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Letters by Reichmann family members, and official documentation regarding the family members in various places in France and Switzerland, 1939-1945

Letters by Reichmann family members, and official documentation regarding the family members in various places in France and Switzerland, 1939-1945 - Certificate of an authorized business owner, issued for Saul Reichmann, a foreign national in Lens, 20/08/1939; - Order for arrest, issued by the field headquarters in Biarritz against Saul Reichmann, accused of attempting to illegally cross the border into the French Free Zone, 09/03/1941; - Letter sent by the family's mother Helene Reichmann, from Benejacq, to her brother Leon Mandelbaum, who succeeded in escaping to Switzerland and who was staying in...

File Number : 3877

Type of Material : Postcard, Certification, Letter, Legal Documentation

Language : Italian, French

Testimony of Fredi Knoler, born in Vienna, Austria, in 1921 regarding the French resistance and the Drancy, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony

German occupation and annexation of Austria( Anschluss) in 1938; Kristallnacht in 1938; crossing borders to Antwerpen,Belgium in 1938 where acquaintances of the family stayed; transfer to a camp for Jewish refugees (with the support of the Jewish community) in Merkplas in 1939; escape to France after the German occupation of Belgium in 1940; his detention in Lille,France because of his German (Austrian) nationality and transfer to the detention camp in St Cyprien in 1940; his escape from the camp to Gaillac and his work in agriculture in 1940; buying of forged certificates and his moving to Paris,as a French...

File Number : 13473

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Chaim Kohen, born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1930, regarding his life in hiding among nuns and with a Greek Christian family in Athens, and his escape to Turkey

Testimony of Chaim Kohen, born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1930, regarding his life in hiding among nuns and with a Greek Christian family in Athens, and his escape to Turkey Childhood and move to Athens; war with Italy in 1940; German occupation in 1941; escape with his family to the village of Plaka in 1941; hiding for about two months; family’s return to Athens in 1941; life under Italian regime; the great famine; move, with assistance from Italian governor (a friend of his father’s), into hiding among Italian nuns in the hospital complex in the Anaros region in 1942–1943; father’s move of the family to a...

File Number : 13767

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters from Hans Kaufmann in Sweden to Eva Warburg in Israel regarding the fate of his family in Germany, Denmark and Sweden during the war, 2008-2009

Letters from Hans Kaufmann in Sweden to Eva Warburg in Israel regarding the fate of his family in Germany, Denmark and Sweden during the war, 2008-2009 The file includes two letters from Hans Kaufmann to Eva Warburg, 04 October 2008 and 29 November 2009. In October 1939, when he was 14 years old, Hans Kaufmann was transferred with a group of children from Münster to Denmark; after the German occupation of Denmark, he was transferred by boat to Sweden, thus escaping arrest and deportation; his father perished in the Riga Ghetto; his mother lived in the Riga Ghetto, the Stutthof camp and various labor camps...

File Number : 8539

Type of Material : Diary, Letter of Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Swedish, German

Personal documentation of the Philippsborn family, including postcards sent from Monowitz camp and Birkenau to Ruth Neumann in Berlin by her brother Paul Philippsborn and his wife, Annemarie, and more, 1934-1944 Postcards: - Postcard sent to Ruth Neumann in Berlin by Annemarie Philippsborn in Birkenau, 15 June 1943; - Two postcards sent to Ruth Neumann in Berlin by her brother, Paul Philippsborn in Monowitz camp, 15 June 1943 and 30 January 1944; Personal documentation of members of the Philippsborn family: - Medical prescription made out to Rosalie Philippsborn in Berlin, 22 November 1941; -...

File Number : 2012

Type of Material : Postcard, Personal Documents, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Prof. David Jakoby Jakobowitz, born in Antwerpen, Belgium, 1928, regarding his experiences in Antwerp, Lyon, Geneva, Adliswil and Celerina

Testimony

Testimony of Prof. David Jakoby Jakobowitz, born in Antwerpen, Belgium, 1928, regarding his experiences in Antwerp, Lyon, Geneva, Adliswil and Celerina Childhood in Antwerp; his father is a partner of a diamond company; studies at a Jewish elementary school for boys “Jashobeam”. German occupation, 10.05.1940; escape with his family on a train to France; German occupation; back home to the hometown; studies in a French public high school; yellow badges; restrictions; cancellation of food tickets for Jews; beginning of the deportation of the city's Jews to Poland, autumn of 1942; escape with his family by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Sonia Engelsberg, born in Torun, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Cesky Tesín, in a Polish village near the Dniester river, the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz, the prison in Most, Theresienstadt and other places Move to Cesky Tesín, life with her parents and four siblings until 1938. Clash between the Polish Army and the Czechoslovakian Army; the German occupation; anti-Jewish legislation and regulations; draft of Jewish men to forced labor; escape of the family to Torun; annexation of the area to Hungary, 1939; deportation of the Jews without Hungarian citizenship to Poland,...

File Number : 8482

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Czech

Memoirs of Paulina (Barak) Birnbaum, born in Orinin, Ukraine, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Zhvanchik Ghetto, the Gorodok Ghetto, in Kopaygorod, Tulchin, Mogilev and Barlad

Memoirs of Paulina (Barak) Birnbaum, born in Orinin, Ukraine, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Zhvanchik Ghetto, the Gorodok Ghetto, in Kopaygorod, Tulchin, Mogilev and Barlad German occupation of Zhvanchik; attitude of the local population; attempts of Jews to appease the Germans by welcoming them with a Torah scroll; acts of abuse against the Jews; collaboration of the Ukrainians with the Germans; pogrom in Zhvanchik, 31 August 1941, including the murder of her father; in hiding in an attic; mass murder of the Jews of Zhvanchik [in killing pits]; in hiding in a cemetery; "Aktion" in the ghetto;...

File Number : 8480

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Memoirs

Language : Russian

כרמי שרהTestimony of Sara Arzbet Karmi née Yakubovitz, born in 1926 in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, about her experiences in the Mateszalka ghetto, Auschwitz, the Teplice camp, and Theresienstadt

German occupation ensues in 1944; deported to the Mateszalka ghetto in 1944; deported to Auschwitz in 1944; taken to the Teplice camp in 1944; works at an armaments and aircraft manufacturing plant; sent to Theresienstadt in 1945; liberated by Red Army forces in 1945; back to Nyiregyhaza; moves to Budapest and joins an Agudath Israel "kibbutz" in 1946; moves (illegally) to Zagreb; waits approx. two months in 1946; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel aboard the Knesset Israel under Aliya Bet auspices; deported to the "winter camp" in Cyprus in 1946; marries in 1947; immigrates to Eretz Israel in 1947; adjusts to...

File Number : 13513

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Tratner née Stern, born in 1927 in Cluj, Romania, about her experiences in Cluj, Budapest, and Romania, and her immigration to Eretz Israel in August 1944

Offspring of a Zionist family in Clug; grandfather, a rabbi, visits Eretz Israel; father dies; witness joins the Habonim movement; older brother immigrates to Eretz Israel in 1938; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; witness attends a Hebrew gymnasium; German occupation in 1944; brother inducted into labor service; ideas about escaping to Romania; obtains false papers with help from the movement; escapes to Budapest; information about the Cluj ghetto; receives an offer to board the "Kasztner train"; decides to escape to Romania; aided by the Zionist pioneering underground; sinking of the MV Mefküre;...

File Number : 13548

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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