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Documentation of the Swedish Foreign Ministry regarding the Jews in Czechoslovakia, 1939

Documentation of the Swedish Foreign Ministry regarding the Jews in Czechoslovakia, 1939 Included in the file: A letter written by Folke Bernadotte on behalf of the Swedish Red Cross to G. Storch regarding the Theresienstadt Ghetto, Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald, 1945.

File Number : 52

Type of Material : Letter, Official Documentation

Language : Swedish

Diary of Dina Snabel-Maas, born in Groenlo, the Netherlands, 1920, regarding her experiences and those of her mother, Roosje Maas-Eichenwald, in hiding in Nijmegen, in the Westerbork camp and in Auschwitz; the diary is undated Capture of Dina Maas and her mother in their hiding place; deportation to Westerbork, and from there to Auschwitz; separation from her mother on arrival at Auschwitz; description of conditions in Auschwitz. In the file: - Poem written by Roos Meijer-Snabel after the war in honor of her mother, Dina Snabel-Maas; - Photographs of Dina Maas in Sweden; Dina Maas was liberated from...

File Number : 7548

Type of Material : Poem/song, Administrative Documentation, Diary, Photograph

Language : Dutch

Memoirs of Mina Kaplan, born in Uniejow, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, Malchow and Ravensbrueck camps and poems she wrote in Sweden after the war

Memoirs of Mina Kaplan, born in Uniejow, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, Malchow and Ravensbrueck camps and poems she wrote in Sweden after the war Writing of the poems in Polish, Yiddish and German; one of the poems written in German under the title, "Ewakuacja" regarding the deportation from Auschwitz to Malchow and Ravensbrueck camps; Comments by the submitter of the material: Mina Rivka (Kaplan) Bahagon survived thanks to her rescue by the Swedish Count, Folke Bernadotte; towards the end of the war she was transferred to Goeteborg; after three years she returned to Lodz where...

File Number : 7458

Type of Material : Memoirs, Poems/songs, Diary

Language : Polish, German, Yiddish

Testimony of Cila (Folkenflick) Kurc, born in Buczacz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Stutthof, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Cila (Folkenflick) Kurc, born in Buczacz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Stutthof, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and other places Life before the war; move to Bialystok; life in Bialystok. Soviet occupation; German occupation; Bialystok Ghetto life, 1941-1943; liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto; deportation to Stutthof; camp life including labor in a factory for the German Army; transfer to Auschwitz; camp life including labor in a Union weapons factory; life in a subterranean factory; destruction of the crematoria, 1944; death march to Ravensbrueck; camp life;...

File Number : 12907

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Chana Szinay Sinai, born in Tiszalok, Hungary in 1925, regarding her fate during the Holocaust, including a poem, telegram, Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate) and inmate-number tag

File Number : 7447

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka Elizabet (Akerman) Zahavi, born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in the Berehovo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck, Bendorf and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Rivka Elizabet (Akerman) Zahavi, born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in the Berehovo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck, Bendorf and other places Life before the war; death of her father, 1936; death of her mother, 1937; receives help from the Jewish community. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1938; revocation of the family's business license, 1942; expulsion of Jewish children from the school; attends an improvised Jewish school; closure of the synagogues; receives help from the JDC organization; receives knowledge regarding the murder of the Jews from an...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Abraham Cwieli, born in Uzhorod, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Uzhorod Ghetto, Mauthausen and march to Gunskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of Abraham Cwieli, born in Uzhorod, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Uzhorod Ghetto, Mauthausen and march to Gunskirchen Immediate family; his father's livelihood; good relations with neighbors; the Jewish community; "heder" and school; membership in Bnei Akiva. Deportation of the Jews from the villages; Jews under Hungarian rule; confrontation with Christians; rumors of what is happening in Poland; entry of the Germans; establishment of the Judenrat; confiscation of radios; hiding in a vineyard; concentration of Jews in a brick factory; deportation of his parents to Auschwitz; forced...

File Number : 11813

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rozalia Reizl (Shmuel) Stark, born in Dula, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Nove Zamky Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Braunschweig, Hannover and Sweden

Testimony

Testimony of Rozalia Reizl (Shmuel) Stark, born in Dula, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Nove Zamky Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Braunschweig, Hannover and Sweden Life before the war; attends a Slovakian school and an Hungarian school; move to relatives in Nove Zamky; life there. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1938; breaking of Jews' windows by Slovakians; German occupation, 1943; restrictions on the Jews including the yellow badge; deportation to the Nove Zamky Ghetto in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, spring 1944; camp life; transfer to Braunschweig; camp life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Yehudit (Nutovitz) Petrover, born in Sighet, Romania, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Braunschweig and Langenhorn

Testimony

Testimony of Yehudit (Nutovitz) Petrover, born in Sighet, Romania, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Braunschweig and Langenhorn Life before the war. Escape of her sister from Czechoslovakia home to Sighet; re-annexation to Hungary, 1940; arrival of Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia and Poland; deportation of those without Romanian citizenship; displays of antisemitism; draft of men to labor battalions; German occupation, March 1944; registration of Jews; riots against the Jews by the local population; protection provided by three SS officers who had taken...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara Rab, born in Rajowiec, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Chelm, the Rajowiec Ghetto, Majdanek, Skarzysko Kamienna camp and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Sara Rab, born in Rajowiec, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Chelm, the Rajowiec Ghetto, Majdanek, Skarzysko Kamienna camp and other places Well-to-do liberal religious family; attends schools; activities in Hanoar Hatzioni youth movement and the Scouts. German occupation; shearing of beards of Jewish men; escape attempt of her uncle and his death; her father was a member of the Judenrat; escape of the Judenrat; mutual help; detention of her father in Chelm; "Aktion" and execution of men; deportation of her father to Krychow; maintains contact with her father until September 1943;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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