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Correspondence regarding the sisters Henrietta "Jet" Sitters-van Praag and Margaretha "Gre" van Praag after their capture by the Nazis in Amsterdam and before their deportation from the Westerbork camp, 1942 - Undated letter from Johnny to Hilda, Lou and Jopie (who were apparently in hiding) regarding the capture of their mother and her sister Gre during a round-up in Amsterdam, and the lobbying of the son, Harry, with the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) to rescue them with very little chance of rescuing them (pp. 1-2); - Menu for a festive meal in honor of Jet's 80th [?] birthday with a photograph...

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Dutch

Testimony of Paulina (Kreitsman) Dorman, born in Dzhurin, Ukraine, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Dzhurin Ghetto and hiding in a forest

Testimony

Testimony of Paulina (Kreitsman) Dorman, born in Dzhurin, Ukraine, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Dzhurin Ghetto and hiding in a forest From a traditional family with hardships; attends a Ukrainian school; attends an education course in Vinnitsa, 1940. Outbreak of the war; air-raids on the city; escape from Vinnitsa to Dzhurin; murder of her grandmother with the Jews of Dzhurin; German occupation; life in Dzhurin; establishment of the Dzhurin Ghetto; ghetto life including abuse by Romanians; manhunts for Jews and forced labor; in hiding in a forest during the manhunts; activities of the Dzhurin...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Michal Pinkas, born in Dabrowka, Poland, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Dabrowka, Wola Wadowska, in a hiding place from which he was evicted following the murder of his entire family, in hiding in fields, and with a Pole while using a false identity Residence in Dabrowka; his family owns a farm and has five children; Travel to his grandfather in Wola Wadowska with the deportation of the local Jews, two years after the occupation; residence with a Polish farmer; labor by his father for the Germans; start of the "Aktions"; the witness is entrusted to a Polish farmer; the...

File Number : 404

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Reports and articles collected by the JCC (Joodsche Coordinatie Commissie - Jewish Coordination Committee of Dutch Jewry) in Geneva regarding the fate of the Jews of the Netherlands, 1942-1947

Reports and articles collected by the JCC (Joodsche Coordinatie Commissie - Jewish Coordination Committee of Dutch Jewry) in Geneva regarding the fate of the Jews of the Netherlands, 1942-1947 - JCC accounts book, from April 1944; - Pocket diary belonging to JCC member, M. H. Gans, from 1944; - Letter written by a woman in Leipzig who was evacuated from Bergen-Belsen towards the end of the war and the liberation, 17 June 1945; - Articles written by Mr. S. Isaacs (pp. 4-9) and L. Ph. Polak (pp. 64-80) regarding the fate of the Jews of the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation; - Letter written to...

File Number : 46

Type of Material : Letter, Reports

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch, German

To be translated

File Number : 467

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Transcript of testimony of Sarah (Steinberg) Perser, born in Paris in 1936, about her experiences in Paris and Champillet during the Holocaust

Transcript of testimony of Sarah (Steinberg) Perser, born in Paris in 1936, about her experiences in Paris and Champillet during the Holocaust - transcript of testimony of Sarah (Steinberg) Perser about her experiences in the Holocaust (testimony given as part of the Zikaron BaSalon project in 2019): Family life in Paris during the German occupation of the city; witness's father sent to the Beaune la Rolande camp; French police hunt for Jews; family escapes to the south; reaches Champillet; life in Champillet; Germans occupy area in 1943; villagers help the family; back to Paris after war ends; reports...

File Number : 12679

Type of Material : תמליל

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Claude Rosnay about his stay in hiding in Paris during the war and about the fate of his parents, Szmuel and Pauline Rozenholc

Memoirs of Claude Rosnay about his stay in hiding in Paris during the war and about the fate of his parents, Szmuel and Pauline Rozenholc Family life in Paris; father, Szmuel Samuel Rozenholc (Rozenholtz), arrested on May 14, 1941, and sent to the Beaune La Rolande camp and thence to Auschwitz on June 28, 1942; perished in Auschwitz on January 31, 1944; witness placed with maternal grandparents, Maurice and Helene Fouks; mother, Pauline Rozenholc, arrested and sent to the Drancy camp; witness stays with grandparents until liberation of Paris; hides during manhunts for Jews.

File Number : 12675

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Documentation of the experiences of Henia (Golombiovski) Ilan, born in Sosnowiec in 1925, before, during, and after the Holocaust

Documentation of the experiences of Henia (Golombiovski) Ilan, born in Sosnowiec in 1925, before, during, and after the Holocaust Childhood in Sosnowiec; antisemitic manifestations; war erupts; one of witness's brothers sent to the camps; family members hide during manhunts for Jews; Jews rounded up on a soccer field in Sosnowiec; selection and deportation of some, including the witness's sister Lola, to the camps; witness hides with her parents; Jews of Sosnowiec banished to the Srodula ghetto; forced labor; witness sent to the Peterswaldau camp in May 1943; reports about murder of witness's parents as...

File Number : 12634

Type of Material : סיפור חיים

Language : Hebrew

Booklets with documentation regarding the manhunt and deportation of Jews from Rieumes, France on 26 August 1942

The booklets include the following information, among other things: -- Jewish refugees in Rieumes and the Haute Garonne department during the war; Vichy Laws; deportations to concentration camps; draft for forced labor in GTEs (Groups of Foreign Workers); -- experiences of Jacob Lakser, his wife Rebecca Rywka (Blum) born in Biała, and their daughter Evelyne born in Vienna, 1937; escape from Vienna to Belgium in 1938; escape to France in May 1940 and stay in Toulouse; deportation of Jacob to Saint-Cyprien and Gurs camps in 1940; transfer of Rebecca and Evelyne to forced residence in Rieumes; life in Rieumes;...

File Number : 927

Type of Material : Booklet(s), Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Biography

Language : French

To be translated

Testimony

רקע משפחתי; החיים לפני המלחמה; הכיבוש הגרמני ב-1940; התייצבות האב לרישום ברובע; מעצר האב; התחלת גירושים ביולי 1942; החלטת האם לברוח לצרפת החופשית; שליחת העד עם ילדים נוספים ל-Vigneux Sur Seine; מצוד גרמני ותפיסת מרבית הילדים; איחוד עם האם ב-Decines סמוך ל-Lyon; קבלת זהות נוצרית; מסתור זמני אצל הכפריים; מצוד גרמני אחר חברי מחתרת באזור; שיבה ל-Paris לאחר השחרור; מידע על מות האב במחנות; חברות בתנועת השומר הצעיר; עליה לישראל, קליטה בקיבוץ ברעם.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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