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Testimony of Shlomo Ronen Reismann, born in 1927 in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Bererhovo, living under a false identity in Budapest, and immigrating to Eretz Israel in 1944

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Ronen Reismann, born in 1927 in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Bererhovo, living under a false identity in Budapest, and immigrating to Eretz Israel in 1944 Life with his family in Berehovo; Hungary re-annexes the area; rest of the family is deported to Auschwitz; Dror Habonim movement activity; working in Budapest under a false identity; immigration to Eretz Israel in 1944; rehabilitation and adjustment to life in Eretz Israel.

File Number : 13515

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Miklosh Shapiro Shpira, born in Nyiracsad, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in Budapest, Oranienburg, Flossenbuerg, Buchenwald and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Miklosh Shapiro Shpira, born in Nyiracsad, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in Budapest, Oranienburg, Flossenbuerg, Buchenwald and other places Life before the war; traditional family; move to Budapest, 1939; attends a Jewish religious school. Life until 1944; German occupation, March 1944; escape to a marked house; life in an overcrowded house; life until November 1944; identified by an Arrow Cross member, late November 1944; deportation by train to Oranienburg; transfer with a group to a Henkel factory as a POW, 03 December 1944; camp life including an air-raid and destruction...

File Number : 13177

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tonia (Leichter) Tauber, born in Lancut, Poland, 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Lancut Ghetto, wanderings and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Tonia (Leichter) Tauber, born in Lancut, Poland, 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Lancut Ghetto, wanderings and in hiding Escape from the Lancut Ghetto, 1941-1942; splitting up of the family; life in hiding with her father and siblings in forests; life with her mother using a false identity; livelihood from odd jobs; escape from a village in the snow and cold; hunger; murder of her father and brother in forests; her mother keeps in contact with her children on a farm; disappearance of her mother, who was probably murdered by the Poles. Life with her aunt; move with her...

File Number : 12959

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora Zipi (Kraus) Engelman, born in Rachov, Czechoslovakia, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in Rakov, the Debrecen Ghetto, assumes a false idenity in Saint Miklos, Budapest and other places Life in Rachov. Deportation of her brother to camps; "Aktion"; concentration of the Jews including her mother and brother in readiness for deportation to Poland; deportation of the Jews to a building and murder of the Jews; escape with her mother and brother and in hiding in the mountains; crosses the border to Hungary with the additional refugees and the help of a guide; wait in a Hungarian...

File Number : 13171

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chana Henia (Zandberg) Yanai, born in Lodz, Poland, 1935, regarding her experiences as a child in Lodz, the Konskie Ghetto, assumes a false identity in Poznan and Radom

Testimony

Testimony of Chana Henia (Zandberg) Yanai, born in Lodz, Poland, 1935, regarding her experiences as a child in Lodz, the Konskie Ghetto, assumes a false identity in Poznan and Radom Outbreak of the war; loses contact with her father; escape with her mother to her grandparents in Konskie; her grandfather's beard and side locks are pulled off in the street; establishment of the Konskie Ghetto; ghetto life including entry of additional families to their home; rumors of murder; receives food from non-Jews; quick farewell from her mother and escape with her aunt to the protection of a Polish pharmacist's sister;...

File Number : 13139

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Else Pintus from Kartuzy, Poland, regarding her plight in Karthaus (Kartuzy), her illegal stay in Danzig and the survival in a hideout in Chmielno with the help of non-Jewish friends in form of a letter to her brother Paul in Berlin Invasion of Poland, occupation of Kartuzy on September 4, 1939; a 17 years old boy becomes the first victim, shot on one of the main roads of Kartuzy; Jews are forced to close their business and shops, raffles, house searches, confiscation of property; the home of the Pintus family is ransacked, all valuables are confiscated; three house searches: one for valuables,...

File Number : 465

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Testimony of Shimshon Akselrod born in Kolomyja, 1935, regarding his experiences as a young child in the Kolomyja Ghetto, in hiding in Czernowitz, Bucharest and Slatina

Testimony

Testimony of Shimshon Akselrod born in Kolomyja, 1935, regarding his experiences as a young child in the Kolomyja Ghetto, in hiding in Czernowitz, Bucharest and Slatina Soviet occupation; life during the Communist rule, 1939-1941; German occupation, 1941-1942; confiscation of property; deportation to the Kolomyja Ghetto; rescue by a German during an "Aktion"; in hiding with additional Jews, 1942; escape in the direction of Romania; in hiding under the house of a Czernowitz Jew, 1943; escape to the Bucharest and Slatina area; obtains a Swiss protective passport; air-raids on Romanian oil fields. Move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Shimon Vashitz, born in Lwow, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Lithuania, the Lwow Ghetto, using a false identity in Warsaw and in the Armia Krajowa (AK) underground using a Polish identity Life before the war; family of merchants. Outbreak of the war; escape to Lithuania; escape back to Lwow; life in Lwow under the German occupation; his mother obtains identity documents for the witness; work in an Italian automobile factory; murder of Jews; deportation to the Lwow Ghetto; Lwow Ghetto life; establishment of Janowska camp; obtains a forged birth certificate and a forged baptism...

File Number : 7263

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Edith Wolff, born in Berlin, Germany, 1904, regarding her activities in the underground, 1933-1943

Testimony of Edith Wolff, born in Berlin, Germany, 1904, regarding her activities in the underground, 1933-1943 Pages 2-5: Chapter 1 Prologue - Background until 1933: parental home (mixed marriage); school years; university; leaving the Protestant church; youth movement; conversion to Judaism, 1933. Pages 6-9: Chapter 2 The Dead People - Her Jewish father, Theodor Wolff, political writer, assimilated, member of the Centralverein deutscher Staaatsbuerger juedischen Glaubens (CV-Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith), anti-Zionist, victim of Eichmann's "Aktion" against...

File Number : 247

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Series of articles by Joachim Stolpmann that appeared in the "Nachtdepesche" newspaper regarding the lives of Jews in hiding in Berlin and help provided to Jews by German Christians, 1956

Series of articles by Joachim Stolpmann that appeared in the "Nachtdepesche" newspaper regarding the lives of Jews in hiding in Berlin and help provided to Jews by German Christians, 1956 In the file: - Newspaper clippings, including 10 articles regarding the experiences of Jews living illegally in Berlin, 1943-1945 (some using pseudonyms), how they survived (life in hiding, wanderings) and regarding the help they received from Germans (with emphasis on the Christian faith of the resecuers); - Brief introduction prepared by Dr. Kurt J. Ball-Kaduri including a short biography of six of the subjects of...

File Number : 126

Type of Material : Survey Report, Newspaper Clippings, Article, Record of Survivors, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : German

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