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Testimony of Yeshayahu Nahum Horovitz, born in 1920 in Lodz, about his experiences in the Lodz ghetto and the Hasag camp during the war

Testimony

Life before the war; refugees from Germany arrive in 1938; German occupation ensues in September 1939; anti-Jewish legislation; dispossession; abductions for forced labor; plunder of property; desecration of synagogues; ghettoization in April 1940; activity of hakhsharot (training centers) in Marysin; activity of the Bnei Akiva movement; hunger; working in the Judenrat kitchens; deportation to Hasag, in Częstochowa, in March 1944; life in the camp; working in an armaments factory; religious life and faith; liberation by Red Army forces in January 1945; life after the war; antisemitism; immigration to Israel in...

File Number : 13615

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka van Coevorden née van Amstel, born in 1924 in Coevorden, Netherlands, about her experiences in Amsterdam and in hiding in the Netherlands during the war

Testimony

Life before the war; offspring of a family that had lived in the Netherlands since 1400; moving to Amsterdam in 1938; war breaks out in 1940; deportation to a labor camp; escape; assigned to farm labor; marries and gives birth to a daughter; hiding in various places; liberation; reunited with daughter; life after the war; immigration to Israel in 1951; adjustment to life in Israel.

File Number : 13536

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence between the Gross family in Eretz Israel and family in Amstelveen through the Red Cross, 1941-1943; letters sent to Szymon Benno Wind in Westerbork from Vught camp and Amstelveen, 1944; letter from a Polish Army soldier regarding meeting Szymon Benno in Westerbork and the fate of his wife Rosa (Gross) Wind, 1945; personal documentation of Szymon Benno during the war and afterwards Correspondence between the Gross family in Eretz Israel and the family in Amstelveen through the Red Cross, 1941-1943; letters sent from the Vught camp and Amstelveen to Szymon Benno Wind in Westerbork, 1944; letter...

File Number : 2225

Type of Material : Letter, Red Cross Letter, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Personal Documents, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch, German

Documentation regarding Abraham Cymbalista, born in Chruszczybrod, Poland, 1896; documents dated, 1940-1942

Documentation regarding Abraham Cymbalista, born in Chruszczybrod, Poland, 1896; documents dated, 1940-1942 Original documents: - Two letters written to Abraham Cymbalista in Lens by a person in the prefecture in Quimper who is interested in helping regarding the confiscation of Cymbalista's business, 09 September 1940 and 05 December 1940; - Official letter sent by a military supervisor to Abraham Cymbalista in Lens, regarding the liquidation of expropriations and markets [?] in Paris, 21 March 1941; - Card attesting to Abraham Cymbalista's participation in a compensation fund for self-employed...

File Number : 540

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Personal Documents, Transport List

Language : French

Testimony of Mikhael Peter Hendrich Ben Dror Kelman, born in 1941 in Hilversum, Netherlands, about his experiences as an infant in the Amsterdam ghetto, in the Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen camps, and immigration to Eretz Israel as part of a prisoner swap

Parents born in Germany; grandson of the writer Georg Hermann Borchardt; family escapes from Germany to the Netherlands in 1933; grandfather's books burned in Germany; father, Herbert Kelman, escapes; deportation to the Amsterdam ghetto along with mother and grandfather; deportation to Westerbork in 1943; hospitalized in the camp and spared from the transports; grandfather sent to Auschwitz and transferred to Bergen-Belsen; swapping of Templer prisoners from Mandate Palestine; transported to Eretz Israel by train via Turkey in June 1944; received by Kibbutz Sede Nehemia.

File Number : 13546

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation and official documents of Hugo Kaufmann and Helena (Doppler) Kaufmann, from Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1932-1978

Personal documentsation and official documents of Hugo Kaufmann and Helena (Doppler) Kaufmann, from Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1932-1978 - Birth certificate of Gertruda Kaufmann (the daughter of Hugo and Helena Kaufmann), born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 30 August 1932; - Certificate given by the Ministry of the Treasury of Slovakia to Helena (Doppler) Kaufmann, stating that she and her family members (her husband Hugo and their two twin daughters Gertruda and Viera) will not be deported from Slovakia, 05 June 1942; - Application submitted to the Central Economics Office in Bratislava by the...

File Number : 140

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Legal Documentation

Language : Slovak, German

Testimony [in a letter] regarding the experiences of Rene Carasso Bensoussan and his family members, from Thessaloniki, 1941-1945

Testimony [in a letter] regarding the experiences of Rene Carasso Bensoussan and his family members, from Thessaloniki, 1941-1945 German Army occupation of Thessaloniki, 09 April 1941; dismissals at his place of work; escape to Athens with his wife Aline and their daughter Flora; detention; deportation to Chaidari; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, 02 April 1944; liberation from camp by the US Army in the Magdeburg area, 13 April 1945. Move via DP camps in Charleroi, Courbevoie and Namur; move via Paris to Marseilles; move via Bari; arrival to Greece, 04 September 1945; Note: Included with the testimony is...

File Number : 8611

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : French

Memoirs of Sitbon and Ben-Adi family members in Tunisia, 1942-1943

Memoirs of Sitbon and Ben-Adi family members in Tunisia, 1942-1943 Yosef Sitbon Bar-Shimon was born in Tunis, 1936; his father Shimon was born in Tunis, 1889; his mother Marcelle (Ben-Adi) Sitbon was born in 1904; confiscation of Jewish property; escape from their home; life in hiding in a shop near the port of Tunis; the Germans flee; return of the family to their home.

File Number : 8605

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Áron Issler, born in Radomysl Wielki, Poland, 1901, regarding his experiences in the Nagyvárad Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, and the Waldlager camp

Memoirs of Áron Issler, born in Radomysl Wielki, Poland, 1901, regarding his experiences in the Nagyvárad Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, and the Waldlager camp Deportation to the Nagyvárad Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 06 June 1944; life in Auschwitz, including labor; transfer to Dachau by death march, January 1945; transfer to Waldlager; evacuation of the camp, 25 April 1945; liberation by the US Army, 30 April 1945. Transfer to a hospital; release from the hospital, 27 July 1945; return to Nagyvárad, 03 September 1945. Note: Áron Issler's parents and siblings perished in the...

File Number : 8601

Type of Material : Document, Letter, Memoirs, Address Book, Document

Language : Hungarian

Certifications by the Jewish community of Antwerp regarding the fate of Chana Ryfka Szpinner and her son Herbert, who were deported to Malines, 10 October 1942, and booklets with the report cards of Herbert Szpinner and his sister Frieda, from their schools in Antwerp, 1939-1942 - Certification by the Jewish community of Antwerp, dated, 06 February 1959, confirming the confiscation of the Jewish property located at Bleekhofstraat 34 in Antwerp, 19 July 1943; - Certification by the Jewish community of Antwerp, dated, 06 February 1959, confirming that Herbert Spinner, born, 16 January 1931, was deported on...

File Number : 158

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Personal Records

Language : Dutch, German

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