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Testimony of Zvi Zilbershlag, born in Gura Humorului, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in the Gura Humorului Ghetto, Atachi and Mogilev-Podolski

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Zilbershlag, born in Gura Humorului, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in the Gura Humorului Ghetto, Atachi and Mogilev-Podolski Life in Gura Humorului before the war; unsuccessful attempts to make aliya to Eretz Israel, 1935. Meets Italian soldiers, 1940; deportation to the Gura Humorului Ghetto; Gura Humorului Ghetto life including deportation on a train, 1941; deportation to Atachi; crosses the Dniester River, including the suicide of many in the river; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski including the death of his grandmother; rescue along with his...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Imre Gellman, born in Zsujta, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in Polgar, Budapest and Buchenwald, Niederorschel and Landsberg camps

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Imre Gellman, born in Zsujta, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in Polgar, Budapest and Buchenwald, Niederorschel and Landsberg camps His immediate family's life; his parents' livelihood; move to Polgar and home life; Shabbat and religious holidays; learns in a school and a "heder"; displays of antisemitism; Jewish community; burning of the family's flour mill; move to Budapest; detention of family relatives; vocational studies. German occupation of Hungary, March 1944; confinement of Jews in marked houses; Slichot prayers in the Great Synagogue; yellow badge; deportation of his...

File Number : 12208

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmariahu Shmiel Talmon-Zelmanowicz, born in Skierniewice, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Poland and Germany before the war, and aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Shmariahu Shmiel Talmon-Zelmanowicz, born in Skierniewice, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Poland and Germany before the war, and aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939 His childhood in a religious, well-to-do family; move of the family to Breslau due to the fear of draft of his father into the Red Army; attends a Jewish school in which most of the pupils are of eastern European origin; his Bar Mitzvah celebration; visit of his family with his mother's family, who own a textile factory in Tomaszow and with his father's family, who trade in animals and sell meat in Skierniewice; blessing from the...

File Number : 10928

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliezer Guenther Roberg, born in Lauenfoerde, 1921, regarding his experiences in Germany until his aliya to Eretz Israel in 1940

Testimony

Testimony of Eliezer Guenther Roberg, born in Lauenfoerde, 1921, regarding his experiences in Germany until his aliya to Eretz Israel in 1940 Life in Germany before and after the Nazi rise to power; move to Diepholz; community life; antisemitism; studying to be a pastry chef in Hannover, 1935; Kristallnacht; aliya training in Steckelsdorf, 1938; aliya training in Luebeck, 1939-1940; aliya to Eretz Israel via Vienna and Greece; the explosion on the "Patria" ship; absorption.

File Number : 10266

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shimon Bauman Banai, born in Berlin, Germany, 1924, regarding his experiences in Germany, aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939 and service in the British Army

Testimony

Testimony of Shimon Bauman Banai, born in Berlin, Germany, 1924, regarding his experiences in Germany, aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939 and service in the British Army His childhood in a family originally from Eastern Europe; membership in Bachad led by Dr. Josef Burg; attitude of the local population; Nazi rise to power, 1933; decrees; confrontations with the Hitler-Jugend; hides antisemitic posters during the Olympic Games, 1936; deportation of his father to Poland, 1938; Kristallnacht; rescue from the Gestapo by the concierge; aliya training in Fulda; receives an order to leave Germany within 24...

File Number : 9905

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Bider, born in Hannover, Germany, 1920, regarding his experiences in Hannover, Italy and Sweden

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Bider, born in Hannover, Germany, 1920, regarding his experiences in Hannover, Italy and Sweden From a hasidic family originally from Poland; learns in Rabbi Azriel Carlebach's school, and at Rabbi Hoffman's Yeshiva in Frankfurt am Main; joins Hapoel Hamizrachi aliya training in Steckelsdorf, 1936; humiliation of Jews in Berlin who were forced to clean streets with their prayer shawls; transfer of the aliya training to Italy, 1938; activities in the aliya training; termination of the aliya training, October 1938; transfer of the aliya training to Halmstad, Sweden. Knowlegde...

File Number : 9757

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Kurt Goldmann, born in Kiel, Germany, 1915, regarding the work of the Hechalutz youth movement and Youth Aliyah in Germany, 1936-1939

Testimony of Kurt Goldmann, born in Kiel, Germany, 1915, regarding the work of the Hechalutz youth movement and Youth Aliyah in Germany, 1936-1939 In the file: - Remarks prepared by Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri regarding the testimony of Kurt Goldmann (p. 2), February 1958; - Testimony of Kurt Goldmann regarding the work of the Hechalutz youth movement and Youth Aliyah in Germany, 1936-late 1939 (pp. 3-10), 29 December 1957; - Yad Vashem file card regarding the testimony of Kurt Goldmann (p. 11).

File Number : 204

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Letters and postcards sent to Yaakov Julius Halberstadt by his parents Gershon Gustav Halberstadt, born in Nieder Mockstadt, Germany in 1882, and his wife Berta, born in Hoechst, Germany in 1897, and by his brother, and correspondence between his parents in Germany and his siblings who emigrated to England, 1936-1942 Letters, translated to Hebrew by David Harel, the great-grandson of Yaakov Julius Halberstadt, titled, "In order that your generations shall know"; among the letters is a letter written to Julius by his parents on 06/09/1936, expressing their happiness that Julius, who boarded the "Tel Aviv"...

File Number : 2922

Type of Material : Correspondence