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Testimony of Nehama May Margolin Alsace, born in Voorburg, the Netherlands, 1941, regarding her hiding place with a Dutch family in The Hague during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Nehama May Margolin Alsace, born in Voorburg, the Netherlands, 1941, regarding her hiding place with a Dutch family in The Hague during the war Childhood in a religious family; her father's work in a parchment paper factory; parental acquaintance with Borculo; her mother's origin is Hague; move of her family to the suburb of Hague, to Voorburg. German occupation, 1940; birth of the witness, April 1941; deportation of Jewish men, 1942; decision on immigration to South America; obtaining documents for immigration; witness disease in kidney disease; cancellation of immigration plans; giving the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Prof. David Jakoby Jakobowitz, born in Antwerpen, Belgium, 1928, regarding his experiences in Antwerp, Lyon, Geneva, Adliswil and Celerina

Testimony

Testimony of Prof. David Jakoby Jakobowitz, born in Antwerpen, Belgium, 1928, regarding his experiences in Antwerp, Lyon, Geneva, Adliswil and Celerina Childhood in Antwerp; his father is a partner of a diamond company; studies at a Jewish elementary school for boys “Jashobeam”. German occupation, 10.05.1940; escape with his family on a train to France; German occupation; back home to the hometown; studies in a French public high school; yellow badges; restrictions; cancellation of food tickets for Jews; beginning of the deportation of the city's Jews to Poland, autumn of 1942; escape with his family by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordekhai Teitelbaum born in 1927 in Ostrołęka, Poland, about his experiences in Ostrołęka, escape to the Soviet Union, to Lomzha, and evacuation to Gryazi and the Kemerovo area

Testimony

Childhood in Ostrołęka; community life; attending synagogue on Sabbaths; attending a Jewish elementary school; father dies in 1935; war with Germany breaks out in September 1939; family escapes to Ostrów Mazowiecka; lives in a synagogue; German occupation ensues; German soldiers enter town; curfew; order to leave town and live elsewhere; back to Ostrołęka; escaping to the east; slipping into Belorussia, Soviet Union; reaching Lomzha; living in a synagogue; receiving Soviet citizenship; transport by rail to Russia via Belostok; reaching Gryazi; mother works in a factory; witness attends a Russian elementary...

File Number : 13379

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Faradzhi Yechail, born in Volos, Greece, 1933, regarding his experiences in Volos, in hiding in Almirós and a covent in the Thessaly district

Testimony

Testimony of Yechial Faradzhi, born in Volos, Greece, 1933, regarding his experiences in Volos, in hiding in Almirós and a covent in the Thessaly district Life before the war: his father owns a millinery; his mother’s work in a cigarette factory; Greek public school. German occupation; escape with the family to the Christian quarter; antisemites break into the apartment; move by a non-Jewish acquaintance to a catholic priests house in the village Almirós; changes his name to Adam; the priest is informed on; move to the Maria Theresa monastery in the Thessaly district; life in the monastery including work...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Raphael Elsberg Rolf, born in München, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences in Paris, Toulouse, Lerida, Miranda del Ebro, Cádiz and Haifa

Testimony

Testimony of Raphael Elsberg Rolf, born in München, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences in Paris, Toulouse, Lerida, Miranda del Ebro, Cádiz and Haifa Activities in the underground of the HaChaluts organization that had contacts with the French underground and other bodies in Paris, 1943; wistleblowing; arrest of two leaders of the HaChaluts organization following the whistleblowing; obtaining transit documents, food stamps and cigarette ration vouchers; transfer to Toulouse by train; work at the airport; obtaining additional certificates of military service workers for additional Jews; crossing the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimonies of Antoni?owski [name not fully decipherable] about the Wlodawa ghetto and the Sobibór extermination camp in 1941–1944, of Eda Richtman about deportation from Kraków to Sobibór, of Rubin Floman about various camps, of Jehuda Elberg about the Warsaw ghetto uprising, and of Pinkus about the liquidation of the amp in Poniatowa. - Testimony of Antoni?owski [name not fully decipherable], a Polish physician from Wlodawa, about the establishment of the Wlodawa ghetto in 1941, construction of the Sobibór extermination camp, and the camp's internal structure. Arrival of trains carrying Jews from Poland...

File Number : 875

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Gustav Piskorz, regarding his experiences in Dortmund, then in the Netherlands and in Westerbork camp, in the Theresienstadt Ghetto and in Auschwitz camp, 1938-1945

Testimony of Gustav Piskorz, regarding his experiences in Dortmund, then in the Netherlands and in Westerbork camp, in Theresienstadt and in Auschwitz camp, 1938-1945 Testimony of Max Gustav Piskorz, regarding the following: - His escape from Dortmund, Germany to the Netherlands after Kristallnacht in 1938; arrival of his wife to the Netherlands; his imprisonment in the Hook van Holland camp as an illegal immigrant. (p. 5) - His transfer to Westerbork camp; brief stay in Friesland with Christian families; return to Westerbork camp; reunion with his wife in Westerbork camp; takeover of Westerbork camp...

File Number : 686

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Memoirs of Raisa Kotler regarding her family's escape from Kiev, wanderings along the way and stay in the Perm region

Life in Kiev before the war; outbreak of the war and escape from the city together with her mother and sister; her father's conscription into the Red Army, and his death at the front; life for a year in the village of Remontnoye; escape in a Gypsy wagon; hiding, air-raids and disease on the way; arrival in Vereshchyagino, in the Perm region, and staying there until the end of the war; return to Kiev in 1946; news regarding the murder of relatives in Babiy Yar; move to Saratov and life there.

File Number : 12058

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Russian

The experiences of Holocaust survivor Leon who escaped from Nazi Germany as a teenager

The experiences of Holocaust survivor Leon who escaped from Nazi Germany as a teenager - The story was written by his carer and includes fragments of Leon's memoirs: His wife Elsa escaped from Nazi Germany; they made aliya separately to Eretz Israel, met in Eretz Israel and emigrated together to the United States; Leon escaped Nazi Germany alone when he was 16; at the time of his escape, German patrols were hunting down Jews who tried to escape.

File Number : 795

Type of Material : Biography

Language : English

Documentation associated with the personal history of Dr. Lav Leopold Brandeis of Zemun; that of his family before and during the war; and Marko Ser of Zemun

Documentation associated with the personal history of Dr. Lav Leopold Brandeis of Zemun; that of his family before and during the war; and Marko Ser of Zemun Documentation associated with Dr. Lav Leopold Brandeis and his family: - Doctor of Laws diploma awarded to Leopoldus Brandeis by the University of Zagreb in 1904; - letter of appreciation to the President of the Jewish Community in Zemun, Dr. Lav Brandeis, from members of the community board in 1934; - instructions from the Yugoslavian Ministry of the Interior to Adv. Lav Brandajs, Zemun, from 1935 and 1937; - marriage certificate of Ignac Brandeis...

File Number : 267

Type of Material : List of Murdered Jews From Yugoslavia, Declaration, Death Certificate, Poster, Personal Documents, Birth Certificate, Marriage Certificate

Language : Latin, Serbian, Croatian, German

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