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Testimony of Effraim Sadan, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1925, regarding his experiences in Benghazi and in Giado camp

Testimony

Testimony of Effraim Sadan, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1925, regarding his experiences in Benghazi and in Giado camp Life under Italian rule, before the war; attends the Italian school; learns in a Talmud Torah. Outbreak of the war; British occupation, 1940; Italian-German occupation; detention by the Policia Africana Italiana, P. A. I.; rescue from execution, and his release; deportation to Giado with his family after being informed on, 1942; camp life; activation of a theater; liberation by the British Army, 1943. Receives medical treatment; receives help from the Jewish community in Tripoli; return to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Doron Charkovski, born in Osijek, Yugoslavia, 1940, regarding his experiences as a baby in Ogulin, Kraljevica camp, Rab camp, an assumed identity, with the partisans and other places

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Testimony of Doron Charkovski, born in Osijek, Yugoslavia, 1940, regarding his experiences as a baby in Ogulin, Kraljevica camp, Rab camp, an assumed identity, with the partisans and other places Life as a baby in Osijek during the German occupation, April 1941; Ustasha assumes authority; escape with her mother to Ogulin; deportation with the Italian Army to Kraljevica; camp life; surrender of the Italian Army; German occupation; transfer to Rab, September 1943; camp life; liberation by the People's Liberation Army & Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia (Tito's partisans); escape to the liberated area;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Michael Adler, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1924, regarding his experiences in Croatia, Albania, Ferramonti Di Tarsi, Castel Di Sangro and in a forest

Testimony

Testimony of Michael Adler, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1924, regarding his experiences in Croatia, Albania, Ferramonti Di Tarsi, Castel Di Sangro and in a forest Secular Zionist family; activities in the Blau-Weiss movement; life in Subotica until 1939; selling of their shoe factory and property, and conversion of the money into gold and jewelry, 1939. Outbreak of the war, 1941; escape to Croatia; escape to the south; detention by [men in] the "Brown Shirts" for a week; move by ship to an Italian camp in Albania; camp life for approximately six months; move by ships to Ferramonti Di Tarsi, Italy; life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther (Sureni) Foa, born in Ferrara, Italy, 1926, regarding her experiences in hiding in homes and in a monastery in Florence

Testimony

Testimony of Esther (Sureni) Foa, born in Ferrara, Italy, 1926, regarding her experiences in hiding in homes and in a monastery in Florence Life in Ferrara before the war; life in her grandmother's home; death of her father; move to Florence; death of her mother; placed in a Jewish children's home with her sister; attends the Jewish school and Jewish high school; aliya of her sister to Eretz Israel, 1938. German occupation, 1943; escape to hiding places with help from her guardian, Vittorio Guetta (the secretary of the Jewish community); life in a convent in Cozilla Masee; life in the home of an Italian...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dina (Gros) Merhav, born in Vinkovci, Yugoslavia, 1936, regarding her experiences in Split, Cocconato and Geneva

Testimony

Testimony of Dina (Gros) Merhav, born in Vinkovci, Yugoslavia, 1936, regarding her experiences in Split, Cocconato and Geneva From a well-to-do secular family; travel to Split. German occupation, April 1941; life under Ustasha rule; deportation of her father to Germany; deportation to Cocconato, 1942; escape to Geneva; end of the war. Return to Yugoslavia; reunion with her father; aliya to Israel, 1949; marriage and starts a family; life in Israel and acquiring a reputation as a sculptress.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Liora (Blau) Harel, born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Ljubljana, Aprica, Italy and Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Liora (Blau) Harel, born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Ljubljana, Aprica, Italy and Switzerland From a well-to-do Zionist family; witness father is active in Maccabi; participation in the Maccabiah in Eretz Israel, 1935; Maccabi activities from a young age; list of names of Jews from Ludberg; arrival of Jewish refugees; absorption of a refugee girl in her home. Outbreak of the war, 10 April 1941; anti-Jewish legislation and arrests; deportation to camps; her family's escape to Ljubljana with forged documents, May 1942; move to the area under Italian control;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hela (Mismer) Kraus, born in Orahovica, 1919, regarding her experiences in Hreljin, Trieste, Aprica and a DP camp in Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Hela (Mismer) Kraus, born in Orahovica, 1919, regarding her experiences in Hreljin, Trieste, Aprica and a DP camp in Switzerland Her father was born in Poland; move to Osijek; witness attends a Jewish kindergarten and Jewish school; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; activities in the Jewish National Fund, JNF; work in Djurdjevac; marriage. Outbreak of the war, 1941; escape to Hreljin, under Italian occupation, with help from a priest; move to Trieste; life in Trieste with help from the Joint; deportation to Aprica, 1942; life with a group of Jewish refugees in Aprica; German occupation,...

File Number : 12463

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Reuven Lederer Eldar, born in Osijek, 1926, regarding his experiences in Zagreb, Cocconato and Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Reuven Lederer Eldar, born in Osijek, 1926, regarding his experiences in Zagreb, Cocconato and Switzerland Move to Novi-Sad, 1930; his parents' activities in the Jewish community and various Jewish institutions; attends a Jewish kindergarten; attends a Maccabi school; activities in Hashomer Hatzair; help to refugees; displays of antisemitism. Outbreak of the war; escape to Zagreb via Bosnia; German occupation; anti-Jewish legislation; escape to the Italian occupied zone; help from local Jews; deportation to Cocconato, December 1941; life in Cocconato; German occupation, October 1943; escape...

File Number : 12415

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yaakov Goite, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1916, regarding his life in Benghazi before the war

Testimony

Testimony of Yaakov Goite, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1916, regarding his life in Benghazi before the war Family background; family origin from Tunisia and holders of French citizenship; life in Benghazi; community life and the organization of community management; Italian rule; rebellions against Italian rule. *The testimony ends with the outbreak of the war without the description of the German occupation.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Horowitz Maimon, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1928, regarding her experiences during the war and the Giado camp

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Horowitz Maimon, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1928, regarding her experiences during the war and the Giado camp Family background; studies at a Jewish Italian school; life in the city before the war. The outbreak of war; entry of German soldiers into the city; escape to Barce; looting the house in Benghazi; the bombings; deportation to the Giado camp; living conditions in the camp; stay about a year; liberation; transfer to Barce; the bombings; escape from the bombings to villages in the area; arriving at Kuwayfiyah. Liberation by the British; back to Benghazi; life after the war; aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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