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Testimony of Siegel Spira Felicia , born in Antwerpen, Belgium, regarding her escape to different places in France and her moving to Portugal

Testimony

-German occupation in 1940; air-raids and escape of her family to Bordeaux,France in 1940; escape to Toulouse and from there to Beaune; failed attempt to move to Portugal because of visas that are expired and return to Perpignan in 1940; the father obtains transit certificates to Portugal; moving via Spain to Lisboa, Portugal; life as refugees in Lisboa for a year, immigration to La Habana as refugees, citizens of Poland; Cuba in 1941 and from there, to New York,USA,and aliya to Israel in 1968

File Number : 13764

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Dov Bandel, born in 1919 in Delmenhorst, Germany, about his experiences in hakhsharot in Gut Wingel and Britain and in a camp on the Isle of Man

Life under Nazi rule from 1933 on; antisemitism escalates and high-school studies are terminated; active in the Young Maccabi youth movement; sets out to a hakhshara (Zionist training activity) in Gut Winkel, in the vicinity of Berlin, in 1937; mother and brother are driven across the Polish border in 1938 as Jews who hold Polish nationality; Kristallnacht in 1938; escaping to London and joining a Bahad (Religious Pioneers Alliance) hakhshara in a Salvation Army camp in 1939; deported by the authorities to the Isle of Man due to citizenship in an enemy country; three months of internment in the camp in 1940;...

File Number : 13582

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Natan Zhepkovich, born in 1920 in Włocławek, Poland, about his experiences in the Warsaw ghetto; the Pustków Strzyzew, and Gleiwitz camps; etc.

German occupation ensues in 1939; parents and brother escape; remaining at home after receiving an induction notice for the Polish army; Germans enter grandmother's house and grandmother dies; two synagogues torched in September 1939; witness arrested by the Germans and sent away for forced labor; attempts unsuccessfully to escape to the Soviet Union; escapes to Warsaw in 1939; assigned to forced labor at an airfield in 1939; life in the Warsaw ghetto in 1940; arrested by the Jewish police and escapes; finds a forged labor permit and joins a work group exiting the ghetto; sent to Strzyzew in 1941; life in the...

File Number : 13496

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Batya Hefetz née Fiser Szabo, born in 1923 in Viseul de Sus, Romania, about her experiences in the Viseul de Sus ghetto and in the Stutthof, Auschwitz, and Bromberg camps

Testimony

Testimony of Batya Hefetz née Fiser Szabo, born in 1923 in Viseul de Sus, Romania, about her experiences in the Viseul de Sus ghetto and in the Stutthof, Auschwitz, and Bromberg camps Hungary re-annexes Viseul de Sus; life under Hungarian rule in 1940; German occupation ensues in 1944; ghettoization; life in the ghetto in 1944; deportation with family to Auschwitz; transfer to Stutthof in autumn 1944; transfer to Bromberg; life in the camp; working in an armaments plant in 1944; death march; liberated by Red Army forces in January 1945; life in a Polish village nearby; convalescence; return to Viseul de Sus...

File Number : 13549

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Judith (Moshkovitz) Natt, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding her experiences in Uzhorod, Budapest, the Uzhorod Ghetto and in hiding in Budapest

Testimony

Testimony of Judith (Moshkovitz) Natt, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding her experiences in Uzhorod, Budapest, the Uzhorod Ghetto and in hiding in Budapest Hungarian Army occupation [of Uzhorod]; life under Hungarian occupation, 1938; increase in the displays of antisemitism; importance to the Hungarians of the brick factory owned by her father; German Army occupation [of Uzhorod], 1944; Germans take control of the factory owned by her father; her family receives a special permit from the Hungarian Minister of the Interior and an exemption from the anti-Jewish restrictions imposed on the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Naomi Inge (Fridman) Levinsky, born in Berlin, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Berlin and Winkel

Testimony

Testimony of Naomi Inge (Fridman) Levinsky, born in Berlin, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Berlin and Winkel Rise to power of Nazi Party; life in Berlin, 1933; increasing displays of antisemitism, 1935-1938; Maccabi Hatzair activities; work of her mother in assisting the emigration of Jews; move to studies at a Jewish school, 1934; move to an agricultural farm in Winkel for aliya training, 1938; Kristallnacht, 1938. Registration with Youth Aliyah, 1938; aliya to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliyah, March 1939.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sofia Doczminer née Fried, born in 1924 in Berbesti, Romania, about her experiences in Berbesti, Budapest, the Hunsfeld camp, Auschwitz, and elsewhere

Testimony

Testimony of Sofia Doczminer née Fried, born in 1924 in Berbesti, Romania, about her experiences in Berbesti, Budapest, the Hunsfeld camp, Auschwitz, and elsewhere Life before the war; connection with the Satmar Hasidim; antisemitism in Romania escalates; activity of the Iran Guard movement in 1937; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; antisemitism escalates and Jews are placed under restrictions; father's business is transferred to Sighet in 1940; escaping to relatives in Budapest in 1943; escaping back to Berbesti in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; transfer with her three sisters to Hunsfeld; life...

File Number : 13453

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Josef Szarfman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, Kowel, Rodino, Gorki, Fergana and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Josef Szarfman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, Kowel, Rodino, Gorki, Fergana and other places His childhood in a hasidic family; Communist activities; displays of antisemitism; arrival of refugees from Germany during the 1930s. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; escape to Soviet territory; move to Kowel; decision to return to Warsaw in order to bring property; displays of antisemitism by the Poles; illegally crosses the border with help from a Polish farmer; move to Warsaw, November 1939; life in Warsaw including the robbery of property; detention;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eva (Balsam) Zweig, born in Debica, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Debica, Sniatyn, using a false identity and in Krakow

Testimony

Testimony of Eva (Balsam) Zweig, born in Debica, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Debica, Sniatyn, using a false identity and in Krakow German Army occupation of Debica, 1939; deportation of her father to forced labor; confiscation of the home and textile store [of her family], 1941; deportation to the Debica Ghetto; Debica Ghetto life including labor; "Aktions", 1941-1942; transfer of her sister to a Polish acquaintance outside the ghetto; move of her family to outside the ghetto, using forged documents with help from a Polish acquaintance, 1942; life in Sniatyn while using a false identity as a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara (Khazanov) Kirchner, born in Iwaniki, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Iwaniki, Pinsk, in the Red Army, Gorki and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Sara (Khazanov) Kirchner, born in Iwaniki, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Iwaniki, Pinsk, in the Red Army, Gorki and other places Red Army occupation of Iwaniki, 1939; life under Soviet rule, 1940; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 1941; her family's escape to Pinsk; her family's return; joins a group in preparation for an escape to the border of the Soviet Union; opening of a passage to the city of Lenin, 1941; evacuation of the witness [and others] by the retreating Red Army into territories of the Soviet Union; draft into the Red Army as a nurse in a field...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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