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List of Jews from North Africa who were deported from Italy to Bergen-Belsen camp, 1944

File Number : 1377

Type of Material : List of Camp Inmates, List of Deportees

Language : English

Card file of Jews arrested in Rome by the German SD - Sicherheitsdienst, October 1943 - June1944

File Number : 11

Type of Material : Record of Murdered Persons, List of Deportees, Personal Card File

Language : German

Letter written by Piero Sonnino in Fossoli camp to his family members in Italy, 15/02/1944; documentation regarding the experiences of Piero Sonnino, who was born in Ancona in 1900, during the Holocaust - Letter written by Piero Sonnino while in prison in Italy, addressed to his family members in Italy, 15/02/1944; in the letter he requests that his letter be given to his family, three months after the end of the war, in the event that he does not return; Documentation regarding Piero Sonnino: - Excerpt from the book, ''Il libro della memoria: gli ebrei deportati dall'Italia 1943-1945'', by Liliana...

File Number : 1022

Type of Material : Letter, Excerpt(s)

Language : Italian

Testimonies of Jewish victims and Nazi German defendants (1950-1968) in several trials conducted against former Gestapo officers, pre-trial hearings of witnesses in the trial against Otto Bovensiepen and other staff members at the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) in Berlin (1969-1971), including pleas and vignettes about Adolf Eichmann Pre-trial hearings regarding deportation of Jews to extermination camps; interrogation of criminals, Jewish victims and others; general information regarding deportations from Berlin; this file includes documents from other proceedings against Nazi criminals; the...

File Number : 35

Type of Material : Testimony, Letter

Language : German

O.31 - Documentation of the Jews of Italy mainly from the Holocaust period

O.31 - Documentation of the Jews of Italy mainly from the Holocaust period Personal documentation submitted to the Yad Vashem Archive containing testimonies, letters and personal documents of different kinds. Among the documentation in the Record Group there are also lists of Jews as well as other official documentation, most of it copies on microfilm spools of the documentation from the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem and the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation (CDEC) in Milan regarding the Jewish communities in Italy, antisemitic legislation, persecution and...

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Lists, Names, Testimony, Newspaper

Language : Italian

Telegrams and correspondence of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington and various US Embassies on issues related to Italy, 1944

Telegrams and correspondence of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington and various US Embassies on issues related to Italy, 1944 Pages 1-5: Telegram from the War Refugee Board (WRB) to the US legation in Algiers, in response to the wishes of Algerian Jews to receive certificates [for legal aliya] to Eretz Israel, including a report regarding the activities of the US President [Roosevelt} and the WRB regarding the absorption of refugees from Europe in the United States, including the decision by the President to transform the Army camp of Fort Ontario to a refugee camp; efforts by the US to enable the...

File Number : 107

Type of Material : Telegram, Survey Report, Statistical Data, Official Documentation

To be translated

File Number : 100

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Italian

Testimony of Alberto Bassi, a community clerk in Milan

Testimony of Alberto Bassi, a community clerk in Milan Jewish communities: Testimonies, declarations and lists Testimony of Alberto Bassi, a clerk in the Milan Jewish community regarding the arrest of the Jews of the city, 07 November 1943; deportation to the Fossoli camp; transfer to Auschwitz; liberation by the Red Army; escape to Italy due to the refusal of the Soviets to return the witness to his motherland.

File Number : 94

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Italian

Testimony of Nora (Bolaffio) Aviad, born in Trieste, 1924, regarding her experiences in Trieste, the Firenze Ghetto and using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Nora (Bolaffio) Aviad, born in Trieste, 1924, regarding her experiences in Trieste, the Firenze Ghetto and using a false identity Family background. Life in Trieste before and during the war; Italy's capitulation and the entry of the Germans; escape of her whole family as refugees from the Allied Zone to a rented apartment in Firenze; life in Firenze; deportation of the Jews to a ghetto; evades the deportations to Auschwitz; in hiding; constant fear of deportation; uses forged documents until 11 August 1944; liberation of Firenze by the Allied Forces. Return to Trieste; fate of relatives...

File Number : 6978

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana (Cassuto) Evron, born in Firenze, 1936, regarding her experiences as a child in Firenze, Milan and in hiding using a Christian identity

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana (Cassuto) Evron, born in Firenze, 1936, regarding her experiences as a child in Firenze, Milan and in hiding using a Christian identity Her father, Natan Aminadav Cassuto, is a rabbi and ophthalmologist; her is mother Miriam; witness is the granddaughter of Rabbi Moshe David (Umberto) Cassuto, a well-known professor of Bible studies; details about her extended family; religious observance; religious Zionist atmosphere; her grandfather's aliya to Eretz Israel and his work at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1938; her grandfather's attempts to obtain work for her father in Eretz...

File Number : 6982

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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