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Diary kept by Shoshana (Bolle Benedictus) Migdali using the underground name Martien/Tineke Kramer while being hidden in Dordrecht by the Burger family, a Dutch family (later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations), 1942-1945 The diary was written in 14 notebooks; it includes the experiences of the writer and five members of her family along with one other person who were hidden by a Dutch family for two and a half years, including the military and political situation on all the fronts according to information from the radio and underground periodicals. Notebook No. 1, 09 October 1942-26 January 1943,...

File Number : 4906

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Dutch

Testimony

Testimony of Jerry Holec, born in Uhersky Brod, Czechoslovakia, 1918, regarding his experiences in Uhersky Brod, Budapest, as a French Foreign Legion soldier in Beirut, in the British Army at Dunkerque and other places Life before the war. Displays of antisemitism with the annexation of the Sudetenland, 1938; draft into the Czech Army; German occupation; confiscation of Jewish property; detention by the Gestapo; release and return home; illegally crosses the Hungarian border via Uzhorod to Budapest; move to Yugoslavia; move to Syria via Istanbul; move to Beirut; joins the French Foreign Legion; transfer...

File Number : 9287

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English