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German Reich passports for foreign citizens issued in Vienna on 20 February 1939 to Josef Horowitz and Marjem Riss Horowitz, a short time before their attempt to make aliya to Eretz Israel illegally

Austrian passports for foreign citizens issued in Vienna on 20 February 1939 to Josef Horowitz and Marjem Riss Horowitz, a short time before their attempt to make aliya to Eretz Israel illegally Note: Josef Horowitz and Marjem Riss Horowitz were born in the Galician region of Poland. Marjem, who was born 12 December 1897, arrived in Austria at the age of 15; Josef was born 15 June 1897. Miriam and Josef met in Austria, and lived in Vienna until 1939, the year they sent their children beyond the boundaries of the Nazi occupation. Some of their children were sent to England with the Kindertransport, and...

File Number : 244

Type of Material : Passport

Language : German

Testimony of Anina Vohrazik Korty, born in 1921 in Prague, about illegal immigration to Eretz Israel in 1940 and deportation to Mauritius until 1945

Offspring of a Zionist family; membership in the Young Maccabi movement; parents support refugees from Germany, 1930s; movement training in Moravia, 1938; paying a ransom before immigration to Eretz Israel, 1939; illegal immigration vessels stuck in the Danube; brother taken to Sweden for survival; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel aboard the Atlantic; S.S. Milos Atlantic and Pacific detained; the Patria is blown up and sinks; deporation to Mauritius, December 1940–August 1945; temporary correspondence with parents via the Red Cross; exiles volunteer for service in the Allied armies; back to Eretz Israel in...

File Number : 13573

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters written by Julie and Jeno Eugen Herzog in Mauritius to Jossef Klinger in the Ben Shemen Youth Village regarding the difficult conditions in Mauritius, 1941-1944

Letters written by Julie and Jeno Eugen Herzog in Mauritius to Jossef Klinger in the Ben Shemen Youth Village regarding the difficult conditions in Mauritius, 1941-1944 Included in the file: - Letter written by Yehudit Yaron containing information regarding the history of the Herzog family; Notes: Jossef Klinger made aliya from Bratislava to Eretz Israel when he was 12 years old, in 1940, and went directly to the Ben Shemen Youth Village; Julie and Jeno Herzog made aliya to Eretz Israel and were deported to the island of Mauritius; upon arrival at the island the men were separated from the women; they...

File Number : 1518

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Testimony of Miriam Miri (Grau) Rot, born in Danzig, Germany, 1939, regarding her experiences as a child in Danzig, Atlit and Mauritius

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Miri (Grau) Rot, born in Danzig, Germany, 1939, regarding her experiences as a child in Danzig, Atlit and Mauritius Life in Danzig; from a traditional family. Aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Atlantic", autumn 1940; life in detention in Atlit; waiting on the shore before transfer to the ship, "Patria"; explosion of the ship, "Patria"; deportation to Mauritius; camp life; transfer of her father to a nearby camp; family members contract malaria; isolation of her sister as a typhus carrier; her brother contracts infantile paralysis; games and kindergarten attendance; eating wild...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Red Cross letters sent by Rebekka Deutsch from Mauritius to her family in Danzig in an attempt to discover what happened to her father, 1941 and 1942; the response of the Jewish community in Danzig that her father was deported to Warsaw where he perished, July 1941

File Number : 964

Language : German

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Farkas Talmi, born in Krasnovce, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in Prague, Kyjov, aliya training in Ivancice and illegal immigration to Eretz Israel during the war His childhood in Michalovce, where half of the city's population is Jewish; traditional family with six children; his father is a cattle merchant; his mother grows fruit in their yard; attends a public school until completion of high school, 1938; learns in a "heder" until his Bar Mitzvah; continuation of studues in Prague, November 1938. German occupation of Prague, March 1939; antisemitic atmosphere;...

File Number : 10962

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Postwar documentation regarding the history of the Jewish refugees deported by the British Mandate authorities from Haifa to Mauritius, late1940, and kept in detention there until the end of World War II In the file: - Note prepared by Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri regarding an interview with Dr. Aaron Zwergbaum, born in Bruenn, Czechoslovakia, 1913, in particular regarding his article concerning the history of the Jewish refugees deported by the British Mandate authorities to Mauritius, 1940, and kept in detention there until the end of World War II (pp. 2-3), 27 February 1958; - "Exile in Mauritius, To the...

File Number : 213

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish

Testimony of Lina Levi, regarding illegal aliya to Eretz Israel and her experiences on the "Patria" ship, in Atlit and in a camp in Mauritius

Testimony of Lina Levi, regarding illegal aliya to Eretz Israel and her experiences on the "Patria" ship, in Atlit and in a camp in Mauritius Life in the Westphalia area before the war; life in the Westphalia area, until 1933. Illegal aliya to Eretz Israel within the context of Aliya Bet; transfer to the "Patria" ship for deportation; explosion of the "Patria" ship on the Haifa beach; transfer by the British Army to Atlit with the illegal immigrants; life in detention in Atlit; deportation to the island of Mauritius; camp life; release and aliya to Eretz Israel. Life in Ramat Hadar.

File Number : 75

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Postcard from Josef Hersch Friedlander, in Dachau, to his wife in Vienna and documentation certifying the Friedlander family's illegal immigration to Eretz Israel and its stay in Mauritius until 1945

Postcard from Josef Hersch Friedlander, in Dachau, to his wife in Vienna and documentation certifying the Friedlander family's illegal immigration to Eretz Israel and its stay in Mauritius until 1945 Included in the file: - postcard sent by Josef Hersch Friedlander, in Dachau, to his wife, Stella Friedlander, in Vienna; - certification given to Chava (Eva) (Guez) Friedlander by the National Organizatino of Former Nazi Prisoners, 1988, of her internment in a quarantine camp in Vienna in 1939–1940 and her internment at Atlit and a camp in Mauritius by the British authorities in 1940–1945; - victim of the...

File Number : 4956

Type of Material : Yizkor Book, Personal Documents, Postcard, Personal Records

Language : Hebrew, German

List of Jewish detainees in Mauritius in 1941, and a letter written by the Governor of Mauritius in Port Louis to the Secretary of State for the Colonies regarding the list, 1941

List of Jewish detainees in Mauritius in 1941, and a letter written by the Governor of Mauritius in Port Louis to the Secretary of State for the Colonies regarding the list, 1941 Documentation regarding the exile of Jews to Mauritius: - Letter written by the Governor of Mauritius in Port Louis to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, regarding a list of Jewish detainees who are being kept in detention in Mauritius, 13/09/1941; - "Excel" list with the names of Jewish detainees in Mauritius in 1941; Comments by the submitter of the material (Owen Griffiths): The list was prepared with the help...

File Number : 2114

Type of Material : Letter, List of Detainees

Language : English

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