiss, born in Dunajska Streda, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Komarom, Banhida, Kisber, the Dunajska Streda Ghetto, Auschwitz and more Home life; annexation to Hungary, 1938 [name of town changed to its Hungarian name, Dunaszerdahely]; displays of antisemitism; cancellation of family business license; house searches; economic difficulties. German occupation, 1939; locking up Jews in a cellar, beatings and interrogations about valuables; hiding of the family valuables; draft and deportation to a labor camp in Komarom, 1942; escape during : Hanukkah...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the restoration of their civil rights to Romanian Jewry with help from organizations such as the Union of Romanian Jews and the Jewish General Council, under the leadership of Dr. Wilhelm Filderman Letters, newspaper clippings and reports regarding restoration of their civil rights to Romanian Jewry with help from organizations such as the Union of Romanian Jews and the Jewish General Council, under the leadership of Dr. Wilhem Filderman. Topics under consideration: restitution of property, reopening of schools and hospitals, return of buildings to the ownership of the community...

File Number : 118

Type of Material : Memorandum, Reports, Newspaper Clippings, Correspondence, Official Documentation

Language : French, Romanian, German

Correspondence between the General Jewish Council, with Dr. Filderman as its Chairman, and Jewish communities throughout Romania requesting assistance in various areas, such as:

Documentation regarding requests for assistance from the Jewish communities in Romania, restoration of their rights to the Jews, and the "Struma" affair Correspondence between the General Jewish Council, with Dr. Filderman as its Chairman, and Jewish communities throughout Romania requesting assistance in various areas, such as: - The situation of the deportees remaining in Transnistria; - Jews from Botosani who were taken captive by the Red Army (list of names included, p. 4); - Repatriation of young people from forced labor; - Release of Jewish refugees who escaped from Hungary; -...

File Number : 117

Type of Material : Correspondence, Newspaper Clippings

Language : French, Romanian

Testimony of Moshe Rabinovitz, born in Iasi, Romania, 1924, regarding his experiences in Iasi and Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Rabinovitz, born in Iasi, Romania, 1924, regarding his experiences in Iasi and Bucharest Attends high school; deteriorating attitude towards the Jews from 1933 onwards. Rise of the Iron Guard to power; restrictions on Jews and revocation of rights; move to Bucharest, 1940; pogroms against the Jews during the Iron Guard uprising against Prime Minister Antonescu, January 1941; opening of the Jewish University with the approval of the government; registers to study law; forced labor in the law department of the prime minister's office; work for two ministries; night school classes until...

File Number : 759

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters from members of the Cykiert family in the Dannes-Cammier camp, interned in Liège, in the Malines camp, and on the way to deportation; documentation from Belgium and Poland about the Lipszyc, Cykiert, Bock/Bok, and Jungst families - Liège from Maurice Cykiert, in the Dannes-Cammier camp, to his mother Rywka and his brother Salomon Joseph in Liège, 1942; - postcards from Salomon José Cykiert, imprisoned in La Citadelle de Liège and in the Malines camp, to his wife, Charlotte (Lemoine) Cykiert in Bressoux, 1942; - Salomon José Cykiert's last postcard, written to Charlotte Cykiert aboard a deportation...

File Number : 5788

Type of Material : Identity Card, Birth Certificate, Letter, Questionnaire, Certification, החלטה, Death Certificate, Envelope, Article, Genealogy, Personal Records, Newspaper Clippings, Biography, Project, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Postcard, Marriage Certificate, Protocol, Declaration

Language : Polish, French, English, Dutch, German

Testimony of Rina Kohen, nee Lesterger Sotruk, born in Oran, Algeria, in 1938, regarding her experiences in Algeria during war.

Testimony of Rina Kohen,nee Lesterger Sotruk,born in Oran,Algeria,in 1938,regarding her experiences in Algeria during war. Childhood before war; family background; outbreak of war,1939; father's enrolment into French army and his mutation to Lyon; his return to Oran,1941; beginning of the "anti-Jewish legislation" in Algeria; canceling of French nationality; dismissal of Jewish employees from government jobs; expulsion from schools; curfew; lack of food; occupation of Algeria by the allied forces; father's work at the port for American army; easing food supply; end of war,1945; riots in Jewish population by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gustav Gad Brosh Bershling, born in Botosani, Romania, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Botosani during the war

Testimony of Gustav Gad Brosh Bershling, born in Botosani, Romania, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Botosani during the war Childhood before the war; his father was a wealthy merchant; displays of antisemitism before and during the war; Outbreak of the war, 1940; information regarding the situation of the Jews in Europe; hosting fleeing Polish refugees; anti-Jewish legislation; confiscation of radio receivers; confiscation of clothing and valuables; imposition on the Jews of a special tax for the war effort; expulsion from school; studies at a Jewish school; his father's conscription into...

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea Louise Wachholder, born in 1933 in Paris, about her experiences as a girl in Paris and under a false identity in the Sarthe area

Testimony

Testimony of Lea Louise Wachholder, born in 1933 in Paris, about her experiences as a girl in Paris and under a false identity in the Sarthe area Life before the war; daughter of Communist parents; father: carpenter with his own workshop; war breaks out; witness deported with mother and brother to "winter" stadium in Paris on July 16, 1942; eighteen-year-old sister remains behind in family home; father escapes; witness hospitalized and undergoes appendectomy; mother and brother deported to Auschwitz and murdered there; witness taken to the Sarthe area with help of forged documents; life there as a non-Jew;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther (Estelle Strulovitz) Levi, born in Paris, France in 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in hiding in the Pyrenees during the years 1942-1944

Testimony

Testimony of Esther (Estelle Strulovitz) Levi, born in Paris, France in 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in hiding in the Pyrenees during the years 1942-1944 Her childhood, family background; non-religious, well-to-do family; outbreak of the war; grandfather commits suicide with the Nazi occupation in 1940; informed upon; escape to the Pyrenees; life in hiding in Lourdes and afterwards in another town; deportation of family members who had not escaped - to Drancy and from there to Auschwitz, where they were murdered; baptism of witness as a condition of hiding; attendance at a French school; end of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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