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Part two of the memoirs of Folya Bonfeld, a Holocaust survivor from Uman

Part two of the memoirs of Folya Bonfeld, a Holocaust survivor from Uman In her memoirs, Folya Bonfeld tells about the death of her husband; loss of contact with her children who are [serving] in the Red Army; her life in hiding while hidden by neighbors and friends in Uman; she hides that she is of Jewish origin; her "cover story", that she is a Ukrainian woman and a refugee from Voronezh; she receives forged documents with the name of Olga Mirskaya-Boretskaya; her life and work while using a false name; her return to Uman, following the liberation of the city, 10 April 1944; renewal of contact with her...

File Number : 20

Type of Material : Names of Rescuers, Memoirs

Language : Russian

Testimony of Josef Giuseppe Gabai, born in Livorno, Italy, 1935, regarding his experiences in Livorno, Vinci, in hiding and in Florence

Testimony

Testimony of Josef Giuseppe Gabai, born in Livorno, Italy, 1935, regarding his experiences in Livorno, Vinci, in hiding and in Florence Emigration of his parents from Turkey; lack of earning a livelihood. Allied air-raids on Livorno, 1942; escape; they take shelter in the cemetery; escape to villages in a convoy of refugees; life as the only Jewish family in Vinci; detention by the fascist police force; detention in the Villa la Silva prison along with Italian partisans; release of the inmates by [other] partisans; in hiding while hidden by villagers; wanderings while using a Christian identity; retreat...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of David Frimer during the Holocaust

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of David Frimer during the Holocaust David Frimer, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1931: Occupation of Poland by the German Army; escape to Lublin without his family; in hiding in a Polish monastery in Bezwola, near Lublin, from December 1939 until the liberation. Return home; move to the Foehrenwald DP camp, November 1945; shooting deaths of his parents by Germans probably in Warsaw, 1939; death of one sister in Auschwitz; fate of one brother is unknown; survival of one sister and two brothers.

File Number : 207

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Record of Survivors, Record of Murdered Persons

Language : English

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Netka Goldberg during the Holocaust

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Netka Goldberg during the Holocaust Netka Goldberg, born in Czortkow, Poland, 1928: Deportation to Buczacz with her family, 1942; mass executions in Buczacz, including the shooting of her mother, three sisters and two brothers; survival of Netka Goldberg; move with her father to Zalesczik (?); murder of her father by Ukrainian police; return to Jazlowiecz (?); life with her cousins in Jazlowiecz (?); murder of her cousins by Ukrainian SS troopers; in hiding in the forest and later in Parchowo; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Jazlowiec (?) and Gleiwitz;...

File Number : 174

Type of Material : Record of Murdered Persons, Record of Survivors, Questionnaire

Language : English

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Jehuda Hanc during the Holocaust

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Jehuda Hanc during the Holocaust Jehuda Hanc, born in Komarniki, Poland, 1930: Deportation to the Turka Ghetto with his entire family, August 1941; deportation of the other members of his family to the Majdanek concentration camp; deaths of all the members of the family at Majdanek; escape from the ghetto; return to Komarniki; hidden by a Polish farmer; detention in Turka, 1942; escape; life with a Polish farmer in Zawadowka; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Turka; reunion with his cousin (Aaron Hanc); arrival at the Wolfratshausen-Foehrenwald DP camp,...

File Number : 94

Type of Material : Record of Deportees, Record of Murdered Persons, Record of Survivors, Questionnaire

Language : English

Memoirs of Dawid Orgelgrub, born in Stanislawow, Poland, 1930; regarding his experiences in the Stanislawow Ghetto, in hiding in Ottynia and Krakow, service with the German Army using a false identity and more Life before the war; work of his father as a watchmaker. Soviet occupation, 1939; arrest of his father and his disappearance, 1940; depression of his mother due to the loss of her husband; Hungarian occupation; German occupation; transfer of Jews to forced labor; deportation of Jews to Belzec; murder of the Jews in Belzec by shooting them at the cemetery; deportation of his family from Ottynia to...

File Number : 1778

Type of Material : Diary, Memoirs

Language : German

Memoirs of Rabbi Brilling regarding his experiences as an archivist in Berlin, Germany, under the Nazi regime, 1933-1939

Memoirs of Rabbi Brilling regarding his experiences as an archivist in Berlin, Germany, under the Nazi regime, 1933-1939 - Minor interest in Jewish community archival collections before 1933; - Drastic increase in inquiries at the Prussian Central Archive after April 1933 due to the required Aryan certificates; examples of instances when there were attempts to manipulate the certificates for the better for the person concerned; - Closure of the Wroclaw (Breslau) Archive by the Gestapo; collection of the library; death of Rabbi Heppner (the archivist of the Wroclaw Archive), November 1938; -...

File Number : 95

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Heinz Frankl, regarding his participation in the Dutch resistance in France, 1943-1945

Testimony of Heinz Frankl, regarding his participation in the Dutch resistance in France, 1943-1945 In his testimony Heinz Frankel, born in Vienna in 1921, reports on his experiences: - Participation in the Zionist training program (Hachshara) in Holland between 1939 and 1943 - Due to frequent police raids, Frankl stopped working with farmers, stayed at a hotel using a forged passport - Arrest in March 1943 by members of the NSB (The National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands) and handover to the Germans - Camouflage as a "Jewish hybrid" and work in the kitchen for a German police...

File Number : 170

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Memoirs of Dioniza (Rzepkowicz ) Brunicka regarding her involvement in the escape of camp prisoners in Białystok in 1944, her son's testimony and her forged documents from the Holocaust

Memoirs of Dioniza (Rzepkowicz ) Brunicka regarding her involvement in the escape of camp prisoners in Białystok in 1944, her son's testimony and her forged documents from the Holocaust "Uwolnienie z obozu": Dioniza Brunicka's memoirs regarding her part in organizing the escape of the prisoners of Zielona camp in Białystok in summer 1944; her memoirs were published in the book "Białostoccy Żydzi" by Prof. Adam Dobroński (in 1993), and in the "Kurier Poranny" newspaper in 1999; a Hebrew translation is attached; letter from Rev. Julian Zawadzki of Supraśl, dated 28 December 1945; Article published in the...

File Number : 12382

Type of Material : Article, Letter, Testimony, Personal Documents, Birth Certificate, Identity Card, Memoirs, Work Permit

Language : Polish, German

History of the Vogelmann family of Kežmarok and personal documentation of Samuel Vogelmann and other family members

- personal documentation of members of the Vogelmann family of Kežmarok, wiith documents issued in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, and the United States including: -- documents of Majer Israel Fogelman, born in 1847 in Mukachevo, and his wife, Hinde Fogelman née Klein; -- documents of Moric Mor Mojzis Fogelman Vogelmann, born in 1875 in Mukachevo, and his wife Judesz Jolan née Kestenbaum, born in 1879 in Mukachevo; -- documents of Alexander Vogelmann, born in 1918 in Kežmarok, and of Ernest Vogelmann, born in 1939 in Kežmarok; -- documents of Samuel Vogelmann, born in 1909 in Kežmarok, and his wife Frida...

File Number : 198

Type of Material : Death Certificate, תעודת יושר, Personal Documents, Certification, כתובה, Birth Certificate, עבודת מחקר, Marriage Certificate, קבלות, תעודת אזרחות

Language : Slovak, Polish, English, German, Aramaic, Hungarian

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