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List of children who survived by living in hiding with assistance from non-Jews in Poland, 1945-1947, from the book, "Survivors of the Holocaust in Poland, by Lucjan Dobroszycki

File Number : 1226

Type of Material : List of Children, List of Survivors

Language : English

Documentation of Sabina Korn-Neuberg, born in Leczno, Poland, 1933, including a claim for compensation from the District Court for Social Affairs in Essen, Germany, 1944-2012

Documentation of Sabina Korn-Neuberg, born in Leczno, Poland, 1933, including a claim for compensation from the District Court for Social Affairs in Essen, Germany, 1944-2012 - Article titled, "Chasias Kinder" published in the German magazine "Stadt Revue", November 1994, regarding the activities of Chasia Bielicka who took orphan Jewish Holocaust survivors under her wing, including Sabina Neuberg; attached to the article is a photograph [of Sabina Neuberg] from 1946; - Invitation to the Second Conference, on 20 May 2000, sent to Sabina Korn; - Six lists containing the names of children in Poland who...

File Number : 1226

Type of Material : Lists, Poems/songs, Survivors and Refugees Registration Form, Letter, Personal Documents, Correspondence, Article, List of Orphan Children, Legal Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Survey Report, Drawing, Propaganda

Language : Polish, English

Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born 1927 in Bucharest, Romania, about expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape

Testimony

Testimony of Eduard Fosner, born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1927 , regarding expulsion to the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and other camps, death march, and escape Childhood before the war; transfer to Oradea in 1938; entry of the Hungarians in 1940; expulsion from school; anti-Jewish legislation ; service in the Levente Association; German occupation in 1944; order to wear yellow badge, and other orders; expulsion to the ghetto in May 1944; deportation to Birkenau; hunger; roll-calls and selections; transfer to Buchenwald for a brief time and from there to Magdeburg; labor in rebuilding and...

File Number : 13773

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Khanam Urbakh Anet , born in Paris, France , in 1935 regarding her hiding in a French village in the region of Normandie

Testimony

German occupation in 1940; hiding during the deportation with friends from socialist organizations in 1941; arrest and deportation of the father to Drancy in 1942; smuggling of the witness, the brother and the members of the French foster family in the region of Normandie in 1942; life in the village; attending school as a French christian; evacuation to the forests in the area following the bombings by the Allies and return to the village in 1944; liberation by the American army in 1944; return to Paris by the mother; moving to a children's home in Calais with the help of the OSE organization and the...

File Number : 13699

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sela Shtovitska Uri Urlich, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1930 regarding deportation to the Polish border and regarding his leaving nazi Germany in Kindertransport

Testimony

Childhood in Frankfurt an der Oder; life during nazi regime in 1933; arrest of the father accused of communist activity and his deportation to Poland as a Polish subject in 1933; attending the Jewish school Philanthropyn in 1936; moving to the Jewish Children's Home Stiftung in 1936; deportation with the mother from Frankfurt an der Oder to the Polish border in 1938; Kristallnacht riots; his joining a group of children who were sent by Kindertransport sponsored by James and Dorothy Rothschild in 1939; the journey via Hoek van Holland, Holland to London, Britain in 1939; moving to the estate of James Rotschild...

File Number : 13713

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Documentation regarding Dola Ickowitz-Blaiberg, born in Krakow, Poland, 1936; documents dated, 1957-2010

Documentation regarding Dola Ickowitz-Blaiberg, born in Krakow, Poland, 1936; documents dated, 1957-2010 - Correspondence by Dola Ickowitz and notaries Dr. Gluecksmann and Haas in Tel Aviv, with the compensation payment authorities in Saarburg and Mainz, Germany, 1957-2010, regarding Ickowitz' experiences during the war; - Her life as a Christian, while hidden by Aniela Matras in Krakow; move to the Krakow Ghetto, by Matras; Krakow Ghetto life, with two Jewish girls; escape from the ghetto along with 10 children, while under the protection of a youth named Romek; return to Matras; life in hiding [with...

File Number : 538

Type of Material : Correspondence, Personal Records, Survey, Drawing, Photograph, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Testimony of Rozalia Shoshana Ronen Vazner, born in Gdynia, Poland in 1933, regarding her life in Przemysl Ghetto and in the home of a Polish family under a false identity

Testimony of Rozalia Shoshana Ronen Vazner, born in Gdynia, Poland in 1933, regarding her life in Przemysl Ghetto and in the home of a Polish family under a false identity German occupation in 1939; family’s expulsion to Przemyl; life under Soviet regime; German occupation and communist father’s escape to USSR in 1941; life under restrictions of German occupation; move to orphanage in the ghetto; escape with help from a Polish police officer to Christian acquaintances outside the ghetto in 1943; move to aunt’s home in Lwow; move, under a false Christian identity (as Rozalia Stanislawa Dozhinska) to a Polish...

File Number : 13708

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rafael Reuveni Rubin, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia in 1938, regarding his life in Albania and in the Bergen-Belsen camp

Testimony of Rafael Reuveni Rubin, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia in 1938, regarding his life in Albania and in the Bergen-Belsen camp Childhood in Pristina and life of Sephardic Jews in the community; German occupation in April 1941 and transition to Italian military government about two months later; exile to Berat, Albania in 1942; return to Pristina in 1944; entry of Muslim soldiers from the 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian); deportation of Jews to Sajmište concentration camp and from there by train to Bergen-Belsen; hunger; disease; connection with Dutch prisoners; entry of...

File Number : 13745

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hava Weiner Wolf, born in Bruxelles, Belgium, 1936, regarding her life during the war in Slavonski Brod in various hiding places and in a Jewish orphanage sponsored by the Red Cross

Testimony

Testimony of Hava Weiner Wolf, born in Bruxelles, Belgium, 1936, regarding her life during the war in Slavonski Brod in various hiding places and in a Jewish orphanage sponsored by the Red Cross Family background; move to Slavonski Brod, 1941. The outbreak of the war; the bombings; order to move to houses marked with a Star of David; move to her aunt's house rescued by the owner of the factory where her father works; giving work to Jewish men and the women and children hiding in an apartment in a factory; rescuing 17 Jews by the owner of a factory called Palesz Antal; issuing an order to arrive at a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Abramovitz, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia in 1929, regarding his experiences in Sajmište, Albania; Bergen-Belsen; and the “lost train”

Testimony of Aharon Abramovitz, born in Pristina, Yugoslavia in 1929, regarding his experiences in Sajmište, Albania; Bergen-Belsen; and the “lost train” Childhood in Pristina; life in the Jewish community; his mother’s death; moving to Zagreb to live with relatives; outbreak of war in April 1941; expulsion of foreign residents from Croatia; return to Pristina; entry of Germans and transfer of regime to Italian army; his father’s death; supporting himself; move to Berat, Albania, where the Jews of Pristina were exiled; entry of Germans in September 1943; return to Pristina; arrest by Germans and Muslim 21st...

File Number : 13730

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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