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Testimony of Ann Wigoda née Mendelsohn, born in 1932 in Berlin, about her experiences as a girl in Berlin, her escape to Brussels, and her survival in orphanages and convents in Belgium under a false identity

Childhood in Berlin as the Nazis rise to power; escapes with parents to Brussels in 1938 (illegally); life under German occupation in 1940; father arrested and deported to a camp in 1941; mother falls ill and is taken to the Jewish Weisenbeek hospital near Brussels in 1941; witness placed in a residence at a teachers' college in Laeken in 1942 under a false identity; transferred to a convent in Chimay, spends several months there and is evicted in 1942; placed in the Pensiona des Soeurs de St. Vincent de Paul convent in Obourg, Mons Département; lives in the convcent under a false identity until liberation;...

File Number : 13517

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Correspondence between the community of Aachen and the community of Wien regarding the illegal Immigration of Jews from Austria to Aachen with the hope of crossing the border to Belgium or the Netherlands from there, 1938-1939

File Number : 142

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Moshe Martin Hirsch, born in Berlin, Germany, 1917, regarding the reception of returnees from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp not far from Berlin, 1938, and illegal border crossings to the Netherlands, 1938-1939 In the file: - Covering report prepared by Dr. Ball-Kaduri regarding the testimony of Moshe Martin Hirsch, (p. 2), February 1960; - Testimony of Moshe Martin Hirsch, including, among other topics, the reception of returnees from the Sachsenhausen camp not far from Berlin, 1938, and illegal emigration over the Dutch border: detailed description of his escape from Germany by...

File Number : 271

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Walter Kulka regarding his experiences in Maehrisch-Ostrau (Moravska Ostrava), Czechoslovakia (until 1939, afterwards, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia)

Testimony of Walter Kulka regarding his experiences in Maehrisch-Ostrau (Moravska Ostrava), Czechoslovakia (until 1939, afterwards, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia) Pages 2-3: - Approximately 4,000 Jewish community members in Maehrisch-Ostrau before the war; - German occupation of Maehrisch-Ostrau, 13 March 1939; immediate arrests of Jews and Social Democrats; - Burning of the synagogues, a few months later; confiscation of Jewish businesses; existence of a secret Jewish office helping Jews cross the Polish border in order to receive visas to Eretz Israel, England or other countries; -...

File Number : 79

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Dr. Fritz Berger, born in Chemnitz, Germany, 1902, regarding the deportation, illegal border crossing and emigration of Polish Jews, 1938

Testimony of Dr. Fritz Berger, born in Chemnitz, Germany, 1902, regarding the deportation, illegal border crossing and emigration of Polish Jews, 1938 Deportation of Polish Jews due to a new Polish law and difficulty of re-entry by Polish Jews into Poland, late October 1938; illegal border crossing by many Jews; support of the illegal border crossings by the police and SA in order to accelerate the emigration of Jews; accidental deportation of chalutzim (pioneers); efforts to release chalutzim by Dr. Fritz Berger, interrogation by the Gestapo on suspicion of liberation of captives; criminal investigation...

File Number : 4

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Memoirs

Language : German

Testimony of Curt Friedmann, regarding his experiences in Berlin and Düsseldorf, in the Netherlands, in Westerbork and Barneveld camps, and in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1933-1945

Testimony of Curt Friedmann, regarding his experiences in Berlin and Düsseldorf, in the Netherlands, in Westerbork and Barneveld camps, and in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1933-1945 Curt Friedmann was the manager of German Jewish youth clubs in Germany until 1933. In his testimony he reports about: - Work in Düsseldorf and Berlin (Germany) from 1933-1937; Aryanization of the company he worked for; dismissal from work due to anti-Jewish decrees (p. 5) - His experiences in Düsseldorf during Kristallnacht in November 1938(p. 6) - Illegal emigration to Amsterdam in 1938; various places of residence...

File Number : 707

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Testimony of Shoshana Kosover, born in 1922 in Poland, about her experiences in the ghetto and on the "Aryan" side of Radzymin—resistance activity as a liaison in Warsaw and the Lublin area and in a POW camp in Germany Escaping from the Radzymin ghetto to the "Aryan" side in October 1942; life under a false identity; contacting the Armia Krajowa (Homeland Army) Polish resistance organization and the Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto; Jews including Rachel Auerbach removed from the ghetto to the "Aryan" side; multiple journeys to the Lublin area and helping contact prisoners in the Poniatowa and Trawniki...

File Number : 50

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Letters from Chaim Bialystock and Frania Bialystock née Bloch, Antwerp, to Moshe Martin Bialystock, Belgium, and relatives, 1939–1940, and documentation and experiences of the Bialystock family of Bremen

- letters from Chaim and Frania Bialystock, in Antwerp, to: -- their siblings, March 23, 1939, and January 14, 1940; -- their son, Moshe Martin Bialystock, aboard a train from Antwerp to Brussels, March 15, 1940. - biography of Heinrich Chaim Bialystock, born on July 19, 1891, in Wyszków, Warsaw province, and his family. Sources of information: extract of personal file at the municipality and police of Bremen, 1955; article by Michal Cochu, 2011; and article, “Nacht der jugend 2015 und gedenkfeier der fraktionen der bremischen bürgerschaft,” Bremen, November 2015.- Chaim’s whereabouts in 1908–1914:...

File Number : 4781

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents, Biography, Invitation, Certification

Language : Dutch, German

Testimony of Esther Edith (Jacobson) Carmel, born in 1931 in Königsberg, Germany, about her experiences in Königsberg and Liège and about her immigration to Eretz Israel in 1939

Testimony of Esther Edith (Jacobson) Carmel, born in 1931 in Königsberg, Germany, about her experiences in Königsberg and Liège and about her immigration to Eretz Israel in 1939 Family life in Königsberg; Nazis rise to power in 1933; childhood under Nazi rule; attends a Jewish school; active in the Maccabi movement; antisemitism among the local population; Kristallnacht events in November 1938; school and orphanage set ablaze; father sent to a concentration camp and released approx. six weeks later; witness and sister sent to Belgium in February 1939 and live with an aunt in Liège; witness immigrates to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Cohen, born in 1929 in Rhodes, about his experiences in Rhodes and his immigration to Eretz Israel in 1939

Testimony of David Cohen, born in 1929 in Rhodes, Italy, about his experiences in Rhodes and his immigration to Eretz Israel in 1939 Family originally from Izmir; parents move to Rhodes in 1922; witness one of eight children; father: peddler; mother does sewing work; witness attends an Italian school; deportation order issued for all Jews who reached Rhodes after 1920; the "Joint" (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) helps to procure two ships for the deportees; deportees allowed to take one case with clothing and food; ships set ablaze and deportees sent back to Rhodes; second deportation order...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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