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Testimony of Shimon Levin and additional testimony by Miriam Levin regarding aliya training in the Netherlands, going underground and illegal aliya, 1936-1944

Testimony of Shimon Levin and additional testimony by Miriam Levin regarding aliya training in the Netherlands, going underground and illegal aliya, 1936-1944 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, April 1956: - Work in Werkdorf (Work Village) in Wieringen, a Hechalutz training farm, May 1940-June 1941; - Work as a carpenter in Apeldoornse Bos, a Jewish psychiatric clinic, in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, June 1941; Handwritten testimony of Miriam Levin, wife of Shimon Levin: - Discovers that the patients...

File Number : 5156

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Report, Memoirs, Testimony, Questionnaire

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Seew (Werner) Hirschfeld regarding aliya training in Germany and the Netherlands, life in hiding in the Netherlands, betrayal and deportation to Westerbork, escape, escape to Spain via Belgium and France, 1936-1944 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, August 1955: - Aliya training in Germany, 1936-1939, - Aliya training in the Netherlands, 1939-1943; - Going underground in the Netherlands, life in hiding, early 1943-early 1944; - Unsuccessful escape attempt to France with a mixed group of...

File Number : 5143

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Names, Memoirs, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Josef Heinrich regarding his emigration to the Netherlands, aliya training in Loosdrecht, life in hiding in the Netherlands and Belgium, capture and forced labor in Belgium and France, escape to Spain and aliya, 1938-1944 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, September 1955: - Emigration from Germany to the Netherlands, 15 November 1938; - Hechalutz Youth Aliyah training camp in Loosdrecht, the Netherlands, until 15 August 1942; - Going underground, August 1942, life in hiding in Arnheim and...

File Number : 5140

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Testimony, Names, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Ascher Heinrich, regarding his emigration to the Netherlands, stay in a Jewish orphanage in the Netherlands, aliya training in Loosdrecht, life in hiding in the Netherlands and Belgium, capture and forced labor in Belgium and France, escape to Spain and aliya, 1938-1944 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, September 1955: - Looting of the family home in Frankfurt am Main by the Nazis, on Kristallnacht; - Emigration from Germany to the Netherlands, 15 November 1938; - Stay in a Jewish orphanage...

File Number : 5139

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Names, Testimony, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Simon Gutmann regarding his detention in Buchenwald following Kristallnacht, emigration to the Netherlands, aliya training, forced labor in Nunspeet, detention in Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen, 1938-1946 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, April 1957: - Detention in Buchenwald, November-December 1938; - Emigration from Germany to the Netherlands, January 1939; - Aliya training in Enschede, May 1940-June 1941; - Draft to forced labor camp in Nunspeet, on 27 August 1942; - Deportation to...

File Number : 5136

Type of Material : Testimony, Memoirs, Questionnaire, Names

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Batia Stern-Britz, regarding her Hachshara (aliya training) in Havelberg, Germany and Loosdrecht, the Netherlands, 1938-1942, life in hiding in the Netherlands, 1942-1944, and escape to Spain followed by aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, April 1956: Testimony of Batia Stern-Britz, including aliya training in Havelberg, Germany, 1938; emigration to the Netherlands, January 1939; apprenticeship and aliya training in the Netherlands, 1939-1942; going underground in the...

File Number : 5105

Type of Material : Testimony, Memoirs, Questionnaire, Names

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Linni de Bruin-Levi, regarding her placement in youth Hachshara (aliya training) in the Netherlands, deportation to Westerbork, transfer to Bergen-Belsen, Palestine-exchange to Eretz Israel, 1941-1944 This file contains: Testimony of Linni de Bruin-Levi, including her placement in a youth Hachshara (aliya training) home in Elden, the Netherlands, March 1941-October 1942; deportation to and detention in Westerbork, October 1942-February 1944; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, February 1944; emigration through a Palestine-exchange to British Mandatory Palestine, June-July 1944; Names mentioned...

File Number : 5104

Type of Material : Memoirs, Postcard, Names, Testimony

Language : German

Memoirs of Otto S. Leib, born in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, 1909, regarding his experiences in Germany, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Mandatory Palestine, 1933-1937

Memoirs of Otto S. Leib, born in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, 1909, regarding his experiences in Germany, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Mandatory Palestine, 1933-1937 Memoirs titled, "Auf Umwegen nach Amerika, Die Familien- und Lebensgeschichte eines Konstanzers in Amerika" ("Arrival to America in a Roundabout Way: Family and Life History of a Constanzer in America"). Born in Kreuzlingen, 1909, son of Ivan Leib from Constanz, Germany, and Hedwig (Bloch) Leib, both Jewish; family life, sister, Ida Esther, born in 1912; school attendance in Constanz; commercial apprenticeship in Nuremberg and Bochum,...

File Number : 3701

Type of Material : Excerpt(s), Correspondence, Certification, Bibliography, Article, Investigation Report, Genealogy, Note, Memoirs, Reports, Newspaper Clippings, Letter(s), Photograph, Research Article

Language : German

Reports from meetings of the Hitachdut Zionim-Democratim-Ichud Central Committee held in Warsaw, 1947-1949

Reports from meetings of the Hitachdut Zionim-Democratim-Ichud Central Committee held in Warsaw, 1947-1949 Contemporary matters pertaining to activities of the organization are mentioned in the reports, including the organizational budget, administrative matters, membership dues, assistance to those making aliya to Eretz Israel, visits to Israel by organization members, organization voters throughout Poland, and cooperation with the World Zionist Organization (WZO). A number of documents from the Hitachdut chapter in Katowice are attached.

File Number : 517

Type of Material : List of Names, Reports

Language : Polish

Internal documents of the administration of Ichud, the Zionist-Democratic Movement, 17 January-12 March 1948

Internal documents of the administration of Ichud, the Zionist-Democratic Movement, 17 January-12 March 1948 Reports from Ichud administration meetings. Most of the reports pertain to internal organizational matters, such as budgets, distribution of membership cards and relations among movement members. Some of the reports are devoted to matters pertaining to aliya to Eretz Israel and providing food for Jews living in various places in Poland.

File Number : 514

Type of Material : Reports

Language : Polish

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