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Testimony of Rachel (Mitman) Brot, born in Baligrod, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in 'S Gravenhage and Westerbork

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Mitman) Brot, born in Baligrod, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in 'S Gravenhage and Westerbork Life before the war; emigration to 'S Gravenhage, the Netherlands, 1929; separate synagogue for Jews from eastern Europe. German occupation; life during the German occupation; concentration of the city's Jews and their deportation to Westerbork, 1942; forced labor in agriculture for farmers in the vicinity; deportation of her family to Auschwitz; fictitious marriage to a Jewish policeman; liberation by the Canadian Army, 1945. Move to Amsterdam; joins Bnei Akiva; illegally...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Reuven Friedman, born in Lille, France, 1925, regarding his experiences in detention in Cherbourg, Alderney Island, Dannes, Dixmude and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Reuven Friedman, born in Lille, France, 1925, regarding his experiences in detention in Cherbourg, Alderney Island, Dannes, Dixmude and other places Deportation of a portion of the Jews of Lille, 1942; work in a printing press; attitude of the French toward the Jews; prison life in Cherbourg, 17 December 1943; attitude of the guards and the prison director; transfer to Alderney Island, 17 December 1943; camp life including attitude of the commander; labor on fortifications under the supervision of the Todt organization; transfer to Dannes, May 1944; transfer on foot to Calais; transfer by train...

File Number : 4309

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shulamith (Hausler) Lurie, born in Duisberg, Germany, 1923 regarding her experiences in Duisberg, Soesterberg, the Hague, Lochem, and more

Testimony

Testimony of Shulamith (Hausler) Lurie, born in Duisberg, Germany, 1923 regarding her experiences in Duisberg, Soesterberg, the Hague, Lochem, and more Testimony regarding her childhood and family in Duisberg; her father owned a furniture store; Jewish holidays; Shabbat observance; attendance at a Jewish school; attendance at a public high school; attendance at synagogue services; Mizrachi and Torah Va'Avodah movement activities; Nazi rise to power, 1933; escape of her oldest brother to England; imposition of limitations on the Jews, including prohibition on entering the municipal park and swimming pool;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Elimelech Solomon Abel Weinreb, born in Gravenhage, the Netherlands, 1942, regarding his family's experiences in Gravenhage, deportation to Westerbork and escape to Amersfoort

Testimony

A family of six children in 's-Gravenhage; a Jewish community in the city; religion and belief; the father is a teacher in an elementary school; German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940; movement restrictions in 1942; deportation of some of the relatives; termination of the father's work as a teacher; father’s ties with Dutch underground; preparation of hiding places for Jews by the father; birth of the witness; arrest of the father and other members of the underground; deportation with the family to Westerbork in 1943; death of the brother; escape of the family from the camp with the help of an...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Obituary notice issued in the Netherlands regarding the death of Adolf Hitler; newspaper clipping concerning Jewish soldiers serving in the Canadian Army during World War II

Obituary notice issued in the Netherlands regarding the death of Adolf Hitler; newspaper clipping concerning Jewish soldiers serving in the Canadian Army during World War II - Obituary notice issued in the Netherlands regarding the death of Adolf Hitler; the notice apparently was issued by the Dutch Resistance and serves as a call for a demonstration in Utrecht; - Newspaper clipping containing a photograph of Jewish Canadian soldiers in Germany; Manny Abrams appears in the photograph. Notes from Jeffrey Koza who submitted the material: Manny Abrams Abramovitz, the son of Hinda Abramovitz, and his...

File Number : 167

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Announcement

Language : English

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Alma (van Adelsberg) Stibe, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 1925, regarding her experiences living under a false identity and in hiding with a Dutch Christian family

Testimony

Testimony of Alma (van Adelsbergen) Stibe, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 1925, regarding her experiences living under a false identity and in hiding with a Dutch Christian family Childhood in Amsterdam; the German invasion in 1940; failed attempt to escape to Britain with her family; expulsion from Dutch secondary school in 1941; restrictions and prohibitions on Jews; forced move to a flat in the area of the Jewish quarter; work with her father helping refugees in the framework of the Judenrat in Amsterdam in 1942; move to the Schadron family in Delft, with the help of the Dutch underground, using...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew