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Testimony of Yaakov Amit Altman, born in Noua Sulita, Romania, 1935 regarding the deportation of his family to Transnistria

Testimony

Family background; drafting of his father into the Red army; His family's escape to Ukraine following the Red Army; capture of his family by the Germans along with additional escapees; deportation of his family to Chernovitse; his family's livelihood from knitting; obtaining food with great difficulty; living in a basement; living conditions; liberation by the Red Army; Week-long return by foot to Noua Sulita; living conditions in Noua Sulita; reunion with his father; move to Transylvania and Bukovina, Romania; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the ship "Knesset Israel"; arrest by the British and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Gilbert (Mamu) Miron, born in Tunis, Tunisia, 1931 regarding life under German occupation, 1942-1943

Testimony

Daughter of a traditional family, Tunis; customs of the Jewish community; relations with the local population; Outbreak of the war; routine life until the German occupation, 1942; life under occupation; attitude of the local population; liberation by the British Army, 1943; Tense relations with the Muslims and travel to Marseille, France, for aliya to Israel, 1949; absorption in Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding Hans Paul Weiner, born in Trautenau, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel and service in PAL-Company 608

Documentation regarding Hans Paul Weiner, born in Trautenau, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel and service in PAL-Company 608 - Excerpts from the British Army historical documentation collection, regarding PAL-Company 608, dated, 31 March 1941-17 January 1944; - Photographs and newspaper clippings from "The Palestine Post", 20 May-09 June 1941; - Memoirs of Hans Paul Weiner; Childhood in Trautenau; Escape by his family from a pail [?] to a pogrom; [move?] to Prague, September 1938; attempts to receive an emigration visa in preparation for aliya; illegal aliya from...

File Number : 389

Type of Material : Survey Report, Diary, Telegram, Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings

Language : English, German

Documentation regarding Abraham Cymbalista, born in Chruszczybrod, Poland, 1896; documents dated, 1940-1942

Documentation regarding Abraham Cymbalista, born in Chruszczybrod, Poland, 1896; documents dated, 1940-1942 Original documents: - Two letters written to Abraham Cymbalista in Lens by a person in the prefecture in Quimper who is interested in helping regarding the confiscation of Cymbalista's business, 09 September 1940 and 05 December 1940; - Official letter sent by a military supervisor to Abraham Cymbalista in Lens, regarding the liquidation of expropriations and markets [?] in Paris, 21 March 1941; - Card attesting to Abraham Cymbalista's participation in a compensation fund for self-employed...

File Number : 540

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Transport List, Official Documentation

Language : French

Postcard sent by Isaiah Morris from Marseille to Rena Plawner in Tel Aviv, 12 December 1947; speech given by A. Atzmon (Blumovitz) on the occasion of the anniversary of the death of Isaiah Morris, including his memories of Isaiah Morris Isaiah Morris was born in Scotland, 1917; medical studies at the University of London. Outbreak of World War II; draft into the British Army; wounded in combat in Europe; receives the M.C. medal for excellence for his service in the British Army. Specialization in pediatric medicine in a government hospital in London, after the war; move to France, early 1947; work in...

File Number : 324

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Hebrew, French

Testimony of Rafael Reuveni Rubin, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia in 1938, regarding his life in Albania and in the Bergen-Belsen camp

Testimony of Rafael Reuveni Rubin, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia in 1938, regarding his life in Albania and in the Bergen-Belsen camp Childhood in Pristina and life of Sephardic Jews in the community; German occupation in April 1941 and transition to Italian military government about two months later; exile to Berat, Albania in 1942; return to Pristina in 1944; entry of Muslim soldiers from the 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian); deportation of Jews to Sajmište concentration camp and from there by train to Bergen-Belsen; hunger; disease; connection with Dutch prisoners; entry of...

File Number : 13745

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Permit issued in the Lamsdorf POW camp for British soldier Albert Fano, 13 May 1942, and military service booklet received by him upon mobilization, 9 December 1940

Permit issued in the Lamsdorf POW camp for British soldier Albert Fano, 13 May 1942, and military service booklet received by him upon mobilization, 9 December 1940 - Permit issued in the Lamsdorf POW camp for the transfer of British Jewish soldier Albert Fano to the camp hospital, 13 May 1942; - Notification sent on behalf of the British Army regarding Albert Fano being taken captive, 16 August 1941; - Military service booklet belonging to Albert Bohor Fano, born in Burgas, Bulgaria, 23 March 1908, mobilized in Sarafand, 9 December 1940; booklet contains soldier’s personal information, including...

File Number : 634

Type of Material : Personal Records, Notepad, Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Testimony of Eliezer Leo Matzger, born in Kiel, Germany, in 1920, regarding his experiences in ‎Kiel and Hamburg and his aliya to Eretz Israel

Testimony of Eliezer Leo Matzger, born in Kiel, Germany, in 1920, regarding his experiences in ‎Kiel and Hamburg and his aliya to Eretz Israel Born into a religious family from Galicia; life in Kiel in a non-Jewish area until 1933; life after the ‎Nazi Party came into power; membership in the Zionist Habonim Movement; aliya of his older ‎sisters to Eretz Israel in 1934; closing of the family store; escape to the Hechalutz Movement’s ‎aliya training center in Hamburg in 1936; decision of the movement’s leadership in spring 1939 to ‎send him to Eretz Israel; travel through the Czech region, Austria and Italy;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Birth certificate of Joseph Kurt Kerpen, born in Vienna, Austria, 1918, a Heimatscheine (Residence Certificate) from 1935; a British Army Soldier's Service and Pay Book and an additional document from 1947 - Joseph Kurt Kerpen, the father of Jichak Kerpen who submitted the material, made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1938; he enlisted in the British Army in 1939, and was discharged in 1946; he served as a driver of trucks and tankers in the Royal Engineer Corps during the war years. - Letter sent by Kurt Kerpen from Eretz Israel (73 Herzl Street, Petach Tikwah) to Siegfried Israel and Frieda Kerpen in Vienna,...

File Number : 246

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : English, German

Letters and postcards sent to Max Bergman in [Eretz] Israel by his father in Ludwigshafen and by his brothers and friends in England, Argentina and the United States, 1938-1951

Letters and postcards sent to Max Bergman in [Eretz] Israel by his father in Ludwigshafen and by his brothers and friends in England, Argentina and the United States, 1938-1951 Included in the documents: - Postcard in Yiddish sent by the Bergman family in Ulanow to Max Bergman in Eretz Israel, 05 April 1938; - Postcard sent by Emanuel Fass from Ludwigshafen to Max Bergman in Eretz Israel, 23 September 1938; - Letters and postcards sent to Max Bergman in Eretz Israel from his father in Ludwigshafen, 1938-1939; - Letter sent to Max Bergman in Eretz Israel from his father in Mannheim, 22 November...

File Number : 1992

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

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