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Testimony of Avram Ciobotaru, born in Dorohoi, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in Dorohoi, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolskiy and Voroshilovka

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Testimony of Avram Ciobotaru, born in Dorohoi, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in Dorohoi, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolskiy and Voroshilovka His childhood in Dorohoi. Pogrom during the retreat of the Romanian Army; deportation to Atachi; robbery of property; transfer to Mogilev-Podolskiy in Transnistria; life in Mogilev for approximately one month; transfer on foot to Voroshilovka; life in Voroshilovka including life in tents; move to a room in the home of a local Jew; constant search for food; typhus disease. Move back to Dorohoi; move to Bucharest; life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1950.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shulamit Shlima (Markovitz) Barkan, born in Stefanesti, Romania, 1936, regarding her experiences as a child in Stefanesti and Botosani

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Testimony of Shulamit Shlima (Markovitz) Barkan, born in Stefanesti, Romania, 1936, regarding her experiences as a child in Stefanesti and Botosani Childhood in a religious Zionist family. Burning of Jewish homes, summer 1941; deportation to Botosani; yellow badge; difficulty in obtaining food; school attendance; clandestine activity in a Hashomer Hatzair group; displays of antisemitism; keeping the Jewish traditions; air-raids, Pesach (April) 1944; liberation by the Red Army. Detention of her father for Zionist activity; 29 November 1948 [1947?]; aliya to Israel, 1951.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliahu Fadlun, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Benghazi and Giado

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Testimony of Eliahu Fadlun, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Benghazi and Giado Life before the war; religious family; life under Italian occupation. Outbreak of the war; British occupation, 1940; German-Italian occupation; deportation to Giado; camp life; liberation by the British Army, 1943. Return to Benghazi; life in Benghazi; riots against the Jews by Moslems; escape to Tripoli; aliya to Israel on the "Theodor Herzl" ship, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gulia (Dadosh) Butbika, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in Benghazi and Giado

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Testimony of Gulia (Dadosh) Butbika, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in Benghazi and Giado Life before the war; religious family. Air-raids on Benghazi, 1941; escape to outside the city with her family; return to the family's home; finds their home broken into and empty; deportation to Giado; camp life including shortage of food; trade with Moslems via the camp's fences; typhus disease; transfer of men to forced labor; liberation by the British Army. Return to the family's home; riots against Jews, 1948; move to Tripoli; aliya to Israel, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Coca Erna (Abramovitz) Michelson, born in Itcani, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences as a child in Itcani, Mogilev-Podolski, Kachkovka, Shargorod and Bacau

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Testimony of Coca Erna (Abramovitz) Michelson, born in Itcani, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences as a child in Itcani, Mogilev-Podolski, Kachkovka, Shargorod and Bacau Life before the war. German-Romanian occupation, 1941; deportation to Mogilev-Podolski on foot with her mother; transfer to Kachkovka; life in a kolkhoz in Kachkovka including agricultural labor; her mother's death; transfer to an orphanage in Shargorod by the Jewish community; transfer to an orphanage in Bacau, 1944. Move to Bucharest, 1945; aliya to Israel on the ship, "Pan Crescent", 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit (Englender) Rot, born in Kezmarok, Czechoslovakia, 1936, regarding her experiences as a child in Kezmarok, Kosice and Lucenec

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Testimony of Yehudit (Englender) Rot, born in Kezmarok, Czechoslovakia, 1936, regarding her experiences as a child in Kezmarok, Kosice and Lucenec Life before the war. German occupation; escape with the family to Kosice; life in Kosice in the home of relatives, 1943; escape to Lucenec; life in Lucenec until 1944; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Kezmarok; life in Kezmarok; move to Genova; aliya to Israel on a ship "Abacia" [?], 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Alfonso Reginiano, born in Tripoli, Libya, 1932, regarding his experiences in Badia Del Pino, Fossoli, Bergen-Belsen and Vittel

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Testimony of Alfonso Reginiano, born in Tripoli, Libya, 1932, regarding his experiences in Badia Del Pino, Fossoli, Bergen-Belsen and Vittel Life before the war; attends a Talmud Torah. Deportation to Badia Del Pino by the Italian Army, due to his British citizenship, 1941; help from the Florence Jewish community and the Red Cross; transfer to Fossoli by the Germans; deportation to Bergen-Belsen; camp life including celebrating the Pesach seder; transfer to Vittel; liberation on the Spanish border. Move to Lisbon; return to Tripoli, 1945; help from the JDC; life after the war; aliya to Israel with...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ephraim Guetta, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1926, regarding his experiences in Benghazi, La Marsa and Guelma

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Testimony of Ephraim Guetta, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1926, regarding his experiences in Benghazi, La Marsa and Guelma Life before the war; witness learns in a Talmud Torah and attends an Italian school. Outbreak of the war, 1939; move between the Italian occupied zone and the British occupied zone, five times; deportation to La Marsa with his family; camp life; transfer by Italians to Guelma, 1943; life in Guelma. Return to Benghazi, 1945; aliya to Israel on the "Galilah" ship, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Misa Ines (Ezra) Navon, born in Tripoli, Libya, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in Tripoli and Sfax

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Testimony of Misa Ines (Ezra) Navon, born in Tripoli, Libya, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in Tripoli and Sfax Life in Tripoli before the war. Approach of the war front; escape with her family; escape back to Tripoli; life in Tripoli including deportation to the city square by Italian soldiers; deportation to Sfax by train by Italian soldiers; camp life with her family including her brother's death; lack of activity; liberation by the British Army, 1943. Life in Sfax under the supervision of French policemen; return to Tripoli; life in Tripoli including displays of antisemitism on the part...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yafa Aleksander, born in Russia, in 1942, regarding her family's deportation to Russia.

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Testimony of Yafa Aleksander, born in Russia,in 1942, regarding her family's deportation to Russia. Family's deportation from Poland to Russia; wanderings on roads; childhood in Russia after outbreak of war; aliya to Israel,1950; adoption by aunt; life in Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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