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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

Memoirs of Leon John Bortniker, born in Vienna, Austria, 1919, regarding his experiences in Vienna until his emigration to the United States, 1939

Memoirs of Leon John Bortniker, born in Vienna, Austria, 1919, regarding his experiences in Vienna until his emigration to the United States, 1939 Life in Vienna between World War I and World War II; displays of antisemitism in schools, activities of the Schutzbund Federation (Republican Protection Association) of the Social Democrats party and of the Heimwehr (Home Guard) of the Christian Socialists party; murder of Dr. Engelbert Dolfuss, 1935; election of Kurt von Schuschnigg as the prime minister; Anschluss, and the annexation of Austria to the German Reich; persecution of the Jews; entry of Hitler into...

File Number : 254

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Testimony of Erica Yehudit (Shvartz) Shomroni, born in Innsbruck, Austria, 1918, regarding her experiences in Innsbruck, Paris, Manchester, Rome and Vienna

Testimony

Testimony of Erica Yehudit (Shvartz) Shomroni, born in Innsbruck, Austria, 1918, regarding her experiences in Innsbruck, Paris, Manchester, Rome and Vienna Childhood and youth in Innsbruck, studies in Zurich and [?] Vienna. Annexation of Austria to Germany (Anschluss), 1938; antisemitism; emigration to Paris, 1938; recounting the events of Kristallnacht by her parents, 1938; emigration of her parents and her brother to Manchester, 1938; move to live with her family in Manchester; outbreak of the war; detention of her father in a detention camp near Manchester, 1940; work as a caregiver in a children's...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dora Deborah Eilat Plawes, born in Wien, Austria, 1924, regarding the persecution of Austrian Jews and aliya to Eretz Israel in 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Dora Deborah Eilat Plawes, born in Wien, Austria, 1924, regarding the persecution of Austrian Jews and aliya to Eretz Israel in 1939 Family background, only daughter; her parents are immigrants from Poland; Hebrew studies; studies in an Austrian school. The Anschluss; the beginning of hostile treatment on the part of the local population; the witness winning the competition at school and not receiving the prize due to her being a Jewish; joining the Maccabi Hatzair youth movement; Zionism; the arrival of Eichmann in the youth movement; Kristallnacht riots; the arrest of her father on...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Greta Stanton Wertheimer, born in Wien, Austria, 1919, regarding the persecution of Austrian Jews and immigration to the United States in 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Greta Stanton Wertheimer, born in Wien, Austria, 1919, regarding the persecution of Austrian Jews and immigration to the United States in 1939 Family background; her father is an advocate, her mother is a housewife; studies in a Jewish school. Anti-Semitism before the war; graduation from high school; difficulty finding work due to anti-Semitism; Anschluss, 1938; prohibition of possession of weapons by Jews; arrest of her father for possession of a weapon; release of her father by her uncle; attempt to locate relatives in U.S. to obtain U.S. immigration clearance; contacting a distant aunt who...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Memoirs of Georg May, regarding his experiences in Vienna under Nazi rule, 1938-1939

Memoirs of Georg May, regarding his experiences in Vienna under Nazi rule, 1938-1939 Entry of the Nazis into Vienna; attitude of the residents toward the occupation; attitude toward the Jews; reactions by the Jews; atmosphere; displays of antisemitism; anti-Jewish legislation and activities.

File Number : 1640

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Joint testimony of Eytan Ginat, born in Vienna, 1920, and his wife Lili (Synter) Ginat, regarding his experiences in the Saint-Cyprien camp, in Toulouse and in the Mouvement De La Jeunesse Sioniste - MJS

Testimony

Joint testimony of Eytan Ginat, born in Vienna, 1920, and his wife Lili Ginat, regarding experiences in the Saint-Cyprien camp, in Toulouse and in the Mouvement De La Jeunesse Sioniste - MJS Middle class family; active in Maccabi Hatzair as a soccer player and on champion team "HaKoach" and its junior "foxes" team; displays of antisemitism at school; escape to Brussels; active in Zionist movements. Occupation of Belgium, May 1940; deportation as Austrian citizen to Saint-Cyprien camp; released; escape to Toulouse; studies in the University of Montpellier; unsuccessful attempt to emigrate to the United States;...

File Number : 10369

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Red Cross letters from Isidor Nasch in Vienna to his daughter Gerti Nasch in Eretz Israel, 1941–1942; Gertrud Nasch's memoirs, 1930s; and her personal documentation

Red Cross letters from Isidor Nasch in Vienna to his daughter Gerti Nasch in Eretz Israel, 1941–1942; Gertrud Nasch's memoirs, 1930s; and her personal documentation - letters sent by Isidor Nasch in Vienna, by means of the Red Cross, to Gerti Nasch in Nes Tziona, on August 8, 1941, and February 3, 1942; - memoirs of Gertrud Nasch with congratulations and dedications from her friends in Graz from February 1932 to November 1935; - ID card issued for Gertrude Nasch in Graz on March 21, 1939; - booklet of information and services (for tourists in the Soviet Union), issued to G. Nasch. Also in the file: -...

File Number : 5002

Type of Material : Identity Card, Personal Documents, Red Cross Letter, Genealogy, Memoir Book

Language : Hebrew, French, Swedish, German

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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