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Testimony of Moshe Aharon, born in 1930 in Istanbul, about his experiences as a boy in Bucharest with the help of a protective passport from the Turkish embassy

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Aharon, born in 1930 in Istanbul, about his experiences as a boy in Bucharest with the help of a protective passport from the Turkish embassy Life in Turkey; offspring of a family of Romanian and Turkish origin; father deported from Turkey; moving to Bucharest in 1935; pogrom in the Jewish quarter in 1939; obtaining a protective passport from the Turkish embassy; concealing Jews in an apartment; father taken away for forced labor as a non-citizen in 1941; returning to home in 1943; the war ends; joining the Dror Habonim movement; immigration to Israel aboard the Transylvania in 1951.

File Number : 13426

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of George György David Dubinsky (ben Zvi), born in Oradea, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Oradea Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Gusen camps

Testimony

Testimony of George György David Dubinsky (ben Zvi), born in Oradea, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Oradea Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Gusen camps Life before the war; attends a Hebrew elementary and Hebrew high school; member of the Neolog community; Meeting with Jewish refugees from Germany and Slovakia; receives information regarding camps in Germany; re-annexation to Hungary, 1940; imposition of restrictions on the Jews; Aryanization of Jewish businesses; cessation of his studies; removal of Jews from the youth groups; deportation of his father to a camp, 1942;...

File Number : 13175

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yafa Salka (Shmushkin) Henzel, born in Brody, Poland, 1912, regarding her experiences in Brody and in a forest in the area

Testimony

Testimony of Yafa Salka (Shmushkin) Henzel, born in Brody, Poland, 1912, regarding her experiences in Brody and in a forest in the area Life before the war; from a Zionist family; Hanoar Hatzioni activities; Hebrew education; marriage. Outbreak of the war; air-raids on Brody; "Aktion"; escape to a forest with her husband; murder of her parents. Aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, "La Spezia"(?), 1947.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bertha (Markovitz) Jochimek, born in Liegnitz, Germany, 1920, regarding her experiences in Liege, Marmande and in hiding in Belgium and France

Testimony

Testimony of Bertha (Markovitz) Jochimek, born in Liegnitz, Germany, 1920, regarding her experiences in Liege, Marmande and in hiding in Belgium and France Move to Liege, Belgium, 1924; attends a school for girls and a vocational high school (bookkeeping and secretarial studies); her family lacks Belgian citizenship; receives a Nansen passport (document for non-citizens issued by the Commission for Refugees of the League of Nations); work in a tobacco factory, 1936; work as an assistant bookkeeper in a replacement parts factory; displays of antisemitism. Knowledge regarding the fate of the Jews, May 1940;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zigmund Vaksman, born in Dresden, Germany, 1921, regarding his experiences in Katowice, Warsaw and Argentina

Testimony

Testimony of Zigmund Vaksman, born in Dresden, Germany, 1921, regarding his experiences in Katowice, Warsaw and Argentina Life before the war; attends a German school; plans of the family to emigrate to Argentina as part of the Jewish Colonization Association (JCA); aliya training in Neudorf; emigration of his father, April 1938; delay in leaving due to not receiving a visa. Outbreak of the war; deportation to Katowice; escape of the family to Warsaw; receives a visa; escape via Germany, Belgium and France; emigration on the ship, "Jamaica", from Le Havre with help from the JCA; life in Argentina; end of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Mordechai Ernest Eigner, born in Zlate Moravce, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding his experiences in Czechoslovakia until 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Ernest Eigner, born in Zlate Moravce, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding his experiences in Czechoslovakia until 1939 Life before the war; his father was a showmaker and his mother a seamstress; attends school; activities in Maccabi Hatzair movement; eviction from home, 06 November 1938; move to a disputed area in Hungary; life in Dunajska Streda; receives help from Gizi Fleischmann and Mrs. Kelman of the Jewish community in Bratislava; deportation to the Cerveny Most closed camp; transfer to Patronka; aliya training and his Raphael Reis, his counselor; aliya of his parents to Eretz...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Martha Heler, born in Kisvarda, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Kisvarda Ghetto, Auschwitz, Weisswasser, Horneburg and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Martha Heler, born in Kisvarda, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Kisvarda Ghetto, Auschwitz, Weisswasser, Horneburg and other places Life before the war. Deportation to the Kisvarda Ghetto, April 1944; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz, June 1944; her parents' and sister's deaths; camp life until October 1944; deportation to the Weisswasser camp, October 1944; labor in a Philips factory; death march to Horneburg, February 1945; escape attempt; punishment; deportation to Bergen-Belsen; liberation, April 1945. Move to Celle DP camp; return to Kisvarda via Bratislava, summer...

File Number : 12624

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Svirsky, born in Vilna, 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Svirsky, born in Vilna, 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto and in hiding Life before the war; attends a kindergarten; move to Lodz. Outbreak of the war; his father’s work as a soap supplier; return to Vilna; his uncle disguises himself as a priest; German occupation; deportation to the Vilna ghetto; ghetto life; deportation of his father to a labor camp; ghetto life including his mother's labor as a seamstress and the murder of his grandfather; life in hiding; approach of the Red Army to Vilna; liberation. Return home; meets a Red Army unit; move to...

File Number : 12266

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Hana (Austern) Svirsky, born in Lodz, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Lodz, the Debica Ghetto, in hiding in Lodz and on the streets of the city and in Piotrkow Trybunalski Her immediate family; her father's livelihood; home life; her mother's activities as a Communist. An uncle moves to the Soviet Union; her father is drafted into the Polish Army; fur coats and valuables are handed in; yellow badge; displays of antisemitism against her father; concentration of Jews, including her father and mother, in a factory; her parents' escape and arrival in Debica; entry into the...

File Number : 12265

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehudit Gertrude-Edith (Batscha) Segal, born in Vienna, 1924, regarding her experiences in Vienna and in England

Testimony

Testimony of Yehudit Gertrude-Edith (Batscha) Segal, born in Vienna, 1924, regarding her experiences in Vienna and England The only child of a secular family of wealthy merchants; observance of holidays; her studies in a private school; broad general education; ban on Jews studying in the high school, 1934; her studies in a government school; economic difficulties in 1936; the arrival of refugees from Germany whom they knew, and her father's refusal to leave Austria with them. Anschluss; staying at home for several weeks; her father's arrest and release; Kristallnacht; her father's arrest and release; the...

File Number : 11571

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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