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Testimony of Chava (Veis) Mordchovitz, born in Soporna, Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding her experiences in hiding in Hlohovec, Soporna and Hungary

Testimony

Testimony of Chava (Veis) Mordchovitz, born in Soporna, Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding her experiences in hiding in Hlohovec, Soporna and Hungary Outbreak of the war; unsuccessful attempts to make aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939; move to Hlohovec; life in hiding, alternately in Hlohovec and Soporna; smuggled into Hungary with her brother, 1943; her brother is placed in an orphanage in Budapest; deportation of her brother to Auschwitz, and his murder; German occupation, March 1944; return to Czechoslovakia; identified by the Slovakian police commander; hidden in exchange for a promise to give testimony to his...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Ielinek, born in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Kindertransport to Great Britain, as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in France and the liberation of Czechoslovakia Life before the war; education in Litomerice; move to Prague following the annexation of the Sudetenland, 1938. Move to Great Britain with the Kindertransport; enlists into the Czechoslovakian Army, 1942; transfer within the Czechoslovakian Army to France, 1944; participation in the liberation of Czechoslovakia; release from the Czechoslovakian Army, 1945. Aliya attempt via...

File Number : 12687

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Baruch Veis, born in Volchovce, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Carpathian Ruthenia mountains, in detention in Komarno, labor camps, Budapest and the Gyor Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Baruch Veis, born in Volchovce, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Carpathian Ruthenia mountains, in detention in Komarno, labor camps, Budapest and the Gyor Ghetto Life before the war; member of Bnei Akiva youth movement. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1938; member in the Scouts; escape to the Carpathian Ruthenia mountains; escape to Budapest, 1941; arrest by the Hungarian police and deportation to Komarno; camp life until 1943; transfer to a labor camp in Transylvania; transfer to a labor camp in an Hungarian Army airfield; transfer to the eastern front; life there including...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Official documentation regarding Jewish emigration from Czechoslovakia to Eretz Israel, 1939-1942

Official documentation regarding Jewish emigration from Czechoslovakia to Eretz Israel, 1939-1942 - Letter from the Czechoslovakian Ministry of the Treasury to Attorney F. Friedman in Prague regarding the transfer of ₤500,000 to the Jewish Agency in order to the support the aliya of Czech Jews to Eretz Israel, 13 January 1939; - Letters sent by the Treasury Chambers to Leo Hermann from the Jewish Agency regarding financial aid from a British government fund and money from the National Bank of Czechoslovakia intended for the aliya of Czech Jews to Eretz Israel and the Jewish Agency for their absorption, 20...

File Number : 423

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Czech, English

Testimony of Gila Frida (Dolberg) Kerem, born in Putna, Romania, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Gila Frida (Dolberg) Kerem, born in Putna, Romania, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto Life before the war; move to Cernauti; her parents' deaths. Deportation to a ghetto; murder of Rabbi Mark; deportation of relatives to Transnistria; draft of Jews to forced labor; yellow badge; mayor's intervention in an effort to prevent transports of the Jews; German retreat and Soviet occupation. Move to Dorohoi; marriage; obtains an aliya permit; aliya to Israel, 1950. Continuation of interview: 27 November 2007 Life in the Cernauti Ghetto; issuing of an identity card; list of...

Type of Material : Identity Card, Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Military documents and medals belonging to Ytzhak Ondrej Pisk Bar Lev, born in Zvolenska Slatina, Czechoslovakia, 1923, a Czechoslovakian Army soldier who joined a partisan unit in Slovakia

Military documents and medals belonging to Ytzhak Ondrej Pisk Bar Lev, born in Zvolenska Slatina, Czechoslovakia, 1923, a Czechoslovakian Army soldier who joined a partisan unit in Slovakia Bar Lev made aliya to Israel in 1968.

File Number : 95

Type of Material : Document(s)

Language : Slovak, Czech

Testimony of A. Pichler, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939, and his participation in the war as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in England and Dunkirk

Testimony of A. Pichler, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939, and his participation in the war as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in England and Dunkirk Aliya to Israel, 1939; transfer to England as a Czechoslovakian soldier, 1943, combat at Dunkirk, 1944; emigration to Australia, 1949. In the file there is also information provided about: Fred Altmann, Stephen Altmann, George Fantl, Prof. F. Knopfelmacher, Hans Low Loew, Ferda Herz, Paul Rohan, Kurt Sulan, Richard Adler, Eric Kraus, Hans Horic, and Paul Samel.

File Number : 93

Language : English

Testimony of Mordechai Martin Spiegel, born in Brezovec, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in Biel, Uzhorod and in the Czech Army

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Martin Spiegel, born in Brezovec, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in Biel, Uzhorod and in the Czech Army His childhood in Biel in a family of hasidim; move to Uzhorod to learn in a yeshiva at the age of 15; [revocation of] their business licenses, 1938; witness leaves the yeshiva in order to help his family earn a livelihood; work in wood-carving and the lumber trade. Draft to a battalion of Hungarian soldiers in the Hungarian Army, November 1942; life in the battalion including labor digging guard posts and labor laying railroad tracks near the Polish border; escape...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Artur Alter, born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in Ostrava, Nisko, Stanislawow, Siberia and in the Czech Brigade

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Artur Alter, born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in Ostrava, Nisko, Stanislawow, Siberia and in the Czech Brigade His childhood in Ostrava; attends a Czech school; activities in the Tehelet Lavan youth movement. Deportation to Nisko in a group of 1,000 Jews; labor building a concentration camp; escape to Stanislawow, in Soviet Union territory and then he follows the Red Army to Siberia; labor logging trees; joins the Czech Brigade and participates in battles in the vicinity of Kharkov and Kiev; liberation, April 1945. Hospitalization in a hospital in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Eller, born in Giraltovce, Czechoslovakia, 1914, regarding his experiences during his illegal aliya to Eretz Israel, early 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Eller, born in Giraltovce, Czechoslovakia, 1914, regarding his experiences during his illegal aliya to Eretz Israel, early 1939 His childhood in Giraltovce; youngest child in a family with ten children; learns in a "heder" and attends school; move with his brother to attend a middle school in Presov; work in trade; exposure to Zionism and joins activities in the Beitar movement; joins aliya training at the age of 19 in anticipation of and preparation for aliya; draft into the Czech Army, October 1937; return to the aliya training farm. Draft in the context of the general draft, June...

File Number : 8380

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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