Prewar childhood; antisemitism; plans for aliya to Eretz Israel; outbreak of the war;
German occupation; burning of houses; deportation to the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia; camp life, 1941-1945; hunger; longing; murder of her family; liberation by the Red Army;
Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.
Childhood in an indigent ultra-Orthodox family; life in a Jewish environment; studies in a Jewish school; drafting of his father and two brothers to a labor battalion;
German occupation, March 1944; continued living in a marked house; bringing additional people into the house; air-raids; transfer to a protected house by a cousin, a refugee from Slovakia; with the assistance of the cousin, transfer with his family to the hiding place of a Jew who was deported, October 1944; living under a false Christian identity; bringing food from a pantry in a bombed house; living in a shelter from late 1944 until...
Testimony of Chaim Stern, born in Dornesti, Romania in 1934, regarding his experiences in Transnistria, Bershad Ghetto, and the children’s home in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands.
His nuclear family; revolt of members of Iron Guard in January 1941; transfer to Radauti; antisemitic acts; religious life; expulsion by train to Transnistria; transit point in Atachi; confiscation of valuables by Romanian gendarmes; river crossing by raft; drownings; march to Bershad; typhus; types of labor performed by his mother; deaths of many people from cold, hunger, and disease; activity of the partisans; entry of the Russians in...
Testimony of Eliahu Mesika, born in Bizerte, Tunisia, in 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in Bizerte, Mateur, and Tunis
His life before the war; son of a family of rabbis; the Italian occupation in 1939; his family’s escape to Mateur; escape back to Bizerte after two months; life there until the end of 1942; the German occupation in November 1942; air raids; evacuation by order of the Allies; escape to Tunis; his experiences at the school in the Jewish quarter; his father saved from being sent to forced labor; liberation by the British army in May 1943; his studies at a French school;...
Personal files of Nuckem Makower, a Jewish refugee from Poland, and Illis Noel, a Jewish refugee from Switzerland, who illegally crossed the Swiss border near Geneva and were turned back by the Swiss authorities, December 1942
In the file:
- Arrest report of Nuckem Makover submitted by the Moillesulaz Border Guard post, 18 December 1942;
- Arrest report of Noel Illis submitted by the Pierre-a-Bochet Border Guard post, 22 December 1942.
Testimony of Alter Engelman, born in Radzyn, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Radzyn, Brześć nad Bugiem, Borisov, the Minsk Ghetto and other places
Life in Radzyn in an Orthodox religious family, including attending a Polish school; displays of antisemitism; activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement.
German Army occupation of Radzyn, September 1939; makes contact with a Wehrmacht (German Army) soldier; life under German occupation including the looting of Jewish shops; escape; move via the Bug River to Brześć nad Bugiem, October 1939; coordination of labor for the refugees by the Red Army;...
Correspondence between Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwab and family members who survived the Holocaust, 1953-1960
Page 74:
- Letter from Alex Schwab (an uncle) with the information that he was interned in Buchenwald for four weeks, and that the relevant discharge papers were later taken from him by the Hanau Gestapo, 31 October 1954;
Page 159:
- Letter from the German Consulate General in Marseille, France to Rudolf Schwab regarding inheritance matters of the Tuteur family, 03 July 1956, including the following information:
1. Rudolf Schwab's brother Hans Ferdinand Samuel Schwab, Hanau resident, has been...
Correspondence between Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwab and family members who survived the Holocaust, 1946-1952
Page 18:
- Letter from Rudolf Schwab with the information that his relatives, including his mother, grandmother, brother Hans and aunt Alice with her family, were deported to Poland in 1941, 23 February 1946;
Page 57:
- Letter from Edgar Tuteur (a cousin) in New York, with the information that his parents, his younger sister and most of his close relatives were murdered by the Germans, but that his brother Harald survived and emigrated to Buenos Aires, 15 June 1946;
Page 60:
- Letter from...