Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

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Testimony

Testimony of Simcha Leo Fischer, born in Backo Petrovo Selo, Yugoslavia, 1928, regarding his experiences as a child in Backo Petrovo Selo, the Szeged Ghetto, Baja Ghetto, Fertorakos camp and other places Life before the war; attends school in the Jewish community and synagogues. Re-annexation to Hungary, April 1941; round-up ("Atkion") with the participation of Hungarian Gendarmes, January 1942; receives information regarding the murder of Jews in Novisad; receives information regarding the murder of family members in Beograd; German occupation, March 1944; wearing of a yellow badge; deportation of Jews...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Collection of the Jewish community of Pekela, the Netherlands, 1940-1942

Collection of the Jewish community of Pekela, the Netherlands, 1940-1942 Protocols of meetings of the members of the Nederlands-Israëlitische Gemeente (Netherlands Jewish community) in Pekela in the Groningen province of the Netherlands, 1940-1942; the protocols, from the archive of the Jewish community in Pekela, include in most part reports regarding the financial administration of the community, and only in individual cases is there mention of anti-Jewish measures by the Nazi rulers; registration of the protocols ceased in late 1942, following the large Razzia (round-up) on the night of 11-12/12/1942, in...

Type of Material : Sketch, Protocol

Language : Dutch

Collection of W. S. H. Elte, the principal of het Joodsch Lyceum te Amsterdam (Jewish School of Amsterdam) in the Netherlands, 1937-1947

Collection of W. S. H. Elte, the principal of het Joodsch Lyceum te Amsterdam (Jewish School of Amsterdam) in the Netherlands, 1937-1947 Establishment of the Joodsch Lyceum te Amsterdam by the Amsterdam municipality in 1941; transfer of the Joodsch Lyceum te Amsterdam to the administration of the Joodsche Raad in 1942; the school's activities became impossible [to be carried out] due to the persecution of the Jews in 1942; the number of pupils in the Lyceum was 370 in June 1942; Included in the collection: Report regarding the Jewish schools that were active in the Netherlands during the Nazi...

Type of Material : Reports, Documents, Questionnaire, Inventory List, Correspondence, Certification

Language : Dutch

Collection of De Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council of Amsterdam) in the Netherlands, 1941-1944

Collection of De Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council of Amsterdam) in the Netherlands, 1941-1944 The Nazis ordered the Jewish communities in many of the occupied countries to establish a Jewish council; following the anti-Jewish riots in Amsterdam on 12/02/1941, Dr. Hans Böhmcker ordered industrialist Abraham Asscher to establish a Jewish council, De Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam, which would represent city's Jews at its start. Later on, the Jewish council, under the leadership of Abraham Asscher and Dr. David Cohen, handled the matters of all of the Jews in the Netherlands opposite the German...

Type of Material : Survey Report, Letter, Certification, Journal, Names, Note, Document, Questionnaire, Report, Lists, Protocol, Financial Accounts

Language : Dutch, German

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

Testimony of Samuel George Gourary, born in Naples, Italy, 1921, regarding his experiences in Brussels, prison in France; Mechelen, Gross-Rosen, Hirschberg and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Samuel George Gourary, born in Naples, Italy, 1921, regarding his experiences in Brussels, prison in France; Mechelen, Gross-Rosen, Hirschberg and other places Life before the war; move to Vienna; education; membership in Beitar; move to Brussels with his mother. German occupation; escape; steals a motorcycle; agricultural studies; escape to France; capture by the Gestapo; detention; attempt to escape; flogging and hospitalization; deportation to Mechelen-Malines; camp life; transfer to Gross-Rosen; transfer to Hirschberg; transfer to other camps; steals food; typhus; activities in the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Herman Max Kohn, born in Pisting, 1923, regarding his experiences in Vienna during the annexation to Germany, wanderings in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and military service in the French Foreign Legion

Testimony

Testimony of Herman Max Kohn, born in Pisting, Austria, 1923, regarding his experiences in Vienna during the annexation to Germany, wanderings in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and military service in the French Foreign Legion Life before the war; move to Vienna; education; membership in Beitar. Annexation to Germany; anti-Jewish legislation; escape to Czechoslovakia with his father; arrest and detention; move to Bratislava; arrest in Nitra; attempt to escape; capture and return to the camp; injury; escape to Budapest; move to Yugoslavia; meets the French Deputy Consul; enlists into the French Foreign Legion;...

File Number : 12267

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Bar Bernhard Gerstensang, born in Minden, Germany, 1933, regarding his experiences as a small child during Kristallnacht in Minden, Denmark and Sweden

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Bar Bernhard Gerstensang, born in Minden, Germany, 1933, regarding his experiences as a small child during Kristallnacht in Minden, Denmark and Sweden His family are originally from Poland. Kristallnacht; escape towards Denmark with help from policemen; arrest of his father and attempts to return his father to Germany; life in Copenhagen including studies; German occupation; life under occupation; escape from his home; in hiding in a field; escape to Sweden on a fishing boat the day before Yom Kippur, 1943; life in a refugee camp including cultural activities; life in Stockholm; end of...

File Number : 12364

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Salom Herskovitz, born in Tornala, Slovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in a Hungarian labor battalion in Budapest, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Salom Herskovitz, born in Tornala, Slovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in a Hungarian labor battalion in Budapest, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen Life before the war; community life; learns in school and a "heder"; relations with local population. Re-annexation to Hungary; learns in yeshivas; vocational studies; drafted to a labor battalion; labor painting; life in Budapest; Szalasi's fascist regime in Hungary; transfer from place to place; labor loading merchandise on trains; transfer to the Austrian border; march on foot to Mauthausen; meets with his father and brother in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Ladislav Sporer, born in Subotica, 1919, regarding his experiences in Novi Sad, Budapest and joining the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of David Ladislav Sporer, born in Subotica, 1919, regarding his experiences in Novi Sad, Budapest and joining the partisans Testimony about his immediate family; his parents' livelihood; home lifestyle; Shabbat and religious holidays; attends school; the Jewish community; youth movement activities; Jewish studies. Entry of the Hungarians into the area; attitude of the Hungarians to the Jews; murder of Jews in the river; massacre of Novi Sad's Jews; move to Budapest; his brother falls captive; drafted to labor battalions; his father is taken hostage; public hanging of Jews in the city center;...

File Number : 11990

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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