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Testimony of Menachem Mendel Fuks, born in Radauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Atachi, Mogilev Podolskiy and in the underground in the Dzhurin Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Fuks, born in Radauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Atachi, Mogilev Podolskiy and in the underground in the Dzhurin Ghetto Life before the war. Deportation to Atachi by the Romanian gendarmes; transfer to Mogilev-Podolskiy; transfer to the Dzhurin Ghetto, 1941; ghetto life including underground activities as part of Hanoar Hatzioni; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Move to Brizheni; return to Radauti, 1945; life in Radauti; agricultural training at Oradea; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus, 1947; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bela (Zilbershlag) Shvartz, born in Gura Humorului, Romania, 1937, regarding her experiences as a young child in Gura Humorului, Transnistria and Shargorod

Testimony

Testimony of Bela (Zilbershlag) Shvartz, born in Gura Humorului, Romania, 1937, regarding her experiences as a young child in Gura Humorului, Transnistria and Shargorod Death of the witness' mother; deportation to Transnistria; life in Transnistria including eating potato peels; life in the Shargorod Ghetto, 1942; escape to Gura Humorului by truck; end of the war. Move to Bucharest; life in Bucharest including attending classes in a monastery; illegally crosses the border to France after paying a bribe; move to Marseilles; ferried out to an illegal immigrant ship by fishing boat; aliya attempt to Eretz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara (Shein) Eizenberg, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Sara (Shein) Eizenberg, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto From a traditional family; witness' father is a clerk; increase in antisemitism including her father's dismissal from work and his being drafted into a labor battalion. German occupation, March 1944; anti-Jewish decrees including expulsion from school and yellow badge; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto, December 1944; ghetto life including living in a school and help from the JDC; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945. Return home; joins aliya training; aliya attempt to Eretz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Arje Rubens, "So Hat Es Angefangen" ("It All Began This Way") regarding the story of a Jewish family from Berlin, 1933-1945

Memoirs of Arje Rubens, "So Hat Es Angefangen" ("It All Began This Way") regarding the story of a Jewish family from Berlin, 1933-1945 Included in the file: [1-Scanned File; 119 pages in German] [2- Memoirs of Arje (Walter) Rubens, titled "So Hat Es Angefangen" ("It All Began This Way"); written in narrative form, primarily from a collection of letters by his mother in Berlin, his uncle in Vienna and his brother in Prague as well as excerpts from his own diary; memoirs published in 1992; - Summary of family background, parents' family history; - Childhood in Berlin including encounters with...

File Number : 4740

Type of Material : Memoirs, Testimony, Letter(s), Photograph, Diary

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Miriam (Neufeld) Breuer, born in Leipzig, Germany, 1921, regarding her emigration attempts and her experiences as a member of the ill-fated Kladovo-Šabac Transport

Testimony of Miriam (Neufeld) Breuer, born in Leipzig, Germany, 1921, regarding her emigration attempts and her experiences as a member of the ill-fated Kladovo-Šabac Transport Testimony of Miriam (Neufeld) Breuer, a passenger from the ship "Uranus", which was stopped at Kladovo, Yugoslavia during an unsuccessful attempt to transport Jews from Europe to Eretz Israel in 1939. - Unsuccessful emigration attempt to England; acceptance into the Sonderhachshara through the offices of Dr Joseph Burg, her former teacher in the Carlebach High school in Leipzig; description of the living condition for Jews; -...

File Number : 305

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Wilhelm Liebenthal, born in Bublitz, Germany, 1889, regarding his experiences in Danzig (Gdansk) until 1940 and illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, 1940-1945

Testimony of Wilhelm Liebenthal, born in Bublitz, Germany, 1889, regarding his experiences in Danzig (Gdansk) until 1940 and illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, 1940-1945 In the file: - Covering report submitted by Dr. Ball-Kaduri regarding the testimony of Wilhelm Liebenthal concerning his experiences in Danzig (Gdansk) until 1940 and illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, 1940-1945 (p. 2), 28 April 1961; - Testimony of Wilhelm Liebenthal regarding his experiences in Danzig (Gdansk) until 1940 and illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, 1940-1945, including among other things, a description of...

File Number : 290

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Max Zimels, born in Koenigsberg, Germany, 1911, regarding his experiences as a shaliach (emissary) of the Hechalutz Youth Movement in Berlin, 1938-1939

Testimony of Max Zimels, born in Koenigsberg, Germany, 1911, regarding his experiences as a shaliach (emissary) of the Hechalutz Youth Movement in Berlin, 1938-1939 In the file: - Covering report by Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri regarding the testimony of Max Zimels (p. 2), April 1961; - Testimony of Max Zimels regarding his experiences as a shaliach (emissary) of the Hechalutz Youth Movement in Berlin, 1938-1939, focusing on the arrangements for legal and illegal aliya to Eretz Israel (pp. 3-12), 20 October 1960; - Yad Vashem file card regarding the testimony of Max Zimels (pp. 13-14).

File Number : 263

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Ephraim Frank, the Director of the Hechalutz youth movement in Germany, regarding illegal aliya from Germany to Eretz Israel, focusing on the fate of four transports, September 1939 and August 1940 - Illegal aliya to Eretz Israel after the outbreak of World War II; ships chartered by Pino Ginsburg as part of the Sonderhachschara (Aliya Bet transports from Germany to Eretz Israel organized in cooperation with the Gestapo); Ginsburg sent to Germany by the Jewish organizations in charge of emigration, after Kristallnacht (November) 1938; choice of Ginsburg because he had an British passport or a...

File Number : 221

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Postwar documentation regarding the history of the Jewish refugees deported by the British Mandate authorities from Haifa to Mauritius, late1940, and kept in detention there until the end of World War II In the file: - Note prepared by Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri regarding an interview with Dr. Aaron Zwergbaum, born in Bruenn, Czechoslovakia, 1913, in particular regarding his article concerning the history of the Jewish refugees deported by the British Mandate authorities to Mauritius, 1940, and kept in detention there until the end of World War II (pp. 2-3), 27 February 1958; - "Exile in Mauritius, To the...

File Number : 213

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

Testimony of Alexander Adler regarding the work of the Palaestinaamt (Palestine Office), the Jewish emigration department for Eretz Israel in Berlin, 1933-1936

Testimony of Alexander Adler regarding the work of the Palaestinaamt (Palestine Office), the Jewish emigration department for Eretz Israel in Berlin, 1933-1936 In the file: - Handwritten document in Hebrew (p. 2), 04 March 1958; - Testimony of Alexander Adler regarding the work of the Palaestinaamt in Berlin, Hechaluz, the emigration of Jews to Eretz Israel and the cooperation between the Palaestinaamt and the British Consulate in Berlin (pp. 3-6), 1933-1936; - Addendum by Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri regarding the testimony of Alexander Adler (p. 7), June 1958; - Newspaper article with the obituary...

File Number : 203

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Memoirs, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

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