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Testimony of Rivka van Coevorden née van Amstel, born in 1924 in Coevorden, Netherlands, about her experiences in Amsterdam and in hiding in the Netherlands during the war

Testimony

Life before the war; offspring of a family that had lived in the Netherlands since 1400; moving to Amsterdam in 1938; war breaks out in 1940; deportation to a labor camp; escape; assigned to farm labor; marries and gives birth to a daughter; hiding in various places; liberation; reunited with daughter; life after the war; immigration to Israel in 1951; adjustment to life in Israel.

File Number : 13536

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka Reuveni, born in Checiny, Poland, about her life in the ghetto and in the Częstochowa, Skarzysko, and Bergen-Belsen camps, and her 'aliya after the liberation

Testimony of Rivka Reuveni, born in Checiny, Poland, about her life in the ghetto and in the Częstochowa, Skarzysko, and Bergen-Belsen camps, and her 'aliya after the liberation. Rivka Reuveni lived in Checiny, Poland, with her parents and her four sisters. When the ghetto there was established, her aunt's family joined them. Rivka was sent to the Skarzysko Kamienna labor camp at the age of twelve. She fell ill with typhus and due to denunciation was sent to a death camp. With the help of a Jewish doctor, she recovered and returned to work. As the Red Army approached, she was sent to a labor camp in...

File Number : 1238

Type of Material : Manuscript, Testimony

Testimony of Sylvia Rachel Davidovicz, nee Weiss, born in Sacalaseni, Romania, in 1929, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare ghetto and in the Auschwitz Birkenau, Boizenburg and Ludwigslust camps

Testimony of Sylvia Rachel Davidowicz, nee Weiss, born in Sacalaseni, Romania, in 1929, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare ghetto and in the Boizenburg, Auschwitz Birkenau and Ludwigslust camps Childhood in Baia Mare; re- annexation of the place to Hungary in 1940; transfer of ownership of the father's flour mill to Hungarians in 1941; the rise of antisemitism; interruption of studies; the German occupation in 1944; deportation to the ghetto in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; transfer to Boizenburg; life in the camp; transfer to work in a factory manufacturing tanks and planes; transfer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Feldshtein, born in Przeworsk, Poland, in 1934, regarding his hiding with a Polish farmer in Grzeska between 1942-1944

Testimony

-Childhood before the war; relations with the local population; outbreak of the war; life until 1942; "Aktion"; escape of the family to the forest following a warning they got from a farmer; hiding with the farmer for 2 years 1942-1944; leaving the hiding place with the approach of the Russians; leaving Poland; reconstruction of life after the war; emigration to Israel; exile to Cyprus; Aliya back to Israel

File Number : 13758

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yaacov Shvartz, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, in 1929 regarding the Siauliai ghetto, the Stutthof and other camps

Testimony

Childhood in Siauliai; entry of the Russians in 1940; arrival of Jewish refugees from Poland; German occupation in June 1941; pogrom by the Lithuanians; murder of the stratum of the Jewish intelligentsia including the father; deportation to the Siauliai ghetto; overcrowding; yellow badges; starvation; forced labor; smugglings of food;'aktion" of the elderly in 1942; 'aktion' of the children in November 1943; liquidation of the Siauliai ghetto in July 1944; deportation to Stutthof; physical and emotional abuse; meeting with Russian captives; starvation; fate of the mother who escaped from the killing pit near...

File Number : 13687

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Daniel Dino, born in Veroia, Greece in 1933, regarding his experiences in Veroia and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Daniel Dino, born in Veroia, Greece in 1933, regarding his experiences in Veroia and in hiding Sephardic community; his father is a well-to-do merchant; displays of antisemitism; Italian occupation; German occupation, 1942; receipt of information regarding the deportation of the Jews of Thessaloniki; deportation of Jews from Veroia to camps; his family escapes to the mountains; in hiding in the village of Sika; help from the local residents; they are informed on; entry of soldiers into the village, 1944; rescue by means of a bribe; liberation; return to Veroia; displays of antisemitism and acts...

File Number : 14284

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Shneider Yaakov Shmuel, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Berehovo ghetto and in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps

Testimony

Schneider Shmuel Jacob, born in Kosino, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarduing the Berehovo ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow, Gross Rosen, Goerlitz and Zittau camps Family background; childhood in a religious family; his father is a hero of the World War I. Entry of the Hungarians; entry of the Germans, March 1944; deportation to the Berehovo ghetto; stay in a brick factory for several weeks; transfer to Auschwitz II-Birkenau; selection at the entrance to the camp; rescue by an anonymous inmate from the camp to the gas chambers and transfer to the camp; finding his father and relatives;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Shenker Fisher, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1936, regarding his experiences in Paris, in hiding in a school in Paris and in a village in the Grenoble area

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Shenker Fisher, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1936, regarding his experiences in Paris, in hiding in a school in Paris and in a village in the Grenoble area Family life before the war. German occupation, May 1940; escape of the family to Paris; death of the witness' little brother en route; anti-Jewish legislation; yellow badge; travel limitations; concentration of the Jewish males in a stadium in Paris, summer 1942; detention of his father; escape of his father from detention and his hiding in the house; displays of antisemitism at school; capture of the family in their home, late 1943;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leb Margalit, born in Galgau, Romania, in 1928 regarding the Dej ghetto, Auschwitz Birkenau and other camps

Childhood in Galgau and in Deja; invasion of the Hungarians in 1940; anti-Jewish legislation; recruiting for labor battalions; deterioration of the economic situation; German occupation in March 1944; yellow badge; confiscation of property; deportation to the Dej ghetto; life under the sky; starvation; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau in June 1944; camp admission process; life in the camp; starvation and thirst; transfer to Bremen about 2 months later; working in clearing the ruins; getting help from German citizens; mutual help; transfer to Bergen Belsen; typhus epidemic; piles of corpses; liberation by the...

File Number : 13712

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence of the Aid Council for Jewish Refugees from Germany (Benno Kaufmann) in Basel, Switzerland, regarding support to Jewish refugees from Germany: Personal letters of request for support, 1942-1948 The file contains mainly personal letters of request for support from victims during the war and from survivors after the war. Letters from survivors include names of missing family members. Letters from survivors in: - Israel: p. 5, - Southern Rhodesia, pp.6-10, - Germany: pp. 11-12, pp. 15-18, pp. 23-38, pp. 60-69, pp. 71-76, pp. 163-190, p. 261, pp. 266-273, pp.405-428, p. 446,...

File Number : 5

Type of Material : List, Letter, Postcard

Language : French, German

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