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Certificates of honor awarded to Josef Bodnar for his service an Austro-Hungarian Army officer during World War I, and forged certificate of baptism and certificate of marriage used during Bodnar's escape from Nadworna along with his family, during World War II - Two certificates attesting to the raise in rank of Austro-Hungarian Army soldier Josef Bodnar, issued in Vienna, November-December 1915; - Certificate attesting to the awarding of a medal of honor to Austro-Hungarian Army soldier Josef Bodnar, issued in Vienna, 24 January 1917; - Diploma of Law awarded to Joseph Bodnar in Lwow, 04 August...

File Number : 1203

Type of Material : Diploma, Personal Documents

Language : Latin, German

Testimony of Fredi Knoler, born in Vienna, Austria, in 1921 regarding the French resistance and the Drancy, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony

German occupation and annexation of Austria( Anschluss) in 1938; Kristallnacht in 1938; crossing borders to Antwerpen,Belgium in 1938 where acquaintances of the family stayed; transfer to a camp for Jewish refugees (with the support of the Jewish community) in Merkplas in 1939; escape to France after the German occupation of Belgium in 1940; his detention in Lille,France because of his German (Austrian) nationality and transfer to the detention camp in St Cyprien in 1940; his escape from the camp to Gaillac and his work in agriculture in 1940; buying of forged certificates and his moving to Paris,as a French...

File Number : 13473

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Personal documentation and forged documents of Eugenia Golda Kaszub and Michal Topaz, from before the war, during their stay in Warsaw while using false identities during the war, and during the period after the war Documentation includes: - Matriculation certificate of Michal Topaz, issued in Warsaw, 25 May 1919; forging of the details on the certificate, including using the false identity of Stanislav Glowacki, which was written over the original name; forging of his place of place: Gorzuchow; forging of the date of birth: 29 April 1901; - Student card with the name Golda Kaszub, issued in Warsaw, 24...

File Number : 1200

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, Russian

Testimony of Abraham Ernst Ponger, born in Mikulas Litovsky Svaty, Czechoslovakia, in 1922, regarding his experiences in the Sered camp and in the battle of the partisans

Childhood before the war; Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria 1938; expulsion from school and carpentry studies; independence of Slovakia and anti-Jewish legislation 1939; deportation of Jews and escape to the mountains in March 1942; going back home and deportation to the Sered camp,in April 1945; work in carpentry; underground in the camp; Slovak uprising and escape ,in August 1944; joining partisans; actions against Germans; liberation by the red army,in April 1945; joining aliya training; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the Theodor Herzl ship,on 01 April 1947; exile to Cyprus; aliya back to...

File Number : 13772

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Raisa Yudovich, born in 1918, regarding her experiences in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, and using a false identity in Bar

Memoirs of Raisa Yudovich, born in 1918, regarding her experiences in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, and using a false identity in Bar Life in Dnepropetrovsk, including dismissal from her work as an engineer, 16 June 1941; escape to Bar with her baby daughter (born 11 July 1940); life in Bar; work in a kolkhoz; the German occupation; murder of Jews; life in the home of Yevdokiya Karelova, who worked in the kolkhoz; preparation of forged documents in the name of Raisa Yurovaya by the partisans; baking bread for the partisans; detention with her daughter; life in a cell with other women and children under crowded...

File Number : 2050

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs, Personal Records, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Russian, Ukrainian

Testimony of Menahem Lior, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences during ‎deportation to the Bedzin Ghetto and the work camp in Kamionka; hidden by a Pole; escape to ‎Eretz Israel His childhood in a socialist Zionist home; refugees from Germany; rise of antisemitism; outbreak of ‎war on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish laws and decrees; restriction of Jewish movement and ‎concentration in one area; youth movements; agricultural farm; Zionist and underground ‎activities; infiltrating into a nearby work camp; work collecting and sorting possessions of the Jews ‎in the ghetto; removing dead...

File Number : 13735

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Marila Liber Prague née Kostin, born in 1921 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, in Hungary, with the partisans in Yugoslavia, and as a forced laborer in Germany

Life before the war; German occupation ensues; dispossession; deportation to the Warsaw ghetto; life in the ghetto; escaping to the "Aryan" side with help of forged papers; marrying; escaping to Lwów; escaping back to Warsaw; escaping to Hungary; receiving privileges from the Polish Consulate; escaping to Yugoslavia; joining the partisans in March 1944; sabotaging a railroad track; arrested by the Germans and taken to Germany; working in a factory that manufactures spare parts for tanks; posing as a Croat; receiving extra privileges; liberated by American forces; reaching Buchenwald; encountering Holocaust...

File Number : 13612

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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 Yisrael Shpira, born in Radomsko, Poland in 1936, regarding his experiences as a young boy in Radomsko, his hiding in the home of a Polish family in Warsaw and in Radom

Testimony of Yisrael Shpira, born in Radomsko, Poland in 1936, regarding his experiences as a young boy in Radomsko, his hiding with a Polish family in Warsaw and in Radom Life before the war; he was born into a well -to-do secular family; outbreak of the war in 1939; obtaining forged papers; escape with his family to Warsaw; arrest by the Germans and transfer to the "Pawiak" prison under a fake non-Jewish identity; release after a short while; escape and hiding in the home of a respected Polish family; life in the family until the " Polish uprising" in August 1944; bombings; deportation with all the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Alexander Grootman van der Knopp, born in 1939 in Amsterdam, about his experiences as a boy under a false identity with a non-Jewish Dutch family in Amsterdam

Testimony

Testimony of Alexander Grootman van der Knopp, born in 1939 in Amsterdam, about his experiences as a boy under a false identity with a non-Jewish Dutch family in Amsterdam Life in Amsterdam at the beginning of the German occupation in 1940; placement with a non-Jewish Dutch couple (evidently in 1941); life under a false identity as the van der Knopps' son until the end of the war in 1045; placement in the Beit Dina Jewish orphanage in Sant Port in 1946; joiing a family that holds “certificates” (Mandate Palestine immigration visas); immigration to Eretz Israel in 1947.

File Number : 13396

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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