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Testimony of Victor Arish Yehuda, born in Tunis, Tunisia, 1929, regarding his experiences during the war in Hammam Lif

Testimony of Victor Arish Yehuda, born in Tunis, Tunisia, 1929, regarding his experiences during the war in Hammam Lif Family background, traditional home; move to Hammam Lif. German occupation, November 1942; confiscation of radio; property robbery; taking his father to forced labor; hosting families who fled Tunis. Liberation, May 1943; enlistment into the French army, February 1945; release from the French Army, 1948; aliya to Israel, 1949; absorption and rehabilitation.

Language : Hebrew

Collection of the Bureau Joodsche Zaken - the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police, 1942-1943

Collection of the Bureau Joodsche Zaken - the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police, 1942-1943 Included in the collection: Log books and reports produced by the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police, 1942-1943; the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police handled violations of the Germans' decrees, such as the obligation on Jews to wear a yellow badge, the ban on Jews against travelling on public transportation, the obligation for Jews to hand over their bicycles and radios, the giving of shelter to Jews and other anti-Jewish persecutions such as hiding Jews, the...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Dutch, German

Testimony of Ganem Gad, born in Kairouan, Tunisia, 1932, regarding his life during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Ganem Gad, born in Kairouan, Tunisia, 1932, regarding his life during the war Family background; his father is a jeweler; his mother is a professor of musicology, specializing in piano. The outbreak of war; entry of Italian soldiers into the city; confiscation of radios; entry of German soldiers into the city; recruitment of Jewish men and boys for forced labor; taking his father to forced labor; beating his father by German soldiers; expropriation of the house in favor of the German soldiers; moving house with a Jewish family, the Gavison family; taking his mother's piano for the benefit of a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Secret report regarding the development of the "Jewish Question" and, in particular, the "Entjudung" (de-Jewification) in the Netherlands until late 1942, including the registration of anti-Jewish legislation (transcript of an official document), apparently from 1943 The report includes information regarding the: - Positive attitude of the Dutch population toward the Jewish population before the German occupation, and the change in the attitude after the German invasion; - Elimination of Jews from the political, cultural and economic life; - Registration and marking of Jews; - Ban on marriage and...

File Number : 1501

Type of Material : Index, Report

Language : German

Overview by Mieczyslaw (Mosze) Ring regarding the looting of Jewish property in Warsaw during the German occupation of Poland

Overview by Mieczyslaw (Mosze) Ring regarding the looting of Jewish property in Warsaw during the German occupation of Poland The overview concentrates on several subjects: Anti-Jewish decrees regarding property which were announced in Warsaw after the German occupation of the city; forced labor; dismissals of Jews from their places of work; establishment of the ghetto, and looting of Jewish apartments and businesses on the Aryan side; Transferstelle (transfer agency) activities; confiscation of the property of the ghetto residents; executions in the ghetto of those holding foreign currency; activities of...

File Number : 115

Type of Material : Survey, Survey Report

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Henri Ejnès, born in Lublin, Poland, in 1921, about his experiences under a false identity in Reims, Montluçon, and Lyon

Memoirs of Henri Ejnès, born in Lublin, Poland, in 1921, about his experiences under a false identity in Reims, Montluçon, and Lyon Father, Laïzer Ejnès, born in Grabowiec in 1893, and mother, Haya Léa (Edelstein) Ejnès, from Lubartów; brothers: Moshé Maurice and Salomon Serge, bon in Lublin. Life in Lublin; emigration to France in 1932; staying in Paris and moving to Reims in 1933; life in Reims before the war; economic hardships; witness drops out of school and works with father in uncle's and aunt's knitting plant; moving to Paris and living with uncle, André Rak, and Aunt Fanny, in 1937, and doing sewing...

File Number : 12520

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

Documentation of the Taglicht family of Bresov, Czechoslovakia, 1926–1958, and testimony about concealment of the Taglicht family

Members of the family: - Josef Taglicht, born in 1901 in Brezov; his wife Margita Taglicht, born in 1911 in Chicago; and their children, Elvira and Eduard Taglicht - Amalia Taglicht and Mojžíš Taglicht, Josef's parents. Also in the file: - testimony of Jan Mihočk, 1958, about concealment of the Taglichts from September 1, 1944, to April 1945; - stamp of the Municipality of Priepasné; - certificate from Bratislava, 1947, with the names of members of the Diamant, Nagel, Salomon, and Schwarz families who perished in the Holocaust. Submitter's remarks: The Taglicht family owned a wool and leather...

File Number : 197

Type of Material : Certification, Letter, Personal Documents

Language : Slovak, English

Memoirs of Georg Popper, born in 1937 in Budapest, about his family's wartime experiences in Budapest

Memoirs of Georg Popper, born in 1937 in Budapest, about his family's wartime experiences in Budapest - Memoirs of Georg Popper, born in 1937 in Budapest, about his family's wartime experiences in the Holocaust, written by Georg in Vienna in 2015: Maternal grandmother converts to Protestantism in 1939 to prevent grandfather from being dismissed from his post as head of civil engineering and consultant to court in Transylvania, then part of Hungary; Georg and his family live in Budapest; anti-Jewish legislation in Hungary; Georg's father and other relativecs are conscripted into the Hungarian Army labor...

File Number : 11402

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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