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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzili Gold Dobrin Simon, born in 1925 in Berlin, about life under a false identity in Chambery, Grenoble, and Lyon

Life under Nazi rule in Berlin in 1933; reaching Paris with her family in 1938; German occupation ensues in 1940; escaping and returning to Paris; hiding from deportation by the French police and escaping with family to the Free Zone in southern France in 1942; living in the La Bourboule resort town in 1942; assistance from residents and mayor; moving with a sister to Chambery in 1943 under a false identity with help from the French resistance and the Zionist movement; moving to a farm as part of a Zionist training pogram, Toulouse Lautrec, Grenoble; moving to a pension run by the French resistance in Lyon in...

File Number : 13574

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sion Sitruk, born in La Goulette, Tunisia, 1928, regarding his experiences and his family's experiences in Tunis during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Sion Sitruk, born in La Goulette, Tunisia, 1928, regarding his experiences and his family's experiences in Tunis during the war Life in Tunis with his family, during the war. Life with his family, after the war.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gabriel Goldschmidt, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1927

Testimony

Testimony of Gabriel Goldschmidt, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1927 His childhood and family background in Hamburg; (approximately 11 generations in Germany); attends a Talmud Torah; religious life; deterioration of the situation; absorbing Jewish students from German schools; Kristallnacht; changing his name to Israel (in accordance with the law), 1939. Emigration to his aunt in London as part of the Kindertransport; acclimatization in England; aliya to Eretz Israel as part of Machal, 1948; absorption; relations with Germany.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Dadosh Dvir Dobetzki, born in Metz, France, 1928, regarding his experiences as a child in Metz, Royan, assumed identity in Chalus, Ringlikon camp and other places

Testimony

Testimony of David Dadosh Dvir Dobetzki, born in Metz, France, 1928, regarding his experiences as a child in Metz, Royan, assumed identity in Chalus, Ringlikon camp and other places Life before the war; member of the eastern European community. Outbreak of the war, 1939; evacuation of the French western border settlements; life in Royan as refugees; German occupation of France, 1940; life until summer 1942; receives a warning from the head of the Gestapo on the expected deportation the day after; escape with the family to Chalus; life in Chalus with an assumed identity; work as a courier of forged...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menachem Cohen Shtol, born in Sighet, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz and camps in the Silesia area

Testimony

Testimony of Menachem Cohen Shtol, born in Sighet, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz and camps in the Silesia area Life before the war; Orthodox family; attends school and a "heder". Annexation to Hungary, 1940; restrictions on the Jews; Jews prepare for aliya to Eretz Israel, 1942; deportation of Jews without Hungarian or Ukranian citizenship to Ukraine; receives knowledge on the murder of Jews due to lack of food; termination of his education, 1942; Jewish police activities; soup kitchen; death of his mother from surgery in Budapest, 1943; deportation of the Jews...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Levitanus, born in Druja, Poland, 1938, regarding his experiences in Druja and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Levitanus, born in Druja, Poland, 1938, regarding his experiences in Druja and in hiding Life before the war. German occupation; deportation to a ghetto; decrees including confiscation of property and forced labor; escape; in hiding with a non-Jew; return to the ghetto; in hiding in an alcove; disappearance of his sister; wanderings between hiding places; escape with his mother to forests and life with the partisans; liberation. Move to Belorussia; remarriage of his mother; move to Poland; intergration in an aliya training group; move to Wasseralfingen; aliya to Israel via Italy, 1949.

File Number : 12928

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Kapelanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, the Radom Ghetto and Dachau

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Kapelanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, the Radom Ghetto and Dachau Religious family with many children; attends a Jewish school. Outbreak of the war, 1939; life under Soviet rule; German occupation, 1941; odd jobs for German soldiers; deportation to the Bialystok Ghetto; ghetto life including labor in a textile factory for a Germany company; in hiding in an attic during an "Aktion", 1943; concentration of the Jews in the city square, August 1943; separation from his family members; deportation to a camp; escape via a forest to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Kaplinski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Radom Ghettos and Dachau

Testimony of Shlomo Kaplinski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Radom Ghettos and Dachau From a large religious family; attends a Jewish school. Outbreak of the war, 1939; life under Soviet occupation; German occupation, 1941; does odd jobs for the German soldiers; deportation to the Bialystok Ghetto; ghetto life including labor in a textile factory for a German company; in hiding in an attic during an "Aktion", August 1943; concentration of the ghetto Jews in the city's square; separation from family; escape from deportation to a camp, via a forest, to...

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Irene (Borchardt) Liron, born in Berlin, Germany, 1929, regarding her experiences in Berlin and in the Kindertransport to Great Britain

Testimony

Testimony of Irene (Borchardt) Liron, born in Berlin, Germany, 1929, regarding her experiences in Berlin and in the Kindertransport to Great Britain Life before the Nazi rise to power; decrees; Kristallnacht, 1938; joins the Kinderstransport to Great Britain, 1939; deportation of her father and brother to the East, 1942; deportation of her mother and sister to the Riga Ghetto, 1942; life with a family near Midhurst; graduates. Work for a Jewish child survivors institute in Lingfield, Surrey, 1947; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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