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Memoirs of Yonina Tania Toiva (Berlin) Goldberg, born in Panevezys, Lithuania, 1910, and memoirs of members of her family regarding their experiences before the war from "Memoirs of a Petach Tikvah Man", a book of memoirs written by her husband, David Goldberg Life during World War I; membership in Maccabi; joining Hashomer Hatzair; preparation for aliya to Eretz Israel; life on an aliya training facility in Grobina and in Memel; aliya to Eretz Israel as part of Hashomer Hatzair, 03 February 1931; life on a kibbutz in Benyamina and Petach Tikvah. Also in the file: - Document from the ITS Archives...

File Number : 8623

Type of Material : Memoirs, Document

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Memoirs of Zvi Arad regarding his experiences in Dortmund, 1931-1938, in Zbaszyn, 1938-1939 and on a Zionist training facility, 1939

Memoirs of Zvi Arad regarding his experiences in Dortmund, 1931-1938, Zbaszyn, 1938-1939 and on a Zionist training facility, 1939 Attendance at a Jewish school in Dortmund, 1931-1938. Deportation to Poland, 28 October 1938; arrival at Zbaszyn with his mother, sister and younger brother; [life in] a Zionist training facility for Polish deportees, 1939. Aliya to Eretz Israel with youth and pioneers via the Soviet Union including an approximately three month delay in Turkey. [His parents:] Escape of his father to the United States; morbidity of his father (pneumonia); death of his father, 24 December...

File Number : 8613

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Paula (Formiggini) Nachshoni, born in Modena, Italy, 1921, regarding her experiences in Modena, Milan, in hiding and in Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Paula (Formiggini) Nachshoni, born in Modena, Italy, 1921, regarding her experiences in Modena, Milan, in hiding and in Switzerland Her childhood in an educated, religious family; anti-Jewish legislation, September 1938; termination of studies; transfer to a Jewish school in Milan; decrease of her father's work; deportation of young Jews to labor; arrival of Jewish youth and refugees from Yugoslavia to Villa Emma and Nonantola. German Army occupation [of Italy], September 1943; escape from their home; in hiding in a village including fear of being informed on; illegally crosses the border to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rozzi Shoshana (Wagner) Neuman, born in Stryj, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Vienna, on the Kindertransport and in London

Testimony

Testimony of Rozzi Shoshana (Wagner) Neuman, born in Stryj, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in Vienna, on the Kindertransport and in London Her childhood in a family of Belzer hasidim; emigration to Vienna, 1926. Anschluss, annexation of Austria to Germany, 1938; pressure put on her family due to their lack of citizenship; forced labor on the streets; contact with the Bnai Brith organization; travel on the Kindertransport to England, March 1939; her sister relinquishes a certificate on behalf of a friend who was detained; move to pioneering aliya training in Ireland; escape of her parents to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Andor Guttman, born in Sarretudvari, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in a protected house in Budapest, in Bergen-Belsen, Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald camps and more Life before the war; from a secular family; move to Budapest; life in Budapest; attends Jewish elementary and high schools; Deportation of his father to labor camps, 1940; transfer to marked houses; receiving information regarding the experiences of Polish Jews; German occupation, March 1944; purchasing a protective certificate of the Swiss Embassy; evacuation together with all the Jews from the protected...

File Number : 13219

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chana (Reiser) Bar Israel, born in Rawa Ruska, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Vienna and Burgess Hill

Testimony

Testimony of Chana (Reiser) Bar Israel, born in Rawa Ruska, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Vienna and Burgess Hill Life before the war; move to Vienna with her family, 1936. Anschluss and re-annexation of Austria to Germany; detention of her father; displays of antisemitism; termination of studies; seclusion in the family's home; witness receives a scholarship for studies in the Bezalel Art Academy; Kristallnacht; burning of synagogues; attempts by her family to escape from Austria; move of the witness to Great Britain by the Gordonia movement on the Kindertransport, December 1938; life in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Chaim Trachtenbroit (later: Yitzhak Birnboim), born in Zguritsa in the Soroka region of Bessarabia, Romania in 1922, regarding his fate during the Holocaust

File Number : 7433

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Collection of the Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen - Committee for Jewish Refugees, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1933-1939

Collection of the Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen - Committee for Jewish Refugees, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1933-1939 Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen - the Committee for Jewish Refugees in the Netherlands was established in Amsterdam in 1933; the function of the committee was the coordination of relief activities for Jewish refugees who arrived from Germany; the committee was active in the context of the umbrella-organization, Comité voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen - CBJB, the Committee for Special Jewish Affairs established by Professor Dr. D. Cohen, A. Asscher and others; the committees were...

Type of Material : Reports, Committee Requests, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Testimony, Statistics, Document, Letter, Official Documentation, List of Refugees, List of Names in Relief Agency Records

Language : French, English, Dutch, German

Testimony of Lea Chana (Shlomovitz) Hershkovitz, born in Selo Slatina, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in Budapest in a marked house and the Swiss consulate

Testimony

Testimony of Lea Chana (Shlomovitz) Hershkovitz, born in Selo Slatina, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in Budapest in a marked house and the Swiss consulate Religious family; attends a public school; activities in Bnei Akiva youth movement. Re-annexation to Hungary; move to Budapest, 1941; death of her father; work as a seamstress in a clothes salon; responsible for her nine year old sister; activities in Bnei Akiva youth movement; German occupation, 1944; life in a marked house; restrictions on Jews; taken by Bnei Akiva members wearing Hungarian Army uniforms to the Swiss consulate;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zeev Wolf Schwammenthal, born in Berlin, Germany, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and as a forced laborer for the Romanian Army

Testimony

Testimony of Zeev Wolf Schwammenthal, born in Berlin, Germany, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and as a forced laborer for the Romanian Army Life before the Nazi rise to power in Germany; Jewish community; burglary of his father's store; Nazi rise to power; threats against his father. Escape of the family to Czechoslovakia; move to Romania; planned aliya to Eretz Israel; theft of the family certificate; move to Cernauti; murder of Jews; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; his father's work as a furrier; deportation to Romanian Army labor camps; attitude of the Ukrainians towards the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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