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Collective testimony of Shmuel Levi, born in Kavala, Greece, 1921 and Shimon Shabtai, born in Kavala, Greece, 1922, regarding their experiences in Kavala, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria

Testimony

Collective testimony of Shmuel Levi, born in Kavala, Greece, 1921 and Shimon Shabtai, born in Kavala, Greece, 1922, regarding their experiences in Kavala, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria Life before the war. Outbreak of the Greek-Italian War, 1940; life under Bulgarian rule; draft to forced labor in Yugoslavia, summer 1942; labor digging and paving roads; attitude of the Bulgarians toward the Jews; liberation, November 1943. Life in Plovdiv; help from the Jewish community; return to Greece, September 1944; aliya training; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Siman Tov Toledo, born in Provadiya, Bulgaria, 1920, regarding his experiences in Varna, a special labor battalion for Jews and in Novi-Pazar

Testimony

Testimony of Siman Tov Toledo, born in Provadiya, Bulgaria, 1920, regarding his experiences in Varna, a special labor battalion for Jews and in Novi-Pazar From a traditional family; livelihood from trade; attends a Jewish school; attends a Bulgarian school; relations with the local residents. Transfer to Varna; drafted into a special labor battalion for Jews; labor paving roads; anti-Jewish legislation such as the yellow badge; redrafted to forced labor; deportation to Novi-Pazar; release, autumn 1943; reunion with his family; liberation by the Red Army, September 1944. Return of the family to Varna;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moritz Kabilio, born in Gradacac, Yugoslavia, 1913, regarding his experiences in POW camps

Testimony

Testimony of Moritz Kabilio, born in Gradacac, Yugoslavia, 1913, regarding his experiences in POW camps Studies in Sarajevo and the university of Belgrade; sees Goering and understands the dangers of fascism, 1934. Taken captive as an army officer, 1941; separation of the Yugoslavian POWs according to nationality; deportation of Jewish POWs and Serbian POWs to the Bulgarian border; transfer on foot until Oltenita under the escort of Bulgarian soldiers; deportation to Nuremberg camp, May 1941; Jewish POWs wear a yellow badge until a visit by the Red Cross; transfer to Osnabruck, six months later; Jewish...

File Number : 7347

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Serbian-Croatian

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Asa Bito, born in Burgas, Bulgaria, 1924, regarding his experiences in Burgas, Shumen and as a soldier in the Bulgarian Army

Testimony

Testimony of Asa Bito, born in Burgas, Bulgaria, 1924, regarding his experiences in Burgas, Shumen and as a soldier in the Bulgarian Army Childhood in Burgas; Anti-Jewish legislation, 1941; curfew; prohibitions on trade; marking [Yellow Badge]; prohibitions on entrance into public places; receipt of assistance from the local population; deportation to forced labor in Shumen, April 1944; hunger; liberation by the Red Army, September 1944; return to Burgas; drafted to serve in the Bulgarian Army; fighting alongside the Red Army on various fronts in Yugoslavia, Hungary, North Italy and Austria; end of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Albert Levi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1939, regarding his experiences in Sofia and Stara Zagora

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Albert Levi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1939, regarding his experiences in Sofia and Stara Zagora Childhood in Sofia; Life under the fascist regime, including limitations on travel, 1940; bombings; deportation to Stara Zagora, 1943; refugees during the war; draft of his father to forced labor; liberation by the Red Army, 1944; Life after the war; return to Sofia after the end of the war; life under the Communist regime; aliya to Israel, 1949; life in Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lucy Ashkenazi, nee Isakov, born in Samokov, Bulgary, in 1929, regarding prohibitions and restrictions under fascist regime.

Testimony of Lucy Ashkenazi,nee Isakov,born in Samokov,Bulgary,in 1929,regarding prohibitions and restrictions under fascist regime. Childhood in Samokov; life under fascist regime,1940; closing down of father's clinic; father's enrolment as a doctor into governmental service in Zemovo and Nevrokop,1941; helping Jewish refugees that had been expulsed from Sofia,1943; confiscation of house and housing of German officer with family,1944; transfer of father as a doctor to Kavala,Turkey; father's arrest with Jews of Kavala and his deportation by transport to east; father's escape during transport stop near the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ben Aroia Luna, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1923, regarding life during the war

Family background; Hashomer Hatzair; aliya training for aliya to Eretz Israel; Hebrew studies; deportation of 4,000 Jews from Thrace and Macedonia, including family members of Turkish origin; journey to Sofia; Bulgarian Kristallnacht, September 1940; hunger at home; move to live with a non-Jewish family; attempt to make aliya to Eretz Israel; marriage in 1941; yellow badges; eviction from the home of the non-Jewish family in September 1943, and their belongings thrown into the street; "Aktion"; detention of her brother, who is sent for forced labor; payment of a bribe to a police officer; the entry of the Red...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jenny (Simantov) Isakovich, born in 1925 in Shumen, Bulgaria, about her experiences in Sofia and Razgrad

Testimony of Jenny (Simantov) Isakovich, born in 1925 in Shumen, Bulgaria, about her experiences in Sofia and Razgrad Life before the war; moves to Sofia at age two; family lives in the Jewish quarter of Sofia; offspring of a Zionist-minded family; Bulgarian Fascists rise to power and collaborate with the Germans; Jews placed under restrictions including movement restrictions; dispossession; Jewish school shut down; local Jews deported to peripheral towns; witness's family remains in Sofia because her father is an expert in making yeast for Bulgarian cheese; authorities draft father to produce the yeast;...

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rudi Lvi, born in Plovdiv, Bulgary in 1933, regarding the fascist regime in Bulgary and the decrees against Jews.

Testimony of Rudi Lvi, born in Plovdiv, Bulgary in 1933, regarding the fascist regime in Bulgary and the decrees against Jews. Childhood in non religious family; attending catholic public school; antisemitism wasn't felt before war; father studied law in Vienne and Bulgary; fscist regime in Bulgary during World War II; decrees against Jews; confiscation of property; movement restrictions; yellow badge; recruitment of young Jews to forced labour; Bulgarian policemen arrived at Rudi's home and ordered family to leave their home and get to gathering place; a short while later they were allowed to go back...

Language : Hebrew

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