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Personal documentation belonging to Fredji Sassi Zana

Personal documentation belonging to Fredji Sassi Zana Personal documentation belonging to Fredji Sassi Zana, born in Sfax, Tunisia, 23 January 1921; arrest by German soldiers while en route to his home in the early 1940s; ordered to defuse a bomb under gunpoint by the Germans; miraculous defusing of the bomb; forced labor at defusing bombs; receives a letter of commendation from his superior officers; appointment as a team leader; death 22 October 2007. The documents were submitted to Yad Vashem by his daughter, Miriam Ben Dor.

File Number : 523

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Official Documentation

Language : French

Testimony of Yehudit Ita Perel (Zev) Eliash, born in Targu Mures, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Targu Mures Ghetto, Auschwitz, Teplitz Schoenau and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Yehudit Ita Perel (Zev) Eliash, born in Targu Mures, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Targu Mures Ghetto, Auschwitz, Teplitz Schoenau and Theresienstadt Life before the war; family with many children; her father was a Yiddish teacher in a Jewish school; aliya of siblings to Eretz Israel with the Hashomer Hatzair movement, 1938; witness attends a Jewish elementary school; attends a French high school. Outbreak of the war; re-annexation to Hungary; anti-Jewish restrictions; expulsion from the French high school; attends a Jewish school; transfer of men to forced labor, 1943;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Istvan Szende, regarding the air-raids on Budapest, 05 September 1944, including names of people who perished

File Number : 7398

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Arie Ludwik Libovitz, born in Kralovo, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz, Warsaw, Dachau and Muehldorf Waldlager

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Lurwik Libovitz, born in Kralovo, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz, Warsaw, Dachau and Muehldorf Waldlager Life before the war; relations with the non-Jewish population. Outbreak of the war, 1939; annexation to Hungary; decrees and restrictions; deportation of converts; ban on studies in schools; draft of his father to a labor camp, 1941; deportation of youths above the age of 18 to labor on the Russian front; deportation to the Chust Ghetto, April 1944; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Warsaw; camp life including labor...

File Number : 12839

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Saul Bot, born in Lublin, Poland, 1919, known as Salek; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

Saul Bot, born in Lublin, Poland, 1919, known as Salek; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Emigration to France, 1937. Drafted into the Polish Army, December 1939; taken captive, June 1940; released from captivity; move to Paris; joins the Communist underground FTP (French Fighters and Partisans); life in the second regiment of Jewish partisans in the FTP; works in an explosives laboratory; death with Hersch Cymerman and another comrade in an unexpected explosion ("work accident"), 25 April 1942. In the file: - Excerpt from a testimony.

File Number : 62

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter of Testimony

Language : French

Testimony of Yitzchak Wernik regarding his experiences in Lomza, Zambrow and Auschwitz

Testimony of Yitzchak Wernik regarding his experiences in Lomza, Zambrow and Auschwitz Shelling of Lomza by the Germans, 01 September 1939; deaths of Jews and Poles as a result of the shelling; occupation of Lomza by the German Army, 25 June 1941; attitude of the local population towards the Jews; life in Lomza including abusive acts and murder of the Jews; yellow badge, 04 July 1941; deportation of Jews to Zambrow by the Gestapo; murder of the Jews in Zambrow; establishment of the ghetto, July 1941; appointment of a Judenrat; establishment of a Jewish police; forced labor; deportation of the Lomza Jews to...

File Number : 110

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Documentation regarding heavy water and the Germans' ability to produce a nuclear bomb

Documentation regarding heavy water and the Germans' ability to produce a nuclear bomb - Article titled "Tagung der Deutschen Wissenschaftler", with a description of the chronological progress regarding the production of heavy water; this subject was discussed at a convention of German scientists; - Draft of a report regarding the Germans' ability to produce a nuclear bomb (undated, but not before October 1944); Included in the file: - "Bavarian document" with a fuller version of the report, which Rainer Karisch gave to Jeremy Bernstein; Note: The report was received by the Yad Vashem...

File Number : 339

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report, Original Document

Language : German

Group testimony of Hermanné Böhm, Malvin Mengelovics, Irén Berkovits and Olga Berkovits, all born in Bilke, Czechoslovakia, regarding their experiences in the Beregszász Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Lübberstedt camps Deportation to the Beregszász Ghetto by gendarmes, after Pesach (April) 1944; ghetto life for five weeks; food rationing by the Jewish community; robbery of possessions by the gendarmes; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau on a train; arrival in the camp, 05 June 1928; camp life for 15 weeks; being subjected to beatings; selection; transfer to a Block; transfer to Lübberstedt camp [the...

File Number : 2805

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

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File Number : 3506

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Louis Ludwig Roth, born in 1942 in Toulouse, France, about his family's wartime experiences

Testimony of Louis Ludwig Roth, born in 1942 in Toulouse, France, about his family's wartime experiences Childhood with an émigré family from Hungary that moved to the France in the 1920s; eleven children in the family; brother dies in bombardment; mother disperses children to various places; witness placed in a convent after birth; two brothers immigrate to Eretz Israel in 1943; parents arrested and deported by train to a camp after denunciation; mother escapes at one of the stops; mother returns to Toulouse; father deported to Buchenwald; mother removes witness from the convent in 1946; family immigrates...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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