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Testimony of Khanam Urbakh Anet , born in Paris, France , in 1935 regarding her hiding in a French village in the region of Normandie

Testimony

German occupation in 1940; hiding during the deportation with friends from socialist organizations in 1941; arrest and deportation of the father to Drancy in 1942; smuggling of the witness, the brother and the members of the French foster family in the region of Normandie in 1942; life in the village; attending school as a French christian; evacuation to the forests in the area following the bombings by the Allies and return to the village in 1944; liberation by the American army in 1944; return to Paris by the mother; moving to a children's home in Calais with the help of the OSE organization and the...

File Number : 13699

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

כוכבא אפריםTestimony of Efraim Ernst Bernard Kokhava van Koeverdan, born in 1943 in Amsterdam, about his experiences as an infant with a non-Jewish neighbor in Amsterdam and his return to an uncle after the war

Information about the family; German occupation ensues in May 1940; witness born in August 1943 in Amsterdam and is immediately handed over to a non-Jewish neighbor; parents find a hideout elsewhere in the area; neighbor's husband keeps a detailed diary about the boy's life and development; parents captured due to denunciation and murdered in April 1945; war ends in May 1945; uncle, a survivor, demands custody of the boy; legal struggle ensues; witness returns to his biological family in 1947; immigration to Eretz Israel in 1979; adjustment to life in Eretz Israel.

File Number : 13544

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bracha (Shenfeld) Feigenblum, born in Drohobycz, Poland in 1926, regarding her experiences in Drohobycz, Stalingrad and Uzbekistan

Testimony of Bracha (Shenfeld) Feigenblum, born in Drohobycz, Poland in 1926, regarding her experiences in Drohobycz, Stalingrad and Uzbekistan German occupation of Drohobycz in September 1939; Soviet occupation; life under Soviet occupation until June 1941; escape to the Soviet Union in June 1941; escape to Stalingrad in February 1942; escape to Uzbekistan; life in Uzbekistan during 1942-1944; severely injured, and recuperation in 1943; search for and rescue of Jewish children in Lublin in 1945; escape over various borders in the context of the Bericha organization in 1946; aliya to Eretz Israel in April...

File Number : 13932

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Paul Pinchas Ben-Shaul Reichmann, born in 1934 in Lille, France, about his wartime experiences as a boy in hiding in France, the Champery refugee camp, the home of a Jewish family in Lausanne, etc.

German occupation ensues in 1940; family tries unsuccessfully to escape to the south of France (to Rue); escaping back to Lens in 1940; escaping to Paris; escaping to Piot in 1941; attempting to run the border with the family to the Free Zone of France; arrested by the Germans; trial and detention in a lockup in Biarritz in 1941; father detained separately; released and returns to Paris for several months; another attempt to escape to the south of France; escaping to Benejacoq in 1941; life in hiding there; transferred with help from the French resistance and the Jewish MJC organization to a convent in...

File Number : 13616

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Carmela (Waldman) Krishaber, born in 1939, in Subotica, Yugoslavia - regarding her experiences in the Subotica Ghetto, and living under a false identity in a monastery and in Budapest

Testimony of Carmela (Waldman) Krishaber, born in 1939, in Subotica, Yugoslavia - regarding her experiences in the Subotica Ghetto, and living under a false identity in a monastery and in Budapest Life under Hungarian rule in 1941; German occupation in 1944; deportation to the Subotica Ghetto in 1944; life in the open ghetto and the mayor's warning about transport from the ghetto; escape with her mother to a Hungarian friend; hiding, and move into hiding at the home of a friend, Dr. Ivo Scherzer; joined there by her grandmother; she is moved by the ophthalmologist to a monastery in Subotica under a false...

File Number : 13690

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Ann Wigoda née Mendelsohn, born in 1932 in Berlin, about her experiences as a girl in Berlin, her escape to Brussels, and her survival in orphanages and convents in Belgium under a false identity

Childhood in Berlin as the Nazis rise to power; escapes with parents to Brussels in 1938 (illegally); life under German occupation in 1940; father arrested and deported to a camp in 1941; mother falls ill and is taken to the Jewish Weisenbeek hospital near Brussels in 1941; witness placed in a residence at a teachers' college in Laeken in 1942 under a false identity; transferred to a convent in Chimay, spends several months there and is evicted in 1942; placed in the Pensiona des Soeurs de St. Vincent de Paul convent in Obourg, Mons Département; lives in the convcent under a false identity until liberation;...

File Number : 13517

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Documentation regarding Yeshayahu Drucker, who administered an orphanage in Zabrze and was active in the removal of Jewish children from non-Jewish families after the war

Documentation regarding Yeshayahu Drucker, who administered an orphanage in Zabrze and was active in the removal of Jewish children from non-Jewish families after the war - Article written by William Liebner about Yeshayahu Drucker, who was active on behalf of the rehabilitation of Jewish life in Poland after the war, who dealt with the removal of Jewish children from non-Jewish families, and who administered an orphanage in Zabrze; - Memoirs of Batia (Eisenstein) Akselrad, born in Krosno, Poland, 1932, and David Danielski Danieli, born in Pszczyna, Poland, 1921, who lost their parents during the war and...

File Number : 8309

Type of Material : Memoirs, Documentary, Article

Language : English

Testimony of Tzila Tzipa (Shnitzer) Lebert, born in Obsza, Poland in 1932, regarding her experiences in Obsza, in Lubaczow, in the Josefow Ghetto and in the homes of farmers

Testimony of Tzila Tzipa (Shnitzer) Lebert, born in Obsza, Poland in 1932, regarding her experiences in Obsza, in Lubaczow, in the Josefow Ghetto and in the homes of farmers Her childhood in Obsza; German occupation, 1939; escape to Lubaczow; escape back to her family's home; deportation to the Josefow Ghetto; she uses a forged document with the name Tzeslawa Rudnik; escape to an acquaintance who is a farmer, and work in his home; deportation from the farmer's home, and she escapes back to the Jozefow Ghetto; escape without a clear direction; she meets a farmer and works in his home; life in the farmer's...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Rut (Globinski) Marks, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1931 regarding her experiences during the German occupation of Kalisz, deportation to Sandomierz, in the Sandomierz Ghetto, escape to Warsaw and life using a false identity in Warsaw German occupation of Kalisz, and deportation of her family to Sandomierz, 1939; life in the Sandomierz Ghetto; her mother's work as a teacher in the ghetto; escape with her [female] cousin to the Aryan side of Warsaw, 1942; life with the Korstrzewe family using the false identy of a Polish Christian in Piastów, a suburb of Warsaw; arrest and execution of her cousin,...

File Number : 13442

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaya Helene Shlachter née Treuer Blyc, born in 1942 in Przemyśl, Poland, about her experiences as an infant in the Przemyśl ghetto and in hiding with the non-Jewish Blycki family

Testimony

Testimony of Chaya Helene Shlachter née Treuer Blyc, born in 1942 in Przemyśl, Poland, about her experiences as an infant in the Przemyśl ghetto and in hiding with the non-Jewish Blycki family Exfiltration from the Przemyśl ghetto to the non-Jewish Blycki family in 1942; biological parents disappear; Jewish children reclaimed after the war by Tuvia Friedman; placed for adoption with the Blyc family in Przemyśl; receiving a “certificate” (Mandate Palestine immigration visa) in Warsaw; immigration to Israel via Italy aboard the Negba in 1951.

File Number : 13413

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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