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Joint testimony of Jakob Haas, born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1941, and Jon (Josef) Haas, ‎born in Esbanderup, Denmark in 1943, regarding their escape from Denmark to Sweden

Joint testimony of Jakob Haas, born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1941, and Jon (Josef) Haas, ‎born in Esbanderup, Denmark in 1943, regarding their escape from Denmark to Sweden Children of a German father, who came to Denmark in 1939, and a Danish mother; the parents ‎worked on a farm with Hechalutz Movement aliya training, and in Saunte, near Copenhagen, ‎following the German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940; birth of the children; the family’s ‎escape to Sweden on fishing boats, with the help of Danish fishermen, in October 1943, and their ‎rescue from the Nazis; life in Landskrona, Sweden; placed in an...

File Number : 13714

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam (Gorosch) Lehman, born in Copenhaven, Denmark, 1925, regarding the transfer to Sweden by the Danish underground and her experiences in Malmo

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Gorosch) Lehman, born in Copenhaven, Denmark, 1925, regarding the transfer to Sweden by the Danish underground and her experiences in Malmo Childhood in Copenhagen; membership in the Juedische Jugend movement. German occupation; life until October 1943; refusal of the Danes to deport the Jews; agreement with the Swedish government and transfer of most of the Jewish population of Denmark to Malmo, Sweden on fishing boats (in exchange for money) via the Denske unterground (Danish underground); attitude of the Swedish population; transfer to various places; work; meeting her future...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chana Hana (Edelman) Shor, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in hiding in Copenhagen and Stockholm

Testimony

Testimony of Chana Hana (Edelman) Shor, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in hiding in Copenhagen and Stockholm Life before the war; religious family; attends the Jewish school. German occupation, 1940; warning to her father before Rosh Hashana (September) 1943; her family finds a hiding place in the home a woman friend from her father's work; escape to a vacation village; waits for a boat at night, in a dressing room on the beach; move to Sweden in a fishing boat; move to Stockholm; life in Stockholm including her father's work as a requisitions representative for...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arye Kurzweil, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Copenhagen, Ven, Malmo, Helsjon and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Arye Kurzweil, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Copenhagen, Ven, Malmo, Helsjon and other places Life in Copenhagen before the war; religious family; witness attends a Jewish school; activities in the Bnei Akiva movement. German occupation, April 1940; sending of packages by his mother and grandmother to Jews in Germany; escape with his father and younger brother to a village, October 1943; life in the village in a cellar; receives food from the underground; escape on a fishing boat to Ven Island; escape to Sweden on a Swedish ship; life in Sweden in...

File Number : 12970

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rudolf Zinreich, born in Berlin, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences before the war, in Budapest, Denmark and Sweden

Testimony

Testimony of Rudolf Zinreich, born in Berlin, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences before the war, in Budapest, Denmark and Sweden Life before the war; attends a German school; expulsion from school, 1933; joins the Blau-Weiss movement; work for a wholesale company; Kristallnacht, 1938; move to Budapest; emigration of his father to South Africa; return to Berlin, March 1939; aliya training on a farm in Denmark; marriage. German occupation, 1940; moves between various farms; life in hiding; escape to Sweden on a fishing boat. Aliya to Israel, 1950.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Yitzkhak Likhtenfeld, born in Bedzin, 1927, regarding his experiences in Bedzin, the Bedzin Ghetto, Sosnowiec, Crawinkel, Gleiwitz, Blechhammer and Buchenwald camps

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzkhak Likhtenfeld, born in Bedzin, 1927, regarding his experiences in Bedzin, the Bedzin Ghetto, Sosnowiec, Crawinkel, Gleiwitz, Blechhammer and Buchenwald camps Childhood and family background. Outbreak of the war, 1939; his father is drafted into the Polish Army; deportation to the Bedzin Ghetto; deportation to Sosnowiec, selection; transfer to Crawinkel; labor in the mines; transfer to Gleiwitz for a short time; transfer to Blechhammer; labor at carpentry; death march to Buchenwald, 1944; life in children's barracks; liberation by the US Army, 1945. Medical treatment; move to...

File Number : 12560

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Clara Jessula, a Turkish citizen residing in Milan during the German occupation, regarding her arrest with her mother in March 1944, detention, deportation to a labor camp in Germany, rescue and return to Turkey Residence in Milan with her mother; arrest by Otto Koch, late March 1944; transfer to the San Vittore prison in Milan; help from activists in the antifascist Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale (Committee for National Liberation) organization who were imprisoned there; difficult journey; improvement in the treatment by the German soldiers after intervention by the Turkish Consulate;...

File Number : 112

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Italian

Testimony of Barbara Schwarz, born in Gyongyos, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Hatvan Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Dachau camps and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Barbara Schwarz, born in Gyongyos, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Hatvan Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Dachau camps and other places Life before the war. Deportation to the Hatvan Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944; transfer to Plaszow camp; transfer back to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; transfer to Neustadt camp; transfer on foot to Gross-Rosen camp; transfer on foot to Dachau camp; camp life; transfer to Mauthausen camp; transfer to Bergen-Belsen camp; camp life; liberation. Move to Sweden for convalescence; marriage; emigration to Brazil; aliya to Israel, 1983.

File Number : 9263

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Rudolf Zinreich, born in Berlin, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences during Kristallnacht in Berlin, Budapest, Denmark and Sweden

Testimony

Testimony of Rudolf Zinreich, born in Berlin, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences during Kristallnacht in Berlin, Budapest, Denmark and Sweden Life in Nazi Germany including Kristallnacht; move to Budapest, 11 November 1938; return to Berlin; life in Berlin until 1939; move to Denmark; work in agriculture; escape to Falsterbo, October1943; move to a pioneers camp in Skane; work in agriculture in Fierlon; work in a glass factory; receives help to obtain documents for his family and other people in Budapest, April 1944. Aliya to Eretz Israel; work in a shoe factory; musician in the Israel Police...

File Number : 7462

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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