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Personal documentation of Avraham and Mirl Heller, 1938-1946

Personal documentation of Avraham and Mirl Heller, 1938-1946 - Diary written by Avraham Heller, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 12 February 1919, written 24 January 1938-30 July 1944; letter written by Avraham to his daughter, Yael, 21 January 1944; description of the war and the disaster that struck the Jews of Europe; copying over of letters in German that were written in 1938; list of members of Kibbutz Sde Eliahu, prepared, June 1944; the final entry, on the 10th anniversary of his aliya to Eretz Israel, written on 30 July 1944; - Letter and telegram sent by Josef Herbstmann from Manchester to...

File Number : 8530

Type of Material : Telegram, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Letter, Diary, Official Documentation, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, English, German

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File Number : 13306

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 13307

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 David Desider Steinmetz, born in 1925 in Satu Mare, Romania, about his experiences in Heide, Oostende, Marseille, the Les Milles camp, and other locations

Testimony

Testimony of David Desider Steinmetz, born in 1925 in Satu Mare, Romania, about his experiences in Heide, Oostende, Marseille, the Les Milles camp, and other locations Life before the war; offspring of a Satmar and Sighet Hasidic family; emigration to Belgium in 1937; life in Antwerp; attending a yeshiva in Heide; German occupation ensues in 1940; escaping to Oostende; bombardment of Dunkirk; escaping to Gravelines in 1940; fleeing back to Antwerp; life under German occupation; escaping to Paris in 1941 after receiving a deportation order in Limbourg; escaping to Marseille (in the Free Zone) in 1941; life...

File Number : 13437

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehoshua Hermann Korn, born in Cologne, Germany, 1922, regarding his experiences in Cologne, Bialystok and Vilna

Testimony

Testimony of Yehoshua Hermann Korn, born in Cologne, Germany, 1922, regarding his experiences in Cologne, Bialystok and Vilna His childhood in a family originally from Poland; attends a Jewish elementary and Jewish high school; Nazi rise to power, 1933; activities in the Bachad movement, Brit Hanoar; life [in Cologne] until 1938; deportation of his father to Zbaszyn on a train; life in a rented apartment with other deportees; activities with his friends from the movement; move with the movement to aliya training on a farm near Bialystok, spring 1939; life on the farm, including work. Outbreak of the war,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Rosalia Nina (Schneider) David, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1936, regarding her experiences in Antwerp, Profondeville, an orphanage and in hiding in St. Servais while using a false identity German Army occupation [of Antwerp]; escape to France via Dunkerque; return of her family to Antwerp, 1940; life in Antwerp including air-raids and anti-Jewish legislation; her family's move to Profondeville, 1941; fear of deportation to concentration camps; placed in an orphanage of a Catholic monastery in the Namur region; hiding of her parents by a Belgian family, 1942; move from the orphanage to her...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Michael Cahn, born in Fulda, Germany, 1924, regarding his experiences in Fulda and in England

Testimony

Testimony of Michael Cahn, born in Fulda, Germany, 1924, regarding his experiences in Fulda and in England His childhood in Fulda in a Zionist family; his father serves as the rabbi of the Hesse region. Attack on the witness and his father by the SD; his father's success to get the attackers to flee, 1931; Nazi rise to power, 1933; displays of antisemitism; witness joins the Ezra movement, 1934; giving of an exit permit to Mandatory Palestine to his parents, which is valid for 60 days, in order to advance the emigration of Jews, April 1937; permit given to his parents by the Gestapo to arrive to an Agudat...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Daniel Herbert Spier, born in Guxhagen, Germany, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto and in Kaiserwald and Stutthof camps

Testimony

Testimony of Daniel Herbert Spier, born in Guxhagen, Germany, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto and in Kaiserwald and Stutthof camps Childhood in the village of Guxhagen; life under the Nazi regime and strengthening of antisemitism, 1933; Kristallnacht, 1938; deportation of his father to Buchenwald and his return, in 1938; deportation of the family to the Riga Ghetto, Latvia, 1941; ghetto life and forced labor of his parents; deportation of the family to labor in the Wehrmacht warehouses, in the Riga area, 1942; deportation to the Kaiserwald labor camp, 1943; being separated from his mother;...

File Number : 13386

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Gerda (Beruh) Ilan, born in Vienna, Austria, 1927, regarding her experiences in Vienna during Kristallnacht and emigration to England with the Kindertransport, January 1939, in a hostel in Newport and London Life in Vienna; displays of antisemitism. Anschluss (annexation to Germany), March 1938; arrest of her father on Kristallnacht and her father's release; receipt of an affidavit to emigrate to England together with her sister, Sonia; departure for England with the Kindertransport, January 1939; transfer to Newport by the Jewish Agency; life in a hostel established by the Jewish community...

File Number : 13208

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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