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Testimony of Paul Pinchas Ben-Shaul Reichmann, born in 1934 in Lille, France, about his wartime experiences as a boy in hiding in France, the Champery refugee camp, the home of a Jewish family in Lausanne, etc.

German occupation ensues in 1940; family tries unsuccessfully to escape to the south of France (to Rue); escaping back to Lens in 1940; escaping to Paris; escaping to Piot in 1941; attempting to run the border with the family to the Free Zone of France; arrested by the Germans; trial and detention in a lockup in Biarritz in 1941; father detained separately; released and returns to Paris for several months; another attempt to escape to the south of France; escaping to Benejacoq in 1941; life in hiding there; transferred with help from the French resistance and the Jewish MJC organization to a convent in...

File Number : 13616

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Elli Moskowicz Fischer, born in Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Switzerland as of 1933; appeal by Elli and her aunt regarding the Swiss decision to deport her to Germany, 1939; letter by Samuel Moskowicz, testifying he is an Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen survivor; experiences of the Moskowicz family from Berlin, including a copy of the ID issued for Elli in Zurich in 1940 Memoirs of Elli Moskowicz Fischer, born in Berlin, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Switzerland from 1933, appeal written by her and her aunt Anna Obermann regarding the decision of the Swiss authorities to...

File Number : 8343

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Personal Documents, Biography, Official Documentation, Documentary, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, German

German passport issued in Hamburg, Germany, 24 May 1935 to Vera Rosenberg, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1919, before her escape to Switzerland

German passport issued in Hamburg, Germany, 24 May 1935 to Vera Rosenberg, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1919, before her escape to Switzerland The letter "J" on the first page of the passport was added to Rosenberg's passport on 18 March 1939. Note: Rosenberg's request to the German Embassy in Geneva, to add the letter "J" to her passport to indicate that she is Jewish, was caused by her fear that she would be deported to back Germany as a German refugee (her request was based on the hope that she would be rescued from deportation due to being Jewish).

File Number : 610

Type of Material : Passport

Language : German

Testimony of Miriam Marika (Marcus) Katzburg, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in Budapest in and marked house and on the Kasztner train to Switzerland via Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Marika (Marcus) Katzburg, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in Budapest in a marked house and on the Kasztner train to Switzerland via Bergen-Belsen Only child from a middle-class family; her father owns an antique shop; conversion to Christianity of her mother's father. Expulsion from an Evangelical high school and transfer to a Jewish high school; life until 1944; German occupation, March 1944; draft of her father to forced labor repairing railroad tracks; transfer together with her mother to her grandmother's house that had been turned into a marked house;...

File Number : 13246

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Heini Chaim Bornstein, born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1920, about rescue operations in occupied Europe that were managed from Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Heini Chaim Bornstein, born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1920, about rescue operations in occupied Europe that were managed from Switzerland Participation in the World Jewish Congress in Geneva in August 1939; carrying out twenty-two relief and rescue operations in the Soviet Union, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Germany, Poland, and Slovakia in 1939–1946; helping refugees and youth-movement members; important activity with the Rescue Committee in Switzerland.

File Number : 13227

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Henny Neimann, born in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Zbaszyn, Mannheim, in a children's home in France and in Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Henny Neimann, born in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Zbaszyn, Mannheim, in a children's home in France and in Switzerland Her family is originally from Poland; childhood in a religious family; life in Germany until 1938; preparations for emigration to the US. Sudden deportation of the family to Zbaszyn, Poland, late October 1938; short stay in the place; permit given to return to Germany to complete emigration preparations; refusal of visa; life in Mannheim until 1939. Deportion of her father to Dachau; deportation with her mother and brothers to the Gurs camp,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Etta Esther (Fridman) Dagen, born in Berlin, Germany, 1929, regarding her experiences in Berlin during Kristallnacht, and in Belgium and Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Etta Esther (Fridman) Dagen, born in Berlin, Germany, 1929, regarding her experiences in Berlin during Kristallnacht, and in Belgium and Switzerland Modern family; attends a Jewish school. Stay in hiding during Kristallnacht; her father's escape to Belgium; her mother's escape to Belgium via Poland; life with her brother in the home of the Jewish community's cleaning woman and in a children's home; travel to Belgium; life as a family until 1942; detention of her father after being informed on by a Jew; dispersion of her family to hiding places; life in hiding in a village near Namur;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Edith Tamar (Klein) Kodesh, born in Zurich, Switzerland, 1930, regarding her experiences in Mulhouse, Lyon and Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Edith Tamar (Klein) Kodesh, born in Zurich, Switzerland, 1930, regarding her experiences in Mulhouse, Lyon and Switzerland Life before the war; life in Mulhouse; draft of her father, who was of Czech origin, to a Czech brigade of the French Army, 1939. German occupation; escape to Lyon on foot, with her family; life in Lyon; receives help from the JDC to find housing; registration with the Red Cross in order to search for her father; attends a French school; release of her father from a POW camp with help from the Red Cross organization; obtains forged documents; illegally crosses the border...

File Number : 12992

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Kiti Kendla Katz, born in Klobucko, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Antwerp, Lille, Lyon, Lucerne and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Kiti Kendla Katz, born in Klobucko, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Antwerp, Lille, Lyon, Lucerne and other places Religious family; move to Antwerp, 1930; life in Antwerp; death of their father, 1937; witness attends a state school. Outbreak of the war; escape to Lille; escape to Saint Paul; return to Antwerp; buying of food in villages in the area; deportation of Jews, autumn 1942; escape to her sisters in France; life in Lyon; illegally crosses the border to Switzerland; escape to Lucerne; life in Lucerne in a hotel with refugees; takes care of children in a camp in the area;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Elise (Weinberg) Dagoni, born in Vienna, Austria, 1917, regarding her experiences in Anterp, Lyons and Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Elise (Weinberg) Dagoni, born in Vienna, Austria, 1917, regarding her experiences in Anterp, Lyons and Switzerland Her religious well-to-do family is originally from Krakow; Maccabi Hatzair activities; move to Antwerp, 1929; university studies in Brussels. German occupation, 1940; escape to France; return to Antwerp; starts her internship in psychology in a mental health clinic and works as the director of a kindergarten; escape in the direction of Switzerland via Lyons, 1943; detention; camp life including hepititis; liberation. Move to Zurich; life in Zurich icluding studying for her...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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