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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 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 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 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

Testimony of Miriam Lengel, born in Cluj, Romania in 1921, regarding her experiences in Kneii Meze, in the Plaszow and Auschwitz-Birkenau camps, in a camp in the region of Buchenberg and more

Testimony of Miriam Lengel, born in Cluj, Romania, in 1921,regarding her experiences in Kneii Meze, in the camps Plaszow, Auschwitz-Birkenau, in the region of Buchenberg and more Life in Cluj; attending a Romanian Gymnasium; good relations with the neighbours; annexation of the place to Hungary; imposing restrictions on the Jews; imposing an economic boycott; anti-Semitism; deportation to Kneii Meze; life in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau by cargo train; selection and transfer to Block B'; transfer to Block C'; working in the kitchen and stealing food; food trading; transfer to Plaszow;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Grace Heimans, born in 1939 in Amsterdam, about her experiences as a girl in hiding in Amsterdam and in a village in the Drogeham area

Testimony

Testimony of Grace Heimans, born in 1939 in Amsterdam, about her experiences as a girl in hiding in Amsterdam and in a village in the Drogeham area Life before the war; German occupation ensues in May 1940; father is deported to Auschwitz in August 1942; most of family is deported to Westerbork; they are murdered in the Sobibór cmap in 1943; separation from mother, who is hiding elsewhere; a month and a half later, smuggled to a hideout in the Friesland region with the help of a member of the Dutch resistance; life in hiding with the Nicolai family in a village near Drogeham; information about contacting the...

File Number : 13394

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Norbert Natan Lampert, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1935, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, being hidden by Poles on the Aryan side of Warsaw and in Malkinia; details regarding his mother, Sonia Zofia (Buchhalter) Lampert, his grandfather and grandmother, his father Grzegorz and his uncle Monis [Buchhalter] Details regarding the businesses of his father and his grandfather in Warsaw; escape of his father and uncle Monis to the Soviet occupied area , October-November 1939; attempt to acquire emigration papers to the United States for Norbert and his mother; establishment of the Warsaw...

File Number : 8435

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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