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Testimony of Edita Alon Carl Shultz, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, in 1920 regarding the Kosice ghetto and her rescue in Budapest.

-About the family; transition to Hungarian ruling in 1939; she married a Jewish doctor, a refugee from Czechoslovakia in 1940; recruitment with protection to a unit of Hungarian doctors in 1941; confiscation of the shop owned by the family; expropriation of a room for the benefit of a Hungarian officer; German occupation in 1944; his mother was arrested for interrogation; confiscation of jewelry; deportation to the ghetto ; she got permission to reunite with her husband; rescue; moving to Budapest; birth of a son, starvation; double suicide attempt and rescue; hiding in the Jewish hospital; murder by people...

File Number : 13695

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shifra Ivri née Ionish, born in 1941 in Legjonów, Poland, about being left as an infant on a roadside on the way to Białołęka and being rescued by Leokadia Jaromirska on October 4, 1942

Parents from Radzymin; parents deported to the Legjonów ghetto; parents escape into the forests; witness left on the main road in Białołęka; rescued by a Polish woman on October 4, 1942; lives under a non-Jewish identity; wandering with her Polish mother after the Great Uprising in 1944; mother, Golda Ionish, murdered in Majdanek; father survives in Auschwitz; father searches for his daughter; father gains custody; living in children's houses in Petrolaszik and in Germany; immigration to Israel in 1948; Leokadia Jaromirska recognized as Righteous among the Nations in 1968.

File Number : 13643

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Irka Rivka Golan née Gantovnik, born in 1941 in Święciany, Poland, about her experiences as an infant in the Opsa, Postawy, and Święciany ghettos and with a Russian family in 1942–1944

Soviet occupation ensues in 1939; German occupation follows; witness born in Święciany in September 1941; life in hiding in forests at one month of age; internment in the Opsa, Postawy, and Święciany ghettos; hearing rumors about liquidation of shtetlakh in Lithuania and Belorussia; escaping from Aktionen; adoption by a Russian family in October 1942; parents survive in the ghettos in 1943; liquidation of the Święciany ghetto and murder of the Jews in Ponary; parents hide until the liberation in July 1944; family reunited; they move to Poland and Germany; mother teaches in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons...

File Number : 13591

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ruth Pardess née Schwarz, born in 1940 in Ostrowiec, Poland, about her experiences as a girl in the Sambor ghetto and in hiding with the family of the German officer Alojzy Plewa in Kliny

Information about the Schwarz and Krongold families; witness's birth in Ostrowiec in February 1940; living with her mother in the Sambor ghetto and smuggled out of the ghetto by the German officer Alojzy Plewa in September 1942; witness placed under a false identity with the officer's family in Kliny, near Kepno; mother hides in bunker until the liberation; father survives; witness reunited with parents and moves to Warsaw in 1945; aunt murdered in Ostrowiec after the liberation; immigration to Eretz Israel with mother in 1946; father remains in Poland; recognition of Alojzy Plewa as Righteous among the Nations...

File Number : 13628

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Shulamit Katz, born in Vilna, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and in Auschwitz and other camps

Memoirs of Shulamit Katz, born in Vilna, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and in Auschwitz and other camps Vilna Ghetto life; murder of Jews in Ponary; finds a hiding place in a garbage container; loss of her two children; deportation to various camps; liberation in Auschwitz camp; Background notes: - Memoirs regarding the experiences of Shulamit Katz were told by her daughter and written by her granddaughter Chaya Apel; the first part of the memoirs is an introduction including the historical background; the main part includes the memoirs of the grandmother, Shulamit Katz;...

File Number : 8329

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Rosa Louise Van West Cohn, born in Leiden, the Netherlands, 1944, regarding her experiences in Amsterdam and in hiding while hidden by the Haasnoot family (later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations) in Rijnsburg Her childhood in Amsterdam with her family. Finding of a hiding place with help from friends and the Dutch underground; in hiding while hidden by the Haasnoot family in Rijnsburg. Receives knowledge regarding her rescuers including letters written from Westerburg; life after the war.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Chaim Zvi Henik Luftman Sarid, born in Poznan, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and more

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ineke (Kopans) Kol Tov Kolthof, born in Sankt Oedenrode, the Netherlands, 1921, regarding her experiences in Eindhoven and in hiding in Sankt Oedenrode

Testimony

Testimony of Ineke (Kopans) Kol Tov Kolthof, born in Sankt Oedenrode, the Netherlands, 1921, regarding her experiences in Eindhoven and in hiding in Sankt Oedenrode Life before the war; life in Eindhoven; robbery of her father's store. Yellow badge; life in hiding in Sankt Oedenrode in the home of the Van Den Brock family; knitting and weaving; relations with the family that hid her; birth of her daughter; places her baby daughter in a convent; care of her daughter by the nun Hermanie Dewied; her baby's name is changed to Mintie; relationship between her baby and the nun; receives help from people in the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Article that appeared in the "Vrij Nederland" newspaper regarding the "Creche" [Children's Detention Camp] in Amsterdam, 1986

Article that appeared in the "Vrij Nederland" newspaper regarding the "Creche" [Children's Detention Camp] in Amsterdam, 1986 The article, illustrated with photographs, was published in the supplement to the "Vrij Nederland" newspaper; it contains testimonies regarding the deportation of Jewish babies from the detention camp for children ("Creche") in Amsterdam (attached to the "Hollandsche Schouwburg"),late summer 1942-late autumn 1943; most of the testimonies are about the activities of Dutch underground members who succeeded in smuggling approximately 1,000 babies out of the detention camp, 18 January...

File Number : 15.6

Type of Material : Article

Language : Hebrew, Dutch

Memoirs of Shoshana Varda Rozia (Kerbel) Froehlich, born in Poland in June 1942, regarding her parents' experiences in a labor camp near Auschwitz during 1940-1944 and her family's rehabilitation after the war

File Number : 7127

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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