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Testimony of Toni (Tauba Susskind)Veber, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1927regarding persecution of the Jews of Antwerp and her escape to Switzerland

Testimony

Childhood in Antwerp; arrival of refugees from Germany; German occupation, May 1940; failed escape attempt to England; anti-Jewish legislation; expulsion from school; evening curfew; Aryanization; activity in Bnei Akiva; escape with her brother from Antwerp, 1942; illegally crossing the border into France with forged documents; illegally crossing the border into Switzerland in the Annecy area; capture by Swiss gendarmes and deportation back to France; re-crossing the border into Switzerland; life in a refugee camp near Zurich; assistance from a local nun; end of the war, May 1945; Aliya to Eretz Israel,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 8661

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

To be translated

File Number : 8660

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

Letter written by Sophia Schlesinger in the Caux refugee camp to her husband István Schlesinger in Eretz Israel, 18 December 1944

Letter written by Sophia Schlesinger in the Caux refugee camp to her husband István Schlesinger in Eretz Israel, 18 December 1944 In the letter there is a description of life in the Caux camp [following their arrival from Bergen-Belsen, December 1944]; the care for their daughters, the state of health of István's father and her efforts to expedite their aliya to Eretz Israel (apparently the letter relates to a group of survivors from the Kasztner train). Also in the file: - List of six silver objects in Hungarian and in Hebrew translation; - Confirmation regarding the deposit of valuables belonging to...

File Number : 2054

Type of Material : List, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Postcards sent to Gardyn family members in Brussels by their family members in Warsaw, 1941 and personal documentation of the Gardyn and Wahrmann families during the war, including forged documents

Postcards sent to Gardyn family members in Brussels by their family members in Warsaw, 1941 and personal documentation of the Gardyn and Wahrmann families during the war, including forged documents Gardyn family in Brussels: Postcards: - Postcard sent by Perla Gardyn from Warsaw to her family in Brussels, 04/11/1941; - Postcard sent by Ceska and Szmelek Najsztein (the children of Haya Najsztein, the sister of Ita Gitla Gardyn) to their family members in Brussels, 29/04/1941; Documentation regarding the Gardyn family: - Declaration by the Succulus company in Montauban regarding their...

File Number : 1913

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Postcard, Certification, Official Documentation

Language : Polish, French, Dutch, German

Memoirs of Chava Éva (Beregi) Zahavi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1913, regarding her experiences in Budapest, transport on the Kasztner train; in Bergen-Belsen, Saint Gallen and the Caux sur Montreux DP camp Life before the war; her parents are Zionist activists in Tel Aviv; life in Tel Aviv in order to complete a Ph.D. in Chemistry; marriage to János Détshy, a chemical engineer, autumn 1942; birth of their son, András Ábrahám, 05 October 1943. German occupation, 19 March 1944; turning of the family home into a marked house; deportation of her husband to a labor battalion, Jászberény, 27 June 1944; escape...

File Number : 16

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs, Photograph, Poems/songs, Diagram, Death Certificate

Language : Hungarian

Memoirs of Magda Ödönné (Komor) Lederer, born in Szabadka, Yugoslavia, 1900, regarding her experiences in the Szabadka Ghetto, Bácsalmás camp, in Budapest, and transfer on the Kasztner train to Bergen-Belsen and more

Memoirs of Magda Ödönné (Komor) Lederer, born in Szabadka, Yugoslavia, 1900, regarding her experiences in the Szabadka Ghetto, Bácsalmás camp, in Budapest, and transport on the Kasztner train to Bergen-Belsen and more Life in Szabadka during the German occupation; restrictions on Jews including the yellow badge; sewing of valuables inside clothing; assembly of 350 men, including her husband, Ödön Lederer, and her brother, Ernő, night of 13 April 1944; deportation of the men, apparently to Germany, April 1944; receiving a farewell letter from her husband and a request to take care of their daughter, Kata;...

File Number : 129

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

Testimony of Sara (Hendel) Kiselstein, born in Warsaw in 1898, taken by the Swiss police, about her experiences in Warsaw and France and her escape to Switzerland under a false identity, a bogus ID card, and documents from her stay in Switzerland in 1944–1945 - protocol of Sarah Kiselstein's testimony, given to the police in Basel in late 1944: Life in Warsaw with her husband (Feiwel Kieselstein) and their two children (daughter and son) before the war; home and business destroyed in air raids in 1939; business reopened in early 1942; family sent to the ghetto in early 1943; children escape from the ghetto...

File Number : 12613

Type of Material : Protocol, Certification, Personal Documents, Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Polish, French, German

Memoirs of Gaston Lévy, born in 1902 in Mutzig, about his work for the OSE in France and his exfiltration to Switzerland in 1944, and the experiences of Renée Lévy née Klein

Memoirs of Gaston Lévy, born in 1902 in Mutzig, about his work for the OSE in France and his exfiltration to Switzerland in 1944, and the experiences of Renée Lévy née Klein About the town of Mutzig; history of the family; World War I; moves from Mutzig to Strasbourg in 1923 in order to go to medical school; military service; marries Renée Klein in 1930; moves to Paris; Annette born in 1934; Jewish social circles, including that of Paul Recht; induction into the French Army in 1939 (discharged in July 1940); the Exode: moves with the family to Paul, Luz-Saint-Sauveur, and Bézieres; visits the Agde camp to...

File Number : 680

Type of Material : Memoirs, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Biography

Language : French

Documentation from Switzerland and France from 1944-1945 regarding the smuggling of Dr. Gaston Lévy and his family to Switzerland, and regarding Dr. Lévy's work and the family's repatriation to France

- documentation related to the work of Dr. Lévy, pediatrician, in Switzerland and France; - documentation regarding the establishment of children's villages - Villages d'enfants; Documentation from the Swiss State Archives related to the refugees Dr. Gaston Moise Lévy, born in Mutzig in 1902, and members of his family: -- his wife Renée (Klein) Lévy, born in Haguenau in 1910; -- his daughter Annette Lévy, born in Paris in 1934; -- his mother Sarah (Rothkopf) Lévy, born in Bouxwiller in 1872; -- his parents-in-law Leon Klein, born in Surbourg in 1874, and Selma (Ross), born in Ingenheim in...

File Number : 676

Type of Material : Protocol, Reports, Newspaper Clippings, Certification, Personal Documents, Questionnaire, Letter, Article

Language : Italian, French, German

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