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Testimony of Avraham Levi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1920, regarding his experiences in Sofia and labor camps

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Levi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1920, regarding his experiences in Sofia and labor camps Outbreak of the war; restrictions on the Jews; curfew for 22 hours a day; draft to a labor camp; camp life including paving roads and living in tents; return to Sofia; deportation to a labor camp on the Yugoslavian border to labor paving roads; end of the war. Move to Romania; Hashomer Hatzair activities; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel on the ship, "Hatikva", 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Collection of the Directie van Handel en Nijverheid - Office of Commerce and Industry in the Netherlands, 1905-1943

Collection of the Directie van Handel en Nijverheid - Office of Commerce and Industry in the Netherlands, 1905-1943 In the collection of the Office of Commerce and Industry in the Netherlands there is much information regarding the economic development in the Netherlands before and during the Nazi occupation, including the labor market in the Netherlands during the 1930s, the draft of reserve forces among Dutch merchants in 1940, and the removal of Jews from the Dutch economy, for instance Jewish clerks and Jewish businesses such as Bijenkorf, Hollandia Kattenburg & Co, Zwanenburg, Organon, Van den Bergh's...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Dutch, German

Collection of Kapitän Michael Sommer en Fa. Union, for the purchase of raw materials for the Wehrmacht in the black market in the Netherlands, 1942-1922

Collection of Kapitän Michael Sommer en Fa. Union, for the purchase of raw materials for the Wehrmacht in the black market in the Netherlands, 1942-1922 Two companies purchased goods by command of Oberst Veltjens, Goering's representative in the Netherlands, 1942-1944; Kapitän Michael Sommer served as the person responsible for the purchase of raw materials for the Wehrmacht in the black market in the Netherlands, which was carried out in the context of the Vierjahresplan of the Blau-Aktion (black market); Included in the collection: Correspondence between Kapitän Michael Sommer and various...

Type of Material : Correspondence

Language : Dutch, German

Testimony of Sheli Rachel (Avtalion) Cherni, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1935, regarding her experiences as a child in Stara Zagora and in hiding in Razgrad

Testimony

Testimony of Sheli Rachel (Avtalion) Cherni, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1935, regarding her experiences as a child in Stara Zagora and in hiding in Razgrad From a well-to-do secular family; relations with the non-Jewish population. Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation to Stara Zagora, 1942; deportation in the direction of Poland; partisan attack on the train and release of the deportees; move to Razgrad; life being hidden by villagers; draft of her father to labor paving roads; liberation by the Red Army, September 1944. Reunion with her father; return to Sofia; return of their property by their...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Henia (Laufer) Slodazh, born in Jadow, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in hiding in Radom, Bialystok, Vologodskaya, Bukhara and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Henia (Laufer) Slodazh, born in Jadow, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in hiding in Radom, Bialystok, Vologodskaya, Bukhara and other places From a traditional Zionist family; education; Hashomer Hatzair activities; aliya training in Radom; displays of antisemitism, summer 1939. Outbreak of the war, 1939; help to refugee families; preparation of an air field with hoes; in hiding in an attic; escape to Bialystok with her boyfriend; marriage; arrest by the NKVD and deportation to Vologodskaya; labor in a forest and at agriculture; region of predatory animals; transfer to the Asian...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chanoch Kvitkovski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Katowice, Blechhammer, Buchenwald and Gross-Rosen

Testimony

Testimony of Chanoch Kvitkovski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Katowice, Blechhammer, Buchenwald and Gross-Rosen From a traditional family; witness's father is a manufacturer and his mother is a midwife; learns in a "heder" and a Polish school; pogroms. German occupation; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; camp life including labor in coal mines near Katowice; transfer to Blechhammer; transfer to Buchenwald; camp life including labor on roads and moving rocks off the railroad tracks; transfer to Gross-Rosen; liberation,...

File Number : 12744

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation from the Stadtarchiv Abensberg Archive, Germany, 1935

Documentation from the Stadtarchiv Abensberg Archive, Germany, 1935 Included in the material is a file with correspondence from August-September 1935, regarding requests by Jews from the town of Abensberg to receive sales stands during the Dult fair in the city; included is a request from a Jewish merchant in Munich, a complaint by a German merchant regarding the matter, and a letter from the mayor of the city, sent to the Kelheim district of the Nazi Party, informing that the town is not allotting sales stands to Jewish merchants at the fair; The documentation was copied for Yad Vashem in 2019.

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation from the Stadtarchiv Grafenau, Germany, 1936 and 1946-1948

Documentation from the Stadtarchiv Grafenau, Germany, 1936 and 1946-1948 Included in the collection is correspondence and lists of foreign citizens who resided in the city during 1946-1948, and also the Regulations of the local pig market that were published in the town in 1936. Clause (III 5) in the Regulations bans the use of Yiddish in the market. The main part of the material is included in the A276 Wiedergutmachung Record Group in the archives of origin. A pamphlet regarding Rundschreiben über mögliche jüdische Proteste (possible Jewish protests) belongs to the A277 Zwangsarbeiter Record Group. The...

Type of Material : Record of Survivors, Official Documentation, Record of Persecuted Persons, Charter

Language : German

To be translated

Type of Material : Photograph, Official Documentation, List of Jewish Residents, Record of Deportees, Record of Murdered Persons, Questionnaire, Record of Survivors, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : German

To be translated

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Record of Survivors, Official Documentation, Charter

Language : German