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Testimony of Elizabet (Shvartz) Brodi, born in Surany, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Surany Ghetto, Komarno, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow and Parschnitz

Testimony

Testimony of Elizabet (Shvartz) Brodi, born in Surany, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Surany Ghetto, Komarno, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow and Parschnitz Life before the war; education. Re-annexation to Hungary, November 1938; restrictions on Jews including drafted to forced labor; German occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; rescue from the deportation of the Jews from Slovakia, 1942; deportation of her family to the Surany Ghetto; ghetto life including supervision by Hungarian gendarmes; confiscation of valuables; concentration of the Jews in a synagogue; transfer to Komarno;...

File Number : 12873

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Report written by Von Neurath, the Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia, regarding a discussion held with Emil Hacha, the President of the Protectorate, 03/1940

Report written by Von Neurath, the Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia, regarding a discussion held with Emil Hacha, the President of the Protectorate, 03/1940 The report includes three parts: The detainees and students, the Nationale Gemeinschaft (Nationalist community) and the Vlajka [political movements in Czechoslovakia], Legionnaires; Request by Hacha to release the political detainees and the students [arrested during the demonstrations in Prague in autumn 1939]; Reply by Neurath: Detainees: It is not possible to release the detainees in an all-embracing manner; only specific...

File Number : 268

Type of Material : Manifesto, Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : German

Proceedings of People's Court Session No.18 in Sofia, 29 March 1945

Proceedings of People's Court Session No.18 in Sofia, 29 March 1945 Indictments and names of plaintiffs: 1. Boris Barov - historic importance of the trial, persecution of the Jews in Europe and specifically in Germany, criticism of anti-Semitism in the world and in Bulgaria, statistical data concerning the number of Jews in the country, 1934-1945 and their economic, legal and social condition, restrictions against the Jews during the war and a survey regarding the Holocaust throughout the European countries; - Data regarding the trial (330 witnesses); - The influence of anti-Semitic ideas in...

File Number : 10

Type of Material : Protocol

Language : Bulgarian

Official documentation regarding Jewish emigration from Czechoslovakia to Eretz Israel, 1939-1942

Official documentation regarding Jewish emigration from Czechoslovakia to Eretz Israel, 1939-1942 - Letter from the Czechoslovakian Ministry of the Treasury to Attorney F. Friedman in Prague regarding the transfer of ₤500,000 to the Jewish Agency in order to the support the aliya of Czech Jews to Eretz Israel, 13 January 1939; - Letters sent by the Treasury Chambers to Leo Hermann from the Jewish Agency regarding financial aid from a British government fund and money from the National Bank of Czechoslovakia intended for the aliya of Czech Jews to Eretz Israel and the Jewish Agency for their absorption, 20...

File Number : 423

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Czech, English

Newspaper articles from Bulgaria, 1922-1940

Newspaper articles from Bulgaria, 1922-1940 Newspaper series titled Hebrew Letters, 1922; Section from the Bulletin Hatarnegol of the Mikra organization, 05 January 1929; Section from the Zornitza newspaper, 04 September 1929; Sections from the Narod newspaper, 1929; Section from the Mir newspaper with an article of Masaryk's support of the Jews, 1933; Section of the Rasvet newspaper, 1933; Two sections of the Le Temps newspaper, 1936; Page from the booklet written in memory of the politician D. Petkov on the 30th anniversary of his death, 1907; Section of the newspaper Balkanska Vecherna...

File Number : 280

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : Bulgarian, Ladino / Solitreo, Hebrew, French

Testimony of Yosef Yosko Resler Chaimovitz, born in Veliky Bockov, 1927, regarding his experiences using a false identity as a German soldier and his encounter with Raoul Wallenberg

Testimony

Testimony of Yosef Yosko Resler Chaimovitz, born in Veliky Bockov, 1927, regarding his experiences using a false identity as a German soldier and his encounter with Raoul Wallenberg The family before the war; the Jewish community; listening to Ze'ev Jabotinsky's speeches; school; relations with neighbors. Germans praying to murder Jews; move to Budapest, 1942; disguised as a non-Jew using a false identity; deportation of his brother to a camp; purchasing a gun from a Wehrmacht soldier; drafted to pre-military training; guarding a convoy Hitler was supposed to be in; military training; new draftees take...

File Number : 11977

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Feige Zipora (Itzkovitz) Goldberg, born in Tekovo, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Nagy Sollos Ghetto, Birkenau, Hertine, Leitmeritz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Feige Zipora (Itzkovitz) Goldberg, born in Tekovo, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Nagy Sollos Ghetto, Birkenau, Hertine, Leitmeritz and other places Life before the war; her family earns a livelihood from agriculture; relations with the non-Jewish neighbors; general education; move to Kiralyegyhaza. Increase in antisemitism under Hungarian rule; her father's escape to Budapest; management of an orphanage in a secret cellar in a hospital; deportation with the family to the Nagy Sollos Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to Birkenau; transfer to Hertine; camp life,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Elvira (Monori) Skalski, born in Dolny Kubin, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding her experiences in Spisska Nova, Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck

Testimony

Testimony of Elvira (Monori) Skalski, born in Dolny Kubin, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding her experiences in Spisska Nova, Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck Childhood; attends a Jewish community German school and afterwards a Slovakian high school; contacts with Christians; activities in Hashomer Hatzair; move to Prague to study; not accepted to medical school because of the numerus clausus. Return home after the German occupation, March 1938; implementation of the Nuremberg Laws, yellow badge, deportations; evades deportation; marriage in 1942; her husband joins the partisans on 02 September 1944; decision...

File Number : 11590

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Sara (Bruenn) Weiszman, born in Trnava, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding her experiences in Kistarcsa, Auschwitz, Plaszow, Oderan and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Sara (Bruenn) Weiszman, born in Trnava, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding her experiences in Kistarcsa, Auschwitz, Plaszow, Oderan and other places From a large family; her father owns a shop; attends a public school; life before the war. German occupation; deportation to Kistarcsa; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her family; transfer to Plaszow; camp life including labor hauling rocks; transfer back to Auschwitz; transfer to Oderan; camp life including labor in an ammunitions factory; transfer to Theresienstadt; liberation by the Red Army. Receives packages and help from UNRRA and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Frida Friedman, born in Senec, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Nove Zamky Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bremen, Bergen-Belsen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Frida Friedman, born in Senec, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Nove Zamky Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bremen, Bergen-Belsen and other places Life before the war. Annexation to Hungary, 1941; increase in antisemitism. German occupation; deportation to Bedevla, April 1944; deportation to the Nove Zamky Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz, June 1944; transfer to Bremen; camp life including forced labor; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, 1945; camp life including typhus; liberation by the British Army. Life in Bergen Belsen DP camp; return to Czechoslovakia; displays of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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