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Testimony of Kedar Fakdrager Yehuda, born in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1937, regarding the deportation to Westerbork and Bergen Belsen camps

Testimony

Family background ; appointment of the uncles to the Jewish Committee in Amsterdam during German occupation; death of the brother in the shelling of the city in 1943; deportation to Westerbork in September 1943; deportation of the family to The "star camp"(Sternenlager)in Bergen Belsen in January 1944; joining of the grandfathers to an inmate exchange deal with the Templars in 1944; death of the parents and grandmother in Bergen Belsen; joining the group of children sponsored by the Birenboim family; the labor train; liberation by the Russians in Troebitz in April 1944; living in the children's home of Rabbi...

File Number : 13800

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Lottie Grussgott, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Frankfurt am Main, Brussels, France and the Malines camp

Memoirs of Lottie Grussgott, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Frankfurt am Main, Brussels, France and the Malines camp Life before the war. Life under the Nazi regime; anti-Jewish legislation; Kristallnacht; unsuccessful attempt of her father to escape to the Netherlands; capture of her father by a Dutch border guard and his return to Germany; deportation of her father to Buchenwald; being watched over along with her brother Leon by her older sister, Dora,13, because their mother was ill; release of her father from Buchenwald because he had a visa to go to England;...

File Number : 8629

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

Testimony of Joseph Shner Schwartz, borin in 1932 in Kalocsa, Hungary, about his experiences as a boy in the Kalocsa ghetto and in an apartment in Budapest during the war

Life in a Neolog community before the war; Jews not admitted to high school; moves to Budapest for studies; family receives extra privileges because grandfather died in World War I; receives information from a refugee from Poland in 1943 about murder of Jews; German occupation ensues; living in the Kalocsa ghetto; escaping to Budapest; living in an apartment due to the family's extra privileges; hiding acquaintances in the apartment; conditions worsen in October 1944; mother captured and interrogated; life in hiding in the apartment until liberation; Zionist youth movement; slipping into Czechoslovakia;...

File Number : 13600

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chana (Levi) Falg, born in Vienna, Austria in 1924, regarding her experiences in the Kindertransport to England in 1938

Testimony of Chana (Levi) Falg, born in Vienna, Austria in 1924, regarding her experiences in the Kindertransport to England in 1938 Orthodox family; attending a Jewish school; rise of antisemitism in 1936; Anschluss in 1938; anti-Jewish legislation; order expelling father from Austria; joining the Kindertransport to England with her brother in 1938; father’s illegal aliya to pre-state Israel via Romania in 1939; absorption of the witness in an Agudath Israel hostel in London; pioneer training in 1944; aliya to pre-state Israel in 1945; smuggling of inmates released from Buchenwald on the ship; receiving...

File Number : 13471

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ayalon (Windholtz) Yehuda, born in Berlin, Germany in 1930, regarding his experiences in Belgium in 1938 and in hiding from 1942 to 1944

Testimony

Testimony of Ayalon (Windholtz) Yehuda, born in Berlin, Germany in 1930, regarding his experiences in Belgium in 1938 and in hiding from 1942 to 1944 Orthodox family; detention of his uncles in Sachsenhausen; Kristallnacht; move, with help from assistance organizations, to Antwerp; parents crossing the border to Belgium illegally in 1939; occupation of Belgium in May 1940 by the German army; assembly of Jews without Belgian citizenship who had lived in Antwerp and expulsion to forced labor in Limborg district; living with local farmers and labor in farming for half a year; return of witness, with his mother,...

File Number : 13466

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Fiser, born in 1929 in Borsa, Romania, about his experiences in Borsa, the Viseul de Sus ghetto, and camps in Poland and Germany during the war

Life before the war; offspring of an Orthodox religious family; antisemitic harassment in school; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; father inducted into the labor brigades in 1941; economic hardship; ban on kosher slaughter; Passover in April 1944; Jews rounded up in a synagogue; deportation to the Viseul de Sus ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; family lost in a selection in the camp; transferred to Fürstengrube; coal mining at the camp; death march; transported in open freight cars and mortality among prisoners; taken to Dora Mittelbau and Bergen-Belsen; liberation; Hapoel Hamizrachi movement activity in...

File Number : 13640

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Berthold Dov Glaubach, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences on the Aryan side in Cernauti

Testimony

Testimony of Berthold Dov Glaubach, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences on the Aryan side in Cernauti Life before the war; secular family; Soviet occupation, 1940; work in a factory; transfer of the Cernauti to the Romanian authorities, 1941; loss of livelihood; termination of studies; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; Cernauti Ghetto life and [his family's?] personal contacts with the Romanian mayor; removal of lawyers from the deportation lists; [his family] receives a permit to reside outside the borders of the ghetto; expropriation of the family's home by a Romanian manager;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yael Martha Elboim née Shlezinger, born in 1932 in Veszprem, Hungary, about her experiences as a girl in the Szekesfehervar ghetto and undergoing medical experiments with her twin sister in Auschwitz

Father manages a farm in the countryside; witness attends school with her twin sister in a convent; moves to grandfather's home in Veszprem; German occupation in 1944; wears the yellow star; deported to the Szekesfehervar ghetto; deported to Auschwitz; passes selection in the camp and is separated together with her sister from the rest of the family; placed in the twins' barracks; undergoes blood tests and medical experiments; sister's situation deteriorates; liberated by Red Army forces in January 1945; sister dies in the camp after liberation; life in transit camps in Katowice, Czernowitz, and Slutsk; back to...

File Number : 13559

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 13621

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Tratner née Stern, born in 1927 in Cluj, Romania, about her experiences in Cluj, Budapest, and Romania, and her immigration to Eretz Israel in August 1944

Offspring of a Zionist family in Clug; grandfather, a rabbi, visits Eretz Israel; father dies; witness joins the Habonim movement; older brother immigrates to Eretz Israel in 1938; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1940; witness attends a Hebrew gymnasium; German occupation in 1944; brother inducted into labor service; ideas about escaping to Romania; obtains false papers with help from the movement; escapes to Budapest; information about the Cluj ghetto; receives an offer to board the "Kasztner train"; decides to escape to Romania; aided by the Zionist pioneering underground; sinking of the MV Mefküre;...

File Number : 13548

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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