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Memoirs of Mimi Camhi de Faraggi regarding her experiences in Skoplje, Urosevac and using a false identity in Albania

Memoirs of Mimi Camhi de Faraggi regarding her experiences in Skoplje, Urosevac and using a false identity in Albania Life in Skoplje during the German occupation, 06 April 1941; escape together with her family to Urosevac, 10 March 1943; her family remaining in Skoplje and their murder in Treblinka; escape to Albania; life in Albania using a false identity as a Muslim; end of the war. Return to Skoplje; life in Skoplje; finding an album that her grandparents entrusted to a friend, 1946; life during the Soviet regime; escape to Albania; escape to Italy; life in the Bari DP camp; move to live near the...

File Number : 8578

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Spanish

To be translated

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel (Bachar) Lazar, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Berat, Shkoder and in hiding using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Bachar) Lazar, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Berat, Shkoder and in hiding using a false identity Life before the war; membership in Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. German occupation, April 1941; decrees; transfer of authority to the Italians; exile to Berat; German occupation, September 1943; escape of the family to Shkoder; arrest, interrogation and release; wanderings of the family; assumes a false identity; discovery of her Jewish identity; in hiding; contact with Albanian partisans; liberation. Return to Pristina, 1944.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gavra Mandil, born in Belgrade, 1936, regarding his experiences in Belgrade, in prison in Pristina, in Kavaja, Tirana and hiding with non-Jews in Kruja

Testimony

Testimony of Gavra Mandil, born in Belgrade, 1936, regarding his experiences in Belgrade, detention in Pristina, in Kavaja, Tirana and hidden by non-Jews in Kruja The family; life in Novi Sad where the family moved to in 1938; happy childhood memories; return to Belgrade; the air-raids on 6 April 1941; escape south with false identity papers; reaching Kosovo and life under Italian occupation; detention in Pristina; his father Moshe Mandil asked the Italian authorities for his release; deportation of the prisoners to Albania in the summer 1942; life in Kavaja under the status of "Internati Civili di Guerra";...

File Number : 11543

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel (Adiges) Cohen, born in Pristina, 1927, regarding her experiences in Pristina, Barat, Semlin and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Adiges) Cohen, born in Pristina, 1927, regarding her experiences in Pristina, Barat, Zemlin and Bergen-Belsen camps The Jewish-Sephardi experience in Pristina; Jewish holidays, special foods and customs; friendly attitude of Moslem neighbors; community activities and mutual aid. Arrival of Jewish refugees from Poland, Germany and Czechoslovakia; hosting a Czech refugee in their home; entry of the Germans and transfer of rule to the Italian Army, 1941; life under Italian rule; escape to Albania following warnings by the Italians, early 1943; move to Barat with most of the Jews of...

File Number : 10953

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Raul Teitelbaum, born in Prizren, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in the partisans and in the Sajmiste and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Raul Teitelbaum, born in Prizren, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in the partisans and in the Sajmiste and Bergen-Belsen camps His was the only Jewish family in Prizren, in the Kosovo region, where his father was the regional doctor; the entry of the Germans in April 1941 and the annexation of the area to Albania, under Italian rule; confiscation of his family's house for the use of the army; joins the local Communist underground at age 11, role as contact person with the partisans in the mountains; distributing announcements, and sabatoge activities; his father's arrest and transfer...

File Number : 10428

Type of Material : List of Deportees, Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Naftali Conforti, born in Belgrade, 1925, regarding his experiences in Yugoslavia and Albania

Testimony

Testimony of Naftali Conforti, born in Belgrade, 1925, regarding his experiences in Yugoslavia and Albania Life in Belgrade before the war; Jewish way of life; relations with Serbian neighbors and status of the Jews in the city. Escape to Albania with the outbreak of the war; life in Albania; hidden by Albanians with the knowledge of all the neighbors; evades the Chetniks; wanderings; detention by fascists and release in exchange for a bribe paid by a Jewish friend; Albanian partisan activities; cooperation and combat together with Yugoslavian partisans.

File Number : 6517

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mendel Nisim, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia, 1908, regarding his experiences in Pristina, under Italian occupation and with the partisans in Albania

Testimony

Testimony of Mendel Nisim, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia, 1908, regarding his experiences in Pristina, under Italian occupation and with the partisans in Albania Family life and the Jewish community; economic and social situation of the Jews in Pristina; situation and status of the Jews in Moslem surroundings between World War I and World War II. Italian occupation and the local Muslim regime, 1941; help to Jewish refugees from Belgrade; escape to Albania; help from Albanian villagers en route to Valbona; life with the Albanian partisans until the end of the war; details regarding Fadil Hodza, the...

File Number : 6430

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Two articles on Jewish resistance in Greece and Albania, by Joseph Matsas of Ioannina, Greece

Two articles on Jewish resistance in Greece and Albania, by Joseph Matsas of Ioannina, Greece 1. The participation of the Greek jews in the national resistance 1940 -1944. 2. The rescue of the Albanian jews (as told by Br. Batino).

File Number : 45

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Excerpt(s)

Language : English

Testimony of Avraham Adiges, born in 1929 in Kosovo, Yugoslavia - regarding deportation to Albania, forced labor, escape to forests and hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Adiges, born in 1929 in Kosovo, Yugoslavia The immediate family; parents’ occupation; lifestyle at home; the father taken into German captivity and his release; numerus clausus and leaving school; German invasion and the division of Yugoslavia, April 1941; the deportation of Jews by truck to Albania by the Italians; Italian control of the regional capital, Pristina; concentration of Jews in the city of Berat; forced labor; the entry of the German army into Albania; escape to the forests and hiding in the mountains; joining the partisans; attitude of Albanians towards Jews; starvation;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew