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Memoirs of Leon John Bortniker, born in Vienna, Austria, 1919, regarding his experiences in Vienna until his emigration to the United States, 1939

Memoirs of Leon John Bortniker, born in Vienna, Austria, 1919, regarding his experiences in Vienna until his emigration to the United States, 1939 Life in Vienna between World War I and World War II; displays of antisemitism in schools, activities of the Schutzbund Federation (Republican Protection Association) of the Social Democrats party and of the Heimwehr (Home Guard) of the Christian Socialists party; murder of Dr. Engelbert Dolfuss, 1935; election of Kurt von Schuschnigg as the prime minister; Anschluss, and the annexation of Austria to the German Reich; persecution of the Jews; entry of Hitler into...

File Number : 254

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

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File Number : 1223

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : English

Testimony of Pinkhas (Peter Shmulevitz) Shmueli born in Breslau, Germany, 1924regarding life in Breslau until the summer of 1933 and in Mandatory Palestine from September 1933

Testimony

Childhood in a Zionist family with a father who was born in Poland; life without antisemitism; studies in a Jewish school; his father is active in a Jewish-Polish-Yiddish social framework; Nazi rise to power, January 1933; deportation order issued for his father, summer 1933; his father’s insistence on leaving for Eretz Israel; obtaining certificates for professionals through a false declaration; train journey through Poland and Italy and sailing to Eretz Israel; arrival September 1933; Acclimatizing difficulties in the country.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sela Shtovitska Uri Urlich, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1930 regarding deportation to the Polish border and regarding his leaving nazi Germany in Kindertransport

Testimony

Childhood in Frankfurt an der Oder; life during nazi regime in 1933; arrest of the father accused of communist activity and his deportation to Poland as a Polish subject in 1933; attending the Jewish school Philanthropyn in 1936; moving to the Jewish Children's Home Stiftung in 1936; deportation with the mother from Frankfurt an der Oder to the Polish border in 1938; Kristallnacht riots; his joining a group of children who were sent by Kindertransport sponsored by James and Dorothy Rothschild in 1939; the journey via Hoek van Holland, Holland to London, Britain in 1939; moving to the estate of James Rotschild...

File Number : 13713

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Memoirs of Gerard Dreyfus, born in Strasbourg, France, 1932, regarding his experiences in Limoges, Annecy, in Ringlikon and Adliswil refugee camps, and more

Memoirs of Gerard Dreyfus, born in Strasbourg, France, 1932, regarding his experiences in Limoges, Annecy, in Ringlikon and Adliswil refugee camps, and more Life before the war; German occupation and escape with his family to Limoges in 1940; life in Limoges under German occupation until 1942; activity of the Jewish Scouts movement in Limoges; escape with his family to Annecy in 1943; underground activity in Annecy; escape with his family to Switzerland in April 1944; life in various refugee camps including Adliswil, Ringlikon, and Les Avants; life in Bienne; return to Limoges in December 1944; return to...

File Number : 8660

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

Booklet by Evelyn German regarding the experiences of her mother Hene Annette Epelbaumas, born in Ukmerge, Lithuania, 1924, and her father Itche Jeko German, born in Pinsk, Poland, 1922, and of their families in Paris, Nice, Clichy, Orange and more Life of the Epelbaumas family in Widzy and Ukmerge; emigration to Paris; life in Paris; the "Drole de Guerre" (the phony war) period until May 1940; German occupation; imposition of restrictions on Jews; arrest of her uncle Samuel, her mother's brother; transfer of her uncle to Drancy camp in August 1941; transfer of her uncle to Auschwitz camp; arrest of her...

File Number : 8667

Type of Material : Booklet(s)

Language : French

Testimony of Regev Yisrael Gerber, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, in 1927, regarding the Garan camp, Slovakia.

Testimony

Childhood in Mukacevo; Hebrew school founded and managed by his father; life under Hungarian ruling in 1938; they received a deportation order according to which the whole family was to leave Hungary within 30 days because they didn't have a Hungarian nationality; at the same time his father got a recruitment order for the labor service within the Hungarian army in 1940;his father's service in the labour service during 9 months; return of his father and deportation of the family to the Garan detention camp, Slovakia in 1941; ( because they didn't have a Hungarian nationality); stay in the camp for a few months;...

File Number : 13774

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documents of lawyer Desire Csongos (original name: Dezső Csöngös), born in Hungary, who emigrated to Belgium; documents dated, 1928-1944

Personal documents of lawyer Desire Csongos (original name: Dezső Csöngös), born in Hungary, who emigrated to Belgium; documents dated, 1928-1944 - Order of deportation to Mechelen camp in Belgium, sent to Lea Warth in Antwerp, Belgium, 08/08/1942; - Application by Desire Csongos to the Association des Juifs en Belgique (Association of Jews in Belgium), 05/03/1942; request to join the association; - Identity card for a non-citizen; - Pages from a notebook with dates of Transports that departed Mechelen camp, 04/08/1942-31/07/1944, including the number of deportees in each Transport; - Membership...

File Number : 159

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Administrative Documentation, Letter

Language : French, Dutch, German, Hungarian

Testimony of Liana Shoshana Fura Shvartz, born in Vienna, Austria, regarding her experiences in Austria and Czechoslovakia and her aliya to pre-state Israel

Testimony of Liana Shoshana Fura Shvartz, born in Vienna, Austria, regarding her experiences in Austria and Czechoslovakia and her aliya to pre-state Israel Childhood before the war; Anschluss in 1938; Kristallnacht in 1938; attacks; Aryanization of family factory; restrictions; certificate for father for a month; attempt to bring relatives from Hungary; family’s escape to the grandfather’s estate in Sala; receiving certificates as colonial subjects; aliya to pre-state Israel in 1940; absorption.

File Number : 13470

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the Angel family and the Hassid family, 1920-1967

Documentation regarding the Angel family and the Hassid family, 1920-1967 Documentation regarding the Angel family: - Will of Salomon Angel found after the war, on the back page of the will is a drawing of a family tree with a list of the family members of Salomon Angel, the majority of whom were murdered in Auschwitz, 1943; - Wellness card of Salomon Angel issued in Thessaloniki, 18 December 1941; - Travel permit to Italy provided for Isaac Angel in Thessaloniki, 07 October 1920; - Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate) of Isaac Angel and Ida Yacoel, signed in 1925; - Confirmation that Isaac...

File Number : 2

Type of Material : Passport, Will, Personal Documents, Diary, List of Jews

Language : French, English, German, Greek

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