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Part two of the memoirs of Folya Bonfeld, a Holocaust survivor from Uman

Part two of the memoirs of Folya Bonfeld, a Holocaust survivor from Uman In her memoirs, Folya Bonfeld tells about the death of her husband; loss of contact with her children who are [serving] in the Red Army; her life in hiding while hidden by neighbors and friends in Uman; she hides that she is of Jewish origin; her "cover story", that she is a Ukrainian woman and a refugee from Voronezh; she receives forged documents with the name of Olga Mirskaya-Boretskaya; her life and work while using a false name; her return to Uman, following the liberation of the city, 10 April 1944; renewal of contact with her...

File Number : 20

Type of Material : Names of Rescuers, Memoirs

Language : Russian

Informing on Jews hiding in various places in Odessa, from 1942

File Number : JM/11222

Type of Material : Names, Names of Rescuers, Official Documentation, Reports

Language : Russian

Testimony of Chaim Henri Borkensztajn Barkan, born in Liege, Belgium, 1939, regarding his experiences as a baby in a monastery in Charneux using a false identity and a forest

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Henri Borkensztajn Barkan, born in Liege, Belgium, 1939, regarding his experiences as a baby in a monastery in Charneux using a false identity and a forest Life before the war. German occupation; decrees including the yellow badge; deportation of her mother to Auschwitz and her murder in Mechelen; move to Charneux, 1942; life in a monastery using a false identity; informed on; escape to a forest; return to the monastery; liberation, 1945. Reunion with his father; aliya to Israel, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter of testimony by Jan Schoeneich, a Pole, regarding his hiding of a Jewish woman and her baby in his home, Mysia Sokol and her daughter Sabina, who was born in November 1941, starting December 1942 Fate of the Jews of Legionowo who succeeded in escaping during the liquidation of the ghetto, August 1942; persecution of the refugees, and their attempts to survive in the forests; hiding of a Jewish woman, Mysia Sokol, along with her baby daughter, alternately by the witness' brother and sister, in their homes in Legionowo; transfer of the mother and her baby to his home in Pruszkow, with the increase in...

File Number : 482

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Polish

Joint testimony of Nathan Pinto, born in the Netherlands, 1909, and Sarah Pinto, born in the Netherlands, 1912, regarding their experiences in the Netherlands including hiding, and the activities of Zionist and Dutch underground movements, 1940-1945 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, January 1957: - Member of the Arbeiders Jeugd Centrale (AJC - Dutch Socialist Youth Movement), and of Poale Zion, 1935-1941 (Nathan); participation in Zionist activities in Amsterdam (Sarah); - Nathan's dismissal from his job due...

File Number : 5174

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Meir Manfred Paul, born in Kolberg, Germany, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Netherlands, hiding, escape and the activities of the Zionist and Dutch underground movements, 1939-1944 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, October 1955: - Chaver (member) of Habonim, 1936; - Stateless, from 1939; - From Germany to a refugee camp in Gouda, the Netherlands, on a Kindertransport, January 1939; - Youth Aliyah home in Loosdrecht until the start of deportations, December 1939-August 1942; -...

File Number : 5172

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Shimon Levin and additional testimony by Miriam Levin regarding aliya training in the Netherlands, going underground and illegal aliya, 1936-1944

Testimony of Shimon Levin and additional testimony by Miriam Levin regarding aliya training in the Netherlands, going underground and illegal aliya, 1936-1944 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, April 1956: - Work in Werkdorf (Work Village) in Wieringen, a Hechalutz training farm, May 1940-June 1941; - Work as a carpenter in Apeldoornse Bos, a Jewish psychiatric clinic, in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, June 1941; Handwritten testimony of Miriam Levin, wife of Shimon Levin: - Discovers that the patients...

File Number : 5156

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Testimony, Letter of Testimony, Report, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Lilo (Kettner) Ticho, regarding aliya training in the Netherlands, capture and deportation to Westerbork, escape, life in hiding on a farm in a Dutch village, until liberation, 1938-1944

Testimony of Lilo (Kettner) Ticho, regarding aliya training in the Netherlands, capture and deportation to Westerbork, escape, life in hiding on a farm in a Dutch village until liberation, 1938-1944 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, March 1957: - From Vienna to the Netherlands on a Kindertransport, organized by the Jewish community in Vienna, December 1938; - Joins a Youth Aliyah training camp in Loodsrecht; late 1941-summer 1942, - Work as an infant's day nurse for a family in Amsterdam; from July...

File Number : 5151

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Testimony, Names, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Gerda Kapellner regarding aliya training in Wieringen, going into hiding in the Netherlands, escape from German occupied territories to Spain, via Belgium and France, 1939-1944

Testimony of Gerda Kapellner regarding aliya training in Wieringen, going into hiding in the Netherlands, escape from German occupied territories to Spain, via Belgium and France, 1939-1944 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, April 1956: - Aliya training in Wieringen, the Netherlands; - Going into hiding in the Netherlands, 25 May 1943; - Escape from German occupied territories to Spain via Belgium and France; escape to Belgium, December 1943; escape to France, January 1944; arrival in Spain, 18 June 1944;...

File Number : 5149

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Testimony, Names, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Erwin Kapellner regarding aliya training in Wieringen, going into hiding in the Netherlands, escape from German occupied territories to Spain, via Belgium and France, 1939-1944

Testimony of Erwin Kapellner regarding aliya training in Wieringen, going into hiding in the Netherlands, escape from German occupied territories to Spain, via Belgium and France, 1939-1944 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, April 1956: - Aliya training in Wieringen, the Netherlands; - Going into hiding in the Netherlands, 25 May 1943; - Escape from German occupied territories to Spain via Belgium and France; escape to Belgium, December 1943; escape to France, January 1944; arrival in Spain, 18 June...

File Number : 5148

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Memoirs, Testimony, Names

Language : Hebrew, German

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