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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

Booklet in memory of Max Block, born in Bochum, Germany, 1889; booklet published, 2011

Booklet in memory of Max Block, born in Bochum, Germany, 1889; booklet published, 2011 Booklet includes: - Copy of the birth certificate of Max Block; - Section of the list of Jews who were deported to Theresienstadt, 21 April 1943; - Transport list with the name of Max Block listed as a "laborer"; - Photographs of Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; Note: Max Block was born in Bochum, Germany, 14 December 1889; he was a banker in Bochum; his parents were Bendix and Therese (Mayer) Block; Max Block married Gertrud Hildegar Rosenthal, 31 March 1930 and they resided in Berlin, 1931-1936; they escaped to...

File Number : 313.7

Type of Material : Booklet(s)

Language : German

Testimony of Annalie Tal née Loewenbach, born in 1930 in Bentveld, Netherlands, about her experiences as a girl in Bentveld, Haarlem, Bergen-Belsen, Westerbork, etc.

Testimony

Testimony of Annalie Tal née Loewenbach, born in 1930 in Bentveld, Netherlands, about her experiences as a girl in Bentveld, Haarlem, Bergen-Belsen, Westerbork, etc. Childhood life before the war; German occupation ensues in May 1940; antisemitism among the local population surges; expelled from school about a year later; transferred to a Jewish school in Haarlem; father dismissed from work and family dispossessed; evicted to Amsterdam in January 1942; anti-Jewish legislation; evening curfew; Jews registered; the yellow star edict; Jews arrested in the streets; children disappear from the Jewish school;...

File Number : 13395

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Elhanan Tal, born in 1930 in Amsterdam, about his experiences as a boy in Amsterdam, in the Westerbork camp, and in Trobitz

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Elhanan Tal, born in 1930 in Amsterdam, about his experiences as a boy in Amsterdam, in the Westerbork camp, and in Trobitz Life before the war; offspring of a Zionist family; German occupation begins in May 1940; unsuccessful attempt to escape to Britain; anti-Jewish legislation; expropriation and Aryanization; the yellow star edict; living in fear of deportatiosn in summer 1942; Jewish schoolchildren gradually disappear; family is deported to Westerbork in January 1944; life in the camp; suffering and hunger; epidemic typhus; younger sister dies in January 1945; mother's physical...

File Number : 13398

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dina Eva Kimche née Dasberg, born in Haarlem, Netherlands, in 1936, about her experiences as a girl in Haarlem, Amsterdam, Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen, etc

Testimony

Testimony of Dina Eva Kimche née Dasberg, born in Haarlem, Netherlands, in 1936, about her experiences as a girl in Haarlem, Amsterdam, Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen, etc. Life before the war with the extended family; German occupation ensues in May 1940; Dutch Jews concentrated in Amsterdam; deportation with the family to Amsterdam; anti-Jewish legislation; expulsion rom school; Jews banned from public parks and the tram; evening curfew; expropriation; deportation with family to Westerbork in September 1943; sent to Bergen-Belsen; life in the camp; roll calls, epidemic typhus; encounters with father; Torah...

File Number : 13400

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bernard Jozef Natt, born in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences in Frankfurt, Wieringen, Amsterdam, Muenster and Auschwitz

Testimony of Bernard Jozef Natt, born in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences in Frankfurt, Wieringen, Amsterdam, Muenster and Auschwitz Life in Frankfurt until March 1938; life in the Werkdorp Nieuwesluis agricultural training farm in Wieringen. Using a false identity in Amsterdam, March 1941-February 1943; in prison in Muenster; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life.

File Number : 8241

Type of Material : Record of Deportees, Record of Persecuted Persons, Memoirs

Language : English

Testimony

Testimony of Meier Eduard, born in Hilversum, the Netherlands, 1925, regarding his experiences in Enschede, in hiding, in Westerbork, Blechhammer and additional camps, as a forced laborer and on a death march Childhood in Enschede; helping his mother smuggle Jewish refugees out of Germany, 1938. German occupation, May 1940; confiscation of property; arrest of his father and brother, early 1941; escape from the city; in hiding in the Rotterdam area; return to Enschede, summer 1942; deportation to Westerbork; from there to Sankt Annaberg, after a few days; forced labor in construction; transfer to Sakrau...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters written by Solomon de Volf and Deine Davidson in Westerbork, 13 August-26 December 1943

Letters written by Solomon de Volf and Deine Davidson in Westerbork, 13 August-26 December 1943 Included in the file: Letters sent from Amsterdam to Westerbork and letters from S Hertogenbosch camp sent during the same period.

File Number : 1508

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Dutch

Testimony of Abraham Asscher, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1933, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Abraham Asscher, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1933, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen From a well-to-family. German occupation, May 1940; anti-Jewish decrees; expulsion from the Dutch elementary school and transfer to a Jewish school; prohibition from entering public places and riding on the electric tram; confiscation of property; evening curfew, yellow badge; eviction from his home to the [Jewish?] quarter, summer 1942; deportation of the family to Westerbork, September 1943; crowding; Yom Kippur (October 1943); classrooms; birth of his sister,...

File Number : 13264

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zwi David Obstfeld, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1939, regarding his experiences as a child in Amsterdam and being hidden by a Dutch family in Laren

Testimony

Testimony of Zwi David Obstfeld, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1939, regarding his experiences as a child in Amsterdam and being hidden by a Dutch family in Laren Life in Amsterdam under German occupation, 1940-42; life being hidden by a Dutch couple in Laren, 1942; transfer to a family in Laren, 1942; life of his parents in hiding in Haarlem, 1942. Life with his family in Laren after the war; ties with his family; move to Amsterdam, 1948; studies; aliya to Israel, 1962; return to Amsterdam, 1966; return aliya, 1968.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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