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Report prepared by the Federation of Sefardi Jewry in the US Occupation Zone in Germany, regarding its activities in the Feldafing DP camp, 1947

Report prepared by the Federation of Sefardi Jewry in the US Occupation Zone in Germany, regarding its activities in the Feldafing DP camp, 1947 Included is a detail report regarding the Federation's activities in the areas of culture, help to needy people, emigration and religion.

File Number : 107

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : French, German

Testimony of Elisheva Galili née Weispeter, born in 1931 in Warsaw, about her experiences as a girl in the Wilno ghetto; the Danzig, Stutthof, and Kaiserwald camps, etc.

Life before the war; offspring of a Zionist family; war breaks out in September 1939; escape to Wilno; violence during the period of Lithuanian rule; sending parcels to acquaintances in Warsaw; Soviet occupation ensues in July 1940; German occupation ensues in June 1941; dispossession; murder of Jews in the streets and in Ponary; eviction from the family home; father murdered in Ponary in August 1941; ghettoization in September 1941; the Yom Kippur Aktion; mother in contact with the chairman of the Judenrat, Jacob Gens; mother works for the cleaning police and receives a pass; witness attends school; activity...

File Number : 13622

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Simcha Penzer Rabinowitz Ben Shaul, born in Vilna, Lithuania (Poland), 1934, regarding his experiences in Vilna, the Vilna Ghetto and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Simcha Penzer Rabinowitz Ben Shaul, born in Vilna, Lithuania (Poland), 1934, regarding his experiences in Vilna, the Vilna Ghetto and in hiding His childhood in Vilna. Red Army occupation of Vilna, summer 1940; nationalization of his family's business; German Army occupation of Vilna, June 1941; life under German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation, the decree regarding wearing a yellow badge, kidnappings, confiscation of property and ban on entry to public places; mass murder [of Jews] in Ponary, July 1941 and August 1941; "Aktion" against "the large provocation", late August 1941;...

File Number : 13277

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Binyamin Mordechai Karinski, born in Ostryna, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Ostryna, Mogilev, Stalingrad, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Binyamin Mordechai Karinski, born in Ostryna, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Ostryna, Mogilev, Stalingrad, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and other places His childhood in a traditional family, including attending a Tarbut school and a Polish school; learns metalworking in an ORT school in Grodno. Outbreak of the war; Red Army occupation of Ostryna; deportation of wealthy people to Siberia; German Army occupation of Ostryna, 1941; escape to the Soviet Union; his parents remain in Poland; murder of his parents; march of refugees; arrival to Mogilev; move to Stalingrad; move to Uzbekistan;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Haim Altaratz, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1931, regarding his experiences in Sarajevo, Mostar, Split, Dubrovnik and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Haim Altaratz, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1931, regarding his experiences in Sarajevo, Mostar, Split, Dubrovnik and other places His childhood in Sarajevo. German Army occupation of Sarajevo, April 1943; informed on by their Croatian housemaid; rape of his grandmother by drunk German officers; move to Mostar using Aryan documents with help from a Moslem acquaintance; rescue of his brother by the Moslem acquaintance; move to Split which was under Italian occupation; move to Dubrovnik; transfer to an Italian camp on the island of Rab, September 1943; joins Tito's partisans; BBC broadcasts to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Werner, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, the Warsaw Ghetto, using a false identity and in Braunschweig

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Werner, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Warsaw, the Warsaw Ghetto, using a false identity and in Braunschweig His childhood in a traditional, Zionist family including attending a Tarbut school; activities in Hashomer Hatzair; antisemitism; opening of Catholic food shops as competition with the Jewish shops; receives knowledge from the newspapers, "Heynt" ("Today"), regarding the fate of the Jews in the German Reich, 1937; meets refugees following Kristallnacht, 1938. Outbreak of the war, 1939; attitude of the German soldiers toward the Jews; deportation to the...

File Number : 13206

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Batia (Marder) Keret, born in Wlodzimierz, Poland, 1935, regarding her experiences in the Wlodzimierz Ghetto, in hiding, in Vladimir, Volbgaro and Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Batia (Marder) Keret, born in Wlodzimierz, Poland, 1935, regarding her experiences in the Wlodzimierz Ghetto, in hiding, in Vladimir, Volbgaro and Israel Her childhood with her mother in a single-parent family. Deportation to the [Wlodzimierz] Ghetto, 1940; views a father smothering his [crying] baby; her mother relinquishes a Bausweis certificate [?] for her; pogrom; murder of her family members; transfer to the Wlodzimierz Ghetto No. 2; in hiding in the storeroom of a non-Jew, in exchange for payment; escape to Bialin; move back to Ghetto No. 2 due to hunger and the cold; activities of the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Haim Yahalom (Diamant), born in 1935 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Prague and in Theresienstadt ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Haim Yahalom (Diamant), born in 1935 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Prague and in Theresienstadt ghetto Childhood in Prague; German occupation ensues in 1939; father continues to work in manufacturing with the help of the German factory manager; deportation to Theresienstadt ghetto in 1941; placement in a children's home in the ghetto in 1942; parents work in a ghetto crafts shop, turning put leather accessories for the German Army in 1942; placement in isolation in the hospital hosopital due to typhus and tuberculosis; life in the ghetto, mainly of children, in 1941–1945;...

File Number : 13382

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Izak Kopilowitz, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1929

Testimony

Testimony of Izak Kopilowitz, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1929 Childhood in a well-to do Zionist family. Entry of the Soviet Army, summer 1940; German occupation, June 1941; looting by Lithuanians; yellow badge; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto, August 1941; work guarding the gardens; smuggling of newspapers into the ghetto and distributing them; attends school; poliomyelitis, 1942; work in a workshop; secret classes; setting up a printing press in the ghetto; turning the ghetto into a concentration camp and deportation of people, fall 1943; forced to watch a public hanging, 1943; "Aktion" against...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel (Gratz) Ronen, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Christianstadt, on a death march and in a forest

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Gratz) Ronen, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Christianstadt, on a death march and in a forest Her parents are actors in the Yiddish theater, "Ararat". German occupation, September, 1939; fear of attacks against the men; escape of her father and her brother to the Soviet Union; receiving letters from the Ural; deportation to the ghetto together with her mother; assistance from a Judenrat member in finding housing and employment; her mother's work as a cook; receiving heating materials; release from deportation four times; murder of...

File Number : 13136

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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