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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

Testimony of Avraham Albahari Gal Yam, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1935, regarding his experiences in Yugoslavia, Split, Korchula and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Albahari Gal Yam, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1935, regarding his experiences in Yugoslavia, Split, Korchula and other places German Army occupation [of Yugoslavia], 1941; draft of his father into the military; detention [of his father] as a POW in a POW camp in Osnabruck, Germany; escape of the witness, with his mother, to the Italian occupied zone with help from a non-Jewish acquaintance; illegally crosses the border at Mostar while using forged documents; transfer by the authorities from Split to the Jewish community in the Korchula area; murder of 14 Jews as punishment for actions...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jamila (Sidikario) Kolomonos, born in Bitolj, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding her experiences in Bitolj, in hiding, with the partisans and in Skoplje

Testimony

Testimony of Jamila (Sidikario) Kolomonos, born in Bitolj, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding her experiences in Bitolj, in hiding, with the partisans and in Skoplje Her childhood with her family including attending high school. Outbreak of the war; in hiding with three Jewish girl friends, for several weeks; deportation of her family to Treblinka, 1943; joins the partisans with the liberation of Yugoslavia. Move back to Bitolj, 1944; marriage; move to Skoplje; remarriage, 1953.

File Number : 13160

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Ladino

Testimony of Haim Altaratz, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1931, regarding his experiences in Sarajevo, Mostar, Split, Dubrovnik and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Haim Altaratz, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1931, regarding his experiences in Sarajevo, Mostar, Split, Dubrovnik and other places His childhood in Sarajevo. German Army occupation of Sarajevo, April 1943; informed on by their Croatian housemaid; rape of his grandmother by drunk German officers; move to Mostar using Aryan documents with help from a Moslem acquaintance; rescue of his brother by the Moslem acquaintance; move to Split which was under Italian occupation; move to Dubrovnik; transfer to an Italian camp on the island of Rab, September 1943; joins Tito's partisans; BBC broadcasts to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ben Zion Lapid, born in Vienna, Austria, 1936, regarding his experiences as a Mischlinge child

Testimony

Testimony of Ben Zion Lapid, born in Vienna, Austria, 1936, regarding his experiences as a Mischlinge child His life as a Mischlinge child; move to Yugoslavia.

File Number : 13477

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of Dady Maestro from Sarajevo regarding the experiences of the family members and the history of the Jewish community in Sarajevo before and during the war

Documentation of Dady Maestro from Sarajevo regarding the experiences of the family members and the history of the Jewish community in Sarajevo before and during the war - Permit from the community in Sarajevo confirming the deportation of Sida (Maestro) Pinto and her two daughters to Jasenovac camp where they perished, 1991; - Postcards sent by Albert Maestro from Jasenovac camp, 1943; Albert succeeded in escaping from the camp with the help of partisans; - Permit from the community in Sarajevo according to the [population registry] books for the David ben Yossef family and Mazalta Maestro, 1917; -...

File Number : 207

Type of Material : Documentary

Language : Hebrew, English

Testimony of Mile Moshe Ovadia, born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Belgrade and with the partisans in Jasenovac

Testimony

Testimony of Mile Moshe Ovadia, born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Belgrade and with the partisans in Jasenovac Life before the war. Outbreak of the war, German occupation, 1941; detention of his parents and their deportation to the Jasenovac camp; escape with the help of a non-Jewish family friend to Jasenovac, life in Jasenovac; joining the Macvamska partisan unit (Preveza Macvamska Brigada), 1944; liberation of Belgrade. Return to Belgrade; life in Belgrade; receiving information regarding the fate of his family; aliya to Israel by ship, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Alice (Beck) Teichner, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Subotica Ghetto, Strasshof, Ibs, Mauthausen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Alice (Beck) Teichner, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Subotica Ghetto, Strasshof, Ibs, Mauthausen and other places Life before the war; attends a Jewish school; relations with the neighbors; help to refugees from Poland; knowledge about persecution of the Jews in Poland. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1940; restrictions on Jews including yellow badge; termination of employment of Jews in government offices; deportation to the Subotica Ghetto, 1944; deportation to a camp in Hungary on foot; transfer to Strasshof by train; transfer to Ibs by train; camp life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sylvia (Ernst) Berg, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1922, regarding her experiences in Novi Sad, Budapest in a marked house and with a Swedish protective passport

Testimony

Testimony of Sylvia (Ernst) Berg, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1922, regarding her experiences in Novi Sad, Budapest in a marked house and with a Swedish protective passport From a well-to-do secular Zionist family; witness's father is a stamp merchant; escape to England, 1933; escape to Novi Sad, 1934; attends a public school; activities at the local Jewish cultural meeting house. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1941; deportation of her brothers to labor camps; deportation of her father to Jesenovce; confiscation of the family home by the Hungarian Army, January 1942; house becomes military headquarters; escape...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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