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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

Documentation of Sabina Korn-Neuberg, born in Leczno, Poland, 1933, including a claim for compensation from the District Court for Social Affairs in Essen, Germany, 1944-2012

Documentation of Sabina Korn-Neuberg, born in Leczno, Poland, 1933, including a claim for compensation from the District Court for Social Affairs in Essen, Germany, 1944-2012 - Article titled, "Chasias Kinder" published in the German magazine "Stadt Revue", November 1994, regarding the activities of Chasia Bielicka who took orphan Jewish Holocaust survivors under her wing, including Sabina Neuberg; attached to the article is a photograph [of Sabina Neuberg] from 1946; - Invitation to the Second Conference, on 20 May 2000, sent to Sabina Korn; - Six lists containing the names of children in Poland who...

File Number : 1226

Type of Material : Correspondence, Poems/songs, Survey Report, Drawing, Letter, Lists, Personal Documents, Propaganda, Survivors and Refugees Registration Form, Legal Documentation, List of Orphan Children, Article, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Polish, English

Testimony of Khanam Urbakh Anet , born in Paris, France , in 1935 regarding her hiding in a French village in the region of Normandie

Testimony

German occupation in 1940; hiding during the deportation with friends from socialist organizations in 1941; arrest and deportation of the father to Drancy in 1942; smuggling of the witness, the brother and the members of the French foster family in the region of Normandie in 1942; life in the village; attending school as a French christian; evacuation to the forests in the area following the bombings by the Allies and return to the village in 1944; liberation by the American army in 1944; return to Paris by the mother; moving to a children's home in Calais with the help of the OSE organization and the...

File Number : 13699

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 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

Testimony of Rita (Halbersberg) Zeltzer, born in Kiel, Germany in 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in Berlin, in Antwerp, in a village in the Diepenbeek area, in a monastery in Gellick and in other places Rise to power of the Nazi Party, 1933; deportation to Berlin with her family; anti-Jewish legislation; publication of Nazi propaganda; abuse of people on the street by Hitlerjugend members; Kristallnacht, November 1938; escape to Antwerp; death of her mother; German occupation, May 1940; detention of her father, and his release; capture and deportation with her father and sister on a train to...

File Number : 13645

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Margherita Levorato regarding the help given by her parents, Stella and Giulio Levorato, to Marcello and Marcella D'Angeli and the Dina family, and a request by Elio D'Angeli for the rescuers to be given recognition as Righteous Among the Nations Memoirs of Margherita Levorato regarding the help given by her parents, Stella and Giulio Levorato, to Marcello and Marcella D'Angeli in Venice, autumn 1943-winter 1944, and help given to the Dina family later. The file includes: request by Elio D'Angeli for Stella and Giulio Levorato to be given recognition as Righteous Among the Nations, and a...

File Number : 8288

Type of Material : Committee Request, Memoirs

Language : Italian, Hebrew

Testimony of Zelig Shmeilovitz, born in 1930 in Iwje, Poland, about the Iwje ghetto, murder of the Jews of Iwje, and hiding in a pit owned by Christian acquaintances

Childhood in Iwje; antisemitism; war breaks out in September 1939; Soviet forces enter; German occupation ensues in June 1941; men set away for forced labor; abuse; murder of 220 Jewish members of the local intelligentsia in Stanowicze; Poles inform on Jews; life in an open ghetto from September 1941 on; Judenrat; overcrowding; the Grossaktion in May 1942; selection; murders in Stanowicze; Ukrainian collaborators; back to the ghetto, now sealed; the yellow star; smuggling food; digging hideouts; mutual assistance; receiving help from the Golovienko family in Luchshino village; ghetto liquidated in January 1943;...

File Number : 13478

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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