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Testimony of Annalie Tal née Loewenbach, born in 1930 in Bentveld, Netherlands, about her experiences as a girl in Bentveld, Haarlem, Bergen-Belsen, Westerbork, etc.

Testimony

Testimony of Annalie Tal née Loewenbach, born in 1930 in Bentveld, Netherlands, about her experiences as a girl in Bentveld, Haarlem, Bergen-Belsen, Westerbork, etc. Childhood life before the war; German occupation ensues in May 1940; antisemitism among the local population surges; expelled from school about a year later; transferred to a Jewish school in Haarlem; father dismissed from work and family dispossessed; evicted to Amsterdam in January 1942; anti-Jewish legislation; evening curfew; Jews registered; the yellow star edict; Jews arrested in the streets; children disappear from the Jewish school;...

File Number : 13395

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Train ticket printed by Dutch antisemites and given to Elias Cohen, born in Zutphen, the Netherlands, 08 July 1928, and to other Jews, sending them to Jerusalem, a trip from which they should never return "Train-Ticket", on which is printed, "First Class train ticket to Jerusalem; one way only and never to return, valid from any station."

File Number : 138

Type of Material : Propaganda

Language : Dutch

Testimony of Zwi David Obstfeld, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1939, regarding his experiences as a child in Amsterdam and being hidden by a Dutch family in Laren

Testimony

Testimony of Zwi David Obstfeld, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1939, regarding his experiences as a child in Amsterdam and being hidden by a Dutch family in Laren Life in Amsterdam under German occupation, 1940-42; life being hidden by a Dutch couple in Laren, 1942; transfer to a family in Laren, 1942; life of his parents in hiding in Haarlem, 1942. Life with his family in Laren after the war; ties with his family; move to Amsterdam, 1948; studies; aliya to Israel, 1962; return to Amsterdam, 1966; return aliya, 1968.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Investigation material of the charges against Johann Rauter, chief of the Amsterdam Police, at the Nuremberg Trial held during 1945-1946

Investigation material of the charges against Johann Rauter, chief of the Amsterdam Police, at the Nuremberg Trial held during 1945-1946 Charge submitted against Johann Rauter, chief of the Amsterdam Police, for his order for the arrest of 400 young Jews, who were deported to Mauthausen camp in February 1941, following a clash between Nazi demonstrators who rioted in the Jewish Quarter in Amsterdam against Dutch and Jewish workers; death of most of the deportees [from exhaustion] due to the harsh labor in which they worked; survey of the affair; biographical details regarding Rauter; list of witnesses [and]...

File Number : 261

Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, Record of Survivors, Legal Documentation

Language : English

Personal documentation belonging to the Peereboom family and the Gerritse family from Amsterdam regarding the persecution of the Jews of the Netherlands, 1941-1948

Personal documentation belonging to the Peereboom family and the Gerritse family from Amsterdam regarding the persecution of the Jews of the Netherlands, 1941-1948 - Postcards sent by Nathan Nico Gerritse from the Buchenwald and Mauthausen concentration camps, April-May 1941; - Notice sent by the Mauthausen commander to Louisa Gerritse-Peereboom regarding the death of her husband, Nathan Nico; - Death certificate of Nathan Nico Gerritse in Mauthausen, 30 July 1941; - Stammkarten (Identity cards) (maybe forged) issued in the names of Hendrik van Engelen, Simon Peereboom and Fijtje de Vries; -...

File Number : 45

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Identity Card, Photograph, Postcard

Language : Dutch, German

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Special conferences regarding antisemitism in Europe, organized by the European division of the WJC (World Jewish Congress) in Brussels, March 1960, and in London, August 1962 In the file: Pp. 1-6: Survey of fascist and extreme Right organizations in Europe, including names of the organizations in various countries, activists, contacts, newspapers and publications, 25 March 1960; Pp. 7-10: Organizational program of the WJC European office in preparation for the special conference in Brussels, March 1960, and the agenda of a special session to be held one day after the...

File Number : 154

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : English, German

Memoirs of Harry Hoving (pen name Henrique Van Biene), born in Amsterdam in 1924, regarding his experiences in Rotterdam and as a forced laborer in Germany during the Holocaust

Memoirs of Harry Hoving (pen name Henrique Van Biene), born in Amsterdam in 1924, regarding his experiences in Rotterdam and as a forced laborer in Germany during the Holocaust - "The long road": Harry Hoving's autobiography, written and published under the pen name of Henrique Van Biene, with his memoirs of his experiences during and after the Holocaust: His mother - Eveline Van Biene, Jewish, a dancer; his father was not Jewish; son of a single mother; childhood wanderings in Europe with his mother; his mother's marriage to a non-Jew and moving to Rotterdam; manifestations of anti-Semitism in the 1930s;...

File Number : 11548

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Memoirs of Letty Stork (maiden name: Goudsmit), born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 1917, regarding her experiences in Amsterdam, in Westerbork camp and in hiding places in the Friesland province during the Holocaust Life in Amsterdam; German invasion of the Netherlands on 10 May 1940; anti-Jewish legislation; marriage to Zadok Stork in April 1942; deportation of the Jews to the Amsterdam Ghetto; deportation of her parents and most of her family members; deportation with her husband to Westerbork and their release after three months; escape to the Amsterdam Ghetto; receiving assistance from people from the...

File Number : 11087

Type of Material : Memoirs, Diary

Language : Hebrew, English

Interview with Holocaust survivor Hanna Cato Rodriguez de Miranda, born in Amsterdam in 1920, regarding her experiences during and after the Holocaust

Interview with Holocaust survivor Hanna Cato Rodriguez de Miranda, born in Amsterdam in 1920, regarding her experiences during and after the Holocaust - interview conducted by Yonatan Hoffman with his relative Hanna (Hanzi) Cato Rodríguez de Miranda in 2006: Childhood in Amsterdam; persecution of her family because of her father's activity in the socialist party in the late 1930s; antisemitism in 1938-1939; work as a trainee nurse at the hospital in Amsterdam in 1940-1943; escape from Amsterdam in January 1943 with the help of the Dutch underground; work as a housekeeper for various families in the south...

File Number : 11033

Type of Material : Interview(s), Curriculum Vitae (cv)

Language : Hebrew, English

Testimony of David Vervir, born in S. Gravenhage, the Netherlands in 1939, regarding separation from his family and transfer to different hiding places in the Leiden area

Testimony of David Vervir, born in S. Gravenhage, the Netherlands in 1939, regarding separation from his family and transfer to different hiding places in the Leiden area. His family life before the war; his parents’ aliya to Eretz Israel in 1934 and their return to the Netherlands in 1937; German occupation in May 1940; escape to Maarsbergen in 1941; anti-Jewish legislation; his father joins the underground; dispersal of the children of his family to various hiding places in September 1942; transfer between 14 different families in the Leiden area, including the Kraan family in Oegstgeest; after several...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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