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Poems by Leo Cohen and personal documentation belonging to the Ringer, Katin and Hirsch families from the Netherlands, 1940-1945

Poems by Leo Cohen and personal documentation belonging to the Ringer, Katin and Hirsch families from the Netherlands, 1940-1945 - Copy of a diary kept by a young Jewish man, approximately 20 years old, in a hiding place in an attic belonging to non-Jewish Dutch people; the diary is in the form of a calendar page with illustrations and titles in Dutch and in Hebrew (pp. 1-24), 01 November 1942-31 October 1944; - "Engelen in de Hel" (Angels in Hell), a collection of poems written by Leo Cohen (pp. 25-61), 1940-1945; - Letter from Brigitte Nenner-Ringer to Yad Vashem describing wax paper that her mother,...

File Number : 68

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Dutch, German

Testimony of Andor Hauer, born in Nagytapolcsány, Hungary in 1911, regarding his experiences in Ózd, in a labor battalion in the Carpathian Ruthenia area, in Szombathely, and in Schachendorf and other places Work in Ózd as a teacher as of 1941; life in Ózd with 1,200 Jews; German occupation, 1944; payment of a bribe to the authorities by well-to-do Jews in exchange of receiving a privileged treatment before the establishment of the ghetto; transfer to forced labor in service in a labor battalion; transfer to the Carpathian Ruthenia area; receipt of inhuman treatment by the Hungarian soldiers; typhus disease;...

File Number : 3651

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian