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Testimony of Tzuri (Alfonso) Redzhiniano, born in Tripoli, Libya in 1938, regarding his ‎experiences of deportation to Bergen-Belsen camp

Testimony of Tzuri (Alfonso) Redzhiniano, born in Tripoli, Libya in 1938, regarding his ‎experiences of deportation to Bergen-Belsen camp His family before the war; deportation of the family to Italy in January 1942; life in the Civitella del ‎Tronto citadel; restrictions on movement; help from the Italian population; help from the Red ‎Cross; deportation to Bergen-Belsen in September 1943; life in the camp; roll calls; abuse; ‎starvation; packages from the Red Cross; Yom Kippur; liberation by the British in April 1945; return ‎to Tripoli; life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1950; absorption.‎

File Number : 13586

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Pash, born in Landsberg Warthe, Germany in 1935, regarding his ‎experiences as a child in Berlin, Potenza, a Jewish orphanage in Torino, on a farm in the area of ‎Casale Monferrato, and more Life in Berlin before the war; his father’s position as a judge; deportation of his father to a ‎concentration camp and his poisoning in 1939; escape with his mother to Potenza; escape to ‎Torino; life in a Jewish orphanage; attitude of the Jewish community after the German occupation ‎of northern Italy; escape with other children from the orphanage to Casale Monferrato; closure of ‎the orphanage and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Testimony of Yoseph Bar Gal [Burdzhel], born in Tunis, Tunisia in 1934, regarding his experiences in ‎Tunis under the German occupation, eviction from his home, and his activities in the Mossad in ‎Tunisia after the war

Testimony

Family background—traditional family; his father was director of a Jewish company that sold musical instruments; the neighborhood was mostly Italian-French; attendance at a French school; expulsion from school; German occupation at the end of 1942; air raids; sudden eviction from their home after their neighbors informed on them; German withdrawal in May 1943; return home; joining Hashomer Hatzair movement in 1948; active in the movement up to his aliya in 1956; training by the Mossad and return to Tunisia as a Mossad agent up to his official aliya to Israel in 1958; posting to France; his life up to this...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliahu Mesika, born in Bizerte, Tunisia, in 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in ‎Bizerte, Mateur, and Tunis

Testimony of Eliahu Mesika, born in Bizerte, Tunisia, in 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in ‎Bizerte, Mateur, and Tunis His life before the war; son of a family of rabbis; the Italian occupation in 1939; his family’s escape ‎to Mateur; escape back to Bizerte after two months; life there until the end of 1942; the German ‎occupation in November 1942; air raids; evacuation by order of the Allies; escape to Tunis; his ‎experiences at the school in the Jewish quarter; his father saved from being sent to forced labor; ‎liberation by the British army in May 1943; his studies at a French school;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mikhael Miki Amodai, born in 1929 in Skopje, Yugoslavia, about his experiences in Belgrade, camps in Kavaje and Ferramonti di Tarsia, L'Aquila, and more

Testimony

Testimony of Mikhael Miki Amodai, born in 1929 in Skopje, Yugoslavia, about his experiences in Belgrade, camps in Kavaje and Ferramonti di Tarsia, L'Aquila, and more Childhood in Skopje and Belgrade; German occupation ensues on April 6, 1941; escaping with family to Herzegovina; escaping with family to Boka Kotorska in July 1941; deportation to the camp in Kavaje; treatment by the Italian commander; transfer to the Ferramonti di Tarsia camp in October 1941; escaping with his family to Abruzzi; escaping to Pizzoli; escaping to Confino Libero; encountering other refugees from Yugoslavia; German occupation...

File Number : 13523

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Viviana Graner née Volterra, born in 1925 in Ancona, Italy, about her experiences in Ancona and in hiding with a family in Monte S. Martino, 1943–1944

Testimony of Viviana Graner née Volterra, born in 1925 in Ancona, Italy, about her experiences in Ancona and in hiding with a family in Monte S. Martino, 1943–1944 Offspring of assimilated family in Ancona; father an anti-Fascist activist; father warned by authorities; promulgation of racial laws in 193; father dismissed from his teaching job; witness studies in a community setting; is attracted to Judaism; suffers from economic hardships; German occupation ensues in 1943; family escapes after being warned in advance; family finds a hideout in Monte S. Martino; conceals their Jewishness; prayerbook deposited...

File Number : 13504

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Joseph Gendler, born in Secureni, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Edineti Ghetto, in a forest and in the Verkhovka Sovkhoz

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Gendler, born in Secureni, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Edineti Ghetto, in a forest and in the Verkhovka Sovkhoz Childhood in an Orthodox family; Gordonia and Dror activities; studies in a Talmud Torah; Soviet occupation, 1940; deportation of the well-to-do to Siberia; abolition of private businesses; Romanian occupation, 1941; deportation to the Edineti Ghetto; Transnistria; living conditions; hunger; cold; mortality; bartering for food; physical abuse of Jews; living in a chicken coop and a stable; death of his mother and his sister in Pavlivka; escape to a forest...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Haim Ganis, born in 1930 in Volos, Greece, about his experiences as a boy in Volos, Lakonia, and hiding in villages and in a partisans' camp

Testimony

Testimony of Haim Ganis, born in 1930 in Volos, Greece, about his experiences as a boy in Volos, Lakonia, and hiding in villages and in a partisans' camp Life before the war; offspring of a poor family; Italian forces invade Greece in 1940; escaping to Lakonia; German occupation and fleeing back to Volos in April 1941; transfer of the area to the Italians; surrender of Italy and forewarning about impending events; Germany occupies the area; escape with family to the countryside in September 1943; Germans search for partisans; escape to Lakonia; Jews rounded up; witness and brother are smuggled out by their...

File Number : 13407

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Miryam Tatyana Aflalo née Malinovski, born in 1937 in Lucky, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences as a girl in Bratislava, aboard the Pentcho, on Kamila Nisi island, in Rosi, and in the Terramonti di Tarsia camp Moving with her family to Bratislava shortly after birth; deportation to the Hungarian border; forced back to Slovakia by the Hungarians in September 1938; father immigrates to Eretz Isarel; escape with her mother from Bratislava aboard the Pentcho (originally a coal-fired riverboat) in May 1940; Romanians delay the vessel for several months; aid from the local Jewish community; the...

File Number : 13410

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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