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Testimony

Testimony of Simcha Leo Fischer, born in Backo Petrovo Selo, Yugoslavia, 1928, regarding his experiences as a child in Backo Petrovo Selo, the Szeged Ghetto, Baja Ghetto, Fertorakos camp and other places Life before the war; attends school in the Jewish community and synagogues. Re-annexation to Hungary, April 1941; round-up ("Atkion") with the participation of Hungarian Gendarmes, January 1942; receives information regarding the murder of Jews in Novisad; receives information regarding the murder of family members in Beograd; German occupation, March 1944; wearing of a yellow badge; deportation of Jews...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Izak Akunis, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Thessaloniki Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Mauthausen

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Izak Akunis, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Thessaloniki Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Mauthausen Life before the war. Deportation with the Jews to the Baron Hirsch Ghetto; deportation by train to Auschwwitz-Birkenau; camp life including forced labor in a leather factory; evacuation of the camp and transfer to Mauthausen; camp life including forced labor in the airplane factory Messerschmitt; liberation by the US Army. Life in a DP camp in Austria; return to Greece; life in aliya training in Athens; aliya attempt on the ship "Haviva Reik";...

File Number : 13031

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Reports regarding the looting and destruction of the main synagogue in Gnesen, the confiscation of Polish houses in Posen for the benefit of ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche) from the Baltic States, the establishment of a new administrative structure in Posen, and a review of the economic, fiscal, cultural, sanitary and housing situation in Posen, October-November 1939 Included in the file are reports regarding the: - Attack on the synagogue of Gnesen, 08 October 1939; confiscation of the silver and other items of value, by the SD; the valuables are brought to Posen (no further details); looting of the...

File Number : 96

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Dr Siegmund E. Hadda, born in Cosel, Germany, 1882, former Medical Director of the Jewish Hospital in Breslau, regarding the history of the Jewish Hospital in Breslau, the years under the Nazi regime, and operating and living conditions for Jews until the deportation of the last Jews from Breslau to Theresienstadt, June 1943 Dr Siegmund E. Hadda was the last Medical Director of the Jewish Hospital in Breslau. - Deportation of the last officials of the Jewish community of Breslau to Theresienstadt (18 people, including their spouses and children), 16 June 1943, marking the end of the German...

File Number : 259

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Memoirs of Noach Edelist, about his experiences in the Częstochowa ghetto, forced labor at a HASAG plant, and celebrating Simhat Torah

Memoirs of Noach Edelist, about his experiences in the Częstochowa ghetto, forced labor at a HASAG plant, and celebrating Simhat Torah - memoirs of Noach Edelist of Częstochowa, relating to his experiences in the Holocaust, translated into English by Cedric Olivestone under the auspices of the Częstochowa landsmanshaft in Israel and Dor Hemshech German forces occupy Częstochowa; religious implements confiscated; the memoirist is evicted to the Częstochowa ghetto; Jews deported from the Częstochowa ghetto to Treblinka; sent to forced labor at a HASAG plant; story about a shofar and a small Torah scroll; the...

File Number : 11393

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Testimony of Hans Johanan Asriel, born in 1924 in Berlin, about his experiences in Germany and Denmark and his immigration to Eretz Israel in 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Hans Johanan Asriel, born in 1924 in Berlin, about his experiences in Germany and Denmark and his immigration to Eretz Israel in 1939 Offspring of an affluent tradition-observant family in Germany; separated from parents during a crisis in 1929; lives with mother in grandfather's home; Kristallnight; synagogue torched and shops ransacked in 1938; sister escapes to the United States in 1939; witness lives in an agricultural hakhshara (training center) for six months; father arrested; father deported to Riga and murdered in 1943; mother and grandmother deported to Theresienstadt and thence to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew