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Testimony of Chaim Kohen, born in Nabeul, Tunisia, 1927 regarding the period of German occupation in Tunisia

Testimony

The Jewish community in Nabeul; friendship with the local population; rumors about the war in Europe; German occupation, 1942; yellow badge decree; drafting of Jewish men to forced labor; work at the Hammamet port; Allied air-raids; work as a barber for German officers; entry of the British Army, November 1942; Zionist activity after the war; aliya by himself to Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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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

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Testimony of David Frati Efrati, born in Tripoli, Libya, 1928, regarding his experiences in Tripoli and in La Marsa camp

Testimony

Testimony of David Frati Efrati, born in Tripoli, Libya, 1928, regarding his experiences in Tripoli and in La Marsa camp Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; escape to Arab villages with his family, 1940; deportation by the Italian authorities to La Marsa as French subjects, 1942; camp life; liberation by the Allied forces, 1943. Return to Tripoli; life in Tripoli; riots against the Jews, 1945; aliya to Israel on the "Emeraude" ship, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Josef Benedek, born in Olbo, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Carpathian Ruthenia, and in Mauthausen, Gunskirchen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Josef Benedek, born in Olbo, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Carpathian Ruthenia, and in Mauthausen, Gunskirchen and other places Religious family; move to Budapest, 1928. Publication of anti-Jewish restrictions and orders, 1939; expulsion from the framework of higher education; draft to labor battalions, 1943; forced labor in Carpathian Ruthenia; return to Hungary, spring 1944; labor digging and building bunkers; escape home; return; march in the direction of Austria; Allied air-raids; transfer to labor in the context of the Todt organization; labor digging...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zipora Glick, born in Sighet, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Sighet, Auschwitz, Gelsenkirchen and Soemmerda

Testimony

Testimony of Zipora Glick, born in Sighet, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Sighet, Auschwitz, Gelsenkirchen and Soemmerda Ultra-Orthodox family; learns in a "heder" and attends a Romanian elementary school. Annexation to Hungary, 1940; anti-Jewish decrees; exile of Jews who are not Hungarian citizens to Poland; exemption of her family from the exile due to her father being wounded in World War I; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Sighet Ghetto; exits the ghetto to purchase food and smuggle the food into the ghetto; concentration in a room in the synagogue, in the second "Aktion";...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hans Schmal, born in Berlin, Germany, 1935, regarding his experiences in Berlin as a child whose mother was a German convert to Judaism and his father was Jewish

Testimony

Testimony of Hans Schmal, born in Berlin, Germany, 1935, regarding his experiences in Berlin as a child whose mother was a German convert to Judaism and his father was Jewish Life before the war; his mother was a German convert to Judaism and his father was a Jewish Communist; life in a non-Jewish workers' neighborhood. Visits by the Gestapo in his family's home; his father's work building hangars for the German Army; his father leaves his work due to relations with the factory manager; escape to an apartment with non-Jewish families; life in a room in the apartment; birth of his brother, 1942; his family...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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