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Testimony of Viviana Graner née Volterra, born in 1925 in Ancona, Italy, about her experiences in Ancona and in hiding with a family in Monte S. Martino, 1943–1944

Testimony of Viviana Graner née Volterra, born in 1925 in Ancona, Italy, about her experiences in Ancona and in hiding with a family in Monte S. Martino, 1943–1944 Offspring of assimilated family in Ancona; father an anti-Fascist activist; father warned by authorities; promulgation of racial laws in 193; father dismissed from his teaching job; witness studies in a community setting; is attracted to Judaism; suffers from economic hardships; German occupation ensues in 1943; family escapes after being warned in advance; family finds a hideout in Monte S. Martino; conceals their Jewishness; prayerbook deposited...

File Number : 13504

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Alon Schultze Chaim Günther, born in 1938 in Berlin, about a son born to a mixed marriage and forced labor in Berlin

Testimony

Testimony of Alon Schultze Chaim Günther, born in 1938 in Berlin, about a son born to a mixed marriage and forced labor in Berlin The witness: son of a Jewish mother and an Evangelist father; antisemitism by teacher and pupils when witness was in first grade; father transfers him to a Jewish school; family moves from apartment to apartment to conceal its Jewishness; authorities order father to divorce his wife; father sent to penal labor in 1935–1937; brother bullied in the street; brother immigrates to Eretz Israel in 1938; Jewish-owned shops demolished; father works as a barber; hears from soldiers about...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rita (Dicastro) Wissel, born in Rome, Italy in 1931, regarding her experiences in Rome and in hiding while using a false identity

Testimony of Rita (Dicastro) Wissel, born in Rome, Italy in 1931, regarding her experiences in Rome and in hiding while using a false identity Publication of the Racial Laws in 1938; termination of her studies; studies in a Jewish school; harm to her family's livelihood; her father receives a work permit; life in hiding outside the city in summer 1943; German occupation, September 1943; escape by her family members to the south of Italy; they hand over gold and jewelry to the Germans; "Aktion" on 16 October 1943; escape from home; help from friends in finding a hiding place; her father and brother find a...

File Number : 13594

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Permit for Jewish children to learn music in the Academy of Music in Saint Gilles according to the decree of the German occupation authorities, 01 December 1941

File Number : 18

Type of Material : Certification

Language : French

Testimony of Barouch Hayoun, born in Tobruk, Libya, 1928, regarding his experiences in Tobruk, Derna, Tripoli, Zuara and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Barouch Hayoun, born in Tobruk, Libya, 1928, regarding his experiences in Tobruk, Derna, Tripoli, Zuara and other places Life before the war; witness attends the Italian school. Escape to Derna; escape to Tripoli; publication of anti-Jewish legislation by the Italian authorities; German occupation; imposition of anti-Jewish decrees; escape to Zuara; marking of Jewish homes in yellow paint; meets Jewish Brigade soldiers; escape to Benghazi; life in Benghazi; receives help from the rabbi of the Jewish community; changing of his name to Yehuda Cohen; move to Tunis; life in Tunis. Activities...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yehuda Perlhefter, born in Berlin, Germany, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Yehuda Perlhefter, born in Berlin, Germany, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto His childhood in Berlin; move to Szombathely; move to Budapest. Draft of his father to the labor battalions; German occupation, 1944; Budapest Ghetto life; air-raids; liberation. Life in Hungary after the war; return to Szombathely; joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement; aliya to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliyah, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliezer Hamerstein, born in Berlin, Germany, 1922, regarding his experiences in Germany until March 1939

Testimony

Testimony of Eliezer Hamerstein, born in Berlin, Germany, 1922, regarding his experiences in Germany until March 1939 From a traditional family; transportation strike initiated by the Nazi and Communist parties; walks to the voting place with his father, 1933; cancellation of tuition scholarships to Jews and leaving the local school; transfer to the Jewish Zionist Theodor Herzl school; establishment of a high school division in the school by Jewish philanthropists; improvement of treatment of the Jews during the Olympics, for appearances, 1936; fear following the Anschluss; life in an aliya training group on...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rina (Hartzberg) Sharon, born in Breslau, Germany, 1936, regarding her experiences in Breslau and in the Shanghai Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Rina (Hartzberg) Sharon, born in Breslau, Germany, 1936, regarding her experiences in Breslau and in the Shanghai Ghetto Life before the war; from a well-to-do, Zionist, Orthodox family; Kristallnacht, November 1938; detention of her father; release of her father and an order for her father to leave Germany; escape to Shanghai together with her family; life in Shanghai; deportation to the Shanghai Ghetto, 1942; ghetto life; lack of a livelihood; illness and hospitalization of her mother; receiving assistance from the JDC soup kitchen; activity of a Jewish hospital; activity of the Beit...

File Number : 13170

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Income tax form intended for the declaration of children, issued in Hannover, 1942

Income tax form intended for the declaration of children, issued in Hannover, 1942 Note: Tax reductions were not given for Jewish children.

File Number : 569

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Collection of Afdeling Kabinet, Onderwijs - Netherlands Ministry of Education, Government department, 1940-1945

Collection of Afdeling Kabinet, Onderwijs - Netherlands Ministry of Education, Government department, 1940-1945 Netherlands Ministry of Education, Government department in The Hague, responsible for contacts and the implementation of orders given by the Reichskommissar für die besetzten Niederländischen gebiete (German government in the Netherlands) in the area of education, 1940-1945; Included in the collection: Official documentation of the Departement van Opvoeding, Wetenschap en Cultuurbescherming: Afdeling Kabinet; Consequences [ramifications] of the anti-Jewish legislation in the Netherlands...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Dutch, German

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