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Testimony of Yaacov Klein Katsir, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Yaacov Klein Katsir, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Bucharest Family background; Shabbatot and religious holidays; attends a Sephardic Jewish school; synagogues; youth movements and mutual help in the community; arrival of refugees in Bucharest. Anti-Jewish legislation during the Goga-Cuza government; terror on the part of the Iron Guard legionnaires; attempts by the Romanian Army to disperse the legionnaires; persecution of youth groups; deportations to Transnistria; forced labor; agricultural labor in a rural area; air-raids on factories by the US...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gedalja Steinmetz, born in Tinca, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in Tinca, Beius, Ginta, Virciorog, Ocolis and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Gedalja Steinmetz, born in Tinca, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in Tinca, Beius, Ginta, Virciorog, Ocolis and other places Jewish community life in Tinca; competition for the position of rabbi; reception given for the new rabbi; life in Tinca with his familly including attending a government school and learning in a "heder"; learns in the "Yesod Hatorah" Talmud Torah in Oradea; learns in a yeshiva in Tusnad; dispersion of the yeshiva, 1940. Iron Guard takes control over the homes and stores of the Jews; deportation of Jews from Tinca to Beius, March 1941; transfer of Jews to Tinca...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Nadler, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Nadler, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Bucharest Family with many children. Air-raids; displays of antisemitism; looting by legionnaires; draft of his father to forced labor in Bucharest; failed escape attempt to Serbia; end of the war. Acts of revenge against Romanian collaborators; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel via Hungary, Austria and Italy; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zambila Shnelicht, born in Calarasi, Romania, 1909, regarding her experiences in Calarasi, Bucharest, Coltea, Golta and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Zambila Shnelicht, born in Calarasi, Romania, 1909, regarding her experiences in Calarasi, Bucharest, Coltea, Golta and other places Displays of antisemitism in Bucharest, 1940; riots by Guardsmen, 21-23 January, 1941; deportation to Gaesti; transfer to Coltea in exchange for a bribe; deportation of her family to Transnistria by orders of Cepleana, 1944; prayers conducted by the deportees on Yom Kippur (21 September) before their deportation, 1942; deportation to Golta; transfer to Ovidiopol; transfer to Aleksandrovka; transfer to Bogdanovka; transfer to Domanevka; transfer of her husband to...

File Number : 1745

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Romanian

Testimony of Smuel Kanner, born in Ploiesti, Romania, regarding his experiences in Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Smuel Kanner, born in Ploiesti, Romania, regarding his experiences in Bucharest Escape to Bucharest, November 1940; life in his uncle's house; anti-Jewish pogrom carried out by the Legionnaires; help from a German officer.

File Number : 1518

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Romanian

To be translated

File Number : 4300

Type of Material : Testimony, Letter, Official Documentation

Language : Romanian

Appeals by the Uniunea Comunitatilor Evreesti (UCE - Union of Jewish Communities in Romania) to Marshal Antonescu and the Romanian Ministry of the Interior and local authorities, regarding displays of violence by members of the Iron Guard toward Jews and the Jewish communities, including confiscation of property, theft, intimidation and murder, 26 November 1940-20 June 1941

File Number : 113

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Romanian

Memoranda and protests regarding displays of violence by the Iron Guard toward the Jewish population, written by the Federatia Uniunilor de Comunitati Evreesti din Romania (FUCE - Federation of Jewish Communities Unions in Romania) and submitted to Antonescu and to the ministers of his government, 09 December 1940-31 March 1941 Memoranda and protests regarding displays of violence by the Iron Guard toward the Jewish population, written by FUCE and submitted to Antonescu and to the ministers of his government: robbery and confiscation of Jewish-owned property; evacuation of Jews from towns and villages;...

File Number : 93

Type of Material : List of Murdered Persons, Official Documentation

Language : Romanian

Documentation regarding collaboration between the Iron Guard party and the Nazis, assassination attempts on the life of Dr. Wilhelm Filderman, the "Legionnaires' Rebellion" and more

Documentation regarding collaboration between the Iron Guard party and the Nazis, assassination attempts on the life of Dr. Wilhelm Filderman, the "Legionnaires' Rebellion" and more Reports and memoranda written by Dr. Filderman, and testimonies and documents regarding the anti-Jewish terror during the Legionnaires' Rebellion against Antonescu. Also in the file: - Testimony of Klugkist, a German Embassy official, regarding the collaboration between the Iron Guard (Garde de Fier) party and the Nazis (p. 13); - Reply of Antonescu's secretary to Dr. Filderman's petition of 03 November 1941 regarding the...

File Number : 57

Type of Material : Letter, Poems/songs

Language : French

Copies of legislation and directives regarding the Jews in Romania and testimonies and memoranda regarding the Legionnaire (Iron Guardsmen) pogroms

File Number : 55

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Memoirs

Language : French

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