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Testimony of Haim Schneider, born in Vienna, Austria, 1921, regarding his experiences in Austria, aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939 and in the British Army

Testimony

Testimony of Haim Schneider, born in Vienna, Austria, 1921, regarding his experiences in Austria, aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939 and in the British Army Life before the war; activities in the Blau-Weiss movement; assassination of Engelbert Dollfuss, the Chancellor of Austria, by Nazis, 1934; establishment of soup kitchens; confiscation of his father's workshops by Sturmabteilung, SA members and the police. Annexation of Austria to Germany, March 1938; cleaning of walls and streets by Jews; deportation of the Jewish intellectuals to Dachau; Kristallnacht; burning of synagogues; detention of his father and a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Jacob Van Zuiden Daromi, born in Hoogeveen, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Netherlands, in various hiding places and using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Jacob Van Zuiden Daromi, born in Hoogeveen, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Netherlands, in various hiding places and using a false identity Childhood and family background; education; community life; arrival of refugees from Germany; displays of antisemitism. German occupation, May 1940; move to Nijmegen; yellow badge; hidden by a non-Jewish woman; move to the northern Netherlands; hidden by a Protestant minister; hidden by a religious Christian teacher; assumes a false identity; life in Amsterdam; arrest; evades detention; hidden by a Catholic family; disguise as a...

File Number : 12570

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 2320

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Selma Schebschelowitz, born in Kuldiga, Latvia, 1920, regarding her experiences in Riga and the Riga Ghetto and the persecution of Latvian Jews, 1941-1944

Memoirs of Selma Schebschelowitz, born in Kuldiga, Latvia, 1920, regarding her experiences in Riga and the Riga Ghetto and the persecution of Latvian Jews, 1941-1944 Selma Schebschelowitz was born in Kuldiga, Latvia, 1920; family background and education; Escape to Riga together with her parents and her sister following the outbreak of the war; German occupation; working in the ruins of the old city, with the prefecture and as a maid for the Waffen-SS 1941; deportation to the Riga Ghetto together with her parents, 1941; escape from the ghetto, November 1941; living in hiding, for two years; escape...

File Number : 1602

Type of Material : Report, List of Jews, List of Murdered Jews, Memoirs, List of Nazi War Criminals, List of Jewish Survivors

Language : German

Diary written by a Jew, born in Riga, Latvia, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto and the murder of Jews in various places

Diary written by a Jew, born in Riga, Latvia, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto and the murder of Jews in various places Life in Riga during the German occupation; sexual abuse; implementation of riots against the Jews; murder of Jews, including members of the intelligentsia, by members of the Perkonkrusts [?] organization, March and April 1941; transfer to forced labor moving bricks; suicides by Jews; setting synagogues on fire; information about the murder of Jews in Bikernieki and Rumbula; information about the sterilization of men in the market in Bausk; information about the drowning of Jews...

File Number : 32

Type of Material : Diary, List of Names

Language : Russian