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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

Testimony of Mordechay (Paul Georg) Fleischer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1926 regarding his escape to Budapest, deportation to detention camps, escape from a death march and residing in the Glass House

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Fascist Slovakia, 1938; antisemitic events; Attempts to move to Budapest, Hungary, winter 1942-1943; getting arrested by Hungarian soldiers while escaping; sent back to Slovakia; escape to Hungary with the aid of a smuggler; arrival in Budapest; capture and arrest; decrees and restrictions; transferred to a prison by two Hungarian soldiers; deportation to a brick factory; escape to a marked house; capture and deportation for labor building fortifications and digging anti-tank trenches near Solnok, late October 1944; march towards Austria; escape to the Red Cross house in Budapest...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List that was hung on the wall of barracks no. 64 in Iampol camp, including the names of the Feller family members from Cernauti who resided there, 1941: Moses Feller (born 1902), Fany Feller (born 1903), and their children, Ruth (born 1930) and Nelly (born 1936) The list includes the stamp of the Iampol police; the barracks was located on Adolf Hitler Street; Notes by the submitter of the material: Moshe Feller, the father, was a baker and the owner of a large bakery in Cernauti; deportation of the family to the Cernauti Ghetto, July 1941; deportation of the parents and their two daughters on foot, to...

File Number : 401

Type of Material : Personal Records, List

Language : Romanian

Letter of testimony written by Yaakov From in a DP camp in Italy to his brother, Shalom From, in Eretz Israel, 14 November 1945, with testimony regarding his experiences in Rutka, a POW hospital in Bialystok, the Lomza Ghetto, the Zambrow camp and more Life in Lomza including air-raids in September 1939; escape to Rutka with his family; life in Rutka during the German occupation; deportation of the Jews (approximately 1,500 people) to a potato field, and their being forced to lie down on the ground; remaining on the ground until 10:00 the following morning; transfer back to Rutka and their concentration in...

File Number : 8614

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Abraham Ernst Ponger, born in Mikulas Litovsky Svaty, Czechoslovakia, in 1922, regarding his experiences in the Sered camp and in the battle of the partisans

Childhood before the war; Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria 1938; expulsion from school and carpentry studies; independence of Slovakia and anti-Jewish legislation 1939; deportation of Jews and escape to the mountains in March 1942; going back home and deportation to the Sered camp,in April 1945; work in carpentry; underground in the camp; Slovak uprising and escape ,in August 1944; joining partisans; actions against Germans; liberation by the red army,in April 1945; joining aliya training; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the Theodor Herzl ship,on 01 April 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya back to...

File Number : 13772

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Halmuth Halpern Gershon Helmut, born in Borysław, Poland in 1922, regarding his experiences in Borysław Ghetto and forest

Testimony of Halmuth Halpern Gershon Helmut, born in Borysław, Poland in 1922, regarding his experiences in Borysław Ghetto and forest Childhood in the city; German occupation in September 1939; entry of Red Army several weeks later; nationalization of private businesses; German occupation on 1 July 1941; riots by Ukrainians; mass murders; robbery of property; acts of abuse; Judenrat; soup kitchens; Jewish police; white ribbon; abduction for forced labor; hunger; various types of forced labor via Judenrat; aktion of elderly and ill people in November 1941; witness’s labor as technician and map drafter in...

File Number : 13650

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Anita (Derman) Mark, born in Chernowitz, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Bratslav, the Tulchin Ghetto, the Mogilev Ghetto and Tiraspol, 1942-1944

Memoirs of Anita (Derman) Mark, born in Chernowitz, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Bratslav, the Tulchin Ghetto, the Mogilev Ghetto and Tiraspol, 1942-1944 - Birth certificate of Josif Mark, born in Sibiu, Romania, 1925; father's name: Avram Mark; - Experiences of Josif Mark in Temesvár, Craiova and Bucharest and his aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship "Maritsa" via Constanta and Istanbul, 1935-1945; - Experiences of Leon Leizer Derman, born in Stanislawow, Poland, 1877; - Letter from Leon Derman to Anita as part of the biography about him, 26 January 1955. Testimony of Anita (Derman)...

File Number : 8591

Type of Material : Document, Testimony, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, German

Confirmation issued in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp that Aron Brenner is planning to be married to Sara Solberg, and they need a room in which to conduct the wedding ceremony, 26 July 1945

Confirmation issued in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp that Aron Brenner is planning to be married to Sara Solberg, and they need a room in which to conduct the wedding ceremony, 26 July 1945 Note: Zeev Aron Brenner was born in Jedrzejow in 1919; his parents were Meyer and Hendel Brenner; Aron was one of six children, four sisters and two brothers; the family was incarcerated in the ghetto, their home having been included in the ghetto precincts, in 1940; capture of many Jews, including Zeev and his brother-in-law, and deportation for forced labor in Belzec; transfer of Zeev and his brother-in-law to the...

File Number : 710

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : English

Memoirs of Tzali Goronovski, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Baranowicze Ghetto, the Koldyczewo camp and as a partisan in the Naliboki forest

Memoirs of Tzali Goronovski, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Baranowicze Ghetto, the Koldyczewo camp and as a partisan in the Naliboki forest Life before the war; work manufacturing tin products with his father. German occupation; unsuccessful attempt to escape to the East; deportation to the Baranowicze Ghetto; deportation of his father to forced labor in the Molodechno Ghetto; murder of forced laborers including his father; murder of his mother and sisters, Bela and Perl; transfer to the Koldyczewo camp, 1941; camp life; beatings from a policeman; help from Yorun, a...

File Number : 8559

Language : Polish, Russian

Testimony of Menahem Lior, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences during ‎deportation to the Bedzin Ghetto and the work camp in Kamionka; hidden by a Pole; escape to ‎Eretz Israel His childhood in a socialist Zionist home; refugees from Germany; rise of antisemitism; outbreak of ‎war on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish laws and decrees; restriction of Jewish movement and ‎concentration in one area; youth movements; agricultural farm; Zionist and underground ‎activities; infiltrating into a nearby work camp; work collecting and sorting possessions of the Jews ‎in the ghetto; removing dead...

File Number : 13735

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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