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Testimony of Bilha Beatris (Dekalo) Sagel, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria in 1928, regarding persecution under the fascist regime in Bulgaria

Testimony of Bilha Beatris (Dekalo) Sagel, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria in 1928, regarding her experiences in Plovdiv, aliya to Eretz Israel in 1944. Her childhood; studies in a Jewish school for two years and then in a Bulgarian primary school; good relations with the Bulgarian students; outbreak of the war; transfer of her father to forced labor; deportation of Jews from Macedonia via Plovdiv to camps; imposition of restrictions on Jews including curfews, restrictions on movement and wearing a yellow badge; transfer to forced labor; expulsion of Jewish students from school; early liberation by the partisans...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of deportees who were registered in the Trieste community, deported 1943-1945, and did not return; additional documents attesting to the nullification of the citizenship of the Trieste Jews, 1938 - Documents of Jews from Trieste attesting to the confiscation of property and the obligation to register as members of the Jewish race.

File Number : 86

Type of Material : List of Deportees, Official Documentation

Language : Italian

Testimony of Mikha Lakhman, born 1936 in Afula, in Eretz-Israel, describing his experiences as a child in hiding in Zagreb and Split

Testimony

Testimony of Mikha Lakhman, born 1936 in Afula, in Eretz-Israel, describing his experiences as a child in hiding in Zagreb and Split Emigrated to Yugoslavia following the Jaffa riots in Eretz-Israel in 1936; life in Zagreb; the father worked in a workshop for repairing punctured tires; the outbreak of war; the German occupation in 1941; delivery of German vehicles for repair; his parents deported to a camp; smuggled to hide with a nanny and the closing of the workshop; his parents’ being allowed out of the camp to labor in repairing vehicles; a night-time escape to Split; living there for two years; escape...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mazal Borokhov née Bakhar, born in 1936 in Yambol, Bulgaria, about her experiences in Yambol

Testimony

Testimony of Mazal Borokhov née Bakhar, born in 1936 in Yambol, Bulgaria, about her experiences in Yambol Childhood and family in Yambol; father: painter; community life; good relations with Bulgarian neighbors; German occupation ensues in 1940; curfew; German soldiers patrol in the streets; life in a convent up to age six; anti-Jewish legislation; attends an elementary school for Jewish pupils from 1942 on; unsuccessful attempt to escape to Turkey; father deported to forced labor; helping Jews from Skopje who had been deported to Yambol; fear of deportation to camps in Poland; life closed in at home;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Yosef Yechiel Shenfeld, born in 1928 in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Magdeburg, Buchenwald, and additional camps in 1944–1945

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Yosef Yechiel Shenfeld, born in 1928 in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Magdeburg, Buchenwald, and additional camps in 1944–1945 Childhood in a religious family; family owns textile shops; family life; family moves to Kosice; father holds Polish citizenship; persecution of foreign nationals in Slovakia; family forced to leave; moves to Subotica in 1934; witness attends a Serbian school; family opens a textile shop and a fish shop; Hungarian forces invade in 1941; foreign nationals exelled to Ukraine and drafted into labor brigades; antisemitic...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew