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Memoirs of Hermann Adler regarding his experiences in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Vilna, liberation in the Bergen-Belsen camp with the help of Israel Kasztner and more

Memoirs of Hermann Adler regarding his experiences in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Vilna, liberation in the Bergen-Belsen camp with the help of Israel Kasztner and more Move from Germany to Czechoslovakia, 1934; life in Czechoslovakia including work as a teacher. German occupation; escape to Krakow; escape to Vilna; life in Vilna; Zionist underground activities; contact with German Army soldiers who helped in smuggling Jews, among them Anton Schmidt, (who was executed for his role in helping Jews, 1942); deportation to Bergen-Belsen; liberation with the help of Israel Rudolf Kasztner and transfer to...

File Number : 2199

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Original, Memoirs, Documentation, Poems/songs

Language : German

Testimony of Mór Lederer, born in Sopron, Hungary in 1887, regarding his experiences as the director of an orphanage in Budapest

Testimony of Mór Lederer, born in Sopron, Hungary in 1887, regarding his experiences as the director of an orphanage in Budapest Work as the director of an orphanage for boys; transfer of the children of forced laborers to the orphanage; British Army air-raids on the building on 17 September 1944; transfer of Jewish men and women who are 16 to 40 years old to forced labor in service in labor battalions in mid-October 1944; giving of protective documents of the Swedish Embassy and the Red Cross to the children in the orphanage with help from Valdemar Langlet and Raoul Wallenberg in April 1944; staff members...

File Number : 3640

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

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File Number : 3626

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian