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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

Diary written by an American Jewish student, Irving Bluestone, during a bicycle trip in Austria, Switzerland and France, spring 1938

Diary written by an American Jewish student, Irving Bluestone, during a bicycle trip in Austria, Switzerland and France, spring 1938 Life as a student in Bern, Switzerland, including the Anschluss events, 1938; description of the atmosphere in the places he visited, including Vienna, Linz and Innsbrueck; description of Hitler's visit in Vienna, 15 March 1938; [description of the visit of the] new German Minister of the Interior in Linz, 05 March 1938.

File Number : 8615

Type of Material : Diary

Language : English

Testimony of Renata (Hendler) Weintraub, born in Vienna, Austria, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Vienna, in Oostende, in England and Argentina

Testimony of Renata (Hendler) Weintraub, born in Vienna, Austria, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Vienna, in Oostende, in England and Argentina Life before the war; German occupation; expulsion from school; escape to a children's home; escape to Oostende; escape to England; emigration to Argentina; return to Vienna; conversion [to Christianity?].

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Frida (Steinberg) Orman, born in Vienna, Austria in 1924, regarding her experiences in Vienna, in hiding in Brussels, in Montegut Plantaurel, using a false identity in Grenoble, and in other places Life before the war; she attends a state school; Anschluss; Deportation of her father to Dachau camp; deportation of Jews who are originally from Poland to the Polish border; escape to Brussels; they find a hiding place in the home of the Toutenel family with the help of the French underground; they receive a warm [positive] treatment from the Toutenel family; her mother escapes to Antwerp;...

File Number : 13613

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Rivka Regina (Hausner) Shapir, born in Vienna, Austria, 1925, regarding her experiences in Vienna until April 1939, in Sweden until March 1940 and in Eretz Israel

File Number : 8262

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Meltz, born in Vienna, Austria, 1932, regarding his experiences in Vienna, on the Kindertransport and with foster families in England

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Meltz, born in Vienna, Austria, 1932, regarding his experiences in Vienna, on the Kindertransport and with foster families in England Life in Vienna in a secular family; Anschluss, 1938; displays of antisemitism; Kristallnacht; detention of his father; deportation of his father to Dachau; witness' transfer to England on the Kindertransport. Outbreak of the war; deportation to his mother to camps in Riga; his life with non-Jewish foster families in England, 1939-1946; reunion with his family in England; aliya to Israel, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Talma Segal, born in 1937 in Viena, about her experiences as a girl in Vienna and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Talma Segal, born in 1937 in Viena, about her experiences as a girl in Vienna and Theresienstadt Murder of grandfather in Kristallnacht events, November 1938; attempt to escape to Switzerland and forced return to Austria by the Gestapo in 1941; spared from deportation to Auschwitz in 1942; deportation to Theresienstadt and life there in 1943–1945; back to Vienna in 1945; mother dies of illness in 1949; immigration to Israel with the Hashomer Hatzair movement in 1957; establishment of Kibbutz Nir David; raising a family.

File Number : 13369

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Erika (Volfenberg) Gidron, born in Vienna, Austria, 1929, regarding her experiences in Vienna, the Kindertransport and Swansea

Testimony

Testimony of Erika (Volfenberg) Gidron, born in Vienna, Austria, 1929, regarding her experiences in Vienna, the Kindertransport and Swansea Childhood in Vienna. Annexation of Austria to Germany (Anschluss); abuse of Jews; joining the "Kindertransport" (Children's Transport) and transfer to England. Life with the Borenstein family; life in Swansea including studies; receiving letters from Vienna; aliya to Israel, 1958.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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