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Testimony of Jacob Israel Katvan, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, the USSR and Tashkent

Testimony

Testimony of Jakob Israel Katvan, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, the USSR and Tashkent Childhood in an Orthodox family including attending a Jewish school; Maccabi sports activities; displays of antisemitism before the war; cases of provocation and opposition to giving aid to the refugees; prevention of making aliya [to Eretz Israel] by the Vizhnitzer Rebbe. Outbreak of the war; occupation [of Cernauti] by the Red Army; deportation of wealthy people to Siberia; transfer with friends to the Soviet Union and studies at a school for spies; transfer to Tashkent,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Ela (Kenig) Berkovitz, born in Ujfeherto, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in Szerencs, Budapest, Satoraljaujhely and Auschwitz

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Ela (Kenig) Berkovitz, born in Ujfeherto, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in Szerencs, Budapest, Satoraljaujhely and Auschwitz Life before the war; move to Szerencs, 1926. Life in Szerencs including anti-Jewish restrictions, 1940; yellow badge; curfew at night; displays of antisemitism; draft of her brothers to forced labor; escape to Budapest, 1944; escape to her family's home using forged documents, Pesach (April) 1944; transfer with Jews to the synagogue; deportation to Satoraljaujhely; life in Satoraljaujhely in her aunt's home; labor in a psychiatric hospital; deportation...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tova (Profesorski) Forst, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Bedzin, Gleiwitz, Auschwitz, Peterswaldau and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Tova (Profesorski) Forst, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Bedzin, Gleiwitz, Auschwitz, Peterswaldau and other places Religious family; joins the Hapoel organization; financial assistance to her parents. German occupation, September 1939; assumes an Aryan identity; help to her family in hiding; capture, January 1940; deportation to a camp in Czechoslovakia; camp life including laundry labor; help from Czechoslovakians; deportation to Gleiwitz, 1941; camp life including labor cleaning; deportation to Auschwitz, 1942; camp life including labor in agriculture;...

File Number : 12707

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Newspaper articles on the politics and economy in Israel and the discrimination against Sephardi and Oriental Jews, 1950-1965

Newspaper articles on the politics and economy in Israel and the discrimination against Sephardi and Oriental Jews, 1950-1965 Articles and reports on Sephardi Jews life in Israel and the world including discrimination against them in Israel; memoirs and articles on Jabotinsky and his stand on the Sephardi Jews question.

File Number : 296

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : Ladino / Solitreo, Hebrew, French, English, German

Single issues of the journals, "Haolam" and "Hapoel Hatzair"

File Number : 53

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Testimony of Gabriel Hofman, born in Chust, 1921, regarding his experiences in his escape to Hungary and in camps

Testimony

Testimony of Gabriel Hofman, born in Chust, 1921, regarding his experiences in his escape to Hungary and in camps Zionist family; difficulties earning a livelihood; attends "heder" and a state school; head of the local Hapoal Hatzair youth movement; studies tailoring; escape to Hungary; work as a tailor; on an aliya training farm; group is disbanded; drafted to the Hungarian Army, 1942; paves roads near Debrecen; moves from place to place as needed by the Army; receives protective passport through the help of a non-Jewish friend, which permitted him to leave for a Swiss protected house; deportation by...

File Number : 9028

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shelly Rachel (Solomon) Khoshen, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1931, regarding the persecution of her family and their experiences in Bulgaria

Testimony of Shelly Rachel (Solomon) Khoshen, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1931, regarding the persecution of her family and their experiences in Bulgaria Family life; death of her mother during her birth; living with her father until the age of six; joining the family of her father; life in a traditional and affluent home; cessation of studies; wearing a yellow badge; deportation of the Jews of Sofia to the periphery in spring 1943; deportation of the family across the Danube River; transfer to a camp in the area, northeast of Sofia; transfer of her father to forced labor in road construction; suffering from...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther (Katz) Asiskovitz, born in Narol, Poland, 1934, regarding escaping to the Soviet Union

Childhood in Narol. German occupation, 1939; bombings and hiding in a flour mill; destruction of the family home; escape to Rawa Ruska; deportation to Siberia, 1940; refugees during the war; his mother’s work in logging and his father’s work in agriculture; move to Bisk, 1941; his father’s work in a cheese factory; celebration of Passover. Move after the war to Szczecin, 1945; move to Wroclaw; move to Vienna; DP camp near Salzburg; move to a DP camp in Eichstaett, 1946; living conditions in the camp; passage through Bandol; aliya to Israel, 1948; absorption.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Malmed, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1936, regarding bans and restrictions under the fascist regime

Testimony of Yitzhak Malmed, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1936, regarding bans and restrictions under the fascist regime Childhood in Plovdiv; life under the fascist regime in 1940; bans and restrictions on movement; his father is sent to prison for six months on charges of theft; closure of the Jewish school in 1941; preparations following the deportation order, and cancellation of the order in 1943; helping Jewish refugees expelled from Sofia; air-raids; liberation by the partisans and the Red Army in 1944; rehabilitation of life after the war; life under the Communist regime; aliya to Israel in 1948;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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