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Testimony of Hans Ludwig Biglajzer, born in Honnef, Germany, 1926, regarding his experiences in Bonn, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Dachau

Testimony of Hans Ludwig Biglajzer, born in Honnef, Germany, 1926, regarding his experiences in Bonn, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Dachau Life in Bonn until 1940; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, ghetto life until 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; life in Auschwitz; transfer to Dachau; life in Dachau.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Ruth Bach, born in Albertstadt, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Berlin before the outbreak of the war and in the Netherlands

Testimony

Testimony of Ruth Bach, born in Albertstadt, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in Berlin before the outbreak of the war and in the Netherlands Childhood and family background; move to Berlin at the age of 4; attendance at a private Zionist school; expulsion of students from the German schools; the school principal, Paula Fuerst, accompanies the children on the Kindertransport; life in Germany, until 1938; move to the Netherlands; labor of her father for the German arms industry in Amsterdam. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940; life in Eretz Israel, work with Teddy Kollek; the Eichmann trial.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yechiel Isidor Tobias Yatuv, born in Mannheim, Germany, 1930, regarding his experiences in Mannheim

Testimony

Testimony of Yechiel Isidor Tobias Yatuv, born in Mannheim, Germany, 1930, regarding his experiences in Mannheim His childhood in Mannheim including attending German schools; membership in the Habonim youth movement. Life after the Nazi rise to power including closure of the synagogue and ban on ritual slaughter; move to an aliya training group, 1935; aliya to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliyah.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Leo Grinbaum, born in Nuremberg, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences in Nuernberg and in aliya training in Berlin

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Leo Grinbaum, born in Nuremberg, Germany, 1919, regarding his experiences in Nuremberg and in aliya training in Berlin Childhood and family background in Nuremberg; attendance at a German school and at a Jewish school; atmosphere in the Weimar Republic; religious holidays; Habonim membership; Nazi rise to power, 1933; raising Nazi flags; economic embargo; aliya training in the Niederschoenhausen quarter in Berlin; aliya to Eretz Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Grau, born in Stanislawow, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Zbaraz, Kuty, Cernauti, Bucharest and Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Grau, born in Stanislawow, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Zbaraz, Kuty, Cernauti, Bucharest and Israel Life under Soviet rule, 1939; Romanian-Hungarian occupation, 1941; move to Zbaraz due to fear of the "Aktions" and murder of Jews, 1941; move back to Kuty; hides in a cellar due to fear during the "Aktion" in Kuty, 1942; coordination by families to escape to Romania; escape to Cernauti, 1942; detention by the Romanians, 1942; release [with help] by a Jewish family in Cernauti; deportation of his grandmother and uncles to Poland, 1942; [life in a] Jewish orphanage, 1942; move...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters written by Ilse Gerngross, a young woman from Leipzig, to her girlfriend Bessie (Faine) Goldstein, regarding her excitement about the Hitler regime, 06/1933-05/1936

File Number : 1464

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English

Testimony of Emanuel Gutmann, born in Munich, Germany, 1924, regarding his experiences in Munich until 1936

Testimony

Testimony of Emanuel Gutmann, born in Munich, Germany, 1924, regarding his experiences in Munich until 1936 Life in Germany before the Nazi rise to power; his father's service as a medical officer during World War I; witness attends the Ohel Yaakov Jewish school; membership in a Jewish sports organization; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1936; activities as an emissary in Cyprus at the end of the war.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Solomon, born in Bogarovice, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Gusen

Testimony

Testimony of Aharon Solomon, born in Bogarovice, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Gusen Well-to-do family who are landowners and owners of a farm, department store and a mortgage bank; investments in Eretz Israel by his mother, with the help of emissaries. Outbreak of the war; annexation to Hungary, 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor digging bunkers and in agriculture in exchange for food; deportation to the Mukacevo Ghetto in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz; selection; murder of his mother and sisters; labor as a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliezer Hamerstein, born in Berlin, Germany, 1922, regarding his experiences in Germany until March 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Eliezer Hamerstein, born in Berlin, Germany, 1922, regarding his experiences in Germany until March 1939 From a traditional family; transportation strike initiated by the Nazi and Communist parties; walks to the voting place with his father, 1933; cancellation of tuition scholarships to Jews and leaving the local school; transfer to the Jewish Zionist Theodor Herzl school; establishment of a high school division in the school by Jewish philanthropists; improvement of treatment of the Jews during the Olympics, for appearances, 1936; fear following the Anschluss; life in an aliya training group on...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Friedel Baag, born in Mainz, Germany, 1916, regarding her experiences in Germany until 1946

Testimony

Testimony of Friedel Baag, born in Mainz, Germany, 1916, regarding her experiences in Germany until 1946 Life in Mainz before the Nazi rise to power; attends an Orthodox Jewish school; membership in Maccabi; work as a teacher in Rabbi Dr. Levi's school. Aliya to Eretz Israel, late 1946.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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