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Testimony of Kedar Fakdrager Yehuda, born in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1937, regarding the deportation to Westerbork and Bergen Belsen camps

Testimony

Family background ; appointment of the uncles to the Jewish Committee in Amsterdam during German occupation; death of the brother in the shelling of the city in 1943; deportation to Westerbork in September 1943; deportation of the family to The "star camp"(Sternenlager)in Bergen Belsen in January 1944; joining of the grandfathers to an inmate exchange deal with the Templars in 1944; death of the parents and grandmother in Bergen Belsen; joining the group of children sponsored by the Birenboim family; the labor train; liberation by the Russians in Troebitz in April 1944; living in the children's home of Rabbi...

File Number : 13800

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of trudi Volakh Salomons, born in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1929, regarding her deportation to Westerbork and other camps.

Testimony

Daughter of an orthodox family; German occupation in 1940; denial of rights; rejection of relatives'offer for asylum in Switzerland; birth of her sister in 1943; her mother had the Swiss nationality; her father was Dutch; refusal of the parents to get divorced and their stay together in Holland; obtaining certificates of aliya to Palestine by her father; obtaining passports of Peru by relatives of her mother who lived in Switzerland; arrival at the train station; deportation to Westerbork in July 1943; stay in Westerbork and protecting from deportation thanks to their certificates and passports of Peru; their...

File Number : 13696

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Edita Alon Carl Shultz, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, in 1920 regarding the Kosice ghetto and her rescue in Budapest.

-About the family; transition to Hungarian ruling in 1939; she married a Jewish doctor, a refugee from Czechoslovakia in 1940; recruitment with protection to a unit of Hungarian doctors in 1941; confiscation of the shop owned by the family; expropriation of a room for the benefit of a Hungarian officer; German occupation in 1944; his mother was arrested for interrogation; confiscation of jewelry; deportation to the ghetto ; she got permission to reunite with her husband; rescue; moving to Budapest; birth of a son, starvation; double suicide attempt and rescue; hiding in the Jewish hospital; murder by people...

File Number : 13695

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Abraham Ashkenazi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1930 regarding his experiences in Pazardzhik

Manifestations of anti-semitism on the part of the teachers; moving to a Jewish school; Ben Gourion's visit to the city; recruiting his father for forced labour; deportation order to Pazardzhik; shelter in the local school; restrictions; loss of contact with his father; surviving on temporary jobs; going back to Sofia; joining the movement Poalei Zion Left; defense training; aliyah bet from Marseille on board the ship Pavio in 1948; participation in the Latrun battles and in the battles in Jerusalem

File Number : 13706

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sheli Ashkenazi Malki, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1932 regarding her experiences in Pazardzhik

Parents' countries of origin- Turkey and Romania, moving of her family to Pazardzhik in the 30's; good relations with the Bulgarian population; recruiting her father for road construction; his disappearance during the whole period of war; anti-Jewish legislation; starvation; help of the community to the deported from Sofia; acts of bullying; her father's enlistment in the Bulgarian army after liberation; aliyah bet on board the Kefalos boat 1948; absorption in Ramle

File Number : 13689

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Shner Schwartz, borin in 1932 in Kalocsa, Hungary, about his experiences as a boy in the Kalocsa ghetto and in an apartment in Budapest during the war

Life in a Neolog community before the war; Jews not admitted to high school; moves to Budapest for studies; family receives extra privileges because grandfather died in World War I; receives information from a refugee from Poland in 1943 about murder of Jews; German occupation ensues; living in the Kalocsa ghetto; escaping to Budapest; living in an apartment due to the family's extra privileges; hiding acquaintances in the apartment; conditions worsen in October 1944; mother captured and interrogated; life in hiding in the apartment until liberation; Zionist youth movement; slipping into Czechoslovakia;...

File Number : 13600

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Hershkovitz, born in Somcuta Mare, Romania in 1922, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony of Shmuel Hershkovitz, born in Somcuta Mare, Romania in 1922, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and other camps Studies in yeshiva; good neighborly relations with the Romanian population; Hungarian regime in 1940; German occupation; expulsion to Baia Mare Ghetto; transport to Auschwitz-Birkenau with his siblings; dismantling of buildings in Warsaw Ghetto; march to Germany; digging in ground to find water; Dachau camp; Muehldorf and Mittergras camps; labor in forests; wounded by gunfire from a German commanding officer; approach of the front; murder of prisoners; liberation by the Americans...

File Number : 13742

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chana (Levi) Falg, born in Vienna, Austria in 1924, regarding her experiences in the Kindertransport to England in 1938

Testimony of Chana (Levi) Falg, born in Vienna, Austria in 1924, regarding her experiences in the Kindertransport to England in 1938 Orthodox family; attending a Jewish school; rise of antisemitism in 1936; Anschluss in 1938; anti-Jewish legislation; order expelling father from Austria; joining the Kindertransport to England with her brother in 1938; father’s illegal aliya to pre-state Israel via Romania in 1939; absorption of the witness in an Agudath Israel hostel in London; pioneer training in 1944; aliya to pre-state Israel in 1945; smuggling of inmates released from Buchenwald on the ship; receiving...

File Number : 13471

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ayalon (Windholtz) Yehuda, born in Berlin, Germany in 1930, regarding his experiences in Belgium in 1938 and in hiding from 1942 to 1944

Testimony

Testimony of Ayalon (Windholtz) Yehuda, born in Berlin, Germany in 1930, regarding his experiences in Belgium in 1938 and in hiding from 1942 to 1944 Orthodox family; detention of his uncles in Sachsenhausen; Kristallnacht; move, with help from assistance organizations, to Antwerp; parents crossing the border to Belgium illegally in 1939; occupation of Belgium in May 1940 by the German army; assembly of Jews without Belgian citizenship who had lived in Antwerp and expulsion to forced labor in Limborg district; living with local farmers and labor in farming for half a year; return of witness, with his mother,...

File Number : 13466

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Amit Toker, born in Petroseni, Romania in 1934, regarding his childhood experiences in Petroseni and in Galati

Testimony of Moshe Amit Toker, born in Petroseni, Romania in 1934, regarding his childhood experiences in Petroseni and in Galati Life before the war; son of an Orthodox religious family; father born in Poland; receiving an expulsion order to Poland as stateless people in 1940; closing of the border and remaining in Romania; life in Galati; family receiving absorption assistance from the local Jews; suffering bombings; activity in Zionist youth movement after liberation; moving from Romania in a children’s group; life in Apeldoorn children’s home in 1947; aliya to Israel in 1948; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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