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Memoirs of Mimi Camhi de Faraggi regarding her experiences in Skoplje, Urosevac and using a false identity in Albania

Memoirs of Mimi Camhi de Faraggi regarding her experiences in Skoplje, Urosevac and using a false identity in Albania Life in Skoplje during the German occupation, 06 April 1941; escape together with her family to Urosevac, 10 March 1943; her family remaining in Skoplje and their murder in Treblinka; escape to Albania; life in Albania using a false identity as a Muslim; end of the war. Return to Skoplje; life in Skoplje; finding an album that her grandparents entrusted to a friend, 1946; life during the Soviet regime; escape to Albania; escape to Italy; life in the Bari DP camp; move to live near the...

File Number : 8578

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Spanish

Testimony of Anita Chana (Aharon) Bar, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1934, regarding her experiences in Mostar, Split, Korcula, Bari and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Anita Chana (Aharon) Bar, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1934, regarding her experiences in Mostar, Split, Korcula, Bari and other places Life before the war; activities of her father in the Jewish community. Outbreak of the war, April 1941; her father is a POW in German captivity; obtains transfer papers; move to Molstar dressed in traditional Muslim dress, February 1942; deportation of relatives to Jasenovac; move to Italian occupied Split; transfer by the Italians to Korcula; Italian surrender, 1943; transfer on fishing boats to a camp near Bari; transfer to Santa Croce. Return to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel (Bachar) Lazar, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Berat, Shkoder and in hiding using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Bachar) Lazar, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Berat, Shkoder and in hiding using a false identity Life before the war; membership in Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. German occupation, April 1941; decrees; transfer of authority to the Italians; exile to Berat; German occupation, September 1943; escape of the family to Shkoder; arrest, interrogation and release; wanderings of the family; assumes a false identity; discovery of her Jewish identity; in hiding; contact with Albanian partisans; liberation. Return to Pristina, 1944.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Stela Ester (Baruch) Levi, born in Kosovska Mitrovica, Yugoslavia, 1940, regarding her experiences as a toddler in Kosovska Mitrovica, her rescue by a Hajrija Imeri-Mihajic, a Gypsy woman (recognized as a Righteous among the Nations), in a Gypsy village and using a false identity German occupation, April 1941; witness goes to live with her grandmother when she is six months old because her mother, Yaffa Baruch, and her husband join the partisans; deportation to Kosovska Mitrovica with her grandmother and other Jews; camp life including the visit of Hajrija Imeri-Mihajic, a Gypsy woman (later...

File Number : 4553

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea (Reuben) Katz, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia, 1932, regarding her experiences in Pristina, Bergen-Belsen and Trebic

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Reuben) Katz, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia, 1932, regarding her experiences in Pristina, Bergen-Belsen and Trebic Witness is descended from a family exiled from Spain; life in a mixed Jewish, Christian and Mosle0m neighborhood; attitudes of the non-Jews towards the Jews. Outbreak of the war; Italian occupation; German occupation; deportation by local collaborators, apparently Moslem military men) to an assembly point, early 1944; exchange of gold for bread; deportation in cattle cars to Bergen-Belsen; camp life; abuse of young female inmates; joins her mother and older sister in their...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel (Adiges) Cohen, born in Pristina, 1927, regarding her experiences in Pristina, Barat, Semlin and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Adiges) Cohen, born in Pristina, 1927, regarding her experiences in Pristina, Barat, Zemlin and Bergen-Belsen camps The Jewish-Sephardi experience in Pristina; Jewish holidays, special foods and customs; friendly attitude of Moslem neighbors; community activities and mutual aid. Arrival of Jewish refugees from Poland, Germany and Czechoslovakia; hosting a Czech refugee in their home; entry of the Germans and transfer of rule to the Italian Army, 1941; life under Italian rule; escape to Albania following warnings by the Italians, early 1943; move to Barat with most of the Jews of...

File Number : 10953

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew