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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 58, 20/08/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Escape of prisoners from a Soviet POW camp in the Torgau region; murder of a member of the local gendarmerie and injury of a farmer by three of the escapees; anti-German Communist demonstration, in Paris; outbreak of brawls during the dispersion of a demonstration by the French police and German soldiers, causing an injury to a German soldier; presence of...

File Number : 163.58

Type of Material : Survey Report, Statistical Data, Manifesto

Language : German

עדות של אודו איוט ילידת 1940, Paris צרפת על קורותיה במסתור אצל משפחה נוצרית בחבל Jura

File Number : 12972

Type of Material : Memoirs, Birth Certificate

Language : French

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File Number : 429

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Documentation and letters pertaining to Acher Semahya and Fernand Zalkinow, Communist partisans who were executed in Mont Valérien, France, in 1942; documentation regarding the members of their families Personal letters regarding Acher Semahya (or Semaya) and Fernand Zalkinow: - Farewell letter written by Acher Semahya in the Cherche-Midi prison in Paris to the members of his family in France, 1942; - Farewell letters written by Fernand Zalkinow in the prison in Paris to his little sister Rachel Zalkinow and his parents in France on the day of his execution, 09 March 1942. Documentation regarding the...

File Number : 631

Type of Material : Booklet(s), Letter, Death Certificate, Documentary, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Official Documentation, Protocol

Language : French, German

Testimony of Albert Avraham Levi, born in 1937 in Lyon, France, about hiding in Souzy village with a French Christian peasant family

Testimony

Testimony of Albert Avraham Levi, born in 1937 in Lyon, France about hiding in Souzy village with a French Christian peasant family Childhood in Lyon; life under Vichy rule in 1940; German occupation ensues in 1942; father affected and deported to the Miramas camp in 1943; life under a false identity aided by bogus documents; moving to aunt's house in Lyon; father escapes from the camp and returns to Lyon in 1944; witness and aunt's family hide with a French peasant family, the Bonhommes, in Souzy village; life in the village; father arrested and deported by the Gestapo in Lyon; father banished to the Drancy...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the experiences of Salomon Simon Pinkas and his family members, 1940-1945

Documentation regarding the experiences of Salomon Simon Pinkas and his family members, 1940-1945 - Military service booklet of Simon Pinkas, attesting to his military service during 03-06/1940, including his being taken captive and his release from the camp and from the army, issued in Marseille, 19/11/1968, in French (original); - Confirmation of illness, given to POW Simon Pinkas in the Stalag VB camp, 12/05/1943, in German (original); - Documentation regarding Salomon Pinkas' stay in captivity (letters from his place of work to the POW camp where he was held, 25/10/1940 and 20/03/1941;...

File Number : 1469

Type of Material : Certification, שאלון/ים לחיפוש קרובים, Memoirs, Letter

Language : Polish, French, German, Ukrainian

Testimony of Shmuel Kohen, born in 1924 in Mannheim, Germany, about his escape to France and his experiences in various hiding places, in the resistance, and in the ranks of the French Army

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Kohen, born in 1924 in Mannheim, Germany, about his escape to France and his experiences in various hiding places, in the resistance, and in the ranks of the French Army Childhood in Germany; moving to Strasbourg in 1927; moving to Paris in 1932; planning to immigrate to Eretz Israel; attending Baron Hirsch (Hebrew-language) School; war breaks out; father drafted into the Foreign Legion; escaping to the Free Zone in 1942; farm labor; joining the resistance; drafted into the French Army; seeing action in Germany; the war ends; activity in Dror Habonim; immigration to Eretz Israel in 1946;...

File Number : 13761

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew