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Testimony

Testimony of Meir Emil Hirschler, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, his unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the "Pencho" ship, and his experiences in Mohacs, Rodi and Ferramonti di Tarsia camps and in other places Life before the war; activities in the Beitar movement. Persecution of Jews, as of October 1938; activities for self-defense in the Jewish quarter; giving of help to refugees by the Jewish community; Aryanization; decision to escape from Slovakia; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the "Pencho" ship, May 1940; stopping of the ship...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Hirsh Ksienski, born in Jedrzejow, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in Jedrzejow, aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939, service in the British Army in Greece and in German captivity in Stalag 6 camp Life before the war; meets Menachem Begin; payment of bribery to Poles; aliya to Eretz Israel with Aliya Bet, 1939. Enlists in the British Army, 1940; life during service in the British Army in Greece including being taken captive, 1941; life in Germany in Stalag 6 camp; transfer on a death march; liberation, February 1945. Return to Eretz Israel, 1945.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Yitzchak [Gerd] Zakai, written in a letter to his parents during travel from Spain to Eretz Israel including while on board a ship, 26 October-19 November 1944, regarding his experiences as a refugee in France Life in France as a refugee; [activities] in the French Foreign Legion; [activities] in the Jewish Scouts underground; move to the border of Spain with a group of Scouts.

File Number : 7145

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Testimony of Yitzhak Kramer, born in Bonn, Germany, 1925, regarding his experiences in Germany and France

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Kramer, born in Bonn, Germany, 1925, regarding his experiences in Germany and France Antisemitism in Worms before the war; Kristallnacht events, November 1938. Life in Mannheim, 1938-1940; deportation with his family to Gurs and Rivesaltes camps in France and his stay in camp until June 1942; camp life; help to children by the Swiss Red Cross; Jewish Scouts activities with help from the YMCA; transfer to Lautrec, June 1942; unsuccessful attempt to escape to Switzerland, September 1942; detention in a prison in Annecy; release from prison because he is a minor; life in Guitalens while...

File Number : 6677

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pinchas Elstein, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1936, regarding his escape to the Soviet Union and his experiences in Tashkent

Testimony

Testimony of Pinchas Elstein, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1936, regarding his escape to the Soviet Union and his experiences in Tashkent Childhood in Warsaw before the war; outbreak of war; escape to the Soviet Union in the first days after the outbreak of the war; arrival in Tashkent; life in Tashkent; living in barracks for refugees; labor of his mother in a shoe factory for the Red Army; hunger; disease; transfer to an orphanage; attending school; end of the war; return to Poland; arrival in Warsaw; transfer to Szczecin; life in a UNRRA camp for several months; joining Youth Aliyah; aliya to Israel via...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Shiloach, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1932, regarding the experiences of his family in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Shiloach, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1932, regarding the experiences of his family in Budapest Childhood in Budapest; antisemitism before the war; life under the rule of the Arrow Cross organization; helping Jewish refugees from Poland in 1939; transfer of his father to labor battalions in the Hungarian Army; obtaining forged papers for his father and hiding him; German occupation in 1944; escape with his brother and sister to a sheltered house under the auspices of the Swiss Embassy; air-raids; eviction of his mother to the Budapest Ghetto; release of his mother through paying bribes;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana (Davidman) Sevron, born in Kiwerce, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Styrj Ghetto and using an assumed identity

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana (Davidman) Sevron, born in Kiwerce, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Styrj Ghetto and using an assumed identity Childhood in a Zionist family; Hebrew studies; family’s move to Styrj, Poland, 1935; German occupation, September 1939; escape with her mother to Ribnik and back; Soviet occupation; her father’s dismissal from work and reinstatement; attendance at a Soviet school; joining the Soviet Pioneer Youth movement; German occupation, June 1941; end of studies; deportation to the Jewish Quarter in the ghetto, late 1941; her father’s work in a nationalized sawmill in...

File Number : 13819

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew