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Testimony of Rivka van Coevorden née van Amstel, born in 1924 in Coevorden, Netherlands, about her experiences in Amsterdam and in hiding in the Netherlands during the war

Testimony

Life before the war; offspring of a family that had lived in the Netherlands since 1400; moving to Amsterdam in 1938; war breaks out in 1940; deportation to a labor camp; escape; assigned to farm labor; marries and gives birth to a daughter; hiding in various places; liberation; reunited with daughter; life after the war; immigration to Israel in 1951; adjustment to life in Israel.

File Number : 13536

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Vladimir Melomedovski, born in Kamenka, Ukraine, 1932, regarding the evacuation of his family to the Rostov na Donu region and towards Stavropol, escape from the gendarmes in Razvilnoye and life in hiding in the Pavlovskaya district Evacuation to the Stalingrad region; death of his brother, 1941, and death of his mother, 1942; drafting of his father to the Red Army; life with relatives in the Rostov region; transfer of the family (Vladimir, his sister, his aunt and his grandmother) towards Stavropol; arrest by the gendarmes in Razvilnoye; Vladimir's escape; transfer of the rest of the family to...

File Number : 8656

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Testimony of Meir Max Sherman, born in Paris, France, 1935, regarding hiding in the village of Saint Julien du Saul

Testimony

Childhood in Paris before the war; family life; German occupation, May 1940; arrest of his father following denunciation and his deportation to Drancy, 1941; yellow badge decree, early 1942; manhunt for Jews, July 1942; escape with his mother and grandfather with the assistance of a [female] French worker employed in the family business; hiding in Saint Julien du Sault; denunciation, and capture of his mother and grandfather; being smuggled to a nearby forest with the help of the partisans; return to the village after about ten days; liberation in the summer of 1944; Life after the war; aliya to Eretz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yocheved Guli (Brutzki) Grinblat, born in Brussels, Belgium in 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Brussels, in Agde camp, in a dormitory in Chateau de Bassines, in hiding in the Ardennes area, and in other places Life before the war; Orthodox, religious family; death of her father; Wehrmacht invasion of Belgium on 10 May 1940; escape to Revel with her mother and sisters; devious concentration of the Jews who are there, by the mayor; deportation to Agde with the Jews; escape from the camp to Brussels with her mother and sisters; life in Brussels, under curfew; marking of Jewish owned...

File Number : 13704

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation of Janek Eugen Jakubovic, born in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia, 1930, including an identification card, confirmation of liberation from Sachsenhausen camp, a temporary identification card, and other documents - Identification card as a Slovakian survivor, issued for Eugen Jakubovic in Neubrandenburg, including confirmation of his detention in Michalovce, 13 December 1944, and his stay in Sachsenhausen camp until the liberation; document dated, 01 June 1945; - Confirmation issued in Prague, that Eugen Jakubovic was liberated from Sachsenhausen camp; document dated, 07 June 1945; -...

File Number : 746

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Curriculum Vitae (cv)

Language : Czech, English

Testimony of Daniel Dino, born in Veroia, Greece in 1933, regarding his experiences in Veroia and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Daniel Dino, born in Veroia, Greece in 1933, regarding his experiences in Veroia and in hiding Sephardic community; his father is a well-to-do merchant; displays of antisemitism; Italian occupation; German occupation, 1942; receipt of information regarding the deportation of the Jews of Thessaloniki; deportation of Jews from Veroia to camps; his family escapes to the mountains; in hiding in the village of Sika; help from the local residents; they are informed on; entry of soldiers into the village, 1944; rescue by means of a bribe; liberation; return to Veroia; displays of antisemitism and acts...

File Number : 14284

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leon Genislav, born in Brussels, Belgium in 1927, regarding his experiences while in hiding in Brussels

Testimony of Leon Genislav, born in Brussels, Belgium in 1927, regarding his experiences while in hiding in Brussels Family of emigres from Poland that resided in Brussels; his father is a coal miner; good relations with the local population; outbreak of the war in 1940; life under German occupation; dispersion of his family to various hiding places in 1942; they are informed on; detention of his parents and their deportation to Mechelen camp; life with the Nils family until 1944; liberation; information regarding his parents' fate; he joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement and makes aliya to Eretz Israel from...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : French

Letters and postcards written by Alfréd Nobel, a forced laborer in a forced labor battalions, to his wife Alfrédné Violetta (Nágel) Nobel and to the Nobel and Nágel families, 1940-1945 and more

Letters and postcards written by Alfréd Nobel, a forced laborer in forced labor battalions, to his wife Alfrédné Violetta (Nágel) Nobel and to the Nobel and Nágel families, 1940-1945 and more - Postcards sent to Alfrédné (Nágel) Nobel by her husband Alfréd during his time of service in Labor Battalion Nos. IX/5 and 101/303 in various places in Hungary, 1940-1945; - Post card sent by Alfréd Nobel to his father Elek Nobel and his mother Tata Nobel while serving in labor battalions, 31 July 1940; - Letter from Alfréd Nobel to Nicolette Nikolette Nágel Nagel and Marietta Nágel in Budapest (in its original...

File Number : 2177

Type of Material : Letter, Document

Language : Hungarian

כוכבא אפריםTestimony of Efraim Ernst Bernard Kokhava van Koeverdan, born in 1943 in Amsterdam, about his experiences as an infant with a non-Jewish neighbor in Amsterdam and his return to an uncle after the war

Information about the family; German occupation ensues in May 1940; witness born in August 1943 in Amsterdam and is immediately handed over to a non-Jewish neighbor; parents find a hideout elsewhere in the area; neighbor's husband keeps a detailed diary about the boy's life and development; parents captured due to denunciation and murdered in April 1945; war ends in May 1945; uncle, a survivor, demands custody of the boy; legal struggle ensues; witness returns to his biological family in 1947; immigration to Eretz Israel in 1979; adjustment to life in Eretz Israel.

File Number : 13544

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Fredi Knoler, born in Vienna, Austria, in 1921 regarding the French resistance and the Drancy, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony

German occupation and annexation of Austria( Anschluss) in 1938; Kristallnacht in 1938; crossing borders to Antwerpen,Belgium in 1938 where acquaintances of the family stayed; transfer to a camp for Jewish refugees (with the support of the Jewish community) in Merkplas in 1939; escape to France after the German occupation of Belgium in 1940; his detention in Lille,France because of his German (Austrian) nationality and transfer to the detention camp in St Cyprien in 1940; his escape from the camp to Gaillac and his work in agriculture in 1940; buying of forged certificates and his moving to Paris,as a French...

File Number : 13473

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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