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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...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 389

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Telegram, Survey Report, Official Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Diary

results.listIds.lang : English, German

Testimony of Mordechay (Paul Georg) Fleischer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1926 regarding his escape to Budapest, deportation to detention camps, escape from a death march and residing in the Glass House

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Childhood before the war; Fascist Slovakia, 1938; antisemitic events; Attempts to move to Budapest, Hungary, winter 1942-1943; getting arrested by Hungarian soldiers while escaping; sent back to Slovakia; escape to Hungary with the aid of a smuggler; arrival in Budapest; capture and arrest; decrees and restrictions; transferred to a prison by two Hungarian soldiers; deportation to a brick factory; escape to a marked house; capture and deportation for labor building fortifications and digging anti-tank trenches near Solnok, late October 1944; march towards Austria; escape to the Red Cross house in Budapest...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Naomi Erika Reizl (Unger) Shtraser, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1938 regarding the journey on the Kastner train and her stay in Bergen-Belsen and Switzerland

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Early childhood in a well-to-do observant family, active in Mizrachi; German occupation, March 1944; arrest of her father by the Gestapo; listing of her family on the passenger list intended for the Kasztner train; her mother's efforts to release her father; the family's departure on the Kasztner train, June 1944; arrival at Bergen-Belsen; life with her mother and cousin in a women's barracks under conditions of hunger and cold; departure to Caux, Switzerland, December 1944; recovery; transfer to a children's home; Return to Hungary with her parents; rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel,1950.

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Memoirs written by Rivka Prilutzki from Berlin titled, "Mutti's Memoirs" regarding her experiences, 1941-1943

Memoirs written by Rivka Prilutzki from Berlin titled, "Mutti's Memoirs" regarding her experiences, 1941-1943 Life in Berlin before her husband's escape to Belgium; detention in Moabit prison in Berlin; transfer to the prison in Cologne; prison life for 5 months; release from prison; return home; smuggling of her sons to Yugoslavia; intention of the boys to make aliya from Yugoslavia to Eretz Israel; notification during the Pesach holiday by the Eretz Israel Office of the Jewish Agency, of the boys' arrival in Eretz Israel; escape to Brussels; transfer to Paris; illegal stay in Paris; meets her husband;...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8665

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs

Testimony of Sela Shtovitska Uri Urlich, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1930 regarding deportation to the Polish border and regarding his leaving nazi Germany in Kindertransport

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Childhood in Frankfurt an der Oder; life during nazi regime in 1933; arrest of the father accused of communist activity and his deportation to Poland as a Polish subject in 1933; attending the Jewish school Philanthropyn in 1936; moving to the Jewish Children's Home Stiftung in 1936; deportation with the mother from Frankfurt an der Oder to the Polish border in 1938; Kristallnacht riots; his joining a group of children who were sent by Kindertransport sponsored by James and Dorothy Rothschild in 1939; the journey via Hoek van Holland, Holland to London, Britain in 1939; moving to the estate of James Rotschild...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13713

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : English

Testimony of Shimshon Moshe, born in Gherla, Romania, in 1925 regarding activity in the Zionist youth underground between 1941 and 1944

Father-merchant; moving to Cluj; Hungarian control in 1940; activity in the Zionist youth movement; agriculture studies in Budapest; recruitment for underground activity; smuggling Jewish workers from Poland to Romania between 1942 and 1944; German occupation; denunciation and arrest; investigations; escape from the prison by the underground; aliya to Israel via Turkey in May 1944; absorption ; information about the death of relatives in the camps

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13746

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Memoirs of Lazar Livshitz, born in Gomel, Belorussia, 1919, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier in Bialystok, using a false identity in the Baranovichi camp, the Biala Podlaska camp, the Deblin camp and more Part I (written 06 December 1945 as a letter to his beloved telling of his experiences): Outbreak of the war; being taken captive; transfer to the Baranovichi camp; camp life using a false identity (Nikolay Kulinenko); transfer to the Biala Podlaska camp; camp life in open cages without shelter from the rain and snow; abuse by the so-called camp police which was made up of inmates; transfer...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8620

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : Russian

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

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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...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13473

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : English

Notarized testimony by Buhusi residents, collected, 1948, according to which Iacob Herscu Solomon, the son of Regina Solomon, was sent to a prison in Jilava, 1942, and perished, 02/1944

Notarized testimony by Buhusi residents, collected, 1948, according to which Iacob Herscu Solomon, the son of Regina Solomon, was sent to a prison in Jilava, 1942, and perished, 02/1944 - Testimony given by Natan Soicher, Anna Ursu and Etti Sender; Note: Iacob Herscu Solomon was the brother of Eva Solomon, the mother of the submitter of the material.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 1468

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Investigation Report, Record of Murdered Persons, Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Romanian

Testimony of Rub Israel, born in Sasovo, Carpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia, in 1923 regarding his arrest in Prague and Dresden and regarding Theresienstadt , Dachau and other camps

-Childhood in Sasovo and Trebusany in Carpathian Ruthenia; his family is from a hasidic background( Hasidut Dolina); attendance at the "heder" in Berehovo in 1934; Hungarian control in 1938; his family moves to Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, in 1938; attendance at a yeshiva in Solotvina, Carpathian Ruthenia(Hungary) in 1937; he goes back to his family in Moravska Ostrava in 1938; he joins the Bnei Akiva movement and moves to Prague, Czechoslovakia; agricultural training on a farm in Louny and in Stribrna Skalice; he goes back to Prague and moves to a farm in Hostoun Kladno; he is arrested by the gestapo in...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 13688

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

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