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Testimony of Hannah (Loewy) Peleg, born in Vienna, Austria, 1924, regarding her experience in Vienna and Great Britain

Testimony of Hannah (Loewy) Peleg, born in Vienna, Austria, 1924, regarding her experience in Vienna and Great Britain Life in Vienna; attends a non-Jewish elementary school; coping with displays of antisemitism; attends a Jewish high school, until 1938; Anschluss; Kristallnacht; move of Hannah, her brother Issaschar Dov (Bernhard) and her sister Lisa (Ilse) to Great Britain, in the context of the Kindertransport; Life in Great Britain as a young Jewish refugee girl in non-Jewish surroundings; joins aliya training in Brosgrove, following activities in the Bachad youth movement; marriage to Yaakov Felsen;...

File Number : 253

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rub Israel, born in Sasovo, Carpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia, in 1923 regarding his arrest in Prague and Dresden and regarding Theresienstadt , Dachau and other camps

-Childhood in Sasovo and Trebusany in Carpathian Ruthenia; his family is from a hasidic background( Hasidut Dolina); attendance at the "heder" in Berehovo in 1934; Hungarian control in 1938; his family moves to Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, in 1938; attendance at a yeshiva in Solotvina, Carpathian Ruthenia(Hungary) in 1937; he goes back to his family in Moravska Ostrava in 1938; he joins the Bnei Akiva movement and moves to Prague, Czechoslovakia; agricultural training on a farm in Louny and in Stribrna Skalice; he goes back to Prague and moves to a farm in Hostoun Kladno; he is arrested by the gestapo in...

File Number : 13688

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters from Hans Kaufmann in Sweden to Eva Warburg in Israel regarding the fate of his family in Germany, Denmark and Sweden during the war, 2008-2009

Letters from Hans Kaufmann in Sweden to Eva Warburg in Israel regarding the fate of his family in Germany, Denmark and Sweden during the war, 2008-2009 The file includes two letters from Hans Kaufmann to Eva Warburg, 04 October 2008 and 29 November 2009. In October 1939, when he was 14 years old, Hans Kaufmann was transferred with a group of children from Münster to Denmark; after the German occupation of Denmark, he was transferred by boat to Sweden, thus escaping arrest and deportation; his father perished in the Riga Ghetto; his mother lived in the Riga Ghetto, the Stutthof camp and various labor camps...

File Number : 8539

Type of Material : Diary, Letter of Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Swedish, German

Testimony of Eliezer Leo Matzger, born in Kiel, Germany, in 1920, regarding his experiences in ‎Kiel and Hamburg and his aliya to Eretz Israel

Testimony of Eliezer Leo Matzger, born in Kiel, Germany, in 1920, regarding his experiences in ‎Kiel and Hamburg and his aliya to Eretz Israel Born into a religious family from Galicia; life in Kiel in a non-Jewish area until 1933; life after the ‎Nazi Party came into power; membership in the Zionist Habonim Movement; aliya of his older ‎sisters to Eretz Israel in 1934; closing of the family store; escape to the Hechalutz Movement’s ‎aliya training center in Hamburg in 1936; decision of the movement’s leadership in spring 1939 to ‎send him to Eretz Israel; travel through the Czech region, Austria and Italy;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Flora Henle Rothschild, born in Lehrensteinsfeld, Germany, 1920, regarding her experiences in Lehrensteinsfeld, Stuttgart, Urfeld, her aliya to Eretz Israel in 1940, and in other places

Testimony

Testimony of Flora Henle Rothschild, born in Lehrensteinsfeld, Germany, 1920, regarding her experiences in Lehrensteinsfeld, Stuttgart, Urfeld, her aliya to Eretz Israel in 1940, and in other places Life before the war; traditional family, who are landowners; life along with individual Jewish families; Nazi rise to power, 1933; her father receives beatings from Gestapo men; termination of studies; her brother makes aliya to Eretz Israel, 1936; her father visits in Eretz Israel, 1938; her father returns to Germany during the Kristallnacht events; her escape to Stuttgart along with her family; arrest, and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

The testimony of Liza Lotte Lily (Weiner) Bruml, born in 1923 in Trutnov, , Czechoslovakia - regarding her childhood in Trutnov and in the Theresienstadt Ghetto.

The testimony of Liza Lotte Lily (Weiner) Bruml, born in 1923 in Trutnov, Czechoslovakia. Childhood in Trutnov; escaping with family members before the annexation of the Sudetenland by Germany in 1938; moved to the area of the border with the Czechoslovakia; life on a relative's farm for a few weeks; move to Prague; the German occupation; her brother's illegal immigration to Eretz Israel in 1939; life under the Nazi regime; restrictions imposed on the Jews; deportation of the parents and the grandmother to the Theresienstadt Ghetto in 1942; death of her grandmother; life in the ghetto; parents’ labor in a...

File Number : 13502

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Branka (Sachs) Ron, born in 1918 in Lodz, Poland - regarding her experiences in Lodz, in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and in the Theresienstadt camp

Testimony of Branka (Sachs) Ron, born in 1918 in Lodz, Poland - regarding her experiences in Lodz, in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and in the Theresienstadt camp. Daughter of a traditional Zionist family in Lodz; studies at a Polish school; activity in the Zionist youth movement; outbreak of the war in 1939; the escape of the father and brother to Warsaw; the return of the father and brother; her parents’ death from starvation; work sorting clothes; ill with typhus; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp with younger brother; the brother’s death in the camp; labor in a weapons factory; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 13306

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 13307

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Bandel, born in 1919 in Delmenhorst, Germany, about his experiences in hakhsharot in Gut Wingel and Britain and in a camp on the Isle of Man

Life under Nazi rule from 1933 on; antisemitism escalates and high-school studies are terminated; active in the Young Maccabi youth movement; sets out to a hakhshara (Zionist training activity) in Gut Winkel, in the vicinity of Berlin, in 1937; mother and brother are driven across the Polish border in 1938 as Jews who hold Polish nationality; Kristallnacht in 1938; escaping to London and joining a Bahad (Religious Pioneers Alliance) hakhshara in a Salvation Army camp in 1939; deported by the authorities to the Isle of Man due to citizenship in an enemy country; three months of internment in the camp in 1940;...

File Number : 13582

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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