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Memoirs of Luigi Fleischmann, born in Fiume, Italy, 1928, regarding the experiences of his family in Fiume and Navelli, and personal documentation of Luigi Fleischmann from after the war

Memoirs of Luigi Fleischmann, born in Fiume, Italy, 1928, regarding the experiences of his family in Fiume and Navelli, and personal documentation of Luigi Fleischmann from after the war The memoirs were written in Milan in 1947 in the form of a diary starting in September 1943 and ending in June 1944. In 2007 Yad Vashem published the memoirs under the name, "From Fiume to Navelli: A Sixteen-Year-Old's Narrative of the Fleischmann Family and Other Free Internees in fascist Italy, September 1943-June 1944". The personal documentation belonging to Luigi Fleischmann: - Identity card of Luigi Fleischmann...

File Number : 8646

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Memoirs

Language : Italian

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Josef Giuseppe Gabai, born in Livorno, Italy, 1935, regarding his experiences in Livorno, Vinci, in hiding and in Florence

Testimony

Testimony of Josef Giuseppe Gabai, born in Livorno, Italy, 1935, regarding his experiences in Livorno, Vinci, in hiding and in Florence Emigration of his parents from Turkey; lack of earning a livelihood. Allied air-raids on Livorno, 1942; escape; they take shelter in the cemetery; escape to villages in a convoy of refugees; life as the only Jewish family in Vinci; detention by the fascist police force; detention in the Villa la Silva prison along with Italian partisans; release of the inmates by [other] partisans; in hiding while hidden by villagers; wanderings while using a Christian identity; retreat...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Alberto Blum, born in Istanbul, Turkey, 1924, regarding his experiences in Milan and with the Italian partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Alberto Blum, born in Istanbul, Turkey, 1924, regarding his experiences in Milan and with the Italian partisans His family's life in Istanbul before the war; his family's move to Milan, Italy, after the death of his father and brother; attitude of the local population. German occupation of Italy, and his move in the direction of Switzerland, 1943; meets with Italian partisans en route and joins the partisans; receives the nickname Claudio among the partisans; life among the partisans including operational activities; preparation of an airfield for the benefit of the British, and the shelling...

File Number : 11061

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Suzi (Fleischman) Najman, born in Zagreb, 1924, regarding her experiences in Split, in Lipari and other camps in Italy, and her escape with the help of the Italian partisans' organization From a well-to-do family in Zagreb; life before the war; the outbreak of the war; escape to Split with the assistance of Croatians who worked in her father's store; life in Split under Italian rule; arrest by Italian gendarmes, November 1941; deportation to Trieste; binding of the men in iron chains; deportation to the Lipari concentration camp for political prisoners in Sicily; camp life; Jewish and...

File Number : 11168

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Benjamin Borba, born in Tripoli, Libya, 1931, regarding his deportation to Italy and transfer to the Bergen-Belsen camp

Testimony

Testimony of Benjamin Borba, born in Tripoli, Libya, 1931, regarding his deportation to Italy and transfer to the Bergen-Belsen camp Family background; his family with British citizenship; studies in an Italian school; studies in Talmud Torah; anti-Semitism by Italian fascists before the war; Mussolini speeches against Jews. The outbreak of war; the bombings; concentration of Jews by the Germans in a school; stay about 3 days at the school; deportation to port and boarding a ship; arrival to Napoli; robbery of property at the train station; ride by train to Firenze, the end of 1941; deportation to Villa La...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Marcel Samokovlija, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Yugoslavian Army, deportation to Brac Island and Rab camp, and combat with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Marcel Samokovlija, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Yugoslavian Army, deportation to Brac Island and Rab camp, and combat with the partisans Life before the war; displays of antisemitism by children. Draft into the Yugoslavian Army because he has a driver's license, 1941; role as driver for army officers, from Sarajevo to Montenegro; travel to Split, under Italian occupation; receives forged documents from a Jewish group; steals coupons to buy food; joins a Communist organization; deportation to Brac island together with Jewish emigrants who had been under...

File Number : 7661

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Serbian-Croatian

Testimony of Joseph Fortis, born in Chalcis, Greece, 1925, regarding his experiences in Chalcis and in hiding in Martino

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Fortis, born in Chalcis, Greece, 1925, regarding his experiences in Chalcis and in hiding in Martino Life before the war. Draft of his brother into the Greek Army; transfer of his brother with the army to Albania, October 1940; defeat of the Greek Army in the war with the Italian Army; witness finds a hiding place in Martino due to his brother's request; detention of his father by Italians for suspicion of contact with partisans; acts of punishment by the Germans for partisan activities; his brother's rescue by a non-Jewish girlfriend; agricultural labor in the home of the village's...

File Number : 5826

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Otto Fried, born in Nova Gradiska, Yugoslavia, 1913, regarding his experiences as a Yugoslavian Army soldier, in Split, Korcula, with the Yugoslavian partisans and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Otto Fried, born in Nova Gradiska, Yugoslavia, 1913, regarding his experiences as a Yugoslavian Army soldier, in Split, Korcula, with the Yugoslavian partisans and other places Life before the war; Zionist activities. Drafted into the Yugoslavian Army, April 1941; escape and detention; evades deportation to a camp; escape to Split under the protection of the Italian authorities; transfer to Korcula, 1942; camp life under the supervision of the Italian Army; life in Vis including joining Yugoslavian partisans, 1942; life with the partisans as a veterinarian; help to the local residents;...

File Number : 5769

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Certificate granting exemption from reporting to the draft prepared by Comando Superiore Partigiani (CSP-Supreme Partisan Headquarters) activists in Rome

File Number : 99

Type of Material : Certification

Language : Italian

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