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Memoirs of Arno Herzberg, born in Filehne, Germany, regarding his experiences as a journalist for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) in Berlin under the Nazi regime in 1933-1938

Memoirs of Arno Herzberg, born in Filehne, Germany, regarding his experiences as a journalist for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) in Berlin under the Nazi regime in 1933-1938 Situation of the Jews in Germany under the anti-Jewish policies during the 1930s; Herzberg's dismissal from work as the assistant District Attorney following the rise to power of the Nazi Party in 1933; he receives a position at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), 1935; activities by the JTA and intervention in its activities by the Nazi regime; displays of antisemitism and anti-Jewish propaganda in the German press; Nazi...

File Number : 1962

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, English

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Testimony on "labor battalions" in Baia-Mare, Stanislawow, and Kosow; escaping into the Russian-occupied zone; "Aktion" in Huszt ghetto.

File Number : 63

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish, Hungarian

Testimony of Shoshana Rosa (Urbakh) Levavi, born in Cologne, Germany, 1931 regarding her escape to Poland, the move to Trieste, and her aliya to Eretz Israel in 1939

Testimony

Daughter of a family of Polish immigrants in good economic standing; residence in Saarbrücken; antisemitic capture of her father for theft; the family's escape to Poland, likely in 1935. Life in her mother's family home in Lodz; her father's arrival; the father assaulted the mother and disappeared; life for about a year in Lodz; making contact with her mother's brother and relocation to Trieste with the intention of Aliya to Eretz Israel; receiving help from the Eretz Israel Office in Trieste; life routine and the Jewish community's attitude in the city. Her mother's meeting with Henrietta Szold and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Margalit Fried Orbach, born in Saarbrücken, Germany, 1926 regarding her family's escape to Poland under the League of Nations' mandate, their subsequent move to Italy, and her aliya to Eretz Israel in 1938, and service as a professional nurse in a detention camp in Cyprus; her integration and rehabilitation

Daughter of family of Polish immigrants in good economic standing; she moved to live in Illingen for a year due to family difficulties; antisemitic capture of her father, 1934. Along with her mother and siblings she fled to the parents' families in Poland; life in her father's family's home in Pabianice without her mother; moving with her mother to her grandparents' home in Lodz for a short time; moving to Trieste; receiving assistance from the Eretz Israel Office; her mother's suicide attempt to facilitate obtaining certificates for Eretz Israel for the children; her mother's meeting with Henrietta Szold...

Language : Hebrew

Transcript of an interview with Simkha Brudno, born in Siauliai, regarding his experiences in the Siauliai Ghetto and in Dachau and Stutthof camps during the Holocaust, and his life in Israel and the United States after the war The ghetto: Reasons for the rarity of escapes from the ghetto (hunger and being informed on by local residents); attempted escapes from the ghetto; escape of a group of young people into the forests; informed on by Lithuanians and their return to the ghetto; refusal of people to escape due to the dangers and harsh conditions outside the ghetto; The ghetto leaders keep quiet...

File Number : 9206

Type of Material : Interview(s)

Language : English

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