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Testimony

Testimony of Yehoshua Hotner, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1910, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel in 1934 and the experiences of Avraham Levin, his brother-in-law, in the Warsaw Ghetto including the writing of a diary for the Oneg Shabbat Archives and his murder in Treblinka camp Life before the war; attends a Jewish high school and his teacher is Arie Levin; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1934; activities of Avraham Levin in the Oneg Shabbat Archives in the Warsaw Ghetto; discovery of Levin's diary in the Archives after the war; testimony of the murder of Avraham Levin in Treblinka; publication of the diary, 1969. ...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rita (Beikovska) Mintzer, born in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Rita (Beikovska) Mintzer, born in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt Life before the war; love of art. Outbreak of the war; closure of school; learns in secret; detention of her father and his deportation to forced labor; confiscation of property; deportation to Theresienstadt; life in Theresienstadt in a children's home; joins an art group; smuggling art, a painting by the survivor is housed at Yad Vashem; participation in theater and other cultural activities; liberation. Aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 12741

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of the Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda), Germany, 1934-1944

Documentation of the Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda), Germany, 1934-1944 The ministry was established by law, on 13 March 1933, and received its authority by virtue of an order published, 30 June 1933; its areas of responsibility were defined as Geistigen Einwirkung auf die Nation, der Werbung fuer Staat, Kultur und Wirtschaft, der Unterrichtung der Oeffentlichkeit (emotional impact on the nation, the advertising for State, Culture and Economy, information to the public: The materials that reached Yad Vashem include correspondence...

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report

Language : German

Announcement of a gathering of single handicrafts people below the age of 40, who are interested in emigration to the Netherlands, posted by the Employment Office

File Number : 1564

Type of Material : Announcement

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters, English

Testimony of an anonymous musician regarding his experiences and those of other Jewish musicians in the Warsaw Ghetto

Testimony of an anonymous musician regarding his experiences and those of other Jewish musicians in the Warsaw Ghetto Life in the Warsaw Ghetto; the serious condition of approximately 3,000 musicians during the early period after the establishment of the ghetto; problems from a lack of savings, unemployment, and hunger; receiving work in the first coffee house in the ghetto which was located at 13 Tlomackie Street and run by Magdalena Vogy; holding a concert in honor of the opening of a garden and play park for the children in the ghetto; transfer of Czech musicians to the ghetto; improvement in the...

File Number : 1654

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Ornan Lev Ary, born in Vienna, Austria, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Cluj Ghetto, Auschwitz, Fallersleben, Thil and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Ornan Lev Ary, born in Vienna, Austria, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Cluj Ghetto, Auschwitz, Fallersleben, Thil and other places from an assimilated established family; his mother is an opera singer; his father is an atheist, socialist, anti-Zionist physician; attends a Jesuit Catholic school; move to Budapest, 1934; move to Cluj, autumn 1940. Establishment of the Cluj Ghetto; deportation of the family to Auschwitz; murder of his father because of his refusal to participate in Josef Mengele's research; suicide of his mother after the killing of an SS officer; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hella Tulman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1913, regarding her experiences as a German Christian in Gurs and Stettin camps

Testimony

Testimony of Hella Tulman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1913, regarding her experiences as a German Christian in Gurs and Stettin camps Evangelist intellectual family; her father owns a book publishing business and an opera director in Dresden; her father enlists to the German Army front, 1914; work as a dance and exercise teacher; life and activities in the Netherlands; move to France; request to return to Germany before the outbreak of the war. Her father is a member of the SA; her sister is a Hitler-Jugend; witness decides not to return to Germany; German occupation of France; detention of the witness with...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Jeshayahu Levy, born in Cephalonia, Greeece, 1911, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and Stutthof

Testimony

Testimony of Jeshayahu Levy, born in Cephalonia, Greeece, 1911, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and Stutthof Poor family; learns shoemaking; helps support the family. German occupation; escape to Corfu; capture; deportation to Auschwitz, 29 June 1944; camp life; transfer to Stutthof; camp life including labor preparing aircraft runways; typhus; hospital treatment; liberation by the French Army, June 1945. Move to Bari; reunion with two brothers in Corfu; remarriage; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Burack) Semiaticky Silkiya, born in Siauliau, Lithuania, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, cultural and underground activities in the ghetto, her experiences in the Steinort and Stutthof forced labor camps and a death march Zionist family; life before the war; her father imported canned goods and served as the Jewish National Fund, JNF treasurer; activities in Beitar after finishing high school. Move to Kaunas, during which Kaunas came under Russian control, and continued activities in the movement, in secret; move of Beitar archival material from Kaunas to Vilna...

File Number : 11580

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Catharina Van der Berg, born in Rotterdam, 1917, regarding her experiences in Westerbork and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Catharina Van der Berg, born in Rotterdam, 1917, regarding her experiences in Westerbork and Theresienstadt Life before the war; outbreak of war; deportation to Westerbork in the autumn, 1942; released after six weeks; informing on Jews; arrested in prison for six weeks; sent back to Westerbork; birth of her son in the camp; work in the hospital; appears as a dancer in performances; deportation to Theresienstadt at the beginning of 1944; meeting Adolf Eichmann in Theresienstadt. Return to the Netherlands after the war; rehabilitation.

File Number : 11128

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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