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Testimony of Mordechay (Paul Georg) Fleischer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1926 regarding his escape to Budapest, deportation to detention camps, escape from a death march and residing in the Glass House

Testimony

Childhood before the war; Fascist Slovakia, 1938; antisemitic events; Attempts to move to Budapest, Hungary, winter 1942-1943; getting arrested by Hungarian soldiers while escaping; sent back to Slovakia; escape to Hungary with the aid of a smuggler; arrival in Budapest; capture and arrest; decrees and restrictions; transferred to a prison by two Hungarian soldiers; deportation to a brick factory; escape to a marked house; capture and deportation for labor building fortifications and digging anti-tank trenches near Solnok, late October 1944; march towards Austria; escape to the Red Cross house in Budapest...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

The testimony of Chaim Berchiyahu Barcher, born in 1933 in Kolomyja, Poland

The testimony of Chaim Berchiyahu Bercher, born in 1933 in Kolomyja, Poland. Childhood in a Hasidic family; Soviet occupation in 1939; German occupation in 1941; riots in the first days of the occupation; decrees; Aktions; establishment of a ghetto in 1942; Aktions; frequent selections; suicide of the head of the Judenrat; escape to Tluste during Hanukkah 1942; transfer to an agricultural farm in Holowczynce; Aktionin June 1943; transfer to Tluste for warehouse labor; attack by Bandra people on Purim 1944; liberation by the Red Army in March 1944; return to Krakow; manifestations of anti-Semitism; smuggled...

File Number : 13389

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of Jews murdered in a pogrom in Bucharest, 21-23/01/1941

List of Jews murdered in a pogrom in Bucharest, 21-23/01/1941 The list was published in the "Revista Cultului Mozaic" newspaper, Nr. 706-707, January 1991.

File Number : 1381

Type of Material : List of Murdered Jews, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Romanian

Testimony of Amalia Mali (Khaimov) Alcalay, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1928, regarding her experiences in Sofia and Khaskovo

Testimony

Testimony of Amalia Mali (Khaimov) Alcalay, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1928, regarding her experiences in Sofia and Khaskovo Her childhood in a secular family that observed Jewish tradition. Life under fascist rule including the imposition of anti-Jewish decrees and bans, 1941; draft of her father to labor; transfer to Khaskovo, 1942; life in her uncle's home; Communist activities; help to political prisoners; liberation by the Red Army, 09 September 1944. Aliya to Israel, 1948; life in Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eli Laslo Grosman Galili, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences in Budapest, in hiding and in Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Eli Laslo Grosman Galili, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences in Budapest, in hiding and in Israel Assimilated family. Draft of his father to labor battalions, 1941-1945; deportation of his uncles, who lack citizenship, to Poland, 1943; [Germany Army] occupation of Budapest, 1944; life under [German] occupation including the decree regarding wearing a yellow badge and acts of harassment on the street; move to a marked house; work in a bakery; removal of the [yellow] badge; removal from the marked house, October 1944; move of his family to a protected house; in hiding in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Varda Roza (Naon) Farchi, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1931, regarding her experiences in Sofia, Kazanlik and in the home of a family in Ferdinand

Testimony

Testimony of Varda Roza (Naon) Farchi, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1931, regarding her experiences in Sofia, Kazanlik and in the home of a family in Ferdinand Family moves to Sophia when the witness is two months old; her mother was born in Jerusalem, her father was born in Greece; her father's work in a British factory. The sight of Germans on the streets, 1942; displays of antisemitism; order to prepare for deportation; hiding some of their possessions in the factory; confiscation of most of their property by the authorities; warning about concentration camps by neighbors; rescinding of the deportation...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Vladimir Klein, born in Belisce, Yugoslavia, 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in Belisce, Zagreb, Ljubljana, the Sondrio district and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Vladimir Klein, born in Belisce, Yugoslavia, 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in Belisce, Zagreb, Ljubljana, the Sondrio district and other places Life before the war. Wearing the letter "J" on the sleeve; deportation of the Jews to a building in Belisce; entrusted to a stranger during the night; transfer to Zagreb; life in Zagreb including receiving letters from his parents; information regarding the deportation of his parents to Vienna; transfer to Ljubljana by a non-Jewish woman, August 1942; transfer to the Sondrio district; life with his uncle, a member of the Hechalutz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shalom Sioma Zlotojabko Zahavi, born in Vilna, (Lithuania) Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Widze, the Bystrzyca Ghetto and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Shalom Sioma Zlotojabko Zahavi, born in Vilna, (Lithuania) Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Widze, the Bystrzyca Ghetto and in hiding Life in Widze before the war; secular family; studies Yiddish in Vilna; return to his family's home; economic boycott on the family's store. Soviet occupation, 1939; appointment of his father as the police commander; transfer of Vilna to the Lithuanians; German occupation, 1941; robbery of property; confiscation of their store and home; escape to Bystrzyca; Bystrzyca Ghetto life; finds a hiding place in the home of a non-Jewish woman;...

File Number : 12936

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehoshua Hacohen Adler, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1926, regarding his experiences in Antwerp, London and Brighton

Testimony of Yehoshua Hacohen Adler, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1926, regarding his experiences in Antwerp, London and Brighton Family of rabbis; move of his father to Berlin; life in the home of acquaintances in Belgium; move to his aunt in London. Unsuccessful attempts by his father to emigrate to London; murder of his father by SS men; harassment by Mosley's fascists, members of the British Union of Fascists, BUF in London; evacuation of schools at the outbreak of the war; move to Brighton; life with a British family in Brighton, 1940; return to London; air-raids on London at night; move to a town;...

Language : Hebrew

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