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Testimony of Martin Jakobs, born in 1920 in Amsterdam, about his experiences in Leiden, in hiding in Amsterdam, in France, in a refugee camp near Lausanne, etc.

Testimony

Testimony of Martin Jakobs, born in 1920 in Amsterdam, about his experiences in Leiden, in hiding in Amsterdam, in France, in a refugee camp near Lausanne, etc. Childhood in a nonreligious family in Amsterdam; attending a public school; active in a Zionist movement; studying physics at the University of Leiden at age sixteen; war breaks out in 1940; continues to study; Jewish lecturers are fired and leave the university; continues to study in Amsterdam until early 1942; Jews placed under restrictions; Jews are concentrated and the witness goes into hiding; escapes to Belgium with his brother; obtains false...

File Number : 13535

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs written by Rivka Prilutzki from Berlin titled, "Mutti's Memoirs" regarding her experiences, 1941-1943

Memoirs written by Rivka Prilutzki from Berlin titled, "Mutti's Memoirs" regarding her experiences, 1941-1943 Life in Berlin before her husband's escape to Belgium; detention in Moabit prison in Berlin; transfer to the prison in Cologne; prison life for 5 months; release from prison; return home; smuggling of her sons to Yugoslavia; intention of the boys to make aliya from Yugoslavia to Eretz Israel; notification during the Pesach holiday by the Eretz Israel Office of the Jewish Agency, of the boys' arrival in Eretz Israel; escape to Brussels; transfer to Paris; illegal stay in Paris; meets her husband;...

File Number : 8665

Type of Material : Memoirs

Testimony of Shimshon Moshe, born in Gherla, Romania, in 1925 regarding activity in the Zionist youth underground between 1941 and 1944

Father-merchant; moving to Cluj; Hungarian control in 1940; activity in the Zionist youth movement; agriculture studies in Budapest; recruitment for underground activity; smuggling Jewish workers from Poland to Romania between 1942 and 1944; German occupation; denunciation and arrest; investigations; escape from the prison by the underground; aliya to Israel via Turkey in May 1944; absorption ; information about the death of relatives in the camps

File Number : 13746

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zohar Shlomo zilgelshtein, born in Verecki Pss, Czechoslovakia, in 1923, regarding his hiding in the forests, his deportation to the Gusen and Mauthausen camps, Austria.

Testimony

Orthodox family related to "Sharf" from Sterlinsk (from the Greats of the hasidut); activity in the Beitar; transition to Hungarian rule in 1939; deportation order for the Jews without a Czech nationality towards the Polish border in 1939; housing the deportees in a house that was built on the border; smuggling of the deportees by the witness back to Czechoslovakia on hidden paths; hiding in the forests of Ukraine; capture by Germans; deportation to camps in Austria; forced labour in a quarry in the Gusen camp; he comes across his brother in Mauthausen; march to Gunskirchen; death of his brother; liberation in...

File Number : 13743

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Semel On, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, in 1924, regarding labour camps, his deportation to Buchenwald and other camps

Testimony

-Parents'house; anti-semitism; air-raids; occupation by the German army on 04 September,1939; humiliations; forced labour; deportation to the Piotrkow Trybunalski ghetto; the father is a member of the Judenradt; contribution demand; confiscation of furs; walking on the pavement is forbidden; starvation; passing of valuables to local neighbours; reduction of the ghetto; issuance of working papers on 21 October 1942; his work as a porter in "Shneider shop" (tailor shop) for the needs of the German army and cargo transfer from place to place; assembling the children in the big synagogue and their murder;...

File Number : 13463

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Fredi Knoler, born in Vienna, Austria, in 1921 regarding the French resistance and the Drancy, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony

German occupation and annexation of Austria( Anschluss) in 1938; Kristallnacht in 1938; crossing borders to Antwerpen,Belgium in 1938 where acquaintances of the family stayed; transfer to a camp for Jewish refugees (with the support of the Jewish community) in Merkplas in 1939; escape to France after the German occupation of Belgium in 1940; his detention in Lille,France because of his German (Austrian) nationality and transfer to the detention camp in St Cyprien in 1940; his escape from the camp to Gaillac and his work in agriculture in 1940; buying of forged certificates and his moving to Paris,as a French...

File Number : 13473

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Memoirs of the siblings, Izrael Himelfarb, born in Bendin, Poland, 1928, and his sister, Roza (Himelfarb) Gurevich, born in Bendin, Poland, 1926, regarding their experiences in Bendin, Przemysl and Lwow Life in Bendin during the German occupation, September 1939; escape to the East by Isidor Himelfarb (father of Izrael and Roza), his oldest son, David Himelfarb (brother of Izrael and Roza) and Yakov Yakubovich (brother of Polina (Yakubovich) Himelfarb, mother of Roza and Izrael) with his daughter, Gutya; escape to Przemysl; escape back to Bendin by David via Krakow (where he was sent after he was arrested,...

File Number : 8612

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Memoirs, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Polish, Russian

Testimony of Miriam Kolker, born in 1926 in Soroki, Romania, about her escape to the east

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Kolker, born in 1926 in Soroki, Romania, about her escape to the east Childhood; war breaks out in June 1941; evacuation to the east; harsh conditions of hunger and cold; second evacuation; grueling forced labor; escape to Kazakhstan until end of war; liberation; restablishmen of life after the war; immigration to Israel in 1990.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Personal documents of the Guns family from Zagreb, 1941, regarding their experiences in hiding in Split and Sibenik while using a false identity, 1941-1944

Personal documents of the Guns family from Zagreb, 1941, regarding their experiences in hiding in Split and Sibenik while using a false identity, 1941-1944 - Forged identity cards of Miksa and Irena Guns, while using the false names Miklosch Balogh and Ilona Balogh; documents issued in Kovacica, 13 July 1941; - Permits for travel from Torontalvasarhely to Hvar via Zagreb and Split, issued to Miklosch and Ilona Balogh, 13 July 1941; on the back of the documents is a transit pass signed by a liaison officer [acting in cooperation] with the German Army; - Jewish identity card of Miksa Guns, from Szenta,...

File Number : 216

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, German, Serbian-Croatian

Letters sent to Avraham and Meir Lezerkiewicz in Eretz Israel before the war by their parents and brothers in Nowy Targ, and an invitation to Avraham Lezerkiewicz's wedding in Nowy Targ, sent to his brother Meir, in Eretz Israel, 1937-1946 - Letters received by Avraham and Meir Lezerkiewicz in Eretz Israel from their parents, David and Sara Lezerkiewicz, and their younger brothers, Herman (Zvi) and Aryeh in Nowy Targ (one postcard was sent in April 1937, and the rest of the letters are undated); -Invitation to the wedding of Avraham Lezerkiewicz and Slava Kalb, sent from Nowy Targ to Meir Lezerkiewicz in...

File Number : 2138

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

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