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Official documentation regarding Haim Rosenthal and a letter of testimony regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in Romania, 1941-1944

Official documentation regarding Haim Rosenthal and a letter of testimony regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in Romania, 1941-1944 - Confirmations issued in Bucharest regarding the employment of Haim Rosenthal, born in Romania, 26 November 1910, in forced labor, 1941-1944; - Birth certificate, issued in Bucharest, 1956; - Letter of testimony regarding the experiences of Haim Rosenthal, written by his daughter Ella Rosenthal.

File Number : 311

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Certification, Official Documentation

Language : English, Romanian

Testimony of Itzhak Fokshani, born in Furat, Romania, 1920, regarding his experiences in Bucharest and Serbinti

Testimony of Itzhak Fokshani, born in Furat, Romania, 1920, regarding his experiences in Bucharest and Serbinti Life in Furat and Braila. Outbreak of the war; ramifications for daily life; kidnapping of Jews for labor in Bucharest; deportation to a labor camp in Serbinti; forced labor; transfer to labor in a factory in Bucharest; liberation, 23 August 1944. Aliya training on a kibbutz in Pelaras [?]; unsuccessful aliya attempt and detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1949; enlistment in the IDF and participation in combat.

File Number : 23

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Armin Penczyna, reporting the kidnapping on 31/12/1944 of his brother Jozef Penczyna, who was in hiding while using the false name of Wladyslaw Raczkowski, while hidden by the Pietrzak family in the village of Lyczanka in the Myslenice district, and who was handed over to the Germans Two men named Jedrzej Lepka and Henryk Bajda arrived to the home of Pietrzak Franciszek on 31/12/1944 and demanded that he hand over to them the Jew, Jozef Penczyna. Despite the opposition of Pietrzak Franciszek and his wife's declaration that Penczyna was not at all a Jew, they took him to an unknown place. Lepka...

File Number : 5796

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Herman Italiaander regarding life in hiding in the Netherlands, capture and escape from Westerbork, escape to Spain via Belgium and France, 1942-1944

Testimony of Herman Italiaander regarding life in hiding in the Netherlands, capture and escape from Westerbork, escape to Spain via Belgium and France, 1942-1944 Replies to the questionnaire, issued by the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, December 1955: - Going underground in Amsterdam, July 1942; - Being kidnapped and blackmailed by two men, while on the way to The Hague, one of the men was a Jew named Querido; - Life in hiding in various locations in the Netherlands; - Capture and deportation to Westerbork, 26 November 1942; - Contact...

File Number : 5144

Type of Material : Memoirs, Testimony, Names, Questionnaire

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Lajos Schafer, born in Lucenec, Czechoslovakia, 1902, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion and with the partisans in Ukraine

Testimony

Testimony of Lajos Schafer, born in Lucenec, Czechoslovakia, 1902, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion and with the partisans in Ukraine Life in a labor battalion in Ukraine; kidnapped by the partisans; life with the partisans including the murder of Jews by the partisans and combat against the Germans; escape from the partisans; return to the labor battalion.

File Number : 1045

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German, Hungarian

Letters sent by Anna Rosa van Dam to her parents from prison and from camps, 1943-1944; additional documentation regarding her experiences during the Holocaust and her part in the rescue of Jewish children - Letters sent by Ans van Dam from detention in Hilversum and the Westerbork and Kaufering camps to her parents in Hilversum, December 1943-September 1944, including a letter from the Kapo in Kaufering, 07 September 1944; - Correspondence between A. R. Drukker-van Dam in Jerusalem and the Stichting Organization in the Netherlands 1940-1944, dated 1987-1988 regarding the role of Rob Korpershoek and Wibo...

File Number : 4859

Type of Material : Letter, Certification, Draft, Speech, Article, Memoirs, Personal Documents, Identity Card

Language : Hebrew, Dutch, German

Testimony of Aleksander Naiman, born in Ipatovo, Russia, 1942, regarding his mother's escape from Novodarovka to the east of the Soviet Union, his birth in 1942, and their continued survival

Testimony

Testimony of Aleksander Naiman, born in Ipatovo, Russia, 1942, regarding his mother's escape from Novodarovka to the east of the Soviet Union, his birth in 1942, and continued survival Outbreak of the war; his father drafted into the Red Army; His mother’s escape from Novodarovka while pregnant, with her sister and sister's children; wandering by train; arrival in Ipatovo; birth of the witness, February 1942; approaching frontlines; continued escape eastward in carts, later by train; arrival in Baku; bombings along the way; lack of sanitation; food shortages; boarding a ship in Baku; set sail on the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Aviva (Teitelbaum) Barami, born in Lodz, Poland, 1941, regarding her experiences living under a false identity with a Christian family and in a Jewish orphanage in Lodz

Testimony

Entrusted to a Christian family as a baby; murder of her parents; early memories of the Christian family; her false name is Edza; kidnapped from the home of the Christian family by two men claiming to be her uncles, 1945; transfer to the Jewish orphanage on Pietkovska Street, Lodz; neglect; violence; punishments; her older brother, eight years her senior, appears at the orphanage sporadically and disappears; transfer by the JDC to Chateau De Jalesnes in the area of Marseilles, France; improved conditions; learning Hebrew; her rejection of offers of adoption by Jewish families because she has a brother; leaving...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Eliahu Maloul’s memoirs regarding his family’s experiences in Soliman, confiscation of the family's property by the Germans, kidnapping, liberation and aliya to Israel

Eliahu Maloul’s memoirs regarding his family’s experiences in Soliman, confiscation of the family's property by the Germans, kidnapping, liberation and aliya to Israel Memoirs of Eliahu Maloul, born in Soliman, Tunisia on 18 May 1936, regarding the German occupation in Tunisia. Recorded by Hana Mins in 5772 (2011-2012): Eliahu's childhood in Soliman: studies, the synagogue and Rabbi Yosef Almoshnino; the history of the family; the family’s financial situation is very solid; the family business and his father Chaim's journeys to Tunis; relations between the Jews and the Muslims; occupation of Tunisia by the...

File Number : 8910

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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