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Testimony of Yisrael Shemonovitz, born 1922 in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, about his life in Sevlus in the region of Carpathian Ruthenia and in the region of Galicia

Testimony of Yisrael Shemonovitz, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia in 1922, regarding his life in Sevlus in the region of Carpathian Ruthenia and in the region of Galicia Life before the war; his mother’s death; living with his uncle; re-annexation of the area to Hungary in 1940; the German occupation in March 1944; deportation to the camp; transfer to forced labor; transfer to the region of Galicia, due to work needs from the Carpathian Ruthenia region; liberation by the Red Army; aliya to Eretz Israel on the “Transylvania” of the Joint Distribution Committee and the Agudath Israel movement in 1945; raising...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Memoirs of Eli Lutek Lewin, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences while escaping from the Warsaw Ghetto, in Chmielnik and in hiding using a false identity in a village near Rawa Mazowiecka Family history; immigration of his mother Justina's parents to Eretz Israel with their son, Moniek, who was liable for arrest as a Communist, 1932. Outbreak of the war and occupation of Warsaw; escape from the ghetto with his mother, autumn, 1941; move to Chmielnik; life in a rented apartment in Chmielnik; postcard sent by his mother to her sister Bruchtsia in Paris, March 1942; correspondence with his...

File Number : 8647

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzafrir Shteir Sara, born in Bedzin, Poland, in 1930 regarding the Srodula ghetto and regarding the Peterswaldau camp

Childhood before the war; programming aliya to Israel; aliya of the two brothers ; confiscation of family businesses; outbreak of the war; burning the synagogue and houses of Jews; deportation to ghetto; forced labor; murder of the father; "aktions"; deportation of the mother and sister to Auschwitz Birkenau; deportation of the witness with her sister to Peterswaldau; help of the German female commander; liberation by the Russians; escape to the American side; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1946

File Number : 13661

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Kedar Fakdrager Yehuda, born in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1937, regarding the deportation to Westerbork and Bergen Belsen camps

Testimony

Family background ; appointment of the uncles to the Jewish Committee in Amsterdam during German occupation; death of the brother in the shelling of the city in 1943; deportation to Westerbork in September 1943; deportation of the family to The "star camp"(Sternenlager)in Bergen Belsen in January 1944; joining of the grandfathers to an inmate exchange deal with the Templars in 1944; death of the parents and grandmother in Bergen Belsen; joining the group of children sponsored by the Birenboim family; the labor train; liberation by the Russians in Troebitz in April 1944; living in the children's home of Rabbi...

File Number : 13800

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documents regarding Israel Bresler, born in Kalisz, Poland and Mirla Laja Bresler-Ber, born in Golin, Poland, residents of Jarny, France, and documents regarding the guardianship of their orphaned children resident in Israel, 1942-1965 - Red Cross letter sent from Geneva, Switzerland to Israel Bresler in Feytiat, France, 12 November 1942; lack of information regarding his wife; - Request form submitted by Ruehla Nowodworska, the guardian of the Bresler orphans in Jarny, France, 23 December 1953; "Status of Deportee" given for Israel Bresler, who was deported from Drancy, 15 May 1944; - Certification...

File Number : 538

Type of Material : Administrative Documentation

Language : French

כוכבא אפריםTestimony of Efraim Ernst Bernard Kokhava van Koeverdan, born in 1943 in Amsterdam, about his experiences as an infant with a non-Jewish neighbor in Amsterdam and his return to an uncle after the war

Information about the family; German occupation ensues in May 1940; witness born in August 1943 in Amsterdam and is immediately handed over to a non-Jewish neighbor; parents find a hideout elsewhere in the area; neighbor's husband keeps a detailed diary about the boy's life and development; parents captured due to denunciation and murdered in April 1945; war ends in May 1945; uncle, a survivor, demands custody of the boy; legal struggle ensues; witness returns to his biological family in 1947; immigration to Eretz Israel in 1979; adjustment to life in Eretz Israel.

File Number : 13544

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Kolette Khazan Halbert (Halber), born in Saint Raphael, France in 1939, regarding her experiences in the children’s orphanage and her rescue by righteous gentiles

Testimony

Testimony of Kolette Khazan Halbert (Halber), born in Saint Raphael, France in 1939, regarding her experiences in the children’s orphanage and her rescue by righteous gentiles Childhood in Saint Raphael in southern France; father’s deportation to Auschwitz in Vélodrome d’Hiver (or Vél d’Hiv) roundup on 16 July 1942; mother’s arrest in Marseille and deportation via Drancy to Auschwitz in May 1943; transfer by grandfather and grandmother to orphanage for children of French origin in Cannes; smuggling of children to Mirepoix on the Spanish border; rescue of herself and her siblings by Elisabeth Martinet and...

File Number : 13675

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence between the regional branch of the Centralverein - CV (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) in Wuerttemberg and the association's centers, regarding studies and information in an orphanage, 27/01-11/11/1932

File Number : JM/28890

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Letters from Leiser and Rosa Hochmann from Mannheim and the Gurs camp to their children in Eretz Israel and documentation regarding the fate of the Jews of Mannheim during the war, 1938-2003

Letters from Leiser and Rosa Hochmann from Mannheim and the Gurs camp to their children in Eretz Israel and documentation regarding the fate of the Jews of Mannheim during the war, 1938-2003 - Letters from Leiser and Rosa Hochmann from Mannheim to their children in Eretz Israel; the letters tell of their difficult situation and the arrangements for a kitchen for 100 Jews by a Jew; 31 July 1938, 21 July 1939 and 17 September 1939; - Letter sent from Gurs with notification that Perl Safrin (Eliyahu's aunt) has died and her children are now orphans, 12 November 1940; - Postcard from Leiser Hochmann in...

File Number : 2086

Type of Material : Speech, Postcard, Newspaper Clippings, Letter, Article, Documentary, Red Cross Letter, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, German

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