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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Binyamin Ben Dor Zalewski, born in 1926 in Warsaw, about his experiences in Paris and in the Mauthausen and Maria Lanzendorf camps

Testimony of Binyamin Ben Dor Zalewski, born in 1926 in Warsaw, about his experiences in Paris and in the Mauthausen and Maria Lanzendorf camps Witness born in Warsaw; family emigrates to Paris in 1927; witness placed in an orphanage in infancy; cut off from family; abused on account of Jewish origin; escapes from orphanage; vagrant life in the street as a member of street gangs; German occupation ensues in 1940; manhunts; witness escapes from deportation; joins the resistance; captured while smuggling arms; arrested and tortured; deported as a political prisoner to the camp in Maria Lanzandorf; transferred...

File Number : 14372

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documents of the Ickowicz family from France, documentation regarding the deportation of Benjonc Ickowicz, the hiding of Georgette Ickowicz and her brother, and the family's memoirs

Personal documents of the Ickowicz family from France, documentation regarding the deportation of Benjonc Ickowicz, the hiding of Georgette Ickowicz and her brother, and the family's memoirs Personal documents of the Ickowicz family: - Livret de Famille (Family Register) of Benjonc Ickowicz born in Piaski, 02/06/1906 and his wife Basse Cheve Batsheva Isabelle Gottlieb, born in Liepaja, 19/01/1906, issued in Paris, 25/01/1936; - Birth certificate of Georgette Ickowicz (the daughter of Basse Cheve Isabelle and Benjonc Ickowicz), born in Neuilly sur Seine, 20/05/1939, issued in Neuilly sur Seine,...

File Number : 575

Type of Material : Certification, Personal Documents, Letter, Documentary, Memoirs, Announcement

Language : Hebrew, French

Testimony of Helen Lang Degani, born in Strasbourg, France, 1925, regarding deportation to the south of France and participation in underground activity

Testimony

Childhood; arrival of refugees from Germany; outbreak of war; deportation of residents of Strasbourg to the south of France in 1939; temporary accommodation in a local house in Perigueux; transfer to Limoges; receiving a forged identity card; work with the Jewish underground; activities of the Gestapo and the deportation of the Jews; the burning of the village of Oradour Sur Glane as punishment for killing Germans; air-raids; liberation by the US Army on 22 August 1944; aliya to Eretz Israel in 1946.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew