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Testimony of Sergio Franco, born in Torino, Italy, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Torino and in hiding by the French border among members of the underground

Testimony

Testimony of Sergio Franco, born in Torino, Italy, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Torino and in hiding by the French border among members of the underground Life in Torino during the war; being subjected to air-raids, 1940; ban on intermarriage; dismissal of family members from their place of employment; escape of the family from Italy; capture of his mother by the Gestapo, 1943; receiving a letter from his mother from Fossoli camp; his father finding a hiding place; changing sleeping accommodations; capture of his father; finding refuge with his uncle; involvement of his uncle in underground...

File Number : 13330

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

P.30 - Personal Archive of Matilde Finzi-Bassani, Italy

P.30 - Personal Archive of Matilde Finzi-Bassani, Italy Born in Ferrara, Italy, Matilde Finzi-Bassani was active in the anti-Fascist underground in northern Italy and Rome. The Collection contains Matilde Finzi-Bassani's personal documentation as well as much documentation regarding the anti-Fascist underground in Italy.

Type of Material : Manifesto, Identity Card, Letter, Brochure, Personal Documents

Language : Italian

Telegrams and correspondence of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington and various US Embassies on issues related to Italy, 1944

Telegrams and correspondence of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington and various US Embassies on issues related to Italy, 1944 Pages 1-5: Telegram from the War Refugee Board (WRB) to the US legation in Algiers, in response to the wishes of Algerian Jews to receive certificates [for legal aliya] to Eretz Israel, including a report regarding the activities of the US President [Roosevelt} and the WRB regarding the absorption of refugees from Europe in the United States, including the decision by the President to transform the Army camp of Fort Ontario to a refugee camp; efforts by the US to enable the...

File Number : 107

Type of Material : Telegram, Survey Report, Statistical Data, Official Documentation

To be translated

File Number : 4760

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

Testimony of Miriam (Shein) Tzidon, born in Osijek, Yugoslavia, 1934, regarding her experiences as a young child in Osijek and Assisi

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Shein) Tzidon, born in Osijek, Yugoslavia, 1934, regarding her experiences as a young child in Osijek and Assisi Her family before the war. Activities by her father in Hashomer Hazair to help Jewish refugees from Austria; German occupation and restrictions on Jews; arrest of her grandfather and his release in exchange for ransom money; information regarding the payment of forced contributions by the Jewish community; her family's escape to Assisi, Italy, with help from smugglers and the Italian underground; life in Assisi; attends a school with nuns as the teachers; her father's...

File Number : 10395

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Emerico Berio, born in Fiume, Italy, 1910, regarding his experiences with the underground in Milan and on the Comitato della Liberazione Nazionale, CLN, in Switzerland

Testimony

Testimony of Emerico Berio, born in Fiume, Italy, 1910, regarding his experiences with the underground in Milan and on the Comitato della Liberazione Nazionale, CLN, in Switzerland Contacts with the underground in Milan; move to Switzerland, September 1943. Contacts with Comitato della Liberazione Nazionale, CLN; participation in prisoner exchanges between German POWs and partisans; activities until 25 April 1945.

File Number : 3424

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Italian, Hebrew

Memoirs of Renata Heller née Carpi, born in 1922 in Milan, about slipping across the Italian border into Switzerland in December 1943, and documentation relating to her marriage to Hugo Heller, a minister in the Evangelical Reformed Church, in 1944 - memoirs of Renata Heller née Carpi about her experiences and those of her parents while slipping across the Italian border into Switzerland in December 1943; - documentation concerning Hugo Heller, including: -- certification that Renata Carpi joined the Evangelical Reformed Church, issued on October 18, 1944; -- letter to the Council of the Evangelical...

File Number : 10777

Type of Material : Postcard, Memoirs, Letter

Language : Italian, Hebrew, German

Testimony of Reuven Kampaniano, born in Milan, Italy, 1942, regarding his experiences in Milan and in hiding in a monastery in Florence

Testimony

Testimony of Reuven Kampaniano, born in Milan, Italy, 1942, regarding his experiences in Milan and in hiding in a monastery in Florence Life with his family before the war; displays of antisemitism; Legislation of Race Laws; dismissal of his father from [his work at] Florence University; escape of the family to a monastery in Florence after the deposition of Mussolini; in hiding in the monastery; search for Jews in monasteries; leaving of the monastery by the family; arrest of his father and aunt following betrayal; deportation of his father and aunt to Auschwitz; transfer to an Italian family, later...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew