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Family deported to Westerbork on October 30, 1942; Ruth handed over at the Groningen train station to a man along with a note on which her grandparents' address is noted; taken to Amsterdam and placed with the van Noorden family, friends of her parents; deportation to Westerbork after it becomes known that the van Noordens will also be deported on May 10, 1943; transported by train to Bergen-Belsen; men, women, and children are separated in the camp; hunger; grandparents die; taken by train marked with red crosses to Theresienstadt in 1945; train is bombarded; train liberated by the Red Cross in 1945; improper...

File Number : 13540

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sela Shtovitska Uri Urlich, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1930 regarding deportation to the Polish border and regarding his leaving nazi Germany in Kindertransport

Testimony

Childhood in Frankfurt an der Oder; life during nazi regime in 1933; arrest of the father accused of communist activity and his deportation to Poland as a Polish subject in 1933; attending the Jewish school Philanthropyn in 1936; moving to the Jewish Children's Home Stiftung in 1936; deportation with the mother from Frankfurt an der Oder to the Polish border in 1938; Kristallnacht riots; his joining a group of children who were sent by Kindertransport sponsored by James and Dorothy Rothschild in 1939; the journey via Hoek van Holland, Holland to London, Britain in 1939; moving to the estate of James Rotschild...

File Number : 13713

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Tzvi Mul Hennes, born in Arnhem, Netherlands, about his experiences as a boy with members of the resistance and in hiding with the Rip family in Deventer until the end of the war

Family escapes to Devener in 1940; witness placed with members of the Dutch resistance; placed with the Rip family (members of the resistance) in Goor in early 1943; living with the Rips (subsequently recognized as Righteous among the Nations); mother and father visit; witness presented as an orphan taken in by the family after shelling of Rotterdam; liberation; returns to parents in May 1945; maintaining close relations with the Rips; family life in Duiendrecht; back to Deventer; family life in the Netherlands; the Habonim movement; immigration to Israel in 1966; adjustment to life in Israel.

File Number : 13541

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliezer Leo Matzger, born in Kiel, Germany, in 1920, regarding his experiences in ‎Kiel and Hamburg and his aliya to Eretz Israel

Testimony of Eliezer Leo Matzger, born in Kiel, Germany, in 1920, regarding his experiences in ‎Kiel and Hamburg and his aliya to Eretz Israel Born into a religious family from Galicia; life in Kiel in a non-Jewish area until 1933; life after the ‎Nazi Party came into power; membership in the Zionist Habonim Movement; aliya of his older ‎sisters to Eretz Israel in 1934; closing of the family store; escape to the Hechalutz Movement’s ‎aliya training center in Hamburg in 1936; decision of the movement’s leadership in spring 1939 to ‎send him to Eretz Israel; travel through the Czech region, Austria and Italy;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe David Bleier, born in Kisterenye, Hungary in 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Kisterenye, in the Salgotarjan Ghetto, and in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Auschwitz camps

Testimony of Moshe David Bleier, born in Kisterenye, Hungary in 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Kisterenye, in the Salgotarjan Ghetto, and in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Auschwitz camps Life before the war; middle-class, traditional family; antisemitism; closure of his father's store by the Hungarian Gendarmerie, and its sale by the "Cash-Box Guards" Police [?]; transfer of his father to service in the labor battalions; disappearance of his father during 1939-1940; concentration of the Jews, and their deportation to the Salgotarjan Ghetto by the Hungarian Police and SS men, 1944; deportation to...

File Number : 13572

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ovadia Walter Lapid Gebrandsdoffer, born in 1927 in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, regarding his experiences in Frankfurt Am Main, in Strasbourg, in the Dordagne area, and in the ranks of the underground during the war, and more. Son of a traditional, non-Zionist family in Frankfurt Am Main; studies in a Jewish school; activity in the Habonim movement; deportation of his maternal grandparents to Krakow in 1934, because they were Polish citizens; confrontations with the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend -); escape to Strasbourg in 1937; studying in a non-Jewish school; antisemitism; government-initiated...

File Number : 13902

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony of Yechiel Isidor Tobias Yatuv, born in Mannheim, Germany, 1930, regarding his experiences in Mannheim

Testimony

Testimony of Yechiel Isidor Tobias Yatuv, born in Mannheim, Germany, 1930, regarding his experiences in Mannheim His childhood in Mannheim including attending German schools; membership in the Habonim youth movement. Life after the Nazi rise to power including closure of the synagogue and ban on ritual slaughter; move to an aliya training group, 1935; aliya to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliyah.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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