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Memoirs of Avram Artarac, born in Vlasenica, Yugoslavia, 1886, regarding his experiences in Sarajevo, Mostar, Lopud camps, with the partisans and more

Memoirs of Avram Artarac, born in Vlasenica, Yugoslavia, 1886, regarding his experiences in Sarajevo, Mostar, Lopud camps, with the partisans and more Life before the war. Life in Sarajevo during the German occupation; escape to Mostar; life in Mostar during the Italian occupation; deportation to Lopud camp; transfer to Rab Island; camp life; surrender of Italy, 1943; joining the partisans and escape to various locations, until 1945. Included in the file: - Short autobiography of Avram Altarac; - Two certificates in the name of Avram Altarac.

File Number : 130

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Serbian-Croatian

Documentation regarding the activity of Jewish partisans in Yugoslavia, and the participation of paratroopers from Eretz Israel in the fight against the German occupation

Slavisha Wiener was born in Croatia, 1903. He was an engineer, one of the leaders of the Association of Engineers of Sarajevo; joined an underground communist party in 1940; sent after the occupation of Yugoslavia to the mountains of Romania to organize a partisan force; commander of the partisan unit in Bosnia; participated in the liberation of places in Bosnia; mortally wounded in the battle near Han Pijesak in January 1942; committed suicide in order not to fall into the hands of the Germans. Members of the Baruch family: - Isidore - Isa Baruch, born in 1910; joined the partisans after the occupation of...

File Number : 191

Type of Material : Article

Language : Hebrew

The stories of Fedor Kovač's survival under a false identity in Croatia under Nazi rule, and serving with the Croatian Partisans

The stories of Fedor Kovač's survival under a false identity in Croatia under Nazi rule, and serving with the Croatian Partisans - By his son Meir Kovač : moving from city to city without papers; searches for Jews in hiding; saved by entering a German police station as they were not searching for Jews there; fighting against the Nazis with the Croatian partisans; capture; saved from execution and escape from the train on the way to a labor camp; saved again, this time from selection, by asking an SS officer if he could enlist in the fascist Croatian army. Comments by the submitter of the material: (Meir...

File Number : 815

Type of Material : Documentary, Stories

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Klara Rothstein née Romano about her experiences during the Holocaust; "The Partisans' Haggada" by Šani Altarac, and additional documentation associated with the Jews of Yugoslavia

Memoirs of Klara Rothstein née Romano about her experiences during the Holocaust; "The Partisans' Haggada" by Šani Altarac, and additional documentation associated with the Jews of Yugoslavia "Roditelski dom Šemuela Romana i sudbina njegove porodice": memoirs of Klara Rothstein née Romano, born in 1913 in Tuzla, about her brother, Šemuel Romano, her parents' home, and her family's experiences in the Holocaust (written in Afikim in June–July 1973): - the family's history; the story of Klara's parents, Josef Romano and Sara Romano née Perera, and her brothers—Šemuel, born in 1906 in Sarajevo; Leon, born in...

File Number : 11428

Type of Material : Postcard, Genealogy, Poems/songs, Prayer, Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Serbian, Hebrew, Croatian, Ladino

Letter and envelopes that Mira Vizler, active with the partisans and the Yugoslav Army, exchanged with her father, Joško Vizler, and her uncle, Rudolf Vizler, 1944–1945

Submitter’s remarks: Reuven Wiesler was born in Zagreb in 1931. His parents: Rudolf Wiesler and Lina Wiesler née Bash. Rudolf’s parents: Hermann and Rosa Wiesler of Tusla. Hermann Wiesler owned the most famous slilovitz plant in Yugoslavia. Rosa died before the war; Hermann was concealed by his servant during the Holocaust and died in hiding. Lina’s parents—Jakob Bash (died before the war) and Charlotte Bash née Siechner (died of natural causes during the war). Rudolf had a brother named Joško Wiesler. Joško’s two daughters—Zalta and Mira (both married before the war)—survived. Rudolf served in the army and...

File Number : 4793

Type of Material : Envelope

Language : Croatian

Correspondence of Toša Hofman and Mira (Spitzer) in various places in Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Germany from 1944-1947, including letters sent to them by their relatives in Yugoslavia after the war and their personal documentation Letters: - letters written by Toša Hofman in Topusko, Glina, Budapest, Belgrade, Prague and Leipzig to his wife Mira Hofman in 1944-1947. A letter dated 7 November 1946 includes personal details (names of parents, places and dates of birth) of his deceased parents Marko Hoffmann, born in Vukovar on 8 January 1880, and Malvina (Kohn), born in Krizevci on 9 April...

File Number : 4768

Type of Material : Postcard, Personal Documents, Letter, Genealogy

Language : Serbian, Russian, Croatian

Documentation associated with Jakov Švam, born in 1907 in Žepče

Documentation associated with Jakov Švam, born in 1907 in Žepče - obituary notices associated with the death of Jakov Švam, 1975–1976. Submitter’s remarks: The submitter’s grandfather—Jakov E. Švam—was born in Žepče (Zavidovići) in 1907. His father: Emil Švam. Nothing is known about the fate of his parents in the Holocaust. Jakov had two brothers—Karlo (died in 1942 while serving with the partisans) and Bela (perished in 1945; where and how are unknown)—and a sister, Barta (perished in the Jasenovac camp in 1941 or 1942). Before the war, the family lived in Žepče. Jakov was married; his wife and children...

File Number : 271

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Obituary

Language : Serbian-Croatian

Diary written between 1943-1946 by Ervin Ginzberg, born in Osijek, Yugoslavia in 1915, a doctor and partisan in the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia, and the genealogy of the Ginzberg family

Diary written between 1943-1946 by Ervin Ginzberg, born in Osijek, Yugoslavia in 1915, a doctor and partisan in the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia, and the genealogy of the Ginzberg family - diary written by Ervin Ginzberg, born on 10 February 1915 in Osijek, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and in northern Serbia, from 22 September 1943 to 7 April 1946. Ginzberg was a doctor by profession and a partisan in the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia. Information from the diary: the first part of the diary was written while the witness lived in Gradačac; his wife Tirca and his brother Vlado survived; his...

File Number : 11095

Type of Material : Genealogy, Diary

Language : Croatian

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka (Simkovich) Cohen, born in 1944 in the vicinity of Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, about her experiences in the vicinity of Sarajevo and in Trieste

Testimony of Rivka (Simkovich) Cohen, born in 1944 in the vicinity of Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, about her experiences in the vicinity of Sarajevo and in Trieste Family life in Sarajevo; mother escapes into the forest with witness's older sister; witness born in forest near Sarajevo in January 1944; father is a partisan; father killed in shelling; mother returns to house in town; spared from capture and escapes back into the forest; wanders in the forests; moves to Trieste; reaches the Bari displaced persons camp; immigration to Eretz Israel in 1945; accommodation and rehabilitation.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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