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Testimony of Hela (Feltz) Reznik, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925 regarding her experiences in the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia

Testimony

Prewar childhood; antisemitism; plans for aliya to Eretz Israel; outbreak of the war; German occupation; burning of houses; deportation to the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia; camp life, 1941-1945; hunger; longing; murder of her family; liberation by the Red Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Childhood in Zarki; antisemitism; move to Sosnowiec, 1934; antisemitism; German occupation, September 1939; abuse; anti-Jewish legislation; confiscation of property; Judenrat; deportation to the Johannsdorf labor camp, late 1939; work in excavations and laying railroad tracks; transfer to the Markstadt camp; various forced labors; transfer to the Klettendorf camp; labor as a porter; beatings; transfer to the Dyhernfurth camp to work in a weapons factory; beatings; hunger; death march to Bergen-Belsen; high mortality; hunger; liberation by the British Army, April 1945; Life after the war; aliya to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Testimony of Shnirer Tulo, born in 1927 in Krakow, Poland, regarding transfer to the Krakow ‎Ghetto in 1941 and deportation to labor camps

Testimony

Testimony of Shnirer Tulo, born in 1927 in Krakow, Poland, regarding transfer to the Krakow ‎Ghetto in 1941 and deportation to labor camps Childhood: traditional family, Jewish school, antisemitism before the war, death of his father in ‎‎1936; German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish decrees; wearing the yellow ‎badge; limitations on movement; confiscation of property, etc.; German officials taking over part ‎of the family’s apartment; transfer to the Krakow Ghetto in March 1941; the Judenrat and the ‎Jewish police; forced labor inside and outside the ghetto; Jewish underground; Nazi...

File Number : 13740

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

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 : Transport List, Personal Documents, Official Documentation

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 : Legal Documentation, Personal Documents, Official 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

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