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Testimony of Noga Eugenia (Cohen) Donat, born in Milan, Italy, 1922, regarding her experiences in Milan, Pandino, using a false identity and in hiding in Castiraga Vidardo

Testimony

Testimony of Noga Eugenia (Cohen) Donat, born in Milan, Italy, 1922, regarding her experiences in Milan, Pandino, using a false identity and in hiding in Castiraga Vidardo Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; anti-Jewish restrictions; escape to Pandino due to air-raids, 1943; life in Pandino including the capture and deportation of her brother; deportation of her parents to Bergen-Belsen; escape to Castiraga Vidardo with help from an acquaintance; life in Castiraga Vidardo including finding a hiding place in the home of an Italian family; life using a false identity with the help of forged documents;...

File Number : 12962

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the publication of the book "War Journals" by Ephraim Elimelech Urbach

Documentation regarding the publication of the book "War Journals" by Ephraim Elimelech Urbach - a clipping from a newspaper with an article about the book "War Journals : diary of Jewish chaplain from Eretz Israel in the British Army, 1942-1944" by Ephraim Elimelech Urbach, which was published in 2008. Ephraim Elimelech Urbach was born in Wloclawek, Poland in 1912, to a Hasidic and Zionist family. He received a doctorate in Rome and began lecturing at the Rabbinical Seminary in Wroclaw. He made aliya to Eretz Israel and started teaching there. In 1941 he enlisted in the British army as a soldier. In...

File Number : 586

Type of Material : Article, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Matatiahu Dagan, regarding his experiences in the British Army in Suez, in the British Mandate for Palestine, and in the Jewish Brigade in Alexandria and in Italy

Memoirs of Matatiahu Dagan, regarding his experiences in the British Army in Suez, in the British Mandate for Palestine, and in the Jewish Brigade in Alexandria and in Italy - Service in the British Army as a deputy commander in Suez, in the British Mandate for Palestine, and in Egypt during 1942-1944; declaration regarding the establishment of the Jewish Brigade; concentration of the members of the Jewish Brigade in a camp near Alexandria; they set sail to the port of Torrente on 04/10/1944; he joins the rescue unit; participation in combat against the Germans in Italy; end of the war; activities with...

File Number : 10652

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Description of the journey of Arie Leo Gluck Gedai, born in Berlin, Germany in 1916, a British Army soldier from Eretz Israel, in the footsteps of his mother, a Holocaust survivor in Berlin, and documents related to Arie Gedai and his wife Hilda Hava (Brunner) Gedai, 1916-1983 The story of Arie Gluck, titled, "To mother, to Berlin - Diary of a Soldier from Eretz Israel", August-September 1945, as told by Gluck to Ziv-Av, the "Haboker" ("The Morning") newspaper emissary in Italy. The story was published in the newspaper in a series, and was supplemented by Gluck in the story he wrote to his wife Hava, in...

File Number : 149

Type of Material : Diary, Article, Official Documentation, Poem/song, Newspaper Clippings, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Memoirs of Moshe Miron, born in Hannover, Germany in 1922, the son of Avraham Yitzchak Wildfogel and Rosa (Zenger) Wildfogel, both of them born in Warsaw, Poland, regarding his experiences during 1927-1960 Description of his family's background; travel to Warsaw with his mother to visit his family members in 1927, when he was five years old; attitude of the Christian society towards him, during his childhood; unable to be accepted to an elementary school in 1936, due to the Nazis' anti-Jewish legislation; joins the Habonim Zionist youth movement in 1936; participates in agricultural aliya training in...

File Number : 9360

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Albert Avraham Khalegua, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, regarding his experiences during 1940-1948

Memoirs of Albert Avraham Khalegua, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, regarding his experiences during 1940-1948 - First part, titled, "Testimonies regarding Nazi war criminals in concentration camps and extermination camps and while en route to the camps, before the liberation": Buna-Monowitz camp life; Gleiwitz camp life; Sonnenberg camp life; evacuation from Sonnenberg; death march from Sonnenberg camp to Buchenwald camp; liberation by the US Army, 07/05/1945; - Second part, titled, "After the liberation": Life following the liberation, including searching for food; crossing the border to...

File Number : 8867

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of Yona Bornstein, born in Radom, Poland, 1926, dated, 1945-1958

Documentation of Yona Bornstein, born in Radom, Poland, 1926, dated, 1945-1958 - Two poems written by Yona Bornstein in Yiddish, titled "Children - Fathers" and "Next to the Monastery"; - Photograph of Yona Bornstein along with other survivors, on the liberation day of Ebensee concentration camp; - Certificate of graduation from the "David Raziel" counselors training school of the Beitar youth movement named after Yosef Trumpeldor, awarded to Yona Bronstein in the US Occupation Zone in Germany, 15 May 1945; - Record book of the "Yona Bornstein" Association of Persons Disabled and Injured by the...

File Number : 393

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Thesis, Official Documentation, Newspaper, Poems/songs

Language : Hebrew, English, Yiddish

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