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Testimony of Rivka van Coevorden née van Amstel, born in 1924 in Coevorden, Netherlands, about her experiences in Amsterdam and in hiding in the Netherlands during the war

Testimony

Life before the war; offspring of a family that had lived in the Netherlands since 1400; moving to Amsterdam in 1938; war breaks out in 1940; deportation to a labor camp; escape; assigned to farm labor; marries and gives birth to a daughter; hiding in various places; liberation; reunited with daughter; life after the war; immigration to Israel in 1951; adjustment to life in Israel.

File Number : 13536

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of Sabina Korn-Neuberg, born in Leczno, Poland, 1933, including a claim for compensation from the District Court for Social Affairs in Essen, Germany, 1944-2012

Documentation of Sabina Korn-Neuberg, born in Leczno, Poland, 1933, including a claim for compensation from the District Court for Social Affairs in Essen, Germany, 1944-2012 - Article titled, "Chasias Kinder" published in the German magazine "Stadt Revue", November 1994, regarding the activities of Chasia Bielicka who took orphan Jewish Holocaust survivors under her wing, including Sabina Neuberg; attached to the article is a photograph [of Sabina Neuberg] from 1946; - Invitation to the Second Conference, on 20 May 2000, sent to Sabina Korn; - Six lists containing the names of children in Poland who...

File Number : 1226

Type of Material : Lists, Poems/songs, Survivors and Refugees Registration Form, Letter, Personal Documents, Correspondence, Article, List of Orphan Children, Legal Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Survey Report, Drawing, Propaganda

Language : Polish, English

Testimony of Dr. Joseph (Zvi) Haas, born in 1925 in Culemborg, Netherlands, about his experiences in Culemborg, Utrecht, and in various hideouts in the vicinity of Driebergen

Testimony

Testimony of Dr. Joseph (Zvi) Haas, born in 1925 in Culemborg, Netherlands, about his experiences in Culemborg, Utrecht, and in various hideouts in the vicinity of Driebergen Offspring of a traditional family; attends public school; war breaks out in 1940; switches to a Jewish school in Utrecht; anti-Jewish restrictions escalate; attempt to escape to Switzerland fails; family fleet to hiding with a customer of the witness' father in October 1942; family splits up several weeks later; wandering among different families (mainly religious ones) in the vicinity of Driebergen for two and a half years; finding...

File Number : 13542

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Letter sent by Jenny and Hermann Wagenberg, born in Germany, to Max Stern, Jenny's brother in Eretz Israel, on 27 January 1945, containing their experiences in the Netherlands, 1942-1944

Letter sent by Jenny and Hermann Wagenberg, born in Germany, to Max Stern, Jenny's brother in Eretz Israel, on 27 January 1945, with their experiences in the Netherlands, 1942-1944 Deportation from their home in Bussum to the Asterdorp neighborhood in Amsterdam; concentration in the Asterdorp neighborhood of the Jews who were deported from their homes in the Netherlands; transfer to De Hollandsche Schouwburg where the Jews were assembled prior to their deportation to the camps; non-Jewish Dutch people find a hiding place for Jenny and Hermann Wagenberg; being hidden by farmers in a farm near Zutphen; life in...

File Number : 9957

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs

Article regarding the experiences of Ester Zamri, born in Poland during the war, and the Roots trip she had with her family

Article regarding the experiences of Ester Zamri, born in Poland during the war, and the Roots trip she had with her family Article regarding the experiences of Ester Zamri during the war, including life in hiding with her mother and her two siblings in Mieleszki; murder of her mother and one of her siblings by Poles; rescue of Ester and her brother Aryeh by Poles; aliya of Ester and her brother to Eretz Israel within the framework of legal aliya of orphans; holding of a Roots trip to Poland with her children and grandchildren; meeting the daughter of the Poles who saved her.

File Number : 316

Type of Material : Article

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

File Number : 13775

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation belonging to Chaja Waterman, sister of Mirjam (Waterman) Pinkhof, from Loosdrecht, the Netherlands, 1934-1976

Documentation belonging to Chaja Waterman, sister of Mirjam (Waterman) Pinkhof, from Loosdrecht, the Netherlands, 1934-1976 - Diary kept by Chaja while she was in summer camp; - Letters written by Mirjam (Waterman) Pinkhof to her sister, Chaja (pp. 1-12), summer 1935; - Memoirs from the time Chaja Waterman was hidden on their farm by the Zwaagstra family (Sjoerd and Aukje) in the Friesland region, 02 November 1943-08 June 1945; - Letters written to her family by Chaja Waterman during the time she was being hidden on the farm (pp. 20-72); - Additional letters and documents regarding the De...

File Number : 43

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Speech, Diary, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch

Testimonies of Szmul Maler and Kazimiera Korczak, regarding the hiding of a group of Jews by Stanislaw Sobczak in Frampol from 01/11/1942 until 27/07/1944

Testimonies of Szmul Maler and Kazimiera Korczak, regarding the hiding of a group of Jews by Stanislaw Sobczak in Frampol from 01/11/1942 until 27/07/1944 Testimony of Szmul Maler regarding his being hidden in a barn along with 11 other Jews by Stanislaw Sobczak, who took care of them and supplied them with food; escape of the Jews who were in hiding at the outbreak of the battles before the liberation, and the farm's buildings are set on fire on 27/07/1944; refusal by Sobczak to receive valuables before the Jews he was hiding left the hiding place; murder of five of the Jews by an Armia Krajowa (AK) unit;...

File Number : 6310

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish, Yiddish

Documents of Erna (Bindelglas) Stopper, regarding her experiences in the Netherlands during the war; documents dated, 1943-1989

Documents of Erna (Bindelglas) Stopper, regarding her experiences in the Netherlands during the war; documents dated, 1943-1989 - Newspaper article from the "Jewish News", published in Phoenix, the United States, April 1989, describing the experiences of Erna (Bindelglas) Stopper, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1930, and her family members during the war, and a report of her visit with her husband in the homes of the families where she was in hiding during 17 September 1943-05 May 1945; - Official documentation confirming that Erna (Bindelglas) Stopper lived in hiding.

File Number : 7177

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Testimony

Language : English, Dutch

Two letters sent after the liberation of the southern section of the Netherlands to Miep and Ari de Leeuw whose daughter Liesje was hidden by the Bockma family, a Christian family in Heerlerbaan [later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations] in the Limberg district; panel with the national anthem of the Netherlands, "Wilhelmus", 1943-1945 - Letter sent by Mr. Harmen Bockma, the father of the Christian family that hid Liesje de Leeuw to [her parents] Miep and Ari de Leeuw, 24 March 1945: Liesje has developed nicely, she is healthy and loved by all the members of the family (the family had eight...

File Number : 153.1.4

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