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Documentation regarding Siegfried Schalom Baron and Elsa (Safern) Baron, 1921-1988

Documentation regarding Siegfried Schalom Baron and Elsa (Safern) Baron, 1921-1988 Documentation regarding Siegfried Schalom Baron: - Letter sent from Bialystok by Filip Baron to his brother, Schalom Baron in Tel Aviv, 21 May (no year stated); - Two postcards sent to Siegfried Schalom Baron by his brother, Filip Baron, from Stanislawow and Bednarow (both undated); - Letters and postcards sent to Schalom Baron by his parents, Hermann and Pepi Baron, from Bochum, 07 June 1939, Zbaszyn and Krakow, 1939; - Postcard (in Hebrew) sent to Schalom Baron by Josef Marcuse with information regarding the...

File Number : 1988

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, Personal Documents, Official Documentation, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, French, German

Memoirs of Nachum Landman Ben-Artzi, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, Teplik, Bershad, Iasi, Roman and other places

Memoirs of Nachum Landman Ben-Artzi, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, Teplik, Bershad, Iasi, Roman and other places Deportation of the family to the Cernauti Ghetto at the outbreak of the war; deportation of the family to Transnistria; transfer to the Teplik camp with his parents; camp life including forced labor; decision of the Germans to murder the children and inmates unfit for work; in hiding with additional children during the "Aktion"; escape with his mother; transfer to a nearby village; he and his mother are turned in to the police by a Ukrainian farmer;...

File Number : 8264

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dvora (Farkash Appel) Pozniak, born in Velatin, Czechoslovakia, 1933, regarding her experiences in Velatin, the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz, Nuremberg, Plzen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Dvora (Farkash Appel) Pozniak, born in Velatin, Czechoslovakia, 1933, regarding her experiences in Velatin, the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz, Nuremberg, Plzen and other places Her childhood in Velatin; orphaned of her mother. Hungarian Army occupation [of Velatin], 1938; deportation to the Chust Ghetto including separation between men and women, 1944; [Chust Ghetto life including] forced labor; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including forced labor; transfer of her father to Dachau; murder of her father; transfer to Nuremberg; life in Nuremberg including forced labor in a Siemens factory;...

File Number : 13415

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gerda (Bomstein) Nussbaum, born in Breslau, Germany in 1927, regarding her experiences in Germany, in Zbaszyn and Sosnowiec, and her transfer to England in the context of the Kindertransport in 1939 Her parents emigrate from Poland to Germany; their synagogue is set on fire on Kristallnacht; deportation to Zbaszyn; life in Sosnowiec; a letter is sent to Chaim Weizmann with a request regarding leaving Poland; her transfer to England in the context of the Kindertransport in September 1939; work as a housekeeper in the home of Jews; acts of rape; loss of contact with her parents in 1941; life at a...

File Number : 13596

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Batia (Baumgarten) Feled, born in Lodz, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Bialystok, Bogdanovich, Sverdlovsk and more

Testimony

Testimony of Batia (Baumgarten) Feled, born in Lodz, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Bialystok, Bogdanovich, Sverdlovsk and more From a close-knit, secular, Communist family; childhood. Outbreak of war; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; escape from the ghetto with help from a smuggler; crossing the Bug River; detention by the Red Army; release; transfer to Bialystok; meeting with her family; transfer of the women to Kazakhstan; transfer of the men to labor in iron mines in northern Russia; death of her mother from typhus; transfer of the witness and her father to a labor camp in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hanna (Eschwege) Gutmann, born in Halberstadt, Germany, 1926, regarding her experiences in Frankfurt am Main, transfer to Heiden and in Lucerne with the Kindertransport

Testimony

Testimony of Hanna (Eschwege) Gutmann, born in Halberstadt, Germany, 1926, regarding her experiences in Frankfurt am Main, transfer to Heiden and in Lucerne with the Kindertransport Life before the war; from a religious-Zionist family; move to a village; move to Frankfurt am Main. Kristallnacht, November 1938; help from a neighbor who was an officer; detention of her father; deportation of her father to Buchenwald; return of her father to Frankfurt am Main; transfer to Switzerland together with her sister and brother with the Kindertransport, 1939; transfer to a Jewish institution in Heiden; life in...

File Number : 13047

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Izak Lupovitz, born in Mihaileni, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Dorohoi, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and Luchinets

Testimony

Testimony of Izak Lupovitz, born in Mihaileni, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Dorohoi, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski and Luchinets Religious family. Deportation to Dorohoi, 1941; draft of his father to forced labor; transfer to Transnistria on a freight train until Atachi; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski and then on a march to Luchinets; camp life; liberation, March 1944. Return to Mihaileni; reunion with his father; reception on the part of the local residents; joins a children's home in Vatra Dornei; move to Apeldoorn, the Netherlands; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tamar Berta (Blumer) Tsachor, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Bucharest and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1943

Testimony

Testimony of Tamar Berta (Blumer) Tsachor, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Bucharest and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1943 Liberal, traditional family; witness joins a Hashomer Hatzair "nest"; dismissal of her mother from her work, 1939; ban on attending and studying in a Romanian school, 1941; attends a Jewish school. Draft of her father to labor battalions; riots in the Jewish neighborhoods by the Iron Guard; Hashomer Hatzair movement is declared illegal, and they meet secretly in the home of children; detention of her brother; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1943.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Alex Yishayahu Cohen, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1924, regarding his experiences in Budapest, Josfavo and Salgotarjan

Testimony

Testimony of Alex Yishayahu Cohen, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1924, regarding his experiences in Budapest, Josfavo and Salgotarjan From an Orthodox family; membership in Hanoar Hatzioni. Restrictions on Jews; Aryanization; drafting of his father to forced labor; German occupation, 1944; anti-Jewish legislation; yellow badge; marking of Jewish houses; draft notice to forced labor, May 1944; deportation by train to the concentration point at Josfavo on the Czechoslovakian border; transfer to Salgotarjan, June 1944; attitude of the Hungarian gendarmes; confiscation of Jewish property; transfer to Hatvan by...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nira Veronika (Klinger) Kochav, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in the Budapest Ghetto and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Nira Veronika (Klinger) Kochav, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in the Budapest Ghetto and in hiding Life before the war; relations with the non-Jewish population. German occupation; air-raids on Budapest by the Allied forces; destruction of her family's home; escape to the Buda quarter; life in the Buda quarter including the transfer of her father to a labor battalion in the East; transfer to a marked house with her family; decision by her mother to convert to Christianity; participation in classes under the instruction of a priest; deportation to the...

File Number : 12965

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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