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Permit issued in the Lamsdorf POW camp for British soldier Albert Fano, 13 May 1942, and military service booklet received by him upon mobilization, 9 December 1940

Permit issued in the Lamsdorf POW camp for British soldier Albert Fano, 13 May 1942, and military service booklet received by him upon mobilization, 9 December 1940 - Permit issued in the Lamsdorf POW camp for the transfer of British Jewish soldier Albert Fano to the camp hospital, 13 May 1942; - Notification sent on behalf of the British Army regarding Albert Fano being taken captive, 16 August 1941; - Military service booklet belonging to Albert Bohor Fano, born in Burgas, Bulgaria, 23 March 1908, mobilized in Sarafand, 9 December 1940; booklet contains soldier’s personal information, including...

File Number : 634

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Notepad, Personal Records

Language : English, German

Birth certificate of Joseph Kurt Kerpen, born in Vienna, Austria, 1918, a Heimatscheine (Residence Certificate) from 1935; a British Army Soldier's Service and Pay Book and an additional document from 1947 - Joseph Kurt Kerpen, the father of Jichak Kerpen who submitted the material, made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1938; he enlisted in the British Army in 1939, and was discharged in 1946; he served as a driver of trucks and tankers in the Royal Engineer Corps during the war years. - Letter sent by Kurt Kerpen from Eretz Israel (73 Herzl Street, Petach Tikwah) to Siegfried Israel and Frieda Kerpen in Vienna,...

File Number : 246

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : English, German

Testimony of Johanan Dicastro, born in Rome, Italy, 1924, regarding his experiences in Rome and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Johanan Dicastro, born in Rome, Italy, 1924, regarding his experiences in Rome and in hiding His childhood in a secular family; his father's work as an architect and engineer; anti-Jewish legislation including revocation of the Jews' rights, 1938; establishment of a Jewish school; plan for emigration to the Dominican Republic. Outbreak of World War II; air-raids; receives food ration coupons; reads Swiss newspapers; German Army occupation of Italy, July 1943; demanding of gold; obtains forged documents; receives information concerning an "Aktion"; escape from their home; in hiding while...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter written in Italy by Avraham Iber, a fighter in the Jewish Brigade, to a Holocaust survivor, Erna Hamer Porat, 05 February 1946

Letter written in Italy by Avraham Iber, a fighter in the Jewish Brigade, to a Holocaust survivor, Erna Hamer Porat, 05 February 1946 The letter contains information regarding his youth in a Hassidic home, the stifling atmosphere in the home, his dreams of becoming a farmer, building Eretz Israel and defending the homeland, and his joining a Zionist youth movement; Note: Erna Hamer Porat, born in Krakow, Poland, 1925, was transferred during the war to Plaszow camp, Auschwitz and Theresienstadt.

File Number : 1517

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yoetz Deutsch, born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1938, regarding his experiences as a child in Zagreb, Ljubljana, in hiding in Malo and more

Testimony

Testimony of Yoetz Deutsch, born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1938, regarding his experiences as a child in Zagreb, Ljubljana, in hiding in Malo and more From a well-to-do, Orthodox family. Confiscation of family home and control of his father's factory by the Ustasha, March 1941; retention of his father in the factory as an essential worker; arrest of his father; his deportation and murder in the Jasenovac camp, September 1941; escape with his mother and two siblings to Ljubljana which was under Italian occupation, 23 September 1941; crossing the border to Italy illegally with help from a smuggler, early 1942;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Testimony of Emil Eli Neutra, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1934, regarding his experiences in Sarajevo, Brod and with Tito's partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Emil Eli Neutra, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1934, regarding his experiences in Sarajevo, Brod and with Tito's partisans German occupation, April 1941; anti-Jewish decrees; arrests of Jews; transfer to relatives in Sarajevo; return to Brod, early 1943; exempt from deportation due to his father's being needed for the economy (awarded the status of an "Honorary Aryan"); joins Tito's partisans; attitude of the partisans; combat in forests and mountains; knowledge about parachutists from Eretz-Israel en route to Hungary; liberation. Life in Yugoslavia; aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 12968

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Joint testimony of siblings Miriam (Politch) Tivon, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1936, and Yaakov Halevi Politch, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1933, regarding their experiences in Belgrade, Sarajevo, Split and other places, and their aliya to Eretz Israel Life before the war; their childhood in a Zionist family. Escape to Belgrade, 1941; life in Belgrade including help to Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria; escape to Sarajevo, June 1941; in hiding in villages in the area, September 1941; escape to Split; life in Split under Italian occupation; deportation by the Italian Army to Vela Luka, late...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Itzko Maestro, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1930, regarding his experiences in Sarajevo, Makarska, Split, Vela Luka, other places and his aliya to Eretz Israel in 1944

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Itzko Maestro, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1930, regarding his experiences in Sarajevo, Makarska, Split, Vela Luka, other places and his aliya to Eretz Israel in 1944 Life before the war; Zionist family; activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement; aliya training. Outbreak of the war, Pesach, April 1941; restrictions on the Jews including the yellow badge; evades deportation to camps; escape to Makarska using forged documents; life in Makarska under Italian occupation; escape to Split; transfer to Vela Luka by the Italian Army, 1941; life in Vela Luka including list of names of Jews...

Type of Material : Testimony, List of Survivors

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Reuven Frid Porat, born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1933, regarding his experiences on the island of Korcula, Vela Luka, Pozino, the Bari region and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Reuven Frid Porat, born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1933, regarding his experiences on the island of Korcula, Vela Luka, Pozino, the Bari region and other places Life before the war; attends a Jewish kindergarten and a Jewish school. German occupation, 10 April 1941; decrees including yellow badge; deportation to the southern part of the city; escape to the Italian occupied area with forged Aryan documents and help from a smuggler; reports regularly to the police; his mother transfers the family to the Italian occupied area; transfer to the island of Korcula; life in Vela Luka, December 1941;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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