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Testimony of Avraam De Jong Yinon, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 1913, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam and Eindhoven

Testimony

Testimony of Avraam De Jong Yinon, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 1913, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam and Eindhoven Life before the war; religious family; his father was a sexton in a synagogue; move to Amsterdam; activities in a Zionist youth movement; marriage; birth of his daughter. Outbreak of the war; work as a Hebrew teacher; deportation of Jews and detention, 1942; life in detention and then release; finds a hiding place in Nijmegen for his wife and daughter with the help of a priest, 1943; liberation of the southeast Netherlands; escape to the liberated area, 1944. Life in...

File Number : 5817

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 4879

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Certification, Letter, Passport, Official Documentation, Medical Documentation

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch, German

Correspondence conducted between the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, with various organizations and institutions around the world and with clergy, on behalf of Jews during World War II and on behalf of survivors after the war - Letters, telegrams and other documentation related to the contacts between Rabbi Herzog and various clergy people, from 1935 and until after the Holocaust (original material and copies), including: --- Letter regarding contacts with clergy on behalf of the struggle against antisemitism, sent to Rabbi Herzog (the Chief Rabbi of Ireland) by J. H. Hertz in London (the...

File Number : 3515

Type of Material : Speech, Letter, Official Documentation, Telegram, Survey Report, Protocol

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German