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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

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Testimony

העד- בן למשפחה דתית; החיים היהודיים ב-Cernauti; קהילות יהודיות רבות ב-Cernauti; פעילות ענפה של הארגון 'בונד'; יחסים חמים עם האב ועם הסב מצד האם; פטירת האם בילדותו המוקדמת של העד; השתתפות בהצגות תיאטרון ובפעילות תרבותית; התגברות האנטישמיות בעיתונים ובדעת הקהל הרומני ב-Cernauti בעקבות ההשפעה הנאצית; לימודים בגימנסיה רומנית; קשר טוב עם המורים; החלטה לברוח ב-1941 עקב התחזקות השלטון הנאצי הרומני; בריחה וחציית הנהר Dnestr; הפצצות בדרך; הגעה ל-Kamenets Podolsk; עלייה על הרכבת; נסיעה ל-Rostov na Donu; שיכון בקולחוז; עבודה ברישום ימי עבודה של העובדים; המשך נסיעה ל-Astrakhan בסוף 1941; מעבר ל-Alma Ata; אי גיוס העד לצבא...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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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

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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

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