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Testimony of Sheli Ashkenazi Malki, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1932 regarding her experiences in Pazardzhik

Parents' countries of origin- Turkey and Romania, moving of her family to Pazardzhik in the 30's; good relations with the Bulgarian population; recruiting her father for road construction; his disappearance during the whole period of war; anti-Jewish legislation; starvation; help of the community to the deported from Sofia; acts of bullying; her father's enlistment in the Bulgarian army after liberation; aliyah bet on board the Kefalos boat 1948; absorption in Ramle

File Number : 13689

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters and postcards written by Filippo Politi, an Italian soldier, from a POW camp in Germany, the Thorn camp and Targu Mures, and personal documentation belonging to Politi, 1939-1967

Letters and postcards written by Filippo Politi, an Italian soldier, from a POW camp in Germany, the Thorn camp and Targu Mures, and personal documentation belonging to Politi, 1939-1967 Letters and postcards: - Letters and postcards written by Filippo Politi, an Italian soldier, from a POW camp in Germany (M-Stammlager XXA) and the Gemeinschaftslager camp in Thorn to his parents, Giuseppe and Maria Politi in Torino, 1943-1944; - Postcard sent by Filippo Politi to Eugenia Politi in Torino, 20 August 1944; - Letter sent through the Red Cross Organization to Filippo Politi in Targu Mures by his family...

File Number : 2091

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Official Documentation, Personal Documents

Language : Italian, German, Hungarian

Diary written by Eliyahu Beserglik from Tarczyn, 29 April-02 June 1933, documenting his journey from Warsaw to Eretz Israel and a letter sent by Moshe Beserglik from Tarczyn to his children in Eretz Israel, 19 February 1941 The Path to Eretz Israel: - Danzig; - Marienberg; - Berlin; conversation with two Jews who spoke about the situation of the Jews in Germany; - Nurenberg; - Augsburg; - Munich; - Milan; impressions of Italy and of the Italians; - Rome; - Brindisi; festive parade by the Fascist Party; Diary, in Yiddish; translation of the diary into Hebrew by his daughter,...

File Number : 8493

Type of Material : Diary, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Testimony of Paula (Formiggini) Nachshoni, born in Modena, Italy, 1921, regarding her experiences in Modena, Milan, in hiding and in Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Paula (Formiggini) Nachshoni, born in Modena, Italy, 1921, regarding her experiences in Modena, Milan, in hiding and in Switzerland Her childhood in an educated, religious family; anti-Jewish legislation, September 1938; termination of studies; transfer to a Jewish school in Milan; decrease of her father's work; deportation of young Jews to labor; arrival of Jewish youth and refugees from Yugoslavia to Villa Emma and Nonantola. German Army occupation [of Italy], September 1943; escape from their home; in hiding in a village including fear of being informed on; illegally crosses the border to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dan Thomas Spira, born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences in Novaky, Nitra and Banska Bystrica

Testimony

Testimony of Dan Thomas Spira, born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences in Novaky, Nitra and Banska Bystrica His childhood in Novaky in a well-to-do, traditional family. Expulsion from the public school in Novaky in the context of the anti-Jewish restrictions, 1940; dismissal of his father by the fascist party from his position as a physician in Novaky; his family's move to Nitra; life in Nitra among the Orthodox religious community including the witness attending a Jewish school; deportation of his family to Novaky N-204 camp [?], 1942; camp life including his father's labor as the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel (Landau) Betzaig, born in Suceava, Romania, 1933

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Landau) Betzaig born in Suceava, Romania, 1933 From a financially secure family. German occupation, 1941; expulsion from school; injuries to the Jews; ban on selling merchandise in stores; detention of men in synagogue; deportation orders; confiscation of jewelry and valuables; the Mogilev Ghetto; deaths of family members from disease and starvation; "Aktions" and deportations to labor camps; hospitalization of her father; giving a gold watch to a priest and help in obtaining injections; fostering of orphans from her family; her father's contact with Jewish welfare organizations;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana (Rozner) Dirnfeld, born in Sarateni, Romania, 1933, regarding her experiences in the Gherla Ghetto, Cluj Ghetto, Auschwitz and Hohenelbe Vrchlabi

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana (Rozner) Dirnfeld, born in Sarateni, Romania, 1933, regarding her experiences in the Gherla Ghetto, Cluj Ghetto, Auschwitz and Hohenelbe Vrchlabi Ultra-Orthodox family; increase in the displays of antisemitism, 1938; move to Gherla. Life under Hungarian rule occupation and the confiscation of her family's business, 1941; German occupation, 1944; burial of property in a pit in the yard; deportation to the Gherla Ghetto in a brick factory in Gherla; help with food from non-Jewish acquaintances; demand by the gendarmes to hand over money and gold; abuse of her father and the wealthy...

File Number : 12989

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lily (Hershkovitz) Shalev, born in Kalna, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Kalna, Budapest, the Levice Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Lily (Hershkovitz) Shalev, born in Kalna, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Kalna, Budapest, the Levice Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places Life before the war; Orthodox religious family. Re-annexation to Hungary; displays of antisemitism, 1939; closure of her father's businesses; deportation of her father to forced labor; appeal to the Jews' supervisor to release her father; receives knowledge from her uncles about the deportation of the Jews to the East; her father hides crates with their belongings in the ground and in the attic, 1942; escape to Budapest; life in...

File Number : 12997

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tilda (Shulemzon) Goldstein, born in Piatra Neamt, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in Piatra Neamt and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Tilda (Shulemzon) Goldstein, born in Piatra Neamt, Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in Piatra Neamt and in hiding Life before the war; from a family with hardships; interruption of her studies; goes out to work; harassment of Jews. Kidnapping of her father and his being beaten by local residents; deportation of men to the synagogue; imprisonment of the men; deportation of her brothers to forced labor; deportation with women to forced labor; flogging of the women; fear of rape; finds a hiding place in an attic with a group of young women; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. On a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Two essays written by Isaak Naimovich and Matey Yulzari regarding the rescue of Bulgarian Jewry

Two essays written by Isaak Naimovich and Matey Yulzari regarding the rescue of Bulgarian Jewry - "Who Rescued the Jews of Bulgaria From the Death Camps?", an essay written in Bulgarian by Isaak Naimovich regarding the importance of the Communist Party in the struggle against the anti-Jewish legislation and its implementation; - "Participation of the Jews of Bulgaria in the Underground and Their Rescue from Extermination", an essay written in Bulgarian by Matey Yulzari from a Communist point of view. Also in the file: An English translation of Naimovich's essay.

File Number : 60

Type of Material : Article

Language : Bulgarian

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