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Memoirs of Luigi Fleischmann, born in Fiume, Italy, 1928, regarding the experiences of his family in Fiume and Navelli, and personal documentation of Luigi Fleischmann from after the war

Memoirs of Luigi Fleischmann, born in Fiume, Italy, 1928, regarding the experiences of his family in Fiume and Navelli, and personal documentation of Luigi Fleischmann from after the war The memoirs were written in Milan in 1947 in the form of a diary starting in September 1943 and ending in June 1944. In 2007 Yad Vashem published the memoirs under the name, "From Fiume to Navelli: A Sixteen-Year-Old's Narrative of the Fleischmann Family and Other Free Internees in fascist Italy, September 1943-June 1944". The personal documentation belonging to Luigi Fleischmann: - Identity card of Luigi Fleischmann...

File Number : 8646

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Memoirs

Language : Italian

Letter written by Corinaldi, a Jewish refugee from Italy in Sao Paolo, Brazil, to his friend in Parma describing the persecution and anti-Jewish legislation in Italy, leading to his emigration, 08 February 1941

Letter written by Corinaldi, a Jewish refugee from Italy in Sao Paolo, Brazil, to his friend in Parma describing the persecution and the anti-Jewish legislation in Italy, leading to his emigration, 08 February 1941

File Number : 1522

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Italian

Report written and distributed by the Jewish Central Information Office regarding the situation of the Jews in Italy, 12 March 1939

File Number : 166

Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Drafts of lectures regarding Jews in various countries in Europe and North Africa

Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Drafts of lectures regarding Jews in various countries in Europe and North Africa The file is divided into three volumes: Volume I The Jews of Western and Central Europe: the Netherlands; France; Belgium; Luxembourg; Austria and Czechoslovakia Volume II The Jews of Northern Europe: Denmark, Sweden and Norway; the Jews of Eastern Europe: Poland, the Soviet Union and the Baltic States. Volume III The Jews of North Africa: Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria; the Jews of Southeastern Europe: Hungary, Yugoslavia, Greece, Italy, Bulgaria and Romania.

File Number : 18

Type of Material : Article

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nela Veis, born in Italy, regarding her experiences in Ferrara, in hiding in Italy, and in Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Nela Veis, born in Italy, regarding her experiences in Ferrara, in hiding in Italy, and in Israel Hiding with the father in a family of Italian acquaintances in Ferrara; arrest of the brother along with other Jews and anti-fascists; imprisonment of the brother; gathering some of the detainees in the town square and murdering them; bombing of the prison by the Allies after two months; order for the brother to report regularly to the police; arrival of the brother with the mother and the grandmother to the place of hiding in an Italian family, and family reunification; bombings; wandering; various...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter written by Piero Sonnino in Fossoli camp to his family members in Italy, 15/02/1944; documentation regarding the experiences of Piero Sonnino, who was born in Ancona in 1900, during the Holocaust - Letter written by Piero Sonnino while in prison in Italy, addressed to his family members in Italy, 15/02/1944; in the letter he requests that his letter be given to his family, three months after the end of the war, in the event that he does not return; Documentation regarding Piero Sonnino: - Excerpt from the book, ''Il libro della memoria: gli ebrei deportati dall'Italia 1943-1945'', by Liliana...

File Number : 1022

Type of Material : Letter, Excerpt(s)

Language : Italian

צו מועצת Napoli המחוזית על גרוש 31 משפחות מ-Napoli לעבודות כפייה ב-Tora e Piccili

Order of the Naples Provincial Council concerning deportation of 31 Jewish families from Naples to labor force in Tora e Piccilli. A letter by the Prefect-President of the province of Naples to the head of the city police. The letter is dated September 19,1942, with a list of 31 Jews. Those men have to be taken to forced agricultural labor in Tora e Piccilli. Not later than September 28,1942.

File Number : 175

Type of Material : List of Persecuted Persons, Official Documentation

Language : Italian

Telegrams and correspondence of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington and various US Embassies on issues related to Italy, 1944

Telegrams and correspondence of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington and various US Embassies on issues related to Italy, 1944 Pages 1-5: Telegram from the War Refugee Board (WRB) to the US legation in Algiers, in response to the wishes of Algerian Jews to receive certificates [for legal aliya] to Eretz Israel, including a report regarding the activities of the US President [Roosevelt} and the WRB regarding the absorption of refugees from Europe in the United States, including the decision by the President to transform the Army camp of Fort Ontario to a refugee camp; efforts by the US to enable the...

File Number : 107

Type of Material : Telegram, Survey Report, Statistical Data, Official Documentation

Testimony of Odette Orvieto from Verona regarding forced labor in a local factory and the treatment by both those responsible and by the Italian female workers

Testimony of Odette Orvieto from Verona regarding forced labor in a local factory and the treatment by both those responsible and by the Italian female workers - Labor in the Orna pencil factory. The names of Odette Orvieto's Jewish female fellow workers are also mentioned in the testimony:

File Number : 124

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Italian

Testimony of the writer and painter Carlo Levi, one of the leaders of the antifascist group Giustizia e Liberta (Justice and Freedom) which was established in Paris, France by the Jewish brothers Rosselli - Periodical trips to France via Switzerland due to his antifascist activities; first arrest in 1934 with 70 other suspects of antifascist activity, most of them Jewish; second arrest of six months duration in 1935 following betrayal by the Jewish writer Pittirigli; sentenced to five years detention; preliminary deportation to Grassano-Matera, and from there to Ariano Irpino-Avellino; - Release from...

File Number : 114

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Italian

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