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Testimony of Michael Miklosh Stern, born in Mateszalka, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences in a marked house and under Swiss protection

Testimony

Testimony of Michael Miklosh Stern, born in Mateszalka, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences in a marked house and under Swiss protection Life before the war; move to Budapest; Yediddei Hayeladim activities; Jewish community life; cultural life; attends a local school. Outbreak of the war, 1939; anti-Jewishlegislation and decrees; German occupation; deportation to a marked house; obtains Swiss protection; life until liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Life under Soviet rule; joins Hashomer Hatzair; aliya training at Bekescsaba; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel from Marseilles on the ship, "Exodus",...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Reports by the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, from 1944

Reports by the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, from 1944 The reports were submitted with accompanying cover letters signed by J. W. Pehle. - Pages 1-7: Proposals written by J. W. Pehle regarding finding a temporary solution for refugees and Jews in order to protect them from the Nazis, 10 March 1944; - Pages 8-14: Report by the WRB regarding the care for the refugees, 15-20 May 1944; - Pages 15-23: Report by the WRB regarding the care for the refugees, 26 June-01 July 1944; - Pages 23-37: Report by the WRB regarding the care for the refugees, including details regarding the situation...

File Number : 81

Type of Material : Survey Report, Statistical Data

Language : English

Memoirs of Laszlo Devecseri, born in Kolozsvar, Romania, 1907, regarding his experiences in Budapest, Bergen-Belsen and Switzerland, 1944-1945

Memoirs of Laszlo Devecseri, born in Kolozsvar, Romania, 1907, regarding his experiences in Budapest, Bergen-Belsen and Switzerland, 1944-1945 Life with his family in Budapest; occupation of Budapest by the German Army, March 1944; request made by Joel Brand to construct a bunker in the building that Devecseri was responsible for building, 16 March 1944; activities on behalf of the Relief and Rescue Committee; building the Columbus camp in Budapest over the course of ten days at Kasztner's request; deportation to Bergen-Belsen with his family as part of the Kasztner train; transfer to Switzerland;...

File Number : 4693

Type of Material : Diaries and Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

Correspondence with the Hilfsverein fuer juedische Auswanderung (Relief Organization for Jewish Refugees) in Zurich, 1942-1944

Correspondence with the Hilfsverein fuer juedische Auswanderung (Relief Organization for Jewish Refugees) in Zurich, 1942-1944 Correspondence between Hans Klee from RELICO (Relief Committee for the Warstricken Jewish Population) and Robert Faller from the Hilfsverein fuer juedische Auswanderung regarding food parcels shipments to needy Jews in Europe during the war. Also in the file: Protocol of a meeting of SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland) in Berne regarding coordination and cooperation among the Jewish organizations in Switzerland in relief activities on behalf of Jews outside of...

File Number : 41

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Correspondence and reports of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and US diplomatic legations in Europe regarding rescue and relief activities for Jewish refugees, 1944

Correspondence and reports of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and US diplomatic legations in Europe regarding rescue and relief activities for Jewish refugees, 1944 The file contains: Page1: Newspaper clipping from the "Neue Zuercher Zeitung", ("New Zurich Paper") dealing with US policy towards the refugees; Page 2: Memorandum from the US Government (apparently from one of the Divisions of the State Department) regarding US Government policy towards refugees, 17 May 1944; Pages 3-4: Bilateral declaration by the US Government (the Embassy next to the Polish...

File Number : 82

Type of Material : Telegram, Record of Persecuted Persons, Article, Official Documentation

Language : English, German

Testimony of Aladar Somlo, born in Szeged, Hungary, 1890, regarding his experiences in Budapest and the Pest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Aladar Somlo, born in Szeged, Hungary, 1890, regarding his experiences in Budapest and the Pest Ghetto Community life in Sannicolau Mare and the community in Timisoara between World War I and World War II. Deportation to Hungary, 1941; volunteers for public labor; contacts with the Swiss consul, Carl Lutz (later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations); contacts with the embassy man, Raoul Wallenberg (later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations); German occupation; anti-Jewish decrees in Budapest; rescue from the deportation of Pest Jews, 30 November 1944; return to the Pest Ghetto;...

File Number : 3431

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Memoirs of Elisa Benaim (maiden name: Rosselli), born in Pisa in 1873, regarding being smuggled across the border to Switzerland in May 1944, her experiences in Switzerland and her return to Florence in September 1945 Comments from the submitter of the material: (Asher Vardi) The great-grandfather and great-grandmother of the submitter of the material - Mozi Benaim and his wife Elisa (maiden name: Rosselli) - lived in Firenze. They had seven children. Elisa was a painter, and wrote children's books about Jewish traditions. Mozi and Elisa had to escape at the age of 70 with their eldest daughter Rebecca...

File Number : 11241

Type of Material : Memoirs, הקדמה

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Isidor Fred Mantel and Susanna (Elster) Mantel, regarding their wanderings between countries in Europe during and after the Holocaust; postcards sent by Rosa Elster from Modliborzyce camp, 1940-1941; documentation related to the Mantel and Elster families - Memoirs and experiences of Itzhak Icek Majer Mantel, later Isidor Mantel and Fred Mantel, born in Wieruszów in 1923, and his wife Shoshana Susanna (Elster) Mantel, born in Vienna in 1925, including: --- Experiences of Isidor Mantel, written in Zürich during 1945-1949, for the purpose of receiving a visa to emigrate to Australia by means of...

File Number : 10113

Type of Material : Birth Certificate, Biography, Passport, School Project, Identity Card, Certification, Letter, Questionnaire, Diploma, Medical Documentation, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Postcard, הודעה, Memoirs, כתובה, Personal Documents

Language : Italian, French, English, Dutch, German, Aramaic

Memoirs of Helen (Mantel) Shindel, born in Cologne, Germany, 1925, regarding her experiences in Cologne, Antwerp, the Gurs camp, Switzerland and other places

Memoirs of Helen (Mantel) Shindel, born in Cologne, Germany, 1925, regarding her experiences in Cologne, Antwerp, the Gurs camp, Switzerland and other places Memoirs of Helen (Mantel) Shindel, born in Cologne, Germany, 1925, regarding her experiences in Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland and Israel during the Holocaust period and afterwards; the memoirs were written down verbatim by the personnel of the Yad Sarah Organization and published in 2008: Life before the war; aliya of her four brothers to Eretz Israel during the 1930s; Kristallnacht events, 9-10 November 1938; deportation of her father and...

File Number : 9749

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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