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Testimony of Haim Zilberman, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Klaipeda, the Kaunas Ghetto and with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Haim Zilberman, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Klaipeda, the Kaunas Ghetto and with the partisans Life before the war; move to Klaipeda. German occupation; life in the Kaunas Ghetto; murder of his father and brother by shooting; joins the partisans, 1943; partisan headquarters in the ghetto; help from Lithuanian Communists; hiding of children; the Germans flee, spring 1944. Move to Kaunas, 1947; aliya to Israel, 1991.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Collection of the Dutch Intelligence in London, England, regarding the persecution of Jews in the Netherlands, 1942-1944

Collection of the Dutch Intelligence in London, England, regarding the persecution of Jews in the Netherlands, 1942-1944 Included in the collection: Reports and testimonies collected by the Dutch intelligence services in London, 1942-1944; List of names of Jews from the Netherlands who made aliya to Eretz Israel in July 1944 in the context of the exchange of Jews for Germans, Palestina-Austausch.

Type of Material : Reports, Lists

Language : Dutch

Testimony of Lea Gal, born in Zdzieciol, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Zdzieciol Ghetto and with the partisans in the Nowogrodek forest

Testimony

Testimony of Lea Gal, born in Zdzieciol, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Zdzieciol Ghetto and with the partisans in the Nowogrodek forest Her family are Slonim hasids; her father was a ritual slaughter and mohel; death of her mother from tuberculosis, 1936; life in the Zionist Jewish community; learns Hebrew and religious studies; attends the high school in Vilna until 1938; joins the Hechalutz Hatzair movement; aliya training in Lodz until August 1939; Soviet occupation; studies in a teacher's college until 1941; German occupation, June 1941; murder of her brother; death of her father from an...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documents of the Vayner family, prepared, 11/1942-20/05/1943

File Number : 284

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Article, Drawing

Language : Russian

Articles on the experiences of Bulgarian Jewry during World War II

Articles on the experiences of Bulgarian Jewry during World War II Article by Dr. S. Fauck on the relations between Bulgaria and Germany and its influence on the experiences of Bulgarian Jewry; Notes on the book by Natan Grinberg including photographs from the book Destruction of the European Jews; Notes on the situation of the Jews in Kavalla during the occupation of Kavalla by the German Army, April 1941; Article written after the war on Dr. Delius - Oto Wagner, a German intelligence agent in Bulgaria during the war; Two newspaper articles by Yako Baruh on Beckerle and the events in Kyustendil in...

File Number : 180

Type of Material : Research Article

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Testimony of Yitzhak Jack Varga, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Brussels, Marseilles, Cuba, the United States and as a US Army soldier

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Jack Varga, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Brussels, Marseilles, Cuba, the United States and as a US Army soldier Life before the war; life in Brussels including studies; active in Hashomer Hatzair. Escape to the Spanish border; life in Marseilles including looking for ways to escape; obtains a visa to Cuba with money sent by an uncle from the United States, 1940-1941. Escape to Cuba with help from a smuggler friend; life in Cuba with refugees, August 1941-June 1943; receives a scholarship to study physics at a university in the United States; move to...

File Number : 7392

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English