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Testimony of Hela (Feltz) Reznik, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925 regarding her experiences in the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia

Testimony

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.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Mordekhai Miklosh Shtraser born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding life in Budapest during the war in a protected house and using a false Christian identity

Testimony

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...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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.

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...

File Number : 13672

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eliahu Mesika, born in Bizerte, Tunisia, in 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in ‎Bizerte, Mateur, and Tunis

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;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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.

File Number : JM/18404

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : French

Testimony of Alter Engelman, born in Radzyn, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Radzyn, Brześć nad Bugiem, Borisov, the Minsk Ghetto and other places

Testimony

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;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence between Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwab and family members who survived the Holocaust, 1953-1960

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...

File Number : 1589.5

Type of Material : Letter

Language : French, English, German

Correspondence between Rudolph Erwin Alexander Schwab and family members who survived the Holocaust, 1946-1952

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...

File Number : 1589.4

Type of Material : Letter

Language : French, English, German

List of Jews from Ostrowiec and Jewish refugees in Ostrowiec who received clothing in the context of receiving help, 02/01/1940

File Number : JM/10011

Type of Material : List of Jewish Refugees, List of Jewish Residents, List of Names in Relief Agency Records

Language : Polish

List of Jewish agriculturalists in Niebylec meant to receive monetary help, 20/05/1940

File Number : JM/10011

Type of Material : List of Jewish Residents, List of Names in Relief Agency Records

Language : Polish

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