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Testimony of Menachem Ganei, born in Athens, Greece, 1937, regarding his family's experiences in Kokkinia during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Ganei, born in Athens, Greece, 1937, regarding his family's experiences in Kokkinia during the war Family background. The invasion of Athens by the Italian army, 1941; hunger; German occupation, September 1943; refugees from the area of German occupation; escape of the family to Kokkinia; living conditions in Kokkinia; hiding in the mountains. Liberation by the British Army, September 1944; restoration of life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1949; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Martin Jakobs, born in 1920 in Amsterdam, about his experiences in Leiden, in hiding in Amsterdam, in France, in a refugee camp near Lausanne, etc.

Testimony

Testimony of Martin Jakobs, born in 1920 in Amsterdam, about his experiences in Leiden, in hiding in Amsterdam, in France, in a refugee camp near Lausanne, etc. Childhood in a nonreligious family in Amsterdam; attending a public school; active in a Zionist movement; studying physics at the University of Leiden at age sixteen; war breaks out in 1940; continues to study; Jewish lecturers are fired and leave the university; continues to study in Amsterdam until early 1942; Jews placed under restrictions; Jews are concentrated and the witness goes into hiding; escapes to Belgium with his brother; obtains false...

File Number : 13535

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Feldshtein, born in Przeworsk, Poland, in 1934, regarding his hiding with a Polish farmer in Grzeska between 1942-1944

Testimony

-Childhood before the war; relations with the local population; outbreak of the war; life until 1942; "Aktion"; escape of the family to the forest following a warning they got from a farmer; hiding with the farmer for 2 years 1942-1944; leaving the hiding place with the approach of the Russians; leaving Poland; reconstruction of life after the war; emigration to Israel; exile to Cyprus; Aliya back to Israel

File Number : 13758

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Khanam Urbakh Anet , born in Paris, France , in 1935 regarding her hiding in a French village in the region of Normandie

Testimony

German occupation in 1940; hiding during the deportation with friends from socialist organizations in 1941; arrest and deportation of the father to Drancy in 1942; smuggling of the witness, the brother and the members of the French foster family in the region of Normandie in 1942; life in the village; attending school as a French christian; evacuation to the forests in the area following the bombings by the Allies and return to the village in 1944; liberation by the American army in 1944; return to Paris by the mother; moving to a children's home in Calais with the help of the OSE organization and the...

File Number : 13699

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Shenker Fisher, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1936, regarding his experiences in Paris, in hiding in a school in Paris and in a village in the Grenoble area

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Shenker Fisher, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1936, regarding his experiences in Paris, in hiding in a school in Paris and in a village in the Grenoble area Family life before the war. German occupation, May 1940; escape of the family to Paris; death of the witness' little brother en route; anti-Jewish legislation; yellow badge; travel limitations; concentration of the Jewish males in a stadium in Paris, summer 1942; detention of his father; escape of his father from detention and his hiding in the house; displays of antisemitism at school; capture of the family in their home, late 1943;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the fate of Jacqui Israel Offen, born in Antwerp, 1939, and members of his family during the Holocaust and following it, 1941-1981

Documentation regarding the fate of Jacqui Israel Offen, born in Antwerp, 1939, and members of his family during the Holocaust and following it, 1941-1981 Memoirs of Jacqui: Deportation of the family from Antwerp to Limburg, 1941; detention of his father, Moshe, born in Tarnow, 1893, and of his elder sister, Maly Malka, born in Berlin, 1924; deportation of his father and sister to Dossin camp in Malines and from there to Auschwitz, where they perished; escape of his mother Mina and the four remaining children to Namur; in hiding of the family in the St. Jean de Dieu monastery with the help of Abbe Andre; in...

File Number : 152

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Dutch, German

Testimony of Fredi Knoler, born in Vienna, Austria, in 1921 regarding the French resistance and the Drancy, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony

German occupation and annexation of Austria( Anschluss) in 1938; Kristallnacht in 1938; crossing borders to Antwerpen,Belgium in 1938 where acquaintances of the family stayed; transfer to a camp for Jewish refugees (with the support of the Jewish community) in Merkplas in 1939; escape to France after the German occupation of Belgium in 1940; his detention in Lille,France because of his German (Austrian) nationality and transfer to the detention camp in St Cyprien in 1940; his escape from the camp to Gaillac and his work in agriculture in 1940; buying of forged certificates and his moving to Paris,as a French...

File Number : 13473

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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 of Dr. Joseph (Zvi) Haas, born in 1925 in Culemborg, Netherlands, about his experiences in Culemborg, Utrecht, and in various hideouts in the vicinity of Driebergen

Testimony

Testimony of Dr. Joseph (Zvi) Haas, born in 1925 in Culemborg, Netherlands, about his experiences in Culemborg, Utrecht, and in various hideouts in the vicinity of Driebergen Offspring of a traditional family; attends public school; war breaks out in 1940; switches to a Jewish school in Utrecht; anti-Jewish restrictions escalate; attempt to escape to Switzerland fails; family fleet to hiding with a customer of the witness' father in October 1942; family splits up several weeks later; wandering among different families (mainly religious ones) in the vicinity of Driebergen for two and a half years; finding...

File Number : 13542

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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

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