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Testimony of Rita (Dvorman) Gotman, born in Lwow, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Lwow, the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding outside the ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Rita (Dvorman) Gotman, born in Lwow, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Lwow, the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding outside the ghetto Life before the war; assimilated well-to-do family; identifies with Eretz Israel. Outbreak of the war; rejection of help from the Romanian consul; Soviet occupation; restrictions on Jewish businesses; sending of parcels to Siberia; arrest and murder of her father; temporary living quarters at their maid's who is originally from Germany; escape to Warsaw; difficulties in entering the sealed ghetto; ghetto life; attends a school for converted...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Bienental, born in Lodz, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, as a forced laborer in Germany and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Bienental, born in Lodz, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, as a forced laborer in Germany and a death march Life before the war; displays of antisemitism; help to Jewish refugees from Germany, 1938. Deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; escape from the ghetto with help from a smuggler; escape back to the Lodz Ghetto; Lodz Ghetto life including labor as an orderly; deportation to Auschwitz, September 1944; camp life including the murder of his sisters; disappearance of his parents; transfer to Germany; life in Germany including labor in an automobile...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shimon Sioma Shtaynvurzel Sela, born in Kiev, Ukraine, 1937, regarding his experiences in Samarkand

Testimony

Testimony of Shimon Sioma Shtaynvurzel Sela, born in Kiev, Ukraine, 1937, regarding his experiences in Samarkand Draft of the witness' father into the Red Army; his father's death, summer 1941; escape to Samarkand with his mother and siblings; life in Samarkand; the local Jewish community; learns in a "heder"; displays of antisemitism; his mother's remarriage; end of the war, 1944. Move to Rowno; decision to escape due to antisemitism; crossing the border into Czechoslovakia illegally; arrest; detention; release; move to Austria; life in the Hallein DP camp and the Ebensee DP camp; aliya to Israel, May...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Collection of the Department for Relief to Refugees from Germany in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1938-1942

Collection of the Department for Relief to Refugees from Germany in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1938-1942 Collection of the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken: Zorg voor de Vluchtelingen uit Duitsland (Department for Relief to Refugees from Germany of the Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands), 1938-1942; thousands of refugees from Germany began to arrive to the Netherlands starting in 1933; the Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands established approximately 60 refugee camps, including the Hotel-Lloyd and the Zeeburgerdijk isolation institution in Amsterdam, the...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Dutch, German

A list of the names of 21 Jews released from the Vianda refugee camp in Hoek van Holland, the Netherlands, in order to emigrate to Chile, undated

A list of the names of 21 Jews released from the Vianda refugee camp in Hoek van Holland, the Netherlands, in order to emigrate to Chile, undated The list includes first name and last name, date of birth and place of birth; it is not clear who compiled the list; mention of the arrival of two Jewish refugees at the Vianda camp: Isaac Cukier, born in Leipzig, Germany, 1910, arrived 31 October 1939 and Frank Sprink, born in Lippstadt, Germany, 1900, arrived 13 April 1940.

File Number : 126

Type of Material : List of Camp Inmates

Language : Dutch

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Dickbuch, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Kraszewice Ghetto, as a forced laborer in Poznan, and Fuerstengrube, Gleiwitz and Dora camps and death marches His family background. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, two months later; escape from the Lodz Ghetto to family relatives in the Kraszewice Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to forced labor in Poznan, 1940; labor paving roads; hunger; deportation to Auschwitz, 1943; selection; transfer to Fuerstengrube; labor in a coal mine; death march to Gleiwitz, 1945;...

File Number : 12549

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Julius Stone Archive: Clippings from Australian newspapers regarding German refugees and Nazis in Australia

File Number : 13

Type of Material : Newspaper

Language : English

P.14 - Archive of Julius (Yitzchak) Stone: Documentation regarding relief to Jewish refugees in Australia and memorialization of the Holocaust in Australia

P.14 - Archive of Julius (Yitzchak) Stone: Documentation regarding relief to Jewish refugees in Australia and memorialization of the Holocaust in Australia Dr. Julius Stone was a Professor of Law at Sydney University. He was active in Jewish organizations during World War II in an effort to aid European Jewry. In addition, he fought post-war Neo-Nazism in Australia. This record group, his personal archive, contains reports and memos regarding Jewish refugees during World War II, correspondence concerning activities of the organizations on behalf of Jews abroad and information about his post-war struggle...

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Personal Documents, Newspaper

Language : English

Testimony of Leib Salpeter, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto and in Plaszow camp

Testimony of Leib Salpeter, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto and in Plaszow camp List of names of the members of the temporary council of the Jewish community of Krakow, established on the initiative of the deputy mayor of Krakow at the start of the German occupation, September 1939; Krakow Ghetto life, including forced labor filling anti-aircraft trenches; activities in the social welfare department, in particular with the mass arrival of refugees to Krakow from throughout the Generalgouvernement; various departments dealt with sanitation, clothing, housing, care of orphans and children,...

File Number : 146

Type of Material : Survey

Language : Polish

Newspaper clippings and publications, 1983, regarding the marking of 40 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and 40 years since the halt of the "General Plan in the East" (Generalplan Ost), including a public discussion held in West Germany regarding the deportation of millions of Germans from the areas held by the Poles at the end of the war

File Number : 96

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : German

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