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Documentation regarding the fate of Jacqui Israel Offen, born in Antwerp, 1939, and members of his family during the Holocaust and following it, 1941-1981

Documentation regarding the fate of Jacqui Israel Offen, born in Antwerp, 1939, and members of his family during the Holocaust and following it, 1941-1981 Memoirs of Jacqui: Deportation of the family from Antwerp to Limburg, 1941; detention of his father, Moshe, born in Tarnow, 1893, and of his elder sister, Maly Malka, born in Berlin, 1924; deportation of his father and sister to Dossin camp in Malines and from there to Auschwitz, where they perished; escape of his mother Mina and the four remaining children to Namur; in hiding of the family in the St. Jean de Dieu monastery with the help of Abbe Andre; in...

File Number : 152

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Dutch, German

Certificates of honor awarded to Josef Bodnar for his service an Austro-Hungarian Army officer during World War I, and forged certificate of baptism and certificate of marriage used during Bodnar's escape from Nadworna along with his family, during World War II - Two certificates attesting to the raise in rank of Austro-Hungarian Army soldier Josef Bodnar, issued in Vienna, November-December 1915; - Certificate attesting to the awarding of a medal of honor to Austro-Hungarian Army soldier Josef Bodnar, issued in Vienna, 24 January 1917; - Diploma of Law awarded to Joseph Bodnar in Lwow, 04 August...

File Number : 1203

Type of Material : Diploma, Personal Documents

Language : Latin, German

Memoirs of Frida (Blum) Fridman, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Mogilev camp and in a monastery in Rostov

Memoirs of Frida (Blum) Fridman, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Mogilev camp and in a monastery in Rostov Transfer to the Mogilev camp with her daughter Dora (Devora), born in 1941; camp life; transfer with her baby daughter to Rostov by a priest who visited the camp; life with the priest in the monastery and good treatment by the priest; replacement of the priest in Rostov and receiving information from him that he is Jewish; transfer back to the Mogilev camp; transfer to a monastery; end of the war. Return to Cernauti. Memoires of Devora (Herman) Berkovitz, the...

File Number : 8619

Type of Material : Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Ukrainian

Testimony of Shulamit (Frederika) Goldlevitz Karmi, born in Gdynia, Poland in 1937, regarding her ‎experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in a Polish home under a false identity

Testimony of Shulamit (Frederika) Goldlevitz Karmi, born in Gdynia, Poland in 1937, regarding her ‎experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in a Polish home under a false identity The German occupation; move to Warsaw; transfer to the ghetto; acquisition of false identity ‎papers and move to Zabieniec; her father’s injury and hospitalization; her mother’s disappearance; ‎moving in with the Braniecka family; move to the cellar in her uncle’s building in Warsaw; ‎placement in the care of a Polish woman, Mrs. Domenska, via the Polish Central Welfare Council ‎‎(RGO); the Polish uprising; escape with Mrs. Domenska;...

File Number : 13694

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the activities of Ladislav László Sedivy, a Calvinist priest from Nyitra, on his baptizing 720 Jews from Nyitra and the surrounding areas, 1939-1943

Documentation regarding the activities of Ladislav László Sedivy, a Calvinist priest from Nyitra, on his baptizing 720 Jews from Nyitra and the surrounding areas, 1939-1943 - Letters from the Slovak Interior Ministry and the Ustredna Statnej Bezpečnosti (USB - Central State Security) in Slovakia regarding the activities against the State of Ladislav László Sedivy, the Calvinist priest from Nyitra, in baptizing Jews from Nyitra and the surrounding areas, 1939-1943); - Detention in a prison in Ilava, 1942, - Pleas by his wife to release him and the priest's commitment not to commit any more acts against...

File Number : 136

Type of Material : Letter, Official Documentation, Investigation Reports, Telegram, List of Persecuted Persons, Newspaper Clippings, Documentary

Language : Slovak, English, Hungarian

Letter of testimony written by Anna Schorek regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt, the Christianstadt camp and on a death march, October 1945

Letter of testimony written by Anna Schorek regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt, the Christianstadt camp and on a death march, October 1945 The letter was written in Prague and sent to relatives of Anna Schorek in England, 18 October 1945. Time spent in Theresienstadt with her two daughters, Lizzi and Franzi, as forced laborers, September 1942-May 1944; the structure of the camp and its hierarchies; the fate of Jews who belonged to the upper class, during the liquidation of the camp; transfer to the Christianstadt camp; camp life until February, 1945; escape from the death march; help from a...

File Number : 8460

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : English

Documentation regarding the smuggle of children to hiding in "Villa Emma" in Nonantola and to Switzerland

Documentation regarding the smuggle of children to hiding in "Villa Emma" in Nonantola and to Switzerland Memoirs of people who stayed as children in hiding in "Villa Emma" in Nonantola, and of Italians who participated in smuggling the children to hiding; the group consisted of Jewish children from various countries who were moved from the north of Yugoslavia to Italy with help from the Delasem organization and the Yugoslavian Red Cross organization, 1942; about the head of the Delasem organization, Lelio Valobra; memoirs of the defeat of Mussolini, the German occupation of Italy and the smuggle of the...

File Number : 8294

Type of Material : Drawing, Memoirs, Play(s), Script(s), Newspaper Clippings

Language : Italian

Testimony of Rita (Halbersberg) Zeltzer, born in Kiel, Germany in 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in Berlin, in Antwerp, in a village in the Diepenbeek area, in a monastery in Gellick and in other places Rise to power of the Nazi Party, 1933; deportation to Berlin with her family; anti-Jewish legislation; publication of Nazi propaganda; abuse of people on the street by Hitlerjugend members; Kristallnacht, November 1938; escape to Antwerp; death of her mother; German occupation, May 1940; detention of her father, and his release; capture and deportation with her father and sister on a train to...

File Number : 13645

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Proport Varda Sheinbaum, born in 1939 in Lodz, about the Konskowola and Jedrzejów ghettos and adoption by a Polish family

Germans arrive and the family escapes to Konskowola; deportation to the Konska ghetto and escape to Jedrzejów before liquidation of the ghetto with the help of Heinrich Stanislawski on February 13, 1943; Aktion and expulsion with mother to Szydlowiec; leaving her in Warsaw for lack of choice; adoption by a Polish family; life with the family and attraction to Christianity; war ends; her mother traces her and cooperates with her adoptive family; leaving with her mother for Regensburg, Germany, in 1946 with the help of the Bricha; a three-year stay; immigration to Israel in 1949; rehabilitation and adjustment to...

File Number : 13580

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter sent by Roza from Leningrad to her cousin Mira Miriam (Soloveychik) Alperovich in Eretz Israel, regarding the fate of her family members, including the murder of Jews in Glebokie; letter dated, 14 November 1947 Activities in the partisans by several of her family members; rescue of the wife of Leyzer Soloveychik, from Oszmiana, who lived while using a false identity as a Christian woman, thanks to help from Belorussians; supply by priests of forged birth certificates to Jews, without taking money; appeal by the priests to Christian people to hide Jews and to help the Jews as much as possible; murder...

File Number : 1696

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

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