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Testimony of Sela Shtovitska Uri Urlich, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1930 regarding deportation to the Polish border and regarding his leaving nazi Germany in Kindertransport

Testimony

Childhood in Frankfurt an der Oder; life during nazi regime in 1933; arrest of the father accused of communist activity and his deportation to Poland as a Polish subject in 1933; attending the Jewish school Philanthropyn in 1936; moving to the Jewish Children's Home Stiftung in 1936; deportation with the mother from Frankfurt an der Oder to the Polish border in 1938; Kristallnacht riots; his joining a group of children who were sent by Kindertransport sponsored by James and Dorothy Rothschild in 1939; the journey via Hoek van Holland, Holland to London, Britain in 1939; moving to the estate of James Rotschild...

File Number : 13713

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Correspondence of Hugo and Rudolf Meisl in England with their parents Paul and Erna Meisl in Brno, 1939-1941; correspondence of Paul Meisl regarding the immigration of his sons to England with the Kindertransport; death declaration issued by the court in Brno in 1947 confirming that Paul and Erna Meisl were deported to Theresienstadt and from there to Piaski in 1942 Postcards and letters: - Letter sent to England, 16 May 1939, by Pavel Meisl in Brno requesting that a home be found for his sons, Hugo Meisl, born 09 October 1928, and Rudolf Meisl, born 09 February 1930; - Letters sent to Paul Meisl in...

File Number : 2209

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Postcard, Letter, Death Certificate

Language : Czech, English, German

Testimony of Chana (Levi) Falg, born in Vienna, Austria in 1924, regarding her experiences in the Kindertransport to England in 1938

Testimony of Chana (Levi) Falg, born in Vienna, Austria in 1924, regarding her experiences in the Kindertransport to England in 1938 Orthodox family; attending a Jewish school; rise of antisemitism in 1936; Anschluss in 1938; anti-Jewish legislation; order expelling father from Austria; joining the Kindertransport to England with her brother in 1938; father’s illegal aliya to pre-state Israel via Romania in 1939; absorption of the witness in an Agudath Israel hostel in London; pioneer training in 1944; aliya to pre-state Israel in 1945; smuggling of inmates released from Buchenwald on the ship; receiving...

File Number : 13471

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Bandel, born in 1919 in Delmenhorst, Germany, about his experiences in hakhsharot in Gut Wingel and Britain and in a camp on the Isle of Man

Life under Nazi rule from 1933 on; antisemitism escalates and high-school studies are terminated; active in the Young Maccabi youth movement; sets out to a hakhshara (Zionist training activity) in Gut Winkel, in the vicinity of Berlin, in 1937; mother and brother are driven across the Polish border in 1938 as Jews who hold Polish nationality; Kristallnacht in 1938; escaping to London and joining a Bahad (Religious Pioneers Alliance) hakhshara in a Salvation Army camp in 1939; deported by the authorities to the Isle of Man due to citizenship in an enemy country; three months of internment in the camp in 1940;...

File Number : 13582

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Walter Weil, born in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, 1918, regarding his experiences in Frankfurt Am Main and Manchester

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Walter Weil, born in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, 1918, regarding his experiences in Frankfurt Am Main and Manchester His childhood in a well-to-do, traditional family; his family had roots in Germany, from 1700; his father was a [German Army] soldier in combat during World War I; activities in the Ebd [?] youth movement and in Maccabi Hatzair. Kristallnacht, November 1938; deportation of his father to Buchenwald; his parents' escape to England; his parents' escape to the United States; witness' activities as a counselor on the Kindertransport [en route] to England; meets his future wife;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Harry Saperstein Sapir, born in Berlin, Germany, 1933, regarding his experiences in Antwerp, Royan, Liverpool, an orphanage in Kent and in London

Testimony

Testimony of Harry Saperstein Sapir, born in Berlin, Germany, 1933, regarding his experiences in Antwerp, Royan, Liverpool, an orphanage in Kent and in London His childhood in a family originally from the Soviet Union; move to Belgium; life in Antwerp including attending school. Outbreak of the war [should be: German Army invasion of Belgium], summer 1940; escape to Royan by vehicle and by train with a group of diamond worker families; move to Liverpool on a British ship; detention of his parents; witness is placed in a non-Jewish orphanage in Kent with his older sister; life [in the orphanage] for...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Inga (Weissler) Sinigaelia, born in Danzig, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in Danzig, Beuthen, Cardiff and London

Testimony

Testimony of Inga (Weissler) Sinigaelia, born in Danzig, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in Danzig, Beuthen, Cardiff and London Her father's position as a physician; receives information concerning the murder of her father in Danzig by the Germans, 1933; her mother's remarriage; move to Beuthen with her mother, 1934; emigration to Cardiff, England with help from the Jewish community, 1936; help to Jewish refugees, 1936-1939. Outbreak of the war; air-raids on Cardiff, 1939-1940; move with other children to a village for two weeks. Life in London after the war; travels to Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Barbara Chawa (Walk) Laufer, born in Nimkau, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Nimkau, Breslau, England, Whittingehame and Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Barbara Chawa (Walk) Laufer, born in Nimkau, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Nimkau, Breslau, England, Whittingehame and Israel Life as the only Jewish family in Nimkau; attitude of the Christians after the Nazi rise to power, 1933; witness attends a school in Nimkau; attends a Hebrew high school in Breslau; aliya of her older sister to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliyah, 1936; move to Breslau, 1937. Kristallnacht riots; detention of her father in Buchenwald for one month; her father's move to Italy; witness' move to England with other children, on the Kindertransport, 1939; life in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : French

Testimony of Hugo Meizel Marom, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences as a child in Brno, London, Bedford and the Wales area

Testimony

Testimony of Hugo Meizel Marom, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences as a child in Brno, London, Bedford and the Wales area Life before the war. Draft of his father into the Czechoslovakian Army, summer 1938; appointment of an Arizator for the family's store; his father's request for help from various bodies to receive emigration permits for his sons; witness' move to England with his brother, August 1939; move to London, 07 August 1939; life in London including air-raids; evacuation with his school to Bedford; life in Bedford in the homes of two non-Jewish families; absorption in...

File Number : 12955

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, English

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