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Testimony of Rivka van Coevorden née van Amstel, born in 1924 in Coevorden, Netherlands, about her experiences in Amsterdam and in hiding in the Netherlands during the war

Testimony

Life before the war; offspring of a family that had lived in the Netherlands since 1400; moving to Amsterdam in 1938; war breaks out in 1940; deportation to a labor camp; escape; assigned to farm labor; marries and gives birth to a daughter; hiding in various places; liberation; reunited with daughter; life after the war; immigration to Israel in 1951; adjustment to life in Israel.

File Number : 13536

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Feldshtein, born in Przeworsk, Poland, in 1934, regarding his hiding with a Polish farmer in Grzeska between 1942-1944

Testimony

-Childhood before the war; relations with the local population; outbreak of the war; life until 1942; "Aktion"; escape of the family to the forest following a warning they got from a farmer; hiding with the farmer for 2 years 1942-1944; leaving the hiding place with the approach of the Russians; leaving Poland; reconstruction of life after the war; emigration to Israel; exile to Cyprus; Aliya back to Israel

File Number : 13758

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sela Shtovitska Uri Urlich, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1930 regarding deportation to the Polish border and regarding his leaving nazi Germany in Kindertransport

Testimony

Childhood in Frankfurt an der Oder; life during nazi regime in 1933; arrest of the father accused of communist activity and his deportation to Poland as a Polish subject in 1933; attending the Jewish school Philanthropyn in 1936; moving to the Jewish Children's Home Stiftung in 1936; deportation with the mother from Frankfurt an der Oder to the Polish border in 1938; Kristallnacht riots; his joining a group of children who were sent by Kindertransport sponsored by James and Dorothy Rothschild in 1939; the journey via Hoek van Holland, Holland to London, Britain in 1939; moving to the estate of James Rotschild...

File Number : 13713

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Rozalia Shoshana Ronen Vazner, born in Gdynia, Poland in 1933, regarding her life in Przemysl Ghetto and in the home of a Polish family under a false identity

Testimony of Rozalia Shoshana Ronen Vazner, born in Gdynia, Poland in 1933, regarding her life in Przemysl Ghetto and in the home of a Polish family under a false identity German occupation in 1939; family’s expulsion to Przemyl; life under Soviet regime; German occupation and communist father’s escape to USSR in 1941; life under restrictions of German occupation; move to orphanage in the ghetto; escape with help from a Polish police officer to Christian acquaintances outside the ghetto in 1943; move to aunt’s home in Lwow; move, under a false Christian identity (as Rozalia Stanislawa Dozhinska) to a Polish...

File Number : 13708

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nehama May Margolin Alsace, born in Voorburg, the Netherlands, 1941, regarding her hiding place with a Dutch family in The Hague during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Nehama May Margolin Alsace, born in Voorburg, the Netherlands, 1941, regarding her hiding place with a Dutch family in The Hague during the war Childhood in a religious family; her father's work in a parchment paper factory; parental acquaintance with Borculo; her mother's origin is Hague; move of her family to the suburb of Hague, to Voorburg. German occupation, 1940; birth of the witness, April 1941; deportation of Jewish men, 1942; decision on immigration to South America; obtaining documents for immigration; witness disease in kidney disease; cancellation of immigration plans; giving the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Chaim Kohen, born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1930, regarding his life in hiding among nuns and with a Greek Christian family in Athens, and his escape to Turkey

Testimony of Chaim Kohen, born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1930, regarding his life in hiding among nuns and with a Greek Christian family in Athens, and his escape to Turkey Childhood and move to Athens; war with Italy in 1940; German occupation in 1941; escape with his family to the village of Plaka in 1941; hiding for about two months; family’s return to Athens in 1941; life under Italian regime; the great famine; move, with assistance from Italian governor (a friend of his father’s), into hiding among Italian nuns in the hospital complex in the Anaros region in 1942–1943; father’s move of the family to a...

File Number : 13767

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menahem Lior, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences during ‎deportation to the Bedzin Ghetto and the work camp in Kamionka; hidden by a Pole; escape to ‎Eretz Israel His childhood in a socialist Zionist home; refugees from Germany; rise of antisemitism; outbreak of ‎war on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish laws and decrees; restriction of Jewish movement and ‎concentration in one area; youth movements; agricultural farm; Zionist and underground ‎activities; infiltrating into a nearby work camp; work collecting and sorting possessions of the Jews ‎in the ghetto; removing dead...

File Number : 13735

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 Avraham Yudke Gaus, regarding his experiences in hiding in Panosiskes, with the partisans and the Rudnicki forest

Testimony of Avraham Yudke Gaus regarding his experiences in hiding in Panosiskes and with the partisans in the Rudnicki forests Life before the war in Panosiskes. Outbreak of the war; concentration of Jews in the synagogue; murder of the Jews; escape and being hidden by farmers in the area; murder of the Jews of Onuskis and Panosiskes; life in hiding in the home of Prof. Zemaitis with other Jews; escape to the Rudnicki forests; life in the forests including joining the "For Victory" partisan batallion. Also in the file: Testimony of Devora Gaus.

File Number : 91.1

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Alexander Grootman van der Knopp, born in 1939 in Amsterdam, about his experiences as a boy under a false identity with a non-Jewish Dutch family in Amsterdam

Testimony

Testimony of Alexander Grootman van der Knopp, born in 1939 in Amsterdam, about his experiences as a boy under a false identity with a non-Jewish Dutch family in Amsterdam Life in Amsterdam at the beginning of the German occupation in 1940; placement with a non-Jewish Dutch couple (evidently in 1941); life under a false identity as the van der Knopps' son until the end of the war in 1045; placement in the Beit Dina Jewish orphanage in Sant Port in 1946; joiing a family that holds “certificates” (Mandate Palestine immigration visas); immigration to Eretz Israel in 1947.

File Number : 13396

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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