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Testimony of Miriam Marila Liber Prague née Kostin, born in 1921 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, in Hungary, with the partisans in Yugoslavia, and as a forced laborer in Germany

Life before the war; German occupation ensues; dispossession; deportation to the Warsaw ghetto; life in the ghetto; escaping to the "Aryan" side with help of forged papers; marrying; escaping to Lwów; escaping back to Warsaw; escaping to Hungary; receiving privileges from the Polish Consulate; escaping to Yugoslavia; joining the partisans in March 1944; sabotaging a railroad track; arrested by the Germans and taken to Germany; working in a factory that manufactures spare parts for tanks; posing as a Croat; receiving extra privileges; liberated by American forces; reaching Buchenwald; encountering Holocaust...

File Number : 13612

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List containing the names of persons connected to the Croatian SS Division, mention of their ranks and the positions they filled including that of the Jerusalem Mufi, Haj Amin al-Husseini

List containing the names of persons connected to the Croatian SS Division, mention of their ranks and the positions they filled including that of the Jerusalem Mufi, Haj Amin al-Husseini Included in the file: Photographs of commanders and soldiers serving in the division; printing directly from the negatives without enlargement.

File Number : 208

Type of Material : List of Military Officers, List of Collaborators

Language : English, German

German Federal Archive review of the involvement of the Beuthen Police Guard Company, the 6th Volunteer Battalion, "Croatia" and the 2nd Volunteer Regiment, "Serbia" in the persecution of Jews in Yugoslavia, 1941-1944, and Nazi war crimes trials held in the Netherlands, 1948-1949; documents dated, 1942-1969 Included in microfilm no. 1: (a) Correspondence between the German Federal Archive and the Central Office of Judicial Administration in Ludwigsburg, October 1969, concerning a survey of the existing material related to the involvement of the Beuthen Police Guard Company, the 6th Volunteer Battalion,...

File Number : 176

Type of Material : Diagram, Survey Report, List of Witnesses, Names of Perpetrators, List of Murdered Jews From the Netherlands, Official Documentation, Names of Partisans, Legal Documentation

Language : Dutch, German

Letter sent to Germany's Minister of the Interior by Gottlob Berger, the supervisor of the SS office, regarding cooperation by the SS with Croatian nationalist activist Neshad Topcic, 07/07/1944

Letter sent to Germany's Minister of the Interior by Gottlob Berger, the supervisor of the SS office, regarding cooperation by the SS with Croatian nationalist activist Neshad Topcic, 07/07/1944 Decisions that were made as a result of the discussions held with Topcic and Winkelmann, the commander of the SS and Police forces in Hungary; Topcic will continue to receive weapons support; acceptance of the Zeleni Kadar men (armed groups of deserters) into the SS detachment in Croatia; receipt of support for Topcic's efforts to spread the Zeleni Kadar activities as a political movement over the entire Muslim area...

File Number : 222

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Theodora (Heker) Shapira, born in Pancevo, 1931, regarding her experiences in Yugoslavia

Testimony

Testimony of Theodora (Heker) Shapira, born in Pancevo, 1931, regarding her experiences in Yugoslavia Family background; her mother's remarriage to a non-Jewish widower with three children; move from Pancevo to Starcevo in the Banat region, 1939. German occupation and anti-Jewish legislation, 1941; escape of the family to Pancevo, April 1941; informed on and sent with her mother, who was in the late stage of pregnancy, to an assembly point for the Jews of Beograd hospital; unusual details about the Kovin hospital, from which Jews were deported; visit to her uncle (her mother's brother) in Topovske Supe;...

File Number : 10506

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Hershlikovitz, born in Wielun, 1925, regarding his experiences in Pogenburg, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lagisza, Jaworzno and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Hershlikovitz, born in Wielun, 1925, regarding his experiences in Pogenburg, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lagisza, Jaworzno and other camps Traditional family; his father is a partner in moving businesses; activities in Zionist youth movements; witness completes elementary school. Entry of the Germans; escape to Lodz; return home; anti-Jewish legislation; deportation to Pogenburg camp; camp life including labor as a smithy; transfer to a transit camp; transfer to another camp next to Poznan; camp life including labor in the maintenance of a railroad station; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau,...

File Number : 9476

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yulia Ben Shachar, born in Cacinci, Yugoslavia, 1920, regarding her experiences in Smederevo, Sremska Mitrovica, Belgrade and in hiding in Guza

Testimony

Testimony of Yulia Ben Shachar, born in Cacinci, Yugoslavia, 1920, regarding her experiences in Smederevo, Sremska Mitrovica, Belgrade and in hiding in Guza Life before the war; life in Osijek; life in Sremska Mitrovica; life in Smederevo including meeting refugees from Germany, 1940-1941. Activities of collaborators; air-raids, 06 April 1941; escape to Sremska Mitrovica; life in Sremska Mitrovica; Croatian occupation; escape to Belgrade with help from partisans; life in Belgrade including forced labor, April and May 1941; Jewish police activities; obtains forged documents; life in Guza including hiding,...

File Number : 4545

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Siegfried Holbreich - HalbreichTestimony - Born in Dziedzice in 1909. Pharmaceutical Studies, officer school and work till 1939. Leader of Silesian "Akiva" until the outbreak of war. In 1939 [escaped deportation from Katowice with Jacob Fleischer. They were betrayed by a Croat afetr crossing to Yugoslavia and handerd over to the Germans] from the transport, from Katowice with Jacob Fleischer. Caughted by Germans - Five and half a years in concentration camps: Sachsenhausen, Gross-Rosen, Auschwitz-Buna, Dora-Nordhausen. Liberated in 1945 and immediate work in American War Crimes Department. Testified in the...

File Number : 1268

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

To be translated

File Number : 2399

Type of Material : Certification, List of Deportees

Language : German

Testimony of Mikha Lakhman, born 1936 in Afula, in Eretz-Israel, describing his experiences as a child in hiding in Zagreb and Split

Testimony

Testimony of Mikha Lakhman, born 1936 in Afula, in Eretz-Israel, describing his experiences as a child in hiding in Zagreb and Split Emigrated to Yugoslavia following the Jaffa riots in Eretz-Israel in 1936; life in Zagreb; the father worked in a workshop for repairing punctured tires; the outbreak of war; the German occupation in 1941; delivery of German vehicles for repair; his parents deported to a camp; smuggled to hide with a nanny and the closing of the workshop; his parents’ being allowed out of the camp to labor in repairing vehicles; a night-time escape to Split; living there for two years; escape...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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