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Testimony of Vilem Bernard, Dr., born in Nachod, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in Poland, the Soviet Union and as a soldier in the Czechoslovakia Army in the Soviet Union

Testimony of Vilem Bernard, Dr., born in Nachod, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in Poland, the Soviet Union and as a soldier in the Czechoslovakia Army in the Soviet Union Born in Czechoslovakia; Chairman of the Students' Union in Prague, 1935-1936; leading member of the Czechoslovakian Social Democratic Party. Flies to Poland, 1939; joins Czechoslovakian Resistance Movement abroad, connection with General Lew Prchala; active in H. Field Refugee Committee in Krakow; rejection of Jewish refugees by the Czechoslovakian military camp in Bronowice; flies into the Soviet occupied territories;...

File Number : 4

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Czech

Obituary notice regarding the Death of the Republic of Czechoslovakia, signed by Edvard Benes as a reaction to the Munich Agreement, published, 01/10/1938

File Number : 315

Type of Material : Placards, Announcement

Language : German

Newspaper clippings regarding the problem of the Sudetenland and the question of the Jews in Czechoslovakia, 1938-1939

Newspaper clippings regarding the problem of the Sudetenland and the question of the Jews in Czechoslovakia, 1938-1939 Newspaper clippings, mainly from the "Wiener Neueste Nachrichten" newspaper, regarding the problems concerning the border of Czechoslovakia and the Germans in the Sudetenland, and question of the Jews including the expulsion of the Jews from the University of Prague and the National Theater.

File Number : 14

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : German

Letter sent by Vojtech Tuka [who later on was the Prime Minister of Slovakia during the Holocaust] to the President of Slovakia Edvard Benes, including a request for a pardon for his activities against the state during 1919-1927, undated

File Number : 184

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Czech

Testimony of Yaakov Feldman, born in Danilovo, 1925, regarding his experiences in a labor camp in Hungary and in Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald camps

Testimony

Testimony of Yaakov Feldman, born in Danilovo, 1925, regarding his experiences in a labor camp in Hungary and in Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald camps Religious hasidic family; annexation of area to Hungary, 1938; displays of antisemitism and violence. With the outbreak of the war, Czech and Ukrainian riots, especially in Chust; air raids; food shortage; deportation of the Jews to the Ukraine; murder of the deportees and throwing of their bodies into the Dniester River, 1940-1942; living with a non-Jew and work with a Jewish blacksmith; arrest of the blacksmith and work with another blacksmith; turned into the...

File Number : 10697

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 203

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Slovak

עדותה של מוריס רייך חוה אסתר אװה, ילידת Boskovice צ'כוסלובקיה 1928, על בריחה מצ'כוסלובקיה במרץ 1939 וקורותיה בהונגריה ובבריטניה הגדולה

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Experiences of Mordechai Erwin Mitelman Tal, born in Brezno, Slovakia, 1930, and the experiences of his family during the war and following it

Experiences of Mordechai Erwin Mitelman Tal, born in Brezno, Slovakia, 1930, and the experiences of his family during the war and following it Childhood with his parents, Emil and Olga Mitelman, owners of a variety store in Brezno; transfer of his older brother, Josef Otto to a Hebrew school in Mukacevo, following the beginning of Nazi activity in the school he had attended, for the school year, 1938-1939; return home of Josef by crossing the border following the placement of Mukacevo outside of Slovakian borders on account of the Munich Agreement, 05 October 1938; failure of his parents in obtaining aliya...

File Number : 8965

Type of Material : Memoirs