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Testimony of Leah (Hershman) Nebenzahl, born in Opatow, Poland, 1942, regarding her experiences as a toddler using a false Christian identity in an orphanage and with a foster family

Testimony

Testimony of Leah (Hershman) Nebenzahl, born in Opatow, Poland, 1942, regarding her experiences as a toddler using a false Christian identity in an orphanage and with a foster family As the witness was told by her mother's sister who survived the war and met in Wierzbnik a Polish policemen to whom the witness' parents had entrusted their three-month old daughter; placement of the witness on railroad tracks near the church following the policeman's wife's fears regarding the probable fate of the baby; the policeman's confession to the priest; the demand made by the priest that the child be brought to the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea Lidia (Veis) Diker, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in Prague and in hiding in the Lwow area

Testimony

Testimony of Lea Lidia (Veis) Diker, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in Prague and in hiding in the Lwow area Life in Prague including the German occupation; escape to the east of Poland with her family; "Aktions"; concentration of women; finds a hiding place in a bunker; searches by Germans; life in the Lwow area; hidden in the home of a non-Jewish Polish woman named Stefa Tuzneska; informed on by Ukrainian neighbors; searches by a German soldier in the Polish woman's home; life in various hiding places in the home; German soldiers gain control of the home; witness...

File Number : 12938

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Farewell letter written by Paulette from a monastery in Namur in which Rosa Jeanne Vered Krzepiscki and Yehudit Krzepiscki were hidden during the war period, 1945

Farewell letter written by Paulette from a monastery in Namur in which Rosa Jeanne Vered Krzepiscki and Yehudit Krzepiscki were hidden during the war period, 1945 Included in the file: Work certificate of Jozef Krzepiscki, born in Radomsko, the father of the children who were hidden in the monastery; Comment (by the submitter of the material, Moshe Schmidt): Jozef Krzepiscki and his wife perished in Auschwitz.

File Number : 1222

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents, Photograph, Letter

Language : French

Memoirs of Moshe Maurice Szmidt, titled "L'Enfer de L'Allemagne" ("The Hell that was Germany"), regarding his experiences during the war

Memoirs of Moshe Maurice Szmidt, titled "L'Enfer de L'Allemagne" ("The Hell that was Germany"), regarding his experiences during the war The file includes: - Farewell letter (original) written by Paulette, a nun in a convent in Namur where Rosa [Vered] Krzepiscki and Jeanne [Yehudit] Krzepiscki were hidden during the war; letter written [to the girls], April 1945; - Work certificate of Jozef Krzepiscki, born in Radomsko, Poland.

File Number : 7329

Type of Material : Memoirs, Letter, Personal Documents

Language : French

Letters received by Marie-Paule (now Dora Konforti) regarding her experiences in hiding in monasteries in Louvain and in Schaarbeck, Belgium

Letters received by Marie-Paule (now Dora Konforti) regarding her experiences in hiding in monasteries in Louvain and in Schaarbeck, Belgium - Letter from Claudine Heller, Marie-Paule's counselor in Coq-sur-Mere, 30 January 1946; - Letter from a priest from one of the monasteries in which Marie-Paule was in hiding, Villeroux, 27 June 1946.

File Number : 1017

Type of Material : Letter

Language : French

Documentation regarding the activity of members of the Association des Juifs de Belgique (AJB - Jewish Belgian Association) during the German occupation, and more, 1937-2002

Documentation regarding the activity of members of the Association des Juifs de Belgique (AJB - Jewish Belgian Association) during the German occupation, and more, 1937-2002 - Letter sent by Samson Heller to the Presidents of the Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes Historiques de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale (CREHSGM - Centre for Research and Historical Studies of World War II) in Brussels expressing opposition to Maxime Steinberg's rewriting of history from a Communist viewpoint and his placing the responsibility for the deportation of the Jews of Charleroi on Robert Holzinger instead of on the Communists...

File Number : 93

Type of Material : Photograph, Personal Records

Language : French, German

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Varda Drori, born in Berlin, Germany, 1936, regarding her experiences as a child in Berlin, Antwerp, Toulouse, using a false identity in Montlucon and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Varda Drori, born in Berlin, Germany, 1936, regarding her experiences as a child in Berlin, Antwerp, Toulouse, using a false identity in Montlucon and other places Life before the war; her assimilated family was originally from Poland; release of her father from Dachau; Kristallnacht; escape to Antwerp with her family, 1938; escape with her family to Toulouse, May 1940; escape to Montlucon; life in a monastery in Montlucon with her family; her mother's labor as an assistant to the nuns; her father's labor as a tailor; studies the French language with her sister; attends school using a false...

File Number : 5697

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 3576

Type of Material : Diary, Letter, Newspaper Clippings, Original

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch

Testimony of Olga Halle regarding aid and rescue efforts by the International Quaker community in Germany on behalf of Jews and others persecuted by the Nazis, 1934-1945

Testimony of Olga Halle regarding aid and rescue efforts by the International Quaker community in Germany on behalf of Jews and others persecuted by the Nazis, 1934-1945 In the file: - Cover letter from Dr. Ball-Kaduri, addressed to Yad Vashem, regarding the testimony of Olga Halle, 26 March 1972 (p. 2). - Postwar testimony of Olga Halle, formerly a clerk in the International Quakers Office in Berlin, describing her experiences in the Quakers Office at the end of 1940; at that time, she could not help any more persecuted Jews with immigration visas to the United States (p. 3). - Further...

File Number : 328

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : German

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