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Testimony of Daniel Dino, born in Veroia, Greece in 1933, regarding his experiences in Veroia and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Daniel Dino, born in Veroia, Greece in 1933, regarding his experiences in Veroia and in hiding Sephardic community; his father is a well-to-do merchant; displays of antisemitism; Italian occupation; German occupation, 1942; receipt of information regarding the deportation of the Jews of Thessaloniki; deportation of Jews from Veroia to camps; his family escapes to the mountains; in hiding in the village of Sika; help from the local residents; they are informed on; entry of soldiers into the village, 1944; rescue by means of a bribe; liberation; return to Veroia; displays of antisemitism and acts...

File Number : 14284

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of a Jewish girl regarding the early days of the occupation of Bialystok, mass murders of Jews and her trip to Bielsko and back to the Bialystok Ghetto with her family

Testimony of a Jewish girl regarding the early days of the occupation of Bialystok, mass murders of Jews and her trip to Bielsko and back to the Bialystok Ghetto with her family Memories of an unknown eight year old Jewish girl after the German occupation of Bialystok in June 1941; mass arrests of Jewish men; release of her father from detention; entry of the Germans into the courtyard of their building a short time afterwards; taking of the men by the Germans and random shooting of whomever they found in the building; taking of her baby sister and her sibling(s) by the writer and escaping to her...

File Number : 233

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish

Letter written by Bunia Alishub from Kharkov regarding her experiences in Ukraine, 1941-1944

Letter written by Bunia Alishub from Kharkov regarding her experiences in Ukraine, 1941-1944 Life under German occupation in Kharkov; death of her husband in the Stankostroy Ghetto, 29 December 1941; obtaining Karaite documents, 24 January 1942; hiding under false identity in various places in Ukraine; life in Budy for a long period of time; meeting the family of Guta Mishelevich in Budy. Also in the letter: Request for assistance for her friend Guta Mishelevich from Budy, handicapped and the mother of two children, whose husband is at the front.

File Number : 14

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Testimony of Emil Friedmann, regarding his experiences in Gyergyó, forced labor in Hungarian Army labor battalions at the Soviet front, and deportation to the Dachau and Mühldorf camps

Testimony

Testimony of Emil Friedmann [born in 1914], regarding his experiences in Gyergyó, forced labor in Hungarian Army labor battalions at the Soviet front, and deportation to the Dachau and Mühldorf camps From an observant family in Gyergyó, Transylvania; his parents were Farkas and Regina (Adler) Friedmann; his siblings were Izidor, Eugénia, Sándor, Artúr, Margit, Ernő, Henrich; his father served in the Hungarian Army during World War I, was wounded in battle, and died of his wounds in 1916, when the witness was two years old; harsh economic conditions; learning at a cheder from a young age; attendance at a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Veronika (Sztrul) Friedmann, born in Sarmas, Transylvania, 1918, regarding her experiences before the Holocaust and in the Plaszów, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Parschnitz camps

Testimony

Testimony of Veronika (Sztrul) Friedmann, born in Sarmas, Transylvania, 1918, regarding her experiences before the Holocaust and in the Plaszów, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Parschnitz camps Born to an observant family in Sarmas (Hungarian: Salamas); her parents were Adolf, born in Bilbor and Eszter (Rubin) Sztrul, born in Salamas; her siblings were Jenő Sztrul and Ernő Sztrul; her other siblings were not mentioned by name; her maternal grandfather was Salamon Rubin whose two sons Adolf and Herman perished in the Holocaust, and whose daughter, the witness' mother, and the two children of his second daughter,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Miriam (Klughaupt) Nir, born in Iasi, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Klughaupt) Nir, born in Iasi, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Iasi Childhood in Iasi including religious life and a Zionist atmosphere; attends a Hebrew kindergarten and a Jewish school; move to a Romanian private school, 1939; increasing displays of antisemitism; worsening attitude toward Jews; yellow badge. The Iasi pogrom; Red Army occupation of Iasi. Life after the war; meeting with Transnistria orphans; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship "Medinat Hajehudim", detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel; enlists into the Palmach; [emigration from...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Report submitted by Shimon Enoch, an emissary in Czechoslovakia, 1938-1939, regarding the German occupation, 15 March 1939, and the early days of the occupation

Report submitted by Shimon Enoch, an emissary in Czechoslovakia, 1938-1939, regarding the German occupation, 15 March 1939, and the early days of the occupation The report was written after Enoch's return to Eretz Israel, apparently in 1940.

File Number : 434

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mazal Fortuna Fortune (Elias) De Kalo, born in Athens, Greece, 1932, regarding her experiences in Athens, in hiding and while using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Mazal Fortuna Fortune (Elias) De Kalo, born in Athens, Greece, 1932, regarding her experiences in Athens, in hiding and while using a false identity Her childhood and family background. Italian Army occupation [of Athens]; attitude of the Italians; German Army occupation [of Athens]; life under German occupation including acts of abuse against the Jews by SS men; detention of her mother in prison; deportation of her mother to Auschwitz; in hiding while hidden by Helene Daskalik; life while using a false identity, with the name Petachia; search [for the witness] by Gestapo men;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zahava Eugenia (Mas) Tzelner, born in Lwow, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in Lwow, Janowska, Warsaw and Krakow

Testimony

Testimony of Zahava Eugenia (Mas) Tzelner, born in Lwow, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in Lwow, Janowska, Warsaw and Krakow Her childhood in an assimilated family; attends a Polish elementary school and a vocational school; displays of antisemitism before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; Red Army occupation of Lwow; life under Soviet occupation including work, food and culture; work as a teacher in a vocational school; German Army occupation of Lwow, 1941; life under German occupation including acts of physical and verbal abuse; robbery of Jewish property, forced labor and the imposition of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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