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Testimony of Edith Kalman Pollak, born in 1923 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, about her experiences in the Baja ghetto, Birkenau, and forced labor in Oberkochen

Childhood in Novi Sad; family life, cultural life, and the Jews' status; Hungarian occupation ensues in 1941; schools closed; shopkeeping license revoked in a razzia in January 1942; father dies; deportation to a collection camp in Subotica; deportation to the Baja ghetto by train; deportation to Birkenau in summer 1944; separation from grandmother; the witness and her mother in Birkenau; witness taken to infirmary for treatment of wounds sustained in an examination by Mengele; mother sent to Bergen-Belsen; witness sent in autumn 1944 to Oberkochen for forced labor; liberated in May 1945; immigrated to Israel...

File Number : 13422

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sima (Weichselbaum) Shmuelevitz, born in Beuthen, Germany, 1924, regarding her experiences in Beuthen, the Chrzanow Ghetto, Sosnowiec Dulag, Arnau and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Sima (Weichselbaum) Shmuelevitz, born in Beuthen, Germany, 1924, regarding her experiences in Beuthen, the Chrzanow Ghetto, Sosnowiec Dulag, Arnau and other places Her childhood; march of SA men. Life after the Nazi rise to power, including a pogrom; imposition of bans and anti-Jewish decrees and the burning of books; detention of her parents by the Gestapo; her parents' return; Kristallnacht events; eviction of people from their homes; burning of the synagogue; burning of the community center building; burning of the mikveh (ritual bath); deportation of the Polish nationals to the Polish...

File Number : 14302

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Lists of pioneers who were trained in the Joodse Centrale voor Beroepsopleiding) (Jewish Center for Vocational Training), 1941

Lists of pioneers who were trained in the Joodse Centrale voor Beroepsopleiding) (Jewish Center for Vocational Training), 1941 Some of the pioneers were inmates in the Schoorl labor camp.

File Number : JM/12176

Type of Material : List of Jewish Residents, List of Camp Inmates

Language : Dutch

Membership card for the Brit Chalutzim Datiim (Bachad) movement, belonging to Charles Amsel, born in Etterbeek, Belgium on 03/06/1929

Membership card for the Brit Chalutzim Datiim (Bachad) movement, belonging to Charles Amsel, born in Etterbeek, Belgium on 03/06/1929 - Membership card of Charles Amsel, for the Bachad movement, issued in Brussels; - Business card of the Maroquinerie de Haecht factory (a leather goods factory).

File Number : 186

Type of Material : Diploma

Language : Hebrew, French

Documents related to the witness Ethel (Zilberman) Ratz, later Reed, born in Humniska, Poland in 1920, and her husband Emil Ratz, later Reed, born in Lesko, Poland in 1907, from 1936-2012 - Press articles published in the United States and Israel regarding Eda Ratz-Reid's search for her sister Zosia Zissel, born in Sanok. She lost contact with her sister in 1942 and located her in Montreal, Canada in 1964; - Letter from the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel dated 07 June 1963. The letter alleges that Zissel Zilberman, one of the passengers on the illegal immigrant ship Hannah Szenes that ran aground, almost...

File Number : 1666

Type of Material : List, Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Letter, Marriage Certificate, Article, Article, Administrative Documentation

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German, Yiddish

Testimony of Shimon Banai, born in 1924 in Berlin, about his experiences in the oppression of German Jewry, his immigration to Eretz Israel in 1939, and his induction into the British Army

Testimony

Testimony of Shimon Banai, born in 1924 in Berlin, about his experiences in the oppression of German Jewry, his immigration to Eretz Israel in 1939, and his induction into the British Army Life with parents who hold Polish citizenship; lives in the Communist quarter; father a merchant; Nazis rise to power; anti-Jewish laws; grandfather beaten and sent back to Poland; brother and sister immigrate to the Land of Israel; father deported to Zbąszyń in 1938; Kristallnacht; witness and mother hidden by their German concierge; interrogation by the Gestapo; witness joins a hakhshara (Zionist training program) and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew