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Testimony of Eva Rocek, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Prague, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, the Kurzbach camp and other places

Testimony of Eva Rocek, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Prague, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, the Kurzbach camp and other places Life before the war; her parents are Viktor Porges, born in Horazdovice and Anna (Bondy), born in Horovice. German occupation; ban on owning animals by Jews; payment of a bribe to a veterinarian for certifying the euthanization of her dog; termination of studies by Jewish students, including high school studies; yellow badge; deportations to Lodz and Theresienstadt, 1941; deportation to Theresienstadt with her family, July 1942; life in camp in...

File Number : 8521

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Testimony of Elisheva Galili née Weispeter, born in 1931 in Warsaw, about her experiences as a girl in the Wilno ghetto; the Danzig, Stutthof, and Kaiserwald camps, etc.

Life before the war; offspring of a Zionist family; war breaks out in September 1939; escape to Wilno; violence during the period of Lithuanian rule; sending parcels to acquaintances in Warsaw; Soviet occupation ensues in July 1940; German occupation ensues in June 1941; dispossession; murder of Jews in the streets and in Ponary; eviction from the family home; father murdered in Ponary in August 1941; ghettoization in September 1941; the Yom Kippur Aktion; mother in contact with the chairman of the Judenrat, Jacob Gens; mother works for the cleaning police and receives a pass; witness attends school; activity...

File Number : 13622

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Collection of articles regarding art and medicine in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, including poems written by inmates in the ghetto, undated

Collection of articles regarding art and medicine in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, including poems written by inmates in the ghetto, undated - Article by Vilem Weber, regarding the fate of Jewish poetess Ilse Weber, who was an inmate in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, and perished, 1944. Including in the file are the names of the following poets: Ilse Weber; Kurt Kapper; Arnost Weisz; Alena Synkova; Dagmar Hilarova.

File Number : 467

Type of Material : Article, Poem/song

Language : Czech, German

Testimony of Bezalel Zalik Katz, born in the Soviet Union, 1924, regarding his experiences in Kiev and Kizlyar

Testimony

Testimony of Bezalel Zalik Katz, born in the Soviet Union, 1924, regarding his experiences in Kiev and Kizlyar Studies in an art college in Kiev before the outbreak of the war. Escape to the north of Caucasus at the outbreak of the war; life in Kizlyar until 1942; draft [into the Red Army] at the front, May 1942; release [from the military], 1943 [1945?]; murder of his family at Babi Yar. Works of art by Bezalel Katz and by Elia Leib Katz and Malka, Sofia and Raisa Katz were accepted by the art committee of Yad Vashem, 2009.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Letter from London written by Isaac Harry Brody, a soldier serving in the US Army, to his wife, 06 May 1945

Letter from London written by Isaac Harry Brody, a soldier serving in the US Army, to his wife, 06 May 1945 Letter written following his return from Paris and in it he relates to the handicrafts made by his aunt Rebecca during her stay in a camp in Caen.

File Number : 1476

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English

Testimony of Haim Yahalom (Diamant), born in 1935 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Prague and in Theresienstadt ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Haim Yahalom (Diamant), born in 1935 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Prague and in Theresienstadt ghetto Childhood in Prague; German occupation ensues in 1939; father continues to work in manufacturing with the help of the German factory manager; deportation to Theresienstadt ghetto in 1941; placement in a children's home in the ghetto in 1942; parents work in a ghetto crafts shop, turning put leather accessories for the German Army in 1942; placement in isolation in the hospital hosopital due to typhus and tuberculosis; life in the ghetto, mainly of children, in 1941–1945;...

File Number : 13382

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Alador Vilian, born in Backo Gradiste, Yugoslavia, 1928, regarding his experiences as a child in Backo Gradiste, Croatia, Budapest, the Szeged Ghetto and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Aharon Alador Vilian, born in Backo Gradiste, Yugoslavia, 1928, regarding his experiences as a child in Backo Gradiste, Croatia, Budapest, the Szeged Ghetto and other places Life before the war; Orthodox religious family; relations with the Serbian population; activities in the Beitar movement. Draft of his older brother into the Yugoslavian Army, 1939; his brother is taken captive by the Germans; re-annexation to Hungary, 1941; deportation to Croatia; life in Croatia including sleeping in forests; escape to Serbia; receives a family's home and belongings from Serbian neighbors; murder of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence regarding the transfer of two restorers of Jewish art objects from Westerbork to Theresienstadt, from the Archive of Hanns Albin Rauter, the HSSPF in the Netherlands, 1943-1944

Correspondence regarding the transfer of two restorers of Jewish art objects from Westerbork to Theresienstadt, from the Archive of Hanns Albin Rauter, the HSSPF in the Netherlands, 1943-1944 Two restorers of Jewish art objects, Jews Hartog Cohen and Lion Morpurgo from Amsterdam, are to be imposed with the task of restoring Jewish art objects that were confiscated in Theresienstadt for the Reich; in an announcement sent by Rauter to the commander of Westerbork camp on 14/01/1944, it is written that the Jew Hartog Cohen, his wife Catharina and their foster [?] daughter Elisabeth Wachsberg and also the Jew...

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Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Collection of the Bureau Bestrijding Vermogensvlucht - Bureau for the War against the Smuggle of Capital and Property, the Netherlands, 1945-1967

Collection of the Bureau Bestrijding Vermogensvlucht - Bureau for the War against the Smuggle of Capital and Property, the Netherlands, 1945-1967 Establishment of the Bureau Bestrijding Vermogensvlucht - Bureau for the War against the Smuggle of Capital and Property, in July 1945, in order to locate Dutch property - personal property and state property - such as: diamonds, machinery, art collections, stamp collections, banking securities, church bells and other items that were "purchased" or stolen and transferred to Germany and to other countries during the German occupation; Included in the...

Type of Material : Survey Report, Lists, Reports, Document

Language : Dutch, German

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