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Documentation regarding Hans Paul Weiner, born in Trautenau, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel and service in PAL-Company 608

Documentation regarding Hans Paul Weiner, born in Trautenau, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel and service in PAL-Company 608 - Excerpts from the British Army historical documentation collection, regarding PAL-Company 608, dated, 31 March 1941-17 January 1944; - Photographs and newspaper clippings from "The Palestine Post", 20 May-09 June 1941; - Memoirs of Hans Paul Weiner; Childhood in Trautenau; Escape by his family from a pail [?] to a pogrom; [move?] to Prague, September 1938; attempts to receive an emigration visa in preparation for aliya; illegal aliya from...

File Number : 389

Type of Material : Survey Report, Newspaper Clippings, Telegram, Official Documentation, Diary

Language : English, German

Documentation regarding Matvey Likhterman, including confirmation of his service in the Red Army, being wounded at the front, receipt of medical treatment, and other documents, 1959-2010

Documentation regarding Matvey Likhterman, including confirmation of his service in the Red Army, being wounded at the front, receipt of medical treatment, and other documents, 1959-2010 - Confirmation that Matvey Likhterman served in the Red Army, 14 March 1941-19 May 1946, issued by the Military Komisariat in Roslavl, 12 November 1959; - Confirmation that Matvey Likhterman was wounded while serving at the front during the war, 02 August 1941, issued by the Museum of Military Medicine, 16 October 1969; - Confirmation that Red Army soldier Matvey Likhterman received medical treatment, 29 January-07...

File Number : 385

Type of Material : Personal Documents, List of Soldiers, Interview(s)

Language : Russian

Letter sent by Sara Zubrickas in the Pithiviers camp to her sister Dora (Zubrickas) Tannenbaum in Paris, 22 October 1941, and documentation regarding their brother Maurice Zubrickas who was in the Stalag II A POW camp during the war Documentation regarding Maurice Zubrickas (original): - Reply letter from the Central Agency for Prisoners of War in Geneva to Ms. Wieviorka in Paris according to which Maurice Zubrickas was in the Stalag II A POW camp in Germany, September 1940; - Participation card in the population census issued to Maurice Zubrickas, 06 May 1945; - Booklet granting benefits in receiving...

File Number : 2238

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents, Genealogy, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, French, Yiddish

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

Testimony of Yaacov Shvartz, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, in 1929 regarding the Siauliai ghetto, the Stutthof and other camps

Testimony

Childhood in Siauliai; entry of the Russians in 1940; arrival of Jewish refugees from Poland; German occupation in June 1941; pogrom by the Lithuanians; murder of the stratum of the Jewish intelligentsia including the father; deportation to the Siauliai ghetto; overcrowding; yellow badges; starvation; forced labor; smugglings of food;'aktion" of the elderly in 1942; 'aktion' of the children in November 1943; liquidation of the Siauliai ghetto in July 1944; deportation to Stutthof; physical and emotional abuse; meeting with Russian captives; starvation; fate of the mother who escaped from the killing pit near...

File Number : 13687

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony Joseph Fridman, born in Borsa, Romania, in 1927 regarding deportation to Auschwitz and other camps

Orthodox family; 10 Jewish families in the village; moving to Hungarian control in 1940; anti-Jewish laws; deportation to the Cluj ghetto in 1944; deportation by transport to Auschwitz Birkenau in May 1944; remaining with the father; transfer to Buchenwald and Magdeburg camps; injury of the father during the bombing of the camp; moving to the barrack for handicapped in Buchenwald; information regarding the death of the parents and the brothers; activity in aliya bet; illegal immigration on board the ship "Arba Hirouyot" (four freedoms) in 1946; exile to Cyprus; aliya back to Israel; establishment of the Odim...

File Number : 13692

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mikhael Peter Hendrich Ben Dror Kelman, born in 1941 in Hilversum, Netherlands, about his experiences as an infant in the Amsterdam ghetto, in the Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen camps, and immigration to Eretz Israel as part of a prisoner swap

Parents born in Germany; grandson of the writer Georg Hermann Borchardt; family escapes from Germany to the Netherlands in 1933; grandfather's books burned in Germany; father, Herbert Kelman, escapes; deportation to the Amsterdam ghetto along with mother and grandfather; deportation to Westerbork in 1943; hospitalized in the camp and spared from the transports; grandfather sent to Auschwitz and transferred to Bergen-Belsen; swapping of Templer prisoners from Mandate Palestine; transported to Eretz Israel by train via Turkey in June 1944; received by Kibbutz Sede Nehemia.

File Number : 13546

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of trudi Volakh Salomons, born in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1929, regarding her deportation to Westerbork and other camps.

Testimony

Daughter of an orthodox family; German occupation in 1940; denial of rights; rejection of relatives'offer for asylum in Switzerland; birth of her sister in 1943; her mother had the Swiss nationality; her father was Dutch; refusal of the parents to get divorced and their stay together in Holland; obtaining certificates of aliya to Palestine by her father; obtaining passports of Peru by relatives of her mother who lived in Switzerland; arrival at the train station; deportation to Westerbork in July 1943; stay in Westerbork and protecting from deportation thanks to their certificates and passports of Peru; their...

File Number : 13696

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Fredi Knoler, born in Vienna, Austria, in 1921 regarding the French resistance and the Drancy, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony

German occupation and annexation of Austria( Anschluss) in 1938; Kristallnacht in 1938; crossing borders to Antwerpen,Belgium in 1938 where acquaintances of the family stayed; transfer to a camp for Jewish refugees (with the support of the Jewish community) in Merkplas in 1939; escape to France after the German occupation of Belgium in 1940; his detention in Lille,France because of his German (Austrian) nationality and transfer to the detention camp in St Cyprien in 1940; his escape from the camp to Gaillac and his work in agriculture in 1940; buying of forged certificates and his moving to Paris,as a French...

File Number : 13473

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Dvora Shperling, nee Moskowitz, born in Satu Mare, Romania, in 1928, regarding her deportation to Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony

Parents are from Slovakia; Hungarian rule 1940; rumors about deportations in Slovakia in 1942; rise of anti-semitism; curfew; German occupation in 1944; deportation to the ghetto; brutality of the Hungarian gendarmes; deportation to Auschwitz; selections; transfer to a weapon factory Hasag; Germany; air-raids; Ukrainian and Yugoslavian POWs help Jewish inmates; air-raids on a train of female inmatesnear Neustadt; escape to the forest; liberation by the British 1945; return to Romania; aliya on the "Four Liberties"ship in 1946

File Number : 13474

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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