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Letters and postcards written by Filippo Politi, an Italian soldier, from a POW camp in Germany, the Thorn camp and Targu Mures, and personal documentation belonging to Politi, 1939-1967

Letters and postcards written by Filippo Politi, an Italian soldier, from a POW camp in Germany, the Thorn camp and Targu Mures, and personal documentation belonging to Politi, 1939-1967 Letters and postcards: - Letters and postcards written by Filippo Politi, an Italian soldier, from a POW camp in Germany (M-Stammlager XXA) and the Gemeinschaftslager camp in Thorn to his parents, Giuseppe and Maria Politi in Torino, 1943-1944; - Postcard sent by Filippo Politi to Eugenia Politi in Torino, 20 August 1944; - Letter sent through the Red Cross Organization to Filippo Politi in Targu Mures by his family...

File Number : 2091

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Postcard, Personal Documents, Letter

Language : Italian, German, Hungarian

Testimony of Edith Hirshel née Folk, born in 1931 in Coka, Yugoslavia, about her experiences as a girl in Coka, Senta, Vienna, and Strasshof

Testimony

Testimony of Edith Hirshel née Folk, born in 1931 in Coka, Yugoslavia, about her experiences as a girl in Coka, Senta, Vienna, and Strasshof Pre-war life in the village; offspring of the only Jewish family in the locality; good neighborly relations; moving to Coka in 1939; German occupation; escaping to her uncle's family in Senta; attending a nunnery school and taking Jewish studies; father is murdered in Belgrade; mother escapes to Hungary; antisemitic manifestations; the hellow star edict; the numerus clausus; German occupation of Hungary in March 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; the train stops; a...

File Number : 13556

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Magdelena (Veis) Shulemzon, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Debrecen Ghetto, Vaserli and Vienna

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Magdelena (Veis) Shulemzon, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Debrecen Ghetto, Vaserli and Vienna Life in Debrecen before the war; meets Jewish refugees from Slovakia, 1938 and 1939. Deportation of her father to a camp; her father's return, 1942; deportation of women over the age of 15 to forced labor; termination of studies; burning of Jewish property; plucking beards of Jewish men; Aryanization of businesses; deportation to the Debrecen Ghetto, April 1944; ghetto life; transfer to a brick factory in Vaserli, late May 1944; life in Vaserli including...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shoshana Rosie (Moskal) Solomon, born in Budesti, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Budesti, the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz, in hiding and in Schleiden

Testimony

Testimony of Shoshana Rosie (Moskal) Solomon, born in Budesti, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Budesti, the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz, in hiding and in Schleiden Life in Budesti before the war; her parents are farmers; attends a local Romanian school; aliya training. Re-annexation to Hungary; restrictions on the Jews, 1939; school attendance on Shabbat; abuse of men with beards; knowledge of murder of Jews; termination of studies, 1940; deportation for forced labor at the eastern front, 1943; deportation to the Sighet Ghetto, Pesach (April) 1944; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of Italian military officers and soldiers murdered in Lwow, 1944-1945

File Number : 245.1

Type of Material : List of Soldiers, List of Military Officers

Language : Russian

Testimony of Lea (Poper) Engel, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in the Debrecen Ghetto, Vienna Lobau, Vienna and Strasshof

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Poper) Engel, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in the Debrecen Ghetto, Vienna Lobau, Vienna and Strasshof From a religious family with hardships. German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Debrecen Ghetto, May 1944; ghetto life with her aunt; transfer to a brick factory; deportation of the family to Vienna Lobau; camp life including labor of her mother in the forests; remains with her brother in her grandfather's care; help from an Italian POW; transfer to a school in Vienna; life in the sports arena during the air-raids and help from non-Jews;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam (Blau) Valder, born in Tekovske, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Levice, Auschwitz, Hessisch-Lichtenau and Wurzen

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Blau) Valder, born in Tekovske, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in Levice, Auschwitz, Hessisch-Lichtenau and Wurzen Life before the war; attends a Jewish school; Bnei Akiva activities; studies dressmaking. Annexation to Hungary; German occupation; decrees against the Jews including the yellow badge; deportation of her siblings; deportation to Levice, spring 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Hessisch-Lichtenau; camp life including labor in a hand grenade factory; transfer to futile labor in the forests; escape to Wurzen; liberation by the Allied...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documents of Ferdinando Sgobbi, born in Chivoggia, in the Venice region, Italy, captured in Croatia by the Germans, October 1943, and detained in German POW camps, mainly in Weissensee camp near Berlin, and liberated by the Red Army on 08/05/1945

File Number : 178

Type of Material : Passport, Personal Documents, Postcard

Language : Italian, German

Testimony of E. Ackerbaum, born in Drágabártfalva, Hungary in 1908, regarding his experiences during service in a labor battalion in Stary Oskol, and in Schachendorf, Mauthausen, Günskirchen and other camps Deportation to forced labor in service in a labor battalion at the Eastern front starting in 1942; life in the severe cold; transfer to Manturovo / Mantura; labor there for eight days, shoveling snow; torture by Hungarian soldiers; murder of laborers by beatings as punishment for keeping warm clothing in a satchel; transfer to Stary Oskol; murder of forced laborers in Stary Oskol; transfer to Stepanovka;...

File Number : 183

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Cipora (Taub) Hochman, born in Melenci, 1925, regarding her experiences in Backi Petrovac, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Reichenbach camps, and Parschnitz

Testimony

Testimony of Cipora (Taub) Hochman, born in Melenci, 1925, regarding her experiences in Backi Petrovac, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Reichenbach camps, and Parschnitz Family life in Yugoslavia before the war; relations with the Serbian population; move of the family to Backi Petrovac; membership in the Revisionist movement; draft of her father into the cavalry as a veterinarian, 1940; her father is taken into German captivity in Luebeck and due to this, he survived; Hungarian occupation and the changes in the way of life for the family and other Jews, October 1941; studies sewing; work until April 1944; German...

File Number : 10801

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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