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Testimony of Rachel (Fuks) Gros, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in Gladsaxe, in hiding in Frederiksberg, Fyn Nyborg, Nykoping and Stockholm

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Fuks) Gros, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in Gladsaxe, in hiding in Frederiksberg, Fyn Nyborg, Nykoping and Stockholm Life before the war; attends a Jewish school. German occupation; escape to her uncle's house in Gladsaxe; escape to Frederiksberg; hidden by a families in the Danish underground; registration of family members using false names; placed in a children's home in Fyn-Nyborg with help from the underground; escape to Nykoping; escape to Sweden; reunion with her parents in Stockholm; end of the war. Return to Copenhagen; aliya to...

File Number : 12821

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Danish Jewry during the Holocaust

Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Danish Jewry during the Holocaust The file is divided into four volumes: Volume I "The Jews of Denmark during the Holocaust", research paper written by Leni Yahil, in fulfillment of a requirement for earning the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Volume II Appendix of documents used in preparation of her doctoral dissertation by Leni Yahil. Volume III Appendix of documents (A second copy of Volume II). Volume IV Appendix of documents (A third copy of Volume II).

File Number : 24

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Research Paper

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Danish

Testimony of Richard Oestermann born in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1926, regarding his experiences in Copenhagen, Sweden and the Danish Army

Testimony

Testimony of Richard Oestermann born in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1926, regarding his experiences in Copenhagen, Sweden and the Danish Army Family life before the war; Danish attitude toward the Jews. German occupation of Denmark and the ramifications on the family's life; no change in the Danish attitude toward the Jews after the German occupation; activities as a youth in the distribution of an anti-occupation underground newspaper; contacts with Danish citizens, 1942-1943; escape of his mother and sisters from Copenhagen and their life in hiding; contact with Danish "rescuers-smugglers"; rescue of his...

File Number : 10907

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Erich Hajdu, born in Vienna, Austria, 1923, regarding his experiences in Vienna until Kristallnacht, and in Denmark and Sweden

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Erich Hajdu, born in Vienna, Austria, 1923, regarding his experiences in Vienna until Kristallnacht, and in Denmark and Sweden Joins Hashomer Hatzair, 1938; move to aliya training in Denmark after Kristallnacht; activities in the Lomborg and Kirkegaard areas. Stay with a family of Danish farmers after the German occupation; move to Port Eursonde and smuggled into Sweden by the Danish Underground, 1943; life in Sweden. Illegal immigration and aliya attempt via Namur and Marseille, 1946; deportation t to Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel with help from the Palmach, 1948.

File Number : 10222

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chava Kermish, born in Volyne, 1922, regarding her experiences in Volyne, Denmark and Sweden

Testimony

Testimony of Chava Kermish, born in Volyne, 1922, regarding her experiences in Volyne, Denmark and Sweden Childhood and family background in Volyne; membership in the Blau-Weiss movement. Change in attitude of the population after the annexation of the Sudetenland to Germany; visit of the Gestapo in the family's home; receives permission to join a student exchange between Germans and Danes; move to a farm on Staetland Island in the Kobenhavn area; daily life; meeting with Hechalutz movement in the area; keeps contact with her family until 1942; escape to Gilleleje with her future husband; smuggled to...

File Number : 10163

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leo Borchers, born in Oldenburg, Germany, 1916, regarding his experiences in Augsburg, Dachau, Bornholm and with the Danish underground

Testimony

Testimony of Leo Borchers, born in Oldenburg, Germany, 1916, regarding his experiences in Augsburg, Dachau, Bornholm and with the Danish underground Orphaned of his father; life in Jewish children's homes; aliya training in the Augsburg area with the Hechalutz movement, 1996; work while on aliya training; Kristallnacht; detention of the youngest in the group; deportation with the aliya training group to Dachau; camp life; release and return to the aliya training camp; move with the group to Denmark as part of an exchange of agricultural workers between Denmark and Germany, spring 1939; work with farmers in...

File Number : 3195

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Memoirs of Arnold Kaszub, born in Gniezno, Poland, 1912, regarding his experiences in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden during the Holocaust and additional documentation connected to his family

- memoirs of Arnold Kaszub, written in 1987: Childhood in Berlin and Schönerlinde (Wandlitz) near Berlin (his parents: his brother Hans, born in 1911; step-sisters Vera and Ulla); the friendship with Wilhelm Salinger; studies a profession - production of leather products; escape of his brother Hans to Eretz Israel in 1932, without the knowledge of his family; visit of the family in Eretz Israel and their return to Germany; establishment of a business in Berlin in 1933; draft of the witness into the German Army in 1933 and his immediate expulsion because he is a Jew; success of the business; persecution of...

File Number : 13003

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Certification, Postcard, Birth Certificate, Identity Card, Memoirs

Language : Polish, Swedish, German, Danish

Memoirs of Uri Yaari (Herman Waldman), born in Berlin, Germany in 1921, regarding his experiences during the Holocaust

Memoirs of Uri Yaari (Herman Waldman), born in Berlin, Germany in 1921, regarding his experiences during the Holocaust - Transcript of an interview with Uri Yaari (Herman Waldman) conducted by his son Nissan Yaari in 1986: Underground activity locating Jews in Denmark, transferring them to Odense and from there to Copenhagen; hiding Jews in a hospital with the cooperation of the hospital staff; detention and stay in prison; deportation to Sachsenhausen; transfer to a prison in Wroclaw; transport to Auschwitz; death march to Gross Rosen; transfer to Dachau camp; receiving a food package from the Red Cross;...

File Number : 11553

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Barbara Greve's speech on the occasion of the laying of a Stolperstein in memory of members of the Isaak family from Oberaula, documentation regarding the Isaak family, and documentation regarding the Levi family from Ottrau Documentation regarding the Isaak family from Oberaula, Germany: - speech delivered by Barbara Greve in Oberaula on 08 November 2007, the date a Stolperstein was laid in memory of members of the Isaak family who perished in the Holocaust: The Isaak family: the parents: Max Isaak born in Oberkleen, and Lina (Liebermann) born in Hausen; the children: Moritz, Ferdinand, Betti and Jakob;...

File Number : 274

Type of Material : Speech, Genealogy, Excerpt(s), Biography

Language : German

Testimony of Rut Rapaport, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1939, regarding her experiences hiding with Danish resident and her escape to Sweden.

Testimony

Testimony of Rut Rapaport, born in Copenhagen, Denmark,in 1939, regarding her experiences hiding with Danish resident and her escape to Sweden. Childhood in traditionalist family; father owns dressmaker's salon; German officer's warning about persecutions of Jews; family gets invitation to hide in house of Danish neighbour after she heard about Germans intention towards Jews,1943; making connection with Danish underground; gathering of Jews and their transfer by cars covered with tarpaulin by the Danish underground; contacting a Danish resident,member of Danish underground; escape and hiding in her house;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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