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Memoirs of Emanuel Krauthamer Kruvi, born, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bobrka Ghetto and in Romanow, forests and Swirz

Memoirs of Emanuel Krauthamer Kruvi, born, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bobrka Ghetto and in Romanow, forests and Swirz Experiences of the Krauthamer family from the start of their wanderings from Krautheim, Germany until their settlement in Bobrka; German Army occupation [of Bobrka], 1941; establishment of the Bobrka Ghetto; Bobrka Ghetto life, including forced labor digging trenches and clearing snow; life in stables in groups of 50 young women and 50 young men; forced labor in sugar beet fields [on an agricultural farm in Romanow?] until October 1942; first "Aktion" in Bobrka; deportation of...

File Number : 8583

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jeannine (Fiszow) Fischer, born in Sarreguemines, France, 1929, regarding her experiences as a child in Thionville, Vichy, Plombiere Les Bains, Davos and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Jeannine (Fiszow) Fischer, born in Sarreguemines, France, 1929, regarding her experiences as a child in Thionville, Vichy, Plombiere Les Bains, Davos and other places Life in Metz before the war; life in Thionville. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to Vichy; escape to Plombiere Les Bains; escape to Saint Pourcain Sur Sioulle; life in Saint Pourcain Sur Sioulle including relations with the local population; attempt to escape to Switzerland, 1942; smuggled over the border into Switzerland; camp life in Davos; receives information about the liberation of France. Return to Thionville, 1944;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : French

Testimony of Dora (Chimon) Mizrahi, born in Milan, Italy, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in Milan, Nice and Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Dora (Chimon) Mizrahi, born in Milan, Italy, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in Milan, Nice and Switzerland Life before the war; displays of antisemitism. Escape to Nice with her family, 1938; life in Nice including rescue from deportation; deportation of her mother and sister to Auschwitz; smuggled into Switzerland by her father and another man; life in a camp in Switzerland; fostered by Hannah Baltensberger, a Protestant woman; end of the war. Return to her father; move to Toulouse; aliya to Israel, 1964.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Albert Lamantowicz, born in Paris, France, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Paris, Nice, Penne D'Agenais, Lyon and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Albert Lamantowicz, born in Paris, France, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Paris, Nice, Penne D'Agenais, Lyon and other places Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; transfer to the Loire Inferieure region with classmates, 1939; life in the home of a family in a village in the region; his father enlists in the French Army; his mother and father escape to the village where he is, 1940; escape to Paris; anti-Jewish legislation; arrest and deportation of his father to the Beaune La Rolande camp, 14 May 1941; his father's escape; hunt for Jews and escape to Nice; escape to Penne...

File Number : 12763

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : French

Testimony of Joseph Erwin Kahn, born in Mittelsinn, Germany, 1929, regarding his experiences in Mittelsinn and Heiden

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Erwin Kahn, born in Mittelsinn, Germany, 1929, regarding his experiences in Mittelsinn and Heiden Life before the war; attends an area Jewish school; antisemitic harassment by non-Jewish children while en route to the school. Deportation of his father to Dachau; help from Jewish families; children help with agricultural work; Kristallnacht and the burning of the synagogue; breaking-in of homes; Jewish families are hidden in the metal workshop of a non-Jew in the village; transfer of Jews to Frankfurt; separation from his mother and sister, and the witness is placed in an orphanage;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

Testimony

העדה- בת למשפחה דתית אורתודוקסית משכילה; ביקורים בבית הכנסת; תפקיד האב בתור ראש הקהילה היהודית; הפעלת בית הספר היהודי מטעם הקהילה וניהולו בידי האב; לימודי עברית, כינור ופסנתר; עליית הנאצים לשלטון ב-1933; הרעת מצב האוכלוסייה היהודית; חקיקה אנטי יהודית; סגירת בית הספר היהודי ב-1938; אירועי ליל הבדולח; כניסת חיילי הגסטפו לבית המשפחה; בריחת הדודים בעקבות הרדיפות; גירוש אחד הדודים ל-Dachau למשך שישה שבועות; שחרורו בשל היותו חייל פצוע ממלחמת העולם הראשונה; ארגון קבוצת ילדים בקינדרטרנספורט בידי הארגון Joint ב-Frankfurt; עלייה עם האח וכ-400 ילדים נוספים על הרכבת לכיוון הגבול עם שוויץ בינואר 1939; עצירת הרכבת ב-Basel;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Sami Leizerovitz, born in Belfort, France, 1936, regarding his experiences in hiding in Tulle, Montreuil, Paris and Dachau

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Sami Leizerovitz, born in Belfort, France, 1936, regarding his experiences in hiding in Tulle, Montreuil, Paris and Dachau From a family that immigrated to France from Romania. German occupation; concentration in German headquarters together with other Jews, 1942; separation from his family; smuggled off to be hidden in a hospital with help from a female neighbor; transfer to the Magelier orphanage in Tulle, which was under the auspices of the OSE-OPJ; transfer to an orphanage in Montreuil; in hiding in the Sacre Coeur church in Paris; detention with other Jewish children and...

File Number : 12963

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Beno Benny Shchupak Ginosar, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1930, regarding his experiences in Deauville, in hiding in Paris, Charente and with the underground in Limoges

Testimony

Testimony of Beno Benny Shchupak Ginosar, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1930, regarding his experiences in Deauville, in hiding in Paris, Charente and with the underground in Limoges Life before the war; work of his father in the Jewish community; deportation of his father to Dachau, 1938; move to the family home in Paris. German occupation; escape to Switzerland; life on a farm; deportation to Deauville; escape to Paris; life in Paris in hiding; escape to the Charente department; in hiding on a farm of non-Jews; escape to Limoges; joins the Maquis underground; life in the underground in the city,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Articles that appeared in the Swiss press regarding the murder of Wilhelm Gustloff and the pardoning of David Frankfurter, 1935-1948

Articles that appeared in the Swiss press regarding the murder of Wilhelm Gustloff and the pardoning of David Frankfurter, 1935-1948 - Articles regarding German propaganda in Switzerland [run by] Wilhelm Gustloff and other emissaries from Germany after Gustloff's death including the sympathetic attitude of the Swiss authorities to the propaganda and to Germany (pp. 1-11), 1935; - Articles rediscussing these subjects (pp. 19, 21-25, 30-33, 90), 1944-1945; - Favoritism towards Germany shown by the Swiss authorities as expressed by non-transmission of information regarding Germans who were made to stand...

File Number : 14

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Article

Language : Italian, French, German

Testimony of Hilda Hechel, born in Amby, the Netherlands, 1933, regarding her experiences in Brussels, Chambery and a refugee camp in Bale

Testimony

Testimony of Hilda Hechel, born in Amby, the Netherlands, 1933, regarding her experiences in Brussels, Chambery and a refugee camp in Bale Family were originally from Germany; move of the family to Brussels. Outbreak of the war; return to Brussels; German occupation; life in Chambery; escape of the family to Switzerland, 1942. Move to Bale; attitudes of the Swiss police; life in a refugee camp; placed with a Jewish foster family called Hamendiger; return to Brussels, 1945; marriage, 1960; life in Bale.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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