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Testimony of Bruno Frankental, born in Altenlotheim, Germany, 1917, regarding his experiences in Altenlotheim, Hallenberg, Paderborn, escape to Bolivia in 1939 and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Bruno Frankental, born in Altenlotheim, Germany, 1917, regarding his experiences in Altenlotheim, Hallenberg, Paderborn, escape to Bolivia in 1939 and other places Life before the war; move to Frankfurt Am Main; attends a Jewish school; Ezra movement activities; return to the family home in Altenlotheim; receives a warning from the SS, April 1933; escape to Hallenberg; life in Hallenburg until 1938. Kristallnacht, 09 November 1938; detention; transfer to a prison in Paderborn; transfer to Bielefeld; deportation on a train to Buchenwald; camp life in the yard without food and water for 3 days;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Saul Nisan Cohen, born in Arnhem, the Netherlands, 1935, regarding his experiences using a false identity with a non-Jewish family

Testimony

Testimony of Saul Nisan Cohen, born in Arnhem, the Netherlands, 1935, regarding his experiences using a false identity with a non-Jewish family Life before the war in Amsterdam; community life. German occupation; attends school; goes underground; placed with a Protestant family; assumes a false identity; learning Christian practises and goes to church; liberation. Reunion with his parents; studies a profession; aliya to Israel, 1949; studies in the Netherlands; life in Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nathan Walter Badt, born in Leipzig, Germany, 1918, regarding his life in Germany before his aliya to Eretz Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Nathan Walter Badt, born in Leipzig, Germany, 1918, regarding his life in Germany before his aliya to Eretz Israel From a well-to-do Orthodox family; his father is a merchant and active in the Jewish community and German society; loss of social contacts with the Nazi rise to power; his father's community activities; attends a Christian school and studies to be an engineer without a diploma; help to Jews from the community who have been deported to Poland, 1938. Aliya to Eretz Israel with a certificate [for legal aliya to Eretz Israel] from the Ezra youth movement.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Mattes Heilig, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in the Boryslaw Ghetto, in hiding in Boryslaw, in detention in Drohobycz, and in the Janowska camp

Memoirs of Mattes Heilig, born in Boryslaw, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in the Boryslaw Ghetto, in hiding in Boryslaw, in detention in Drohobycz, and in the Janowska camp Life before the war; relations between Poles and Jews; increase of antisemitism, and attempts by many people to make aliya to Eretz Israel; Outbreak of the war; the Soviet occupation; outbreak of the war between the Soviet Union and Germany; the German occupation, 01 June 1941; pogroms against the Jews by Ukrainians; hearing about the suicide of the Teicher family; imposition of limitations on the Jews; establishment of the...

File Number : 4929

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Polish

Testimony of Rafael Halamon, born in Leipzig, 1924, regarding his experiences in Fuerth and during Kristallnacht

Testimony

Testimony of Rafael Halamon, born in Leipzig, 1924, regarding his experiences in Fuerth and during Kristallnacht Move from Leipzig to Fuerth, 1929; his parents manage a Jewish orphanage; life in Fuerth; exchanges with the Nazis authority, 1933; his father's attempts to transfer the orphanage to Eretz Israel; Kristallnacht, 1938; activity in the Ezra movement; preparations for aliya to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliyah, March 1939; aliya to Eretz Israel; absorption.

File Number : 10361

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters and postcards to Yona Sharanshi née Katz, sent by her family members and friends in Poland, the Soviet Union and Eretz Israel during the 1930s and the 1940s, and personal documentation of members of Katz and Szaranszi families

Letters, postcards, Rosh Hashana greeting cards and a telegram sent to Yona (Jona) Kicia Katz, later Sharanshi (Szaranszi), during her stay in Poland (in Lwów, Chorośnica and during aliya training in Stanin) and in Eretz Israel by: --- her family members in Lwów, and mostly Szlojme Katz and Ryfka née Katz (from Herman Katz's address), during 1930-1941. Undated letters are attached; --- her relatives and friends (among them Tzvi Shapira and his family members, and family members of Drimer, Diener, Zottenberg and Roth families, and others) in Poland and Eretz Israel during 1930-1941; - Letter by Kicia...

File Number : 5555

Type of Material : Envelope, Personal Documents, Postcard, כרטיס ברכה, Letter, כתובה, Invitation

Language : Hebrew, Polish, German, Yiddish, Aramaic

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documents related to the witness Ethel (Zilberman) Ratz, later Reed, born in Humniska, Poland in 1920, and her husband Emil Ratz, later Reed, born in Lesko, Poland in 1907, from 1936-2012 - Press articles published in the United States and Israel regarding Eda Ratz-Reid's search for her sister Zosia Zissel, born in Sanok. She lost contact with her sister in 1942 and located her in Montreal, Canada in 1964; - Letter from the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel dated 07 June 1963. The letter alleges that Zissel Zilberman, one of the passengers on the illegal immigrant ship Hannah Szenes that ran aground, almost...

File Number : 1666

Type of Material : List, Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Letter, Marriage Certificate, Article, Article, Administrative Documentation

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German, Yiddish

Testimony of Miriam (Zultzbacher) Gal Dor, born in Düsseldorf, Germany, 1937 regarding her escape to England in October 1938 and her family's experiences during the war

Her family's escape to England shortly before Kristallnacht, October 1938; her father's deportation to Australia; she and her mother moved to the Isle of Man. The deaths of family members in London due to a direct hit; her father's return; return to London with her mother, 1942; air-raids on London; joins the Ezra movement. Aliya to Israel, 1959.

File Number : 14256

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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