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Testimony of Rachel (Niego) Serezo, born in Paris, France, 1935, regarding her experiences in Paris, Lyon and in hiding in a monastery

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Niego) Serezo, born in Paris, France, 1935, regarding her experiences in Paris, Lyon and in hiding in a monastery Emigration of her family from Turkey to Paris; her childhood in a Sephardi Jewish community. Outbreak of the war; life under German occupation; escape to Lyon, 1942; receives help from the local population; in hiding in a monastery, 1943; receives a religious, Christian education, until 1944; liberation. Return to Judaism; life fafter the war; move back to Paris; aliya to Israel; life in Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : French

Testimony of Michael Lipel, born in Munich, Germany, 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in a mixed family in Gauting and in hiding in Munich

Testimony

Testimony of Michael Lipel, born in Munich, Germany, 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in a mixed family in Gauting and in hiding in Munich Life before the war; his mother is Jewish and his father is a non-Jew; his father is an architect and painter; receives a catholic education. Outbreak of the war; draft of his father to the German Army; transfer of his father to the Soviet Union front; his father is wounded and hospitalized in a military hospital; release of his father, 1942; draft of his father to forced labor in a salt mine for the establishment of subterranean factories, 1944; life in...

File Number : 13238

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dorit (Bresler) Dekel, born in Metz, 1932, regarding her experiences in Limoges and a school in Beynac

Testimony

Testimony of Dorit (Bresler) Dekel, born in Metz, 1932, regarding her experiences in Limoges and a school in Beynac Family of Polish immigrants who own a store. Draft of her father into the French Army, 1939; move to Paris; move to Angouleme, May 1940; her father's return home; witness attends school until 1942; anti-Jewish decrees; escape to Limoges; detention of some of the family members; life in hiding in a Christian school in Beynac, 1943; secret visits to family members in various hiding places; detention of her father; her father's death; escape to a forest; return to school; liberation. Life...

File Number : 12423

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara Avinun, born in Bilgoraj, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in Brody and using a false identity in a monastery, orphanage and with an adoptive Christian family

Testimony

Testimony of Sara Avinun, born in Bilgoraj, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in Brody and using a false identity in a monastery, orphanage and with an adoptive Christian family Outbreak of the war and the burning of Bilgoraj; family moves to Lwow under Soviet rule; German occupation and move to Brody; life in a ghetto and labor camps; life with Ukrainians in exchange for payment; attempt to murder her when the payment ceased; her escape; help from a Ukrainian policeman; murder of her parents and brother; wanderings and hardships during her escape; changes her name to Irena Yablanska following the...

File Number : 7832

Type of Material : Testimony, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Betty (Lewkowitz) Eppel, born in Valenciennes, France, 1935, regarding her and her relatives' experiences in hiding in France

Testimony

Testimony of Betty (Lewkowitz) Eppel, born in Valenciennes, France, 1935, regarding her and her relatives' experiences in hiding in France Escape in summer, 1940; birth of her youngest brother; return to Valenciennes; farmers hide the family's children, September 1942; sets sail to Lyon inside a coal storeroom in a freight ship with her father, five year old brother and her aunt; travel to Chambery; travel on foot in the mountains until they reach a couple of farmers on a farm; detention of her mother and the baby; her father hides in the area; conditions on the farm; name changes; Christian education; piano...

File Number : 10571

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : French

Memoirs of Hadasa Levin (maiden name: Hirshovitz) regarding her experiences in 1941-1946, memoirs of her son Joseph Aryeh Elias regarding her death in Munich in 1946, and additional documentation regarding the fate of Hadasa Levin "Bat-Ami": The memoirs of Hadasa Levin (maiden name: Hirshovitz), born in Panevezys in 1912, regarding her experiences in the ghettos, in camps and hiding places during the Holocaust and on her way to Israel after the Holocaust (written in the third person, as the story of the experiences of Shifra): Arrival of the witness and her son at the home of her husband's parents in...

File Number : 11108

Type of Material : Play(s), Script(s), Memoirs, Draft, Article, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Testimony of Klarka (Knoll) Gal, born in 1935 in Burakowka, Poland, about her experiences in Ukraine, the Tluste ghetto, and with a Polish family

Testimony of Klarka (Knoll) Gal, born in 1935 in Burakowka, Poland, about her experiences in Ukraine, the Tluste ghetto, and with a Polish family Childhood with younger sister in an affluent family in Burakowka; German occupation ensues on June 22, 1941; family escapes toward eastern Ukraine; wanders; reaches Tluste; Tluste ghetto established; Aktion in the ghetto in September 1941; 3,000 Jews murdered in killing trenches; witness survives the Aktion along with parents and sister; survives the second Aktion; witness and sister spend two years living with a Polish family; witness receives Christian education;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

זכרונותיה של יהודית הברמן לבית סטבון, שם קודם אירן סיטבון, ילידת La Goulette 1936, על קורותיה במסתור אצל משפחה נוצרית בתוניסיה בתקופת השואה ועל פעילותה בתנועה "דרור - צעירי ציון" מ-1949 ועד עלייתה לישראל ב-1954

Memoirs of Yehudit (Irene) Haverman née Sidbon (b. 1936 in La Goulette, Tunisia) about her history in La Goulette, in hiding in Carthage and La Marsa - Memoirs of Yehudit (Irene) Haverman née Sidbon, written in 2009: The family's life in La Goulette; occupation on Tunisia by the German Army; in hiding at the age of five with a Christian family in the Carthage area; father is placed in a labor camp in Bizerte; mother's life with three children; deportation of the Jews of La Goulette to La Marsa; life in La Marsa, including hunger and morbidity; the brother, Yaakov, dies in La Marsa; studies in the Carthage...

File Number : 9781

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Memoirs, Excerpt(s), הודעה

Language : Hebrew, French, German

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