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Testimony of Yisrael Wladek Toren, born in 1935 in Warsaw, about his experiences as a boy in the Miedzeszyn ghetto, in hiding with a Polish family, and in the Biala camp

Testimony

Testimony of Yisrael Wladek Toren, born in 1935 in Warsaw, about his experiences as a boy in the Miedzeszyn ghetto, in hiding with a Polish family, and in the Biala camp Life before the war; war breaks out; deportation with the family to the Miedzeszyn ghetto; adoption by a Polish family; life in hiding; deportation with the Polish family to the Biała labor camp in 1944; life in the camp; liberation in 1945; life in Warsaw with the Polish family; transfer to a Rescue Committee institution in Łódź in 1946; immigration to Israel in 1949; life in Kefar Hasidim.

File Number : 13419

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Mnachem Erno Frenkel Peeri, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Budapest, his escape on the Kasztner train, and in Linz. Bergen-Belsen and Kreuzlingen camps and in other places Life before the war; religious-Zionist family; smuggle of children, by his father, from Poland to Eretz Israel via the port of Constanta; his father's activities as the president of the Hapoel Hamizrachi movement. German occupation, March 1944; detention of his father, mother and brother by SS soldiers; witness finds a hiding place under a bed with his sister; escape to his...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aron Lipa Veinberger Gur, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in Papa, the Ujhely Ghetto, using a false identity in Budapest and in hiding on a farm

Testimony

Testimony of Aron Lipa Veinberger Gur, born in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in Papa, the Ujhely Ghetto, using a false identity in Budapest and in hiding on a farm Life before the war; hasidic family with hardships; witness learns in a "heder" and attends the Jewish school; learns in a yeshiva in Papa. Deportation to the Ujhely Ghetto, 1944; Ujhely Ghetto life; escape with help from Jews from a labor battalion; move to Budapest; life in Budapest including receiving forged documents; finds a hiding place on a farm; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Reunion with his sister;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yeshaiahu Shaia Siomka Avidani Avidan, born in Tarcau, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Tarcau, Mogilev-Podolski, Dorohoi and Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Yeshaiahu Shaia Siomka Avidani Avidan, born in Tarcau, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Tarcau, Mogilev-Podolski, Dorohoi and Bucharest Life in Tarcau before the war; religious family; displays of antisemitism. Soviet occupation, 1940; murder of Jews by the Romanian Army; expulsion and deportation of Jews from their homes by the Romanians, July 1941; transfer on foot to the Dniester River; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski including being fostered by a Jewish woman, December 1941; cooperation of Jewish policemen with Ukrainians; transfer of Jews to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Vizel, born in Nizni Apsa, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Budapest, camps in Hungary, the Kolomyja area, with the partisans and in other places

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Vizel, born in Nizni Apsa, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Budapest, camps in Hungary, the Kolomyja area, with the partisans and in other places Life before the war; religious family; move to Budapest; life in Budapest including studies; work in tailoring under the auspices of the JDC organization. Membership in the Relief and Rescue Committee; rescue of an orphan girl; deportation to camps in Hungary; life in camps in Hungary including wearing a white armband, 1943; establishment of an underground organization; escape with young people while using forged documents;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit (Sharf) Hertman, born in Kisvarda, Hungary, 1921, regarding her experiences in Kisvarda, Budapest, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Kratzau

Testimony

Testimony of Yehudit (Sharf) Hertman, born in Kisvarda, Hungary, 1921, regarding her experiences in Kisvarda, Budapest, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Kratzau Life in Kisvarda before the war; religious family with many children; activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement. Deportation of Jews who are non-Hungarian citizens, 1939; hides family from Slovakia; transfer of her brother to a labor battalion, 1941; aliya training in Budapest, 1942; activists in the Hashomer Hatzair movement find hiding places for refugees from Poland; establishment of a laboratory to forge documents; German occupation, March 1944;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Danielski Danieli, born in Pszczyna, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Rybnik using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of David Danielski Danieli, born in Pszczyna, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Rybnik using a false identity Family life in Rybnik. German occupation, 1939; smuggled to a village; deportation of his parents to Auschwitz; life with a German-Polish family; move to a village near Striegau in fear of capture; life in the village and work on the estate of a Polish family; return to the German-Polish family in Rybnik; baptism as a Christian by the local priest; attends a German school; life using a false identity; membership in Hitler-Jugend; Soviet occupation, 1945;...

File Number : 12263

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimonies and memoirs regarding the rescue activities of P. Marie Benoit and other in their help in rescuing Jews from France, Italy, Spain and other countries, 1940-1944

Testimonies regarding the escue activities of P. Marie Benoit, Fernado Leboucher, Settimio Sorani, Bernhard Lichtenberg, the organisation DELASEM, and others Memoirs of the monk P. Marie-Benoit regarding his help in rescuing Jews from France, Italy, Spain and additional countries, 1940-1944 Memoirs regarding the activities of P. Marie-Benoit, Resume de mon activite en faveur des juifs persecutes 1940-1944, in Marseilles and Rome; contacts with Jewish organizations and Government institutions in European countries, North Africa and the United States; rescue plans of Jews in the Italian area and their...

File Number : 272

Type of Material : Testimony, Memoirs

Testimony of Meir Rutman, born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Budapest.

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Rutman, born in Budapest, Hungary,in 1933 , regarding his experiences as a child in Budapest. Life before the war; attending a Jewish school; anti semitism; advertising anti-Jewish legislation; aryanisation of the family factory; transfer of his father to a labour battalion; murder of his father while he was trying to escape in 1943; food rationings; abuses of people from the arrow cross organization; transfer to a sponsored house of the ambassy of Portugal; suffering from starvation, cold and lice; air-raids; liberation by the red army; looting; rape of women; establishment by the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew