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Testimony of Siegel Spira Felicia , born in Antwerpen, Belgium, regarding her escape to different places in France and her moving to Portugal

Testimony

-German occupation in 1940; air-raids and escape of her family to Bordeaux,France in 1940; escape to Toulouse and from there to Beaune; failed attempt to move to Portugal because of visas that are expired and return to Perpignan in 1940; the father obtains transit certificates to Portugal; moving via Spain to Lisboa, Portugal; life as refugees in Lisboa for a year, immigration to La Habana as refugees, citizens of Poland; Cuba in 1941 and from there, to New York,USA,and aliya to Israel in 1968

File Number : 13764

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony

Testimony of Rosalia Nina (Schneider) David, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1936, regarding her experiences in Antwerp, Profondeville, an orphanage and in hiding in St. Servais while using a false identity German Army occupation [of Antwerp]; escape to France via Dunkerque; return of her family to Antwerp, 1940; life in Antwerp including air-raids and anti-Jewish legislation; her family's move to Profondeville, 1941; fear of deportation to concentration camps; placed in an orphanage of a Catholic monastery in the Namur region; hiding of her parents by a Belgian family, 1942; move from the orphanage to her...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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

Collection of the Gezantschap in Zwitserland (Consulate of the Netherlands) in Bern, Switzerland, 1939-1947

Collection of the Gezantschap in Zwitserland (Consulate of the Netherlands) in Bern, Switzerland, 1939-1947 Included in the collection: Official documentation of the Gezantschap in Zwitserland regarding food parcels to Jews in Poland in 1944; Documents regarding the evacuation of Jews to locations overseas, 1943-1945; Documents regarding Jewish refugees, 1942-1943; Documents regarding the exchange of Jews for Germans, dated, 1939-1947; Documents regarding the diamond industry in the Netherlands, 1939-1947; Lists of refugees from the Netherlands, 1939-1947; Testimonies regarding Theresienstadt,...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : English, Dutch, German

Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant (Diamonds Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1954

Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant (Diamonds Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1954 Included in the collection: Official documentation regarding diamond dealers in the Netherlands, most of them Jews, 1940-1954; Lists of diamond dealers, a newspaper article regarding Jewish diamond dealers in the Netherlands, and documentation regarding an incident of concealment; Documents of the Schade-Enquete-Commissies - compensation committee regarding diamond dealers during the postwar period in the Netherlands, 1946-1954; Documents of the Ministry of Transportation of the Netherlands; Documents of the...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Dutch, German

Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant (Diamond Industry Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1954

Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant (Diamond Industry Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1954 Establishment of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant by the Germans, as a department of the Rüstungsinspektion Niederlande for the promotion of the industry in the Netherlands in 1940; the Rijksbureau voor Diamant was given the responsibility for the registration of all of the diamonds in the Netherlands and the issuing of permits for all actions related to the diamond industry and diamond trade; Included in the collection: Forms/questionnaires of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant (government bureau for diamonds) of...

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Questionnaire, Form

Language : Dutch, German

Collection of Besonderen Verwendung, the Gewerbliche Wirtschaft Department for Special Cases for the Administration of Industry in the Netherlands, 1941-1945

Collection of Besonderen Verwendung, the Gewerbliche Wirtschaft Department for Special Cases for the Administration of Industry in the Netherlands, 1941-1945 The Gewerbliche Wirtschaft - GeWi department, under the administration of Schmidt, was subordinate on one hand to the Rüstungsinspektion, the military body responsible for the handling of matters of industry in the Netherlands, and subordinate to the Generalkommissar für Finanz und Wirtschaft (German Ministry of Finance and Industry) on the other hand; GeWi was divided to various groups (Gruppe), which dealt with various fields, including: textiles,...

Type of Material : Survey Report, Correspondence

Language : German

Collection of the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung (Office for the Deportation of Jews), the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer - HSSPF department, Amsterdam, 1942-1944

Collection of the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung (Office for the Deportation of Jews), the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer - HSSPF department, Amsterdam, 1942-1944 The Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung, Office for the Deportation/ Emigration of Jews, was a Nazi organization that was active at the start in Vienna and later on also in Amsterdam; the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung had close ties with the German security forces, the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer Nord-West, and had a legitimate image of encouragement of emigration; at the head of the HSSPF stood Generalkommissar für das...

Type of Material : Reports, List of Deportees, Document, Correspondence, List of Persecuted Persons, Financial Accounts, Protocol, Instruction, Statistical Reports

Language : Dutch, German

Directives regarding policies toward specific sectors among the Jews of the Netherlands, from the Archive of Hanns Albin Rauter, the HSSPF in the Netherlands, 1942-1944

Directives regarding policies toward specific sectors among the Jews of the Netherlands, from the Archive of Hanns Albin Rauter, the HSSPF in the Netherlands, 1942-1944 Secret document signed by Schmidt, the Commissioner of the German Nazi Party in the Netherlands, which gives details regarding the rules for the handling of Evangelist Jews, Catholic Jews, Jews in the textile sector who work for the Wehrmacht, Jews in the diamond sector, Jews living in mixed marriages, Jews who are considered Portuguese, Jews who fought at the front for Germany during World War I, Jews who are Nazi Party members and possess...

File Number : ראה קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Yaakov Bielostotzki, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Tashkent, a Soviet punishment camp and the Polish Army

Testimony

Testimony of Yaakov Bielostotzki, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Tashkent, a Soviet punishment camp and the Polish Army From a modern traditional family. Outbreak of the war, 1939; German occupation; Soviet occupation; life under Communist rule; his father's labor building bunkers; learns the weaving trade; German occupation, 22 June 1941; shelling and air-raids; escape with his teacher and other students in the direction of the Soviet Union; air-raids en route; dispersion of the children in the class; joins another group of refugees; stay in Jewish homes; joins a...

File Number : 12779

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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